01-10-2022, 10:43 AM
(01-09-2022, 11:49 AM)Ordinary Vanity Wrote: So I finally had a chance to de-solder the GPIO header from my Pi Zero to put on my Pi Zero 2. Flashed the test image and so far so good. In fact, it's even better than I could have imagined. On the Pi Zero, I had to resort to fast emulators with low accuracy, which means some games were not playable at all. Combined with the ili driver, even games with full speed would stutter. I assume this is because the CPU would spike at 100% every few seconds. This ultimately forced me to not use the ili driver which was okay, but not optimal.
Now, on the Pi Zero 2, this is not an issue at all. I'm using the ili driver with no issues at all and the difference is night and day. Being able to use better cores is also a huge plus since the Pi Zero 2 has the extra power. Here's a summary of the cores I'm running now compared to before:
Pi Zero:
-NES: QuickNES. Nestopia or FCEUM could not run at full speed.
-SNES: SNES 9x old versions, lr-armsnes or PiSNES for speed. Could not play any SuperFX games or special games like All Stars, Kirby Superstar.
-GB, GBC: Gambette, ran perfectly fine even with ili driver.
-GBA: lr-gpsp. This runs most games fine with the GBA BIOS but with the ili driver it would stutter every few seconds.
-Genesis: Picodrive. Again, same as GBA.
-PSX: Amazingly enough ran perfect with the non-lr core of PCSX-ReARMed for some games. 3D heavy games didn't not run well as expected.
-N64: Forget about it.
Pi Zero 2:
-NES: lr-FCEUM. Runs beautiful! No skips at all.
-SNES: lr-snes9x2010. Again, runs beautiful with no skips. It's great playing Kirby SuperStar on the go!
-GB, GBC, GBA: Gambette and lr-MGBA. All consoles perfect! Some games on GBA that were not playable are 100% playable now.
-Genesis: I have yet to try it but I have no doubts.
-PSX: Using lr-pcsxrearmed. So far I've encountered minimal slowdown but otherwise I can actually play THPS1+2 and CTR with no slowdown at all. Extremely impressive! Brave Fencer Musaahi works great too, and Silent Hill plays fine.
-N64: using lr-mupen64plus and running Mario Kart 64 and Super Smash Bros. at full speed! The other mupen64 cores are quite slow which is expected.
I want to try other consoles. I'm really excited for PSP and NeoGeo emulation! Thanks for supplying a new image Flavor, this is great stuff.
Forgive my ignorance, but what are ili drivers?