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hello I'm Gary Sims from Andrew authority if you're like me you remember the Nintendo Entertainment System if you're like me you also really really pleased when Nintendo released the Nintendo classic edition with those 30 games that were from the Nintendo Entertainment System and if you're like me you were really disappointed you couldn't get hold of one no matter what website you went to no matter how we tried they just weren't the sell material prepared to pay some really stupid prices for them and if you're like me you were really sad when I for only just six months apparently I sold two million units Nintendo decide to stop selling the nest classic edition and if you're like me you're wondering well can I make a nest classic edition clone maybe with a Raspberry Pi well if you are like me let me explain how you can do it now before we get started I would just like to say that neither I nor and rathore 'ti condone piracy of games in any way whatsoever now I'd like to read some stuff from the Nintendo website that addresses this very issue again the nest classic edition was a brilliant piece of software and hardware combination basically it was an ARM processor running on a small ball that they put in a box they copied the games onto it and they use their own emulator to emulate the the original Nintendo Entertainment System now because it was based on an ARM processor actually that shows the performance is good enough that if we had an ARM processor on maybe something like a Raspberry Pi and we got hold of an emulator maybe something like emulation station then maybe we could also create a Nintendo classic edition and if you really want to make your experience or think that you can get hold of yourself a small Raspberry Pi case that comes with a little flap there I've got this one off eBay we hero the USB ports around the site oh got space for the different power adapter than HDMI adapter and that even looks like a little nest system I also got hold of a generic USB game controller that kind of nest like there different models available this was just one of the cheapest one so that was also good to buy so making this up to my little case up to my Raspberry Pi seeing the site look quite good now there are several different ways you can do this now what I'm going to go through mainly in this video is a spatial distribution for the Raspberry Pi called the retropie and that basically just turns your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated emulator not only for Nintendo but also for a whole range of different vintage and classic gaming systems now the first step is to go over to the retropie website you'll find links again over in the article and you need to download the image and then you need to use a tool like HR to write the image onto the SD card you can do that from a Mac or a PC Windows PC or from Linux that all the links you need are over in the article and once you've copied that over onto the Raspberry Pi you need to plug it into your ugly PI and basically just boot it up okay so I've got my Raspberry Pi inside this Nintendo case I've got the controller connected up I've got catch up to my TV the SD card with retropie copied onto it is in there so let's just power it up see what happens so some booting going on now and here's the retro PI symbol on the screen okay so we'll press a gay button here on the game controller okay and when you go with up-down left-right start select a B X Y right now if you haven't got a key on your controllers ask you for you just long press and it will just skip longer than any key so we long press all of these okay and then we get up to the retropie distribution running an emulator isn't at the moment there's nothing you can do other than to go into the configuration but here I have my USB drive with the games copied onto it now the way you copy the games onto it is simple you take the USB fat32 you stick it into a laptop or into a PC double its Mac Linux or Windows you create on that a retropie folder and inside the retropie folder you create a roms folder inside the roms folder you create a nests NES folder and you copy your games into that folder and then what you do is you plug those that USB Drive into your Raspberry Pi and then on here we go to restart emulation station if we want to restart it and then we restart it we'll find the games and there we go now it's come up with Nintendo and it says there are seven games available let's go into there and now we can start playing games and notice here I'm only using the game controller I don't need to use a keyboard or any other kind of turn the volume up here right now let's see how bad I really am at Donkey Kong there we go now to get out of a game and go back into the emulator you press both the Select and start at the same time and then that takes me down here where I can now play my other games and that's it and so there you have it how to make your own Nintendo Entertainment System classic edition using a 3d printed case and a Raspberry Pi and some software you can download from the internet man's garrison for Landreth hora T and I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up also please don't forget to subscribe to and royalties youtube channel hit that Bell notifications who get told every time we upload a new video and last but not least do over to Andrew authority calm we are your source of all things Android