Making Stuff Out of a Raspberry Pi 3A+

 I recently got a raspberry pi (RPi) for Christmas this year. I was really happy about it as I wanted it for many years. First, I Installed the Raspberry Pi Desktop OS on it. But, I was limited to doing very basic tasks such as opening an offline app. So, I thought of installing retropie on it. Retropie turns your raspberry pi into a gaming machine. It could play games ranging from the Atari to the PS1. The controller I was using with it was the Shanwan Redgear Controller which is my main controller that I use for nearly playing every game. The audio and display was also very crisp because of the HDMI port on it. My father bought it from thingbits.in I also got a screen for the rpi 3a+ but unfortunately, it wasn't working. I'm also planning to use the raspberry pi as a media streaming device.

How I turned it into a gaming machine?

Well, to be honest it was quite simple actually. All I did was download the retropie buster image for my raspberry pi from this website:retropie.org.uk and flashed it onto my 64gb sd card using raspberry pi imager. Then, In my case the raspberry pi wasn't booting into the retropie os. So, I did some googling around and found 2 files that I needed to replace in order for it to boot. Those 2 files were "boot.elf" and "start.elf." After replacing the files, Voila! it booted straight into the os. Now, I was ready to play some games.

Links to the things I bought: 

The Raspberry Pi 3A+ => https://www.thingbits.in/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-a

(I used a micro usb power supply that was lying around and a hdmi cable from a jio set-top box. You can buy these 2 things on amazon. Heck, you can even power it with a powerbank.)



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