Turn Your Old TV or CRT Monitor Into a Retro Gaming Station
by altafashpakh in Circuits > Raspberry Pi
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Turn Your Old TV or CRT Monitor Into a Retro Gaming Station
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In this instructables i will show you how to Turn your old TV or CRT Monitor into a retro gaming station. you can also use your new television or led screen
this brings your childhood memory back
Things Require for Building Retro Gaming Station (Hardware and Software)
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Hardware
- Raspberry Pi (A, A+, B, B+, 2, Zero, or 3) - I will be using Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ its the latest edition in the family
- Memory card and Adapter - i am using Lexcar 8 gb class 10 micro sd card
- Laptop (Flashing purpose)
- Cables (Check your requirments)
- vga
- hdmi
- micro usb cable for powering the pi + 2A Power Adapter
- HDMI to VGA Converter
- HDMI2AV Converter
- Joystick
- Wireless Keyboard and mouse (Wire will also work)
- old or new CRT or LED Monitor
Software
- Etcher (Download link official site :- https://etcher.io/ )
- Retropie (Download link official site :- https://retropie.org.uk/download/ )
Downloading and Flashing
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Downloading the required software first
- Download the Etcher flashing tool from the Above Link
- Download the retropie from the above link (there are two link download according to your raspberry pi)
After Download and installation
- Run the Etcher Program (Run as Administrator)
- Select the image which you have download
- Select the Memory Card
- Press Falsh
After completing the process the card will be ejected
Getting Every Thing Ready
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Connecting every thing together
- Insert the Memory Card into Raspberry Pi Micro sd card slot
- connect the joystick and keyboard mouse in usb port
- HDMI to HDMI Port (Which ever suits you)
- Connect to the Monitor or old tv
- At last connect to the powder source ( pi works on 5v adapter)
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The Setup
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After You have Connected the power red and yellow led will start blinking
Note:- don't discount the power or shutdown our pi it may damage our memory card or our pi. it may corrupt our os (Retropi)
After Completing the process it will restart
- then you will see the retropie log in restart
- Welcome screen will appear
- it will show to configure our joystick
- all done every thing is ready
Retropie ROM Installation
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Installing ROM in Pi
to install roms you will require a pen drive (ensure that your USB is formatted to FAT32 or NTFS)
- First Create a folder on your freshly formatted pen drive with name retropie
- now plug our pendrive into the pi wait for you pen drive to stop blinking if our pendrive don't have a light wait for some time and remove it
- now plug it into your pc/laptop and copy the roms in their respected folder inside retropie/roms
- again plug it into the pi and let pi copy our roms on to the memory card
- refresh emulation station by choosing restart emulation station from the start menu or restart pi
Wo La its done know you can enjoy all our child hood games
Note:- Some roms are free to download but some of them(mostly all) are illegal to download may cause you legal issue
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