Batocera Neo Z64

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Pingouin

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For those interested in converting an old box into a gaming box, I'm, playing with Batocera on my Z64.
Tried the old v5.35 build recommended for Atom processors, and I couldn't get it to work.
I now tried the standard v39 buld for x86-x64 PC, and it does work, but VERY slow. If you try it, don't give up on boot as it probably took around 10 minutes to boot into Batocera!
Next, I'm going to try installing it on the internal eMMC, but I'm not holding my breath for usability!
 
Unfortunately, still very slow on reboot.
Now trying to install on eMMC. Unfortunately, my USB drive was 32GB, and the internal eMMC is 32GB, so I install to a "29.1GB" drive, not sure if that is indeed the eMMC, or if it didn't detect it and it's installing on the USB drive again!
At the rate it's going, it's going to take at least 1 hour for me to figure it out, and that's being wired straight into the router for the download.
My guess is that whether the install works or not, this not going to be usable, so I'm off to find a plan B.
 
Another update:
- Batocera: excrutiatingly slow, so I gave up installing. Also couldn't find how to turn off the ghastly music. Too bad because this was the one that seem to offer installation on local drive.
- Lakka: boots, but then hangs at partition resize step, eventually crashes/stops and box rebooted in Windows. Since that failed as live, I didn't wanrt to try installation so gave up on that.
- Recalbox: 1st boot very slow as expected, but subsequent still has slow as Batocera. Interface way more responsive to Batocera (which is not hard), but there doesn't seem to be a way to actually install it on the eMMC. Running from USB is slow to boot and even shoot down (which it doesn't even do properly), so gave up on that too. Also I couldn't find a way to skip the intro on subsequent reboots which had on top odf already very slow booting times.
- Retroarch: at this point I was shocked to see how fast Win8.1 boots! Installed MinGW latest stable build, and most cores are slow. Tried MSVC2010 and (can't remember other MSVC build) and both were worse than MinGW, with much fewer cores, and for instance none of the Genesis cores worked at all.

Since I'd play mostly arcade, I'm going to try FBNeo next.
 
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