How To: Build a retro games emulator

BENJ EDWARDS shows how to assemble a simple, inexpensive console to play your favourite classic games using a Raspberry Pi 3

For the past 20 years, retro gaming enthusiasts have dreamed of building a ‘universal game console’ capable of playing games from dozens of different systems. Their ideal was inexpensive, easy to control with a gamepad, and capable of hooking into a TV set. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi 3 hobbyist platform and the RetroPie software distribution (retropie.org.uk), that dream is finally possible. For under £100, you can build a very nice emulation system that can play tens of thousands of retro games for systems such as the NeS, Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, Super NeS, Game Boy, and even the PlayStation. All you need to do is buy a handful of components, put them together, and configure some software. You’ll also have to provide the games, but we’ll talk about that…

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