We’ve been pretty confident about Raspberry Pi 4 for the last couple of months, repeatedly asserting that we think it’s the first Raspberry Pi you could comfortably claim is a desktop PC replacement.
This month, we put that claim to the test. We asked one of our best makers: PJ Evans to use a Raspberry Pi for a week as their main desktop computer, and report back to us!
- Aside from Plants vs Zombies, Little fighter 2, and Angry Birds, what are the other games that are popular, fun and lightweight? I’m looking for ones that can be played even without having a video card?
- Having problems running Little Fighter 2 via dosbox I installed the game on my PC, then transfered the folder to my retropie. When I launch the game via the.exe in the folder, dosbox launches and I see a quick flash of an orange screen with dosbox written on it and a.
The result is a fabulous insight into just how far Raspberry Pi has come. The MagPi magazine issue #85 is packed with tips and tricks for using Raspberry Pi 4 as your one-and-only computer.
Mar 27, 2015 מצטערים שלא שומעים בעיה טכנית.
Amazing projects: like Pi Fighter and My Pi
Every month we feature the best projects built with Raspberry Pi. We were stunned by Pi Fighter, a real-world boxing build that gamifies the sport using a Raspberry Pi-powered punchbag. We’ve also got incredible retro-gaming builds like MyPi, and afterwards pour yourself the perfect drink the Immersive Bar - a cocktail-making master.
Build a Bird Feeder
From boxing to bird-watching. For those who want something a little more scientific take a look at this amazing bird-box build by Stephen B Kirby. With a Raspberry Pi, capacitive touch-sensor and camera, Stephen captures amazing pictures from the garden.
Amazing tutorials: like this NAS drive
Ever since Raspberry Pi 4 came out with full gigabit Ethernet, our readers have been asking for an updated NAS Drive tutorial. Add an external hard-drive to Raspberry Pi 4 and use it to share files around the house. It’s ideal for media server projects and a low-cost alternative to cloud storage services.
Retro gaming: Make 8-bit graphics in PICO-8
We’ve been falling in love with PICO-8 a little bit more every month. Dan Lambton-Howard continues his sequence of tutorials for this great little retro gaming package. Discover how to make incredible 8-bit sprites using PICO-8’s custom colour palette (that helps ensure all your graphics look great). This month Dan builds a space-shooter to demonstrate PICO-8’s amazing sprite editing tools.
The MagPi is available as a free digital download, or you can purchase a print edition online or in stores.
ROMS testing explanation:
working(comments)not working
ROM not in this list means not tested by me
If you don’t go for PSX, PSP, 8 or 32 GB is more than enough space
I have all ROMS (except N64, PSP) on one single 128GB SD on RP3B (no cooling required, stable)
N64, PSP, NintendoDS ROMS Tinkerboard only (cooling with fan required, noisy, random overheat game shutdowns)
all ROMs tested in Lakka version 2.1 (current version 2.2 as of 02/19)
safegame (saving inside game[spots]) is not equal to safestate (saving anytime)
safestates are memory expensive: 100MB each
copy/paste safestates seems not to work for me
Copy-Paste safe-games is not possible AFAIK.
PSP (as .iso)
needs PPSSPP files from github, deleting these files is difficult
testing only Tinkerboard, not on RP3B:
Little Fighter 2 Raspberry Pi Zero W
smooth PSP gameplay:
Persona (Shin Megami Tensei) 1, 2, 3
Metal Slug XX
Sid Meier Pirates
Final Fantasy 2, 3, 4
Tekken Dark Resurrection
Burn Out Legends (bad audio)
Corpse Party Book of Shadows (smooth, Japanese version downloaded)
Tomb Raider Anniversary (lags, runs at 20 FPS)
MediEvil Resurrection (lags sometimes)
WipEout Pulse (bad audio)
WipEout Pure (bad audio)
Syphon Filter, Assasins Creed: no start
Crazy Taxi: shutdown after choice of gameplay is made, choice of place and driver
Manhunt 2: Shutdown after one/two minutes gamplay
GTA Chinatown: smooth gameplay, shutdown after certain gamplaytime, shutdown when first quest achieved)
GTA Liberty City Stories: lagging the more people/cars on street, random shutdown
GTA Vice City Stories: sound lagging random, slowdowns
Gods of War: slow, lagging, random shutdown
Tekken 6: no shutdowns, slow, lagging, annoying(go for dark resurrection!)
Harvest Moon: random shutdown before gameplaystart
Sims 2: random shutdown, smooth gameplay
Sega Genesis Collection: Sonic (smooth), Ecco (noSound), Virtua Fighter 2 (shutdown)
Prince of Persia Rival Swords: random shutdowns
Prince of Persia Sands of Time: random shutdowns
Prince of Persia Revelations: little laggy, seems more stable
NintendoDS (as .nds file):
(tested only on Tinker Board)
(USB Mouse as touch screen interface)
Metroid Prime – Hunters
Age of Empires – Age of Kings
Assasins Creed – Altair Chronicles
Assasins Creed 2 – Discovery
GTA China Wars (this version seems stable but not as smooth as PSP)
Contra Wars 4
Kim Possible (very bad music/graphics)
Shin Megami Tensei 4 (smooth)
Civilisation Revolution
Sonic Rush (works, but not enjoyable, screen cut)
Tomb Raider Legend (random shutdowns, bad graphics)
PSX:(bin cue)
(all tested games stable)
both Tinkerboard and RP3B
(requirements: bios filesscph5500.bin, scph5501.bin, scph5502.bin download and rename to lowercase, .rar extracted, sometimes .ecm to .bin conversion, .cue sometimes created or edited,
2 player no problem, 4 player almost never possible,
ROMs between 200MB – 700MB * 4 (discs): all here listed PSX games add to ~70GB:
2002 FIFA World Cup
AD&D Iron Blood
Alien Trilogy
Alone in the Dark – TNN
Blood Omen
Bowling
Capcom vs SNK
Checkmate 2
Chocobo Racing
Chocobo Dungeon 2
City of Lost Children
Civilisation 2
Colin McRae Rally
Command & Conquer (GDI)
Command & Conquer (NOD)
Command & Conquer Red Alert (Allies)
Command & Conquer Red Alert (Soviet)
Cool Boarders 1, 2
Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, Warped
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMXDead or Alive
Dino Crisis 12 Dino Crisis 1 stuck at Control room (dead end spot/level).
Dracula The Last Sanctuary
Driver 2
Dune 2000
Earthworm Jim 2
Evil Dead
Fear Effect 1, 2
Final Doom
Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8
Frontschweine (Hogs of War)
Galerians
Gran Turismo 2
Grand Theft AutoGTA2
Iss Pro Evolution
Koudelka
Legend of Dragoon
Magic the Gathering
Marthian Gothic
Marvel Super Heros vs Street Fighter
Marvel vs Capcom
MDK
Medal of Honor Underground
MediEvil 1, 2 (ecm conversion)Metal Gear Solid
Metal Slug X (sound muted, PSP on TinkerBoard works)
Mortal Kombat 3, 4
NBA Hangtime
NBA Showtime
NHL 2001
Nightmare Creatures 1, 2
Nuclear Strike
Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee
Oddworld Abe’s Exoddus
Parasite Eve 1Parasite Eve 2 freezes after training/shootingPersona 1 freezes after “press new game”(PSP version on tinkerboard works)
Persona 2
Pro Evolution Soccer 2
Quake 2
Resident Evil Directors Cut (game successfully completed)
Resident Evil 2 Disc 1(Leon)
Resident Evil 2 Disc 2(Claire)
Resident Evil 3 Nemesis
Riven
Shadowman
Silent Bomber
Silent Hill
Small Soldiers
Soul Blade
Soul of the Samurai
Soul Reaver
Spiderman
Spiderman Electro
Star Wars Jedi Power Battles according to this user game contains dead end spot/level
Star Wars Phantom Menace
Star Wars The Rebel Assault 2
Street Fighter Alpha
Syphon Filter 1Syphon Filter 2
Syphon Filter 3
Tekken 1, 2, 3 (ecm conversion)
Time Crisis 1, 2
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1, 2, 3, 4 (THPS2 successfully completed)Tomb Raider 1
Tomb Raider 2, 3, 4, 5
Twisted Metal
Vagrant Story
Warhammer Dark Omen
Worms Armageddon
WWF Smackdown 1, 2 Create Wrestler Mode is cut down, entrance music too.
You don’t Know Jack
ATARI 7800(as .7z files):
Edit: I believe Atari 7800 (Good7800) from Emuparadise works. I installed one big package but only tested these yet:
Asteroids
Centipede
Donkey Kong
Impossible Mission
Mario Bros
Ms. Pac-Man
NES(as .zip file):
both Tinkerboard and RP3B
Final Fantasy 1
Prince of Persia
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Tetris
Batman Returns
Bill&Ted Excellent Video Adventure
Bomberman 1 2
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
Castle of Dragon
Castlevania 1 2 3
Chessmaster
Contra
Cool World
Cowboy Kid
Darkman
Darkwing Duck
Destiny of an Emperor
Die Hard
Donkey Kong Classics
Double Dragon 4
Double Strike
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ninja
Dragons Lair
Frankenstein
Friday the 13
Gargoyle Quest 2
Ghostbusters
Godzilla 1, 2
Goonies 1 2
Gremlins 2
Home Alone 1 2
Hook
Indiana Jones
Jackie Chan Action
James Bond Jr
Jaws
Kirbys Adventure
Zelda 1 2
SNES (as .zip file):
(both Tinkerboard and RP3B)
Alien vs Predator
Blackthorne
Castlevania
Chronotrigger
Contra 3 Alien Wars
Civilisation
Donkey Kong Country
Doom (works but 32x version better)
International Superstar Soccer
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park Chaos Continues
Killer Instinct
Lemmings
Lufia 2
NBA Live 96
NHL 94 (4 player same screen)
Robocop 3
Robocop vs Terminator
Shanghai 2 (Mahjong)
Sonic Blast Man 2
Spiderman Seperation Anxiety
Super Metroid
Super Tennis
Top Gear
True lies
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Wolfenstein 3D
Lf2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Kirby Super Star
Little Fighter 2 Raspberry Picture
Game Boy:(as .zip file)
(both Tinkerboard and RP3B)
Tennis
Aladdin
Alien 3
Asterix
Beavis and Butthead
Bomberman
Bugs Bunnys Crazy Castle 2
Darkwing Duck
Diablo
Minesweeper
Oddworld
Super Mario Land 1, 2
TMNT Fall of the Footclan
Game Boy Advance: (as zip file)
(both Tinkerboard and RP3B)
Breath of Fire
Chessmaster
Ecco/GoldenAxe/SonicPinball
GTA Advance
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Silent Scope Advance
Space Invaders
Sonic Advance
Street Fighter Alpha 3
THPS2 Advance
Tekken Advance
Tomb Raider Prophecy
N64: (4 players often without additional configuration possible)
(Tinkerboard only not RP3B, needs cooling, random game shutdowns)
Command and Conquer (works but PSX version better)
Conkers Bad Fur Day (sometimes lags, still fun)
Mario Kart 64 (very enjoyable)
Mario 64 (smooth)Mario Tennis (very ugly)
Majoras Mask (once screen turned white during cutscene, parts of level are black/not clearly visible) good enough
Star Fox 64
Shadowman (smooth)
Shadowgate 64 (smooth)
Occarina of Time (smooth and stable gameplay/cutscenes so far)
Perfect Dark
THPS2 (controls change difficult because of original N64 controller)
THPS3 (soundtrack cut down)
Hydrothunder (4 players lags)
Super Smash Brothers
Turok 1, 2, 3
Worms Armageddon
WipeOut 64
Sega Master System(zip)
(both Tinkerboard and RP3B [I didn’t test a lot as you can see])
Sonic
Sega Megadrive/Genesis(zip)
(both Tinkerboard and RP3B)
Alex the Kidd/GunstarHero/AlteredBeast aka Sega Smash Pack Collections
Alien 3
Alisia Dragoon
Animaniacs
Asterix the great Rescue
Asterix Power of Gods
Batman(Forever) (& Robin)
Bram Stokers Dracula
Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation
Columns 3
Cool Spot
Double Dragon 1, 2, 3, 5
Dungeons and Dragons Warriors of the Eternal Sun
Earthworm Jim
Ecco Jr
Ecco the Dolphin (2)
F117 Night Storm
Frogger
Ghost Busters
Indiana Jones Last Crusade
James Bond Duel
Judge Dredd
Kawasaki Superbike Challenge
Krustys Super Fun House
Last Action Hero
Lemmings 2
Light Crusader
Mega Bomberman (4 Player same screen)
Mega Man Wily Wars
NBA Hangtime (4 Player same screen)
Outrun
Prince of Persia 2
Revenge of the Shinobi
Sonic and Knuckles (Sonic3)
Thunder Force 3
TMNT Hyperstone Heist
Twinkle Tale
Zero Tolerance
Zero Wing
Sega Saturn(bin cue)
(not working properly in general)
Virtua Fighter 2 (very slow, lagging harder than PSP games!)Tomb RaiderMyst
Sega 32x
(both Tinkerboard and RP3B)
Doom (change: INPUT Gamepad 3 buttons to 6 buttons otherwise you won’t change weapons)(better than SNES)
Space Harrier
Spiderman Web of Fire
Virtua Fighter
Wrestlemania
Sega Game Gear:(zip) (refuses to boot on one sd card, reasons unknown yet)
(both Tinkerboard and RP3B)
Sonic 1, 2
Shining Force 2
Evander Holyfield Boxing
Sega Game Pack 4 in 1 (race game, tennis, columns, soccer goalie)