A retrospective look back at Battle Valley released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore Amiga. Pretty good considering it was a budget game 👍😉

Hi. How I could force retropie run on 60hz ? I did once long time ago but I can't remember exactly how.

This is prototype 1, full project is here with my 3d print designs: https://github.com/reduxdj/3d_print/blob/main/README.md

I was going to make an arcade cabinet with one of them but i ran into potentially hardware issues, i tried updating the software and the fps got worse. What can i do with these things? i want to maybe make insane external video stuff that happens with my games using multiple monitors or something

I got my retropie set up on a Raspberry 4 Model B for a home arcade cabinet. Overall the platform is working fine but I've been struggling to set up.

I'm finding conflicting documentation on how to do this via the emulation station configuration. I have been working with AI which has been waffling me between two routes - configure the screensaver as "Random Video" and specify the media directory, or use Slideshow and "backload" the media files by setting them up with a fake gamelist.xml file so that they appear as gameplay scrapes.

The video files I have are mp4 H264 encoded and play fine when called from omxplayer from the command line. Here is my current config for the screen saver behavior (OmxPlayer does nothing whether true or false)

<string name="ScreenSaverBehavior" value="random video" />
<bool name="ScreenSaverCustomVideoDir" value="true" />
<string name="ScreenSaverVideoDir" value="/home/pi/.emulationstation/screensavers/images" />
<bool name="ScreenSaverOmxPlayer" value="false" />
<bool name="ScreenSaverVideoMute" value="true" />
<bool name="StretchVideoOnScreenSaver" value="true" />
<int name="ScreenSaverTime" value="60000" />
<int name="ScreenSaverSwapVideoTimeout" value="30000" />

Anyone have experience setting this up?

My retrospective video review of 14 versions of GHOSTBUSTERS. Still love the original Commodore 64 version.

I'm at wits' end and desperate enough to ask for help. I'm trying to get my Pi4 running on my CRT. I've got it outputting via native Composite and I have Sakitoshi's setup tweaks implemented, but things aren't lining up (see photos). Every x number of horizontal lines there's a scanline that bisects or squishes a pixel. Help?

I want to make an arcade cabinet to mostly play Mario Kart, Super Smash, N64/GameCube/PS1 era games. I'm contemplating various button layouts and was looking to hear from other people as to what would be best. I don't play Street Fighter or other games that would use a more traditional layout but maybe there is something I'm overlooking like ergonomics or button mapping. Anyway here are my options I was thinking of with mapping for N64.

Hey, so I recently did a SD Card backup using win32 so I had a clone of my system in case anything went wrong. Now when I go into a game they dont work.. they work in the menus but not in the games.. I deleted they inputs and re configured and still nothing..

Any help would be appreciated.. Thank you

I was wondering if someone can clarify something for me. I use my RP5 for a media server. I'm attempting to set up Sunshine as a retro gaming server as well, I was able to load retroarch, but can't find a N64 core in the loaded core. So I'm trying different avenues. I want to load RetroPie, but in a container so the Media server remains live. So say I'm playing Die Another Day, while my family watches something on the server. Everything I've read it loads retropie through a front-end, which shuts my main OS down. If this isn't the place for this question I'll see myself out. Thank you in advance.

In addition. I do have through my server a Emu hub, but it doesn't work on a smart TV. So I'm trying Sunshine and Moonlight.

So my school has an arcade setup using retroPI, made for 2 players. Unfortunately in the recent years the configuration got all screwed up for the buttons. It's custom made controllers where the buttons are wired into the Ipac(?). I'm wondering if and how to configure both the controllers.

I haven’t done anything like this before, so a solderless build is mandatory for me. I’ve already checked the Retroflag website and I don’t want the GPi case 2w. I’d like something horizontal like a GBA or something. If you can’t find any no problem, I’ll keep looking

Hey everyone I’m pretty new to this so excuse this newb question.
I’m making my fieldstation and have started downloading shows and movies to a thumb drive (I have already filled up a 256gb).
My question is for the operating system how much of a micro sd card do you think I’ll need? I was gonna get a 32gb but that doesn’t sound like enough. I also am going to be putting RetroPie on the same micro sd card so I can play some games. Do you think I’ll need something larger than a 32gb for both os?

Hey folks, I've gotten the idea to set up a "plug-and-play retro game station" for my family as a gift on christmas and would like some help (or rather - reassurance) with some questions I have.

For context, I myself am tech-savvy enough, but haven't set something like this up before, though from the guides I've seen it seems more than doable on my part. My parents however are not so tech literate and not the best at English, though my younger sister might be able to help them in some cases. I want to set up RetroPie pretty much exclusively for 8-bit games, as my folks used to play a lot of stuff like Mario Bros, Doctor Mario, Tank 1990, and I'd like to have them experience that again but in a modern way. They used to play on the Zhiliton console.

I'm looking to get the Raspberry Pi 4 kit with 2gb RAM, 64gb microSD, and aluminum heat sinks. For controllers I'm looking at two 8BitDo M30 bluetooths.

Now I've seen some of this answered, but I'd still like to make sure by asking it all in one place and with the context from above:

1. After inital setup and making sure everything functions as it should, should I expect them to be running into any issues? Maybe RetroPie requires regular updates or something similar?

2. Once I've paired the controllers and configured them (I saw you should do that with a keyboard), will they automatically connect through bluetooth once the RPi is turned on every time afterwards?

3. Assuming it's just 8-bit games it'll be running, are the heat sinks enough or should I look into fans?

Anything else i should be considering?

Thanks in advance

A lot of my newer games, especially the Windows ones, show up in Batocera with no logo, no box art, no video and no description. The scrapers just don't know them. Fixing one by hand is a pain: find the pictures, find a trailer, resize everything, then edit gamelist.xml.

So I made a small app for it. It runs on the Batocera itself. You pick a game that's missing stuff, hit Search, and it looks on Steam and YouTube. You see what it found, pick the pictures you like and which part of the trailer to use, and it shows you exactly what it's about to write before it touches anything. It keeps a backup of your gamelist.xml and there's an Undo button if you don't like the result.

Here's a short demo (I sped up the waiting parts): https://youtu.be/ZLmj5S1XHdE

Code and install instructions: https://github.com/eknowledger/scrappy

It's still early. I've only run it on my own box, Batocera v41 on an x86 PC, with one theme. The installer should work on ARM boards too but I've only tried that in a VM. I haven't tested other themes or RetroBat, and the image sizes are fixed, it doesn't read your theme yet. Steam and YouTube are the only sources right now, so don't expect it to find old console games. I'd like to add more sources later.

It's free, MIT licensed. If you try it I'd love to hear what breaks or what's missing. Even a quick "works on my setup" helps a lot.

I download a sega saturn package and when I boot up a game it doesnt work, please help

Wanted a tactile, zero-distraction alternative to smartphone games, so I put together PICO Arc on a 5x7.5cm perfboard.

• Runs 6 retro games coded in MicroPython on the Pi Pico

• 0.96" OLED screen + active buzzer for sound

• Powered by a 1000mAh Li-ion cell with modified TP4056 charging

• Custom hand-made enclosure made from flattened and bent 2-inch PVC pipe with sliding back panel access

I documented the full build, wiring, and code over on Instructables:

🔗https://www.instructables.com/PICO-Arc-the-Pocket-Sized-Retro-Arcade

Let me know what you think!

Hello all!
I've started this little vacation project, and I'm setting up a Retropie using an old laptop of mine.

The system info are the following:

CPU: i5-5300U
RAM 8 GBs
OS: Trixie
Retropie: 4.8.12

So far, I've been able to run games in the following systems:

• Game Boy (+ Color and Advance)

• Nintendo DS

• PC ENgine

• PlayStation (PSX and PSP)

• Commodore C=64 (though I noticed some games don't take my gamepad, and some seem to pause every few seconds)

I've been able to boot the Amiga 500 emulator, but whatever game I try to launch, it gets stuck at the screen asking for the workbench (AFAIR from those days, games were supposed to boot automatically, and not require Workbench), but this is something I will look into at another time.

When trying with MAME games, though, I've tried configuring different emulators for the ROMS I have, but none seem to be working.
Basically every single one I try either goes straight back to the list of games, or gives me an error about missing files.
Is there some sort of "compatibility checklist", or a step-by-step guide to properly configure the mame emulators, so that all games will run?