User manual

Ausgabe 18.01.2017 Copyright by Joy-IT 4
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Arcade-GameStaon
1.2 Disclaimer
The Joy-IT Arcade-Gamestaon contains a microSD-Card with a soware-package called RetroPie - this
connects mulple emulators to a mulfunconal gamestaon-unit.
An emulator is a soware-based system which allows you to emulate foreign hardware on another
hardware-system.
The emulated system within this soware is behaving like the original hardware but the components
are created virtually and are calculated by the own computers hardware.
This allows you to emulate consols of old days on your domesc system.
The games are usually transfered by ROM-Files to the emulator.
ROM-Files are binary data copies which are extracted from the original hardware.
Therefore, to play the specic emulated game, you need the specic ROM-File.
Please note the following informaon:
The ownership, and also the usage, of ROM-Files is controled by the german copyright (§53).
Therefore you are only allowed to use, and own, the ROM-Files if you are in possession of the original
medium.
Please consider that, if you don‘t want to read the data on your own, you are only allowed to
download ROM-Files from the internet if you are the owner of the original games.
Otherwise we refer to license-free ROM-Files where the usage is allowed.
Therefore please follow the notes and instrucons of the ROM-File-Sources.
The user is responsible for following the licenses for the usaged soware.
The text above only serves as informaon.
For legal reasons we would like to point out the following:
This product is, by the legal regulaon, no toy and not suitable for kids (persons under 14 years).
The Gamestaon is an example for the Raspberry Pi single-board-computer and the Linker-Kit system
is a modular experimentaon environment which is congurable for almost every use-case.
For those reasons, the boom of the Gamestaon is open.
This allows an easy access to its components and to modify the system by the owners wishes.
Kids may detach parts and swallow those which could lead to death.
Kids may also get hurt by contact blades, and screws.
1.3 Security informaons