> I'm a little bit excited about this new console coming out. The questions I'm asking > about this are arcade-related. From what I read on Wiki, it says that it'll be using > the ARM Cortex-A9 processor. Now, is that powerful enough to at least emulate Sega > Model 2 games, and possibly the Model 3 Step 1.0 and 1.5 games? The Cortex-A9 has 4 > cores. If not, I may not buy it.
Pretty good ports of those games should be possible. Emulation is strongly unlikely. It comes in well under the specs that e.g. ElSemi's Model 2 emulator requires, and it's rumored Sony is slowing it down more now that it's well known how slow the Nintendo 3DS is.
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