Raspberry Pi — Nes Emulation
It’s a few months until the Nintendo Mini Nes arrives (already pre-ordered from Amazon) so I thought why not dust off that old Raspberry Pi that’s just sitting in the box and use that. I keep reading & hearing about how good an alternative the Pi is so on a rainy English summer afternoon I thought why not give it a go.
A quick Google search soon sent me to to : https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation
With simple install instructions for the ready made RetroPie software image.
After installing Win32 Disk Imager and unzipping the downloaded Retropie software it was straight onto building the image.
That was done in no time so now onto plugging the Pi in.
Ignore the dusty Xbox 360 it’s sat on :( — well more cat hair than dust really.
and it booted first time
Then I took a few attempts to map the controller. Pressing the wrong button meant I had to start again. Having this on screen did not help as I kept pressing the wrong thing.
Once the controller was setup we were straight into the Amiga emulator. Plugging my wireless keyboard and mouse dongle into the Pi worked straight away and it was out of the Amiga emulator for now and on the main RetroPie options screen.
Dipping into the Roms folder from the File Manager gave a instant look at what systems are being emulated here.
Amiga, AmstradCPC, Apple2, Arcade, Atari2600, Atari5200, Atari 7800, Atari 800, AtariLynx, AtariST, C64 (yeah!), Coco, dragon32, FBA, FDS, gamegear, GB, GBA, GBC, Genesis, Intellivision, Macintosh, Mame, master system, megadrive, msx, n64, neogeo, NES, ngp, ngpc, pc, pcengine, psx, scummvm, sega32x, segacd, sg-1000, snes, vectrex, wonderswan, wonderswancolor, zmachine, zxspectrum plus ll the ports of things.
It was onto the IGN top 100 Nes list for a steer on which ROMS to copy across
Then it was a simple case of FTPing onto the Pi to copy them across from a local network drive archive of the ROMS I have downloaded and stored in the past (starting with the NES USA complete set).
Ice climbers was the first game to try
quickly followed by Mario Bros
Then once all the games from the IGN top 100 were added (except for the american sports games which I have no interest in) it was on with scraping the games which works really well.
then while I am scraping my NES games I’m looking through this double sided book for the best Spectrum and Commodore games to add (having already added the IGN top 25 GBA games)
Not that I need reminding on the Commodore games you understand. I start with my old cracks from when I was in Nostalgia, first one being Hunters Moon. I had forgotten about doing some of these releases for that cool C64 group back at the end of the 90’s.
Started with the perfect 10 for Spectrum including:
and
Trying the GBA emulator none of the ROMS I copied over ran. Will need to go back and try and fix that later. (Edit: Needs GBA bios bin in the ROMS folder).
Spectrum top 10 roms are copied across and will try that next.
