Nowadays one of the most common projects you can find online for Raspberry Pi is a retro gaming set-up based on RetroPie. For those of you who are unfamiliar, RetroPie allows you to play retro video games on your Raspberry Pi or PC.

So, if you have been planning to build your very own Raspberry Pi powered handheld emulation console, you might be interested in a new DIY kit called RaspiBoy designed by Pierre-Louis Boyer from 8B CRAFT. It provides you with everything you need to construct your portable Raspberry Pi powered retro gaming handheld console.


The RaspiBoy comes as a kit, with easy mounting tutorial PDF and video. Thanks to the software, RaspiBoy can run all kinds of older games from original Game Boy titles up to Game Boy Advance, as well as classic games for consoles like Super Nintendo, Atari, MaMe and so on. To install a game all that you would need is a ROM file. You can legally download ROM of any unlicensed games on the internet. Then to install the ROM you just have to put the ROM file on a USB-key and plug it into the RaspiBoy. That's it! (copy and installation is automatic!)

Features: 

● HDMI Out: You can connect RaspiBoy to your big TV and the video output will automatically switch from RaspiBoy to your TV!
● Up to 4 players: You can connect USB game pads on RaspiBoy! (3 players with basic kit and 4 players with extra-usb kit)
● Speaker + headphone jack + Thumbwheel potentiometer to tune volume
● 4 LED for battery status

To learn more about RaspiBoy do visit their KickStarter page and make a pledge if you are interested.



Source: KickStarter