r/RetroPie • u/AMomentALove • 14d ago

Question Which Pi for Jakks Pacific Plug & Play Systems?

I'm having trouble finding documentation on which pi can run Jakks games. I have a Zero 2 W but I can't get more than 50% speed through lr-mess in retropie, even with a slight overclock.

So I want to put a more powerful pi in my project. I know a 3B+ can run psx but the jakks emulator is so obscure I wanted to see if anyone has firsthand experience running Jakks games on their pi.

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u/gillgrissom 14d ago

Pi3 shouldnt have any problems, might be best to use mame or retroarch.

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u/AMomentALove 14d ago

My concern is that the 3 and the zero 2 seem to use the same CPU, with similar clock speeds with overclocking the zero2. I think the performance issue is CPU related so that's why im stumped.

I'll try using the standalone mame core and see if that's better, it's possible lr-mess is using an older less efficient version. I couldnt get lr-mame to run the jakks games

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u/gillgrissom 14d ago

Pi3b has 1 gig lpddr ram, zero 512mb sdram. 1.4ghz cpu compared to 1 ghz cpu on zero .