Video showing the speed difference of using a new RPi 2 with N64 and SNES SFX games with RetroPie 2.5.0
I'll post up more details here:
http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/
Magnet Link to 2.5.0 Image (runs on RPi v1 and RPi v2):
http://mgnet.me/ZQS91Ce
Test on N64:
Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario 64
Test on SNES sfx chip games:
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, StarFox
Pi 1 = 700MHz ARMv6 512MB
Pi 2 = 900MHz ARMv7 1GB
RetroPie Image used was:
http://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/raspberry-pi-2-compatibility/page/4/#post-86779 (Same as 2.5.0)
Raspbian updates including kernel:
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/release_notes.txt
Command to update your current system:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade