RetroPie

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Anyone use this?

Buy a Pi, install a case, PSU, some heatsinks and a fan, and then buy a microsd and a usb controller, you should be able to get the lot for less than £100

Then download or build a retropie image, write it to the card, boot up the pi and voila, you have a retro gaming machine ready to go!!

I have all the classics, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64 etc all with thousands of roms/games.

[Citizen Koba]

Anyone use this?

Buy a Pi, install a case, PSU, some heatsinks and a fan, and then buy a microsd and a usb controller, you should be able to get the lot for less than £100

Then download or build a retropie image, write it to the card, boot up the pi and voila, you have a retro gaming machine ready to go!!

I have all the classics, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64 etc all with thousands of roms/games.

Did someone not make this thread last year sometime? Or maybe the year before? Was it you or someone else? Pretty sure I posted in it... been taking my older boy along to the Raspberry Jams in Manchester for the last coupla years.. though obvs not since COVID hit, knocked up an amiga emu a while back. Didn't use a heatsink or cooling though, although TBF I wasn't planning on keeping the thing together or running it that long, more just an afternoon bit of 'bonding time' with Jr.

[Shadoww702]

Anyone use this?

Buy a Pi, install a case, PSU, some heatsinks and a fan, and then buy a microsd and a usb controller, you should be able to get the lot for less than £100

Then download or build a retropie image, write it to the card, boot up the pi and voila, you have a retro gaming machine ready to go!!

I have all the classics, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64 etc all with thousands of roms/games.

I installed one in MY SF2 AracadeUp.

[Marchegiano]

This is from 2014/15 and last tinkered with in 2016. I call it Slaystation. It's the same **** but in horror theme. Horror graphics, horror or at least Halloween roms, horror music/sounds, horror everything. Started out as a dedicated PS1 survival horror box and evolved as per locals input.

I used recall but they're all the damn same. The point was because every case I saw was boring, collections were boring, themes were boring, and I wanted to show a different way of doing things. The idea was more focused than a general gaming console....because a box is boring as **** and just having mario for nintendo and sonic for sega and **** is boring as ****. Originally I planned to do sci-fi in a space ship case and maybe pokemon in a pokeball and **** like that but since no one gave a **** about Slaystation **** doing sci-fi, world can suck my ****.

I got shown if you don't put **** in a cube, don't gather just the basic library roms, and don't use basic themes no one actually gives a ****. silly me, thinking I could artists to spruce up my ****ty **** after they saw my concept.

Anyway, videos:



Use your arrow keys and skip around in the video otherwise I show way too much and it's boring as ****. But I'd like to point out at the end of the video I show my glowing version of the demon skull in the dark. You should look at it. Or don't and **** you but I think it's neat. Outside of that, UI, bit of sounds, all there, gameplay, even the rom I used. Try to find that rom anywhere online. Go a head and show me your emulated run of the Lost Boy on NES.

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Did someone not make this thread last year sometime? Or maybe the year before? Was it you or someone else? Pretty sure I posted in it... been taking my older boy along to the Raspberry Jams in Manchester for the last coupla years.. though obvs not since COVID hit, knocked up an amiga emu a while back. Didn't use a heatsink or cooling though, although TBF I wasn't planning on keeping the thing together or running it that long, more just an afternoon bit of 'bonding time' with Jr.

Possibly in the lounge, i can't remember.

Heatsinks and fans are probably only needed if you overclock, but i installed them anyway.

Apparently the latest version of the Pi runs 64 games a lot smoother than previous versions, i need to pick one up.

[Clegg]

Yeah I got one of these (built by somebody else) is good to have so many games to fuck around on, especially if you have people round and want to play through a bunch of old boxing/football/wwf games

[Brother Mouzone]

Anyone use this?

Buy a Pi, install a case, PSU, some heatsinks and a fan, and then buy a microsd and a usb controller, you should be able to get the lot for less than £100

Then download or build a retropie image, write it to the card, boot up the pi and voila, you have a retro gaming machine ready to go!!

I have all the classics, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64 etc all with thousands of roms/games.

Nah I am still using the original systems on a CRT........I do have an Everdrive for my GBA player and will pick one up for my Genesis and Snes ..

[BodiesInFlight]

I just run emulators on my laptop.

Could not for the life of me work out how to use a Amiga emulator though. Felt like I needed to go on a coding course lol.

[Marchegiano]

I just run emulators on my laptop.

Could not for the life of me work out how to use a Amiga emulator though. Felt like I needed to go on a coding course lol.

Lordy you ain't wrong!

Unless you owned an Amiga I don't see how you'd ever figure it out. Most un-intuitive emu there is

Do you want my set up?

I have AUE all done for ES, Retro, or stand alone. I could slide you my entire folder on Mega or some ****.

If you use Emulation Station on your laptop I'd have to slide you my bios and kickstarter(not the website) roms folder as well.

If you just run stand alone emulators I have that set up. Just one folder, just one click, everything is done.

Also, get the PDFs for the game manuals. Amiga games launch doing some dumb ****. Sometimes you hit a key like F or 1 or whatever, sometimes you click the mouse, sometimes you just wait a ****-long time. There's no standard way to start an Amiga game.

I recommend EmuStation because it's got a built in frame-skipper and will let you fast forward the god awful slow 80s/90s computers but that is all it adds. If you don't skip load screens anyway it doesn't do **** for you but make setting up more convoluted.


If you got a particular game in mind let me know, I'll grab and set it up so's all you have to do is click the BAT file, I'll label something obvious like click-this-to-play.bat, from there it'd be as simple as renaming games to get them to autoload, but, if you launch AUE from the folder I give you, you could figure out how to load games without changing names or needing the bat file because from that point it's simple like a snes.

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Lordy you ain't wrong!

Unless you owned an Amiga I don't see how you'd ever figure it out. Most un-intuitive emu there is

Do you want my set up?

I have AUE all done for ES, Retro, or stand alone. I could slide you my entire folder on Mega or some ****.

If you use Emulation Station on your laptop I'd have to slide you my bios and kickstarter(not the website) roms folder as well.

If you just run stand alone emulators I have that set up. Just one folder, just one click, everything is done.

Also, get the PDFs for the game manuals. Amiga games launch doing some dumb ****. Sometimes you hit a key like F or 1 or whatever, sometimes you click the mouse, sometimes you just wait a ****-long time. There's no standard way to start an Amiga game.

I recommend EmuStation because it's got a built in frame-skipper and will let you fast forward the god awful slow 80s/90s computers but that is all it adds. If you don't skip load screens anyway it doesn't do **** for you but make setting up more convoluted.


If you got a particular game in mind let me know, I'll grab and set it up so's all you have to do is click the BAT file, I'll label something obvious like click-this-to-play.bat, from there it'd be as simple as renaming games to get them to autoload, but, if you launch AUE from the folder I give you, you could figure out how to load games without changing names or needing the bat file because from that point it's simple like a snes.

Create an image of it and then upload, I'll check it out.

I'm way too lazy to create my own ****, I just use images from arcadepunks.