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      Trying to install Retropie for the first time

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      @mitu Thank you for all your help, it seems to be working now!

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      First Boot Problems

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      @Dwarfboysim thank you for your help, I did all the installation from the start and it goes well.

      have a nice day :)

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      EASYGET LED arcade buttons and joystick are not being recognized by retro pie.

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      Well, the usual troubleshooting steps are

      start with the RetroPie image from retropie.org.uk/download. It's a tested and mostly stock Raspbian image and the best baseline system to start experimenting. make sure you have an adequate power supply and you don't get any under-voltage warnings. test if the device is detected by the OS by running a few command line utilities # see what USB devices are connected with lsusb # see what input devices are detected by the OS and what kind (gamepad/keyboard/mouse/etc.) cat /proc/bus/input/devices test if the device inputs are registered in the system by running a few joystick/gamepad testing programs fromt the command line that capture the button/joypad/d-pad presses and show them on the terminal: # 1st joystick jstest /dev/input/js0 # 2nd joystick jstest /dev/input/js1 # another testing utility evtest
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      Emulation Station lockup first install

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      If I do sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade it also locks up doing the upgrade. But I was able to both of these in Raspbian and Raspbian lite.

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      [SOLVED] First install issues - "end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)"

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      @mitu
      I was using 9zip to unzip the image and it wasn't unzipping the entire image file for some reason. Decided to, as an experiment, use winrar instead and I noticed the image file was a different size - I'd not even thought to check this.

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      So many options to choose for installation, what is ideal for a linux newbie?

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      @poja9 said in So many options to choose for installation, what is ideal for a linux newbie?:

      So there are no images for a non Raspbian based installation

      Nope. Not any official ones anyways.

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      N64 Controller

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      @paulatkinson616 said in N64 Controller:

      I really only intend to play N64 games on it

      Temper your expectations if you want to use a pi solely for n64. Some games are playable, but many have issues. Even on the PC n64 emulation struggles.

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      RetrePie 4.1 will not load past boot codes- end kernal panic- init_resize.sh failed

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      Its a new sd card that works fine on my phone and pc. The image is written with win32diskimager should I maybe use different writing software?