@BuZz Yeah understandable, thanks for replying!

@sleve_mcdichael Thank you very much. I printed your directions out and will right on it on Monday or Tues latest! Much appreciated!

@windg thanks and sorry for not spotting that post before making my own.

@navyseai said in Is Retropie dead?:

python 2

Bullseye Buster was (due to the reason that Python 2 EOL was in 2020 (IIRC)) the last OS that came with python 2 and python 3, Bullseye and Bookworm are Python 3 only (retropie builds fine on each of them (32bit flavour), not sure whether 64bit still includes some culprits (though mine seem to be working fine (Bookworm 64bit/Pi4), but that is just running with a few selected systems)).

@joelf said in What stops the update retropie script???:

How do I tell this thing to stop trying to update?!?

The setup script will automatically try to download missing packages if they're not present, so deleting packages.sh will not help. The 'update' you're experiencing is built-in the setup script.

If you know which version you had before the update, just rewind the RetroPie-Setup script at that version using git.

cd $HOME/RetroPie-Setup git fetch --tags # print the release tags git tag # Checkout a specific version git checkout <tag>

@BuZz said in I have to know - Imy upgrade procedure it's ok ? It's present some errors inside the LOG ?:

@DjDiabolik it's normal. They are built in packages (the code they install is part of RetroPie-Setup) and always update to ensure the latest runcommand, joy2key etc is installed. It's just how it works

OOOOKKK........ now i have a lot of knowledge about that :)
but in fact, the NOT presence of errors in the log it's peacefull.

How i already say... have to know :) And now i know :)

Thanks for info :)

It's probably too much to ask as that's 100s of projects and updates to curate. i would guess that every day there's at least one update to a bit of software in retropie.

just 'watch' the relevant projects in github. eg https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup to receive update messages.

updates are also summarized in each retropie release: https://retropie.org.uk/news/

@BuZz
Yes it is.
Thank you very much.

Hi,
I am new to retropie, but I was able to run in on raspbian bullseye. I am running rpi4 as a HTPC and audio player. It is not option for me to use pre-made images of retropie as I do not want to install and configure again all services already running on my pi.

So I just gave it a try. I have followed the manual installation steps. First run of retropie_setup.sh ended with errors that quite many deb packages cannot be found or installed. I am not sure why because I could found and install almost all those packages manually using aptitude. Well my system was not fully updated, so maybe that could be the reason.

One more execution of retropie_setup.sh complained about missing omxplayer package. That package is no more part of raspbian but I have succeeded to find it in some raspbian repo: https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/o/omxplayer/omxplayer_20190723+gitf543a0d-1+bullseye_armhf.deb So I have installed it. I have no idea whether the omxplayer works. What I have read about it, it should not work on bullseye. But retropie_setup.sh was happy with it and compiled the EmulationStation.

Now it is complaining about missing ilclient.hand it cannot build omxiv. Although I have found some sources with the ilclient I even did not give it a try installing them. They wrote it will not work on Bullseye and I even do not know what is the omxiv good for and whether I need it.

Today I was able to run EmulationStation. Well it was quite surprise for me that it works :-). But kids was able to play some old nintendo games, so I am happy :-).

@kaltertod oh, thank you for this information.

@quicksilver
Thank you!

@axelbrook Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@Heartless I'm not overly familiar with their development, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the latest version of either runs worse on the Raspberry Pi.

Ok, it looks like everything is working normally now that I put a Ethternet cable in the machine, and it was able to install everything. Looks like I need the Ethernet cable to do stuff.

@hansolo77 I think the retropie team is going to phase out any new binaries and updates for Jesse. The future is stretch. If your image on Jesse is running fine, there’s relly no reason to upgrade. But if you want the latest and greatest, it might be best to redo in stretch.

ok thank you

@jste84 If you are using "lr" emulators - your controllers are already configures for arcade play right now.

@pokeengineer said in Retropie wishlist:

@paffley

I might be able to put background music in ES based on Recalbox's version, when I have time... I have school stuff to do.

Sounds great! Keep us updated :)