r/RetroPie

Besides selling 45,000+ ROMs, how do people like this get away with selling RetroPie?

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Hi,

This is my first time using retropie. What controllers do you guys recommend. I heard 8bitdo have problems with retropie.

I’m looking for something. I guess it’s called a front end or maybe a theme retropie setup. I want to see the art and maybe a screenshot for everything that I have loaded up. I have multiple roms over multiple consoles. What looks good? Where do I get it? And how do I get the images?

I have a raspberry pi 3 b+ running emulation station. I built a two player arcade cabinet with two player controls using ipac 2. I can't get player 2 controls to work for my N64 games so I thought an alternative would be to use a Bluetooth controller for player 2 while I use the joystick arcade controls for player one but I can't figure out how to change the Bluetooth controller to player two. Does anyone know an easy solution for this? My coding is horrible so I'm hoping there is an easy solution!

Hi All, I just set up my first RetroPie, I am using a 4gb pi 4.

I have gotten all the emulators, including redream, working great, even with CRT filters.

However N64 is the only emulator giving me problems I can't fix with setting and config.txt additions.

I was wondering if anyone has had issues with Lr-Mupen64-next, being extremely choppy and lagging, exactly the symptoms one would get from hardware not being up to snuff on a modern game. Low frame rates, im sling 5 orr 6 frames a second at times no joke. Extreme input lag.

As a side note I can get mupen64-gliden64 to work but its way pixelated

Hi,

I’m building PiPortal, a Raspberry Pi project that aims to recreate a PlayStation Portal-like handheld experience. (but its not a handheld)

Focus is on:

• Fast boot into a console-style interface
• Remote Play (Chiaki)
• Emulation (RetroArch / EmulationStation / Pegasus)
• Lightweight, gaming-focused Linux setup

I’m mainly looking for advice on:

• Best frontend for a simple console UI
• Performance optimization on Raspberry Pi
• Similar existing projects

Any tips or resources are welcome.

I’m was using retropie on my pi 3 and it stopped loading roms after I tried and failed and doing stuff (not important now), so I wiped it and fresh installed but now it is acting weird. It will connect to my computer through ssh via winscp. It wouldn’t transfer files at first. It would start to but as soon as it almost finished transferring a file it would stop responding and time out. It then disconnects from winscp and wouldn’t reconnect unless I restarted retropie. It then left a corrupted file left behind on restart in winscp. I kept trying and it sent through a DR. Mario ROM. I thought it was due to how small the file size is, so I tried doing slightly larger sized files. It transferred all the way up to 129 kb files before failing again. Still weird. Then after restarting it, it hiccuped while transferring a different file that was 8 kb and it did the same thing and disconnected. I tried again and it worked the second time. All I did was sign in to my WiFi. Other than that, it is a completely fresh install of retropie 4.8.

I finally got the wii remote to the dolphin bar. Im using raspberry pi 5 retropie,Game controls work perfect but wii sports, just dance, new super mario bros run at 53% - 54%. I got duel core on, graphics down to native 1x. I heard you have to overclock it but I have the settings to 80%, it stills run slow but would like help on just boasting the performance up a little. Mostly for wii sports.also I'm using vulkan btw.

I got a dolphin bar with wii controller and was wondering what shooter games should I get. I got a raspberry pi 5 and would like to get some shooter mames,psx, or other lmk what roms work best with this set up. Also was wondering if I can use the dolphin bar for duck hunt for nes

I have been trying to set up my newly arrived GPI Case 2 with a CM4 )eMMC + wifi version). I flashed the RetroPie 4.8 (Pi4/400) using the available guides online in two different ways:

• with the CM4 mounted on the GPi Case
• the module mounted on a waveshare io board

In both instances the flash was verified. I then patched the Retroflag display files under the root directory of "boot" volume.

The issue: I switch it on and some backlight appears but the screen in dark/black.

I changed the config file back to the original and mounted the CM4 back to the waveshare.I connected the board to an external monitor over HDMI. First boot of the system run as expected with the filesystem getting resized etc. I then re-patched everything and tried again on the GPi case with the same issue happening.

To be sure that it wasn't just the screen i dropped an ssh and wpa_supplicant.conf files on the boot partition hoping to connect to the GPi case remotely. However, after many attemps both files still exist on that directory and the machine is not connected to my home network.

Notes:

• the device is charged
• i attempted all types of runs with an external power adapter connected (both 15W and higher-wattage PD type chargers)
• CM4 sits properly on the case: I heard 2 clicks + i am able to flash the eMMC and browse the boot partition over USB while the CMD is mounted on the case

Any suggestions?

Am i supposed to flash a new firmware on the GPi Case? I couldn't find any other solution online.

Currently raspberry pi are at secondhand pc prices. I'm just curious how are companies building a console that can run games better than raspberry pi at its cheapest. The photo is from TaoBao, a Chinese e-commerce linking customers to factories in china (at slightly lower than retail prices). The item is at 140 yuan, not sure how much in USD but close to 20? It boast a Wii like games. I'm just curious if I can build my own version after purchasing just the dance mat, at only 3-4usd? (Using AI) Also curious are they custom building a mother board and os that efficiently run games? Can I do the same without a raspberry pi?

Just got a nice 32” Sharp CRT a couple days ago and I was looking for a way to emulate games at their native resolution directly on my CRT.

I quickly discovered certain Raspberry Pis offer analog output over 3.5mm or even VGA but couldn’t find much info about how to set this all up.

Any help or advice is much appreciated 🙏

Other Retropie-Extra packages install fine but with ECWolf it keeps asking for a bitbucket login. google says this is an outdated repo as they migrated to github, but I grabbed the current version off the github and it still has bitbucket links in it-?? I then manually changed the install scripts to the github url, which got it to compile finally, but then fails at the end when it can't apply the 01_keyboard.diff patch.

I only wanted ECwolf so I can use a controller, I've been totally unable to get controller working with either wolf4sdl or blakestone source ports. I spent 2 hours getting xboxdrv all mapped and running for bstone port but the game still totally ignores my controller and only responds to the keyboard.

Every other port and emulator has recognized my controller automatically, it's just a generic xbox360 controller.

I'm losing my mind here... any help at all would be greatly appreciated!