The N2Plus is probably the next best thing, CPU and GPU wise it's even better than the N1, although drivers are not completely there yet, but they are getting better and better as it also has very good open source support with Kernel and GPU. Which is quite nice, and with it's native SATA ports you can run harddrives like SSDs in much better speed than for example over USB 3.0 as it's done in on other ODROIDs. ![]() Overall the N1 mutated to a low power desktop PC rather than a low spec ARM board. Nowadays I also use it in combination with tools like box86 which allows you to run x86 applications on your ARM device, including wine for Windows applications. Thanks to the opensource panfrost GPU driver it even supports native OpenGL 3.1 features not only OpenGL ES, which makes it much more versatile. Since the N1 is very fast, it's also better in emulation than the XU4 for example and can play games that the XU4 struggle with. It is based on the RockChip RK3399 SoC has 4GB RAM, a Mali T860-MP4 which is quite good as well (even better than the XU4), the VPU is also very good and can do up to H265 in benefit of the N1 is that it's running with upstream Kernel and GPU drivers everything is opensource and works "beautiful", well everything except the VPU at the moment, but the CPU is fast enough that you can watch videos in software decoding using Kodi and you don't notice any difference from hardware decoding. Which is a shame as without these the board misses out of very good features of these drivers.Ĭurrently my favorite board is the ODROID N1, sadly that one is no longer available and only a few lucky people ever got one. While Kernel is quite recent (Kernel 5.4 works and others might as well) the GPU support in the future is probably not given, while other boards get the luxury of opensource panfrost drivers, the XU4 most likely will not get these any time soon (or at all). While the XU4 is a powerhouse the future software support could be an issue. XU3/XU4 became my next best thing, it took a while for it to become stable but by now it's really a powerhouse, lots of performance CPU and GPU wise, video support only H264 but that works without issues and can even be used from ffplay and other players directly nowadays no need for special versions of Kodi anymore. The U2/U3 was similar good, same performance and stability, but less USB and extensions, smaller form-factor made it quite liked by many. The problem was that by that time I already had the U2/U3 X2, and XU3 which all where so much better in matter of performance and stability (except for video support which "technically" the C1 could do better but which much more effort), which made it quite hard for me to like the C1 with it's tons of issues at that time.įor a long time the X2 was my favorite board, thanks to the many USB ports, the audio in and out, the many other expansions, the total stability and so on, still the X2 became old quite quickly and the I/O speed was very limited. ![]() ![]() There was a hot discussion going on that the C1 isn't that bad and why I so dislike it, when it's so much better than the RPi 2 which was released right after the C1. The C1 was always my least favorite ODROID, so many issues so little power. But no, the XU4 seems still to be kicking. Until now I was hesitating a little bit, because I thought that it would be just too old and will be kicked out by a more up-to-date hardware. Because it is somewhat mature and beats even the C4 in many areas. The C2 is a little bit newer but often tricky to get things running because of either the aarch64 or the video hardware (the reason why HK does not provide Kodi anymore for their latest Ubuntu).Ĭurrently I am about to buy a XU4. But it has become quite old and has reached EOL in many software terms. Until now I was more or less happy with my C1 for that. I will try to extract the gaming content either manually or by an installation under wine.īy the way: which ODROID do you personally prefer for a "general purpose entertainment system" for games (retro console stuff) and other GOGs as well as watching movies via Kodi? ![]() gro files which contain the levels and so are getting extracted during installation. I think the files that you have are the files after a game installation. The thing with the game files is strange. Otherwise I would have not found it by myself. Yes, the issue with the starter was not that tricky.
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