@sirhenrythe5th I completely agree! Needless to say we are very disappointed, but doing our best to make it work. And yes, I would LOVE to learn how to build my own image, that is something I think I would enjoy. I just need to educate myself further....much further to make that happen, which is what led me to this forum. I am just now piecing together all that goes into a proper image so I can explore building one of my own.

@mitu that make sense .. thanks for the help.

@pjwentink We don't support 3rd party images and links to ROM sites are not allowed by the forum rules You'll have to ask the image author for compatibility and please remove the link to the image.

Also a couple of other things - I just took a look at ETA prime’s video on an arcade1up conversion; I don’t see him using a third party image, he is just using the official image it seems with the “showcase” theme which you can download from the Retropie official version. There are a lot of cool themes people have created for the official version. The other thing is that just because ETA prime does something doesn’t mean people here necessarily support it. The guy seems like a good guy and I have certainly watched his videos for help but ultimately he is a profit-making enterprise for YouTube views, ads, affiliate links, etc, and (I think at least) he is not an official part of the RetroPie Project in any way. Finally keep in mind as you go forward on working on your project that videos of any kind are necessarily snapshots in time - they can be helpful but they can also become quickly outdated as soon as retropie is updated.

As said by @mitu , what you're asking is not possible the way you want it.
I'll just add that, taking into account what you're saying about your technical knowledge, using your laptop with retropie will be IMHO far more complicated than downloading and using an official retropie image for the raspberry pi.

You probably have a Raspberry Pi B+ rather than a Raspberry P 3B +, so you need to use the Pi 0/1 image rather than the P 2/3 image.

@topsys https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16307/retropie-4-3-15-stretch-images-for-testing

@kelvinnkat said in Does anyone have a version 3.6 RPi 3 image?:

why aren't old images on github?

When Cortés reached the new world, he burned his ships to inspire confidence in his men to move forward. With RetroPie however, I imagine it's simply a matter of practicality. Supporting the latest greatest release already takes a village. Supporting all the outdated images that have come and gone would be a pretty big burden. Personally, I don't see that 4.x is any less "plug and play" than 3.6. What are some examples that you've noticed?

@mgrabow It's a compressed .img file.