At the same time, I don’t want my laptop to become the family’s gaming machine. Before they get too spoiled on the Xbox 360’s graphics and sound, I want to get them some exposure to a few of the simple but influential 8-bit games from my childhood. and The Legend of Zelda running on the VirtualNES emulator on my Windows laptop. If you get confused, please leave me a comment and I’ll try to help.Īfter playing around aimlessly a bit with my Raspberry Pi in 2012 (most recently, an install of the very nice RaspBMC), I thought of a useful purpose for it while showing my kids Super Mario Bros. So, if you encounter instructions that don’t exactly jive with what you’re seeing, it’s probably because the software continues to change and my instructions have fallen out-of-date. This post was originally written in October, 2012, and has been updated twice – first in January, 2013, while using “-wheezy-raspbian” and then again in February, 2014, while using “-wheezy-raspbian” – in all cases using the latest Raspbian release at the time and the latest versions of Emulation Station, RetroArch, and other software mentioned below.
