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    Is Retropie dead?

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    • retropieuser555R
      retropieuser555
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      It's more that the pi in general has been quite hard to come by for a long time, so activity and such is a little lower as the userbase will have reduced. When the chip shortage begins to ease over the next 1-2 years, you'll see an increase in interest in RetroPie overall. But there's definitely still development taking place as mentioned above.

      Also it's worth noting there probably isn't anything super groundbreaking that's worth a big update. Aside from maybe if someone makes a few significant UI updates (e g. Something like on screen keyboard)

      Pi 5 4GB

      Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

      Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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      • DarksaviorD
        Darksavior @retropieuser555
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        @retropieuser555 Bullseye support is needed. Most people doing manual installs of Retropie will install the latest version of the pi os without knowing that it won't work properly.

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          TheRiceKing @windg
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          @windg I hope you are right. It would be a shame for this project to die.

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            sleve_mcdichael @TheRiceKing
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            @TheRiceKing said in Is Retropie dead?:

            @windg I hope you are right. It would be a shame for this project to die.

            Don't hope, just look. RetroPie-Setup was last updated three days ago, on 29 April 2023:

            https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commits/master

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            • DTEAMD
              DTEAM @retropieuser555
              last edited by DTEAM

              @retropieuser555 said in Is Retropie dead?:

              It's more that the pi in general has been quite hard to come by for a long time, so activity and such is a little lower as the userbase will have reduced. When the chip shortage begins to ease over the next 1-2 years, you'll see an increase in interest in RetroPie overall. But there's definitely still development taking place as mentioned above.

              The Pi 4 seems to be available again at some official retailers and at the regular price. At least in canada

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              • retropieuser555R
                retropieuser555 @DTEAM
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                @DTEAM For sure, it seems relatively available here in the UK now. Not super easy to find but there's some stock. So hopefully it all picks up again

                Pi 5 4GB

                Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                • ByteThisB
                  ByteThis
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                  Finally the Pi's have been back intto production. This is a handy site if you are looking. Tells what's in stock and available..where it is being sold at and price. All versions of Pi's.

                  https://rpilocator.com/

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                    navyseai @TheRiceKing
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                    @TheRiceKing
                    Was wondering the same thing, as I really needed to update my Kodi to get back subtitles due to packages dependencies.. and the kodi is like 4 versions behind the current one.

                    I'm currently desperate to get some subtitles working...
                    In all providers I tried, besides opensubtitles addon which is now dead, only 1 seems to be working properly but barely has anything

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                    • retropieuser555R
                      retropieuser555 @navyseai
                      last edited by retropieuser555

                      @navyseai this is a Kodi problem rather than a RetroPie issue, updating won't help I think.

                      Specifically it's to do with changes open subtitles have made to their system. Could download them directly and add them next to your video file location, that works for me sometimes

                      Pi 5 4GB

                      Retroflag GPI with raspberry pi zero 2 w/ wifi

                      Retroachievements:- lovelessrapture

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                        navyseai @retropieuser555
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                        @retropieuser555 said in Is Retropie dead?:

                        @navyseai this is a Kodi problem rather than a RetroPie issue, updating won't help I think.

                        Specifically it's to do with changes open subtitles have made to their system. Could download them directly and add them next to your video file location, that works for me sometimes

                        Can you explain?
                        For instance, I need to run python 3 on raspberry in order to install the the kodi packages, but if retropie uses python 2 if i force the update I may break the retropie.
                        This is why we install the updates via retropie.
                        If retropie was supporting python 3 I could install the kodi packages to get my subtitles knowing it wouldn't break retropie

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                        • AshpoolA
                          Ashpool @navyseai
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                          @navyseai said in Is Retropie dead?:

                          python 2

                          Bullseye Buster was (due to the reason that Python 2 EOL was in 2020 (IIRC)) the last OS that came with python 2 and python 3, Bullseye and Bookworm are Python 3 only (retropie builds fine on each of them (32bit flavour), not sure whether 64bit still includes some culprits (though mine seem to be working fine (Bookworm 64bit/Pi4), but that is just running with a few selected systems)).

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