How to build a NES Classic with a Raspberry Pi

Nintendo may be discontinuing the NES Classic, but that doesn’t mean you must give up on playing classic Nintendo games. Crafting your own is as easy as picking a few parts off Amazon and formatting a memory card.

A Raspberry Pi 3 model B sits at the heart of our system. The tiny computer costs less than $40, and is more than powerful enough to emulate not just NES games.

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[c.m.]

crazy how time went... 50 years ago computers filled out whole rooms and today you can build one yourself that is as big as a book... crazy

[bmpman]

"Anyone with a computer and a screwdriver should be able to figure it out." Uses a 3D printer.

[atomicbrain]

The top looks like it's made out of cheddar cheese.

[Dylanquinn]

Definitely gonna give this a shot. Best part is, I can load it full of the weird third party NES games I loved as kid.

[Tractionless]

With all the NES Classic Minis gone, and my O.G. NES dead... I need this in my life.

[danm]

Oooooh! Cute!! I am totally doing that the next time I get to Micro Center.

[metroid]

I just used my old laptop, when I upgraded mine.Paired with a 5:4 monitor, it's great for older games.

[sashathingy]

this gave me some ideas of my own, I sure will get myself the Asus Tinker Board instead, but having multiple SD cards, I could swap them out as I want "gaming console", "media Center" and so on

[MonroeMaelstrom]

Too many people are concerned with it being called NES as in "ness" instead of spelling out "N.E.S." Shut up. It's a preference. Some in USA say Soda while others say Pop and others say Coke. None are wrong. I've always heard it as "NESS" so y'all chill. Enjoy the video which was really well made and convenient to those of us who didn't get the classic.

[ChozoSR]

Not to knock, but that case is yoogly. Two tone grey and black would look much better!

[astroblitzcreations]

i've actually almost finished with my raspberry pi ipcam dvr kodi system and remote access via pc or cell phone. it records in date folders encodes them has options to remove after a set time or days of recording. allows cloud upload aka ftp storing. along with alot of functions for all sorts of network cams webcams and so on. i know its off topic just thought id throw it out there and yes it does use full hardware encoding

[HeyBeardo]

Nice video, makes me want to grab a 3D-printed case for my RPi.

[DKali-gnxj]

Nice video. I 3D printed this exact model, however I used a small circuit board and 2 buttons and made the reset and shutdown with some simple python scripts.

[SciPunk]

Anybody with a computer and screwdriver... and a 3d printer.

[neoasura]

I think thats the main problem with a lot of these raspberry pi NES builds...the idea is awesome..but what sells the Mini NES was the build quality..Now, if someone out there can make a really sharp looking mini NES case that doesn't look cheap like the 3D printed ones...I'd be all over this!

[MobileDecay]

You make it sound like you only have 2 options for playing Nes games. Lol.

[nidraja]

To anyone having trouble getting Retropie to run try flashing the disc image using etcher

[gingertimelord]

that is something i may do soon .... but it REALLY does take less time to pop a cart in my old NES

[KibSquib]

I think that an NES classic GUI for retroarch or something would be better

[Simon]

Great Idea. Why did no one think of this earlier?