@logiseye said in System Environment Variable pointing to RetroPie dir?:

@horaceandspider Just tried your tip. Unfortunately e.g. UAE config maker fails, since not only /home/pi is burned in, but also the username pi (e.g. chown pi:pi gets called). And amiberry does seemingly not like symlinks.

@logiseye scripts should be able to use ~/RetroPie. That will point to the RetroPie directory in the home directory of the current user.

All the paths on UAE Config Maker can be changed using the command-line options:

--scandirs
--outputdir
--rom-path

The RetroPie Menu script, you are correct, does use a chown to 'pi' but that can be manually edited, and the script is only provided for less technical users, and is not really the suggested running method.

I will look at switching to ~/RetroPie by default however which seems a clean solution