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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784399337

Length 140 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

Shea Silverman

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi

2. Scratch FREE CHAPTER

3. Raspberry Pi Gaming Operating Systems

4. Emulators

5. Ported Games

6. Linux Games

7. Controllers

8. Troubleshooting

A. Games List

Index

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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Authors (1)

Silverman

Silverman

Shea Silverman has been using computers since he was two years old. He has always been drawn to technology, video games, education, and the public sector. He is an employee at the Center for Distributed Learning at UCF, where he spends his time researching and developing new ways to enhance online learning. He is a member of the Orlando makerspace FamiLAB and an alumni of the University of Central Florida. His article entitled Hacking, Learning, and the Raspberry Pi was published in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, he was a technical reviewer for Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and is the author of Raspberry Pi Gaming, Packt Publishing. You can find more information about him at http://www.sheasilverman.com.

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