Making a raspberry pi emu machine install#

A simple Google or torrent search, however, should find you every game you want. Lastly, I won't provide or link to ROMs possessing ROMs for games you don't own may be illegal.

Making a raspberry pi emu machine install#

Both the RetroPie and Raspberry Pi sites have excellent install and operational documentation so please visit those if you get hung up (or ask a question in the comments below!). To keep the tutorial as visual and simple as possible, I've chosen to use GUI apps for flashing and interacting with the SD card, and have not enclosed my Raspberry Pi in a case. Note: I'm not a Raspberry Pi or Linux expert - I'm simply walking you through how I created my retro gaming machine. It was faster and easier than I thought it would be! Let me show you how you can create your own retro gaming machine so that you can relive those glory days! Grabbing a Raspberry Pi sitting around that I hadn't done anything with, I got out of my comfort zone and attempted to create a retro gaming machine with RetroPie.

I recently decided that the effort to get my original consoles working was too much so I looked toward RetroPie: an amazing piece of software that sits on top of a Raspberry Pi that allows you to play retro gaming console games. To enjoy these games today I must dust off my original Nintendo 64 (20 years old now!), fight asthma to blow into each cartridge a dozen times, and flip the power button with the hope that the game will start. They didn't have the graphics but the gameplay was outstanding.

Games like Mario 64, GoldenEye, Mario Kart 64, and Ocarina of Time were incredible.

While I enjoy playing new games these days, I do long for the retro gaming systems I had when I was a kid: the original Nintendo (NES), Nintendo 64, Sega, and so on. Today we get to play amazing games on our super powered game consoles, PCs, VR headsets, and even mobile devices.