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In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how you can set up Recalbox on your own Raspberry Pi, and it's going to include all the trimmings so, make sure you stick around, because you know what time it is
Hey guys, Jonathan here with TechWizTime, where I teach you techonology through tutorials
And today I'm going to show you how you can setup Recalbox on your Raspberry Pi
And it's gonna include everything, like how to transfer ROMs, how to set up the whole system, the whole shebang
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And with that said let's jump over the computer quickly and we'll see how we can install Recalboc on the MicroSD Card
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Just quickly, I have also done other videos here on how to set up RetroPie in the same format, and
Lakka, so, if you want to see those videos, make sure you hit.... Up there, for the playlist where you can see how to do it for yourself
Okay so the first thing we're going to want to do is go to "recalbox.com"
Once the web page is loaded, we'll go up to DIY Recalbox meny at the top
And we'll scroll down to Number two section and we'll click on the github link
Once you're on the github releases page we'll go and we'll download the zip file
So we can put this on our MicroSD Card
So, the first thing we're going to want to do is to extract this zip file to a folder and to do that we'll use a program like 7zip
Once extracted we'll go into that folder and copy all the files, then paste them directly into the MicroSD Card that we're going to put into our Raspberry Pi
Once that's finished copying across, what we'll do is we'll eject the MicroSD Card and we'll pop it into our Raspberry Pi
So now that we've got Recalbox installed onto the MicroSD Card, what we'll do is we'll jump over to the Raspberry Pi now
And we'll see how we do the rest
So with our first boot of Recalbox it will go through and change the partitions and sizes and so forth and install a few things
So this will take a little while, so bear with it, but what you can do is, if you like, while it's installing you can change your language options down the bottom
And in my case I'm changing it from Great Britain to US
This just means that my keyboard is set up for my keyboard structure
After that it's finally completed it will reboot and it will come back up with the Recalbox main screen
And if you leave it for a little while here and it's connected to a network, it will come up letting you know, if there is one available, that there is an update available
And that's the first thing that we'll tackle here right now
One other thing that I will mention is that I am using Xbox 360 USB Controller here
So what we do is we press start on the controller and we go down to "System Settings" and we go down to the bottom to "Updates"
In here we go down to "Start Update" and it will ask us if we really wanna update, so we'll say "Yes"
Now be prepared to wait a few minutes here, mine took about three or four minutes on a fairly decent connection, so, if you have a slower connection then this may take a while
Eventually it will tell you that the update is downloaded and that the system will need to reboot, so hit "OK" here
And it will go through it's reboot and updating process
Now you may notice here that mine is on version 4.0.1
And we'll take note of that and we'll see what it updates to
So this will reboot a couple of times, but, eventually it will come up to a screen where up in the top left hand corner it has a percentage counter there to let you know that it's running
So eventually it will reboot one last time and it'll come up and say it's version 4.0.2
And when it does come back to Recalbox it will let you know that the update was for, and in this case it was to fix something with the NES
Okay so now that we have updated the system, teh next thing that we're going to do is we're going to transfer some ROMS across
But to do that, first we need to go into the Start menu and go into the "Network Settings" down the very bottom
Now in here you'll see that it's connected by Ethernet at the moment, there's our IP address and also the host name which is Recalbox, now if you are looking to use a Wi-Fi connection this is where you would set that up
So take note of both your IP address and your host name and now what we'll do is we'll jump over to the computer
And we'll look at how we can transfer ROMs across the Recalbox
So in a Windows Explorer window what we'll do is we'll type in the address bar "\\RECALBOX"
Now if this doesn't work for you this is where you would type in "\\YOURIPADDRESS"
So what should happen after a little bit is it will prompt you for credentials
And this is where we'll type in the username and password for recalbox which is "root" and "recalboxroot" so username root and the password is "recalboxroot"
Hit OK and it should load up with a shared folder, double click on that and you'll see a lot of folder structures in here
What we're going to do is we're going to go into the ROMs folder and
And in my circumstance going into Super Nintendo
Now I'm going to copy across a childhood favorite of mine which was Unirally or Uniracers
So I'll copy the ROM into the Super Nintendo folder
Now before we get too excited I'm going to show you another method which you could use on any system, not just Windows
And that is through a web browser
So we'll open up a web browser and in the address bar will type in either "recalbox.local" or the IP address that we wrote down before
And this will bring up the management screen
For recalbox
Now here we can check on things like monitoring where we can see our CPU usage memory
And also how much space we've got left we can also check out and upload bioses in this section here
A quick tip for anyone asking if you do need to find a BIOS especially for those people out there that don't have the hardware to dump their own system's bioses, you could try googling the "MD5 Checksum" name
And one of the most important places is the ROM section and here you can actually see inside the Super Nintendo section that I've already uploaded the Unirally ROM
One of the great things about this management tool as well is that you can actually put a check beside any of these and remove them so it's a really good management tool
And if you need to upload a ROM you can just drag and drop it onto the web page in the section of the top there
now one last bonus here
This is for people that may not have a Xbox 360 controller but still want to use it
So say for example you've got an Android or an Apple Iphone or even an Ipad for that matter
If you can get into your web browser
And connect to this manager then you can click on the virtual controller
And what you've got now is you've got a touch screen controller for your recalbox installation
Some people don't like the feeling of a virtual gamepad people do so this is purely subjective it's if you like it or if you don't
But the option is there for those people that want to use it
Awesome
And for those people out there that want to use SSH with a tool like Putty
You can login with the username "root" and the password "recalboxroot" and you've got SSH access to your recall box installation
Now before the roms will actually show up on your system you will need to do a quick reboot so make sure you've done that first
But now if we have a look in the Super Nintendo folder you'll see there that it doesn't have any of the metadata or game images there, so
What I'm going to show you now is how to scrape
All that information for your ROMs
So if we go on to the start menu and go all the way down to "Scraper"
And here we choose scrape now and you've got a few options there that you can play around with if you want if you're not too sure just go down and hit start
This will go through and scrape not only the ones that you've just uploaded but also any ones that it hasn't found before
And in this case there are a few public domain roms attached to these systems by default so it will go through and try and find those if you're not too keen just hit skip
And now when we have a look in Super Nintendo we can see there that it's scraped the information for the Unirally game
And we'll just start it up and just see how it runs
It's not quit as good as I remember when i was a kid but it still a pretty fun game
Now one other thing that you may want to use with this system which is installed already is Kodi
And to access that you gothrough the Start menu
And you go down to Kodi, so this is on the older 15.2 version of Kodi and unfortunately at this stage that's as good as you're going to get with recalbox
There is updates apparently planned for 4.1
But that's a little while off yet so if you're happy with 15.2
Then this is ready for you out of the box
Awesome so now we've got Recalbox set up on the Raspberry Pi and it's running, you've got roms on there and you can play to your heart's content
That is your retro gaming gaming system right there in a little nutshell
How awesome is that?
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