The firmware being used on the latest BITTBOY handheld now includes my custom palette pack for gameboy original games
Add color to your favourite games!
1. Plug your SD card into a computer
2. Find the Folder named ‘gambatte’
3. Inside this folder is ‘palette’
4. Copy the .pal (Palette files)
5. In emulator settings select ‘palette’ then save settings
6. The customised palette has now been applied
Game emulation on the surface may seem relatively simply. Select a system you want to emulate, download an emulator and a game and click play
Sounds simple right?
The depths that brilliant coders all around the world have gone to to get games to emulate retro games is insurmountable as well as finding ways to enhance the original games
Being such a broad topic I will focus and describe what is required for a game to emulate in a way that any semi tech savvy ready will understand
My Emulation Setup
Hardware:
I have been using the Raspberry Pi single board computers for the last few years as my choice of hardware for my 2d retro game projects.
Software:
The open-source linux retro gaming operating system I am using is called Retro Pie.
This document will be continually updated
Each Number represent what each button is mapped to. To change the default controller button configs we need to know what we want to change them to first
This information is helpful when creating and editing your own controller config files for specific emulators
DPAD
UP 13
DOWN 14
LEFT 15
RIGHT 16
START 9
SELECT 8
HOTKEY 10
A 1
B 0
X 2
Y 3
L1 4
R1 5
L2 6
R2 7
L3 11
R3 12
LEFT ANALOG
UP AXIS 1-
DOWN AXIS 1+
LEFT AXIS 0-
RIGHT AXIS 0+
RIGHT ANALOG
UP AXIS 4-
DOWN AXIS 4+
LEFT AXIS 3-
RIGHT AXIS 3+
To speed up the time it takes each time on system boot the following settings can be applied
Auto Login:
Go into ‘Raspi-config’
Boot Options
Desktop CLI
SELECT Console Autologin
DISABLE Autologin WIFI at boot
Disable “Welcome to PIXEL” splash
sudo systemctl mask plymouth-start.service
Remove Rainbow Screen
Open “/boot/config.txt”
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
Add below at the end of the file:
#Disable rainbow image at boot
disable_splash=1
Remove Raspberry Pi logo and blinking cursor
Open “/boot/cmdline.txt”
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
Add below at the end of the line
logo.nologo vt.global_cursor_default=0
change the following value:
console=tty1
to
console=tty3
Auto Login:
Go into ‘Raspi-config’
Boot Options
Desktop CLI
SELECT Console Autologin
Disable “Welcome to PIXEL” splash
sudo systemctl mask plymouth-start.service
Remove Rainbow Screen
Open “/boot/config.txt”
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
Add below at the end of the file:
#Disable rainbow image at boot
disable_splash=1
Remove Raspberry Pi logo and blinking cursor
Open “/boot/cmdline.txt”
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
Add below at the end of the line
logo.nologo vt.global_cursor_default=0
Remove login message
Create ‘.hushlogin’ file in home directory
touch ~/.hushlogin
Remove autologin message by modify autologin service
Open the unit file for autologin service
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/autologin\@.service
Modify the line starts with “ExecStart”
From:
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty –autologin pi –noclear %I $TERM
To:
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty –skip-login –noclear –noissue –login-options “-f pi” %I $TERM
It removes autologin message below:
Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 raspberrypi tty1
raspberrypi login: pi (automatic login)
Verify the changes have worked:
sudo reboot
It all started on Christmas Day…
I received a Gameboy with Pokemon Yellow
This paved my way and undying love for what we now call ‘Retro Games’
To this day I still play Retro Games and no matter how advanced new games are getting, these games will always hold a special place in my heart
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid— Albert Einstein
The purpose of this blog site is for me to share and document personal projects that I have been working on that I believe will helpful and useful to others.
All constructive feedback is welcomed!
I plan to focus on:
-Retro Gaming Emulation
-RetroPie for Raspberry Pi
-Retro Gaming Handhelds
-Front End Graphical Designing
-Linux Distributions
-Useful Programs
-Product Reviews
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