new to raspberry pi but cant for the love of god get retropie to work!!! PLEASE HELP

davies619

new to raspberry pi and cant get retropie to work, tried everything i can find on the internet but nothing. i download the file off retropie website and its a .img.gz file try to extract in 7zip but then it turns it into a .img.7z file and when i try to boot it all i get on the pie is a red power light.

Xyb0t

A quick guess is that something goes wrong when you try to extract.. it sound more like you compress it into a 7z-file instead of extracting it..

Try just double-clicking the gz-file, then take the file inside and drag it to your desktop.

Remember, tons of people are doing this every day, so it's pretty safe to assume that the gz and img files works exactly as they should.

Try looking through the installation guide once more
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

rbaker

@davies619 said in new to raspberry pi but cant for the love of god get retropie to work!!! PLEASE HELP:

tried everything i can find on the internet but nothing

You are looking in the wrong place. Do not waste your time. Simply follow the guide as referenced by @Xyb0t.

new to raspberry pi and cant get retropie to work

Also, this is unhelpful with regards to getting you any actual help at all. For example, if you had read
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, you would have already told us which version of retropie you are attempting to use on which hardware version. You do not, so we cannot assist any further. Also, from that list of required facts, what power supply are you using? Finally, your SD card - is it genuine? Is it on the compatible list?

You do mention that you have a solid red LED though. To me, this suggests that the Raspberry Pi cannot find a valid image on the SD card so you have either the wrong image, a corrupt image or the process of flashing the image has been carried out incorrectly. Many people mistakenly drag and drop the image and expect it to boot. You must use Win32 disk imager. Did you do this as indicated in the above link?

elgarlic

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elgarlic

@rbaker
This is great advice in general. But as Xyb0t said, he should not have ended up with a .7z file. It seems he just used 7zip to further compress his image instead of extracting it. Still, following the guide closely and carefully should set that straight.