The strategy of reducing the quantity of the NES mini worldwide, making it a limited product, may have helped Nintendo in the past with other consoles… but this time Nintendo dug its own grave and threw the NES mini into it.

When the NES mini left a huge gap, filled with frustrated consumers, the Raspberry Pi 3 quickly surfaced as a solution. Yes, as you know, both the RP3 and Retropie has been around for a while… But the funny thing is, now they are starting to become a known thing among people who normally wouldn't know about it.

When one product fails to deliver, another one takes its place. Its safe to say RP3 and Retropie has really saturated the retro gaming market the last month!

Alright, so I have a 3.5in kumantech (not sure that's how you spell it, will fix later) touchscreen LCD display, and got the LCD show driver on my Pi, but when I power it on, it goes to retro pie, but only the code from before hand is displayed, please help!

Any tips for running n64 well on retro. Have newest raspberry model along with retropie but frames are awful and unplayable

Headline says it. I bought 5 w 8GB, Downloaded a RetroPi image from arcade punks... The entire thing is just constantly resetting. I also got the active cooler and the room is at a reasonable/cool temperature. Is there just not a stable RP for the 5 yet? I was trying to keep things reasonable and "only" getting a 128GB version. I'm just hyper frustrated at the moment.

UPDATE: It was indeed the power supply. Thanks everyone.

• Download retropie iso

• Download Win32DiskImager

• Download Roms

• Extract RetroPie iso in it’s own folder

• Install Win32DiskImager

• Start command Prompt as admin

• Type Diskpart

• Type List disk

• Type Select disk (disk you want to select)

• Clear

• Disk Management

• Format Disk as FAT32

• Insert SD-Card in Pi

• Plugin Raspberry Pi

• Press F4

• Update raspberry pi software

• sudo raspi-config

• rebsudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

• Configure controllers https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/8Bitdo-Controller ‘

• Transfer Roms https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms

To follow in line with the RetroPie developers stance on this topics this sub needs to be "Proactive" with the situation instead of being "Reactive."

IMO, any post using/referencing/promoting a 3rd Party, Non-Official RetroPie "image" should be out right removed. That is the easiest and simplest way to discourage that practice. Or at least cut down the number of posts involving it.

I could give a shit about the downvotes when I comment "3rd Party Images are not Supported." My main issues is that members of this community are against that statement and "attack" me and other users because of it. We are only just reiterating what the Retropie developers have said.

The last time it was updated was last year November.

Hey, I wanna try emulating n64 games like Super Mario Bros original

Super Mario World

Pokemon games

Super Mario 64

Can the RPI 3b+ run these and if so would it be pretty slow?

Just got one of these bad boys with a generic Super Nintendo controller but when I tried playing Banjo Kazzoie on it only the A button worked. Favorites option won't work. Kodi "detects a different controller" and won't respond. Help? ELI5.

I really don't understand how to use plus is there any way to save in games or i gotta play from the start every time

I might get yelled at for posting this, but as a gamer who loves emulation I got to say this:

Consider alternative ways to get your game files, instead of piracy. It might sound stupid, and tedious, but in this way you don't 'steal' from game companies, instead you pay for it, helping them covering their costs.

Now, as this is out of the way, let me just quote my post in a Discord, explaining some alternative ways, and some more clear 'motivation' behind it.

To make it clear, this is before I am doing the shopping spree. I'm already doing it, and have some notes on the 'Wii-side' of game extraction.

Hey, a quick (maybe important to some) tip!

If you're a person who wants to get game ROMs legally: Just buy those games and extract or dump them. I wanted this out as Nintendo's Wii Shopping Channel, along with its extensive Virtual Console library would partially lock down on March 26th already, with you unable to add Wii Points to purchase paid titles on the storefront. So I'm planning on a big shopping spree on my homebrew Wii to later on extract the game files to makethem playable on my future RetroPie.

For Nintendo Wii games: Use homebrew to extract the games. Easily Google'd how to figure out, there's a 'VC-Rom-Claimer' tool for Wii (and even Wii U) that makes your paid game files from the Wii into playable roms for other emulators.

(Other way (especially for Europeans/Australians to get 60Hz versions instead of those 50Hz versions) to get some NES/SNES games extracted:Mod a (S)NES classic. The NES' one are ready to use, but the SNES one are based on the Wii U Virtual Console games' file format, easily convertable by a tool called .)

For SEGA games: Some SEGA classics are available on Steam! Those can be easily converted through a tool as well. Especially the Sonic games.

For Atari games: Atari Vault got the 2600 games easily copyable, ready to use ROMs, along with the 50-Greatest-Atari Hitscompliation. Both available on Steam and Humble Bundle for decent prices.

For cartridge games: Look for ROM dumpers like Retro Freak on Play-Asia or look for the Retrode 2 (SNES/Genesis, expandable with GB(x,C,A) and N64 modules) to dump the physical cartridges you own! You can also cheapily dump GBA games through Wii homebrew with a GBA link cable! These dumps will take a LONG time (48 minutes for a 32mb cartridge).

This announcement is not for piracy, but for getting the game ROMs from your purchased titles. Support those companies. They made the games, they deserve the money. No matter how old those games are, those old games costs space, internet bandwith, energy, people working on the emulators (how crappy or good they may be) etc.

Some Wii-related note:

Extracting roms can be done with an extracted BootMii NAND dump, through the tool vcromclaim. Some N64 titles and all PC Engine/Turbografx CD titles won't get dumped. Examples of N64 games are Super Smash Bros. (PAL version at least) and Ogre Battle 64. Super Smash Bros. can be easily converted into a proper .z64 file through the romchu06 tool.

Feel free to ask any question, I would love to try helping you out! Wouldn't mind helping out with this type of extraction.

Just do not share files or names of piracy sites/sources here.

At last, here's a useful link which leads to this thread of the RetroPie forum, stating some more paid games you can easily get, along with free legal (homebrew) games!

I just baught pi 3 B+ Cana kit off Amazon. Is this a good board to play N64 ROMs?

Like is there say, an n64 pack that has your marios, zeldas etc.? I'm really tired of combing through the shovel ware and sports games (except nfl blitz) when i get rom sets.