PC emulators provide one of the quintessential ways to play retro games, because of their ease of use, normally solid performance and tons of online support and information.
Also, I noticed the Pi would often run warm when running demanding games such as Super Mario 64, Doom 64, and specific fighting games. This test was mainly about eyeballing different games based on choppiness and frame rate latency. I installed RetroPie and configured its settings menu to display the frame and temp where possible (Note, this method does not work well for N64, Dreamcast or PS1, so I was unable to test the framerate for those).
Raspberry Pi 4B with 4GB of RAM, running the popular RetroPie emulation platform (see how to set up RetroPie), which includes a UI and more than a dozen preloaded emulators for individual consoles.For this face-off, I set up and gamed on the following devices:
