What is the best Raspberry Pi for retro gaming?

Overall, either the Raspberry Pi 3B+ or the Pi 4 will fit your gaming needs. The are some differences between the two, and they fit different needs. For instance, the Pi 4 is a huge upgrade and comes with more RAM options that can support more complex games like those of the Nintendo 64.
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Which Raspberry Pi for retro gaming?

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The incredible new Raspberry Pi 4 is the most powerful Raspberry Pi yet, which means even better retro gaming performance! It boasts amazing new features and improvements including: 1.5GHz 64-bit quad-core CPU. 4GB RAM.
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Which Raspberry is best for retro gaming?

About every major home and portable retro gaming console/system will have an emulator that runs on either Batocera or RetroPie. A Raspberry Pi 4 is recommended for emulating later games systems such as PlayStation 1 and Dreamcast.
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What Raspberry Pi is best for RetroPie?

Although RetroPie will work on any Raspberry Pi, even the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, we recommend using one with as much RAM as possible. More RAM means a smoother gaming experience. For this tutorial, we'll be using an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4.
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What is the best OS for Raspberry Pi 3 retro gaming?

RetroPie has the most supported systems out of any retrogaming software for the Raspberry Pi.
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Is Raspberry Pi 3 enough for RetroPie?

As far as compatibility is concerned the 3B+ gets along very well with Retropie 4.5. 1. @Spiky Depends on what you're looking for. I'm not interested in anything more advanced than PS1, so have no need for a Pi 4.
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Can Raspberry Pi 3B run PS1 games?

Yea, the Pi 3 and 4 actually run PS1 games pretty well. Check out arcade punks where you can download Retropie images you can put on a Micro SD.
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Is RetroPie legal?

Much of the software included in the RetroPie image have non-commercial licences. Because of this selling a pre-installed RetroPie image is not legal – this includes “giving away” a pre-installed RetroPie with your commercial product. Including copyrighted games with RetroPie is also not allowed.
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Can Raspberry Pi 4 emulate PS2?

We tested it on an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 running at 1.8 GHz and the emulation was not great. We saw around 60% of the performance offered by the Raspberry Pi 5. If you prefer 2D scrollers or simple games then you'll be ok. But the PS2 was famed for sprawling 3D worlds and those worlds won't play as good on the Pi 4.
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Which Raspberry Pi OS is the fastest?

Raspberry Pi 5 features the Broadcom BCM2712 quad-core Arm Cortex A76 processor @ 2.4GHz, making it up to three times faster than the previous generation. With RAM variants up to 8GB, this is the fastest, smoothest Raspberry Pi experience yet.
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Can Raspberry Pi 4 run PS1?

Re: PS1-Themed Frontend Emulator for Raspberry Pi 4 (No RetroPie) DuckStation works pretty well. An RPi can be a gaming PC. As long as you have the right packages and software anyway.
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What consoles can Raspberry Pi 4 emulate?

A Pi 4's extra performance gets you a few benefits compared to an old Pi 3 or 3B+, including more consistent (but not universally problem-free) emulation speed for the Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, and Sony PSP and the ability to turn on some lag-reducing features that we'll talk about in a bit.
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What emulators run best on RetroPie?

We recommend SNES9x 2010 because it has the best balance between performance and accuracy among the emulators available on RetroPie. The SNES was one of two 16-bit champion home game consoles of the 1990s with a monster library of 2D gaming glory.
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Is Retroarch better than RetroPie?

Retroarch is sorta like a more complex Lakka from the little I've played with it. Retropie is an entirely separate beast is really meant for the Raspberry pi or Linux based computers. It's a lot like Retroarch, as I think it uses parts of Retroarch for compatibility, but it focuses more on customization and theming.
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Are Raspberry Pi emulators legal?

Re: Emulators and the R-pi

Just to make things perfectly clear to the mods: Emulators, source code of emulators, binaries, etc are perfectly legal in *every* country out there.
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What consoles can Raspberry Pi 5 emulate?

Leepspvideo shows off Dolphin running several GameCube and Wii ROMs on the Raspberry Pi 5. Gaming on the Raspberry Pi is reaching new heights thanks to the debut of the Raspberry Pi 5. This new board isn't available to the public just yet but it will be from October 23.
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Can Raspberry Pi run Xbox 360?

No, there is no XBOX (360) emulator for the current Power levels of the PI. The PI4 can barely emulate an N64, all later game consoles are too much to ask for.
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Can Raspberry Pi 4 run GameCube?

The GameCube / WII running on RPI4, tested on 4GB. It works better than on RPI3. The sound is choppy a bit. However, by reducing the monitor size to lower, perfs are ok.
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Can Raspberry Pi 5 run Xbox?

#2 more importantly, the Pi5 can emulate (barely) original Xbox games and not very well. the Raspberry Pi 5 will never, and I mean NEVER play Xbox 360 games, so using your kinect for 360 games in not a possibility.
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Has anyone gone to jail for downloading ROMs?

So, basically, under no circumstances is playing ROMs on an emulator legal. But no one has ever been prosecuted for it – not even once. Mind you, websites sourcing ROMs have often been asked to shut down.
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What is the illegal use of Raspberry Pi?

Re: Illegal use of the Raspberry Pi for profit

There is no restriction on using a Pi in a commercial product or for profit. The only illegal part of this is the bundled pirated game ROMs and possibly the licensing of the OS image if it is RetroPie based.
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Is it illegal to sell Raspberry Pi?

It's not illegal, but you'd be better off to sell your product as an accessory for the Raspberry Pi, with a Raspberry Pi included or not. If you're trying to sell a device with a Raspberry Pi “hidden” that's an exercise in futility.
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Why is Raspberry Pi 3b so expensive?

The shortage in stock is due to supply chain issues which affected any components which used semiconductors. The Raspberry Pi range was not alone in this: graphics cards, along with other PC components, also saw stock shortages and high demand. It's also difficult to buy a bare board.
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Is Raspberry Pi 3b discontinued?

Introduction. Note: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is discontinued now, we recommend Raspberry Pi 4 Module B as a suitable replacement. This is the latest Raspberry Pi 3.
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Can you emulate ps3 on Raspberry Pi?

Absolutely not. The pi3 is capable of running up to PS1 and N64, both of which have several games that run at a low frame rate. As a general rule you need a computer with about 4x the specs of the system your trying to emulate. The ps3 specs are 3.2ghz single core processor, with 256gb ram.
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