Last weekend I started my first Raspberry Pi project. After reading that several people have turned their Raspberry Pies into emulation machines, I searched Google and found RetroPie, a pre-built image for the Raspberry Pi containing a ton of pre-loaded emulators. <\/p>\n

At the start of the project I had three clear goals:<\/p>\n

01. Power up the Raspberry Pi.
\n02. Install RetroPie
\n03. Play some games!<\/b><\/p>\n

How did things turn out? Read on!<\/p>\n

01. Power up the Raspberry Pi.<\/b><\/p>\n

This project began with my Raspberry Pi still in the shipping packaging. Along with my Pi I ordered a red plastic case and a USB Wall Power Adapter. The red plastic case is large and goofy looking. The case is held together with four posts that insert into four holes. Upon opening it, I broke one of the posts. The Pi snaps into the case — no screws required. The USB Wall Power Adapter requires a micro USB cable that it did not come with and I did not have. My dad needed one too and ordered two cables. With power attached, the Raspberry Pi fired right up.<\/p>\n

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02. Install RetroPie<\/b><\/p>\n

To install RetroPie, I needed an SD card. From what I have read on the web, Raspberry Pies are apparently somewhat finicky when it comes to hardware compatibility, but I used the SD card out of my digital camera and it seemed to work.<\/p>\n

I searched Google and found the following website: http:\/\/supernintendopi.wordpress.com<\/a>. That website contains an entire set of instructions that will get RetroPie up and running on your Pi. <\/p>\n

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The first four or five commands took a minute or so to type in and process. The next command was the one that would download and update all the emulators and I was warned “would take about 9 hours to run.” With my 20 Mbit cable connection it took closer to 12 hours. <\/p>\n

03. Play some games!<\/b><\/p>\n

The final step was to reboot the Pi, go through the menu system, do some tweaking and play some games!<\/p>\n

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The initial elation I got from seeing this screen quickly faded after I was dumped out to a command prompt. While I didn’t get much time to troubleshoot before heading out of town this week, I think<\/i> the SD card might have filled up. (I used a 4gb card when an 8gb card was recommended.) I’ll do some basic troubleshooting when I get home, but if it’s nothing obvious I may have to acquire an 8gb SD card and try again.<\/p>\n

I guess the positive outcome here is that the Pi works. It fired up, got an IP address, and went nuts when I typed in update commands. That’s good. The takeaway is that I need more Linux knowledge to be able to do more troubleshooting on the Pi. Sounds like some more reading is in order. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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