Emulators on Raspberry Pi 2

[kryptalivian]

Dear Community,

Would you say that the Raspberry Pi 2 is holding me back from Playing Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, and N64 or is it more than capable, but the emulators need further optimization? The Reason I ask is you can get boards like Orange Pi PC, and Odroid C1 for the same price or cheaper than the RPI 2.

Thanks,

KryPtAlIvIaN

[jamesh]

RetroPi has loads of emulators built in, they seem to work fine.

One thing to note about MAME (and others) - they are designed to emulate exactly, not necessarily at a playable speed.

[kryptalivian]

I currently use Retropie and Lakka, which both work wonderful, but I would like to play other emulators that aren't currently on there. Would this be because of the pi's hardware or the code for the emulators hasn't been optimized correctly yet?