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Building an arcade cabinet: Software

Building an arcade cabinet: Software - Raspberry Pi Tutorial

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

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Building an arcade cabinet: Software

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- [Instructor] Now that have your hardware controls physically connected to your Raspberry Pi, it's time to install the software that will allow you to use them in game. Because my controls are connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO headers, I need to use a program that will allow the Pi to interpret those controls as keyboard presses. Fortunately, Adafruit developed such a program, Retrogame. To install Retrogame, you'll need to get to your Raspberry Pi's command line interface. You can do this from EmulationStation by pressing Start, then choosing Quit, and quit EmulationStation. This should leave you at a prompt. The Retrogame code is stored online in a Git repository, which you may remember if you installed RetroPie manually. If you did not install RetroPie manually, then you'll have to install the Git program to proceed. Use the command sudo apt-get install git. This will install Git using the apt-get package handling utility. The process here will be similar to installing…

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