Emulation Station via Laptop Screen

[ewhynot]

Hello,

My project is to have the Rpi display the emulator ( Emulation Station) on a laptop screen exactly as it does when I plug in a HDMI cable. In other words , I am very close to completing my project as it is a christmas gift for my brother, only to find out the other day that he does to have a TV. So, I decided to see if I could get it to display and play games through a laptop screen as he does have a laptop. However upon testing it on my own laptop I can only get the Rpi desktop using VNC Viewer , or I can access the terminal via SSH, but I can not attain the same display , or screen as when I plug in an HDMI. Can someone give me a hand ?

Thank you.

[Floob]

I’m pretty sure the laptop will only have HDMI output, not input.
Does your brother have a separate monitor?

Or maybe he could use a PC based emulator instead?
You could get RetroArch for windows
http://www.libretro.com/index.php/downloads/

Or go crazy and get one of these:
http://www.adafruit.com/categories/160

[ewhynot]

Thank you for the quick reply, Would it be possible to do it over a networking cable ? Using SSH or something ?

[Floob]

Yes, I think so although I havent set this up
http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server

[ewhynot]

I already gave this a try, it only lets me use the desktop of the raspberry pi. I want to use the Emulation Station that it boots to normally.

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