Description

NinTastic - Nin
tendo Style
Case for the
Raspberry Pi
The NinTastic case for a Raspberry Pi
prints in 3 pieces that can easily snap
together:
1. Top
2. Bottom
3. Flap
Alternative flap file without the NinTas
tic logo here also for convenience.
Designed in Tinkercad.

NinTastic - In
puts and Out
puts
The NinTastic case holds a Raspberry Pi:
Model B and is super easy to hookup. The
inputs and outputs are:

NinTastic - Inputs
Micro-USB Power Cable - A good ex
ample I like to use is:
Amazon.com - Motorola Micro
USB Charger (5V, 850mA)
Model:SPN5504)
SD card with RetroPie image. Example
hardware I like to use:
Amazon.com: Samsung 32GB
PRO SDHC
Amazon.com: Samsung 64GB
PRO SDHC
USB Game Controller, example:

Amazon.com: SNES Retro USB

Super Nintendo Controller

NinTastic - Outputs
HDMI output to TV. Example cable that
fits the case well:
Amazon.com - AmazonBasics
High-Speed HDMI Cable (6.5
Feet/2.0 Meters)

NinTastic - Inputs and

Outputs - Images

RetroPie Raspberry Pi
based Video
Game System
This case was designed specifically in
creating a RetroPie gaming system, which
combines a number of video game emula
tor technologies into a single Raspberry Pi
based solution.

Ret ro P i e - combines
these technologies:
1. Raspberry Pi - the hardware
2. EmulationStation - the GUI menu that
lets you browse between emulator sys
tems (e.g. Nintendo, Sega Genesis,
PlayStation 1, ...) and select ROMs to
play. This then loads the correct emu
lator to play that ROM.
3. RetroArch - the emulator used by
most systems within the RetroPie
4. ES-Scraper - the game box cover art
and information scraping utility.

RetroPie - More Info:

Blog.petrockblock.com - RetroPie
RetroPie - GitHub
RetroPie - GitHub - Wiki
Downloads:
Blog.petrockblock.com RetroPie SD Card Image Down
load
Advanced settings:
RetroPie - GitHub - Advanced
Settings

RetroPie - Guides and

Tutorials
RetroPie - GitHub - Wiki
LifeHacker - How to Build an
All-In-One Retro Game Console for
$35
Super Nintendo Pi - Beginners
Guide to Installing RetroPie on a
RaspPi
RetroPie Project: Definitive Guide! http://misapuntesde.com
Related:
LifeHacker - How to Turn Your
Android/iPhone into a Portable
Retro Arcade
LifeHacker - How to Turn Your
Computer into a Retro Game Ar
cade
LifeHacker - RetroArch Emulates
Nearly Every Classic Gaming
Console

EmulationStation graphical front-end installed by RetroPie

Menu that lets you switch between game sys
tems (e.g. Nintendo, Sega, ...)

RetroPie - EmulationStation
Aloshi - GitHub - EmulationStation
Aloshi - GitHub - EmulationStation Themes
Handles loading appropriate emulator
core depending on which game you
select. The major of systems end up
running the RetroArch emulator
RetroPie - Supported Game Em
ulators
Emuparadise - BIOS Cores
LifeHacker - RetroArch Emulates
Nearly Every Classic Gaming
Console
Wikipedia - List of Video Game
Emulators

Different splash screens you can pick

from:
RetroPie - SplashScreens
To change default splash screen,
run:
sudo /home/pi/RetroPieSetup/retropie_setup.sh

Pick "3" for Setup

Pick 7 for change splash
screen
I like: 7 - mysplashscreen
EmulationStation - Example Screenshots:

ES-Scraper - the
scraping script that
identifies ROMs and
downloads the box art,
description, etc.
RetroPie - ES-scraper
GitHub - Elpendor - ES-scraper
Databases it uses:
http://thegamesdb.net/
http://archive.vg
Fixing the ES-Scraper image grabbing
(broken by default):
Topic - performance-issueswith-es-scraper - post-3402
Replace the text "PIL" with "Im
age" on line 2 of scraper.py
MAME rom scraping - Also, this dude
is the man, made MAME worth it for
the RetroPie:
Raspberry Pi - RetroPie
Gamelist.xml and snapshots for
MAME full romset
mame4allsnapsgamelist.zip
Compiled all art for that known
MAME ROM torrent, and created
gamelist.xml for you. Drag and
drop into RetroPie MAME folder.
Emulation Station - GameList.xml File
Editting
mameGenXml.pl - Script to Gen
erate Emulation Station
GameList.xml Files
Raspberry Pi - View topic - Script
to generate Emulation Station
xml (MAME/FBA/consoles)

ES-Manager - Scrape without ES

Scraper - GameList.xml Editting
Util

More Image and Box Art Help

XnConvert - Free Batch Image edit

ting and Converting Utility
EmuMovies DSU 2.00 - Massive
Download Artwork, Instructions and
So Much More
EmuMovies - Supporting Mem
ber Packages
EmuMovies CRC-32 Renamer EmuMovies

FuzzyRename - bunch of .png or .avi

files that are similarly, but not quite
exactly named to your ROM/zip file
names
Fuzzy Rename - EmuMovies

ROM File
Naming, Re
naming, Orga
nizing

Cowering's GoodTools
- ROM Renaming Tools
Awesome tools, helps rename and or
ganize ROMS.
Rename ROMs to filenames that
the scraper will pick up easier.
Also separates based on US ver
sion, vs other, vs Good/Final.etc.
ROM Filename Conventions:
alt.games.mame FAQ: About
ROMS
ZSNES board - View topic - What
do things like [h1C] mean?
Whats h1C ??? - SNES Roms)
What does o1, h1, h2 and o3
mean? Archive - EmuTalk.net
Download ALL GoodTools - All neat
and setup (which is a little bit of a pain
otherwise):
Dropbox - Cowering-GoodToolsROM_Renaming_and_Org.zip
Great overview and tutorial:
http://bmgcl.atspace.cc/tutorials
/GoodN64Tutorial.html
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/GoodTools
GoodTools - Main Site - www.all
goodthings.us
GoodMerge
UnGoodMerge
GoodGUI - A Frontend for the
GoodTools
Internet Archive - GoodGUI A Frontend for the Good
Tools
Downloads:
AllGoodThings - POST - Good
Tools_Set_Dec_29_2013.zip
Good
Tools_Set_Dec_29_2013.zip ::
Copy
Download Good
Tools_Set_July_9_2012.zip

ROMS - Finding Game

ROMs - Download
Sites
theoldcomputer.com - Worlds
Largest Free ROM and Games Web
site
Emuparadise - Gaming ROMs and
related
CoolROM
NZBMatrix
Demonoid
The Pirate Bay - thepiratebay.se

SD Card RetroPie Image

Help
SD Card - RaspPi Image Writing/Reading
Guidance
General info about writing RaspPi im
ages to an SD card, and reading a
customized SD card to save the im
age:
HowTo-Raspberry_Pi-SD_Card_Im
age_Writing_Guidance-v1.pdf
LifeHackerHow_to_Clone_Your_Rasp
berry_Pi_SD_Card_for_Su

per_Easy_Reinstallations06Sept2013

SD Card Image
Adding Files Directly
In MS Windows, you can insert the SD
card, and load the image. However,
the main folder with the ROMs are on
an Ext4 file system, so you need a
special tool to be able to add files di
rectly this way (e.g. PlayStation
ROMS):
ROMs folders:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/

Paragon ExtFS for Windows - Ext4

File Systems Read/Write on MS Win
dows

Fix Issue RetroPie

Freeze at the Splash
Screen - Corrupt SD
Card File System
Sometimes if you are directly writing files
to the SD card as described above, or if
you unplug the NinTastic without first shut
ting it down, the SD cards file system can
get a little messed up causing this prob
lem. No worries, its an easy fix.
To Fix:

1. Plug regular USB keyboard into Rasp

berry Pi, and reboot (pull power plug

and plug back in).
2. At frozen splash screen Press F4 to
breakout of freeze into command
prompt. Then type these two com
mands (pressing enter afterward):
fsck.ext4 -y /dev/mmcblk0p2
sudo shutdown -h now

Note, you might have to sortof type

in blind. Screen might be weird,
but trust that your typing is actually
being entered.
3. More info: Raspberrypi.stackex
change.com - latest-noobsgoes-into-panic-after-rainbowsplash

SD Card - Expand Image to Take Up Remaining Space

To expand SD card image to take up
remaining space on the SD Card. Ex
ample, you have a 16GB SD card
.img file youve put onto a 32GB SD
card. To expand the filesystem to take
advantage of the rest of the space:
sudo raspi-config

pick "1" to expand SD card filesys

tem