Old school emulator talk

[Gamble]

All this nintendo talk is making me want to play some games and I won't pay what everyone is asking for their Nintendo.

Saw that someone on here had NES emulator on their firestick. Anyone know how to and if you can hook up a wireless controller?

If not can this be something done with a raspberry pi? I want something small to where I can hide it behind my tv on the wall and see no cords or cables and do everything via the controller. I don't know anything about the pi but it would give me and excuse to buy one and play around

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[blakbearddelite]

The Firestick works with the Amazon game pad. It isn't the best controller out there (from what I've heard), but it is plug-and-play. I thought someone just posted a link regarding the PI, but I don't remember the thread.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Pi3 + RetroPie. Wifi and Bluetooth built in, use any BT controller or USB controller including ps3/xbox BT controller and wired xbox controller

 

[Gamble]

Pi3 + RetroPie. Wifi and Bluetooth built in, use any BT controller or USB controller including ps3/xbox BT controller and wired xbox controller

What is retropie?

 

[wombat]

What is retropie?

The custom, pre-built OS with all the Emulators already loaded on it for the PI, all you do is add roms.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Exactly.

1. Buy pi3 kit from microcenter, includes case, power supply, heatsinks and pi3. $50

2. Buy micro sd card or use existing one. Id go 16gb minimum so you could store a shit load of roms. $5-20.

3. Load retropie on sd card.

4. Plug sd card into pi3, power on unit.

5. Plug in usb controller to setup button layout.

6. Plug a blank usb stick into the pi3 while at the retropie main screen, wait 5 mins or until usb light stops flashing. Unplug usb, plug into PC, you shoule have a folder called retropie which has subfolders of every system.

7. Download roms and copy them into proper folders on usb stick.

8. Plug usb into pi3, wait 5-10 mins depending on how many roms or until usb is done flashing. Unplug usb.

9. Enjoy playing all your old retro games! (If games aren't present after usb transfer, reboot the pi3)

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

i think i need to do this instead of considering spending $50+ on SNES cartridges

 

[wombat]

i think i need to do this instead of considering spending $50+ on SNES cartridges

Yes.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

my sister would love this too. hmm. xmas gift

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

Exactly.

1. Buy pi3 kit from microcenter, includes case, power supply, heatsinks and pi3. $50

2. Buy micro sd card or use existing one. Id go 16gb minimum so you could store a shit load of roms. $5-20.

3. Load retropie on sd card.

4. Plug sd card into pi3, power on unit.

5. Plug in usb controller to setup button layout.

6. Plug a blank usb stick into the pi3 while at the retropie main screen, wait 5 mins or until usb light stops flashing. Unplug usb, plug into PC, you shoule have a folder called retropie which has subfolders of every system.

7. Download roms and copy them into proper folders on usb stick.

8. Plug usb into pi3, wait 5-10 mins depending on how many roms or until usb is done flashing. Unplug usb.

9. Enjoy playing all your old retro games! (If games aren't present after usb transfer, reboot the pi3)

you could probably make a good buck building these and selling them to people who don't want to invent the wheel or go outside of their comfort zone.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

you could probably make a good buck building these and selling them to people who don't want to invent the wheel or go outside of their comfort zone.

not sure what the legality is of that

 

[boostedguy05]

Probably no more illegal than people hacking WII'S and loading tons of games onto those. Have them buy the stuff and you load / set it up and charge.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I guess I could just charge labor

 

[Gamble]

Emulators are legal. Roms are not per say. So you can add the software and have them add their own roms.

 

[blakbearddelite]

^this

 

[Fish]

Buys this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C6Q2GSY/?tag=tcg21-20

(You could buy a lower kit, but this comes with 32GB SD card, which is plenty, but screw it. Can do just the kit, case, and SD card cheaper, but thats up to you.)

Set up like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVQYURWVEQ

I personally would use a wired controller. Less input lag. If you have OG NES or SNES controllers, you can buy USB adapters. Or if you want the best bluetooth controller, buy one from 8bitdo. They look like this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014RFBVGK/?tag=tcg21-20

I currently use an iBuffalo SNES replica and a USB extension.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002B9XB0E/?tag=tcg21-20

I want to get a SNES to USB adapter and try that next. Gonna play retro, at least go wired or 8bitdo.

Also, you can install these on your PC. The basic NES is NESTICLE and SNES9X for SNES. At least it was 15 years ago. LOL. Cant be that different. Plus you can run emulation station and download dolphin for your GC and WII emulating too.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

they have n64 games for this shit?

 

[Fish]

There are N64 roms yes, but very few work well with the Pi. Even the 3 has a hard time. I tried Conker for fun with my Pi2 and it was terrible.

While I was doing some research on cases and such, this little thing popped up in one of my youtube suggested vids.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ID4HYE4/?tag=tcg21-20

Its essentially a windows machine with an intel processor more powerful than the pi and more ram. More expensive, but its windows VS linux based. There are N64 tests on it and they said it works fairly. well. More expensive for sure, but more capability I would think.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

eh, that's too expensive at that point.

i can do sub $100 for playing some old school games on occasion, not worth more than that to me though

 

[Fish]

Here is a 2 gig ram and 32gig internal for 100.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KJMDD9S/?tag=tcg21-20

Its still process of elimination with setup. RPi is just easy to set up and get going. Plus its cheaper, but if you want anything more than PS1, gotta get something beefier.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

they have n64 games for this shit?

N64 runs perfectly fine on the pi3. I've played all the major titles with no performance issues.

Also I don't notice a lag difference between wired and wireless controllers.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

*heavy breathing*

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

i'm going to stop at micro center today. have some time to kill

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Worst case scenario the Pi's make great servers and VPN units for home uses

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

$95 later at micro center and almost missing a doctors appointment...