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The 3.8 image includes an important firmware/driver update to fix bluetooth lockups on the Raspberry Pi 3. Also included in the 3.8 update are an improved SDL1 dispmanx backend, updates to many of the included emulators, and enhancements to the splashscreen module. It can be downloaded here: https://retropie.org.uk/download/. Installation Instructions can be found here – … Read more
We are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.7! We are releasing RetroPie 3.7 in celebration of the release of our new website https://retropie.org.uk/ and new forum at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/. Many experimental modules have been added. An option was added to easily install the LXDE desktop environment onto the pi (which can be launched from … Read more
RetroPie has a brand new website – https://retropie.org.uk. Although the old site living under http://blog.petrockblock.com has served us well over the last years, the forum was becoming increasingly slow, and the project really needed its own presence. Hopefully you will like what we have come up with – a simple site with general info, and … Read more
We are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.5. After taking into consideration the feedback from the vibrant RetroPie community, we have provided a few more functions to simplify the user experience such as automatic expansion of the filesystem on boot, less terminal text, and more configuration options for the runcommand launch menu. We … Read more
The Raspberry Pi show The Pi Podcast did an interview with me and two other members of the RetroPie team for Episode #13. Big thanks to them for inviting us on the show. I was a little nervous before the interview, but it turned out fine – they did some good editing 🙂 If you … Read more
Mostly fixes and improvements rather than new stuff this time folks. There were some problems with our RetroArch configuration defaults in RetroPie 3.3 which should be sorted now, and we have fixed up a few things that didn’t work correctly with Raspbian Jessie. We also have added early support for using the RetroPie-Setup script on … Read more
After 2 months of work, RetroPie v3.3 has been released. Highlights include beta images built on Raspbian Jessie for beta testing, PlayStation Portable and Dreamcast emulators moved out of experimental, and improved controller configurations including automatic control set up for Mupen64plus and Reicast. Installation Instructions can be found here – https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation Downloads available from the … Read more
The O2 Joggler images of Xubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Base have been updated. Along with package rollups, they now include the Linux kernel v3.2.74 and Kodi 15.2. For those that don’t want to start from a new image, Kodi 15.2 is available from my Joggler PPA and can be installed by doing sudo apt-get update; … Read more
MediaWiki::API provides a Perl interface to the MediaWiki API (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) which is the software behind the Wikipedia site (and my ExoticA site). Just a couple of bugfixes since 0.41: When using the max_lag configuration, if max_lag_retries was reached – the reported number tries were incorrect. Fixed up the api->list function not continuing due to lack … Read more
Soon after the release of RetroPie 3.1, we are please to announce v3.2. Although only a few weeks have passed, there have been a fair number of improvements include some new experimental emulators, and configuration module improvements. Installation Instructions can be found here – https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation Downloads available from the main RetroPie website – http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/retropie-downloads/. For … Read more