Reply To: Banana Pi with RetroPie

[gizmo98]

I’m not sure if RetroPie works out of the box. You need at least a hard float distribution. It should be a debian derivate like ubuntu or raspbian. There should also be gpu support. Banana pi uses an armv7 soc. So some files should be updated:

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/retropie_setup.sh
current:
__default_cflags=”-O2 -pipe -mfpu=vfp -march=armv6j -mfloat-abi=hard”
armv7:
__default_cflags=”-O2 -pipe -mfpu=neon -march=armv7 -mfloat-abi=hard”

Emulationstation requires gcc-4.7, SDL2 and /usr/lib/libEGL.so.

Many emulators are optimized for armv6 or the videocore of the raspberry pi soc. With a fast armv7 soc you could use common libretro cores like bsnes-libreto or mupen64plus-libretro:
https://github.com/libretro