RetroPie

Welcome

Welcome to RetroPie. RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi, ODroid C1/C2, or PC into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want.

RetroPie sits on top of a full OS, you can install it on an existing Raspbian, or start with the RetroPie image and add additional software later. It's up to you.

While the RetroPie Project originated at petRockBlock.com this is now the home of RetroPie.

Get RetroPie

Amiga_Gameplay_2

AmstradCPC_Gameplay

AppleII_Gameplay

atari2600

Atari5200_Gameplay

Atari7800_Gameplay

AtariLynx_Gameplay

AtariST_Gameplay

c64

gba

gbc

genesis

32x

mame

mastersystem

Retropie_Splash

Please note: No copyrighted games are included with RetroPie

Features

EmulationStation

EmulationStation is the frontend for launching all of your games.

RetroArch

RetroArch is a frontend for the Libretro API which standardises controls and adds features for many of the emulators. Many emulators used on RetroPie are due to the hard work of the Libretro team.

Kodi

If you get tired of gaming you can watch your own movies or listen to music with Kodi: your own personal media centre. It can be installed from the experimental menu of the RetroPie Setup Script.

Themes

Choose from a variety of user created themes for EmulationStation from the built in theme installer.

Modular

The RetroPie SD image is built on top of Raspbian but RetroPie can be installed on any Debian based linux distribution.

Over 50 Systems

RetroPie has the most supported systems out of any retrogaming software for the Raspberry Pi.

Happy Pi Day – RetroPie 4.8 is released

14th March 2022 14th March 2022News, Releases

Happy Pi Day! After a long wait, we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 4.8. The RetroPie 4.8 images are built on the latest version of the Raspberry Pi OS Lite Buster (which is now their legacy release). This image supports the latest Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W…

Vilros sponsorship

3rd September 2021 3rd September 2021News

Thanks very much to Vilros who are generously making a donation to the RetroPie project for every Raspberry Pi gaming kit they sell. Vilros was founded in 2010 with the goal of helping to create a more technological society. They are passionate about promoting STEM education and making it easily…

More Power and USB-C for the ControlBlock

15th January 2021 15th January 2021News

ControlBlock with USB-C and dedicated power switch IC

TL;DR The ControlBlock provides a soft power switch and status indication functionality, as well as an easy-to-use interface for original and arcade game controllers. It has been updated now with a dedicated power switch IC to provide all the power that you need for your retro project. Also, it comes…

RetroPie 4.7.1 update

4th November 2020 7th March 2022News, Releases

RetroPie 4.7.1 images are now available from the Download Page. Unfortunately a couple of bugs crept into the EmulationStation front-end for the 4.7 release. A performance issue causing EmulationStation to have a poor frame rate and a bug affecting its built in scrapers. The performance issue affected Raspberry Pi 0/1/2/3…