13 ULTIMATE RetroPie Tips And Tricks For Beginner’s
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Welcome to my ULTIMATE RetroPie tips and tricks guide!
This is an in-depth RetroPie guide to help you fix some issues that you may be experiencing or if you’re thinking about starting this cool project.
Many posts on the internet describe how to setup a RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi but I notice that most of them take you through the most obvious and generic steps.
In this post I’ll cover in more detail some issues that you don’t normally see in a typical RetroPie guide.
The above images show my very first RetroPie kit that I had for sale in my local area.
I aimed for using top quality and brand new hardware to give the customer a great experience.
Who wants old and warn out parts, right?!
As well as taking you through the software setup I will also cover the hardware that I decided to purchase and why I chose to purchase it.
The above images show screenshots of my final setup.
This is the front-end known as Emulation Station.
Of course, yours may look very different to mine and this would depend on what theme you choose to apply and what emulators you choose to install.
Contents
1. Hardware Tips & Tricks
How Much Does A RetroPie Cost To Build?
Usually when you see someone building a RetroPie on the internet you will hear about how cheap it is to get started.
Although this is the case in general, I decided that I needed to show the Pie a little more love and create a slightly better quality product.
Of course I was also aiming for a reasonable profit margin too.
In total then my build cost me around £80 GBP ($97 USD) and so it’s certainly not the most expensive RetroPie out in the wild.
What Raspberry Pi Do I Need For A RetroPie?
My Raspberry Pi model of choice was the 3B.
I could have used the 3B+ model but it seemed to me that the 3B was more readily available on Amazon and Ebay that’s close to where I live, here in UK.
Also the extra features included with the 3B+ compared to the 3B just wasn’t needed for this build.
It has Gigabit Ethernet (in which I wouldn’t be using) but a slightly faster CPU cores which I guess couldn’t hurt to have.
Raspberry Pi 4 prices at this time just didn’t seem to be worth it for this build and may be a little over-kill.
Although some emulators could well work a lot better on a Pi 4.
Ultimately, the choice is yours.
Below I have supplied links to various Raspberry Pi models for you to price compare:
What Case Do I Use For RetroPie & Where To Purchase Vinyl Stickers/Decals
By purchasing the official Raspberry Pi case you can be sure that you’re getting a good quality product.
The case looks and feels great and for less than $10 its ideal for the task in hand.
Depending on what version of Raspberry Pi board you have, you will need to purchase a case that supports it.
If you have a Raspberry Pi 3 then be sure to check the item description to see if the case supports the RPi3 for example.
- Here is a link to an official Raspberry Pi 3 case on Amazon.com
- Here is a link to an official Raspberry Pi 4 case on Amazon.com
Although this case is very plain and boring.. so I decided to pimp out the case with some vinyl decals that just screams “RetroPie” 🙂
And so I purchased my vinyl decals from PimpMyPiCase on Ebay.
What Cables Do I Need For RetroPie?
For a RetroPie you will need a:
- HDMI cable
- Power cable
HDMI Cable
There’s a lot of cheap cables on the internet available to buy but I wouldn’t recommend you cheap-out on these.
Remember.. buy it nice or buy it twice!
The HDMI cable I chose was a gold plated and braided 1 meter cable.
However after purchasing this cable I wish that I had gone for the 2 metre cable now as it sometimes feel too short when hooked up to the TV and it doesn’t leave much room to work with.
- Here is a link to a 1M (3.3ft) gold plated and braided HDMI cable on Amazon.com
- Here is a link to a 2M (6.5ft) gold plated and braided HDMI cable on Amazon.com
USB Power Cable
The USB power cable with plug for me HAD to have a power switch on it.
I still don’t know why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t have a power button but this cable fixes that problem!
Again, the cable seemed a little short at 1 meter but I couldn’t find any other cable lengths for sale on Amazon or Ebay.
The image below shows a UK mains Raspberry Pi power cable complete with rocker switch and plug adaptor:
Depending on your country and whether you have a Pi 3 or Pi 4 will determine what power adapter you will need.
The following links will take you to Amazon for UK and USA adapters:
What Memory Do I Need For RetroPie?
You will need a:
- Micro SD Card
- USB Flash Drive/Thumb Drive (optional)
Micro SD Card
Because I would be storing my game ROM’s separately on a USB drive, I didn’t need a huge capacity SD card.
For me it had to be a Kingston. I believe that it’s one of the best manufacturers out on the market today for these types of memory storage.
For less than $7 I went with the 32GB micro SD card.
The total amount of memory that I used in my SD card was approx. 7GB.
This stored the:
- Linux operating system
- Emulators
- Other tools
- Approx. 8,000 box art game covers
USB Flash Drive
The Sandisk Cruzer Blade 128GB USB drive was my choice for storing game ROM’s.
Another great manufacturer in the market today for making top quality memory devices.
This cost me around $15 but the price seems to increase each time I buy one of these devices.
I guess there’s a lot of demand for these USB drives.
The Sandisk Cruzer Blade 128GB drive can be found on Amazon.com here
Reasons to store game ROM’s on separate USB drive
Of course you can always get a higher capacity micro SD card and store your game ROM’s on that.
To me though this seems like a shortcut that I wasn’t willing to take.
There are many benefits to running your game ROM’s on a separate USB drive.
Micro SD Card Reader
Nothing special about this device although I’ve bought some cheap and nasty USB SD card readers in the past.
The one I settled for was good quality and I never had any problems with it.
My advice in purchasing a USB SD card reader is to not get the cheapest you possibly can.
The quality of these very cheap readers are usually very poor and for an extra $1 it’s possible to get a reader that will work well and last for years.
Here is a link to a USB card reader on Amazon.com with a high rating
What Controllers/Game Pads Work Well With RetroPie?
We all know that when it comes to great quality games console controllers we look at the top manufacturers such as Sony and Microsoft to set the quality baseline.
But with generic PC/USB controllers this standard doesn’t exist.
It’s very easy to get hold of some cheap controllers and the quality usually reflects the price.
Even the not-so-cheap controllers are not usually great quality in some cases.
After buying many controllers to find the make and model that I thought would complement the quality of the RetroPie, I will share with you what I found to work best for me.
In my opinion then GioTeck.com make an excellent quality controller. After trying the VX1, VX2 and the VX3, I would have to recommend the VX2 the most.
It just feels great, everything is where it should be and it has a cool design.
From these controllers then I would have to recommend the VX3 the least as I feel that GioTeck let the ‘cheapness’ creep in a little here.
The plastic and other materials don’t have that same quality feeling to it.
However, the VX3’s were easier for me to get a hold of and in brand new condition and so for that reason I decided to go with the VX3’s for now.
All of these controllers ship in either a wired or wireless model and I can only give my opinion on the wired controllers as I haven’t tried any wireless controllers from GioTeck as of yet.
The following links will take you to the Amazon page for UK and USA.
Please note that these GioTeck controllers seem to be supplied in UK and may need to be purchased as imports from USA.
However I have also heard good things about these controllers from American YouTubers:
CAUTION: Beware Of Buying ‘Shanwan’ Fake Control Pads
I was first introduced to these Shanwan fake controllers as I started to build my Pie.
These things are EVERYWHERE and plague the internet.
The problem is that these controllers are REALLY good fakes!
My first experience with Shanwan was with a PS3 wireless controller.
It shipped in a Sony box and with instructions so I had no clue as to knowing it was a fake when it first arrived.
In fact, the GioTeck VX3 Controllers that I decided to go with were also Shanwan fakes which I ordered from Ebay but I believed them to be genuine when I first purchased them.
After paying for the items I then went ahead and messaged the seller.
I simply stated that if these controllers were Shanwan fakes or not brand new then could they please cancel my order as I would only need to return them.
I don’t usually reach out to Ebay sellers (or anyone else for that matter!) with this kind of message but I had been sent so many fakes at this point it just wasn’t funny.
They responded back in a short period of time and assured me that these controllers were genuine and that they only receive items from trusted UK suppliers.
Well I took the sellers word for it as he/she seemed genuine enough to me.
But these were in-fact Shanwan fakes when they arrived!!
I guess that with internet shopping taking over from the ‘bricks-and-mortar’ stores there’s just no where to go to avoid this kind of thing happening these days.
2. Operating System Tips & Tricks
There are usually two choices available when selecting your Operating System of choice for creating a RetroPie.
These are:
- Raspbian
- NOOBS
Many newbies would like to go the NOOBS route.
I HIGHLY suggest you don’t go this route and you take the Raspbian OS approach.
Later down this post I talk about a tool called PiShrink which is needed to create duplicate SD cards.
PiShrink doesn’t work with a NOOBS install as it has a very different partition structure to that of Raspian.
At the time of writing, NOOBS isn’t supported by PiShrink but that could change in the future of course.
3. How To Flash RetroPie '.img' Image File
The “internet standard” for getting your RetroPie Operating System on your SD Card seems to be the balena etcher tool and I so I would recommend using this to get yourself setup.
I would only use this for the very first install as I would recommend the dd command in linux to create the backup, then the PiShrink tool for shrinking the image, then dd tool again for writing the shrunken image back to SD card while making regular backups in which I explain below.
Balena Etcher is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux and so makes a great common ground no matter which of these three systems you prefer.
Once you’ve grabbed yourself a copy of Balena Etcher then make your way over to RetroPie.org.uk and get a pre-made RetroPie image for your particular Raspberry Pi.
4. Get into routine with PiShrink and regular backups!
The ABSOLUTE KEY.. to selling your very own RetroPie images, comes down to this one thing! Can I make copies of my SD card image?
If you can’t make a 1 for 1 copy of the SD card image that you’ve put your blood, sweat and tears into, then how are you going to sell RetroPies?
It’s obviously not feasible to spend months on an image, to then have to start all over from the beginning on the next image.
This is where PiShrink comes to the rescue! PiShrink can be found over on Github here.
If it wasn’t for this excellent linux tool then my RetroPie for sale wouldn’t exist and so a HUGE thanks goes to the developer of PiShrink.
The Problem With SD Card Capacity When Cloning Cards
What most people don’t realise is that two seemingly identical SD cards do not hold the exact amount of data.
So if you create a dump of your image from one SD card, it may not fit on to another similar SD card.
Even though they both state they are 32GB etc, these two cards are not exactly identical to the bit!
After creating a dump of your image, we then run the PiShrink tool on the image file.
PiShrink compresses the image down to around 7GB but this all depends on what data you have on your image of course.
We then write our newly created, compressed image file to another micro SD card.
Now, when we place that new SD card into the Raspberry Pi and boot up, linux will expand the file system to the full size of the SD card.
This usually happens within around 10-15 seconds of booting up for the very first time, and then the system will reboot.
Do I Need To Make Routine Backups (dumps)?
Every once in a while you will need to create an SD card dump of your image during the process of building.
I usually done this at the end of the day after working on the project.
I strongly feel that this is very important task and shouldn’t be overlooked.
There have been MANY times that I messed up my image, and if I didn’t have backups then I would be loosing days, weeks or even months of hard work! We don’t want that to happen.
If you create a backup every night then the worst case scenario is that you would loose one days work, max.
How To Create A Backup Using ‘pishrink’ & ‘dd’ In Linux
PiShrink is only available for linux (at the time of writing) and so here I will take you through the steps that are needed to perform SD card backups.
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 and enter your root password if/when prompted.
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=retropie.img bs=4M This will create a binary image file of your SD card.
This is known as a dump. This process may take sometime. For me it takes around 40 minutes.
Once we have our full SD card dump we now need to shrink the image file so it will fit on any other SD card with similar memory capacity.
Head on over to Github and grab PiShrink and install it by following the instructions from the author.
Now we will use PiShrink to shrink our image file with the following command:
sudo pishrink.sh retropie.img shrunk.img This firstly creates a copy of the image file, then shrinks the copy.
I believe it’s always a good idea to keep your original backup but if you’re running out of disk space on your PC/laptop then you can always in-place shrink the file with the following command:
sudo pishrink retropie.img 
How Do I Write The Shrunk Image File To SD Card?
Now that we have our shrunken image file we can create a clone of the original SD card to another SD card.
Remove the USB card reader and remove the SD card from the reader. Now plug in another SD card in to the reader and then plug in the reader to a USB socket on your PC/laptop.
We will need to close any windows that may pop-up, and run the commands to un-mount partitions 1 and 2 again.
sudo dd of=/dev/sdb if=shrunk.img bs=4M We now have a cloned SD card image.
5. Software Setup Tips & Tricks
Prepare The USB Flash Drive
CAUTION: retropie vs retropie-mount
This is a HUGE pitfall that you need to be aware of as I fell for this one the first time around.
After we have our RetroPie Operating System up and running we now need to create the file structure on our USB drive.
Once booted up in RetroPie, insert the USB drive into a spare USB socket in the Raspberry Pi. Wait a minute or so, then shut down the Pi.
Insert the USB device into your PC/laptop.
You will notice that a directory and file structure has been created for you by RetroPie.
This is where you will need to place your BIOS ROM files, game ROM files and more.
In the root of your USB drive you will notice that the first directory is called “retropie”.
If you place all of your files under this name, then when you boot up your Pie with the USB drive plugged in, RetroPie will COPY EVERYTHING over to the SD card!!
Now, If you have a 128GB USB drive filled with ROM files and only a 32GB micro SD card, then things get very messy very quickly!
As the linux operating system memory will get maxed out, linux will become unusable, and you will need to re-flash your backup dump to the SD card.
This is why we need to create backups!
What we need to do is rename the folder from “retropie” to “retropie-mount”. Now when we boot up RetroPie, our USB drive will be mounted into the linux file system and NOT copied over.. pheww.
6. Acquiring game ROMs and BIOS ROM files
This part of the whole setup is a little shakey with regards to the law and most importantly, are you breaking it in your country?
You will need to do your research within your country as to whether acquiring game ROM’s and system BIOS ROM’s are legal but from what I gather, this is what is allowed/not allowed:
You are allowed ONE backup copy of a game ROM or system ROM.. if you already own it!
Let’s say you have a Nintendo 64 game cartridge of Goldeneye (a classic of course!) and you have a game ROM dump file of that particular game.
The backup file would be perfectly legal in this instance.
But, if your game cartridge was shattered in to a million pieces, you will need to keep all of those broken pieces for the backup file to stay legal.
As with the system BIOS, I’m guessing this is the same. You will need to hold a genuine console in your possession for the BIOS ROM to stay legal.
Downloading BIOS ROM Files
To check the md5sum on the wiki page, go to RetroPie Wiki, and on the right-hand side select your gaming console system, under ‘Emulators’.
Scroll down and find the BIOS section and if there’s an ‘md5’ number listed, then this is what your downloaded file needs to match.
Note that not all systems need a BIOS file added.
To check the md5 of a file in linux, use the command:
md5sum name_of_file_here.bin where name_of_file_here.bin would be your BIOS file name. Then we just match the number with the number from the wiki page.
md5sum is usually already installed in your linux system.
7. MAME and Arcade ROMS Tips & Tricks
What Is MAME & Why Is The RetroPie Version Old?
MAME is in constant development and is improving over time.
However, as newer versions of the software are released, it require’s newer, and more powerful hardware to run the game ROM’s.
There are many problems with running MAME on a Raspberry Pi.
Firstly, MAME2003 has been chosen as the optimal version to work on this single board computer.
But even this doesn’t stop many of the game ROM’s from working correctly, or not at all.
The unique thing about MAME is that each version has been created for a specific set of game ROM’s.
All of these ROM’s need to be together in what is called a ROM set.
You will require the correct, specific ROM set for the specific version of MAME you are wanting to run.
MAME2003 has around 4007 ROM’s in it’s ROM set.
After testing around 100 of these ROM’s on the RetroPie I found that over half of them did not work.
I wasn’t willing to have such a huge collection of games where only but a few would work.
What Are ‘CHD’ Files For MAME?
Many retro arcade machines had their game ROM’s stored in ROM chips (integrated circuits).
This was fine for most games at the time as these game ROM’s didn’t require much memory.
However, some of the bigger games with bigger budgets had hard drives in the arcade machine.
This allowed for more memory to be stored.
They usually had the games startup files stored in the ROM chips and the bulk of the games memory would then be ran from the hard drive.
Notice how the CHD file is over 5GB in size, yet “File Size” states 1.4MB (This is referring to the game ROM which holds the startup files).
You will need BOTH of these files for the game to run.
Please note that ‘House Of The Dead 4’ is used as an example only & unlikely to work on the raspberry pi.
Parent And Child ROM’s
These are known as Parent and Child ROM’s.
Choosing Alternate Emulators
Sometimes the default emulator for arcade games don’t work.
I found this to be the case for around 50% of my Neo Geo ROM’s.
To try another emulator all you have to do is press the correct button on the controller when the game is loading up, right after you selected it.
For me, it’s the circle button on the PS3 controller.
I would continuously press this button and when the new screen appears I can select an alternate emulator for that particular game ROM.
8. Web Scraping 'Game Covers'/'Box Art' In RetroPie
Web scraping for box art is the process of using an automated script/tool to search the internet or a particular website and find the correct images for your game ROM’s.
The default website and the one I would recommend is TheGamesDB.
What I would say here is make sure you have all of your ROM’s ready to be scraped!
This may seem obvious but there were so many time that I had spent hours scraping covers, only to move ROM’s around and then I would have to scrape all over again!
The reason for this is:
a) I re-ordered my ROM’s in to categories (folders) of Japan games and English language games.
b) Many of my ROM’s were not named in an agreed standard format. There are a few standards that ROM’s can be in and the one that come’s to mind first is No-Intro.
These standards were created as to be recognised by automation tools.
The naming convention would have the country region in brackets, such as: “(USA)” and languages such as: “(En,Es,De)”.
So after renaming your whole ROM collection.. :/ or re-downloading a more conventionally named ROM collection (which is what I done and I would recommend).
A Gottcha!
When web scraping the site ‘TheGamesDB’ for a few hours, you may notice that no more covers are being found.
You will most likely be checking through your collection, checking your internet connection and trying a whole lot of other things and wonder why on earth the scraper doesn’t seem to be working any more?!
9. Fixing Performance Issues With RetroPie
Chosen Theme & VRAM
I mentioned at the beginning of this post that I used a Raspberry Pi model 3B.
I did stumble upon some major problems in the early day’s of my RetroPie setup and if I hadn’t have been able to fix those problems then I most likely would have not continued on with the project.
The main problem was that scrolling through the emulators in the front-end (Emulation Station) was very slow and it needed several seconds to load art work. This could be seen as white boxes on the screen.
Through some research I found out that this could be caused by a theme that’s heavy on memory and that the issue only lies in the front-end with no problems during the games them selves.
I was using the theme “Back2Basics”. What I needed to do was change the VRAM settings.
This was trial and error for me to find that ‘sweet spot’ and eventually I settled for 370 as the system was now working flawlessly at this point! 🙂
You can change the VRAM settings in Emulation Station by bringing up the Main Menu (Usually by pressing the ‘Start’ button), navigate to ‘Other Settings’ and you will find ‘VRAM Limit’.
Limit Menu Entries
Another performance limitation that I came across was the amount of menu items in Emulation Station.
I discovered that at 25 entries, the system just crashed onto it’s knees. At 24 it was still a little shakey, and so I finally settled for 23.
10. Tips & Tricks With Shaders
With our shiny new HD TV’s at home, looking back at most of the graphics on these retro games will look very blocky because of the higher resolution.
I know that when I first started playing games on the RetroPie I thought to myself “Wow I don’t remember the graphics being this terrible!”
That’s because they were not this bad back then!
Most (if not all) of the games that were not hand-held based were designed for a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) glass monitor/TV and so these older displays blurred the graphics of the games.
In order to re-create that look and to blur the images a little we use shaders.
It’s up to you, the individual on which shader to apply to a certain emulator as it’s all personal preference.
There are many shaders to choose from and I would encourage you to experiment and see what suits you best.
Saying that, I will give you my personal preferences of what I thought worked best.
For CRT based games such as Arcades, Sega MasterSystem, SNES etc I used the “crt-pi” shader as this gave the lined effect of a glass CRT screen.
As for hand-held gaming console emulators such as the GameBoy Advance I was swaying between many.
The shader named “lcd3x.glsl” would give the graphics small squares and the image looked a little more rounded.
However, I would need to sit far back from the TV to make it possible to play.
The other shaders I like is called “super-eagle.glsl” and “hq4x.glsl”.
Non of these were perfect, but I guess these games were designed for screen sizes of a few inches, not 40-52 inch!
How To Change Shaders In RetroPie
To change an emulators system-wide shader settings and have these changes set every time you start a game for that particular emulator, navigate to RetroPie’s config menu and select “retropie setup”.
Once the dialog box appears with the blue background, navigate to: Configuration / tools > Configedit > Configure basic libretro emulator options > then select your chosen emulator.
Make sure “Video Shader Enable” is set to “true”, then select your chosen “Video Shader File”.
RetroArch Menu (in-game menu)
If you just want to test out different shaders without making any permanent changes then you can do this in the RetroArch menu.
The RetroArch menu is accessed during a game.
The buttons to press will depend on how you mapped your controller buttons, but for me I press the hot key and triangle on a PS3 controller.
Once in the menu, near the bottom of “Quick Menu” you can navigate to “shaders”, select “shader #0” > shaders, then select your chosen shader.
11. The RetroPie Bezel Project
Because most of the games and gaming systems that we will be playing were released long before any widescreen TV’s were created and flooded our homes, the screen aspect ratio means that there will be black, empty borders on the left and right side of our screens.
The Bezel Project is a Github project for the RetroPie and once installed, it will create game art to fill in this black area and is an amazing final touch to the RetroPie and highly worth checking out and implementing.
It’s not difficult to get setup and you won’t be disappointed with the results.
The Bezel Project can be found here and a screenshot can be seen in the image below.
12. Run Command Splash Screens
When ever you start up a game ROM you may notice a very ugly looking screen about pressing a button for config options.
It’s possible to add a different splash screen image of your liking to each emulator you have on the system.
All you need to do is find a picture that you want to show up and call the file name either “launching.png” or “launching.jpg”.
Next you will need to move/copy this image file over to the path:
“/opt/retropie/configs/SYSTEM_NAME/”
where SYSTEM_NAME would be the emulator you want that image to show up, when you begin to run a ROM.
There’s some really cool images made by fans that have been created specifically for this purpose but use your imagination here and see what you come up with.
Fore example: You could have an image of the SEGA logo show up for a few seconds when ever you start up a SEGA Mastersystem ROM.
13. Finishing up (Optional Extra Tips & Tricks)
If you’re gonna let the kids play on your RetroPie (This includes your friends, your parents, spouse, relatives, cat and dog) then it’s probably a good idea to lock things down as to avoid any unwanted changes to the system.
CHANGE THE DEFAULT PASSWORD FOR USER : PI
This one should certainly be done and I wouldn’t consider this to be an option but it needs to be said (can you tell by the uppercase heading?!).
Get into a terminal and enter the following command:
passwd You will be prompted for your old password and to enter a new password twice. The default password for the default user of pi is: raspberry.
Disabling internet access
After spending so much time on your pie and getting everything working perfectly, the last thing you want to happen is any software updates.
The emulators alone are usually in heavy development and so any software upgrades could potentially break things.
Before I came up with a solution, my first step was to remove my wifi settings from the configuration menu in the front-end (emulation station).
My solution was to bring down the ethernet and wireless adapters during the boot process.
All I did was added the following two lines:
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
to the file:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh
before the line:
emulationstation #auto
Then I tested this by rebooting the system.
When emulation station loaded up again I pressed F4 on the attached keyboard to bring up a console.
Then type the following on the command line:
ifconfig If eth0 and wlan0 are not shown in ifconfig output then it looks good.
No internet access available. You could always try to ping an online server if you’re REALLY paranoid, with the following command:
ping www.google.com And use: Ctrl+Z to stop the command.
Place RetroPie into Kiosk Mode
Another, very recommended setting is to place the system into Kiosk mode.
This should stop any unwanted changes to system settings by anyone who shouldn’t making those changes.
It’s very easy to switch to the “Full” mode again for anyone who knows the button combination.
Instructions for your end-users
If you’re going to be supplying others with your newly created RetroPie then your users are going to need some instructions.
Download my template document here if needed.
To create your QR codes I can recommend the-qrcode-generator.com
Add some killer background music To RetroPie
Check out my other post on how to add your very own background music with multiple features here.
Final Thoughts On The RetroPie
I’m a BIG Sega fan and it’s disappointing that the Dreamcast emulator isn’t up to scratch just yet and that the Saturn cannot be emulated on the Raspberry Pi due to hardware requirements.
I would like to build a “Retropie 2” in the future with the addition of Playstation 2, PSP, GameCube and many more emulators but I highly doubt it will be on a Raspberry Pi and it would be a costly build (but looking forward to it!).
The team of RetroPie, Emulation Station, RetroArch and everyone involved have made an amazing achievement here and I would like to take the time to thank them all for their work. Thank you.
Conclusion
Have you made it this far..?
Hopefully I’ve given you some great RetroPie tips & tricks to try out yourself.
Some of the tasks that I mention here had taken me hours and even days to figure out and so I’m hoping that you won’t have to endure the same agony as me.
I couldn’t possibly mention every tiny detail about the whole build but I’m pretty sure that I’ve covered the most important aspects here.
Good luck with your build.
New To Linux?
In this site I will focus on creating some linux tutorials for beginner’s!
These won’t be just some random posts though. I will be covering the Linux Professional Institute 1 (LPIC1) certification!
A world wide recognised certification that covers all the basics of Linux Administration!
Ideal for retropie/raspberry pi users.
