Building the Ultimate Retro Console! Raspberry Pi 4 (8Gb) Retro Pi Tutorial

hey what is going on you guys ak40 kevin here in the gamer heaven today i'm going to walk you guys step by step how to build a raspberry pi with retropie if you guys don't know what a raspberry pi is it's a small single board computer that you can pick up between 35 and 75 depending on the model and you can do a lot of really interesting home diy projects such as home automation or even use this thing as a low powered home pc but what we're interested in doing is making this a retro gaming powerhouse packing in 30 retro consoles everything from n64 dreamcast sega genesis nes playstation 1 psp etc and a library of about 20 000 games the version we're using for today's build is the latest and most powerful version the pi 4 with 8 gigabytes of ram so let's unbox this bad boy there will be time stamps in the video as this will be rather long but you can jump to any section in the video that you specifically need for your build and let's get up and running with some retro games boys [Music] all right guys like i mentioned this is a step-by-step tutorial so step one is to hop over here on the pc and help you guys select which raspberry pi model to purchase which one's the best bang for buck and which one's gonna be right for your uses alrighty guys over here my pc i'm gonna go ahead and share my screen we are on the raspberry pi dot organization website here we're gonna go over here to hardware to look at some of their current products they have three models that they're currently uh producing and selling that would be the pi 400 which is basically a computer built into a keyboard it's a pi 4 but in a larger pcb or printed circuit board that's built inside of a keyboard we will be building one of these kits on the channel in the near future if that intrigues you go ahead and subscribe and hit the notification bell so you're aware when we do that build they also have the pi pico now this is not a this is not a single board computer per se it retails for four us dollars it is a micro controller board you can actually learn how to program on it doing c plus or python stuff like that and it's really cool for uh university projects doing robotics and stuff like that even home automation for four dollars you can do some really interesting stuff with that but primarily we're focusing on the raspberry pi iv here this is the fourth generation of the raspberry pi single board computer as you can see they've been making these for a while um in numerical generations the pi zero is also a very interesting product the lowest cost single board computer and it's also uh the smallest form factor which all the pies are very tiny they fit easily in the palm of your hand but the pie zero is very tiny but the performance is also less than the traditional raspberry pi so before the four the latest model we had was that was the pi 3b plus those two boards that i was holding up in the introduction there those are both pi three b's i've had those for quite a while and then the pi four came out last year in 2020 and this thing's pretty amazing so each year the pie generation stays at the same retail price of 35 this generation's a little bit different because you can select from two four or eight gigabytes of onboard ram which will change the cost from 35 55 and uh 75 dollars the one we're building today is the pi 4 with 8 gigabytes of ram it is the top dog so to speak as we are trying to build the ultimate retro gaming station that will have no problem running n64 dreamcast psp which primarily are the retro consoles and emulations that really stress out the old the old pi 3. so i would recommend going for the pi 4. there's no reason for you to retrofit or go back to the pi 3 um because the retail is the same from each generation and if you just get the two gigabyte version it's still going to outperform the previous generation pi 3. i am going to do a separate video comparing the pi 3b plus which is the the latest generation before the pi4 but real quick just a couple of the upgrades instead of full size hdmi ports these are now micro hdmi and instead of capping out at 1080 30 these can hit 4k 60 on a single monitor or 4k 30 to dual monitors from this little board instead of just you four usb 2 ports you now have two twos and two usb 3.0 ports ethernet has now been boosted up to gigabit ethernet so you can get a thousand down and up out of the ethernet processor is noticeably more powerful about 33 you now have a choice of ram size which is a first in pi models you have two four or eight gigabytes the the power supply is no longer micro usb it's usbc this thing is loaded with bluetooth 5.0 rather than 4.0 and the onboard wi-fi is also faster than the previous generation so coming over here to amazon guys when you just type in retropie you can buy just the board however i would recommend getting a kit because that way you don't need to buy the micro hdmi to full size hdmi cable you don't need to buy the power supply you don't need to buy a separate case these comes with these comes these come with literally everything you need so all you really do is put the heatsinks and fans on the board slap it in a case slide your sd card in there and you're good to go now if you guys don't want to use a kit and you want to buy everything separately that's fine i will be showing you in this guide exactly what to do with a completely blank formatted sd card to get yourself up and running with retro retropie which is the operating system that we're gonna run on the raspberry pi to get you all those retro consoles via emulation but as you can see this is really your best bang for buck is going with a pre-built setup like that considering this is on sale at a hundred dollars plus you can save an additional 10 percent with that coupon and you don't have to buy the hdmi cable the power source this sd card is already loaded up with raspberry pi os which is also called raspbian which is a linux based operating system so you literally just slap this together and you're up and running in literally under five minutes and there's a ton of really interesting kits out there for example this one has a touch screen on the top where you can actually navigate the interface um there's ones that look like little retro consoles there's ones that look like little retro consoles like this snes over here which actually move the usb ports to the front to make it like a little console uh you know they're really cool just like little 3d printed classic consoles and stuff like that you can also they also sell little handheld gaming devices that you can slap one of these cards in there and make like a handheld if you want to play on the go now i personally highly recommend staying away from these sd cards that are already pre-loaded with games and whatnot for a couple reasons one legality this is actually illegal because they're taking a bunch of license games from nintendo and sega and sony and slapping them onto a card granted as a buyer you're really not the one to blame here it's the seller uh but also you're paying additional cost when really the price of the sd card is less than what they're charging and you can do all the stuff yourself and you can exactly pick and choose what games you want for your library instead of a bunch of crap filler which a lot of these these pre pre-loaded images have just a bunch of like duplicates of games or a bunch of games that don't even launch or if they do launch they're not optimized for whatever you're emulating so like in 64 it'd be all glitchy because they didn't install the patches properly to get it all smoothed out for you and stuff uh you're better off just just burning the image yourself it's not that difficult if you watch the rest of this video you're going to know how to do it so we already decided we are going to go for a pre-built kit as it is best bang for buck but if you decide you do want to get just the board alone on amazon it is 90 for the 8 gigabyte model and it's kind of hard to find it seems like majority of what's found on amazon is these pre-built kits not really just the board itself so if you want to buy just the board you'd probably be better off going directly to um directly to the raspberry pi website selecting what you want eight gigs you're in the us and it'll give you some retailers or vendors here uh most of which i've never heard of any of these can a kit they've been around forever making these kits here but yeah that's the retail right there for the eight gigabyte computer itself the single the single board computer is seventy five dollars for the eight donut don't don't pay any more than that or else you're just getting ripped off and if you do buy this individually nothing wrong with that you're gonna need a few things you're gonna need a case uh you can run this thing just sitting on your desk as an exposed chip but you're going to be getting a bunch of dust in there not to mention there's no way of cooling it so it's going to get really really hot and potentially throttle or even shut down on you especially if you're going to try and overclock which i do recommend overclocking then you have to get a micro uh right a micro hdmi and then you have to get an sd card and you're gonna need a power supply as well which are five volt three amp uh usbc and you'll probably find those for about ten to fifteen dollars so again we're just going to go with a we're going to go with a kit that has everything that we need alrighty guys hop out of my pc we're going to get over there to the workbench and get this bad boy assembled so the exact kit that i did get will be linked in the description below as well as some good alternatives that are a little bit less expensive and a little bit more expensive depending on your needs and your budget so inside the box we have our actual computer here raspberry pi 4 8 gigabyte model lifting up this foam here you have your instruction manual quick start guide very very nice quality you have color pictures good font uh english is the primary language so page one through seven is your english walkthrough reading an instruction manual is okay for these but a video is a better instructional tool to actually get shown and walk through step by step how to complete something that's how i learned how to build these and now i'm passing that on by doing my own tutorial because i have picked up a lot of tips and tricks over the last almost four and a half years of building these little consoles all right so you have a little phillips head screwdriver so that's awesome this kit literally has everything you need to build which is great so this has a 64 gigabyte micro sd and this is also a high quality one it's it's their brand the brand of the kit labis but it's a very high read and write speed it is a u3 it is u3 grade which means the read and write speed is going to be absolutely plenty um for our needs here you have a couple of pads with thermal paste for the cpu and little onboard gpu as well as a really nice beefy heatsink and dual fans yes these do have rgb guys since we're building a little mini gaming pc it's got to have rgb because we know that boost frames per second just like stickers on cars make them faster it adds horsepower and torque you have two hdmi to micro hdmi cable so again i don't know why you would really want to do an individual component build anymore because this was 120 it did just skyrocket up to 144 as of last night and i bought this two days ago but i'm sure they'll bring it back down and there are other kits that are substantially cheaper than that uh but you have everything you need they give you two cables so if you wanna wanna run dual monitors or whatever you can uh case heatsink uh a good quality microsd got your power supply here so this does also have an on and off switch here as that is how you're gonna turn your console on and off and then you have the case itself so the case looks very very nice going to go ahead and peel this protective film off top of the case just pops off like that and as you see this top plate here is actually replaceable this one has really nice venting we're going to go ahead and use this one as that is going to let that heat sink and fan blow the heat out of the top of the case but if you want an all sealed off version they do have this smoked or tinted glass cover here so if you don't want the one that has open vents or whatever and you want to install one that is completely sealed off you can do that so that's cool if they offer you two different options for top plates but again i kind of like this tempered glass one with the vents on it i think it will add just a little bit more airflow which i want because i am going to be overclocking this then you have four little phillips screws which are labeled for fans so again they make this very very easy awesome awesome so as you can see as you can see same size form factor as a p as a pi 3 b plus however it looks like the gigabit it looks like the ethernet port's been swapped with the position of the usb ports and then also instead of one full size hdmi you now have two micro hdmis instead of the us micro usb you now have usbc uh but everything else looks very very similar all right quick little pro tip for you guys to make sure you didn't get ripped off there the ram chip should say d9zcl if it is the eight gigabyte model so just make sure they're not trying to market you an eight gigabyte kit and giving you like a two or a four alrighty guys so the three included thermal pads are double-sided tape basically in essence that also have uh thermal heat dissipation properties as well so you don't have actual liquid thermal paste or anything like that like a traditional pc build you're gonna put them on here here and here over the cpu the ram and the usb controller module now you're going to take your case and you're going to just drop it in it makes this a little bit easier if you do it at an angle and you're just going to line up your 3.5 millimeter audio port and all these ports here now you're gonna take your heatsink and fans it only goes in one way not only will it only line up with the uh holes one way but also it has that cut out there it's only gonna set in there like that now you're gonna take the four included screws that are labeled for fan and you're gonna use the included screwdriver and you're gonna screw these in and they go through the heatsink through the board into the case you might have to use a little bit of elbow grease as these are not threaded so to make this look a little bit cleaner i'm going to go ahead and route these wires around the outside of the case all right just like that the red one there is on the 5 volt which is the second one down on the right and the black is on the third one down on the right which is a ground just like that now we're going to go ahead and drop the top of our case on snaps right on you're going to go ahead and drop in the micro usb card that is already pre-loaded with raspbian which is a linux based operating system specifically for raspberry pi's you'll commonly hear it referred to as pi os but that's uh referring to raspbian and that's if you want to use this as kind of a home pc basically something you can plug in a mouse and keyboard browse the web get some school work done on stuff like that we're going to do a little bit of that right now and we're also going to take another micro sd card format that bad boy and get raspberry pi on here as this is primarily going to be a gaming console for us we have our new pi plugged into the tv here as a monitor we also have a little keyboard and travel mouse plugged into the usb 2.0 ports here now if you are using just one monitor you want to make sure that you have the us the micro hdmi cable plugged into the port closest to the power cable here if you put it in the right port you're not going to see anything because that is strictly for a secondary monitor so let's go ahead and turn this bad boy on roars to life here you cannot change the modes for the rgb uh fans in there all right so your initial boot up you're gonna see some delicious little raspberries in the top left screen like that all right it's defaulted to 1080p which is the default resolution for this tv here it's not a 4k or anything this is like an eight-year-old tv all right my friends using a stack of papers is a mouse pad a little ghetto but you got to do what you got to do so you're going to select your country here i am not in the uk that is where the pie is uh created isn't excuse me our brother's on the other side of the pond over there in the uk language american english that is my native tongue time zone so they don't have i i don't like when time zones are listed like this it doesn't say like central or atlantic or pacific it's all like uh la detroit denver uh what's what's around me here and then check these two boxes here if you are in north america use english language and use us keyboard press next setting location please wait and don't worry about these borders we have around the monitor or tv right now that is going to be uh remedied in just a minute guys so we are going to create a password for the pi this desktop should fill the entire screen tick the box below if your screen has black borders at the edges yes it does select your wi-fi network damn that's good internet look away guys you don't need to know my password so this does have ethernet if you want to hardwire into it um i would probably just use wi-fi with this thing it's not like you're going to be doing any online call of duty or anything like that operating system and applications will now be checked and updated if necessary this may involve a large download click next or skip we'll go next so while it's installing these updates i gotta say a quick note there is some serious fan noise coming out of that thing that is because we do have it on maximum fan speed if you're not going to be overclocking this thing and you're strictly going to be doing uh maybe some desktop work like this or you're going to be using it strictly for older consoles like nes sega genesis stuff like that you don't plan on touching n64 dreamcast psp playstation 1 then you can remove leave the black wire on the ground remove the red from the second one on the right and turn and put it to the top one on the left and that will put the fan at half speed so it still gets a little cooling but it's gonna be a lot quieter but um honestly it's about as loud as my full size gaming desktop over here but it's a different sound it's not super loud but it definitely is like i could hear a white noise in my room and i was like where's that coming from and i was like oh is that the pie put my ear to it and it's it's definitely not quite alrighty guys now i'm going to show you how to install the retropie operating system onto your new raspberry pi or if you do want the raspbian desktop style operating system which we still still have installing updates up there and downloading operating systems and flashing them onto your retropie got a lot easier about a year ago they used to be it used to be you would go search for raspbian or noobs or pie hole or ubuntu whatever operating system you wanted on your retropie then you would get a program called etcher which would flash an image file or iso onto your sd card and you'd be able to use it and you would go to retropie.com and download retropie and put the zip file on etcher and flash it and all that stuff those days are done so now all you need to do is go to the raspberry pi website which is where we started looking at those different consoles or versions they have you're gonna go over here to software and they now have this awesome awesome program called pi imager which is super cool so you can so they have it for uh mac ubuntu and then of course for windows 10 so we're gonna download that right now right so we need to plug in a micro sd card into our pc now for many of you including myself you don't have an sd card reader built into your pc uh and definitely not a micro usb reader these things retail for about 10 or 15 on amazon i will have this linked in the description below this is the cheapest one that i could find that still had solid reviews it has slots for an a full size sd card and a micro sd card on there as well which is really really cool so we just plugged in a little 32 gigabyte micro sd card into this adapter we're going to plug it into the top of my pc here but not before we uh drop it on the floor it's good for my old back to be bending down and getting up like that so this actually does have stuff on it so we're gonna go ahead and format that right click our needs just use the built-in one to windows very very simple the default is fat32 that'll work just fine and let's format this bad boy cool so we got a brand new 32 gig in there which actually equates to 29.7 gigabytes of usable space now you're gonna choose the operating system you want and again this is really cool it has uh you know raspberry pi os which is previously known as raspbian of ubuntu uh they have cody in here which you can actually i'll do a separate tutorial you can actually install cody into any retropie or raspbian operating system as a plugin but again that's a story for another day we're gonna come down here to emulation and gaming because that's what we want guys and we're gonna click on retropie recall box is also pretty cool there's some pretty interesting builds and uh and image files for recall box that have some pretty cool features but retro pi is is the gold here so you want to make sure that it's for the right model that you were using so we're on a raspberry pi this would be if you had a pi one or a pi zero this is a rp rpi or raspberry pi two or three we're down here on the 4 or the 400 which is that big long keyboard one with a computer built into it so we're on a pi 4 we're going to select that select our sd card all right d drive so sometimes it'll have other ones here if you have like an external hard drive plugged into your pc or something but you should be able to see if it's like a terabyte you're like that's not the 32 gigabyte sd card don't flash over your stuff but this is it right here and then all you need to do is click right so technically this looks like this would have formatted it anyway even if we didn't do that manually um this tool does everything all in one so it would have formatted it first and then flash the retro pi on there which is really cool so with this method you're getting a blank build of the retropie which is the emulation program that runs on the raspberry pi now that doesn't come with any games or roms or anything like that you'll need to install those separately i will show you how to do that on this video so you can get up and running with some games i can't tell you specifically where to download these games or roms for legality even if they are legal backups of games you've owned in the past and whatnot but i can tell you a simple google search for ps1 roms or n64 roms will take you to a ton of results of where to get rom packs and whatnot use the installation method i'm going to show you how to put the roms onto your pie but if you want an even similar method than that you can go to this website right here arcade punks now as the legality is a gray area for this website because they include you know images pre-built images for your retropie that have like 30 000 games and cody which is specifically for watching free movies and stuff like that um i would recommend using a i would recommend writing a vpn i recommend expressvpn i've been using them for about two years they're on my cell phone they're on my tablet they're on my computer i will have a link in the description below where you can get 30 days free that is also a affiliate link so i will get a slight commission for referring you definitely supports the channel and i appreciate it but i would recommend running this while you're gonna be uh downloading torrent files and whatnot because again they're a gray area you're doing something that isn't um you know it can't be argued as if it's it can be argued that it's blatantly illegal but honestly these are games that i have owned at one point in time so they're technically legal backups you know technically legal software backups of hard games that i have owned in the past and just misplaced them so you're gonna go over here to front end downloads you're gonna go to pi images now there's pi images right here this is for the pi zero pi three we're gonna go to pi four images over here now you have all these ones here and you can click on info over here and it'll give you a little description of the build maybe a couple screenshots of what the user interface looks like and whatnot oh this one comes with a nice little youtube video walking you through you know everything's on there okay cool this one comes with 60 retro systems with 32 000 games you will need 128 gigabyte sandisk ultra to run this 700 plus playstation games that's a lot that's almost i don't know if that's the whole playstation library but that certainly is the majority of the good ones it's got a kodi build with vikings already pre-installed so you don't need to install kodi plug-ins to get up and running uh with watching your elicit your perfectly legal movies more than 200 songs installed on this image from the soundtracks of games from the golden era 34 collections of different titles awesome so depending on what size sd card you have they generally go from the smaller ones down here like an eight gigabyte build right here 64 30 32 so that's a little bit backwards but uh and then up here you'll start getting into the 128 and 256 builds which are crazy so you're gonna download these they all do come as a torrent file now you're going to need a program if you take this route called qb torrent i will have that linked in the description below and again when you're running this just turn your vpn on you're going to unpack your torrent file and you're going to use that program called etcher that i told you guys about bolina.io.etcher right here take the torrent once it's already downloaded uh just unzip it with something like winzip or 7zip which are both free to use very small file sizes and their whole purpose is to unzip compressed files so you're gonna unzip those and then you are going to you're gonna select your torrented image select the drive i like this one the pandemic collection everyone's bored at home and now you have a ton of retro games to play so you're gonna take your torrented image file use bolina etcher here and flash your image and then plug that sd card into your retropie and you're good to go so that's how you get full blown already loaded out images with you know all the consoles and games already on them and all that stuff but for this tutorial i'm just going to continue with the stock base retropie build and how you're going to uh add games to that all right so as you can see you can now remove the sd card from the reader it has been complete and we're going to do that in just a minute here so now this has a clean build or operating system of retropie on it so we'll be able to browse the user interface and whatnot go through some settings but there won't be any games or roms on there just yet we're going to install them right now so in order to do that you're going to take a you're going to take a usb drive like this a little flash drive if you're just adding a handful of snes games or genesis or something like that actually you could probably put over the entire sega genesis and snes uh and nintendo uh like nes library on like an eight gig stick because those game files are really really small think about it those cartridges didn't hold a lot of data but when you start getting into some of the disk based platforms like ps1 or even some of the bigger cartridges like n64 um those those game files were substantially bigger and you are going to need yourself a bigger stick if you want to transfer over several games at a time or you could just go back and forth between your pc your retro pi your pc your retro pi to get all your games over so we're going to plug this into the top of the pc and format it so i know for a fact this has stuff on it because it should have the windows 10 launcher on it yep this has the windows 10 um operating system installer on it so we're going to go ahead and flash that bad boy now before we eject this drive here you're going to open it up and create a new folder and this is going to be titled retropie all one word all lowercase spelled just like that and now we can go ahead and eject this all right so our updates are finally done that took about i'm not gonna lie probably about two hours or so i was working on other projects and stuff just had it running in the background but as you can see i did prompt a restart after the installs were done to uh or the updates were done to install them and now as you can see that border around the outside is done i am going to make a separate video going over the interface for raspberry pi os aka raspbian talking a little bit about some of the things you can do and can't do within this operating system and basically my thoughts and kind of an overall review of this as an operating system i will also be doing that for all the other operating systems uh such as noob and pihole and all that other good stuff but for now we're gonna go ahead and turn this thing off i don't recommend when you're using raspberry pi os or raspbian to uh shut down via to shut down with just the by turning off the power switch i recommend just shutting it down like a regular pc so that way you don't corrupt your sd card with the operating system on it uh however inside a retro pi you can shut down manually but um you know i for the longest time i was shutting down just by turning off the power switch inside a retropie and had no issues all right so now it looks like the software has been shut down this thing is still running obviously because you know it's still getting power we're gonna go ahead and turn it off and i will say this thing actually gets pretty warm um for not being overclocked yet or anything like that it puts out a good amount of heat on the bottom and then you can also feel warm air blowing out of the top with those fans so the pi 4 gets quite a bit hotter than my experience with the pi 3 and 3b plus there we go now we're going to pop in the sd card where we installed retro pi on turn it back on set this aside for now try and get that halo ring glare off the tv alright we got it guys retro pie good stuff so i'm gonna show you guys how to get this set up with a controller and everything so you can actually play some games so this boot up screen you are gonna see every time that you turn on the retro pi however they have what's called uh splash screens which are basically these cool animated videos that will play so instead of just seeing this text run every time you'll see this cool thing it's usually retro themed it'll be like you know 80s comics and arcade systems and stuff um and i will have a separate video how to add splash screen videos but it usually doesn't take this long the initial start we'll have to run all these scripts and stuff but in future times it'll take about 30 seconds or so and you'll see all this text run down unless you have an animated splash screen alright so as you see it says no game pads detected you are going to need to plug something in uh you can add bluetooth controllers to this console however for your first setup you will need to plug in a usb controller so i got this little ps2 generic one here you can just use an xbox or playstation controller and just plug that in via usb to the front of this all right press any button it's gonna say usb joystick now you're gonna map everything d-pad up down left right start select a button which would be x b button which would be circle x button which would be square you know xbox layout style and y which would be triangle left shoulder is l1 right shoulder would be r1 left trigger left trigger right trigger left thumb stick is clicking down on l3 right thumbstick clicking down on r3 and then for hotkey enable by default it's if you don't choose anything it's going to ask you to go with the default which is select which we're just going to choose anyway so what that does is when you press start and select together it knows that this is the hotkey so this is how you're going to get out of games and stuff and go back to the home menus by pressing both start and select we're also going to map one more controller we have this little nes controller right here you're gonna press start with this one here and go down to configure input it's gonna say should say two game pads detected we're gonna go ahead and do this one here left right start select a b and of course we don't have any of these other buttons so we're just gonna hold down we don't have any of these buttons this was a simpler time in gaming boys there wasn't 30 buttons on a controller so as you see we have a border here again when we restart that should go away so right now as you see all the only option we have in the interface is the retropie settings here because we don't have any game consoles installed but when you do you'll be able to scroll through them vertically or horizontally to access the menu at any time you press start and you're able to do these things here scraper helps you get box art for games but again if you're using a an image file from something like arcade punks that'll already have all that stuff in there when you put a new controller in you go to controller input and remap so we're just going to enter the settings real quick so audio by default it's just going to be going through the hdmi cable to your tv but if you're not getting sound you know you can remap it to the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack if you're using headphones or um you know external speakers or something like that and it should automatically sense whatever you have plugged in but if it isn't just go in here bluetooth this is where you can add new bluetooth devices like controllers or a bluetooth speaker or something like that as you see though we have system sounds those can also be turned off so over here you have themes you can install emulation station themes which are really cool by default you have this kind of carbon fiber one this is where you can change your password boot options uh if you have retro arc you can use that here we are just using retropie we're not doing retro arc program on this build splash screens is exactly what i was talking to you guys about earlier about those cool animated loading screens i will have a separate video on all this stuff going more in depth with things you can do inside of retropie so in order to get your network set up or your wi-fi you do need to come down to raspy config here and then you will go to localization options and set your your country because by default it doesn't know where you're at you can also set your time zone and then once you have done that you can go down to this menu here and go to your wi-fi and set up your wi-fi network which we already have done there as you see we're set up to damn that's good internet for navigating this menu you will need a keyboard this is a nine dollar keyboard on amazon i'll have it linked in the description below and you probably will also need a little wired mouse as well just to navigate initially all right so there's two ways to get games on this bad boy one of them is over the network or maybe a separate video on how to do that the traditional way that's been the method for the longest time is to use a usb flash drive like this we've already formatted this and installed or created a folder called retropie on here we're going to plug this in to the retropie here if you don't have a flash drive with a status light on it give it about yeah i'd say about three to five minutes and then we can go ahead and unplug that and bring it back over to the pc to upload our roms alrighty guys back over here at the pc this is that folder we made earlier on our flash drive called retropie but if you open it up you now have bios configs and roms so the retropie itself when we plugged in that usb stick did all this magic in the background and installed this so when you open up roms you have all these consoles here there's 29 of them you can have more than 29 consoles on a retropie i've seen builds that have 40 plus consoles um you know some real niche stuff and then also some hacks and uh kind of like community made versions of n64 games and stuff like that which is really cool but we're gonna go ahead and add a couple n64 games just for this tutorial we're going to open up the n64 folder and then we'll put this over here to the side now these are some of the n64 roms that i have on my pc uh we'll just drag a couple over for the heck of it let's do banjo kazoo super mario 64. which is super mario 64 is in my opinion one of the best retro games ever made i love that game i still play that game in fact i've been considering streaming the entire game start to finish on twitch so all right now we are going to go ahead and eject this bad boy oh it's in use well excuse them why super mario gate look how small these game files are and that's n64 my goodness back over here at the old gaming station on the retro pie so now we have not only the retro pie menu but we also have n64 and it'll say two games available so let's open it up i wonder what we could have in here banjo kazooie and super mario already guys you see i got the album art here as for before by default you did not in order to do this just be on the home menu here press start go to scraper scrape from there's two resources just go to gamesdb that's fine hit scrape now uh we'll do all games start so it's looking it's reading the title okay banjo-kazooie it's gonna give you a couple different options there uh yep 1998 has the developer publisher all that stuff so we're gonna select that super mario there's different versions here japan the first one right here yep this was also a 96 title 96 was a good year for nintendo gaming bam so now when we come back to our n64 here you see we have the album art little description of the game all that good stuff so let's launch banjo over here but one of the cool things you can do with retropie is where when you launch a game it'll show like a cool graphic of the game it'll show you the box art with the year it came out uh a description of the game and whatnot which is super cool you don't need this sd card inserted into the retropie when you're playing your games once you've put this once you've inserted this it takes a few minutes and it's going to transfer everything from here onto the sd card of the actual system so you don't really need this plugged in anymore this is just for transferring games back and forth between your pc and your retropie however like i said you can also do that via the interweb but both devices have to be on the same network so the same lan same router and i'll have a separate tutorial on how to do that alrighty guys that is going to do it for this video but this is just part one in a series a playlist that i'm going to have on this channel called retro pies where i go through different retropie hardware builds as well as software images and builds much like this one right here the 256 gig fire and ice build look at all these consoles on here 1500 in arcade games 99 atari 2600 games you got background music playing here you have you've got all the scripts pre-installed here you can overclock directly from the console full kodi builds this build looks absolutely gorgeous 16 psp games 400 playstation games here let's launch something real quick full load screens for each console which is awesome every console is also tweaked and optimized so n64 games are going to run smoother because they already have all these scripts and uh workarounds bug fixes pre-installed so we're going to learn how to do all that stuff together guys this is my pi 3b plus here which is overclocked and has a whole bunch of goodies on it as you see this build has the bezels so when you're playing like a game boy color game it actually shows the bezels of like a game boy color screen and then your game is obviously the correct aspect ratio and resolution for that native console to give you that true emulation experience so i've showed you guys how to set up a pi 4 whether you're going to be using raspbian and using it as a personal computer to do some productivity work or you're going to use it as a dedicated retro console and how to upload some games with a usb flash drive if this video was beneficial for you guys i would greatly appreciate a thumbs up this video did take quite a bit of time to set up record and edit there's also timestamps in the description which will give you a timeline bar where you can skip ahead to any part of the video that you specifically need to re-watch or find out what to do [Music] man much like this video it's game over [Music] you

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Length: 38min 50sec (2330 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 01 2021