everybody Patton here welcome back to
the channel so today we're gonna be
taking a look at the Raspberry Pi 3 B+
this is just gonna be a getting started
guide if you're interested in using the
PI 4 emulation so here is the Raspberry
Pi 3 B+ going over the hardware you have
your Ethernet port 4 USB ports on the
other side here you have a micro USB
port for power HDMI output and a 3.5
millimeter headphone jack now if you
ordered one of these this is all you're
gonna get they do have kits that come
with everything else that you need like
a micro SD card power cables HDMI cable
so along with the three B+ model I also
got this 32 gigabyte micro SD card the
canna kit 2.5 amp power supply with this
switch the pie itself doesn't have a
power switch so it's recommended you get
one of these switches to go along with
the power supply and I know everybody
was making recommendations on what case
to get but I settled on this very
generic clear case it comes with some
screws and some little bubble things I
think for like feet if I want to keep it
down on something it won't move but I
went with this case because I have so
many classic systems that already look
like a small NES or a small PlayStation
I wanted to be able to differentiate my
Raspberry Pi from everything else I
settled on this just generic clear case
I like the clear case a lot one thing I
did forget to get where the heat sinks
and I heard that those are actually very
useful so I'm gonna be ordering those
and getting those as well so make sure
you have all those components I'll put a
list of everything you will need
hardware wise in the description so you
don't forget anything
and I'll make a note of which things are
optional technically the case is
optional but you don't want this just
sitting around and dust collecting on it
you want some kind of case for it so for
the software side of things the way this
works is you flash an image to the
computer itself they're called images
I'm going
retropie the newest version which is 4.4
and you can find it here on the retropie
site I'll make sure and put the website
of anything that we use in the
description for you since we're using
the pi3 all we do is click this button
right here and then we get the image so
ours looks like a dot GZ file don't do
anything with this file this is the file
you need it looks like something you can
unzip don't try and unzip it
there's no need as you can see here the
size of this file is 684 megabytes to
flash that image to the computer you
need a program called echar it is super
easy to use it's like a two-step process
and you're done if you go to the website
here it'll automatically detect what
system that you have and give you the
version that you need for your operating
system on your computer I'm running
windows 64-bit so that's what it's
offering me very very helpful very
useful so I'm gonna put on my hardware
together and I'm gonna meet you back
here where we're gonna flash this image
okay I feel much better now that this is
in a case and I'm not actually handling
everything and I have my hands you know
on the circuitry and all that stuff and
it fits the case very nice it's snug all
the ports are available something I
didn't mention at the beginning of the
video is where the microSD card goes
after you've flashed it on the bottom I
don't know if you can see of the
Raspberry Pi you'll see a little slot
here and then the card just goes right
in that slot so the one thing I didn't
mention sorry about that but we'll go
over that in a second but first we need
to insert the micro SD card into our
computer so we can flash this image I'm
just using a very generic card reader
assembly the power supply is super easy
as well it's just a regular plug and on
the other end is the micro USB port
you're going to take that port normally
you would put this into the Raspberry Pi
itself but because we have the switch
you want to attach it to the PI switch
just like that and at the end of this
switch this is what goes into the
Raspberry Pi you can see here PI switch
so I've inserted the micro SD card into
my computer it looks like it may have
already picked it up I didn't even touch
anything yet so we're gonna go to select
image
and here's our image on our desktop I'm
gonna click open so our image is
selected our card is selected in the F
Drive all you do is click flash so you
can see here the image is gonna take up
2.42 gigs on the card you can see here
how fast it is flashing it and
approximately how long it's gonna take
for this image to be flash it's very
quick
the faster card you get the faster this
will go as well all this is still being
flash I do want to say that the
community behind the Raspberry Pi is
huge and extremely helpful I haven't had
the opportunity to really interact with
anybody there but I know they have dis
cords they have websites everything to
help you with doing anything you want
with your Raspberry Pi and I'm sure I
will make use of those resources in the
future all right so I have all the
hardware hooked up to my Raspberry Pi
you can see here there's another step is
going to validate that the flash went
through correctly so it looks like we're
going to have to wait a little bit
longer about five and a half minutes so
right now attached to the PI I have the
HDMI cable hooked up the power cable
with my switch and ethernet cord and a
controller I'm using my 8-bit doe
famicom 30 controller also I forgot to
mention that the Borg has built-in Wi-Fi
and built-in Bluetooth and you will need
an internet connection for what we're
going to do once this is finished how
we're going to get our stuff onto the
system you'll want to have an internet
connection for it okay looks like Etra
is all finished ignore this pop-up right
here that says format disk that's just
now because the microSD card isn't in a
format that Windows recognizes but the
flash is complete one successful device
we're going to close that
so I safely remove the microSD card from
my computer I'm going to insert it into
the Raspberry Pi 3 gonna boot it up I'm
gonna take a look when you first turn on
your Raspberry Pi retropie and the
emulation station will begin its startup
process and you will see this screen so
what it's asking you to do is hold down
the a button for a few seconds to
configure it so I will do that and
you'll see it should recognize the 8 bit
doe controller right away and it does
then you just go through the different
buttons to map them
up down left right start select a B X Y
left shoulder right shoulder left
trigger right trigger push in the left
thumb push in the right thumb then you
go through your left analogues and
you're right analogues the hotkey you're
going to need to go back to the menu and
do other functions I'm going to assign
that to the l3 button and this is your
retropie menu we don't have any systems
showing because we haven't added a name
wrong'd yet you can push pay to go into
the retropie configuration one of the
first things that people recommend doing
is updating retropie to the newest
version to do that go to retropie setup
and hit the a button you'll be taken to
this menu right here select the update
option this will ask if you want to
update your installed packages this can
take a very long time some people have
reported it takes a couple hours to do
this so we don't have to do this but if
you want everything up-to-date you're
going to hit yes here I'll leave you to
do that on your own for now we're just
going to focus on adding the roms and
BIOS files so what we need here is our
IP address if we go down to show IP
we're given our IP address at the top
once you've written that down hit the a
button on ok so with the raspberry Pi
still turned on and retropie active we
have to go back to our computer to add
the roms and BIOS files you're going to
go to this address bar right here delete
whatever's in there you're going to hit
backslash backslash twice it's the key
above the enter key and then you're
going to enter the address that was on
your retropie ours was 10.0.0.0 8 and
hit enter this is a filesystem
of your raspberry pi you can see here
it's pretty cut-and-dry what you need to
do and where things need to go you open
up the BIOS folder this is where your
BIOS files will go it's all I'm gonna do
is copy my BIOS files drag them into
that folder this is actually very fast
things move very fast over to network
now all my BIOS files are where I want
them to be once you back up go into the
roms folder and in this folder here you
will see all the systems that retropie
has support for I don't see it listed
here but I believe it also has Dreamcast
and Nintendo DS support we may have to
do an update to get those files on here
so all I'm going to do I'm going to take
some Gameboy
and then drag them over to the Gameboy
folder there they are few NES games
Super Nintendo how about a ps1 game -
and there you go so everything seems to
be in place we're going to go back over
to retro PI and will continue so once
you've moved your BIOS files and roms
over the next step is to go back into
retro PI hit start to access the menu go
down to quit and you have to restart
emulation station for those changes to
take effect after it's been restarted
you can see here that now all the games
that we added have a folder for them
what's going to Super Nintendo these are
all the games that we added
if you push left and right in these
menus it'll go from system to system
pushing the B button will take you back
to the main menu let's take a quick look
into these games real quick let's look
at actraiser - to begin with you can see
here the game started up just fine to
access the rhetoric menu you're gonna
push down the hotkey that you assigned
earlier and hit the X button for this
menu you have a lot of options available
to you one of the options I prefer using
is bilinear filtering you can get there
by going to settings video push up to go
to the bottom of the list and right here
is bilinear filtering pushing left and
right will turn that on you'll see that
the sprites have this filter over them
that makes them a little more smoothed
out to restart the game you can hold
down that hot key button and push B and
to return to the menu hold down the hot
key button and push start start it up a
Gameboy game here this looks like kid
Dracula I like that the default setting
the game has is for the green and grey
filter I really like this felt and I
think it gives a game of war authentic
look and here's bunks adventure for the
NES running fine
looking really nice and here we have
Silent Hill running on the Raspberry Pi
3 seems to be running at full speed I'm
not seeing any lag here you can see that
it looks like the game has this kind of
wire film over it so if we go into the
retroarch options go down to options
select it down to enable dithering if
you disable this return to the game
you'll see that has been removed another
option you might be interested is the
enhanced resolution option
we enable that then return to the game
you'll see that the game has become much
sharper so there you go just a real
quick first time setup on using retropie
with UART res berry pie 3 B+ have a
couple more things I'm planning on going
over like adding new themes and menu
music so make sure you keep coming by
for that I hope this video was useful to
you thank you so much for watching and I
will see you next time
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