Whats The Date Again?: Episode II

A Former User

Dang, RetroPie has aged so much.

Anyone have an old picture of retropie?

lilbud

@itsnitro Don't have much of a picture, but I can describe how awful and unfriendly towards beginners it was.

RETROPIE 2.6

Controllers had to be configured for ES and Retroarch separately
Hotkeys had to be added manually
Theming was extremely limited with what you could do.
Setting up WiFi was difficult, needing to be done manually through an obscure file (etc/network/interfaces)
Scraping anymore than 10 - 15 games could take an entire day and was prone to errors

Anyone got more to add to this list?

meleu

@lilbud

Anyone got more to add to this list?

no RetroAchievements

meleu

@lilbud
We can't forget the artists that make our system looks awesome:

Also, the ES hackers:

@Zigurana
@jdrassa
@pjft
@Hex
and the list goes on

A Former User

I made this small jingle for the 5-year anniversary. :D
https://clyp.it/5nlhgwnx

jozzy1

Happy Birthday and a MASSIVE thankyou from myself who continues to be amazed by the sheer awesomeness of RetroPie. Thanks to everyone involved for such a great project!

dudleydes

@itsnitro

Here are some screenshots of my RetroPie v1.9 build from May 2014.

This was a theme for NES I was working on in EmulationStation 1.0. before RetroPie v2 with ES 2.0 was released in July 2014.

There was no systems screen in EmulationStation 1.0; it was straight to the games list. I would use left and right on the D-pad to navigate between systems. It could take a few seconds for ES to wake up and respond to the key press so I would press the D-pad again (and again). ES would move past the system I wanted so I had to scroll back.

The Doom theme needed some work.

This was the last screen in ES before I would need to scroll left for the other systems. I never used it as there wasn't any documentation available explaining its purpose. This was my first install guide for connecting a PS3 controller via bluetooth. After using it, I became accustomed to editing config files manually, something I still prefer to do in the latest version of RetroPie.

Booting up v1.9 on my RasPi 1 Model B took me back to the day when I first installed RetroPie via the setup script. I started around 3pm on a Saturday afternoon and I was ready to play my first game at 10pm. It was definitely worth it.

Over the years, It's been a pleasure to have seen the many improvements in RetroPie so that I can install it and be playing inside half an hour. Many thanks to those concerned for their hard work.

A Former User

Wow, RetroPie has changed a loooooot.
So much has changed.

dudleydes

@lilbud The most important introduction to EmulationStation 2.0 was the ability to shut down the Pi safely from the options menu. The only way I found to do this in my v1.9 build was to run sudo shutdown -h now via SSH.

lilbud

@dudleydes said in Whats The Date Again?: Episode II:

sudo shutdown -h now

If I had a dollar for every time I typed sudo shitdown -h now instead of shutdowni'd be rich

A Former User

You'd get rich from a lot of shit.

Seinfeld Theme plays

pjft

Oh, great job with starting this topic!

Happy birthday RetroPie! It's been a tremendous year, and a whole lot of fun. Thank you all for making this a welcoming, fantastic community to be part of, and for making RetroPie a vibrant, healthy project.

lilbud

@itsnitro ~~Think it'd be okay for me to use this in a video splashscreen?~~

Never Mind

cyperghost

@pjft Not vibrant - pulsating and of course healthy.
Long live RetroPie, на сдорове

A Former User

@lilbud Go for it-
awww

lilbud

@itsnitro I was about to, but then I realized that the song is 40sec long, a bit too much for a video splashscreen.

Besides, I remembered Mario Paint Composer and am trying to make music

A Former User

I can shorten it if you want.

lilbud

@itsnitro Nah, it's okay.

What software did you use?

A Former User

@lilbud Only the professional of the professional, FL Studio 12.4.

lilbud

@itsnitro Looks a bit too complicated for me, I'll just stick to Mario Paint Composer