Not very user friendly.
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@bazmonkey said in Not very user friendly.:
getting the computer to work was half of the fun
Nowadays you can get this feeling using Arch Linux! :-)
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@bazmonkey said in Not very user friendly.:
Dude, remember TSRs?
I try my hardest to forget...
DOS I can do but Unix is a bit of a mystery to me...
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You need to invest some time reading and maybe watch a few Youtube videos. Got my Pi3 running great everything configured the way I want it. Even Dragon's Lair on Daphne is up. Good luck.
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@Necrobot20XX said in Not very user friendly.:
I was just hoping for something to make RetroPie more user friendly
It couldn't be more user friendly! You get a free image provided for you, burn it, drop in roms and play. For those interested, it is infinitely tweakable. Bizzare statement. Takes 10mins to get running after reading the very clear wiki page. If you don't like reading, watch you tube where there are setup guides that also take 10mins.
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@bazmonkey said in Not very user friendly.:
@PetroRie said in Not very user friendly.:
You need to read manuals or even better check out some videos on YouTube...
Heh, kids. "Back in my day they didn't have online video tutorials. You had to read things... no illustrations! Uphill in the snow, blah blah blah...
...All there was to watch on TV at 2:30pm was Designing Women and soap operas! And we watched 'em!
Haha, I hope you got my point. I'm not saying that everything was better in the past I'm just saying I don't like the hype that so many people started to love 8 bit oldskool stuff just out of the blue. People getting all crazy about 8 bit music, while in reality it isn't even 8bit just some random notes played on a synthesizer, added some crappy arpeggio chords and that's it. Real 8 bit music was composed in a tracker, and usually it's just 4 channels like they used in the majority of the amiga cracktros and demos.
@plasmah77 It is true what you said but can you imagine if the RP had Windows on it? "Please download the updates", lol you have to buy an external harddisk just only for all the updates.
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I have to disagree as someone who builds PCs including at times configuring them at the code level... RetroPie is easy, though I have to sometimes ask for help, this distro can be equated to ubuntu as it has a vast and dedicated community...
the board on the other hand is another story as its not built to be easy, but the documentation is endless. (I currently have a Pi3 in a custom built case, Pi1B in limbo, and another Pi3 that is being turned into a home server)
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I watched hours of YouTube and read lots of tutorials and things online. I have everything working, it's just not how I want it. A lot of the menu options to tweak things just aren't easy to understand or it only applies to one system instead of all. If the option were easy to understand and quick to get to (like the Retron 5) I would love it. Right now it's just easier to run different emulators on my PC because the options are easier to understand and the menus are easy to get to. I was just hoping that with the pi I would be able to have a dedicated all-in-one retro emulator system that was also easy to take on trips or to a friend's house.
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I don't understand the statement. I dump the image, copy a few roms, disable overscanning, configure a controller and I'm done.
And I've built many RetroPi's for other people. There is a group on FB that provides images that are pre-setup but every config is slightly different. I'm also pretty sure they also include roms (tisk tisk) but each images is 32 or 64 gig. Not a smart way of spreading it around. This distribution is just lazy if you ask me
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I like to believe that half the enjoyment is getting something so small and cheap to do so much with so little. I never delved into Linux or coding until the Pi and now find myself doing it as a past time. As was mentioned earlier, perhaps Recalbox or even Lakaa would be more to your liking.
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@Necrobot20XX said in Not very user friendly.:
I watched hours of YouTube and read lots of tutorials and things online. I have everything working, it's just not how I want it. A lot of the menu options to tweak things just aren't easy to understand or it only applies to one system instead of all. If the option were easy to understand and quick to get to (like the Retron 5) I would love it. Right now it's just easier to run different emulators on my PC because the options are easier to understand and the menus are easy to get to. I was just hoping that with the pi I would be able to have a dedicated all-in-one retro emulator system that was also easy to take on trips or to a friend's house.
I keep seeing you compare RetroPie with Retron 5...
(For those that do not know Retron 5 is a retro console)
The argument is flawed right away because Retron 5 is all its own programing... RetroPie is not.
In the RetroPie 3.8 for example you have a board and base operating system from Raspberry Pi Foundation, then you have EmulationStation which is its own group, RetroArch in its own group and the RetroPie.... None are part of the other so its impossible to do the things Retron 5 does... even using Emulators on PC cant do the same as Retron 5.
Because RetroPie uses emulators that are compatible with the ARM Architecture the selection is limited.... It is also easier to use other emulators known to work, than to program ones... and because RetroPie is done by people in their free time, not as part of a corporate company...
If you need experience with this, work on a minimal Linux build to get a sense of the backend program...
also, the reason some configurations are universal is because they are not the same emulator
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@Necrobot20XX said in Not very user friendly.:
I am an above average computer user and have been using emulators for years.
This is hard to believe as I know there isn't a single emulator that would work for all systems RetroPie has or even half of it...
Also Above average Computer user would know the difference between a console and computer board...
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