retropie for the PI4 ????

sirhenrythe5th

"community" 😂
I have the idea he is talking about these US-Facebook-Groups.
If so - RIP!!!!

Clyde

I can only recommend to anyone who is tearing themselves apart while waiting for a Pi4 release to just be patient and do all the stuff they would be doing if there was no Pi4 …

sirhenrythe5th

@Clyde second this!!! Just be patient! The Devs are doing their best as soon as they have some spare-time and we should be thankful.
As someone else mentioned here a couple of weeks ago "they owe you NOTHING".

UDb23

@Clyde Fully agree! And... btw...wondering how many of all these people demanding and pushing the developers have actually contributed / made donation to the project.
That would not accelerate things of course, but would show appreciation!

quicksilver

@incrediblekyle You say the community is dying, yet your last posts were from 2017. Not sure you are qualified to make such statements.

Darksavior

I was impatient so I manually installed retropie with retroarch 1.8.1 on my pi4.

KN4THX

Was it like this on the releases for the Pi 2 and 3?

I honestly wonder how many of the impatient ones are people trying to sell Retropie bundles and the devs are holding them back from unethically making a profit. :/

I think this community is as strong as it was the first day I signed up. Sure, a lot of time has past over the course of Retropie. People get older, responsibilities change, and time starts becoming a much sought after resource.

I was taught that respect is something you hold dear, whether you earned someone's respect or yourself, had respect for someone doing something honorable, you or someone doing something amazing that you couldn't do yourself. And everything in-between.

I think the devs do both of those things. They give free time for a simple cause which brings people nostalgic joy and allows them to share it with their friends and family. They also do something I cannot do myself which is amazing to me as I watch them recreate a window into my childhood.

For these reasons it amazes me that people can come on the forums and brazenly demand a project that they cannot obtain themselves. The amount of respect every dev, as well as everyone who has every posted a workaround, tip, or kind word towards the project is way more than the latest posts about the Pi 4 have been giving.

Keep up the good work guys and gals. Take all the time you need. I enjoy watching the journey as it just makes the destination worth it so much more.

Thank you all.

ClassicGMR

@sirhenrythe5th said in retropie for the PI4 ????:

@Clyde second this!!! Just be patient! The Devs are doing their best as soon as they have some spare-time and we should be thankful.
As someone else mentioned here a couple of weeks ago "they owe you NOTHING".

This

quicksilver

@KN4THX said in retropie for the PI4 ????:

Was it like this on the releases for the Pi 2 and 3?

I don't think it was (although I didn't get into retropie until right around the time the pi 2 was released). But the pi 4 is a major hardware step forward compared to previous models so I think people are extra excited to see what it can do. Nothing wrong with excitement in my book. It's just annoying to see people's excitement turn into petulant entitlement.

Darksavior

@quicksilver At the time, I noticed most complaints for the pi3b+ coming from the dull people that depend on pirate images. They were actually recommending others to not get the pi3b+ because their images weren't compatible.

quicksilver

@Darksavior those are the type of people that drag the whole project down. Luckily, for every one of them there are a ton more active and positive members of the community.

celly

@quicksilver spoken like a true prodigy.

Clyde

@quicksilver Hear, hear!

Trauma

I share my idea which helps me to wait until the Pi 4 version will be released :

I contribute to screenscraper.fr ! I translate, I note games, find informations, etc...

The more you help this website, the most accurate your library will be !

ziemski90

Hello everyone
would like to ask purse come out official software running on raspberry pi 4?

when will the official update come out fixing all bugs for raspberry PI 3?

quicksilver

@ziemski90 said in retropie for the PI4 ????:

when will the official update come out fixing all bugs for raspberry PI 3?

What bugs are you referring to?

DOPatrick

WOW. ok there is a lot of talk on this topic, im new to all this and all I was wanting to know if there was a time table or something. This will be my first build so I would like it to be a good cabinet for my family without having to buy a Desktop PC to run the games. im open to ALL suggestions how I should build this cabinet and what would work better. Thanks for all the help. BTW … why and how should I set up my buttons. seems a lot of different designs are out there

DOPatrick

BTW. to be clear here, im not demanding or expecting the new build. Im just looking for info on building me a retro gaming machine. thanks again for all the info

mitu

@DOPatrick said in retropie for the PI4 ????:

BTW. to be clear here, im not demanding or expecting the new build. Im just looking for info on building me a retro gaming machine. thanks again for all the info

You'd be better to open a new topic and add more details on what games you'd want to play, what systems you intend to include (NES/SNES/Arcade/etc.). There's lots of examples in the Projects forum with completed systems from various forum users.

matchaman

@DOPatrick said in retropie for the PI4 ????:

BTW. to be clear here, im not demanding or expecting the new build. Im just looking for info on building me a retro gaming machine. thanks again for all the info

The Raspberry Pi isn't a retro gaming machine. It's a mini hobby computer that you can also run emulators on. It's an optional bonus.