how do you download retropie on an already installed raspbian OS
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If RetroPie is the only thing you're trying to put on your Pi, I would recommend the step-by-step instructions found in the RetroPie installation guide. After that, you'll be blasting centipedes and rescuing princesses in no time.
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@mediamogul Ok thanks for helping, So when i put the the retropie sd image on the MicroSD card and put it into the raspberry pi 3 it wont cause any corruptions or anything and it will just overwrite everything?
Also if i wanted in the future will i be able to add raspbian, and does it come with the image?
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@jpod1003 said in how do you download retropie on an already installed raspbian OS:
Also if i wanted in the future will i be able to add raspbian, and does it come with the image?
RetroPie is not it's own operating system and is actually installed on top of Raspbian already with the image you'll be using for the Raspberry Pi. To keep the overhead down, the RetroPie image makes use of Raspbian Lite, which is really only missing the desktop GUI that so many people associate with a standard operating system. However, the desktop environment can always be installed later from the RetroPie-Setup once everything's up and running.
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@mediamogul I know you said to not go off videos and i wont but just so i have an understanding this is pretty much what im doing
, the only difference is mine will already have raspbian on it but it will overwrite it like you said? -
@jpod1003 said in how do you download retropie on an already installed raspbian OS:
but it will overwrite it like you said?
Yesiree and yes to the prior, that's exactly what you'll be doing.
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I installed raspbian through noobs, and through researching i found that i cant download retropie unless i re format the card and install retro pie. And doing this will it automatically overwrite my current OS(raspbian) or?
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Please try and refrain from asking the same question in multiple threads. As stated earlier, you have a few options available to you and it seemed like you felt most comfortable flashing the official image from scratch. In doing that, it will indeed overwrite whatever was on the card previously.
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Topics merged
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@mediamogul i did everything and it worked, thank you but, by mistake my ps4 controller was connected to thr ps4 when i plugged it into the raspberry pi and i tried to turn the ps4 off while retropi was on configuration screen. So when i click any button nothing happens now? Also my keyboard and mouse wont work.
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@jpod1003 nvm i fixed it
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Good to hear. What was the issue?
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