Once, you have the core installed, load up a ROM, and test if the game is working. You can read more about cores on the RetroArch website and forums. I mostly play Nintendo games and installed a core “FCEUmm”. For example, there is a different core for NES games that won’t work with GameCube ROMs. Click Load Core and download a specific core for your ROMs.Ĭores are like the emulators and there are different cores for different consoles. Go ahead and open RetroArch on your computer. Once you have all the programs installed. Finally, we’d use Steam ROM Manager to add the retro games to the Steam library. Steam is the program that we’ll use to stream the games running on the PC to the living room TV and our smartphones using Steam Link. RetroArch is the main program that will help you run the games in the emulators. Go ahead and download the following programs from the given links and install those on your Windows computer. We’ll need three programs for this method. This entire process can be replicated on a Mac as well but I couldn’t get it to work on my Macbook Pro, so we’ll stick with Windows in this article. I’ll try to keep everything simple but for this method to work, you’ll need a Windows computer. Steam is the main application that will allow us to launch the retro games from our computer, smartphone, or even an Android TV using Steam Link.
This method is pretty straight forward but takes some time to set everything up.
