If I can add my contribution... I recently tried (like 2 weeks ago) to Update the RetroPie (I'm on 3B+ and had it since 2020 like you). I even had a message stating that my version (Stretch, I think I was on 3.8) was not supported anymore, but I still did it.

Unfortunately it took hours (building from source was the only option) and broke everything.

So I flashed and restarted from scratch (made a copy of my configs and bios/roms folder first), using latest image from the RetroPie website... now it looks like a charm but I need to redo all the custom setup I had. I use the configs backup only as a reference since configs parameters might have changed and didn't want to break things again.

I wish you luck :)

Should work fine on an SSD. You just have to install manually or use an unofficial build without support. You'll probably gain faster OS boot times.

@Exalos No.

Things get more difficult if you don't read the wiki or if you don't provide the important information about the system where the problem exists.
I made the same mistake the first time I tried RetroPie , I found it all very complicated, but they wasn't.

Does it work on a RasPI OS image ? What instructions did you use to install/configure the display ?

RetroPie doesn't boot into the Vice emulator by default, did you modify the auto-start sequence ?

I have software/some games, how do I load/run my games on the Pi400 C64??

You can copy the game files (floppy/cassete images) in the c64 rom folder and you can then load them from the Vice menu. Normally, if you start in the EmulationStation front-end, they would be listed and you can just start each one from the list with vice/lr-vice.

Do I put all my games onto a Flash drive and plug that into the Pi400?
Or do I put them on the SD card?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/

@buzz Thank you! Flashed and booted perfectly.

I gave up, ZXBAremulator much easier and workd a treat.

@mitu fixed

You should talk to the vendor of the board - maybe they have a way to check for faulty wiring ? Looking at the documentation for the board, it looks like it's using GPIONext and that should detect any GPIO inputs easily.

@lolonois Good call. Now I know what the hotkeybtn is used for.

@mitu
ok I did it so as not to be repetitive

@oleguer said in Make super pc using raspberry & retropie??:

And my question is, you can put 2or4 raspberry pi on raid to use like one "big" pc to use retropie and enhanced the emulator cores??

That's not how clustering or RAID works.

or this is imposible on retropie??

This task distribution/scaling is not suited for emulation.

you know what i did. i just did a fresh install - retropie 4.6 image. thanks for all the info and help, but a fresh install isnt that hard, it takes a couple of hours and then everything is working fine. also, the time and effort needed to upgrade the whole lot with all side complications possible - and having to resolve them -, that would perhaps take longer than just simply imaging the whole sd card to a disk image (.img) then flash it with retropie 4.6 and then mount the .img and return the whole lot to its folders.

A connection that becomes loose? "The issue comes back."

OMG! This ARRM tool looks trully A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

I didn't have any knowledge about this tool! This could be the answer for all my troubles!

Thank you!

Ok, half a day later, I realize one (perhaps small) problem concerning the Pi4 project. As I am going to build two Arcade Machines together with a friend of mine, I had to setup RetroPie twice. One on a Pi3b+ and one on my Pi4. Testing with the old "Hyper Sports" on mame2003, I realize a perfect behavior on the 3b+ but a small delay on the Pi4. So pushing the button and taking effect differences a little bit (made me miss the skeets on skeet-shooting ;-) ). Do you have any idea why this is and - much more important for me - how to solve this problem?

Best regards,

Rufus

@Evert said in FB Alpha 0.2.97.43 Pre-Compiled Version:

I understand that you can just opt to not update your system, but what if you are building a new system?

back up your lr-fbalpha.so binary i guess.

@filippoaceto said in Install retropie on ubuntu:

Is there any way to install retropie on pi4 with ubuntu?

No, on a Raspberry Pi only Raspbian is supported.

Worth it not to have to worry about a sensor bar. I'm getting them for my arcade, but would also like to use them for my computer. Moving the sensor bar around could cause problems with the wire.