April 3, 2015 AT 2:00 pm
Building a SNES emulator with a Raspberry Pi and a PS3 gamepad #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
Great project! Check out more info here.
It’s been a while since I did this, but I got some people asking me lately about how exactly I did it and I thought it could be nice to write a post answering that question. Actually, it would be a nice thing for me to have anyway at least as “documentation”, so here it is.
But first of all, the idea: my personal and very particular goal was to have a proper SNES emulator plugged to my TV, based on the Raspberry Pi (simply because I had a spare one) that I could control entirely with a gamepad (no external keyboards, no ssh connection from a laptop, nothing).
Yes, I know there are other emulators I could aim for and even Raspberry specific distros designed for a similar purpose but, honestly, I don’t really care about MAME, NeoGeo, PSX emulators or the like. I simply wanted a SNES emulator, period. And on top of that I was quite keen on playing a bit with the Raspberry, so I took this route, for good or bad.
Anyway, after doing some investigation I realized all the main pieces were already out there for me to build such a thing, all that was needed was to put them all together, so I went ahead and did it. And these are the HW & SW ingredients involved in this recipe:
- A Raspberry Pi Model B (or better) with Raspbian installed
- A Bluetooth 2.0 dongle
- A PS3 DualShock 3 gamepad
- QtSixA: a joystick manager for PS3’s SixAxis gamepads
- PiSNES: A SNES emulator for the Raspberry Pi, based on SNES9X 1.39
Check out the full tutorial here.
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