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Although it’s simpler than most nowadays PCs (both desktops and laptops), a Raspberry Pi 4 is able to emulate a PlayStation perfectly fine.Īny working computer today should be able to emulate up to the fifth generation video games, such as PlayStation (launched in 1994) and Nintendo 64 (1996), or earlier ones, such as Super Nintendo (1990) and Sega Genesis (1988).įor a complete list of video games classified by generations, see Wikipedia: Raspberry Pi 4 has a considerable computing power for a credit-card sized computer.

Getting started on Raspberry Pi with NOOBS and Raspbian.

You can check the technical specifications of the Raspberry Pi 4 computer in the text I wrote about it: To give you an idea, it’s very easy to use RetroArch on a Raspberry Pi 4 thanks to the RetroPie distribution (I can write about it in the future).

Therefore, which video games your computer is capable of emulating depends on your hardware. Thus, it has no minimum requirements and can be installed on any computer.īut each emulator has its own requirements. RetroArch is, roughly speaking, a graphical user interface made up of menus. RetroArch allows you to easily access games you’ve already played by the History menu: If you want to quit the current game but return to the RetroArch main menu, press F1 to open the in-game menu and choose Close Content. Note that if you haven’t saved the game, when you quit, your progress will be lost. When you no longer want to play, you can just close the RetroArch window or press Esc.

F6 to decrease the current state slot (from 2 to 1, from 1 to 0).

F7 to increase the current state slot (from 0 to 1, from 1 to 2, and so on).

If you need to use one of those options quickly during the game, you can use the keys: Note that the RetroArch in-game menu offers the Save State and Load State options, as well as the State Slot option that allows you to change the slot currently in use.

RetroArch offers dozens of memories (state slots). Playing on RetroArch, you can save just like you would on the real video game (using the game’s own menu), or you can use one of the RetroArch slots.Īnother advantage is that generally video games offer only one memory to save the game, so that only one game can be saved.

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To install using the terminal, first add the needed repository:Īn advantage the emulator offers over the video game is that you can save the game state, as well as resume from where you saved it, at any time you want. To install RetroArch using 1-Click Install, click the following button: There are two different methods for installing RetroArch on openSUSE: from the graphical interface using 1-Click Install or from the terminal using the zypper package manager - choose whichever method you prefer.

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Tip: if you download a ROM compressed as a ZIP archive, you don’t need to unzip it, RetroArch can open it as is. You can search for ROMs on web search engines like Google.įor example, try searching for sega genesis roms. Also there are no ROMs to download here on the Linux Kamarada website. Where to download games (ROMs)įiles that contain games are commonly called ROMs.įor cartridge-based video games, such as the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, their ROMs are files that contain the contents dumped from the cartridges.

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PlayStation (PS, PS1, PSX), PlayStation 2 (PS2), PlayStation Portable (PSP)ĭid you like it? Then read on to see how to install and use RetroArch on Linux Kamarada and openSUSE.

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

Game Boy, Game Boy Color (GBC), Game Boy Advance (GBA).

The list of video games that RetroArch can emulate includes, but is not limited to: Each emulator that libretro supports is encapsulated into what is called a libretro core. RetroArch interfaces with emulators through the libretro library (backend).

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Multi-platform free and open-source software, RetroArch is not actually an emulator, but an interface (frontend) for several emulators, a kind of emulation center, capable of running virtually every retro game imaginable. Is there an emulator for Linux capable of emulating all (or at least many) video games? When I had my first contact with emulators, almost 20 years ago, I was using Windows and I needed to install an emulator for each video game I wanted to emulate, for example: to emulate Super Nintendo, I used Snes9x, to emulate Sega Genesis, I used Gens, and so on. A video game emulator allows your computer to run games made for that video game.įor years, there have been several emulators for various video games and they make the joy of the nostalgic, who want to play games of video games they own but don’t work anymore, or those who don’t have video games to play.

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An emulator is a software that allows your computer to run software made for another device.