Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!

Capeman

I just recently left a retropie facebook group that started off as a support group but slowly overtime turned into a "were making a preloaded image that looks like hyperspin" forum and filled with mostly kids/trolls... (group used to be called Retropie but changed its name to Project HyperPie, best avoided, nothing of value anymore)

What really amazes me is people start off as ignorant to an issue, but when they are informed of the negative facts associated, they immediately go into "defensively and willfully ignorant" mode... they get mad when presented with facts they dont like and start attacking anyone who doesn't subscribe to their version of reality. This is kind of behavior is hitting a fever pitch lately here in the States, doesnt even matter the subject anymore.

People are just terrible.

mediamogul

@Capeman said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

People are just terrible.

That was my prom theme.

Hiroshi

There's a pre-populated 64gb image on torrent sites called "Project RetroPie" too, which can't help.

It's ironic that the Mini-NES and such have actually (massively) increased the amount of ROM piracy.

Capeman

@Hiroshi Exactly! Nintendo's "popularity by scarcity" tactics have caused an absolute flood of people looking for some way to play old games on a little box, and what comes up on the first google search?

128GB PRE LOADED RETROPIE WITH 65,000 GAMES ROMZ WAREZ OMG LADY GAGA KEYWORD KEYWORD KEYWORD NES-MINI

space cadet

I think it's so much more fulfilling to do it on your own! So east download the retropie image, setup, and add roms. Who needs 65000 games? I'm lucky to play 1 a week with my lil ones!

markyh444

@space-cadet I'm only allowed to play Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends on the Megadrive on mine when my son is about because he likes it.

He knows nothing. That game is shit.

Capeman

@markyh444 My oldest (3yo) is just getting started with games, we play Freeway on Atari because it's the simplest fun game i could find.

Also got my wife to do some gaming with me in the evenings (which i consider doing the impossible)... but she ONLY wants to play tetris 2 player... so im not sure if i consider that a victory or not.

markyh444

@Capeman 2 player Tetris! I'd not claim that as a victory if I were you...

Hiroshi

@Capeman Two-player Tetris is a gateway game to Dr.Robotniks Mean Bean Machine!

Capeman

@markyh444 i did the first week or so... im on about week 4 of nothing but tetris... I mean, c'mon, there are other/better puzzle games! She won't even try Puzzle Fighter 2

space cadet

What I meant was between taking care of lil ones and work there is no time to play : (

markyh444

@Capeman You should load up a two-player Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends session on the Megadrive dude....

Capeman

@markyh444 Oh im already planning on adding that gem! I like to give really bad games a good run through sometimes.

backstander

@markyh444

I'm only allowed to play Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends on the Megadrive on mine when my son is about because he likes it.

My son loves Thomas but all he wants me to do is load up Kodi so he can watch the 1st Pixar Cars movie. I mean it was a great movie the first time I watched it but I'm getting really tired of it. Lucky for me there's a 3rd Cars movie coming out soon. Maybe it will give us a little more variety. Also he loves the 2nd Disney Planes movie.

You should try the SNES version of Thomas for some variety. For some reason it's completely different than the Megadrive version but it's still crap!

markyh444

@backstander I'll admit I did load up the SNES one previously, but preferred the repetitive tedium of the Megadrive one. sigh

backstander

@markyh444
Yeah the Megadrive version does feel like it moves through the game a little faster.

massatomic

Morning all, your right and that did escalate rather quickly.

This became one of the greatest witch hunts I have ever seen on a forum and hardy constructive of a good community. If you go back and read threw the thread the poor fella answered all your questions and asked for help in flashing a new image onto the device once he was alerted to his situation

@Billy-Lee said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

Had no idea, mate. They have a page on facebook as you can see and most stuff you do see advertised via facebook seems to be legit. What do you mean, download a new image?? As I say, I'm new to all this.

but you were all to busy flaming him which resulted in a very distasteful reference to his family, banning him and then the discussion descending into talk about piracy. The very thing you flamed him about

markyh444 please for the sake of not lookin like a complete hypocrite post a picture of yourself with the original cartridge for "Freeway on Atari" and "Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends on Megadrive" or some kind of proof that you actually own these games or it could be considered that you are no better then the op.

I am a serial forum lurker, I really enjoy some of the great discussions and information that you can find on them. I have been coming on here daily for a couple of months and could not bear to witness what was going on in this topic any longer so I signed up to help the poor fella.

I totally understand where the devs and admins are coming from, the retro pie project is something that is completely amazing and I truly thank you for all you hard work. I personally bought a package out of china that came with every thing that I needed and it also had a pre flashed card(no games). I re flashed the card because I wanted to know that I had the latest version. I bought it because I didn't want to buy several pieces of equipment from different stores and have them all turn up weeks apart or not at all to my remote location. I would have bought from directly from the project had there been an option to get a bundle from the site unfortunately this is not currently an option. You might find that if you offer an alternative to the other sites you would instantly stop this illegal trade, even it you did it at wholesale prices to make sure that you undercut them or with a fee on top to support the project, hell you could use a pay what you want system and I think there would be plenty of donations to the cause.

@mediamogul said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

I'm sure everyone is willing to move forward constructively to help you as a new user in any way we can

I am not sure that this will ever happen @mediamogul , the poor fella begged for help and wanted to be apart of this community but he got chewed up and spat out.

mediamogul

@massatomic said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

I would have bought from directly from the project had there been an option to get a bundle from the site unfortunately this is not currently an option.

To my understanding, it would still be illegal for the RetroPie project to bundle the RetroPie package in a commercial offering.

I am not sure that this will ever happen... he got chewed up and spat out.

Tempers flared because it's a deeply sensitive subject around here, but if he were to come back after his ban is up and was willing to abide by the forum rules for support, I'm sure he'd be welcome.

mattrixk

@Hiroshi said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

@Capeman Two-player Tetris is a gateway game to Dr.Robotniks Mean Bean Machine!

My sister-in-law broke my original MegaDrive playing so much Mean Bean Machine. Mind you, it was over a decade old at the time...

massatomic

@mediamogul

@mediamogul said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

To my understanding, it would still be illegal for the RetroPie project to bundle the RetroPie package in a commercial offering.

I have absolutely no clue to the legalities of such a package, as I said I didn't get mine because it had a pre flashed card, I bought it because it did have all the components in one place from one sender, I am sure a link to any number of great tutorials out there would suffice to get people up and running if the only problem was flashing the card

@mediamogul said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

Tempers flared because it's a deeply sensitive subject around here, but if he were to come back after his ban is up and was willing to abide by the forum rules for support, I'm sure he'd be welcome.

I can certainly see that, but if you look back at the start of the thread this bloke did say, in my own interpretation,
"hey look, I have absolutely no clue what I am doing! I, like probably 99% of the population had no idea that a multi billion international company like facebook would advertise such stuff, I had no idea it happened. I am happy to reflash the card to be apart of your community but I really need your help along the way!

@Billy-Lee said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:
Had no idea, mate. They have a page on facebook as you can see and most stuff you do see advertised via facebook seems to be legit. What do you mean, download a new image?? As I say, I'm new to all this.

That's what I read from the message, but the next post was more flame