Emulation for old games

[Adimantus]

Ill get straight to the point. I want to build a machine to play classic games on like mario 64, zelda and maybe something like gta san andreas. I have a 11 year old laptop with a pentium 4 @ 3GHz 512mb ram and intergrated graphics with a 128mb memory buffer. Should I give a new breath of life to that laptop and install something like xp on it, or should I go for a Raspberry device since those are trending?? Will the Raspberry be more powerful than that laptop? Also, consinder that I will need a tiny monitor for the Pi but not for the laptop. Power consumsion is not an issue. Well, what should I do??

[The Sloth]

pi for everything except for gta san. 

[manikyath]

well, retropie recently intoduced an x86 package to install on desktops/laptops.

[Himommies]

I would go with the PI simply because of its size and noise.

[Adimantus]

well if you dont count the noise, since the laptop is pretty quiet, and I will be wearing headphones during gaming, is the laptop more powerful?

[Scruffy90]

depends on what you want to emulate. If you want ps2 and newer, idk how well a raspberry pi would emulate it.

[Bigbootyjudy]

On 3/13/2017 at 2:23 PM, Scruffy90 said:

depends on what you want to emulate. If you want ps2 and newer, idk how well a raspberry pi would emulate it.

i have an rpi 3 that has trouble running some nin. 64 games without being overclocked so nin 64 is basically the max though you can play ps1 games pretty smoothly. Another advantage of the raspberry pi is that if you wanted to invite someone over to play some games with you, you can hook it up to a tv or whatever.

[KeemoSabe]

 

 

Watch this. It can run Minecraft soo??