3d nes emulator on retropie emulationstation

Since XBian is a watered down version of Raspbian and people have reported various success with Raspbian, I thought it was worth a try. There’s lots of information available online to help when installing RetroPiebut I found little information when it came to installing under XBian. Installing RetroPie & EmulationStation in XBian This will hopefully integrate into XBMC nicely but for now and the ease of testing, I’ll be manually running EmulationStation from a command prompt. Again there are various projects available that simplify this approach.ĮmulationStation is a themeable front end that can be used to browse your games collection and launch the required emulator provided by RetroArch (or it’s Raspberry Pi adaptation – RetroPie).

My final goal of a play all, seamless media centre would require an easy to use, graphical front end. RetroArch is a multi-system emulator that runs on pretty much anything (including Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi!) The hard work done by the developers at RetroArch makes this whole process much easier. The difficulty comes with the fact that each manufacturer requires a different emulator (eg – a Nintendo emulator won’t play Sega games) and even some platforms may require different emulators ( NES, SNES and N64 games would each probably need their own emulat or !) Emulators interpret the instructions known by these old systems and convert them into the logic, graphics and sounds of the games we know and love. The various games consoles produced over the years have all used different hardware and operating systems which means that normally the games we used to play, can’t be played on current systems. However, the hardware accelerated graphics, which support OpenGL ES should be able to provide more than enough power to provide a stable and smooth classic gaming experience. That being said, the hardware does have it’s limitations with a basic CPU and relatively small amount of memory. The Raspberry Pi is a remarkably versatile device for it’s cost. I decided to use XBian, which is a lightweight Linux distribution desdeveloped to host XBMC.

There’s more to follow on my media server and (temporary) HTPC set up but as a quick summary:Īll media, including centrally controlled libraries for movies, music and games are served by my custom media server.ĭue to budget limitations, my media centre project is on-hold but due to the amazing work of the people at Raspberry Pi, it’s possible to build a media centre device that is capable of playing all your music formats and full HD video. The next step was to add a classic gaming system. The system already supports streaming full HD video and high quality music throughout the house, all served from a central point. With my media centre and HTPC project coming together, I decided I wanted to add another dimension to the vision.

3d nes emulator on retropie emulationstation