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by ythl 3629 days ago
> A model B Raspberry Pi or even a Zero (if you can get one) should play NES games perfectly fine

Last time I tried this, some of my favorite games were super laggy (Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG) presumably due to having to emulate additional processors (Super FX, SA-1, etc.)

edit: Oh wait, this is NES we are talking about. Nevermind, I'm sure NES runs fine. I'll leave my comment up for anyone wanting to talk about SNES emulation.

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Some of the issues were recently patched:

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5428

I tried it on my pi 2 and it feels the smallest bit laggy. Going to try it in a pi 3 to see if that improves things.

Retropie is amazing, but there are a lot of emulator options available, and some don't seem to work out of the box.

Those games you mentioned are SNES games.