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Portable RPi game emulator

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This Portaberry RPi game emulator is a Raspberry Pi powered portable gaming console running the Retropie operating system.

It allows you to play an extremely wide range of classic video games from the Atari 2600 to the Playstation 1.

The main features of this project are as follows:

  • 5″ HDMI Display
  • Full complement of modern controls (2 analog sticks, d-pad, 4 action buttons, start/select, and L/R shoulder and trigger buttons)
  • Raspberry Pi 2 Running Retropie 4.1
  • Stereo Speakers and headphone jack
  • 4400mAh battery giving roughly 4 to 5 hours of play time
  • USB micro charging input using Adafruit Powerboost1000c
  • Accommodations for laser cut front and rear panels
Portable Rpi game emulator

Portable Rpi game emulator

Low cost game console using PIC32

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Alexander Shabarshin’s XORYA is a low-cost game console using PIC32MX170F256B microcontroller.
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XORYA extremely low cost game console that consists of just 1 chip (in its base configuration) – DIP28 integrated circuit PIC32MX170F256B (32-bit MIPS core, 256K flash, 64K data memory) with cost below $5 and a few capacitors and resistors. XORYA is connected to NTSC TV through composite video input and it’s running applications created with help of open source XORLib game library ( http://xorlib.org ) specifically developed for this platform. XORYA may produce a number of black and white video modes (with 640×200 maximum resolution) and (potentially) stereo audio with 15734 Hz sample rate (through PWM). Also with external crystal 14.31818 MHz and 2 more capacitors it may produce color NTSC signal similar to “composite” mode CGA with 16 colors (actually 15, because 2 gray colors look the same) and resolution 160×200. Finally XORYA may receive inputs from up to 10 push buttons (12 if you count RESET and PAUSE). Goal is to get cheap software/hardware platform for “old school” gamedev.