So I bought a Master System II secondhand (my fiancée was not going to let me destroy hers) and got to planning my build. This would make it a console worthy of sharing space with my modern black boxes.
#Raspberry pi sega emulator tv#
In order to make it a little more appropriate for the TV stand, I want to gut the insides of a Master System II console, modify the case to accept modern-day inputs, and mount the Raspberry Pi inside. Unfortunately, it’s in an ugly little plastic case with a momentary switch I soldered on and a pathetic 30mm fan that just seems to draw power and not really keep it cool. This story is actually also true of my fiancée, and we were each surprised to find we had it in common.Īs such, my Retropie has pride of place in our TV stand. It was also the game that loaded when I didn’t put a cartridge, so I played many, many hours of it. Now, this wasn’t the famous Genesis/Mega Drive game that really launched Sonic into the mainstream but was similar enough that it was a great game in itself. It was an 8-bit console in a 16-bit era, and Sonic the Hedgehog was my first console game. I grew up with the Sega Master System II as my first console.
This allows for a multitude of homemade and retro games to be played on any display with an HDMI input. I’m a big fan of Retropie – an operating system for Raspberry Pi computers that contains a multitude of emulators for classic game systems.