Introduction
Retro gaming just continues to rock, even in a world where modern games are streamed live, our passion for vintage NES and SNES games never goes away! Whether it’s Super Mario, the wonderful world of Zelda, old boxes with Punch Out, or even classic PC games like The Sims and RuneScape, they’re all so much fun! Now that Nintendo has released the Classic Mini, there’s an easy way to get back to playing these games on your TV. But did you know that you can also play classic NES and SNES games on a laptop or PC? Keep reading for more information.
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Yes clicks a link on PCWebopaedia.comIt’s power under the hood, however, it lacks an interface that allows you to launch the emulators and games graphically. In other words, you would have to enter a separate command for each emulator and game, which is quite inconvenient. That’s why we also installed EmulationStation. If RetroArch is the engine, EmulationStation is the rest of the car with which you control the engine.
Software installation and configuration
The installation of the programs is not that complicated, the configuration takes a bit more work, more on that later. You can download RetroArch here. Download the file and unzip it to a folder with WinZip in 7-Zip. You can download EmulationStation here and then follow the installation steps.
Trying to set up RetroArch without proper guidance can be very frustrating. When you click inside the interface, it becomes fun. The reason for this is that RetroArch does not support a mouse, navigation is done using the keyboard with the ‘Enter’ and ‘arrow’ keys.
If you want to play your games with a controller (for example, a old compatible SNES controller) which should work without a problem just by connecting it to your computer. You can then control the menu with it. If not, you can easily set it yourself by using the keyboard to navigate to Settings