Raspberry PI emulation station (aka RetroPie)

[superuser88]

Update:

Hardware complete. Added a locking push to make switch for the power, and 2 momentary push to make for Shutdown and Reset / Wake.

What this means: If the shutdown button is pressed while power switch is still in the "ON" position, the machine will perform a clean shutdown, however, there will still be power to the board (unless power switch in the "OFF" position), as indicated by a small 3.3v LED on the raspberry pi. While the pi is in this sort of "Sleep" mode, the Reset/Wake button can be pressed to boot the machine again.
These buttons have been added to make it easier for the novice user to shutdown and reboot their raspberry pi cleanly, as to avoid SD card corruption. The machine can also be shutdown cleanly from the attached controller.

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble-gum.... and I'm all out of gum!"

[superuser88]

Shutdown button removed due to the script conflicting with script for the xbox controller.

Still no luck with PCSX Rearmed... games are slow and laggy and the sound is just terrible.
mupen64 acting the same as PCSX, just terrible.

Some games on SNES & Genesis not working at all (not very popular titles) will remove them from list.

[Bumcake]

Heatsinks ordered, the plan is....well to put the damn thing inside of the C64 case that its been sat next to for about a year
Keyrah is already fitted, usb hub obtained, powersupply found....now just have to pop down to world of Quid for wires

Soldering iron at the ready.

Weekend plan!

[superuser88]

Heatsinks ordered, the plan is....well to put the damn thing inside of the C64 case that its been sat next to for about a year
Keyrah is already fitted, usb hub obtained, powersupply found....now just have to pop down to world of Quid for wires

Soldering iron at the ready.

Weekend plan!

Good luck. if you need any help just let me know.

I added C64 emulator to my project, seems to run very well.

adding gameboy colour and advanced today aswell.

genesis up and running, just deleteing duplicate games via ftp client.

All box artwork and game descriptions downloaded and displaying correctly

PS1 and N64 removed.... pi too slow to run them smoothly, even when over clocked.

All in all very happy with it so far. will be finished very soon.

will post video on youtube when finished.

[superuser88]

Hi folks

just a quick update as to what the finished project will be

will be running 4 emulators, SNES, NES, Mega Drive, Master System

Will have support for Xbox 360 Wired Controller, Keyboard and Mouse
(will be working on wireless controllers after i get back from work in 5 weeks time)

All game box art and game descriptions will display in the front-end game selection menus

Will display properly via HDMI (front-end will display full screen with a 16px black border on all sides)

Games will display as the emulator sees fit. (all playable at default settings)

Few minor tweaks to make today and a bit of tidying up to do around the outside of the case....

but as of now... i'm considering my prototype.. complete