Naomi 2 games on Raspberry Pi 5  are INCREDIBLE!
Channel: Widge
Date: 2023-11-20

I got me a Raspberry Pi 5 and I was so fed up of seeing the Big-Tubers expecting us to swoon over examples of what is already possible on the Pi4 that I took matters into my own hands.

Here i see how well  can run games from Sega's Naomi 2 arcade system.
The Pi is not overclocked, but I am making use of the Vulkan video driver and I found the results to be quite impressive.

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In order to enable the Vulkan Driver on my system I followed the advice of Darksaviorx on Reddit. Hopefully, if you read this in the future these steps won't be necessary. But until then, here they are:

The commit on the dev github repo linked here shows some changes that need to be made : https://github.com/cmitu/RetroPie-Setup/commit/192144f215c9ed0f717531a242f447ab9d325701

1. Add the green highlighted parts of sdl2.sh and system.sh from this dev repo to yours.
2. Edit your system.sh , go to "platform_rpi5", and add the vulkan flag after "gles31". It should look something like this:
                                function platform_rpi5() {
                                          cpu_armv8 "cortex-a76"
                                          __platform_flags+=(rpi gles gles3 gles31 vulkan)

3. Re-install sdl2, retroarch, and flycast-dev from source again in that order.
4.Open a game with flycast-dev, go to the retroarch menu, change the driver to vulkan, save config, and exit.

For reference, the original post from Darksaviorx is here : https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/17w6u7r/comment/k9hgcfg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3