The Raspberry Pi Zero W is one of the cheapest computers available, priced at around $10. However, its slow processor makes it difficult to run games. The new processor in this version should be able to handle a few games.
I'm going to try running Automobili Lamborghini for the Nintendo 64, a classic game that I'm sure you'll enjoy. The performance is actually pretty solid, but part of this is just the fact that this game is really twitchy. It's actually kind of fun though. This track is actually pretty cool. Oh, I'm going to take the shortcut.
Shortcut, shortcut, shortcut, shortcut.
I love that about all of the arcade games.
Yeah!
They all have a shortcut teaching you it's okay to cheat.
All right. (Mario Kart theme)
Excellent. Yeah audio's definitely not perfect here, but that's fine, cause I'm in fourth, fifth, whatever that says. Man, do I just suck this much at N64 games? This is embarrassing. I'm in seventh right now. Oh, this is back when Mario Kart was actually hard. Whoo! Ah, no! No! No! Get back here Donkey Kong. Oh my god, what is wrong? How do I use this stupid?
Excellent. So we can also emulate DS games. I'm going to turn down the volume. Oh, Matt, am I starting from scratch?
Yup
Matt, no.
Matt, you need to figure out how to use the touch.
No, I know how to use a stylus.
(pokecenter theme)
(clears throat)
Ken, you all right there?
Sometimes. When I get into videos, I have what is called, a little bit too much fun.
Um, should we move onto something else? Wait.
(laughter)
That's fine. I walked around it's in (laughter) Shut up Ken.
(Ken)
All you did was dance, you didn't test anything.
I walked around, it's Pokémon, what do you expect?
It, it works fine. Spyro the Happy Dragon.
Oh, I just blew fire. Oh.
Although I will say framerate, not super smooth. But it is also a PS1 game, some of these games did run at like 15 frames per second. So something else which is very useful to use a Raspberry Pi for, is for Steam Link.
So, essentially if you have any other computer available, so right now we have a Windows PC down here. We should connect it to this monitor and the Raspberry Pi here. In theory, we can open up SteamLink and it will just work, and we can play all the games we want on our $35 Raspberry Pi.
Look at this excellent connection speed. 65, 70, whoo! All right, we can get 80 megabits per second, which, to be fair, right now the Raspberry Pi is over ethernet and the Gaming PC is over wifi, so, sure, I'll take that.
All right, we have our Xbox controller, fair connection. Let's start playing. Okay, so right now this monitor is running directly from our gaming PC, right? So this is as if we were not using Raspberry Pi or anything. We can natively go through here and it's all fine.
On this display, this is the output from our Raspberry Pi. So essentially this should show you what the latency is. Like, literally, that's almost seamless.
Let's, uh, let's try to play a game.
Ken
CS:GO is probably not the most ideal game for this.
Austin
No, no, this is actually a good example though. This is like the worst case scenario. Like, if I can play CS:GO successfully on a Raspberry Pi.
Ken
Well.
Dude, this is actually playable. Now, mind you, I don't know if we're getting a full 60p feed to the Raspberry Pi. It's fine, I didn't get a kill. It's fine.
(Ken)
Don't throw the mouse, what the hell?
I was lining up the headshot man, I can't get knifed.
Ken
That's my mouse.
What the hell?
Kay.
What can we deduce from this?
Ken
You destroyed my mouse.
Steam Link works fine.
Ken
You destroyed my mouse.
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hey guys, this is Austin,and today we're taking a lookat an incredible new gaming set up.The $35 Raspberry Pi 4.But of course, before we get into it,huge shout out to LG forsponsoring this video.This is the brand newLG Ultragear 27GLE50,which has the distinct honor of beingthe world's first nano IPS game monitorwith a one millisecond response time.This is really the best of both worlds,as you're getting thehigh-end picture quality,which is shared with their Nanocell TVs,but you're also getting thesuper fast response timewith a 144 hertz refresh rate, HDR10,and it supports not only freesyncbut also NVIDIA's G-Sync.And of course, to takeadvantage of the display,we are using a veryhigh-end $3500 computerfrom the Pro vs. Broke series,but that's not all you need for this guy.With a 1440p resolutionand dedicated game modesfor games such as first personshooters, as well as RTS.If you are in need of a monitor upgrade,definitely be sure to gocheck out the Ultragearat the link in the description.Now while I might have avery high-end set-up here,of course, today we're lookingat something a littlemore on the budget end.So if you guys are notfamiliar with the Raspberry Pi,it is an incrediblyversatile little computer.So not only are they dirt cheap,they're also one of the easiest waysto get into learning how tonot only work on computers,but especially when youget into the Linux side,it can be frustrating,but you also do a lotof cool stuff with it.So one of the cool partsabout the Raspberry Pi 4,is that well, it supportsmultiple displays.Now this year's Raspberry Pi 4is actually a pretty significant upgrade.So for the same priceas last year's model,you're getting a more powerfulCPU, options for more RAM,as well as a ton of smallbut very nice improvements.So at that $35 price, we'refinally getting USB 3.0,which is awesome.We're also getting gigabit ethernetcompared to 100 megabitinternet from last year.We still have AC wifi,you have Bluetooth 5.0,I mean this thing is properly specced.On top of all that we alsonow have a USB-C port.One of the really bigupgrades here is on the CPU,the GPU, and the RAM.So, on the processorside, we're going froman older A53, which arevery small, weak cores,up to a ARM Cortex-A72.Now with a quad-core configuration,they claim that it's up tothree times more powerful,which might be a slight exaggeration.But again, for a $35computer, we're looking ata sort of level performance,which is not that faroff of a lot of pretty decent smartphones.On top of that, the graphicshave also seen a major upgrade.So not only does it now support 4K,but it actually supportsa pair of 4K monitorsat a full 60 hertz, and on top of thatyou can do things suchas decode H265 at 4K60.I mean, it's actually properly powerful.The cool thing is, evenon such a low budget,you're still gettingthe full picture qualityof these LG Ultragear displays.Now is it powerful enough to say,run super powerful native games?No, because they don'texist for the Raspberry Pi.What it does allow youto do is make this thingnot only just a little streaming box,but you can actually dosome proper work on it.So with browsers suchas Firefox and Chromium,this actually is a completelyusable little desktop.Now one of the nice things about the Pi 4is that in addition to thestandard one gigabyte model,for $45 you can get two gigs of RAM,and for $55 you can geta full four gigs of RAM.Especially once you bump that up,it actually becomes pretty usable.In fact this entire video,all the notes were written upinside Google Docs using the Raspberry Pi.Now it's not exactly fast,especially when it comes tothings like YouTube playback,where it sometimes strugglesto play a little bit of HD.However, generally speaking, this isa very usable little box,especially consideringjust how tiny it is.And of course, it is a Raspberry Pi,so you have all the sameheaders from last time,so you customize it with camerasand all kinds of cool stuff.You can get it so small.It is really easy to build itinto all kinds of enclosures,including things like emulation.I've seen actually a lot ofgo into like little like,NES style boxes, or even like, a GameBoy.There's a ton of functionality for, again,a computer which costs $35.In fact, actually, some of the stuffthat you kinda have to deal with hereis very much meant for the older Pi.So things such as Windows,there actually is a Windows10 version for Raspberry Pi,except it's for the 3 not the 4 yet,so unless you wanna beMatt and hack it together,you're stuck with Raspbian.However, what is working is RetroPie.What is not working is, it'son the wrong monitor. I'm gonna(beep)So the cool things about this is that,with RetroPie, we havea huge variety of gameswhich are playable.Now, previously we did a video on this,the Raspberry Pi Zero W, which at like $10is one of the cheapestcomputers you can buy.However, the issue here isthat it is, well, not fast.And a lot of games youactually can't run on this.However with the added benefitof this newer processor,we should be able toplay a fair few games.So let's try Automobili Lamborghinifor the Nintendo 64, a classicthat I'm sure you're gonna love.I'm gonna say that the performanceis actually pretty solid,but I think that partof this is just the factthat this game is really twitchy.It's actually kind of fun though.This track's actually pretty cool.Oh, I'm gonna take the shortcut.Shortcut, shortcut, shortcut, shortcut.- (Matt) I love that aboutall of the arcade games- (Austin) Yeah!- (Matt) They all have a shortcutteaching you it's okay to cheat.- All right.(Mario Kart theme)Excellent.Yeah audio's definitely not perfect here,but that's fine, cause I'm in fourth,fifth, whatever that says.Man, do I just suckthis much at N64 games?This is embarrassing.I'm in seventh right now.Oh, this is back when MarioKart was actually hard.Whoo! Ah, no! No! No! Getback here Donkey Kong.Oh my god, what is wrong?How do I use this stupid?Excellent. So we canalso emulate DS games.I'm gonna turn down the volume.Oh, Matt, am I starting from scratch?- (Matt) Yup- Matt, no.- (Matt) You need to figureout how to use the touch.- No, I know how to use a stylus.(pokecenter theme)(clears throat)- (Ken) You all right there?- Sometimes.When I get into videos,I have what is called,a little bit too much fun.Um, should we move onto something else? Wait.(laughter)That's fine. I walked around it's in(laughter)Shut up Ken.- (Ken) All you did was dance,you didn't test anything.- I walked around, it'sPokemon, what do you expect?It, it works fine.Spyro the Happy Dragon.Oh, I just blew fire. Oh.Although I will say framerate, not super smooth.But it is also a PS1game, some of these gamesdid run at like, 15 frames per second.So something else which is very usefulto use a Raspberry Pifor, is for Steam Link.So, essentially if you haveany other computer available,so right now we have aWindows PC down here.We should connect it to this monitorand the Raspberry Pi here.In theory, we can open up SteamLink and it will just work,and we can play all the games we wanton our $35 Raspberry Pi.Look at this excellentconnection speed. 65, 70, whoo!All right, we can get80 megabits per second,which, to be fair, rightnow the Raspberry Piis over ethernet and theGaming PC is over wifi,so, sure, I'll take that.All right, we have our Xboxcontroller, fair connection.Let's start playing.Okay, so right now thismonitor is running directlyfrom our gaming PC, right?So this is as if we were notusing Raspberry Pi or anything.We can natively go throughhere and it's all fine.On this display, this is the outputfrom our Raspberry Pi.So essentially this shouldshow you what the latency is.So, I mean dude, that'slike, that's pretty good.Like, literally, that's almost seamless.Let's, uh, let's try to play a game.- (Ken) CS:GO is probably notthe most ideal game for this.- (Austin) No, no, this isactually a good example though.This is like the worst case scenario.Like, if I can play CS:GOsuccessfully on a Raspberry Pi.- (Ken) Well.- Dude, this is actually playable.Now, mind you, I don'tknow if we're gettinga full 60p feed to the Raspberry Pi.It's fine, I didn't get a kill. It's fine.(thud)- (Ken) Don't throw themouse, what the hell?- I was lining up the headshotman, I can't get knifed.- (Ken) That's my mouse. What the hell?- Kay. What can we deduce from this?- (Ken) You destroyed my mouse.- Steam Link works fine.- (Ken) You destroyed my mouse.- My skill level could use some work.
