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Raspberry Pi Gaming Thread - Emulation in the palm of you hand.
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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That'll be fantastic, I've had a 3b+ sitting on my shelf just waiting for this case to arrive.
Not Raspberry Pi but a $32 DIY ODROID handheld kit
Not aimed at high end emulation but more for Gameboy / Nes / Game Gear / Sega Master System stuff.
At the price point it's a nice easy kit to build.
Not aimed at high end emulation but more for Gameboy / Nes / Game Gear / Sega Master System stuff.
At the price point it's a nice easy kit to build.
Not Raspberry Pi but a $32 DIY ODROID handheld kit
Not aimed at high end emulation but more for Gameboy / Nes / Game Gear / Sega Master System stuff.
At the price point it's a nice easy kit to build.
If it would support SNES or GBA games I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
I wish they made a all in one kit like that that worked with a Raspberry Pi 3.
I disagree with MMORANGE, the Pi Zero will provide poor performance for SNES emulation and poor sound in Genesis emulation.
If you're aiming at a portable unit, you can find Pi3b+ based units that are barely more expensive or complex to build than Pi0 ones and will have much more accurate SNES/Genesis emulation (and even some PSOne/Dreamcast)
I have a pi 3 based portable already and it does up to Psx just fine. I was thinking of something tinier or with better battery life
Try an orange or banana pi portable. But be advised that the emulation will be at best average
Has anyone given Moonlight a shot? I'm considering picking up a steam link while they are hovering around 10 bucks, but I'm curious if Moonlight on a pi would be as good. Being able to stream non-Steam games with Moonlight would be better, but if the performance is sketchy, I'd probably just settle for a link.
Both are good but I really like the simplicity of Steam Link as it works flawlessly with no errors.
Not Raspberry Pi but a $32 DIY ODROID handheld kit
Not aimed at high end emulation but more for Gameboy / Nes / Game Gear / Sega Master System stuff.
At the price point it's a nice easy kit to build.
That looks really cool, I think my son would have a ball building that with me. Any idea when they are supposed to be in stock?
I bought one of these purely for emulation. I wish I could turn off that annoying music that plays in the front end of emulation station though. It just hand picks random music from games.
Also sometimes my control sfc30 doesn't connect for no reason. I thought Bluetooth synced automatically after the first time.
Anyway what are the best settings for ps1 games and SNES games? I want scanlines for games and for ps1 I'd like higher resolution but keep the FPS the same.
I think it's running retroarch through emulation station for all the emulators, A friend of mine set it up so I don't know a whole lot about it. I tried tekken 3 and it worked fine apart from having no music at all? No idea why
Also sometimes my control sfc30 doesn't connect for no reason. I thought Bluetooth synced automatically after the first time.
Anyway what are the best settings for ps1 games and SNES games? I want scanlines for games and for ps1 I'd like higher resolution but keep the FPS the same.
I think it's running retroarch through emulation station for all the emulators, A friend of mine set it up so I don't know a whole lot about it. I tried tekken 3 and it worked fine apart from having no music at all? No idea why
I've mainly been using my Pi to play slower placed games but I want to try some more action based games, however I'm worried about input lag
Is a wired controller or USB controller likely to make things better?
I've beaten Mega Man X, Legends and I'm at the end of Legends 2 right now so it's not bad for action games, but I loaded up Mario 3 and World and they feel really off
Is a wired controller or USB controller likely to make things better?
I've beaten Mega Man X, Legends and I'm at the end of Legends 2 right now so it's not bad for action games, but I loaded up Mario 3 and World and they feel really off
Finished my pi-kiosk.
I'm happy. Been a long project and with only minor upkeep issues to deal with like a solder job or possible new arms just for looks I think I'm gonna finally enjoy this thing. Its got a 3TB hard drive I ended up with that has some huge hyperspin thing on it. Looks like a ridiculously complete collection of everything ever from atari all the way to n64 with all the handheld and arcade stuff as well as pinball.
Monitor pushes the bezel too far out by bout a cm. Nothing for it because I'm outta room inside after adding a fan. No big. I'll live and if the monitor burns out one day I'll swap to a standless one and mount it in there too the bezel and get rid of tat extra cm to make if flush. What sucks though is I need to re-solder the damned mini usb ports back into my 8bitdo nes30 pros. Things were fragile and popped off the mother board when the slightest of angles were applied to the usb port and its apparently a known issue. They work but I need to fix that. I'll just rock em wireless and charge when needed rather than risk angular damage to the ports by plugging them into the controllers as I clip them to the xtander mount kiosk arms (modded 8bitdo xtander phone clamps). Think I'll probably do a kiosk arm 2.0 later though with some half circle conduit I found but for now everything is fun and plays nice. Been enjoying some Castlevania Circle of the Moon on the nice big WELL LIT monitor (damned gba on castlevania was nonbacklit blackness).shaowebb's retropie kiosk of 100k + games said:
I'm happy. Been a long project and with only minor upkeep issues to deal with like a solder job or possible new arms just for looks I think I'm gonna finally enjoy this thing. Its got a 3TB hard drive I ended up with that has some huge hyperspin thing on it. Looks like a ridiculously complete collection of everything ever from atari all the way to n64 with all the handheld and arcade stuff as well as pinball.
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Thanks. Its not perfect but its something I think I did good on for a first timer. The photoshop design on the graphics was mine and my wife who is better with vectors and cleanup work polished it to remove any blemishes and touchup any inconsistent spacing or measurement errors. She's really structure oriented and I'm really into design. Came together well even if I can't stop looking at the few things I know I can improve upon.
The guy I got the graphics printed from was on arcadecontrols.com and goes by
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(Yes he said it was cool to post his contact info)
High quality stuff. Very polished and durable vinyls. He quotes based on what you send him. Not only did he do these but my wife was making amiibo NFC cards and we also got sheets of those graphics printed as well to sandwhich NFC chips between blank playing cards to make a custom rolodex of amiibo that took up less space than all of the figures we owned.
Everything he printed was already sticker backed too and very good with the adhesives. Dude's work is great and I highly recommend anyone here with questions on getting any gaming graphics printed to email him sometime. He even double checked on me since I had a top plate instead of a stick I needed graphics for in my arcade. He wanted to be certain it was really what I wanted or if I hadn't laid out my holes yet for a stick on the graphic I sent him.
So...yeah. You want graphics for a stick, arcade cabinet, card game, or whatever you've designed or need to design graphics for hit him up. He's helpful and does great print service stuff fast and prices based on what you sent him.
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So I've got the latest pi overclocked too with retropie.
A few issues though
1. Is there a way to make ps1 games look better without sacrificing frame rate or introducing lag? It's running psx rearmed through retroarch but I'm a bit disappointed it lags if I try to do anything like enhanced resolution or those other options. Even if I add a crt vertical scanlines it introduces slight choppiness in game particularly fmvs.
It runs ps1 games fine without any extra bells and whistles but they look ugly on a 65" led screen with no filters, shaders or higher resolution.
2. when I boot my pie it always starts running a disk check even if I turned off the device properly. Is there a way for it not to do this? I have it connected to my reciever downstairs and I had to get a keyboard out to connect via its USB port just so I could press enter to get past the screen.
3. Is there a way to backup the sd card with all the os and system stuff on it? Currently things run off a sd card and it has a boot partition on it. I heard you need to create an image of it. I thought m just copying all files to a pc would be enough? I wouldn't even know how to go about creating a partition on it with the boot files if I had to do this myself. I bought this pi from someone with all the system stuff already installed and frontends etc. I'm a bit worried my sd card will fuck up or something will stop it from booting emulation station one day and I won't lnow what to do about it.
A few issues though
1. Is there a way to make ps1 games look better without sacrificing frame rate or introducing lag? It's running psx rearmed through retroarch but I'm a bit disappointed it lags if I try to do anything like enhanced resolution or those other options. Even if I add a crt vertical scanlines it introduces slight choppiness in game particularly fmvs.
It runs ps1 games fine without any extra bells and whistles but they look ugly on a 65" led screen with no filters, shaders or higher resolution.
2. when I boot my pie it always starts running a disk check even if I turned off the device properly. Is there a way for it not to do this? I have it connected to my reciever downstairs and I had to get a keyboard out to connect via its USB port just so I could press enter to get past the screen.
3. Is there a way to backup the sd card with all the os and system stuff on it? Currently things run off a sd card and it has a boot partition on it. I heard you need to create an image of it. I thought m just copying all files to a pc would be enough? I wouldn't even know how to go about creating a partition on it with the boot files if I had to do this myself. I bought this pi from someone with all the system stuff already installed and frontends etc. I'm a bit worried my sd card will fuck up or something will stop it from booting emulation station one day and I won't lnow what to do about it.
I use only wired controllers and don't notice any input lag. I tried to use my 8bitdo controller with it over bluetooth and noticed enough input lag to go back to the wired controllers right away.
1. Options Button + your equivalent of X (or is it A? Regardless go into the retroarch menu while the game is running one of those is the shortcut). Turn on the enhanced resolution hack (basically goes from 240p to 480p) and then the enhanced resolution speed hack to maintain framerate. Don't try to do overlays like scanlines on PS1 games it'll never run smooth. In fact disable any you have if you are running them. On that note you can also try setting your display driver to dispmanx its more efficient but no overlays will work while it is on not even framerate counters.
2. No part of the retropie boot sequence is a disc check? If you've made a change and it messed something up look around a bit but if you can't figure out and you don't know what it is your only option is to reinstall.
3. Sure just use something like symantec ghost or Clonezilla it will also copy the boot partition and tables and I can't see why it wouldn't work on a microSD card. There's other software options but I don't know what they are off the top of my head.
However, no need to worry about not being able to install retropie yourself. Installing it is literally a 2 step process (well 3 if you don't already have the software. Step 1: Download retropie and rufus Step 2: Insert your micro SD card Step 3: Open rufus, select your microSD as the install location, and the retropie file as the file to install it'll write all the boot files and create the partition for you. That's it your done you've installed a functioning image of retropie.
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What controller do you use?
Maybe this is a stupid question but does plugging a USB controller into the system make it work like a wired one?
I have a 8bitdo NES 30
I'm using the Buffalo controller that looks like the snes pad. I think the NES 30 should be able to be plugged in via usb and work like a wired controller. I use my SNES 30 like that with my PC.
I'm on my second Pi install now. First was a few years ago, using Lakka. All very simple and straight forward, but it wasn't the experience I'd hoped for in terms of gaming.
I've now got a 3B+, have installed RetroPie and it has been so rewarding getting emulators working - particularly Amiberry! Might be nothing to some people but I'm really enjoying it.
Next up is MAME which I'm somewhat intimidated by. Is there a really simplified tutorial that's ridiculously easy to follow somewhere please?
I've now got a 3B+, have installed RetroPie and it has been so rewarding getting emulators working - particularly Amiberry! Might be nothing to some people but I'm really enjoying it.
Next up is MAME which I'm somewhat intimidated by. Is there a really simplified tutorial that's ridiculously easy to follow somewhere please?
I couldn't really get Amiga emulation running when I tried it last year. Any tips? Are there several old Amiga games I would like to replay.
I've finished Lunar 2 Eternal Blue (well the main story the epilogue was just dragging too much). I played a good chunk of Final Fantasy 7 disc 1 but gave up after running into a series of weird save issues.
Nice, I've not tried to get any Sega CD games up and running yet, how is the emulation?
I mostly play fighters on my pi. Now that I have a snes mini, I play my rpgs there.
I play a lot of arcade games, so no "beating" them, just playing for score.
Other than that, I just sample old things.
I've beaten a handful of games I never did as a kid. (Sonic, various Mario games) because being able to use save states means even I can be good now, haha.
Mostly though, I just tend to jump around and try out stuff I never got around to when I was younger.
Was really hoping their next update was going to be compatible with the 3 b+ but it looks like it still is not. I've been checking their site daily too.
Nice added your build to the OP, best not to promote your own item for sale here, I think we have a B/S/T thread for that.
The community project sections is looking great now :)
Made something with a Raspberry Pi? Send me PM! Projects will be listed here!
- Fredrik's custom arcade machine
- IMACOMPUTA's aracde machine
- IMACONPUTA's two player arcade stick machine
- MRORANGE's mini arcade machine
- spacemonkey's used kit to make hit Picade and PiGirl
- Fularu's NEO GEO arcade machine
- Bomblord's portable lcd gaming system
- EdwardTheHumanMember's Gamboy Model 3
- KojiKnight's modded NES Pi zero controller
- blastprocessed's arcade machine
- Drain You's LCD/ PS4 Dualshock set-up
- Bomblord's Retrode / Pi combo set-up
- rubbishmonkey's NEO GEO X Mod
- Nightfall's full sized arcade machine
- shaowebb's Arcade kiosk
I lucked out if I'm honest. Subscribe to ETA Prime on YouTube if you don't already. A video of his came up on my feed about the Amiberry app, there's actually a script you can install to Retropie that takes your games and automatically installs them for click and play. I've had next to no issues so far.
It even installed Rick Dangerous 2.5 (didn't even know it existed!) as an example and it works brilliantly. My tweet below sums up my delight quite well! Like you there's plenty of games I wanted to check out and so far I've had them all playing well.
Playing games that I LOVED on my Amstrad CPC 464 as a kid now on an Amiga system is great.
I've been playing around a bit with my RP3, got a composite video out for it and it's pretty nice for old emulation on an old CRT we have
The sound has a lot of interference though, got a better power supply which helped a little (and stopped the underpowered error messages)
Think next step I'm going to try is a USB sound dongle to see if I can bypass any potential problems with the cable (video is fine)
The sound has a lot of interference though, got a better power supply which helped a little (and stopped the underpowered error messages)
Think next step I'm going to try is a USB sound dongle to see if I can bypass any potential problems with the cable (video is fine)
Is there a website to download cheats from? I'm trying a few PS1 games and the cheat files that automatically downloaded are extremely limited. I'm not confident enough yet to create my own so wondered if someone, somewhere had already together something comprehensive?
This caught my eye
Too bad you have to solder it as the price is good but trying to solder that ribbon cable needs some skill, plus the flat acrylic d-pad is going to be a nightmare .
Game Boy Null Kit
Too bad you have to solder it as the price is good but trying to solder that ribbon cable needs some skill, plus the flat acrylic d-pad is going to be a nightmare .
Game Boy Null Kit
I just beat a game on PS1 and after the final boss the screen went white and nothing happened. I googled the end of the game and it should have gone white then played the final cutscene and ending credits
Anyone come across anything like this before with Pi3 emulation? The game ran fine for the entire run (12 hours) except for the final cutscene
Anyone come across anything like this before with Pi3 emulation? The game ran fine for the entire run (12 hours) except for the final cutscene
Is there a list anywhere for how well different N64 games work on the latest Raspberry Pi 3 B+?
I've read that Smash Bros. gets iffy with more than 2 characters and Conker isn't great, but I haven't seen a lot of details of many more games than that.
If there's no formal list, does anyone have any personal experience with the following games (ones I'm most likely to play):
Mario 64
Pokemon Snap
Diddy Kong Racing
Donkey Kong 64
Goldeneye
Banjo Kazooie/Tooie
Mission Impossible
Star Fox 64
F-Zero X
Both Zelda
Im sure there's more I'm not thinking a out, but I have Rare Replay for most of Rare's games, I have a 3DS for the two Zelda games, but it would still be nice to have a (mostly) all in one emulator.
I've read that Smash Bros. gets iffy with more than 2 characters and Conker isn't great, but I haven't seen a lot of details of many more games than that.
If there's no formal list, does anyone have any personal experience with the following games (ones I'm most likely to play):
Mario 64
Pokemon Snap
Diddy Kong Racing
Donkey Kong 64
Goldeneye
Banjo Kazooie/Tooie
Mission Impossible
Star Fox 64
F-Zero X
Both Zelda
Im sure there's more I'm not thinking a out, but I have Rare Replay for most of Rare's games, I have a 3DS for the two Zelda games, but it would still be nice to have a (mostly) all in one emulator.
8bitdo released some colourful new controllers: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...ntrollers_all_compatible_with_nintendo_switch
I really wish 8bitdo did Sega Saturn controllers. I would buy those in a heartbeat.
