RetroPie

RetroPie is a system to build / configure and launch emulators on the Raspberry Pi.

RetroPie 3.0 beta 4 has been released. Changes include:

• Work around issue with RetroArch GUI not accepting input/freezing.
• Fixed up RetroArch control configuration via our new integrated input configuration.
• Moved RetroArch joypad configurations to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

Pre-built images and further information are available from the RetroPie project website. For those who want to install on top of Raspbian – the system can be installed directly from the GitHub project, where you can also find a detailed list of changes.

Good video introductory here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbCvNsyLmQw

Version 3.0.0 BETA 4

• Work around issue with RetroArch GUI not accepting input/freezing.
• Fixed up RetroArch control configuration via our new integrated input configuration.
• Moved RetroArch joypad cofigurations to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

Version 3.0.0 BETA 3

• Integrated controls configuration for EmulationStation and RetroArch – On first start EmulationStation will ask for controls to be configured, and will then also configure RetroArch based on your choices. Note that there will be a delay after selecting OK whilst this is done – this will be improved later to give feedback so it doesn’t look as though EmulationStation has frozen.
• New experimental modules/emulators: limelight (Networked game streamer for Steam), lr-tgbdual (gameboy color emu with link support), DXX-Rebirth port (Decent 1/2), r-mednafen-wswan (Wonderswan emu), lr-mednagen-gbp (NeoGeo Pocket emu), uae4arm (Amiga emu), lr-fuse (ZX Spectrum emu), lr-caprice32 (Amstrad CPC emu), lr-gw (Game and Watch simulator). All modules prefixed with lr- are libretro cores for use with Retroarch.
• New startup picture with new RetroPie logo.
• Added additional ES theme “Color Pi”
• Dosbox bug fixes / Ability to launch custom shell scripts.
• Wifi configuration under RetroPie menu.
• PS3 controller setup improvements
• Disabled root password by default
• Various other fixes / improvements.

Version 3.0.0 BETA 2

• More launch options for Hatari
• Resize framebuffer with video mode change (and allow framebuffer res to be changed independently for terminal/X apps)
• Improvements to minecraft-pi launch script
• Added some experimental modules – Adventure Game Studio engine, yabause (Sega saturn), virtualjaguar (Atari Jaguar), beetle-vb (Virtualboy), mgba (game boy advance)
• Added ProSystem (Atari 7800 emulator)
• Fixes to mupen64plus build
• Various other fixes / Improvements

Version 3.0.0 BETA

• Overhaul of emulator selection / launching – single rom folder per platform, with the facility to change default emulator per platform or per rom on launch. Also allows launch of certain emulators with specific configurations, such as render plugin for mupen64plus, and model configuration for fuse.
• RetroArch render resolution is also configurable on launch. Video output is no longer switched by default, but can be adjusted by the user if needed.
• New retropie menu in EmulationStation with easy access to retropie-setup, file manager, audio settings, controller settings, raspi-config and so on.
• Emulationstation entries are now sorted (by name) – should mostly match alphabetical order of rom folders.
• Work to ensure user configurations are preserved. More configuration files moved to /opt/retropie/configs/ structure.
• EmulationStation restarts on exit by default unless a key is pressed. Makes it easier for those that want to quick and let it restart to pick up any new roms.
• New platforms.cfg file that contains emulator names / supported file extensions. This can be copied to /opt/retropie/configs/all to override extensions added to emulationstation (A reinstall / re-configuration of the a related emulator is needed after to update the emulationstation configuration)
• Addition of AdvanceMAME 1.2 (based on MAME 0.106) which may be useful for rpi2 owners over the 0.94 version. Framebuffer output code adjusted to work better with the Pi.
• rpix86 is included again by default (was missing from the last image).
• Updates to the usbromservice. If you want to sync rom folders it now requires a folder in the root of the usb stick called “retropie”. The roms will be synced from a sub folder called roms. It also can backup/restore your custom emulationstation gameslists / data.
• RetroArch includes additional shaders and overlays
• Various other emulator updates and fixes.

Version 2.6.0

• new uae4all emulator
• updated sdl 1.x with rpi fixes for fbcon and dispmanx backend.
• rpi2 optimisations for dosbox
• update hatari emulator
• jzintv updates
• mupen64plus/mupen64plus-libretro changes/fixes
• atari800 updates (with gles support on rpi)
• allow genesis libretro core to be used for mastersystem
• new experimental cores for gb advance (rpi2 only), and nes
• optimisation / fixes for rpi
• various other fixes / improvements

Version 2.5.0

• Updated to latest firmware to support Raspberry Pi 2 (TM)
• Usb rom service should now be working
• updated all binaries
• mupen64plus is out of experimental
• added gpu_mem_1024 to config.txt
• removed overclocking settings
• simplified rom folder permissions
• removed ignore_safe_mode as safe mode is removed since march 2014