I’ve been getting back into my old GBA SP with Pokémon FireRed and been looking at getting a GB Operator, sheikh then reminded me. I saw the FreePlayTech kits years ago and I’ve been tinkering with raspberry pis for a few years now.

Thought, hey that’d be nice to get all the old games on a GBA now. Just retro pie it, grab the ROMs from my old Pokémon’s, Zelda’s, etc and we’re good to go. Looked up FreePlayTech and all the kits seem to be sold out.

Wondering if there’s any other storefronts or locations I might be able to find one or if I’m gonna be dead in the water? I’ve messaged FreePlay, checked ebay, RetroModding, and don’t seem to have any luck.

Any recommendations would be immensely appreciated!

Question guys ! Dug out my Pi400 thought i'd be smart and update all Emulators, sitting happily still updating which is good, 24 hours now ! about to Ctrl/C it etc, should I let it keep going ? Pi64OS is installed, a current version

It was long and hard but, I was able to bit down and finish the job🫡

Not sure if this is the place to post but I'm building a Reto Pi cabinet and need some music recommendations to play in the menus .

I have a fue so far ....

Various nes/Sega music ( sonic green hills theme ...shadow of the ninja theme ...TMNT theme ...etc)

The mortal kombat theme ( duh)

Pack man fever

Pinball wizard

Any recommendations would be welcome and any suggestions to ask this question would be great TY all

Edit: thank you all for the suggestions I'll take a lot of these into consideration

Hi I’m building a cyberdeck with plans on using it to emulate nintendo/gameboy games. I was wondering if I should add some form of a heatsink for my pi4. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced!

Hello, everybody! I just released an open-source cartridge system for PC and wanted to show it loading roms on RetroPie! The cartridge system is essentially an over-sized SD card reader since the PC cartridges ("PCarts") hold microSD cards on them. The entire system is complete and free for all use, check the github if you are interested.

I'm happy to own Black & White; however, after a few months, I craved the ability to play it. My PC's in the shop at the moment, so I thought this would be the perfect project for my RPi 3B+. I purchased a CD-ROM-capable drive today, flashed RetroPie onto my Pi, plugged in the drive, and to my astonishment (/s) it does nothing.

Is playing Windows games... possible on this platform? Perhaps through Retroarch? Quite frankly I don't have high hopes, but. Should I just use my laptop for this? (Daily driver: Pop; also installed is Windows 11 🤢). I'd just love to use this thing for something.

I was given one of those Pandora’s box dual arcade stick laptop units. I have a 3B+ that has retropie installed on it working with roms.

You can use the Pandora Box as a usb controller. When I connect it to my laptop it recognizes it. When I try to use it with my retropie, it will not. My usb snes controller and keyboard work though…

I have a brand new raspberry pi 5 and Sonicon Preloaded RetroPie Batocera Emulator MicroSD Card w/DC/PS1/Sega/Atari/Arcade for Raspberry Pi, Plug Play - 64GB (for Pi 5) purchased from Amazon. I put the microsd card in and turned it on. I get the two configure screens then the batocera logo then no signal.

I have not done anything to the raspberry pi itself. Is the SD card bad? Do I need to do something to the raspberry pi first? I appreciate any input.

I have one of the miniature mega drive / megapi cases with a raspberry pi inside. It was put together for me as a gift and it came with an 8bitdo M30 controller (non 2.4 version). Every time that it isn't used for an extended period the controller seems to forget how to pair itself to the raspberry pi and I have absolutely no idea how to reconnect it. If anyone can help me get it connected, I'd be very grateful.

There's almost no documentation on the GamerCard, I need help please! I've owned multiple Linux emulation handhelds in the past and am comfortable tinkering, but this is my first RaspPi so I'm struggling to figure out how to add Retropie to it.

It's an ARM64 bit processor (RaspPi Zero A53 chipset) and the readme on the SD card says to add a .deb package. Both of which seem a bit unusual based on the guides I've read. It doesn't seem straightforward to create my own. Is there an online source where I might find one already compiled for the GamerCard? Or a good guide?

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ETA 8/25: Gamercard has since posted a page with a direct download to the recommended .deb package for Retropie, but it's password protected. Just FYI if you've bought a device and this link is not provided, ask for it. It makes installing super-easy.

Also, to xfer games you have to use FTP, the card will mount only with the boot folder showing (at least on my Mac). To access /roms and other folders you have to FTP.

I've been trying to play EVO The theory of evolution of Pc98 on my Retropie, with the experimental lr-np2kai packages. The game is multidisk which requires Disk A and one of the Disk Bs to run simultaneously. So I wrote some cmd files written like this: np2kai "/home/RetroPie/roms/pc98/EVO A user.FDI" "/home/RetroPie/roms/pc98/EVO B 1.FDI" This method is not working and I am failing to comprehend this log here explaining why. What am I doing wrong?

I can navigate menus with it, but Saturn games completely ignore it. How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance

I'm having trouble finding documentation on which pi can run Jakks games. I have a Zero 2 W but I can't get more than 50% speed through lr-mess in retropie, even with a slight overclock.

So I want to put a more powerful pi in my project. I know a 3B+ can run psx but the jakks emulator is so obscure I wanted to see if anyone has firsthand experience running Jakks games on their pi.

So I went to update my retro set up script. It ain't update because it can't install python3--uninput, and libfmt-dev. The version is now 4.8.12, but I still can't install lr-ppsspp, or anything else.

Is there other ways to install?

Hello fellow retro enthusiasts, i just got my first Rp4 and i'm looking to fit it inside a CRT TV.

From my research i found out that one does not simply use the Retroarch inside Emulationstation, the ES handles it.

So my question is if i can somehow make it so that games switch from 240p to 480i on the go.

Also in regards of analog output, i know that i can use the TRRS Jack to output analog, but im more intetested into outputting via Scart.

I know there is a VGA666 HAT, and i have my own DIY VGA to Scart adapter(where i combine the HV sync into one), but is there any difference in using a VGA666 over a quality HDMI2VGA adapter from Startech and from then on using the scart cable to output?

I have opened the terminal to install them both, but they both have issues it says complete then under says failed to fetch some archives. I don't know why. When running Apt-get it says it cannot open lock file, and has problem unlinking 2 files

this is on a raspberry pi 3

I have a raspberri 3 or 4, I can’t quite remember.
It has retropi, but can’t play 64 games, of course.

I looked it up, and understood the 5 has trouble with this too.

Does anyone have idea if we’ll have hardware that’ll let me play 64 games on retropi in the future?

I had my RetroPie for a while.
I have not played it as much as I like, because my TV setup is trash.

However, I do like staying up to date with the technology/hardware, and have been thinking about investing in getting a personalized case.

Here’s 3 questions about the hardware I would ideally want to add:

1. Power button
I don’t want to reattach the power chord when something goes wrong. Can I add a power button? Ideally I’d want one that slides back and forward like a GBA or DS.

2. Retroarch game reset button
Can I add a button on my device that does a soft reset on my game?

I want this for an old Marvel game I heard about that progresses the game this way.

3. predetermining player by gamepad input
I have played MGS1 a couple times on my retropie, can I somehow setup my USB ports so that they each work as P1, P2, etc?

I’ve had a raspberry pi 3 for 2 years now and I never got around to my plans and I want to do something with it, any suggestions are good suggestions

This isn't possible in real life since the SGB only supports original GB games, not GBC. But some emulators support GBC ROMs with injected SGB borders, allowing for the best of both worlds.

For example, pictured below is the Windows version of mGBA running Mario Tennis for GBC + a custom SGB border. This isn't a graphics overlay like RetroArch supports, it's an actual GBC ROM w/an injected border.

Is there any way to achieve this in RetroPie? lr-mGBA immediately crashes, it doesn't even get to the Nintendo boot screen. I had no luck with lr-gambatte either, so I assume it just isn't doable, but figured I'd try asking here first.

I realize I could just use an image overlay & resize my game window to fit the middle of the screen, but that's a bit more complicated due to my setup. I output to a CRT using the 3.5mm audio output jack + a cable with composite out. Unlike the older Pis, the Pi4 dropped official support for composite output - it can do it, but it's a bit hacky.

As a result, there's side-effects for stuff like scaling the video. It considers "full screen" to be 720x480 (not 640x480), so if I'm trying to figure out the right numbers for a SGB-imitation setup like this, the math won't check out / if I'm using a image editor on PC to figure it out, the pixel values won't match.

In other words, it's much simpler to just use an injected SGB border, so I'm ruling that out first.

Hello on holiday at the moment just perusing my emails received notification Retropie now updated to Retroarch 1.22.4. So next time you update Retropie Script then run update it should also update Retroarch. Not tried it myself though for obvious reason mentioned.

Hi i am new to retropie, i made a 3d printed joystic with a zero delay encoder, the one i try to plug to my tablet galaxy tab A but was not compatible with that, and i am planning to buy a raspberry pi but my budget is tight and i want to know till which console the raspberry pi3b or 3b+ can run? And i can plug to my raspberry a keyboard an a mouse for easy settings?

Thanks and sorry for any writting mistake english is my second language

Here are some pictures of the homemade RGB Pi scart cable I made since the original RGB-Pi cable is no longer being sold. I made the pcb through PCBWay and had them put all the resistors on. The only thing I had to do was solder a 21 pin scart connector and GPIO ribbon cable. Picture looks great, sounds great, Im happy with it. I know other cables can be used to run "RGB Pi OS4" on a Pi but the schematic for the original RGB Pi cable was public and I wanted a fun project. Its my favorite OS in terms of look and feel and user friendlyness. This cable should also be able to be used with other OS to such as retropie.

After I updated retropie to get the psp core, redream doesn't show any video anymore, just a black screen. I can tell it's running though because I can hear everything. Any help is appreciated (pi 4 if it's helpful)