Creating the perfect retro gaming setup in the comfort of your own home is easy with a Raspberry Pi
This book shows you all the tips and tricks you need to start playing all your favourites from yesteryear. Retro gaming enthusiasts love Raspberry Pi for how easy it is to use for their retro games, especially when they can do it all on one device and not need a roomful of consoles and computers like in the 80s and 90s.
Inside you'll find information on how to create a simple, quick setup to relive the glory days of gaming, along with more advanced tips on achieving the perfect emulation machine thanks to advanced techniques, hardware upscalers, and dedicated video converters. There's a lot of devices and extra tips that you'll find in here, from finding or making the right controller to connecting older peripherals to your Raspberry Pi.
Our step-by-step guides also include how to create a nifty pocket handheld for retrogaming on the go, and a full-size arcade machine to maximise your nostalgia. All this and we'll also show you where to find legal ROMs, play your old floppies and CDs, and get games running from online stores.
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Rob Zwetsloot is the Features Editor of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine and an ex-games writer. More importantly, Rob has been obsessed with the Mega Drive and Sonic the Hedgehog ever since zipping through Mystic Cave Zone on a cousin's Amstrad Mega PC (a 386 PC with an inbuilt Mega Drive) at age six. Having missed out on the fourth console generation, he's spent the last 25 years emulating them (and older systems) on all kinds of computers. Rob has also been writing about Raspberry Pi since the original released in February 2012, covering all the various forms of emulation solutions that have appeared over those numerous years.