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This will only take a minute (seriously, just a minute or so).
#HOW TO INSTALL RETROPIE ON RASPBERRY PI ZEROI INSTALL#
When you see it, go ahead and choose it, then choose to Install from source and let it do its thing. The package we're looking for is called RetroPie-Manager and it's near the very end of the list. They're called Packages because RetroPie is a front-end for Debian Linux and it uses a package manager to add or remove programs. You'll come to a list of applications you can install.
Figure about three to five minutes for a typical PC. It's going to take a few minutes - the bigger the SD card the longer it takes. Click the button that says Flash! and let it do its thing.Pick your SD card with the middle button (if it's not showing the right one, click it to change things, then double-check it then triple check it).Pick the RetroPie image you downloaded and press OK.Open the Etcher program and click the first button that says Select Image.Unzip the RetroPie image you downloaded and put it somewhere on your computer.Write it down if you have to, because we'll need it here in a sec. If you tell Etcher to use the wrong drive, it can erase the stuff on your computer. Open the file explorer on your computer and triple check what drive the SD card you're going to flash is.
Plug your SD card into your computer and start flashing. Unless you already have a program you use to flash Raspberry Pi images, trust us.
#HOW TO INSTALL RETROPIE ON RASPBERRY PI ZEROI MAC#
It's available for Windows, Mac or Linux and it's dead simple to use.
#HOW TO INSTALL RETROPIE ON RASPBERRY PI ZEROI DOWNLOAD#
The best and easiest way is to download Etcher. You need to do this the right way so your Raspberry Pi can read it from the card and boot up. Now you need a program to flash RetroPie to the SD card. If you bought a different one, you'll find the version printed in white ink right on the top of the circuit board. If you bought the CanaKit, you have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ so download the image for the 3. Make sure you pick the right file for your Raspberry Pi. On the Downloads page, you'll find a button to download RetroPie for the Raspberry Pi 0 or 1, and a download button for the Raspberry Pi 2 or 3. You don't need to be any sort of tech guru for this.įire up the computer and browse to the RetroPie website.
You'll also need a computer running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux to flash the operating system to the card. You need two things from the Internet: the RetroPie operating system, and a utility to create a bootable file system on the SD card you'll be using. If you bought the CanaKit, you have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. So don't have to be afraid you're going to miss out on anything by using it. In the meantime, things still work really well on the Raspberry Pi 3 B+.
We also have some emulators working but don't want to release anything until we are able to realistically support it. You may have seen some unofficial images from other people with some emulators working – but please bear with us. We are still working on Raspberry Pi 4 support. The latest word from the developers sounds promising:
#HOW TO INSTALL RETROPIE ON RASPBERRY PI ZEROI SOFTWARE#
That's a bummer, but the board is new and the software needs to be written to support it. Right now, Retropie won't install on the Raspberry Pi 4. Unfortunately, those hardware changes mean the Retropie image needs to be updated to support them and the developers aren't quite finished baking it. A faster CPU, more and faster RAM, and faster SD card speeds are just what the doctor ordered here.
#HOW TO INSTALL RETROPIE ON RASPBERRY PI ZEROI UPDATE#
The Raspberry Pi 4 is a great update to the hardware that would make playing some emulated games a lot better.