@Teeqla I was skimming the internet trying to do a project similar to yours and was wondering if you have had any success with the Linux Joystick Mapper and if you might be able to share it if you have?
...because I was thinking of maybe taking apart my Original Xbox and making it into a case but the USB ports on the raspberry pi wouldn't reach the front of the Xbox and even if it did it would look good, because the Xbox has four separate Xbox-USB ports.
Sometime ago i've done something similar to this, but with USB extensor like this one:
@ranma i'm just talking about to put some core´s menu on the frontend, things like save state with screenshot , i'm not talking about the nintendo emulator is better than emulators on retropie, retropie is the winner choice , that's why i'm here
@edmaul69 It uses 550mA, other 2.5 harddisks use the same, the max an USB 2.0 port can use is 500mA. So it is indeed just the same drive just as any other 2.5' drive.
From what I've understood people got problems with external harddisks because of their power supplies, they didn't provide enough juice.
the thing is, if I put in a sd card with raspbian, the keyboard works just fine. also I dont have another hub.
however, because for some reason it will work when im exited from emulationstation, i can use the terminal. the reason why I even am trying to use the keyboard is so i can set up a controller to work, (a rock candy xbox one controller wired) so is there a way I can set up the controller, then just unplug the keyboard and use the controller from then on?
@Luxous You will need to consider the controller interface at some point. You mentioned joysticks for each station. I take that to mean arcade style controls. If true, you probably also need arcade pushbuttons. Depending on your needs, joysticks and pushbuttons can be easily purchased from a variety of places. But what do you connect them to? I might suggest looking at Adafruit's RetroGame software that allows you to use GPIO pins for input. The software converts the inputs to keyboard keypresses. The beauty of this solution is that with just a single joystick per Pi (following my assumptions above), you don't need additional controller hardware, and you could simply wire everything directly to the Pi x6.
Today I am very happy because I solved this issue. I just had to remove the case, plug in a new image, plug in the HDMI,and get the ip so I can configure it on my computer. Thank you all so much for helping me out.
@PetroRie 1 hour. I use it to prepare and devour lunch, work on themes and watch stuff on YouTube. I'll occasionally get into modes of playing stuff. Before I discovered retropie I had a full LaunchBox setup on my work computer.
I'l just add; I thought the OP was talking about a personal network. I run my setup off my NAS drive, so I have plenty of space for my larger files.
