RetroPie is plug 'n play. All you have to do is install the image on your sd card, load your Pi, config your controller, upload the roms (and bios files in some cases) and you're ready to play. The misc stuff are the tweaking options. But everything is well documented, you can find nearly everything on the Wiki page and if not on the forum. Most of the config options are very self explanatory, I've played a lot with them just to see what they do.

The guides are fine, no one here gets paid so you really cannot "demand" something from the devs and the community. It's free software, don't like it? Don't use it.

You don't always need to update your Pi. The only problems you might get with updating is that your neogeo/mame roms won't load because the emulator requires a newer romset, so you need to fix that again.

I have no idea why you're bringing your personal problems into this topic. IMHO that's not really needed, we all have our personal problems but it doesn't relate to Retro gaming.

I wasn't sure if the topic starter is trolling or is actually serious. Getting upset about a downvote? The reason why you obviously got downvoted was because of your attitude. You can complain about the Wiki but it's about how you complain about it. You can do it in a civilized manner or in an aggressive way.

I think he's trolling, he said he has one arm but no offense, how do you even play games with one arm? Sorry I don't believe this guy.

@exarkuniv said in Will Raspberry Pi 3 Ever Be Discontinued?:

@petrorie

To be honest I had heard about the Pi longtime ago but I didn't care until I saw an article about RetroPie. So far, the Pi3 is literally the COOLEST item I ever bought in my entire life.

me too :D

for my two cents. the Pi3 will not be going anywhere anytime soon. even when the Pi 4 comes out it will still be made for a bit longer. it has such a large following and people are still making new protects for it. it is dumb for them to just end it.

this is a company who whole point is to educate people on coding/computer science , not just making money

I nearly bought an android handheld device, for nearly 200 euros. I'm glad I found that article about RetroPie just before I bought the android device.

Even if they stop making the Pi's I bet there will be some other company who'll create something similar. There are already other companies making these mini computers, so there is a market for it.

@zigurana

@Graboid :
Hey, you can Graboid them here, or at least once it finishes uploading (~3hrs for 126MB, sigh).

Can you share that files again? The old link is dead...((

Probably the wrong versions of the chds or roms.
But anyhow: i dont think that the chd titles will run fast enough to be playable, they need much power which the Raspberry does not offer.

@humblepi If you aim the T-Rex at something you want them to eat, there's nothing stopping them from eating you afterwards.

@meleu Thx - will update to 1.6.3 ;)

Okay one rule: Fun! ;)

@anassassinsblade that's just a video splash. They either disabled the ES splash or just changed it so it was a more seamless transition between the retropie boot splash and the ES splash. It's just a hack.

@supercatfooz ahh ok sucks ah well can't want everything right heh
But it would be awesome tho if it worked

I use a VIZIO D50u-D1 50-Inch 4K. I picked it up specifically for the low input lag, and it seems to work great.

I made sure to use the fastest HDMI port (one is labelled as "best") and turned on game mode, and turned off all post-processing options.

rtings.com lists it as having 13.5ms, which is excellent for something that's not a computer monitor.

http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/vizio/d-series-4k-2016

I can confirm that all NeoGeo Games save Highscores with the default emulator (FBA).
I had never problems with them 😐

@piboy I've never seen that article before.There is a guy from one of the main forums for the Nes Mini Classic & Hakchi that dumped the full firmware from the nes mini, and he did some research on the roms that were on the mini, and found discrepancies between the roms and pirated roms online.I can't recall how many pirated roms he found that are on the mini.

@TMNTturtlguy I am indeed swapping out all of my FBA roms to the new version. I was under the impression that there could be problems using old roms with newer FBA, and it is best to update to the corresponding romset?

I use Renamer for Windows. It can clean up file names and delete those numbers you mentioned. Very nice program.

@edmaul69 hi thanks again for your help all sorted, for some reason retroarch hadn't installed correctly, done a fresh install and is now perfect

Thanks for running the experiments!

I'll see if I can make some time to make a nicer distribution with the Makefile set up for Pi, with just the binary, just the assets, etc, in separate zips, that way we can link it here.

Another option to transfer files is to use scp from the command line. You'll need to enable ssh on your pi through the retropie setup to do this. Good luck!

I'm just going to copy and paste what I put in the 'place your bets' thread here... not to ram it down your throats again, just to get your opinions:)

So, I need to understand what it means when the chip is described as having four layers. Is this the 'four cores' that defines a pi3?

Let's say, just for example, I have a pi3 on my counter at work, and a customer (regular and on good speaking terms with) says something along the lines of
"That's a pi, I work for their development. We're experimenting with a six layer chip rather than the four layer version now"
At which point I would, had this conversation happened, have replied something like
"It's rather important to me that you discuss this further with me promptly sir."
After which, noting my apparent marginal knowledge and interest, this hypothetical customer becomes rather coy and refuses to be drawn further on the subject.

Am I to infer something from this theoretical conversation? Which, in that very same theory could well have gone on marginally longer than my above (purely of course) imagined transcript.

(Redactions and theorem due to promises made, take from it what you may)

@redbatman No, but I use a Logitech F710 wireless controller which interestingly enough seems to be recognized as an Xbox 360 controller.

@meleu I did!
Played all the GBA and DS one, and the first one on GB. I have yet to finish "Order of Ecclesia" , that game is too damn hard for me...