The Fastest and Easiest way to Install RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi (Quick and Easy Tutorial)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Hey all, in this video I go through a tutorial to install Retropie on a Raspberry Pi. This process is very quick and easy - the good folks at RaspberryPi.Org built in RetroPie to the official Raspberry Pi Imager!
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Great video. Btw, a little background story - the timing for national video day may have been somewhat accidental. The raspberry pi foundation asked me to provide a config for our images some weeks back, and although I had done it, I needed to fix up the thumbnail image size we provided. I was a bit slack and only got around to it the day before the announcement which just happened to coincide with the national video games day :-) I actually wasn't aware of it at all until I read the Raspberry Pi foundation's tweet.
Ahahahahhaa this is awesome! Thank you for sharing!!
Finally! No 25 minute long video with loads of unnecessary information. Just simple and clear! Liked and subscribed! I never commented before, but i had to. Thanks :)
Lifesaver.
I updated my pie 3 and after the update lost everything.
Was considering buying a new card fully loaded with games..then I found your video.
And luckily I still had all my roms saved.
Thank you for your easy..straight to the point tutorial.
Usually stuff like this is baffling and more complicated than it needs to be.
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This video is two years old now, but the process is almost exactly the same. I followed these instructions, and everything is up and running. Thanks so much. This was my first Raspbery Pi project.
Im so happy this guide is here, I always get back here when Im doing the Retropie install
I JUST bought my first RPi. I got the RPi 3 model B. Just to emulate NES, SNES and Sega Genesis. So this is EXACTLY what I needed. Easy walk through and process. Thank you!!
i tried 16 other videos and none of them were as easy as this!
Best tutorial I've watched so far. Very simple and very detailed. Great job!
Dec 2023 still relevant and makes it super easy. Thanks for the down to the point tutorial.
as a married man and 3 kids, i was really in fear of not knowing what the hell to do, thankfully i gave in and purchased my first pi3 premade (quite costly) but then i started tinkering away knowing how to program it, building it, overclocking it safely etc..and now that i gained more knowledge as time went on, i am now ready for pi4. this method saves a ton of time for me and this time its all me, which means its no where near costly. happy gaming yall!
Thanks for the vid - very clear instructions!
Anyone else run into a very strange issue where you can configure player 1's controller, but when you configure player 2's controller, somehow it messes up the player 1 binds?
Bro, You saved me. I almost gave up on building my arcade. I couldn't download retropie or anything. Until I saw this video. Thanx man.
This is awesome! Thanks!
How easy is that, thank you for the video and making it easy to follow
Thank you for watching!
This makes this process a million times faster!
This is probably the best tutorial I have ever seen. Nice Job! I only have one question. Where do you get the ROM files, because I also wanna try to play with my raspberry pi. Can you give me some good examples?
I already saw this video 10 times and everytime helped me! Thanks so much!
Super clear, and straightforward explanation! Thank you very much!
I was stuck for so long and then your video appeared and saved the day ! Thank You SO Much !!!
WOW! I made a retropie box several years ago and it was WAAAAY more involved than this. Lol
Absolutely brilliant and practical in a very short time! Thank you
Do you have to leave the USB stick in the pie once you have copied roms onto it?
This is the best tutorial I’ve ever watched
That helped me a lot, thank you
Hi, great video and thanks for sharing! Process question...to setup ROM folders you mention the use of a USB drive. Can you not setup the ROM folder structure on the Micro SD Card or is it absolutely required to use a separate external USB Drive?
have you tryed it? if so does it work?
Thanks man, excellent video, short and straight! I installed it a long time ago and had forgotten, it´s great to now that Raspberry Pi Imager made our lives much easier!
Do you need the USB stick still plugged in after it loads the games, or can you remove it?
@keysta75 I just found out as well. You don’t need it plugged in. Let it take a couple minutes to transfer everything, and then you’ll be able to take it out
Great video! Made the install process very easy!
*when your tutorial litterally breaks the world record in easiness
This was so easy to follow, thanks a bunch
Dude you made me laugh so hard, when you said now lets have some fun I was thinking, "wait those games suck," but then you pointed that out lol.
So... do you leave the flash drive in the pi? or does the PI copy the games on to the SD card?
How would I be able to add a pre loaded games build to save time having to add all the games individually. What steps would I leave out or add to this
I have a question. I have a retropie handheld. The SD card that came with it is not in English, so I bought a SD card with everything in English. When I put the new card in It boots up just like original and the games play fine except the dpad and buttons seem disabled. I have to plug in my USB controller to play, and that defeats the handheld point. When I put the old SD card back in it plays fine using the portable dpad and buttons. So, how to map so when the new SD card is in I can play using the buttons and dpad on the portable?
Question: So, does the Raspberry Pi automatically save the games from the micro sd or, do you have to keep the micro sd plugged in?
thanks for the help! this video was great and easy to follow I can't wait to play all my favorite retro games! I especially liked that it was quick and to the point
thanks I found an old raspberry pi I had and finally did something with it
Thanks
Do the games get installed on the USB or can you transfer them from the USB to the SD card?
Did you ever find out what your supposed to do here?
I've set one up before, and I believe you can set it up on the SD card. I am about to set mine up now, and find out.
@@woodlandxwarrior id love more information on this as well
I set mine up for a friend as a Christmas present. I transfered all games to the SD card through my network from my computer over the network to the Raspberry Pi. Not hard but some setup is required. Now I can at any time log into the Raspberry Pi and drop new files, or games into the folder from my computer.
@@zanejenkins5761 You do both.
thank you so much 🤙🏽
Fantastic video, ive used Retropie on the pi in previous years, but i think i had to FTP them across (the roms)
I recently last weekend in fact bought the new RPI-400 and its very useful knowing i can just create a usb stick in addition to the SD card and just drag and drop roms that way. Thankyou very much for the knowledge, im sure back in the past i had to do it over FTP
do you use a different USB to load the games on, or do you load them on the original card you used for the OS?
no, its a seperate usb
how long does it take to create the folders when i plug in the usb in the raspberry?
Thank you so much! I have a fun Pi3 bartop arcade cab aand haven't updated it in a long time, mainly because I was worried I would mess up the OS. The Pi Imager was great and I got one of those ANKERs and it's great!
Space Ace: " Am I a joke to you ?🤣"
do i need to always put the usb stick every time i need to play the game?
No you do not. the games will go onto raspberry pi for you
Do you need a usb stick for the roms because I used a usb stick to SD
Awesome tutorial man, really appreciate it, thank you!
Thanks this is so easy 👌
does this mean that you can only play with the usb plugged on the raspberry? there is a way to install games directly to the sd card?
You can burn the Retropie image to sd card inside your phone too, using Etchdroid. You just need a otg cable.
Hello my friend
Can i add the games in the sd card or only the usb stick
Great explanation. Very much appreciated.
thank u for help
So I had it working almost... I found a rom but maybe i didnt wait long enough before booting the pi again, so it wouldnt run. I thought it might be the rom so i went to a different sight and it like used the pi imager to write the rom onto the usb.. still wouldnt work... I noticed the files were gone so i cleared it and tried to reformat it, but now when i plug it into the pi it wont add the three folders/files. What do i do? im struggling this is my first Rasberry PI... (4B)
Hello, my Raspbery Pi wont install the folders inside the retropie folder. Any ideas what im doing wrong? Launching the games straight from the usb stick also didnt work. Im missing the option in settings to anable launching from usb stick.
Hi - I've had the same issue. Were you able to find a solution?
I eventually solved this issue, by just switching to a different USB stick. The new stick happened to be FAT32 with 16kb sectors, whereas the other was 8kb. Not sure if that had an effect
If you have a phone with expendable storage you could most likely put the SD card in the phone and be able to transfer information that way.
Most helpful video I have found!
While this guide did help me figure out how to download and upload it to my LCL pi boy
Now the kick in the teeth is that I can seem to actually get it to boot up,it just freezes on the "LCL" logo and that's about it,so unless I'm doing something wrong,I'd love your help since you seem to have nailed this down superb as well as have multiple vids on raspberry pi stuff
Can someone please tell me the best sites to download video game roms please?
No matter what I do, the sd card that came with the kit won’t show up in storage for me to use any of the os. I’m just going to return it at this point.
Hello, after Write in SD, i plug it and show the configuration, but when i unplug and plug in PC , i create a directory. (but there is so many files in SD) .. and not working , i cant see the sub directories like (BIOS, configs , ROMS ) ...what should i do?
i have the same problem.
Thanks for a great video. it's actually been a little hard to find a decent one showing how to boot ROMs from a USB. Sadly I live in the sticks with no internet so file sharing online is not an option for my computer... Thanks again man liked and subscribed!
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Nice clear video. Thanks
Very helpful! Just a question! Once I install retropie on the microsd I should put the roms on the same sdcard or shouldbbn I just leave the microsd on my rasplberry and use a diferent usb stick?
Is there a reason I cant just use Retropie thats on my os (twister)? Every setup video starts with an sd card. For example; If my boot device was on a 500gig, m2, why cant all my roms and everything be on that? Is there a reason it all must be separate? BA
Can anyone say a safe place to get roms. a few of the sites i thought were safe turned out not to be.
Did you ever find out?... I'm wondering the same thing.
Can you add roms without a USB stick and save it to the micro SD card instead?
Thanks awesome video simple and to the point
Awesome video! Thank you
Ordered a cabinet from recroommasters last week. I just went to ebay and bought a card already flashed and setup for plug and play lol. I figure it's my backup, the other card i have... that's where the learning begins lol. Iv'e messed with MAME in the past and i know how finicky emulators can be. Misplace one file and it's like Christmas lights. It all goes down.
I predict hundreds of hours of messing with images to find what i like.
You can't use a flash drive instead of SD card?
Its 4 am now and how is this the like 9th video iv seen and the only one that says "yo 2 clicks bro"
Great video! Helped a lot!
So, I'm very new to this whole Raspberry Pi & RetroPie thing. I am not very knowledgeable about it at all. Recently, I purchased the LABISTS Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Complete Starter PRO Kit with 32GB Micro SD Card (4GB RAM). I was finally able to get it set up and I was able to play a few games on it last night (5/26/21). The main reason why I decided to go with a Raspberry Pi was because I'm a child of the 80s and 90s. I wanted to have a system that let me play retro video games such as arcade games and console games (Genesis & SNES) from that time period. The problem I've run into now is that some of the roms work fine and others don't. I can't figure out why this is happening. I have heard that arcade roms use MAME, etc . . . Some of the arcade and 16-bit console roms are working, but other ones are not. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix this latest issue that I'm facing? Thanks.
Great video, I was stuck before I watched this, now I have my raspberry pi 4/ retropie up and running but my arcade sticks and buttons are not reconniced , game controller works ok,It wood be nice if I could get help on this.
Dumb question after I take out the USB does retropie keep all the roms on there?
How many minutes exactly have you waited for Retropie to create the folders? There are no folders on my USB stick
Can i unpluged my USB-Stick after i put games on in it? or do i need every time my usb stick?
Bud your audio is awesome !!
I just got a 400 and it had a SD preloaded with NOOB, will this method still work?
Just to clarify, can I put the roms on the same microsd card that retropie is on? Building my first pi!
does it download the games aswell to then load into files? or if not were can i download the games
Very good video but where and how can i download the games to put it on my rasberry pi
Thank you my man! You saved me so much head ache ☺️
Could you show us how to transfer Saturn Games? Do we need to create a folder for each game?
Great Tutorial. I just have a couple questions...What if I have multiple game controllers like SNES, NES, PS, XB...etc? How would I configure each one in order for the "PI" to notice each one when I plug it in? I guess what I'm asking in a nutshell is...are game controllers hot swappable? Also, where is the best place to get game isos?
Can you please make a video showing how to configure/play mame games
ok
I apologize if this is a silly question, but do you have to keep the USB drive plugged into the Raspberry Pi to get to the games? Or just one time?
What if you only have raspberry pi and no computer can you still do install it.
Ok, how would I add dreamcast, n64, psp consoles to retropie?
Thanks, man!
When I go to press “write” it’s says that all existing data will be erased, should I do it
Thank you Sir,
Your a life saver I'm a caveman so this video came in for the win
Awesome video. Thank you for this.
got retro installed but now I just need games, where can I get them?
I used the imager and my 64GB SD card has a 268.4MB partition titled "boot" and no other volumes/partitions.
The raspberry pi won't add the folders to my usb stick. I added the folder "retropie", checked the spelling, and nothing happens when I plug it into the raspberry pi. My usb stick has an indicator light that fades when nothing is happening, and flashes when something is adding or deleting information. It was only fading. Do you know what I could try instead?
Never mind. I fried my raspberry pi.
Awesome! Thank you for the video!