NinTastic - Nintendo Style Case for the Raspberry Pi by tastic007

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NinTastic - Nintendo Style Case for the Raspberry Pi
The NinTastic case for a Raspberry Pi prints in 3 pieces that can easily snap together:
Top
Bottom
Flap

Alternative flap file without the NinTastic logo here also for convenience.
Designed in Tinkercad.
NinTastic - Inputs and Outputs
The NinTastic case holds a Raspberry Pi: Model B and is super easy to hookup. The inputs and outputs are:
NinTastic - Inputs
Micro-USB Power Cable - A good example I like to use is:
Amazon.com - Motorola Micro USB Charger (5V, 850mA) Model:SPN5504)

SD card with RetroPie image. Example hardware I like to use:
Amazon.com: Samsung 32GB PRO SDHC
Amazon.com: Samsung 64GB PRO SDHC

USB Game Controller, example:
Amazon.com: SNES Retro USB Super Nintendo Controller

NinTastic - Outputs
HDMI output to TV. Example cable that fits the case well:
Amazon.com - AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)

NinTastic - Inputs and Outputs - Images

RetroPie - Raspberry Pi based Video Game System
This case was designed specifically in creating a RetroPie gaming system, which combines a number of video game emulator technologies into a single Raspberry Pi based solution.
RetroPie - combines these technologies:
Raspberry Pi - the hardware
EmulationStation - the GUI menu that lets you browse between emulator systems (e.g. Nintendo, Sega Genesis, PlayStation 1, ...) and select ROMs to play. This then loads the correct emulator to play that ROM.
RetroArch - the emulator used by most systems within the RetroPie
ES-Scraper - the game box cover art and information scraping utility.
RetroPie - More Info:
Blog.petrockblock.com - RetroPie
RetroPie - GitHub
RetroPie - GitHub - Wiki
Downloads:
Blog.petrockblock.com - RetroPie SD Card Image Download

Advanced settings:
RetroPie - GitHub - Advanced Settings

RetroPie - Guides and Tutorials
RetroPie - GitHub - Wiki
LifeHacker - How to Build an All-In-One Retro Game Console for $35
Super Nintendo Pi - Beginners Guide to Installing RetroPie on a RaspPi
RetroPie Project: Definitive Guide! - http://misapuntesde.com
Related:
LifeHacker - How to Turn Your Android/iPhone into a Portable Retro Arcade
LifeHacker - How to Turn Your Computer into a Retro Game Arcade
LifeHacker - RetroArch Emulates Nearly Every Classic Gaming Console

EmulationStation - graphical front-end installed by RetroPie
Menu that lets you switch between game systems (e.g. Nintendo, Sega, ...)
RetroPie - EmulationStation
Aloshi - GitHub - EmulationStation
Aloshi - GitHub - EmulationStation - Themes
Handles loading appropriate emulator core depending on which game you select. The major of systems end up running the RetroArch emulator
RetroPie - Supported Game Emulators
Emuparadise - BIOS Cores
LifeHacker - RetroArch Emulates Nearly Every Classic Gaming Console
Wikipedia - List of Video Game Emulators

Different splash screens you can pick from:
RetroPie - SplashScreens
To change default splash screen, run:
sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
Pick "3" for Setup
Pick 7 for change splashscreen
I like: 7 - mysplashscreen


EmulationStation - Example Screenshots:



ES-Scraper - the scraping script that identifies ROMs and downloads the box art, description, etc.
RetroPie - ES-scraper
GitHub - Elpendor - ES-scraper
Databases it uses:
http://thegamesdb.net/
http://archive.vg

Fixing the ES-Scraper image grabbing (broken by default):
Topic - performance-issues-with-es-scraper - post-3402
Replace the text "PIL" with "Image" on line 2 of scraper.py

MAME rom scraping - Also, this dude is the man, made MAME worth it for the RetroPie:
Raspberry Pi - RetroPie Gamelist.xml and snapshots for MAME full romset
mame4allsnapsgamelist.zip
Compiled all art for that known MAME ROM torrent, and created gamelist.xml for you. Drag and drop into RetroPie MAME folder.

Emulation Station - GameList.xml File Editting
mameGenXml.pl - Script to Generate Emulation Station GameList.xml Files
Raspberry Pi - View topic - Script to generate Emulation Station xml (MAME/FBA/consoles)
ES-Manager - Scrape without ES Scraper - GameList.xml Editting Util

More Image and Box Art Help
XnConvert - Free Batch Image editting and Converting Utility
EmuMovies DSU 2.00 - Massive Download Artwork, Instructions and So Much More
EmuMovies - Supporting Member Packages
EmuMovies CRC-32 Renamer - EmuMovies


FuzzyRename - bunch of .png or .avi files that are similarly, but not quite exactly named to your ROM/zip file names
Fuzzy Rename - EmuMovies


ROM – File Naming, Renaming, Organizing
Cowering's GoodTools - ROM Renaming Tools
Awesome tools, helps rename and organize ROMS.
Rename ROMs to filenames that the scraper will pick up easier.
Also separates based on US version, vs other, vs Good/Final.etc.

ROM Filename Conventions:
alt.games.mame FAQ: About ROMS
ZSNES board - View topic - What do things like [h1C] mean?
Whats h1C ??? - SNES Roms
What does o1, h1, h2 and o3 mean? Archive - EmuTalk.net

Download ALL – GoodTools - All neat and setup (which is a little bit of a pain otherwise):
Dropbox - Cowering-GoodTools-ROM_Renaming_and_Org.zip

Great overview and tutorial:
http://bmgcl.atspace.cc/tutorials/GoodN64Tutorial.html

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoodTools
GoodTools - Main Site - www.allgoodthings.us
GoodMerge
UnGoodMerge

GoodGUI - A Frontend for the GoodTools
Internet Archive - GoodGUI - A Frontend for the GoodTools


Downloads:
AllGoodThings - POST - GoodTools_Set_Dec_29_2013.zip
GoodTools_Set_Dec_29_2013.zip :: Copy
Download GoodTools_Set_July_9_2012.zip


ROMS - Finding Game ROMs - Download Sites
theoldcomputer.com - Worlds Largest Free ROM and Games Website
Emuparadise - Gaming ROMs and related
CoolROM
NZBMatrix
Demonoid
The Pirate Bay - thepiratebay.se
SD Card - RetroPie Image Help
SD Card - RaspPi Image Writing/Reading Guidance
General info about writing RaspPi images to an SD card, and reading a customized SD card to save the image:
HowTo-Raspberry_Pi-SD_Card_Image_Writing_Guidance-v1.pdf
LifeHacker-How_to_Clone_Your_Raspberry_Pi_SD_Card_for_Super_Easy_Reinstallations-06Sept2013
SD Card Image – Adding Files Directly
In MS Windows, you can insert the SD card, and load the image. However, the main folder with the ROMs are on an Ext4 file system, so you need a special tool to be able to add files directly this way (e.g. PlayStation ROMS):
ROMs folders:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/

Paragon ExtFS for Windows - Ext4 File Systems Read/Write on MS Windows


Fix Issue – RetroPie Freeze at the Splash Screen - Corrupt SD Card File System
Sometimes if you are directly writing files to the SD card as described above, or if you unplug the NinTastic without first shutting it down, the SD card’s file system can get a little messed up causing this problem. No worries, its an easy fix.
To Fix:
Plug regular USB keyboard into Raspberry Pi, and reboot (pull power plug and plug back in).
At frozen splash screen Press F4 to breakout of freeze into command prompt. Then type these two commands (pressing enter afterward):
fsck.ext4 -y /dev/mmcblk0p2
sudo shutdown -h now
Note, you might have to sortof type in blind. Screen might be weird, but trust that your typing is actually being entered.

More info: Raspberrypi.stackexchange.com - latest-noobs-goes-into-panic-after-rainbow-splash
SD Card - Expand Image to Take Up Remaining Space
To expand SD card image to take up remaining space on the SD Card. Example, you have a 16GB SD card .img file you’ve put onto a 32GB SD card. To expand the filesystem to take advantage of the rest of the space:
sudo raspi-config
pick "1" to expand SD card filesystem