Now you’re done with the initial RetroPie install, it’s time to optimize the controller settings Step 1.
Pressing this Hotkey in combination with other buttons enables fast access to emulator features directly from your joypad. I recommend “Select” or the Xbox Guide button. Make a note of the RetroPie hotkeysĭuring controller configuration, you’ll be asked to specify a “Hotkey”. Yes, this is confusing - but don’t worry there is a fix for this later So when configuring your Xbox 360 controller, you’ll need to switch X with Y, and A with B. Go ahead and configure your controller as per the diagram belowĪn important note! EmulationStation follows the SNES button layout. After a minute or so, EmulationStation will launch and ask you to configure your controller: Switch on the power to your Raspberry Pi. Boot up your Pi and configure your controller If you have a Wireless Xbox 360 controller, you’ll need to pair it with your Wireless Gaming Receiver before continuing. The default connection details are:Īlternatively, you can use a USB keyboard to configure Retropie directly Step 3. With this feature enabled, you can use any SSH client (I like PuTTY) to remotely connect to your Pi. This way you can configure RetroPie from your networked PC, no keyboard required. Enable SSH on your PiĬreate a file named ssh in the root directory of your SD Card. Follow the official instructions here Step 2.
Download RetroPie image and write to SD card
Alternatively you can do this from your networked PC via SSH. To edit config files on your Raspberry Pi. Many other controllers are supported, but the Xbox 360 controllers work best
Mega Drive, SNES, even PlayStation all run great and with a little extra work you can stream more taxing games from your home PC RetroPie maintains a handy chart, but if your arcade games don’t load in one MAME, try another.With RetroPie, your Raspberry Pi can become the ultimate retro-gaming machine. Retropie can run with ten different versions of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), the most popular arcade emulator, and some ROMs will run on some versions of MAME and others will work on others. Please keep in mind that, when it comes to playing retro arcade games from actual arcade machines, not all ROMs are compatible with all emulators.
The games list will now update and show the available computers / consoles for which there are now games.
When complete, remove the USB flash drive and press START and from the menu select Restart Emulationstation / Restart System. This could take minutes for a few games, or hours if transferring a large amount.Ħ. The time that this will take depends on how many games are transferred over. Eject the flash drive from your computer and place it back into a USB port of the Raspberry Pi 4. For example, put atari 2600 games in the /atari2600 folder.ĥ. Copy your games to the correct system / console folder in retropie/roms/.