Retro Pie with original game cartridges.
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So I'm new with the whole retro pie software and I had a question that someone may be able to answer. I know that you can hook up a game boy cartridge reader to the SD card reader on the raspberry pi, and then use an game boy cart that has the build in SD card thing instead of a regular SD card. I know that some people use this to run their setup. My question is that if I hook up a game boy cartridge reader to the SD card port of a raspberry pi and have retro pie running, is it possible for retro pie to read the original game cartridges? So if I had the original physical game, would retro pie be able to run the game?
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@Hasan.Akpunar Are you talking about the Gameboy Zero project and the parts sold on the sudomod site? As far as I know, these are merely borrowing the cartridge connectors and and the form-factor of the gameboy cartridges to allow an SD card to connect to the SD card reader of a Pi in a way that elegantly fits with the Gameboy conversion. In other words, these parts don't allow an actual Gameboy to read an SD card, and they don't allow the Pi to read an actual Gameboy cartridge. It is more like an extension cord on the card reader by way of a cartridge.
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@caver01 I think they're talking about something like a Retron 5 that plays the games from the original carts. RetroPie doesn't do that.
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Of course who could forget the whole stealing RetroArch code thing:
https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-license-violations/
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