There's people all over Amazon, eBay, and Mercari selling them, too. Not saying it's right, just saying that it's not uncommon.

@Bastelbudde said in Selling Arcade Cabinets With Twister OS and RetroPie:

First of all, I wanted to find out whether it is allowed to sell a Pi with Retropie?

Not quite - see https://retropie.org.uk/about/legal/. The RetroPie image includes software with non-commercial license, so it's not legal to sell it or include it in your kit.

If not, could I sell a Pi without any software and send the customer instructions or a link?

You can sell the hardware (the arcade cabinet) and provide instructions on how it can be made to work with something like RetroPie or other Pi supported gaming system.

@herb_fargus - Yeah all the wankers are coming out of the woodwork for the holidays trying to make a dollar. I think a guy would spend all of his free time trying to stop them with any type of impact. They are just a dime a dozen everywhere now infringing on the RetroPie name, logo and even boot-up screens. One vendor mentions they would need to upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4 to correct the issue so they must follow the project closely.

Hopefully that speaks to the success of RetroPie but also I was talking with a guy that claimed RetroPie was getting in the way of understanding/configuring Retroarch. I thought that's the point. RA might receive a 9 or 10 for flexibility and power but maybe 4 or 5 for ease and usability. It takes time to learn RA effectively. RetroPie simplifies all that configuration, unifies non-Libretro cores and standalone ports alike under one user interface with many of the configuration options in a GUI or menu.

The success of the Nintendo mini's and the recent Atari VCS kickstarter attests to people willing to pay big dollars for a simplified user experience an that's one of the places where I think RetroPie delivers.

You don't see all these fly-by-night Amazon market place vendors singing the praises of RA or Libretro. They advertise these cards with RetroPie at the front and 11,000 ROMs plug-n-play ready with room to add your own games in the descriptions. I'm a bit surprised Nintendo didn't focus more of it's energy toward these type of folks openly selling their games on the Amazon marketplace. They are definitely not in for the spirit or love of gaming as most are here.

I did clean up the post and remove the links above so as to not aid and abet their greed.

Thank you guys I appreciate the feedback!

@buzz said in www.retrogame.club another scam site selling retropie pre-installed:

@kilopie

I know what you mean, I've tried reporting in the past, and they make the report system as difficulty as possible.
A lot of them won't even hear from you unless you are the licence holder of the copyright infringement in question.
Ends up just being a waste of time, and like you say, draws bad attention to the people who are legitimately using Retropie...

The people selling this particular unit are using Recalbox, not RetroPie. You can tell by the theme in the video they posted.

These people cashing out on this sort of setup are a dime a dozen anymore, there's little any of us can do to stop it. Take one down, 5 pop up in it's place. It's the sad reality, make something nice and somebody else is guaranteed to ruin it somehow.

@arkive yep. They care more about their bottom line instead of the law. They will only bother if they get a strongly worded legal intent to sue.