popey had asked me for some more details a couple weeks ago regarding my Arcade console so here we are. I am going to post the GPIO layout similar to what I did with the old Arcade box and I will also post the changes I made to retrogame.c which takes the GPIO inputs and […]
Remember that ugly box from a few months back I made for playing classic Arcade games? Well I got a sudden urge to replace it today and now I have a new shinier box with moar buttons, smaller form factor and proper non Japanese buttons. A few months back after I made my initial blog […]
On my quest for emulation on the Pi I stumbled across a very interesting piece of software rpix86. rpix86 is a PC emulator for the Pi based off DSx86 a dos emulator for the Nintendo DS. The main website rates this sytem as a 20mhz 80486 with 4MB RAM this was more than enough to […]
So, I have the software I needed and confirmed it would run the games I wanted. It boots the machine into an Arcade menu like I wanted. Now it is time to get some Arcade controls! This was all originally inspired by an Adafruit blog Retro Gaming with the Pi. This article had a full […]
So I decided to give emulation a whirl on the Pi. I did some research before hand and found out there were already some emulators available. Most importantly there were MAME emulators which was really what I was after. It was time to test the waters with my Pi. What’s MAME? Somehow I doubt you’re […]