The Raspberry Pi 5 is a $80 Gaming Beast

I think MVG's point at the end was most important for emulation buyers. Once you buy the active cooler, the unique power supply (highly doubt you have a 5V supply rated for 5A sitting around), and a case - you're entering mini-PC territory and that product segment moves along very fast much like retro handhelds so there's a good chance of something becoming available in your budget if it's not already.

Correction : 6:57 I mean to say PlayStation 2 instead of PlayStation 5

Pi 5 nowadays... while the base price for one is $80, it can go past $150 if you kit it out. Problem with that is, Price to performance just isn't there anymore, once you consider the more recent mini PCs that have exploded onto the market. With not much more money, you could get something much more powerful in comparison. Sure, back in the Pi 2/3 Days, $50 got you a nice little tinker board. But nowadays, It's been harder to justify for the same when faster alternatives exist.

I remember using Raspberry Pi when it first came out, I was amazed with just how powerful it was for its small size. I'm glad they're still going strong

I've been using raspberry pis for several years as a personal server and other as emulation consoles. The problem with these machines is that when you add up the cost of the case, a decent power supply, a quality SD card and a decent fan, to end up with mixed performance for a price close to that of a mini PC, it's not worth it. On top of that, problems with power supply, SD card reliability and the lack of availability of certain ARM-based Linux packages made me decide never to buy one again. I've had an x64 mini PC for 4 years now, and I'll never go back, whatever the performance promised by each new generation.

As much as i love the Pi... for around 100$ there are plenty of used micro PC options out there like optiplex micros with far more processing power

Those frame rate hitches in Killer Instinct are internal and not the emulation. It’s when the game is reading from it’s hard drive which is why it occurs during transition sequences. I know this for a fact because I owned the arcade game on a super gun for many years

great in-depth dive into this new offering. It's everything I've been wondering about it, and I'm glad you covered it!

So glad they solved the issue of no being able to buy the 4 by not being able to buy the 5.

I've always been a raspberry pi fan and it's great to see it keep getting better and better. It was my first taste of emulation many years ago. My steam deck is my primary emulation machine now, however if I can find a raspberry pi 5 at a decent price, I would love to tinker with it. Great video as always!

Excellent video, thanks. You really go above and beyond in detail.

Its an amazing time for emulation and compact systems!!! Use to be youd have to have a full tower, overclocked and loaded to the gills to run half that stuff and at nowhere near full framerate. I've had wallets that were larger than the Pi 5!!!!! This is soo amazing!!!

I love how these things were suppose to be $20 and for everyone now they cost a small fortune lol

A further note on the power supply - the 5V@5A USB-PD profile it wants is not an official profile. Devices in this power class are supposed to use the 9V@3A profile and include a switching regulator to get whatever voltages they need. However, for whatever reason Pi foundation decided they didnt want to increase the BoM cost or didnt feel they had space on the PCB. This means that none of your USB-C power supplies will work, even if they support 20V@5A. You have to go buy one with the special profile.

awesome video, i was definitely interested in this device so this was very helpful!

I’m glad yt put your channel in front of me. Subbed 🙌🏼

Most big shoot em up have issue on mame in general, mostly input lag. They can run passably with run ahead but most dedicated shmup players run them in custom tweaked mame versions optimized to reduce slowdowns and input lag.

This does look great! If this was released a couple years ago, I'd be all over it. But like you mentioned at the end of the video, I bought a mini PC and I am very happy with the emulation power and performance of that! Pi 5 is cool. Great video!

I love the idea of a Pi, but over the last couple years I just keep coming back to the fact that by the time I add a power supply, case, cooler, storage, etc, I might as well just buy a significantly faster micro PC. You can buy refurbed 9th gen models for $150 or so.

I had a ton of fun emulating stuff on a pi 3 a few years ago. Felt like such an elegant solution at the time even though it was cheap. Now I think emulating on SBCs doesn’t really make as much sense, especially when one of the chinese emulator handhelds with HDMI out is cheaper. The drivers always suck so much on SBCs too