Raspberry Pi 4 and the State of Video Game Emulation

I can&#x27;t say I understand the continued interest in RPI emulation. A few years back it might have made sense, but small board options are much more varied now.<p>The Nvidia Jetson Nano seems like a no brainer in the emulation space. It&#x27;s 90$ with 4GB RAM (vs 70$ for a 4GB Pi4). For that extra Jackson, one gets actual GPU cores with compute support baked in(not to mention mature graphics drivers).<p>And its not like there is much of a trade-off for those CUDA cores. The Nano is also roughly the same size as a Pi, has that 40 pin header (it even throws in actual PCIe lanes)<p>I realize emulation is often CPU bound, but having a decent GPU on tap can&#x27;t hurt.<p>I don&#x27;t do small boards, so maybe I am missing something?

I never understood the hype about emulation on Raspberry Pi. Fidelity goes out the window and the experience is very subpar. End result being the emulated games don&#x27;t even come close to the real thing, even for 16bit systems.<p>It&#x27;s sad that all the effort spent on &quot;optimizing&quot; emulators for RPI is essentially wasted, putting lipstick on a pig.<p>Spend a little more money and get a single board x86 computer (e.g. Odroid H2) or a NUC and these issues go away.