RetroSuite

A platform to bring retro-gaming to the modern era.

CrowdEMU (Web App): Website where thousands of people can share an instance of a game; every 3 seconds the most popular move is executed. Includes video streaming. https://www.crowdemu.com

RetroSuite EMU (Chrome App): Native desktop application; play your favorite NES, SNES, Gameboy and Gameboy Advance ROMs. Use your phone as your controller - or use custom keyboard mappings. Deploys a websockets tcp server to allow use of phone as a controller. Download here

• Use your iPhone as your joypad
• Use your own custom keyboard button mappings; right click the screen once a game has started to pause and re-map
• Try out some pre-loaded games, or add your own; RetroSuite EMU will remember the ones you've added
• RetroSuite EMU auto-saves your game as you play, but you can also manually save and load in save states

RetroSuite Controller (Mobile App): React Native phone app that pairs with the Chrome app and acts as a controller for the retro console.

Scrum Roles

• Scrum Master: Colin Whitmarsh
• Product Owner: Kyle Corbelli
• Extreme Programmer: Joe Miller VI
• Extreme Programmer: Franklin Shieh

Installation

Requirements:

• OS X is needed for iOS development
• Xcode 7.3 or higher - download here
• npm - install here
• [Cairo](https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki, https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas ) must be installed before following the steps below

Step 1: Run 'npm install' from the root directory

$ npm install

Step 2: Run 'npm install' from the webApp directory

$ cd webApp
$ npm install

Running the CrowdEMU Web App

Step 1: Navigate to the webapp/emulatorNode directory

$ cd webApp/emulatorNode

Step 2: Set environmental variable CROWDMU_ROM to the available ROM. This emulator is compatible with Gameboy Color ROMS

$ CROWDMU_ROM=./path/to/rom.gb

Step 3: Run index.js

$ node index.js

Step 4: Navigate to clientServer and run server.js

$ cd clientServer
$ node server.js

Step 5: Navigate your web browser to 'localhost:3000'

Running the RetroSuite EMU Chrome App

Step 1: Open Chrome and navigate to Tools > Extensions

Step 2: Click 'Load unpacked extension...'

Step 3: Select and open the 'chromeApp' directory in your forked and cloned version of this repository

Step 4: Click 'Launch'

Credits and Thanks

• Thanks to Matthew Justin Bauer for providing open source access to his Chrome App emulator https://github.com/matthewbauer/gametime-player
• Thanks to Guillermo Rauch for providing open source access to his weplay repository https://github.com/rauchg/weplay