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Building an arcade cabinet: Hardware

Building an arcade cabinet: Hardware - Raspberry Pi Tutorial

From the course: RetroPie: Building a Video Game Console with Raspberry Pi

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Building an arcade cabinet: Hardware

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- [Instructor] If you get seriously into emulation, eventually a time maybe come when you want to graduate from a keyboard or a USB controller to a proper arcade-style joystick and button setup. There are a lot of options for turning your Raspberry Pi into the core of an arcade cabinet, and they range from the simple to the elaborate. The method I'll cover in this video is a fairly simple one, requiring only some wire, the controls themselves, and some means of mounting them. This setup uses the Raspberry Pi's GPIO headers, or General Purpose Input/Output headers, to connect the joystick and buttons. A piece of software called Retrogame then runs on the Raspberry Pi, allowing signals on those GPIO headers to be interpreted as virtual keyboard buttons being pressed. Because only a subset of the GPIO headers are available for use in this way, the number of buttons you can add is limited. Every button and joystick direction needs its own header. Even so, you should be able to add enough…

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