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 :)

@sleve_mcdichael

@sleve_mcdichael said in Going from Pi 3 to Pi 4 and keeping all settings, high scores, and so on:

Yeah, probably the controller profile was in this "configs" folder, which didn't get copied over with the other three.

I did that - synced the config directory. I've run into a problem and, since I felt it really wasn't a part of this topic, I started another thread on it. In short, all the controls on my arcade cabinet work except the spinner. I'm hoping there isn't some timing issue or something with the Pi4 that doesn't get along with the spinner.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Going from Pi 3 to Pi 4 and keeping all settings, high scores, and so on:

Aye, then yeah will have to copy them over the new system.

One thing I just love about Pis is that you can do that. You can pull a card or USB stick out of one and plug it into the other and it'll work fine - or you can pull the "drive" out of one and easily plug it in another and copy all the data to the new system.

@voidka
I have been monitoring the GitHub page and it appears there has been an increase of work on the next image. I may be wrong but I would expect it to come out in the next month or so.

@DJ151 Not to worry, you weren't disrespectful.

@mitu

Only as purely information:

Yesterday i have turned on my Pi4 for pass some hours on retrogaming.
I do my usually and periodicy check for update by retropie_setup including the kernel and os update.

During that i have noticied another update to components rpi-eeprom....... this time, if correct, as version 16.x.

When all update it's completed, exited from retropie_setup and back to emulationstation i have open the terminal whit F4 and i have tryed to check the status of eeprom by command:

sudo rpi-eeprom-update

Immediatelly after that i have noticed there's an update on side VL805 in pending.....
I don't have touch anythings...... i'm not triggered this update manually how i have do whit the booloader side.

I thinks, in someway, the autoupdate service it's now works.........

From same Terminal i have do:

sudo reboot

Waited my Pi4 reboot whiout any issue...... and now by Bootloader and VL805 as been update to current and last stable release.

I think they fixed that.... because, in the pass, although there were updates it seemed to skip them.

@G30FF Thank you :)

I decided to change the title to make it more relevant. I wasn't sure where to post the following yet as I was keen to share it in case this helps others.

We ran into a very painful issue while testing a recent build of DOSBox Staging. The sound was crackling like hell in almost every games tested and only pi4 platform was affected (pi3 was ok). Builds for macOS, x86, etc didn't have the issue either. After a long and rather difficult debugging session the culprit has been found (thanks to @kcgen!) > SpeexDSP's floating-point API is unreliable on current (32-bit) Buster. After compiling our own version everything went back to normal.

@ChaosEffect said in Tips for RetroArch 1.10.0:

@mitu I am not sure how often RetroPie's RetroArch will sync with upstream RetroArch. This is more of a typo correction than a new feature, but it makes the lightgun input operate as intended.

Thanks for the heads up. We don't update too often and we base the update on RetroArch's point releases, I guess it's one more reason to consider the next release for inclusion :).

Upgrading the OS is not supported by Raspbian nor RetroPie. You probably have found some instructions on how to upgrade using apt and updating its configuration files in /etc/apt, but it's not a recommended process, especially for a beginner.

If you wish to use an up-to-date/current version, use the image from http://retropie.org.uk/download. We don't support 3rd party image, as outlined in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

One of the perils when updating to the bleeding cutting edge firmware.

Unless it is really needed I advise to stick to a kernel and firmware that works well on your setup and make it permanent and use a more cautious update than full-upgrade.

Thanks to both of you! I have something like 90% of my stuff copied over and now just have to go through to tweak some of my custom settings.

@daragon said in Intel NUC 8i5BEK:

EDIT3 (and the last): NEVER and NEVER run an emulator using sudo command, that's why I could not properly configurate my controller - Retropie runs emulators without sudo I suppose...

Ah yes, this might make some sense after all. If you ran it with sudo the first time, the configuration file probably got saved with root ownership or permissions. Then when it runs as the regular pi user from ES, it doesn't have ownership or permission to edit the file most likely. I've seen the Windows version of this snafu before.

@mitu Amazing, thanks. I'll try this later and see if I can get everything updated

The main folders you want to back up are:

/home/pi/RetroPie (ROMs, BIOS files, splash screens) /opt/retropie/configs (configs for RetroArch, EmulationStation, also your scraped game library) /etc/emulationstation(custom themes as well as the systems ES has access to)

The RetroPie documentation has info on how to copy files. WinSCP or Filezilla are probably the easiest programs to use.

Copy those over from the 3B to the 4, and you should be fine. Note: after you flash the image onto your RPi4, you'll need to boot up with it for RetroPie to finish installing, then you can turn it off and start copying.

@mitu alright then, thanks for your help, I'll update my system asap

What version of RetroPie do you have currently installed ? If you used an image version older than 4.6, then you'll need to install from a new 4.6 image on the new system.

To transfer your existing files, backup your ROM/BIOS/Config files from the 3A+ installation, then restore them on the new installation.

@aidy80-s Have fun. 😁

@BuZz Brilliant. That's great!!! This will save me a lot of time as I have a 256GB microSD card full of ROMS and scraped covers. Thanks for your reply.