{"id":2957,"date":"2013-04-04T14:13:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2013-04-04T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:27:29","slug":"my-first-raspberry-pi-project-diy-video-game-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/my-first-raspberry-pi-project-diy-video-game-console\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Raspberry PI Project: DIY ARM Video Game Console."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got everything on amazon, didn&#8217;t pay for shipping (Prime member):<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/raspberry_pi_diy_game_console_nes_snes_sega_n64.jpg?resize=480%2C480\" alt=\"raspberry_pi_diy_game_console_nes_snes_sega_n64\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2961\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So far I bought:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B009SQQF9C\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B009SQQF9C&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=httpwwwwedoic-20\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry PI<\/a> ($48)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B008TCUXLW\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=httpwwwwedoic-20&#038;camp=0&#038;creative=0&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=B008TCUXLW&#038;adid=1PK8QWA3E7WXQ4GE22WQ\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry PI case<\/a> ($14)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B004EYSKM8\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=httpwwwwedoic-20&#038;camp=0&#038;creative=0&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=B004EYSKM8&#038;adid=1SAHKEE67NDRSV41VR7C\" target=\"_blank\">Power adapter<\/a> ($2.25)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0034ZOAO0\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=httpwwwwedoic-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=B0034ZOAO0&#038;adid=0HQA552QRVHM6V3MTRFA&#038;&#038;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Frcm.amazon.com%2Fe%2Fcm%3Flt1%3D_blank%26bc1%3D000000%26IS2%3D1%26bg1%3DFFFFFF%26fc1%3D000000%26lc1%3D0000FF%26t%3Dhttpwwwwedoic-20%26o%3D1%26p%3D8%26l%3Das4%26m%3Damazon%26f%3Difr%26ref%3Dss_til%26asins%3DB0034ZOAO0\" target=\"_blank\">SNES-like Controller with USB jack<\/a> ($10.75)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0014VY28A\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0014VY28A&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=httpwwwwedoic-20\" target=\"_blank\">SanDisk SDHC 16GB class 6 (30mb\/s)<\/a> ($15)<\/p>\n<p>I first intend to install Ubuntu ARM along with several video game console emulators for NES, SNES, SEGA, N64.<\/p>\n<p>People at the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/communities\/113390432655174294208\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry PI G+ Community<\/a> have suggested instead to install arch linux and keep it light, I&#8217;ll go first for ubuntu since I know it well. <\/p>\n<p>However I&#8217;m thinking that a more interesting option, given that it has an ARM processor is to <strong>install Android Jelly Bean on it<\/strong> and see if not only I can run game emulators on it, I&#8217;ll be running and testing <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.frostwire.android&#038;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">FrostWire for Android<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I started developing FrostWire for Android I&#8217;ve thought that Android has everything in it to be a desktop operating system, maybe Raspberry PI&#8217;s will be the hardware I&#8217;ll use to prove my vision.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to end up with a nice tutorial on how to do this after I&#8217;m done so you can all do it. In the meantime I&#8217;ll keep posting updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got everything on amazon, didn&#8217;t pay for shipping (Prime member): So far I bought: &#8211; Raspberry PI ($48) &#8211; Raspberry PI case ($14) &#8211; Power adapter ($2.25) &#8211; SNES-like Controller with USB jack ($10.75) &#8211; SanDisk SDHC 16GB class 6 (30mb\/s) ($15) I first intend to install Ubuntu ARM along with several video game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,15,30,33,1248],"tags":[1434,1249,1245,463,1247,1449,1242,1244,1243,1246,1463],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-code","category-geeklife","category-gubatron","category-raspberry-pi-2","tag-android","tag-arm","tag-diy","tag-game","tag-game-console","tag-linux","tag-raspberry","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-raspberrypi","tag-video-game-console","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-LH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2989,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/raspberry-pi-game-console-project-getting-an-os-to-run-on-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":2957,"position":0},"title":"Raspberry PI Game Console Project: Getting an OS to run on it.","author":"gubatron","date":"April 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(My previous post) So now that we have a Raspberry PI we need an ARM based Operating system to go on it. 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