Whats The Date Again?: Episode II

lilbud

One year ago @zigurana made a post celebrating the 4th anniversary of RetroPie. Now, it's my turn.

A Numbers Game

4 MAJOR releases
75+ different systems supported
30+ games that not even bother with emulation anymore, but are directly ported to run on the RPi.
7,500+ topics and 30,000+ replies on the old PetrockBlog forum and many more on the "New" RetroPie forum (It's not new anymore)
381 Github repositories that have 'RetroPie' in their name.
4600+ commits on Github-RetroPie-Setup
46 additional games to experiment with via Github-RetroPie-Extra's
165 Wiki pages and counting
∞ hours spent on configuring, tinkering, hacking and of course GAMING!

Our great moderators

They work tirelessly basically around the clock to keep this place tidy. They do a great job that is often underappreciated and they deserve a big round of

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BuZz
Herb Fargus
Floob
dankcushions
PetrockBlog
Rookervik
Mediamogul

All the other active contributors

Most only come to this forum for 2 things: Asking how to get ROMs, and asking for support.

But some come to this forum for a different purpose, providing themes, splashscreens, coding scripts to simplify things, cough cough Meleu cough cough. Projects they'd like to share and use to inspire others, or even entirely new frontends. We thank them for their work on this forum

MediaMogul
meleu
caver01
Rookervik
lilbud
RetroResolution
FluffyPillow
Ruckage
and the list goes on and on...

Happy Birthday RetroPie

Here's to many more

And if you want to show some gratitude to the ones who make the wheels go round and round, (besides watching them roll) you can send them some coffee.

Fruitybit

@lilbud While a lot of the info on here goes straight over my head, I just bimble along as best I can, what really impresses me time after time is the effort and extent these folks go to help. Big thumbs up from me, and cake, always cake:))

herb_fargus

Thanks to everyone here in the community! Wouldn't be here without all these people who are smarter than me.

Of course we all know @BuZz is the greatest.

In honour of today I am wearing my favourite shirt:

mediamogul

They say the fifth anniversary gift is wood, but since this is a family forum, I'll just offer my deepest and most sincere congratulations and appreciation to everyone on another amazing year. Happy birthday RetroPie!

Oh, what the hell...

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ortsac

Maybe a "Retropie 5th Aniversary" edition release would be nice.....with all the latest improvements, themes, etc...

BuZz

Cheers to everyone for their contributions to RetroPie and being part of this retro gaming community.

A Former User

Dang, RetroPie has aged so much.

Anyone have an old picture of retropie?

lilbud

@itsnitro Don't have much of a picture, but I can describe how awful and unfriendly towards beginners it was.

RETROPIE 2.6

Controllers had to be configured for ES and Retroarch separately
Hotkeys had to be added manually
Theming was extremely limited with what you could do.
Setting up WiFi was difficult, needing to be done manually through an obscure file (etc/network/interfaces)
Scraping anymore than 10 - 15 games could take an entire day and was prone to errors

Anyone got more to add to this list?

meleu

@lilbud

Anyone got more to add to this list?

no RetroAchievements

meleu

@lilbud
We can't forget the artists that make our system looks awesome:

Also, the ES hackers:

@Zigurana
@jdrassa
@pjft
@Hex
and the list goes on

A Former User

I made this small jingle for the 5-year anniversary. :D
https://clyp.it/5nlhgwnx

jozzy1

Happy Birthday and a MASSIVE thankyou from myself who continues to be amazed by the sheer awesomeness of RetroPie. Thanks to everyone involved for such a great project!

dudleydes

@itsnitro

Here are some screenshots of my RetroPie v1.9 build from May 2014.

This was a theme for NES I was working on in EmulationStation 1.0. before RetroPie v2 with ES 2.0 was released in July 2014.

There was no systems screen in EmulationStation 1.0; it was straight to the games list. I would use left and right on the D-pad to navigate between systems. It could take a few seconds for ES to wake up and respond to the key press so I would press the D-pad again (and again). ES would move past the system I wanted so I had to scroll back.

The Doom theme needed some work.

This was the last screen in ES before I would need to scroll left for the other systems. I never used it as there wasn't any documentation available explaining its purpose. This was my first install guide for connecting a PS3 controller via bluetooth. After using it, I became accustomed to editing config files manually, something I still prefer to do in the latest version of RetroPie.

Booting up v1.9 on my RasPi 1 Model B took me back to the day when I first installed RetroPie via the setup script. I started around 3pm on a Saturday afternoon and I was ready to play my first game at 10pm. It was definitely worth it.

Over the years, It's been a pleasure to have seen the many improvements in RetroPie so that I can install it and be playing inside half an hour. Many thanks to those concerned for their hard work.

A Former User

Wow, RetroPie has changed a loooooot.
So much has changed.

dudleydes

@lilbud The most important introduction to EmulationStation 2.0 was the ability to shut down the Pi safely from the options menu. The only way I found to do this in my v1.9 build was to run sudo shutdown -h now via SSH.

lilbud

@dudleydes said in Whats The Date Again?: Episode II:

sudo shutdown -h now

If I had a dollar for every time I typed sudo shitdown -h now instead of shutdowni'd be rich

A Former User

You'd get rich from a lot of shit.

Seinfeld Theme plays

pjft

Oh, great job with starting this topic!

Happy birthday RetroPie! It's been a tremendous year, and a whole lot of fun. Thank you all for making this a welcoming, fantastic community to be part of, and for making RetroPie a vibrant, healthy project.

lilbud

@itsnitro ~~Think it'd be okay for me to use this in a video splashscreen?~~

Never Mind

cyperghost

@pjft Not vibrant - pulsating and of course healthy.
Long live RetroPie, на сдорове