Re:The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation
by taneq on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:14AM
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How much latency does one of these add? It might be fine on a modern cinematic console shooter, but a large amount of the appeal of some old arcade games is their frame-perfect timing. I can't imagine that's helped by adding a round trip over the network, not to mention streaming the video back. That's gotta add 2-3 frames' latency at the very least.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation
by aallen90 on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:13AM
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The default settings have some noticeable latency (5-10ms), but changing the video encoding from "balanced" to "fast" drop it down to almost nothing. You can additionally plug the controller(s) into your PC to further remove any input delay. I can't vouch for emulated arcade games, but it works surprisingly well with a steam collection.
Re:The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation
by icelancer on Monday July 25, 2016 @05:06AM
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Axiom Verge was unplayable on any settings I tried.
Re:The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation
by douche on Monday July 25, 2016 @07:40AM
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You want to make sure that you have the Steam Link wired into your network, rather than on wireless, because that makes a huge difference.
Otherwise, it's gotten so they are pretty decent now. When the Links first came out, they were quite laggy and unstable, but after a hundred or so patches, it's settled down.