Go to overclock and set the Pi to the maximum overclock we will be adding air cooling and heat sinks to the Pi.ĭo this step at your own risk and only if you need to overclock your Pi. This will open up a menu with hardware settings for your Pi. The other emulators are less power hungry so you will may get by with a less powerful Pi, depending on the games you want to play.Īfter you load your RetroPie, press F4 and another button to stop the timeout from bringing you back to the emulator. To run the high demand games on the RetroPie like N64m you need to overclock the pie and have a Pi 2. You may need to reset your Pi after the transfer is complete for the emulator to see the ROMs and or use ROM scraper in the emulator menu to refresh the ROMs in the emulators. Either drag and drop your files or locate them on the left and press send to transfer your ROMs to your RetroPie. Then roms which each emulator has a separate folder. Open the folder and then open the folder called RetroPi. If it’s successful (it will tell you), you will bring up the folder directories of the Pi starting with root. Once you filled in the information press save and then connect. (pi and raspberry if you haven’t changed it).
Input this IP address into Filezilla and for user name put the same username and password you used to start your Pi. Press startx, this will start the linux OS and bring you to cmd prompt, it will also list vital information about your Pi including IP address which is what we need. Then any key to stop the timeout from going back to the emulator. Now go to RetroPie and press F4 on the keyboard. RetroPie 1 (you many need to make a few connections and adding a numbers helps keep track). Press New connections and input a name for the connection, i.e. Open the program and press new connections on the upper right.
Google it and download the Filezilla program. To upload ROMS to your retropie to need to use a file transfer program, we will be using Filezilla. More detailed and visual instruction can be found for this step here Youtube video at minute 11 by TeckTipsta To configure in game, press the left arrow on your keyboard or press the analog stick left or D-pad till you get to RetroPie and press enter, scroll down till “CONFIGURE RETROARCH KEYBOARD” In the same fashion, it will go through all the buttons and you press the button on the controller to correspond to that button.
Once the emulation installs and brings the emulator selector screen up, press the letter a button on the keyboard and you will get the following screen, choose configure input and show the name of the controller connected, press enter and it will go through a series of prompts where you push a button to correspond with each button. One for browsing in the menu while you select a emulator to run and another for when a ROM is running. The RetroPie has two sets of configurations for a controller. Step 4: Configure Retrolink USB N64 controller After everything is connected, plug in the power to your Raspberry Pi HDMI to DVI to your Pi and the other end to your displayĦ. Plug in the following into the Raspberry Piģ. This step covers all the plug and play parts for the RetroPie. Step 3: Assemble all the accessories to your Raspberry Pi Insert MicroSD card into the Raspberry Pi Download the image from the RetroPie Website.ģ.
I will list the general steps for upload a image to a Micro SD card, since the RetroPie and Raspberry Pi websites have great tutorials and resources.ġ. Step 2: Create RetroPie Image on an Micro SD card for the Raspberry Pi 12 Volt power Supply for the Raspberry Pi (Can not combine power supply with Fan power supply)Raspberry Pi RetroPie Gaming Station (Optimized for N64) 12 Volt Power Supply for the fans (Can not combine power supply with Pi power supply)ġ2.
TV or Computer Screen (your choice, price varies)ġ1. The Pi2 Model B has more horsepower and processing speed that is necessary to run power hungry games like Super Smash Brothers and Perfect Dark.ġ0. Most parts can interchanged with higher or lower model as long as they serve the same purpose, THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS THE RASPBERRY PI 2 MODEL B.
Feel free to make substitutes to any part. Prices may fluctuate after this Instructable is published. I would also like to thank my MakerSpace FubarLabs for all the help making this instructable possible. You can play any game from most consoles and have up to four players or more.Ī portion of this tutorial was taken from this youtube guide by Tecktipsta RetroPie Guide by TeckTipsta It will emulate almost every gaming system from DOS to Sega to N64. We are going to build a RetroPie Gaming station using a Raspberry Pi. Do you want to relive your N64 childhood days or like older games and want to play Zork? How are we going to do this you say? Well, this tutorial is for you!