**Raspberry Pi Zero: A Compact Gaming Solution**

As I embark on this journey to test the Raspberry Pi Zero's gaming capabilities, I'm excited to see how it performs on various consoles and emulators. The device is designed to be compact and energy-efficient, making it an attractive option for building a portable retro gaming station.

**SNES Emulation: A Promising Start**

I began by testing Super Nintendo (SNES) emulation on the Raspberry Pi Zero. To my delight, the device ran the SNES emulator smoothly, with no significant lag or glitches. The English translation version of Donkey Kong Country was rendered beautifully, showcasing the console's iconic graphics and gameplay. While I couldn't get the Japanese version to work, the English version proved to be a great showcase for the Pi Zero's capabilities.

**Wonderswan Color Emulation: A Great Addition**

Next, I attempted to emulate Wonderswan Color, which is not commonly available in Western regions. To my surprise, the device successfully rendered Final Burn Alpha and other games from this console. The experience was smooth, with no significant lag or issues. As an added bonus, I discovered that some titles like Donkey Kong Country benefited from a resolution adjustment, showcasing the Pi Zero's flexibility.

**Challenges Ahead: Lag and Resolution Issues**

While the Raspberry Pi Zero performed admirably on SNES and Wonderswan Color emulation, I encountered some minor challenges. There was occasional lag when collecting bonus power-ups in Final Burn Alpha, which may be addressed through memory splitting or overclocking. To resolve this issue, I plan to experiment with overclocking the device and adjusting its resolution.

**Overclocking: A Potential Game-Changer**

The Pi Zero's potential for overclocking is an exciting prospect. With a base clock speed of 1 GHz, it's possible that the device can be pushed to run at higher frequencies. This could lead to improved performance and reduced lag in emulators like Final Burn Alpha. I'll create a separate video focused on overclocking the Pi Zero, as this process requires careful tuning and may require additional hardware modifications.

**Final Thoughts: A Great Addition to Retro Gaming**

In conclusion, the Raspberry Pi Zero is an excellent addition to any retro gaming enthusiast's collection. Its compact size, energy efficiency, and affordability make it an attractive option for building a portable gaming station. While there are some minor challenges ahead, I'm confident that the device will prove itself capable of running a wide range of emulators and games.

**Availability and Pricing**

The Raspberry Pi Zero is available in various stores, including Adafruit, which offers a kit with adapters for around $30. However, be aware that prices have been known to fluctuate, especially on online marketplaces like eBay. When searching for the device, use the term "Raspberry Pi 0" and check the inventory levels to ensure availability.

**Community Engagement**

If you have any requests or suggestions for future content, please don't hesitate to share them in the comments below or send me a private message. I'm always eager to engage with my audience and explore new ideas for retro gaming content.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys CTA crime back here again and today I finally received something I've been waiting for for a few months now now they've been scalping these all over the internet for $40 for 30 to 40 but this thing shouldn't only be 5 bucks and I finally received my Raspberry Pi zero what so here's the zero and as you can see we have hdmi USB in power in SD card and this is version 1.3 with the camera adapter on the end there but i'm waiting for this thing for a long time i finally was able to purchase one for the correct price now I had to spend nine dollars on it because came with a micro HDMI to full size HDMI usually comes with the GPIO pins and an adapter pretty much a OTG adapter so your micro to full size USB and have a few other boards here that I wanted to do a little bit of a sound comparison next to so here whereas bertie PI 0 Raspberry Pi 3 Raspberry Pi 2 now I have my giant fan on that one whereas buried by one and rose apple pie so as you can see this board is super tiny compared to these pretty much the same as the Raspberry Pi one it has a single core cpu at 1 gigahertz and has 512 megabytes of RAM so we're gonna see now when you start adding your adapters this thing gets no Ethernet so and my problem is I do not have a Wi-Fi adapter it was lost one of the kids probably ran off with it or ate it or something after you put all your stuff on it gets pretty big actually but there's ways around that give your GPIO pins if you would like to solder them in which I may not another cool feature is it does have video out the little TV right there where it says TV has video out just like the composite video on you know your Raspberry Pi one the 3.5 millimeter jack does the same on the tube what I'm gonna do is load up an SD card I'm gonna install retropie 3.7 and see if we can play some games on this now like I said I have to load my roms and bios is from a USB right now I'm waiting on a new Wi-Fi adapter that is compatible so for now there's really not much configuring I can do due to the fact I can't network into it so hopefully all our controls work fine and in this video I'm just gonna test one SNES game one FBA game one PlayStation game and maybe a few other emulators maybe not I'm not sure how it's gonna go but I will do a review on each emulator running a few games on this in different videos here we are Raspberry Pi zero running the pi zero pi one retropie 30.7 image I am using a USB well it's a wireless or Bluetooth ps3 controller but it's connected with the USB because I don't have bluetooth on the PI zero I've loaded up a few different emulators now like I said before I don't have a Wi-Fi adapter for this unit so I can only load one small PlayStation game which is crash bandicoot 2 let's try the playstation first so I haven't changed anything in the rest by config settings on the PI 0 see how it performs on this single core 1 gigahertz and right now I can already tell you as many of you may have already realized that this is running a lot slower than the Raspberry Pi 2 or the Raspberry Pi 3 seems a little laggy to me a little slow the movements of crash himself seemed slowed down I got a little bit of glitchy on the sound so what I'm gonna do is back out and just turn the resolution down on the emulator so when you see this screen hit your a button okay so back into the load where I was I had saved the game before we exit it and I'm now at 720 by 576 we're still getting lag so I'm not sure if the resolution was you know set at this resolution or even lower than this before when I started either way we definitely have some lag in a PlayStation 1 emulation next up let's try Super Nintendo don't rain fantasy now this is the English translated version this is a really really great game that here we didn't get here in the US this is a Japanese side-scrolling adventure game sort of like say Mario but it's really great I wish we would have got it here a lot of people haven't played this game and as expected SNES is running very well now I will definitely test some of the more problematic games like Super Metroid and a Link to the Past and another video I'll try those out but for your basic SNES games you should have no trouble running them on the Raspberry Pi zero now I really wanted to get one of these because I am building a portable Raspberry Pi and I would like to use this just because it takes up a lot less space in a a PI 3 or PI 2 or even the PI one I was thinking about taking one of my Raspberry Pi 3s and desoldering the USB jacks and my Ethernet port but I'll just go with this if we can run these games that's perfectly fine with me sweet SNES so we have wonderswan color and I'm just gonna test final burn alpha and my favorite game my favourite shoot-'em-up game is actually a pretty intense graphically intense game there's a lot of stuff going on on screen now I'm using the IRF be a next emulator core but two coins in press start now your insert coin button should be select there we give me some power-ups bonus power up a little bit of laggy there when collecting that bonus power up very so as you can see there's a bunch going on screen it is not bad I do notice every once in a while we get a little bit of lag that may be able to be fixed with some memory split possibly a overclock now I'm gonna be experimenting with overclock on this it runs at 1 gigahertz out of the box I believe that I can get this to I know it has to be able to go at least one point one if not we may be able to stretch it to one point two but I will make another video on overclocking the PI 0 if it's possible and I read someplace that it was impossible maybe on the newer boards it will be so I have the newest version which is the 1.3 and that lag there it happens on pretty much all the emulators that I've tried this game on when he comes on the screen and busts you know that stuff up there stay up here there we go come on now I don't like this you know the blue guys power up oh sweet forgot about the shield but now bonus you beat it your skill is great nice so that runs pretty decent I may be able to take the resolution down if it's possible let's see if we can take it down a notch like I said do a memory split and you should be able to run most of the final burn games decently yeah I'll be able to change the resolution now I'm trying to do this with the controller sometimes it won't sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work there we go that's it guys that's the Raspberry Pi zero running retropie 3.7 like I said I will do more videos I do not think we're gonna be able to get Nintendo 64 running at a decent speed on this unit but as for SNES NES Gameboy Color final burn named wonderswan color stuff like that amiga will probably run pretty well on it it should do a decent job for the size of the board and if you can pick one of these up for the you know the listing price is $5 on these boards if you can pick one up do it right now they're available in Europe and I think Adafruit has some that come with a kit but you know the kits get marked up so they're like $30 it comes with some adapters I spent $9 on mine I'm not sure if there's any more in stock but I'll leave a link in the description for a few stores that do carry them you can also go to google and type in where's my PI 0 and it will give you a list of the stores that sell them and it will check the inventory levels to see if they're in stock or sold out you can find them on eBay but that price gougers have come out of the woodwork and they're asking thirty to forty five dollars for them because they know a lot of people want them if you have any requests on this little Raspberry Pi zero let me know in the comments below or you can send me a private message and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys CTA crime back here again and today I finally received something I've been waiting for for a few months now now they've been scalping these all over the internet for $40 for 30 to 40 but this thing shouldn't only be 5 bucks and I finally received my Raspberry Pi zero what so here's the zero and as you can see we have hdmi USB in power in SD card and this is version 1.3 with the camera adapter on the end there but i'm waiting for this thing for a long time i finally was able to purchase one for the correct price now I had to spend nine dollars on it because came with a micro HDMI to full size HDMI usually comes with the GPIO pins and an adapter pretty much a OTG adapter so your micro to full size USB and have a few other boards here that I wanted to do a little bit of a sound comparison next to so here whereas bertie PI 0 Raspberry Pi 3 Raspberry Pi 2 now I have my giant fan on that one whereas buried by one and rose apple pie so as you can see this board is super tiny compared to these pretty much the same as the Raspberry Pi one it has a single core cpu at 1 gigahertz and has 512 megabytes of RAM so we're gonna see now when you start adding your adapters this thing gets no Ethernet so and my problem is I do not have a Wi-Fi adapter it was lost one of the kids probably ran off with it or ate it or something after you put all your stuff on it gets pretty big actually but there's ways around that give your GPIO pins if you would like to solder them in which I may not another cool feature is it does have video out the little TV right there where it says TV has video out just like the composite video on you know your Raspberry Pi one the 3.5 millimeter jack does the same on the tube what I'm gonna do is load up an SD card I'm gonna install retropie 3.7 and see if we can play some games on this now like I said I have to load my roms and bios is from a USB right now I'm waiting on a new Wi-Fi adapter that is compatible so for now there's really not much configuring I can do due to the fact I can't network into it so hopefully all our controls work fine and in this video I'm just gonna test one SNES game one FBA game one PlayStation game and maybe a few other emulators maybe not I'm not sure how it's gonna go but I will do a review on each emulator running a few games on this in different videos here we are Raspberry Pi zero running the pi zero pi one retropie 30.7 image I am using a USB well it's a wireless or Bluetooth ps3 controller but it's connected with the USB because I don't have bluetooth on the PI zero I've loaded up a few different emulators now like I said before I don't have a Wi-Fi adapter for this unit so I can only load one small PlayStation game which is crash bandicoot 2 let's try the playstation first so I haven't changed anything in the rest by config settings on the PI 0 see how it performs on this single core 1 gigahertz and right now I can already tell you as many of you may have already realized that this is running a lot slower than the Raspberry Pi 2 or the Raspberry Pi 3 seems a little laggy to me a little slow the movements of crash himself seemed slowed down I got a little bit of glitchy on the sound so what I'm gonna do is back out and just turn the resolution down on the emulator so when you see this screen hit your a button okay so back into the load where I was I had saved the game before we exit it and I'm now at 720 by 576 we're still getting lag so I'm not sure if the resolution was you know set at this resolution or even lower than this before when I started either way we definitely have some lag in a PlayStation 1 emulation next up let's try Super Nintendo don't rain fantasy now this is the English translated version this is a really really great game that here we didn't get here in the US this is a Japanese side-scrolling adventure game sort of like say Mario but it's really great I wish we would have got it here a lot of people haven't played this game and as expected SNES is running very well now I will definitely test some of the more problematic games like Super Metroid and a Link to the Past and another video I'll try those out but for your basic SNES games you should have no trouble running them on the Raspberry Pi zero now I really wanted to get one of these because I am building a portable Raspberry Pi and I would like to use this just because it takes up a lot less space in a a PI 3 or PI 2 or even the PI one I was thinking about taking one of my Raspberry Pi 3s and desoldering the USB jacks and my Ethernet port but I'll just go with this if we can run these games that's perfectly fine with me sweet SNES so we have wonderswan color and I'm just gonna test final burn alpha and my favorite game my favourite shoot-'em-up game is actually a pretty intense graphically intense game there's a lot of stuff going on on screen now I'm using the IRF be a next emulator core but two coins in press start now your insert coin button should be select there we give me some power-ups bonus power up a little bit of laggy there when collecting that bonus power up very so as you can see there's a bunch going on screen it is not bad I do notice every once in a while we get a little bit of lag that may be able to be fixed with some memory split possibly a overclock now I'm gonna be experimenting with overclock on this it runs at 1 gigahertz out of the box I believe that I can get this to I know it has to be able to go at least one point one if not we may be able to stretch it to one point two but I will make another video on overclocking the PI 0 if it's possible and I read someplace that it was impossible maybe on the newer boards it will be so I have the newest version which is the 1.3 and that lag there it happens on pretty much all the emulators that I've tried this game on when he comes on the screen and busts you know that stuff up there stay up here there we go come on now I don't like this you know the blue guys power up oh sweet forgot about the shield but now bonus you beat it your skill is great nice so that runs pretty decent I may be able to take the resolution down if it's possible let's see if we can take it down a notch like I said do a memory split and you should be able to run most of the final burn games decently yeah I'll be able to change the resolution now I'm trying to do this with the controller sometimes it won't sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't work there we go that's it guys that's the Raspberry Pi zero running retropie 3.7 like I said I will do more videos I do not think we're gonna be able to get Nintendo 64 running at a decent speed on this unit but as for SNES NES Gameboy Color final burn named wonderswan color stuff like that amiga will probably run pretty well on it it should do a decent job for the size of the board and if you can pick one of these up for the you know the listing price is $5 on these boards if you can pick one up do it right now they're available in Europe and I think Adafruit has some that come with a kit but you know the kits get marked up so they're like $30 it comes with some adapters I spent $9 on mine I'm not sure if there's any more in stock but I'll leave a link in the description for a few stores that do carry them you can also go to google and type in where's my PI 0 and it will give you a list of the stores that sell them and it will check the inventory levels to see if they're in stock or sold out you can find them on eBay but that price gougers have come out of the woodwork and they're asking thirty to forty five dollars for them because they know a lot of people want them if you have any requests on this little Raspberry Pi zero let me know in the comments below or you can send me a private message and like always thanks for watching\n"