Raspberry Pi Zero & RetroPie
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- A look at the Raspberry Pi Zero.
A look at the RetroPie and Emulation Station.
The basics of installation and configuration of RetroPie 34:31
A quick look at Kodi.
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I swear to god when it comes to retro gaming when you absolutely need a raspberry pi 1 or 2 it's so sick I mean the fact that you're able to play retro games on a raspberry pi is sickly amazing it's like a must have
Good to see you are getting into Linux and the Raspberry Pi. I have quite the collection of Raspberry Pi's now, such useful little computers. It is rather amazing how advanced technology is so cheap these days.
Wow, I'm really impressed at the performance of the Pi Zero. Thanks for this video.
I had no idea that I could turn my Pi into a RetroPi, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for putting this video together, and providing the useful links. Good work sir!
Thank you :)
That's ok mate! I found it by chance during my tea break mouse clicking so it's nice to know my random meanderings on Twitter resulted in you sharing the love on here.
I've yet to do anything with mine yet, but I think retro-pi seems to be one of the best uses for it without digging into hardware build projects. Nice to see how it runs a lot of these games as I had no idea before I viewed this video.
Excellent video Steve!
+Stoo Cambridge Not into hardware builds myself. You'd laugh if you saw it now. Crammed into a tupperware box with a usb hub, with cables coming out of one hole in the side. Looks like Blakes 7's Orac, as supplied by Poundland :D
Marvellous dinky Pi. I share your sense of wonder regarding the size / power of the Zero. Great set of urls. 4 quid computer, what a time to alive!
Great video - thanks. Interesting to see the performance on the new PiZero.
Thanks for this video, I had downloaded retropie myself, and was disappointed to find it only had a fraction of the promised emulators on it - not being bothered to read the documentation I abandoned it, but your info about the systems only being shown once you have added some roms for that system has restored my confidence to give it another try! Thanks!
"not being bothered to read the documentation" - well we spent a lot of time writing it, so it would be worth while at least to go through the first installation which tells you the basics... github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation
Yeah, sorry about that, I did mean to go back to it when I had some more time to tinker.
Tapes in the 80s, Disks in the 90s, CDs in the 00s (and 90s to be fair), Frickin' Computers in the 10's!!!! Amazing stuff. I liked the way your Storm trooper eye-balled me when you picked up the Pi by the way XD
+Nostalgia Nerd I placed the Pi deliberately so that I had to stand to get it. This is my favourite t-shirt, so any excuse to show it off... lol ;)
Hahaha, top work! :)
Got myself a B+ and tried using it as a desktop but and was impressed but I was really sad that I couldn't open many tabs or watch videos on the browser since it usually takes 100% of the CPU which kinda bothers me so when the Pi 2 released I grabbed one and it instantly blew me away! The speed has very much improved and it doesn't take that much power of the CPU compared to the B+. The Pi 2 is a really great choice if you really are in a tight budget or just need a simple computer. I use Raspbian and it has come a long way since it first got released. It's now on Jessie and I must say the OS now is very pleasant to use. Another good thing about the Raspberry Pi is probably all of them(including the Zero) is pretty much powerful enough to run LibreOffice(a office suite for linux) smoothly although one of the most obvious difference is probably the loading time. And now we got a new Raspberry Pi which is faster than the first Pi released. The Zero in my eyes would be really great to use as a cool little emulation system for the living room or even get this hooked up to cheap little monitors for your kids or schools that are financially poor.And it's really amazing how they got a full computer that is priced only 5$!In my country(I live in south east asia) After converting 5$ I can probably get a Mcdonald meal for 2. I really love how the Raspberry Pi foundation has found a way to make their latest product cheap and affordable. I know this is a very long comment but I just want to release my inner geek out. Yup, I may be young but I love how technology is getting cheaper! Btw, love this video on the Raspberry Pi Zero, please make more regarding the Raspberry Pi! No matter what project you make I'll gladly watch it! And no, your Raspberry Pi B isn't useless! There's so many uses you can do with them! Just do some research and something would probably catch your eye! Also Steve, I have a question about Retropie. How do you quit a game in Retropie? I can't figure anything out so I just turn the power switch off and on it back.
Got sick of waiting for the Pi Zero to be back in stock, so I bought a Pi 2 instead. Thank you for posting this video. It made me not only want one for myself, but also helped me greatly with setting up Retropie. I love my new emulation station! :)
I will most likely get a Pi Zero in the future, and make a nice little handheld system out of it.
+BawesomeBurf Size and cost are really the only things the Zero have over the Pi 2. I'm wanting to get a Pi 2 myself at the moment.
+BawesomeBurf Just bought a pi zero, in stock today
+Matthew Hodgson ...and they're already sold out in just 2 hours. Thanks for letting me know, but I didn't see this message soon enough. I'll get one eventually.
I no, am shocked at how fast these things sell - dam lucky I got one, was setup for alerts for when they are in stock
+BawesomeBurf mine as well get the pi 3 that just came out its only 35 dollars
Really enjoyed this video Steve... I got a RP2 for Christmas and RetroPie is what I wanted to use it for. Like yourself my knowledge of Linux is limited but despite this, getting it up and running and playing the classic is deeply satisfying! :)
It's amazing that we have reached this point. It's got to be the best magazine giveaway since Moley Christmas came with the Christmas edition of Your Sinclair. Personally I've found that even the Pi2 is a bit too slow for arcade emulation but hopefully the next incarnation of Pi will be fast enough to run everything nicely.
This makes me VERY tempted to get a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B to play around with!
+Troy Wilkins I'd like a Pi 2 myself, just so I can emulate the 32X and PS1 better, and give the N64 a chance too. Maybe after Christmas :)
Yeah, I'm tempted to get one of the raspberry pi zeros just to get a feel for it, thank you for making this video, I really appreciate it
This is pretty good for setup. I've used a number of ways to set up retro pie. Nowadays, I just go for the pre-configured large files to use a variety of games.
To be honest it was better than a tutorial. I don't need a tutorial just an overview.
+clangerbasher Thank you. I worry a little when covering fairly technical hardware and software, coz getting the right balance is easy to get wrong.
***** It was very much in the style of popping round to a mate's house to see his latest toy. Some tutorial videos on YT are hard work. Especially those with no commentary, some awful music, and done in such high res you would struggle to see what is happening on 60 4k screen. I think most of us can cope we just need a look see to provide some direction,
that was cool Steve, thanks for sharing :)
The pi zero has actually exceeded my expectation, I didn't think it would even run the 16bit emulators so well! i'm surprised! :o)
Yes, for such a cheap piece of kit, it's very impressive :)
are you done all
pls replay me
Well it does have the same CPU as the Pi 1.
I have a Pi B but wow I will definately be getting 1 or 2 pi zeros for fun! I plan to dedicate one of them to a sinclair zx spectrum 128k since that's the systems I used when a child.
the other one for multi emulation and my old Pib as a media centre. So cheap, amazing
This is the first I'd heard of the Pi Zero, and... WOW, that's a huge step forward in affordable computing! I've got one of the second-revision Pi 1's and a Pi 2 already, and definitely signed up to be notified when the Zero is back in stock. :)
+Hiro Plays Games The Pi 2 beats it on performance and connectivity, but for size and cost, the Zero is incredible :D
***** Honestly, I just want this one for the cool factor. Once I've got someone suitably amazed at the size and price of the original Pi and Pi 2, I'll whip out the Zero and tell them it cost £4.
Hehehehe! Respect! :D
I found Recal Box to work much better on the Zero. It's less hassle to setup and I actually got better performance with it. Plus it has more emulator options as standard and it just feels less janky overall.
**EDIT
After doing further experimentation, I've gotten RetroPie to perform even better than recal box on the zero but you need to do two important things.
Plug the SD card into your computer and open up the config.txt in a text editor. Find the #arm_freq= setting and uncomment it and set frequency to 1000 (you may be able to go a bit higher but I found 1100 to be unstable on my Zero.) the line should look like this:
arm_freq=1000
I believe overclocking the zero will void the warranty but who cares on a 5 dollar computer anyway?
Secondly, and most importantly, boot up retropie and go to the Raspi-config menu.
Go to advanced options and then into memory split. Set this to 256. (it will look like it will have defaulted to 256 but this is not true until you set it yourself.)
This should eliminate any little stutters and pops in the audio you might experience and will also allow you to run emulators at higher resolutions if you want. I believe it defaults to around half the video memory and that just isn't enough for smooth video and audio.
Hope this helps a few people.
Please read my edit in the above comment.
step 2 caused my pi to boot up without anything after the white loading screen. it comes up with a black screen that says choose at the bottom but no menu
Almost a talkie Friday... Good enough
Thanks for this... oddly enough I'd been looking into emulation via the Pi 2 yesterday afternoon and then I stumbled across this in my subs, some good info in this, so cheers! I'm looking at putting mine into the 'Piecade' bartop kit from Pimoroni.
Final Lap on the Wonderswan looks pretty good - wouldn't mind that one myself.
RetroPie looks like it has gone ahead leaps and bounds now. I am itching to give it a try now. Might give it a go with the Pi 2 I got a couple of months ago.
The Pie Zero is available in Australia already, but they are already sold out. Currently at -34 stock. Selling for $AUS25 for the board only and they have quite a few essential add-ons available for some quite good pricing.
I think it is absolutely amazing that we have reached the point where a completely practical computer the size of a credit card has been included as a free item on the front of a magazine, it shows how far things have progressed.
The whole issue of where the SG-1000 design came from is very interesting, it is an exact match to the components (bar having 2k instead of 1k ram) used in the Colecovision, and we are pretty sure now that that final design for the Coleco came from the two guys at Spectravideo trying to raise funds to build their machine.
One potential thing is the two guys from Spectravideo used Nishi (Microsoft Japan) to get Bill Gates on board and the Basic and BIOS written. Nishi was the catalyst for the later MSX standard, and showed the early designs to all of the Japanese companies to get them onboard - did he meet with Sega?
The release date of the SG-1000 does not necessarily match up with this logic, so perhaps the design came from Sega. I am not sure if we will ever know :)
+electricadventures I had a feeling if anyone would know more about the Colecovision / SG-1000 thing, it would be you :)
I am nothing but a fountain of useless (or useful) knowledge :)
I so want a Pie Zero but then I look up at the shelf above my monitor and see the Pi 2 that I haven't even done anything with :)
To be honest, the only things the Pi Zero have over the Pi 2 are that it's smaller and cheaper. The Pi 2 beats it on features and performance.
Wow, I have an Rpi1-B, Rpi-2, and Rpi-3, but don't have a Zero. From your video, I have to say the Zero holds up very well!
Almost the size of a memory stick, awesome.I nearly wet myself when I saw how good the Neo-Geo game looked, it was one of the consoles I lusted over.I was a bit of an MS-Dos gamer in the 90's, I would defo give that a try, see how the Pi copes with Quake, Duke Nuke'em & C&C.Thanks for sharing Steve.
+05Rudey There are shareware versions of Quake and Quake II built in :)
Yay, you made it!
We had Zork on DOS, and then way later found Zork Nemesis at a garage sale, which... I guess it was fun to a degree. I wasn't into that sort of format at the time (like MYST) - except for Starship Titanic (because is hard not to be entertained by Cleese).
Dodonpachi ran great! I guess it probably would be expected, but I have mostly played it on Saturn and I seem to remember it being quite slow at times on there. At least "helpfully" dynamic in speed depending on the sprite count. :P
+alecjahn lol @ 'helpfully dynamic'. I know exactly what you mean :D
Great video Steve. I recently bought a Pi3 with all the bells and whistles and have a microSD with RetroPie on it. I use a wireless Xbox 360 controller with USB receiver and it works really well. I have the roms on a USB stick which is mounted when it boots. The Dreamcast and N64 don't run very well even with overclocking and config tweaks but everything is pretty much perfect with the odd exception. The annoying thing about some Mame roms is that you need the CHD files that go with the rom and they are quite hard to track down. I do actually have an old modded original Xbox (or Xbox one as I still call it!) with all the Mame roms and that works flawlessly. I could run all my emulators on the PC but it's very satisfying playing old games on a credit card sized machine :)
I remember back in year 10 the school were lending out rasbery pis
I managed to run linux on it which was very cool !
Reply look forward to trying out this raspberry Pi myself. Quite a good little board to have as the basis of an emulator home made retro gaming setup.
this is a really good review thank you man is really well done
i use a self modified version of retro pie, in my retro systems that has the pi board.
never had much luck with speccy emu's to be honest.
a tip for cabinets and setups where you dont want a keyboard is buy a cheap usb kayboard and strip out the board, wire up the escape button to a tact switch, then hide the board inside.
it helps getting back to the dash.
+aly nicholls I'm using a tiny wireless keyboard that fits in the palm of my hand. It detracts from the console like nature of it, but since I have mine in a tupperware box, full of leads and usb hub, it kind of doesn't matter ;)
U describe raspberry very well. Thanks
I don't know if anyone has already said this, but imgburn is an excellent program to use if you want to rip/burn ISO's, and it's completely and utterly free.
zork III was finally made for Commodore 64, the Commodore Plus/4, the Atari 8-bit family. CP/M and ibm pc. first version of zork made for the PDP-11. nobody play words play any more after graphics.
I've found that by opening a Mega CD titles CUE in notepad that sometimes the music tracks are renamed compared to what the track titles are in the ISO info so to fix the audio I had to rename all the tracks to what it says they should be named in the cue and it works then. Also in some emulators cases it likes either wave only or mp3 only so I had to convert in the past for support also as well as the renaming the cue names to the correct names of your games tracks. Once it's done you never have to go back to the cue again though. You probably also have to run the game from the cue rather than the bin or iso sometimes to get music. The joy of Mega CD emulation but after you set it up it works unless the emulator doesn't support CD audio.
If you want to rip your Mega CD discs, use ImgBurn. It has an option to rip discs to either an .iso or .bin and .cue image. It works great for that and is also really good for burning discs. It's free, by the way.
+thepirategamerboy12 Thanks for the info. I shall definitely give that a go :)
On some TV's there is an opinion in the manual screen menu settings to set it to full pixel/+1 that gives you the full picture on your TV if you have issues in that way but if your TV doesn't have such thing there is no way to sort the issue.
+Daniel Cordell I don't have any control over that kind of thing on my TV, unfortunately.
Yeah, it's just one of those things on some sets screen modes in the main menu which does sort that problem if your set does have it which it doesn't.
Also, if you press F4 on a connected keyboard while in EmulationStation, you can exit to the command line to do things like change passwords, etc.
+Jacob N Thanks for the info :)
I still find it amazing that a computer the size of a credit card can do so much and now its given away for free on a magazine mind completely blown. I hope Magpi can follow this up with a cd with various software to help support what can be achieved with the pi as a lot of software like recallbox just isn't available on the official site and it would save a lot of hunting around online.
+killbotkillbotkill I just took a look at the recalbox website, out of curiosity. Looks to me like a rebadged RetroPie. It even has exactly the same menu system. The only difference, and I must say, improvement, seems to be the game selection screen.
+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) Yes it is a variant of RetroPi with the advantage of it showing in your network so you don't even need to open an ftp browser to transfer your Roms it is accessed just like a hard drive would be it takes a lot of hassle out of the setup plus kodi is already installed as standard.
An awesome deal for the price :D
I quite like the look of that SSH FTP program.
+TheEPROM9 Yeah, it's surprisingly good for a freebie.
Hey--I was an Amiga user too but that being said, don't be too harsh on MSDOS--Duke Nukem got his start there. Also, you're a perfect example of "Anyone can do it." And I mean that in a nice way.
+DancesWithRobots I agree, I am a perfect example of "anyone can do it." I'm an expert at nothing, my knowledge is limited at best, but I tinker with stuff, mess about and see what I can do with it, and talk to the camera while I do it. Anyone can do that :)
I have just made a couple of commits to improve the "show ip" functionality (will require updating of the retropie-setup script). now it shows it in a dialog box with an "ok" button.
+Jools Wills Excellent! :D
**goes to update setup script**
I'm sure someone will have already said, but Kodi is the new name for XBMC. I think it's to reflect the fact that it runs on more than just the Xbox, these days.
+MarkTheMorose Nothing about the name "Kodi" reflects that fact however.
Zabeus
The naming of things hasn't made sense to me since Marathon became Snickers. I guess 'Kodi' is one of those 'inoffensive' words that doesn't mean 'cock' in any language. If I ever launch a product, I'm going to call it 'Cock' deliberately. At peak sales times, I'll release a new version, new improved Cock. And maybe a seasonal one for Xmas, 'biggest ever Cock'.
+MarkTheMorose Comment of the day! :D
Thanks for the info. I will try
...and I thought the day had arrived when they were giving away free copies of Christmas Nights on magazine covers. What's next, a magazine that can be used as a car or a teleporter? I bet someone is working on a magazine with a flexible video screen.
The Pi Zero costs £1 less than the first floppy disk I bought for use with the Apple ][ at school.
The first thing I thought about when I say the Zero was Mame / Retropie. I don't think i will get one before Christmas due to numbers.
Most of the Sega CD images that you find on emu rom sites were ripped, then the music tracks were compressed to MP3, and then a new image was created... while this saves hard drive space, it makes the cd image incompatible with actual Sega CD hardware and many emulators, including the Sega cores used by Retroarch, which is why you have no music when you played the Jaguar XJ220 Sega CD image.
If you are truly interested in playing Sega CD on your Raspberry Pi, you need to find non-compressed Sega CD images in either iso or bin/cue format. You can find them with a search for either "Darkwater" or "TruRip" Sega CD images. Both groups released all the Sega CD games in non-compressed form and they work perfectly, music and all, in Retroarch.
Thanks for the info. I knew about the mp3 thing, but not about Darkwater and TruRip images. I appreciate it :)
***** No problem! Make sure you download the images in either bin/cue or iso format... a quick search shows that TruRip released the Sega CD library in both bin/cue (which works with RetroPie) and img/sub/ccd (which _doesn't_ work with RetroPie) formats. You *can* convert ccd images to bin/cue, but it's easier to just download bin/cue in the first place ;)
www.theisozone.com/ is a good place to start looking ;)
cant wait to grab one of these, scalpers selling for silly money which goes against what they were intended for so will wait for one.
Since it's likely the Pi is FAT32 only remember if your card is over 32gb large that you may have to format it with program FAT32 Format GUI instead because normal formatting programs won't work if it's past 32gb. Like for example your SD is a 64GB or something and the Pi only reads FAT32 formats.
I remember my first celeron 300 processor pc was FINALLY aboe to run Neo Geo at full speed, finally. Full tower to do it. I overclocked it to 450 Mhz, stable too.
+duhmez I dont believe you overclocked it to 450 mhz let alone a motherboard that old doesnt even have overclocking capability
+XPsilocybinDream I do not lie, it was a really awesome combination and t worked awesome. It was the celeron 300a processor, which was 66 Mhz X 4.5 = 300 Mhz. The reason why it worked so good was when you set the bus to 100 Mhz, X 4.5, it = 450 Mhz, so there was no odd bus speed anywhere. The celeron 300 OC to 450 Mhz was a rare occurrence that such a greta overclock could work fine on any mobo that alowed u to set the bus speed. The reason is you could not set the multiplier, it was locked, so any good mboo with manual bus speed u could do it and it was rock solid. you can read more about it below for more proof! Duhmez does not lie! My 2 brothers did it too! www.anandtech.com/show/174
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you should throw a 3dfx voodoo in their and make it a 3dfx machine. Ive collected 3dfx cards and have a bunch of rare ones. My rarest gem is the Quantum 3d alchemy I think the 8264 or something and the voodoo 5 6000 which has 4 vsa-100 gpu's on it but my alchemy system has 32 vsa-100 gpu's on it, but it only shows its true power in quantum 3d benchmarks but for older titles like quake 3 and stuff I know it cant utilize all 32 gpu chips
+XPsilocybinDream I had a 12 meg voodoo 2 back in the day!
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cool I own like 4 pairs of voodoo 2's with sli cables and vga connector, that was the first 3d card that could use 2 at a time...funny enough call SLI then later bought out by nvidia and then they took up the name SLI
I had some fun with mine, but I found on the whole the Pi did nothing but corrupt SD Cards, that said I had some pretty crazy projects on the go.
great video, don't know if you have found out how to upload roms via USB yet or not but all you do is create a folder named retropie in the root of your USB drive and plug it in to your pi and it will fill that folder with folders for each console, after that pull your USB drive out and plug it in you pc and your ready to drag and drop your roms to it.
+sburns015 Thanks :D
Holy crap, that's really affordable! Went to the website to buy one, but it looks like they're sold out at the moment. :(
I didn't know that you could install Kodi inside RetroPie. I might as well get an RPi2 now.
+clangerbasher Kodo + Genesis in RetroPie, plus Kore on mobile phone to act as Kodi remote control... heaven :D
***** Yes Kodi is interesting. :)
Действительно классно!/ it is really cool!
But I have one question: how many volts and amps consumes the raspberry PI zero?
thx for the info i just purchased my first pi zero and i am building a pi based nes classic with nes snes and gameboy emulation.
Street Fighter Alpha actually looks really good for the gameboy - the Controls arent as choppy as they are in other games.
Kodi is the current version of XBMC. They changed the name.
Port 22, you are going in through SSH and using the FTP part of it.
A quick tip for newcomers to my channel. Insulting other commenters will result in your comment being removed. Reposting of similar comments will see you blocked. Play nice!
The second thing thing with the blocking if you repost a comment. Isnt quite fair. Some people are not reading through almost 300 comments.
Ah, no, my wording was not ideal.
I meant reposting insulting comments that have been remove will result in a block.
I didn't mean making the same perfectly acceptable comment as someone has previously posted would result in a block.
+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) Ok that makes sense.
David Bowie and Starwars on your shirt. WHEN? WHERE? HOW MUCH? YOU ARE MY HERO I LOVE YOUR SHIRT
ebay... can't remember how much, but it wasn't overly expensive. But yeah... best t-shirt ever :D
If it's a GUI for Retroarch I guess it would be simple getting the updated cores on there by going to Retroarch and searching linux and patching the ones already on there with the updated and missing ones or isn't it that easy at all? Still what it has anyway although it's missing some cores from Retroarch because I guess Retropie isn't being updated enough with the latest RA patches is good for a fiver.
i want to ask, if you could rank from highest to lowest the console emulation, which is best and which is worse
When mine arrives (I've ordered a subscription to Magpi mag) i'm going to have a little experiment to see if I can do all my computing using one of these; one SD card with RetroPie and ROMS on it, and the other with debian OS and libreoffice for all my everyday computing needs. See how far I get :P
+madcapoperator BTW How does quake 3 arena run on this?
+madcapoperator I don't know, to be honest. I don't remember exactly, but I think I couldn't make it work, for some reason. Quake was silky smooth though.
+madcapoperator I was pondering that kind of thing earlier today. I do think it would be doable, for someone with a reasonable amount of patience.
Well thats me done then haha. But lately my computing use has not been processor or graphic intensive so i guess once set up i could just about survive with a raspi zero. Might do it for a month and then come back to my iMac and see if the extra £995 is really worth it ;)
Makes me wonder if there are many/any people out there who use a Pi as their every day computer.
Need to set up another retro pie image for my RPI2 which can do n64.
+Knuckles the Echidna Wow! Congrats on obtaining that username.
+WhatsOnMyShelf These days Google let you have whatever username you want even if it is taken (I think)
Huh. Interesting. I found another user named Sonic & Tails and I was wondering how that hadn't been taken before. Also, allowing many users to have the same name would be confusing.
So you can't connect this to Crt tv via AV cable like the pi2? Anyway thanks for the video. I will hook mine up to a classic crt.
+MrTuco40 HDMI only, I'm afraid.
I really want one of these really badly, but they seem to be sold out everywhere I look.
Awesome project. Where do you get the roms? I'm particularly interested in loading the intellivision roms into an arcade style emulator.
+DJ027X There are lots of rom sites, with different ones sometimes having a better selection for different systems. It's generally frowned upon to link to them openly... piracy and all that... but they're very easy to find. Just google "Intellivision (or whatever system you want) roms"
Ah, very cool. I had assumed, given the age of the games that piracy would no longer be a concern. I guess the companies are still profiting from royalties though. Thanks for the info!
+DJ027X Hah, tell that to Nintendo. They make a habit of shutting down ROM sites by sending legal threats to those which share ROMs of their games. Nintendo is right to protect their copyright, but they probably could use those resources elsewhere.
Can you do a tutorial on how to get the GBA to work? (Installing The BIOS file) because i cant work out how to install it.
U can plug a USB ethernet device into your USB hub if you wish.
i just bought one but thats like after a year from its release, it never seems to be instock everytime when i try to order one. its like 8 pounds including shipping to my country.
i didn't have anything in mind to build with it except using it like rest of my arduino clone with python messing around with it gpios, though it still cost 5x an arduino clone.
but a retro gaming system sounds a cool project and i could recycle my old casio portable with those composite video in.
Love this review mate. Ideal, honest and everything said that I would like from this little bundle. Unfortunately I was too late to see the release of the magazine but I do own the other Pis. The are perfect for the bedrooms etc.
I do have an already configured romset and small guide that could help you set up more games or find out how to do things. I wont link you here as I dont want to advertise without permission etc. But you can see it on my Channel, its called the MEGA-CADE.
If ever you need any help or anything, give me a shout, not often I find a Brit doing all this hehehe
+Simply Austin I appreciate your reluctance to self promote. Many people would just paste a url without a second thought.
Allow me to do it for you :)
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Your channel looks very informative. I subbed and will have a good look through your content when I get a spare minute :)
+Simply Austin By the way... to help with stuttering etc in the game. Make sure no shaders and that V Sync is turned off. Massive slowdown with that. I think it was something like SELECT and X to enter the RetroArch menu... ensure you save the config options when done.
I managed to hook up a 1TB small externat drive on my old Pi and have it linked to a MegaDrive case. It has Playstation complete collection, saturn faves, Sega CD collection (use bin cue version for tracks) and all the consoles. Its also really good at the ZX Spectrum, my first introductin to computers.
Thanks for that mate... I was still watching wrote I wrote the reply to didnt see you comment until after.
Well hope its all going well and the games are treating you well. As always, give me a shout if you need anything.
Austin
if I remember it was on the BBC computers
Oh btw if you launch the cue file for Sega CD that normally gets music working in emulators.
+MobileDecay Interesting. I didn't know that. I shall give it a try. Thanks :)
***** You're welcome. =)
@Steve Benway For CD ripping to ISO, ImgBurn will do just that and it's free.
+Crimson Sunrise Thank you :)
Hi Steve. great review. Just got a gpd xd hand held. superb device really cannot fault it. OK maybe it picks up fingerprints easily but that is knit picking.. Would love to see you do a review of one. loop
+Mike Mann I don't have one to review, unfortunately.
Great video mate!
Subeed. Great video.
I know I'm saying this only a few minutes into the video and you might have touched upon it in the video, but it turns out you can actually get analog video out of the zero if you want to hook it up to an old CRT TV.
+isstvan82 I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) Figured it might be worth knowing, because a friend of mine who was a Vectrex fanatic said it made a big difference for him.
Stormtrooper: "This is not the Linux-based single board computer I'm looking for. You can go about your business. Move on."
+MarkTheMorose Coz stormtooper plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayed..... guitaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrr!!!!
how can you connect a WiFi dongle and a controller to navigate the menus with one usb port?
+Henry Swanson You need a powered usb hub.
+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) thanks, for general reference I bought a couple eBay that claimed to be for the zero that didn't work, had to get one directly off pihut. not to be a shill, just to save folk time.
Infocom emulater is misleading :/ it's a Z-Machine emulator for interactive fiction.
The Z-Machine is the fictional cpu all infocom software from that line was written for.
all computers that ran infocom text adventures were actuily emulating this fictonal cpu
+Zagroseckt Thanks for the info. It definitely puzzled me, as I've never heard of an Infocom. Though to be fair, I've never heard of Z- Machines either :)
All of the fallowing is Linux based Android , The Nook , The Amazon Kindle , Chrome book, and more.
"The work done with the Mach 3.0 kernel in MkLinux was extremely
helpful in bringing up NeXTSTEP on the Mac platform, which would later
become OS X." Apple / OS X borrowed ideas from Linux, BSD , UNIX , NeXTSTEP, and other UNIX Like/Based OSes !
The only thing you need to rip a cd to an iso file is a program called dd. I know it from using Linux, but there is definitely a version available for Windows called dd for windows (just google it).
I really like how sloppy this review is, like if my dad decided to get into retro gaming! How are you getting on? Have you tried a raspberry pi 3?
Heh... I've been gaming since 1972 and I have a relaxed style :D I have tried a Pi 3. There's not much difference between it and a Pi 2. Nice to have built in WiFi, and the N64 emulation is obviously better.
I need your collection. :P
Kodi IS XBMC, they renamed it to move away from being associated with the Xbox I guess, I think the rename is just confusing though since everyone already knew it as XBMC already.
+Kristina Thanks for the info. It was really confusing me. I imagine it'll take some time for the new name to stick, and people to not be just as confused as I was.
+Kristina They are just forking the project off into two separate sections. Happens a lot with Linux programs.
+TheEPROM9 From what I read it seemed that it isn't a separate fork, just a renaming. Also, I'm very familiar with forking, it happens to a lot of open source projects in general.
Hi Steve, considering making one of these up for myself you still using yours?
+Dan Stokoe I'm using. Pi 2 now. Love it.
Is there any benefit to using the PI 2 over the zero?
Yes, it's significantly more powerful, and can handle things like 32X emulation and Kodi far more effectively. It also has more usable USB ports, negating the need for a hub.
Steve, question for you, In my roms folder I do not have several of the folders with which to put the roms in. Is there something I need to do to see those roms/emulators? Example, I want to add pc roms to play on dosbox but I don't have a pc folder for the roms.
+egnaroninja I wish I could help you, but its a long time since I made this video and dont actually remember how I set it up. Sorry I cant be more helpdul.
Hey Steve, A big thanks for the tutorial. I 've tried it, but the Pi Zero doesn't boot. no screen. I wrote the Img file. et put the Sd card in the raspberry, but not boot.
Did you do something else?
+Julien Dumortier It might be a corrupted dusk image, or maybe an incompatible card (not sure if that's still a thing with Pis). The only other thing I can think if you downloaded the version for the Pi 2 by mistake? Beyond that, I really don't know.
+Julien Dumortier you could maybe try downloading another image like NOOBS or Raspbian and try booting that. the beauty with the Pi is you can write a new image on the SD card and slap on a new OS just to experiment with
Hello there. what joy pad do you use? I have had no joy finding one that works
thank you
+Nick Jeffrey It's a generic USB pad that I bought from ebay.
Like this www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Pair-USB-Cord-Gaming-Controller-Pad-Gamepad-Joypad-For-PC-Laptop-Black-/221945075703?hash=item33acf517f7:g:X0AAAOSwkZhWTaRb
+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) Same Problem here, i use it with my 8Bit Controller USB but nothing
happened :(
+Steve Benway (Retro Gaming Collector) ... or it does not matter which USB Controller i take, so long it is one with cable?
how did you get the famicom disk system running on there.
I don't remember, to be honest. Not sure if I just loaded up game roms like all the other systems, or if I added the emulator through the 'experimental systems' option in the settings.
Check here for getting the Famicom Disk System running:
github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Nintendo-Entertainment-System
When you run FDS games, they'll often tell you to insert Side B. The default button to do this is the L button on the Xbox 360 and PS3 controllers, but double-check Core Input Options to see how it's mapped on your controller.
Got it working.
Basically the problem was that the bios filename was in all capitals. Son of a...!!!
use imgburn to rip a cd to iso format :)
8 years later just got a pi zero for 50cent😂
Do we need to have WiFi for the Raspberry Pi in order to this? I have a Raspberryi Pi Zero but dont have a dongle for it.
+Chris Tolkov I seem to remember reading about someone using an ethernet adaptor of some kind, but I don't know any specifics.
Can it run any Microsoft Office Suite stuff? Or run any accounting programmes like Quick Books, PDFs, etc? Also any of the real world things that everyone uses such as Whatsapp? How good is it as a DVD Player and what kind of resolution can I expect if I'm streaming a Movie?
+Horatio W You need to run the Raspian OS for the office type programs. It has some, but I don't know specifically which ones. As I said at the start of the video, I'm not an expert at this. Probably as far from one as you can get, and still make videos... lol. No idea about playing DVDs, but it will stream 1080p videos, depending on the source, and your bandwidth.
+Horatio W DVD player. Lol.
+Horatio W You can run a free office like libreoffice or openoffice, it can read pdf. It can run the whatsapp web client and any web based application as it runs chrome or firefox. It can play dvds if you connect an external dvd drive to it, and it supports video output at full hd 1080p
That thing can sure crunch some data for $5!
+gollumondrugs It really can. It has less power than a modern phone, but they cost from around 10 times as much, up to 100 times as much. I can't imagine how they made such a powerful device for so little money.