If you are lost in all these new words and abbreviations, request my free Raspberry Pi glossary here (PDF format)! On other models, games can be slow as the hardware is not powerful enough to run all games Yes, you already know you need a Raspberry Pi to install RetroPie …īut I want to be sure you have the Raspberry Pi 3B + or more To make the most of your new retro-gaming console, you’ll need hardware improvements Raspberry Pi On a game station it tells how the computer should work, so the emulator may need it for launching games Hardware prerequisites On a PC, you may use it to set options like Boot devices order, date/time, hardware preferences You need to have a file with the cartridge content What is a BIOS?Ī BIOS is the only software part you have on a computer before installing an operating system On Raspberry Pi, you can’t use this cartridge. In gaming, this is an image from the original gameįor example, on N64, you played a game like GoldenEye by inserting the cartridge in the console Just before getting started, let’s assure that you understand two words I’ll use a lot in the next paragraphs What is an emulator?Īn emulator is a software that allow you to run games for another computer on your current computerĪ N64 emulator in Retropie allows you to run N64 games on a Raspberry Pi What is a ROM?Ī ROM stands for Read-Only Memory. And a lot of others emulators ! Retro Gaming vocabulary.Others consoles: NEO GEO, Dreamcast, Saturn, ….Nintendo: NES, SNES, GameCube, GameBoy, N64, ….The last image includes most emulators, just about everything you can dream: They keep updated pre-made images for the Raspberry Piīut it’s also possible to install RetroPie on other operating systems (over Raspbian or in Ubuntu/Debian systems) Today the RetroPie project has a dedicated website available here They created a GPIO adapter to plug joystick and button on the Raspberry Pi RetroPie today They wanted to add the ability to transform the Raspberry Pi into an arcade box The hardware part was also an important work Front-end: they needed a cool graphical interface to use Retropie as a classic game stationīut it was not enough.Setup script: they wanted the installation to be easy, and the setup script should do everything possible.Emulators: they had to bring all emulators of our favorite consoles inside.Operating system: they made the choice to use Raspbian at the end.On the software side, the project was divided into four parts: The main goal of the RetroPie project was to bring retro gaming abilities to the Raspberry Piīuilding RetroPie was a work on two dimensions: software and hardware

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