@mindwave

Win32DiskImager is what I use as well to backup my RPi images.

This site has an easy to follow guide: https://howchoo.com/g/nmexndnlmdb/how-to-back-up-a-raspberry-pi-on-windows

@mitu thx

@aimbit said in Flashing (outdated?) image to a new Pi 4 - Error Message on boot (Req. new software):

Is this something I can update on there, make a new backup image, and flash to my newer pi?

Update your system from the RetroPie-Setup on the old system - say yes when asked to update the included kernel and OS packages - then transfer again a backup to the new system.

@Boozina said in Cant install Pi4 images:

Used Images from Arcade Punks

We don't support 3rd party images. Use the Pi4 image from retropie.org.uk/download and it will work.

@BuZz editing /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand.cfg did the trick, thankyou! :-)

@IceRook88 see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/ - we only support the images referred to here (ie https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/#download)

Next to mame2003, I can recommend its enhanced fork mame2003-plus and another arcade emulator called Final Burn Neo that is under ongoing development. But beware that every emulator needs its very own romset for the games to work, see Validating, Rebuilding, and Filtering Arcade ROMs.

@hhromic interesting! i've added the info from this thread to the docs: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Docs/pull/15

dankcushions created this issue in RetroPie/RetroPie-Docs closed GAME MODE via config.txt, plus note #15

we do not support third party images.

@fullauto2009 An upgrade in place is not recommended, as it's not supported even by Raspbian. Note that attractmode is not compatible yet with the Pi4.

lr-beetle-psx has aarch64 dynarec support, but not sure how viable it is (its arm32 dynarec support is lacking). i think on the emulation side the tide has turned somewhat in aarch64 support and i'm eager to try it.

but yeah, as said because raspbian userland isn't 64-bit it's not viable for retropie at this time, but i am curious how you get on with a ubuntu 64 base image on a pi4. i guess you could compile the mesa drivers from source (if they support 64-bit?), and then modify the system.sh retropie script to use 64-bit compile flags for the pi4 platform. you would probably have to modify many of the emulator scripts which make a lot of assumptions about rpi and ARM support, also.

If you want to set up a new model, simply clone your /home/pi/RetroPie folder to your PC, install RetroPie on the new SD card, delete the new /home/pi/RetroPie folder, replacing it with the existing one.

@kreid90 where did you get your retropie image from?

@Darksavior

That makes total sense then.

@mitu Cool! Thanks a million for that I appericiate it. Yeah the wonder of Chineseum arcade controller sets from Amazon... every time the keyboard encoders are ever so slightly different with some showing as something like Micronek (Microtek) and some as Dragon something.

Thanks again

@v-roshpi Contact the seller ? You can download RetroPie from our site, and try and get that to work but you will need to contact them for configuration unless you know what it's using to interface etc

I'm not sure if it's possible to remove a help option, but you can set a blank (transparent) image for the last/first slot of the help buttons row and then shuffle the other buttons left (or right).
You can also remove the mapping for the button from the /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg file - make sure you back it up first, just in case editing it goes awry.

Batocera Linux has a x86 and x64 distribution image. I don't know which linux distribution it is based on.

@mitu
The device setup I was thinking would be like this on the raspberry pi
USB1: Usb image boot, raspbian? smaller.
Micro-SDslot: unformatted new microsd (the target of the image write)
USB2: Usb microsd adapter (the source of the image write)

rpi-clone; and I thought I made it sound confusing.