

I know that you are now saying “Each of these five points is a project on its own.” and I agree! Let’s have a brief look at each of these points now: Build a case that contains the Raspberry and the connector(s) for the controller(s).Build a hardware controller interface that allows you to connect real video game controllers.Build a launch menu that allows for selecting the console and or the video game.Decide for a stable working Linux distribution that provides access to the video and sound hardware.There are several things that have to be done for this: When I read about the Raspberry I finally decided to start this project.
Snes emulators for raspberry pi Pc#
Nowadays, you can find emulators for all kinds of these consoles and some time ago I got the idea that it would be nice to have a tiny PC that could just be switched on to play this or that good old game. UPDATE: The ControlBlock is now available and provides an easy and safe way for connecting NES, SNES, and Arcade controllers to the RPi and it also provides a power switch functionality!īeing part of the 80ies generation I belong to the group of people that grew up with a whole bunch of 8- and 16-bit video consoles. In this post I describe my initial thoughts about this project and present an adapter that allows you to use SNES controllers as input devices for the Raspberry Pi. A few weeks ago I got my Pi delivered and started working on what I would describe as “universal console”.

There is a huge demand for “the Pi” and the first orders are limited to one per person. It is a credit-card sized PC from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and is going into mass production and distribution these days. You already might have heard of the Raspberry Pi.
