Wednesday 21 January 2015

Almost Done

I finally got my controller to work in-game by using this guide. Unfortunately, my original raspberry pi is broken, so I have to borrow a different one until i get a new one. Right now, I am trying to figure out how to save my game progress. As soon as i can get that done, I am pretty much finished the project.

Wednesday 14 January 2015

Emulator is working

I was finally able to get the emulator to work by re-loading the raspbian operating system on to my SD card, and following the steps from this guide on the retro pie website. Using the original guide, I was able to get a ROM for the game "Donkey Kong Country" to work on the emulator. The USB controller worked in the emulator program, however i was not able to make it work in the actual game. I will continue to work on getting the controller to function properly. 

Thursday 8 January 2015

More Problems

I have been unable to get the game emulator to work correctly on the raspberry pi. The emulator has been loaded onto the SD card. When i start up my raspberry pi, it brings up a title screen for the emulator, and then the screen goes black and nothing happens...

I will work to solve this problem. I have already tried re-loading the emulator onto the SD card, so I am not entirely sure what i should do next. I have followed the instructions closely, and it does not mention this problem on that page.

Day 2

For unknown reasons, I was unable to download the retro pie emulator directly onto the raspberry pi, even though I followed the instructions closely. Luckily, the tutorial has an alternative method of downloading the emulator. I downloaded it directly off of the retro pie website as an SD card image, and managed to get it loaded onto my SD card using a program called "Win32 Disk Imager." The next time i work on this project,i intend to get the emulator working on the raspberry pi.