SNESDev-RPi

SNESDev is a user-space driver for the Raspberry Pi. It implements up to two (S)NES game controllers as HID gamepads and a single keyboard for as many buttons as you like connected over GPIO.

Installation

Dependencies

Setup build system and get libconfuse, which is used for parsing the config file.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake libconfuse-dev

Build and install Raspberry Pi GPIO library.

mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
wget http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-1.44.tar.gz
tar -xvf bcm2835-1.44.tar.gz
cd bcm2835-1.44
./configure
make
sudo make check
sudo make install

Build SNESDev

mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/axle-h/SNESDev-RPi.git 
cd SNESDev-RPi
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
make
sudo make install

This will build & install SNESDev as a service and start it.

Running

In order to run SNESDev make sure that the uinput module is loaded. You can check this with

lsmod

The module is loaded with

sudo modprobe uinput

If you want to have the uinput module automatically loaded, you can add "uinput" to the file /etc/modules.

SNESDev is run as a service. To check whether it is running:

sudo service SNESDev status

You can start SNESDev with

sudo service SNESDev start

Configuration

SNESDev is configured with the configuration file /etc/gpio/snesdev.cfg.

Uninstalling

You can uninstall the SNESDev service with the following command:

cd ~/src/SNESDev-RPi/build
sudo make uninstall