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Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Gaming - Second Edition Design, create, and play all kinds of video games on your Raspberry Pi computer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399337
Length 140 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shea Silverman Shea Silverman
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Emulators

There are numerous emulators available for the Raspberry Pi. Some of these are available through the App Store, others you need to download from a website and manually install, and then there are some which can be installed via Raspbian's package manager.

Emulators recreate how a game console works, but they don't emulate the games themselves. That requires the game data. When we refer to game files in this book, we are referring to the Read-Only Memory (ROM) that a video game's data is stored on. These can be cartridges, CDs and DVDs, floppy disks, and other types of media. Many are available as files you can download. Please be aware that copyright may still exist on these files and that not all are freely available.

Mednafen

Mednafen is a program that consists of multiple system emulators. It can emulate the Atari Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, Game Boy Color, and the TurboGrafx-16 with great performance.

Installing Mednafen from the terminal is easy. We...

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