For years, the single-board computer (SBC) market was dominated by the Raspberry Pi. When it came to retro gaming, EmuELEC was the king of software—turning weak ARM boards into console-like emulation machines. However, the hardware often struggled with GameCube, PS2, or heavy PSP upscaling.

The RK3588 is a massive upgrade over the chips usually found in EmuELEC handhelds: Performance

EmuELEC 4.x+ relies heavily on Vulkan for Dolphin and PS2. The Mali-G610 does support Vulkan 1.3, but the driver stack for RK3588 is still maturing. Many users find that OpenGL backends work fine, but Vulkan crashes randomly.

Here is what you need to know about getting EmuELEC on this hardware.