ill try that, maybe it wont fritz out and go into a weird HD resolution on the old screen

@meneer-jansen My pleasure. :)

@fenris RetroPie is not supported on any Raspberry PI distro out there - check the docs. For instance, DietPI does not have the graphics stack installed and therefore it's not suited for RetroPie.

I'd advise to start by trying the pre-built images on the RetroPie download page (which are based on Raspbian Jessie Lite image) and see how it performs.

NES games should work fine on a PI Zero-W, but for SNES I'm not so sure - others may chime in.

@msnyder there is currently a discrepancy between the GitHub wiki and the pretty docs, and that's my fault so depending on which you looked at that line may not be there.

Once I sort out a bug in the build process I'm hoping this won't be an issue in the future.

@malleymob No prob, glad i could help save you the extra steps

if anyone is else has this problem, in terminal type

sudo bash

raspi-config

change boot option to console with login

As for the retro pie set up although it says programming error it still works.