Once I got all these things around, this is how I assembled the whole thing:ġ. PiSNES: A SNES emulator for the Raspberry Pi, based on SNES9X 1.39.QtSixA: a joystick manager for PS3’s SixAxis gamepads.A Raspberry Pi Model B (or better) with Raspbian installed.And these are the HW & SW ingredients involved in this recipe: And on top of that I was quite keen on playing a bit with the Raspberry, so I took this route, for good or bad.Īnyway, after doing some investigation I realized all the main pieces were already out there for me to build such a thing, all that was needed was to put them all together, so I went ahead and did it. Yes, I know there are other emulators I could aim for and even Raspberry specific distros designed for a similar purpose but, honestly, I don’t really care about MAME, NeoGeo, PSX emulators or the like.

Actually, it would be a nice thing for me to have anyway at least as “documentation”, so here it is.īut first of all, the idea: my personal and very particular goal was to have a proper SNES emulator plugged to my TV, based on the Raspberry Pi (simply because I had a spare one) that I could control entirely with a gamepad (no external keyboards, no ssh connection from a laptop, nothing). It’s been a while since I did this, but I got some people asking me lately about how exactly I did it and I thought it could be nice to write a post answering that question.

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