Emulators on Raspbian?

[WillBoxOwO]

Hello!
As a proud user of Berryboot, I can multi-boot between Retropie and Raspbian.

The thing is, Retropie is (atleast for me) pretty inconfortable to use- id prefer a GUI like the one used in Raspbian.
Secondo, its pretty annoying to switch to Retropie just for a 2min play on an NES game.

Is there any emulators that can run NES, SNES archives?

All emulators are welcome. From Atari 2600 to N64!

Thanks alot and have a great day.

[Imperf3kt]

According to Nintendo, NES and SNES emulation is effectively illegal, and even if it weren't, the copying and distributing of Nintendo property (ROMs), is also illegal - your license doesn't extend to copyright or distribution right, so you're on your own, sorry.
https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#emulator

[WillBoxOwO]

What about other emulators?
PS1 and atari emulators are legal right?

[ShiftPlusOne]

Of course that's what Nintendo would say, but Nintendo doesn't get to make up laws.

To the best of my knowledge, emulation is perfectly legal pretty much everywhere. Emulators can be used for homebrew games or for backups of your own games, which are perfectly legitimate and legally protected use cases pretty much everywhere.

Just don't share or discuss ROMs or ROM sites here (that's the iffy part).

There are plenty of emulators, but retropi does a great job of bringing the best emulation cores together and patching them to run smoothly on the pi. You could look around for alternative options, but you'll probably have build some of them from source, possibly with custom patches applied. There's very little reason to go through that hassle when it has already been done by the devs of retropi, lakka, recalbox and others.

If you want to dual boot with a much simpler system, I'd recommend taking a look at Recalbox, which I find to be a lot easier to use.

[scruss]

Of course that's what Nintendo would say, but Nintendo doesn't get to make up laws.

Indeed. Especially since Nintendo themselves cherry-pick when emulation is legal:

• Wii Virtual Console, NES Mini = perfectly fine
• Any emulation not sold by Nintendo = bad and wrong and illegal

It's particularly amusing that for Wii Virtual Console, Nintendo almost certainly used a ROM image of Super Mario Brothers that they found on the internet (consequently bad and wrong and illegal by their standards). Check out Frank Cifaldi's talk from GDC 2016 for more details: "It's Just Emulation!" - The Challenge of Selling Old Games (the fun bit is at 14:28, but the whole talk is great).

To the OP: if you're wanting to run more than a couple of emulators, RetroPie is the least hassle - but it really does work best if you dedicate an entire Raspberry Pi to it.

[Imperf3kt]

Of course that's what Nintendo would say, but Nintendo doesn't get to make up laws.

Indeed. Especially since Nintendo themselves cherry-pick when emulation is legal:

• Wii Virtual Console, NES Mini = perfectly fine
• Any emulation not sold by Nintendo = bad and wrong and illegal

It's particularly amusing that for Wii Virtual Console, Nintendo almost certainly used a ROM image of Super Mario Brothers that they found on the internet (consequently bad and wrong and illegal by their standards). Check out Frank Cifaldi's talk from GDC 2016 for more details: "It's Just Emulation!" - The Challenge of Selling Old Games (the fun bit is at 14:28, but the whole talk is great).

To the OP: if you're wanting to run more than a couple of emulators, RetroPie is the least hassle - but it really does work best if you dedicate an entire Raspberry Pi to it.

Nintendo owns the ROM. Where they get it is irrelevant.
Same with their emulators, the issue isn't the emulation, its the use of proprietary bootloaders ripped from the consoles illegally (without which the emulation would be impossible) - those are property of Nintendo to do with as they please (including making emulators for their old hardware)

[ShiftPlusOne]

Looking at the source code of a random NES emulator, I don't see any ripped bootloaders.

Emulators for later consoles like playstations tend to require them, but discourage users from obtaining them illegally and certainly don't include them in their emulators (if they're smart). In most places it's legal to rip it from your own hardware.

I don't know if it has been done, but it's also possible that it could be reverse engineered without infringing on any intellectual property. That's the same sort of legal protection that allows projects like Wine, ReactOS and even Linux to exist.

[WillBoxOwO]

Does that means theres no emulators available on Raspbian?

[scruss]

Yes, there are lots that you can either install from the repositories or build from source. I think you mentioned Atari before. The repos have, for example:

• hatari — Atari ST/TT emulator
• stella — Atari 2600 emulator
• virtualjaguar — Atari Jaguar emulator

But we can't help you find game or system ROMs for most of them. Hatari might come with an open-source system ROM, but probably doesn't come with any OS images or commercial games. Pretty sure stella doesn't come with any commercial cartridges, but people have written new games for the 2600.

The situation is wildly different for different systems.Commodore 8-bit machines can be very well emulated and include system ROMs, but a company still holds the rights to the Commodore Amiga system ROMs.

[WillBoxOwO]

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[*]hatari — Atari ST/TT emulator
[*]stella — Atari 2600 emulator
[*]virtualjaguar — Atari Jaguar emulator
[/list]

Thanks alot, im installing these emulators. Are there any lists of downloadable emulators somewhere in the internet? A PS1 emulator would make my day.

[ShiftPlusOne]

One you can build from source:
https://github.com/notaz/pcsx_rearmed

[WillBoxOwO]

One you can build from source:
https://github.com/notaz/pcsx_rearmed

A guide on how to "build from source"?

[scruss]

Yeah, that's something else you're going to have to learn. While pcsx_rearmed suggests all you need to do is:

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./configure && make

you'll need to find out which other packages you need to install to make that work.

This is where RetroPie makes things easier by managing the build process.

[Imperf3kt]

I'm curious, does this PS1 emulator support using the actual CDs?

[WillBoxOwO]

Hello there
I finally managed to setup the PS1 emulator.
I tought I could show it off on YouTube because it actually took a long time for me to setup, it blew my mind to see it working!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFD1adaIZok

[WillBoxOwO]

Are they any other emulators your can fetch using apt-get?

[ShiftPlusOne]

Are they any other emulators your can fetch using apt-get?

Have you tried running 'apt search emulator' or 'apt-cache search emulator'?

[WillBoxOwO]

Are they any other emulators your can fetch using apt-get?

Have you tried running 'apt search emulator' or 'apt-cache search emulator'?

Just tried this out. Looks great so far...

[oRIDDLERo]

@op

Did you ever get other emulators to work launching from stretch? I wanted your YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFD1adaIZok) , nice work on the psx! Did you ever get it full screen? If pi3 can run PSX on top of rasbpian im sure it can handle lesser systems.

I want NES and SNES to work the same way (launch from raspbian)

[WillBoxOwO]

I want NES and SNES to work the same way (launch from raspbian)

Your can try Mednaffe for NES and SNES. It also supports GBA and other stuff in fullscreen, enjoy

EDIT: Id be more than happy to do a video on it :3