@BuZz I have a premade retropie in my raspberry pi zero, I use this one to play with 8/16 bit consoles and c64 emulators, with my raspberry pi 3 B i try to learn what are the things I can do, try which mame roms works and which not (without mess my primary retropie in raspberry pi zero), try to instal 3.5 lcd.....

@herb_fargus
I've just added a link to that FAQ entry :)

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Manual-Installation#boot-to-emulationstation

Thanks for the info. Can't wait for my Pi 3 to arrive!

No measurable performance increase from my testing. If you build from source you will get rpi3 optimised binaries.

Thanks for your help guys, I will install retropie and then the desktop environment.

Kinda eager to play some games... I have not played NES games since probably the early '90s.

I think I also saw somewhere that this will play old Tandy TRS-80 games? That's what I started on back when I was about 5yrs old... doubt the games are as fun as I remembered, but looking forward to playing this game again.

Toilet paper, zombies, aliens... game had it all....

Just to offer some insight, I've got a fresh installation of Raspbian Jessie with Pixel, and RetroPie 4.0.3 installed on a test Pi 3, and it's great. The new desktop is fine and reasonably swift, and RetroPie is fine.

I also performed a dist-upgrade on my main Pi 3, which was running Raspbian Jessie from the May 27th image, and had RetroPie 3.8 on it. This system had a lot of additional software, including a custom ffmpeg and retroarch build for RetroPie recording, along with monodevelop, VPN, kodi, and loads more, built over five months.

After the update the desktop suffered from random reloads of the main menu bar, but the worst effect was a noticeable lag when dragging windows around the screen. Moving Chromium around felt like the window was connected to the mouse by elastic (the rubber-banding effect in Daytona springs to mind!)

I'm currently restoring a backup. I think the only way forward, with a view to having a stable , reliable, system, is to manually rebuild the entire installation on the new Raspbian base, as I've no idea what's underlying the odd performance and stability issues. This seems to be a general rule with o/s upgrades on most platforms...

Right but like I said, it runs just fine and as expected if it's started manually after a restart.

Perhaps turning it into a service would be better since it needs to be run as root?

@mikeyb Hmm...how did you transfer the games over? Did you enable samba shares and do it that way? Are each system's games in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ ?

Cause yeah the systems should show up in emulationstation as soon as there are rom files in those folders.

Hey Eddie,

I think I did what you needed, can you please check and try this post ?

PS: for the dimming screen, did you add "consoleblank=0" to your cmdline ?

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@BuZz said in Issues Upgrading Wheezy to Jessie:

You should start from a new RetroPie image (eg v3.8.1) which is based on Jessie (or try the 4.0beta2 image released on the forum here).

Wheezy is no longer supported.

Starting fresh has healed all ailments. Appreciate the advice.