Game HAT User Manual Game HAT User Manual OVERVIRE This Game HAT will turn your Raspberry Pi into a classic game console in a second, recalls you all the gaming pleasures in the memory. FEATURES ⚫ 3.
Game HAT User Manual PICTURES ⚫ Game function keys according to specific game ⚫ Start+Selection to exit current game ⚫ Menu, Up/Left, Down/Right, Exit, this four keys on the bottom allow to adjust screen brightness/contrast, volume, etc.
Game HAT User Manual HOW TO USE HARDWARE CONNECTION 1. Insert Raspberry Pi to Game HAT (GPIO pins header) 2. Connect HDMI. Insert the HDMI connector to screen and Raspberry Pi - If you use Raspberry Pi Zero/Raspberry Pi Zero W, you need to use HDMI cable 3. Toggle the Battery switch of Game HAT to OFF, and mount 18650 battery to it. OS We provide image with driver pre-installed, you can download test image or you can also download original Retropie image and install driver manually.
Game HAT User Manual Raspberry Pi will reboot automatically if you disconnect the power supply. - If battery is full Raspberry Pi will start up normally. 4) After entering OS, you can choose emulators by joystick. For example, choose Nintendo emulator and press “A” to confirm. 5) You can see there are some games. Choose one and press “A” to enter. After cutscene, you can press “A” or “Start” key to start the game.
Game HAT User Manual 1) Download and unzip it to get .img file 2) Write the .img file to TF card by Win32DiskImager.exe 3) After writing, copy Game HAT driver you download to root directory of the TF card. 4) Open the config.
Game HAT User Manual 5) Inset the TF card and a USB keyboard to Raspberry Pi, open Battery switch to power on Raspberry Pi. After booting, press F4 to open Terminal. 6) Execute commands as blow. (Make sure you have copy driver to Raspberry Pi as step 3) sudo tar xzvf /boot/Game-HAT-*.tar.gz cd Game-HAT/ sudo ./Game-HAT 7) Reboot Raspberry Pi. Long press “A” button (other keys are OK as well) to enter buttons configuration page. Configure keys as below.
Game HAT User Manual ADD NEW GAMES Maybe default games in test image are not those you want, you can also add games as you like. 1. Size of most games are always large, so we need to expand filesystem fist.
Game HAT User Manual Choose 7 Advanced Options -> A1 Expand Filesystem, Enter->Finish, (physical keyboard is required) Choose OK, and reboot.
Game HAT User Manual 2. Prepared game ROMS. Here we recommend a really cool rom website: http://coolrom.com/ You can download ROMS of various games there to your PC. If you like Sony Playstation games, you can choose. Find the games you want and download it. For example: http://coolrom.com/roms/psx/39719/Tekken_3.
Game HAT User Manual unzip the zip you download to get ROMs as below 3. Update ROMs Connect your Raspberry Pi to network (Make sure the network you connect is in the same LAN as your PC). Find SHOW IP in Retropie list, press “A” to query current IP address of your Raspberry Pi.
Game HAT User Manual Open it with the IP address on your PC Copy ROMs to related directory as below Then on emulator choose page, you can press “Start”->QUIT->RESTART EMULATIONSTAION, press “A” to confirm. Then restart emulator, you can find the game added.
Game HAT User Manual OTHER COMMON OPERATIONS For more operations, you can read Retropie Instructions PINS (LCD) If the pins which are note with NC it means that the pins is not used by LCD, you can use them for other usage. PIN Identity Description 1 3.3V 3.
Game HAT User Manual 19 NC NC 20 GND Ground 21 NC NC 22 NC NC 23 NC NC 24 NC NC 25 GND Ground 26 NC NC 27 NC NC 28 NC NC 29 UP BCM=5，WPI=21 30 GND Ground 31 DOWN BCM=6，WPI=22 32 B BCM=12，WPI=26 33 LEFT BCM=13，WPI=23 34 GND Ground 35 RIGHT BCM=19，WPI=24 36 X BCM=16，WPI=27 37 A BCM=26，WPI=25 38 Y BCM=20，WPI=28 39 GND GND 40 START BCM=21，WPI=29
