Over on Imgur, user Ryzee119 has documented the process of turning a GameBoy Advance into a Pi-powered retro gaming console. Chosen primarily because of the shoulder buttons, the GBA has had its guts ripped out and replaced by a couple of custom…
Category: Emulation
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches SenseHAT emulator
Dave Honess, over at the Foundation, has just announced the availability of a SenseHAT emulator. It allows you to use a virtual SenseHAT and program it with the sense_hat Python library. Pretty neat! You can even manually alter the virtual…
Play classic DOS games on the Raspberry Pi
Gus wanted to play some retro DOS games, so he set about seeing if he could do it on his Raspberry Pi. He’s managed it by using a piece of software called DOSbox and has written up full instructions on…
Nintendo GameCube with a Raspberry Pi inside
Andreas Jabs from Germany has taken an old GameCube and retro-fitted it with a Raspberry Pi 2. He has brought the Pi’s USB ports to the front of the case so that he can attach various controllers and has 3D…
Nintendo Guitar Boy has a Raspberry Pi inside
FIbbef wanted to enter the 2015 Game Boy Classic build-off. He came up with the idea of meshing together a Game Boy and an electric guitar. A plexiglass shell is the main body and inside is a Raspberry Pi running…
Turning a fridge into a retro gaming console with a Raspberry Pi
Daniel d’Entremont has done something faintly ridiculous. He’s taken a small, working fridge, cut a hole for a screen and some more holes for buttons and turned it into a Game Boy-lookalike console. He admits that it’s all a bit…
Raspberry Pi games emulator inside a SNES case
“severdhed” bought an old SNES for $10 and refurbished it with lots of cleaning and a new paint job. He then added a Pi and rigged the original buttons up to the GPIO. He added RetroPie to give the full…
Wine barrel becomes an arcade cabinet with a Raspberry Pi
Adelaide-based Matt Shaw wanted an arcade machine of his very own. His solution? Take an old wine barrel and adapt it for the purpose. He used a work-surplus monitor as a display and then cut a form-fitting fibreboard box to…
Build a Raspberry Pi powered arcade console with an Arduino controller
Here’s a nice tutorial from Tyler Winegarner over at Make. It uses the PiPlay distro to give you an arcade emulator. You then add your controller in the form of an Arduino Esplora and configure your games accordingly. All the instructions for how…
Super-sized Gameboy runs from a Raspberry Pi
Brussels-based Ilhan Ünal (Raz) was inspired to create a giant replica of Nintendo’s GameBoy. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and an old desktop monitor to do it and installed Retropie to drive the games. The case is made out of MDF…