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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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Description

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

Details

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

Components

1 × Rasbperry Pi Model B (1 or 2)
1 × 2.2" Screen 240*320 LCD SPI TFT ILI9341 LI9340C like that one http://www.ebay.fr/itm/2-2-240-320-LCD-Affichage-Module-SPI-TFT-ILI9341-LI9340C-PCB-Adaptateur-/331320453511
1 × Wires

Build Instructions

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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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