The $35 Gaming PC

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.