[silkworm]

It took most of last night to update the Pi as it kept failing to fetch the packages, I guess their servers were being hammered.

Everything is running a lot slicker on the Pi2. This morning I popped Star Fox on. As has already been reported the difference is night and day, it’s completely playable now. It’s not “perfect”, you get the odd sound glitch here and there, and a bit of slowdown when a lot is going on, but that’s nit-picking (I remember from my childhood that the SNES itself used to do this on Star Fox).

Currently I have done nothing more than run “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get” on a V2.3 Retropie image. No overclocking, memory changes, recompiling, anything. Just wanted to say that at this point, even without all of the multi-core binaries and other goodies to come, for me the upgrade is already worth it.

If there are any games you want me to test, let me know.

[silkworm]

I only got my Model B+ 12 days ago, now they bring the new one out… That’s just my luck! Anyway, given the price, I ordered a Pi 2 yesterday and it should be with me today.

Over the past few days I’ve got Retropie V2.3 working on my B+ with nearly all of the emulators running as expected (very grateful to this community, especially floob for his videos and sselph for his scraper script). Being only 12 days in I’m still a noob, but I will have a go at getting my Pi 2 working tonight with the same (if it’s arrived) and will report back.

I realise this is a noob question, but I was thinking that given the additional memory, I guess I will need to change the memory split from 256/256 to something like 512/512 to take advantage of the new gigabyte? Or will the update scripts do this for me? Posters above who’ve already upgraded, have you changed yours?

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