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Retropie with a 2.2" LCD screen

Play your SNES or Genesis game on a 2.2" LCD screen

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Play your SNES or Genesis game on a 2.2" LCD screen

Connecting the TFT screen to the raspberry was explained in a very good French magazine called Hackable (n°3).

If interested, you can find it here : http://boutique.ed-diamond.com/hackable/787-hackable-magazine-2.html

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    Step 1

    Download retropie and flash your SD card

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    Step 2

    Connect screen to Raspberry like that (from screen to raspberry) :

    • VCC to 3.3 volt (pin 17
    • GND to GND (pin 20)
    • CS to CE0 (pin 24)
    • RESET to GPIO 25 (pin 22)
    • D/C to GPIO 24 (pin 18)
    • SDI/MOSI to MOSI (pin 19)
    • SCK to SCLk (pin 23)
    • LED to GPIO18 (pin 12)
    • SDO/MISO to MISO (pin 21)
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    Step 3

    Activate SPI :

    Use raspi-config command to activate SPI

    or

    edit /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf and remove or comment the line "blacklist spi-bcm2708".

    Then, after a reboot, a dmesg | grep spi should return something like bcm2708_spi.

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