Which Station To Use?
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I recently ordered parts to make a game boy zero and was going to Retropie. While I was looking around and emulators for just my laptop, I ended up going to RetroArch's website and looking around. I saw their interface reminding me of the Play Station setup, and i became torn on which to choose. I tested out the new RetroArch on my laptop and found it was nice, but just tedious to manage settings. This is also how i remember Retropie working. I mainly looking of which of these is easier to manage settings for. Things like adjusting the graphics on the games and controller input. RetroArch seems user friendly, but i really like the how Retropie has the themes and all the covers. I noticed that RetroArch has things like shaders and cheats which I don't know if Retropie has. Which one should I use, and what are the pros and cons?
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Retropie doesn't support just using Retroarch as your frontend. Retropie will launch Retroarch to play your games depending on how you have things set up and which cores you've installed. Shaders and cheats are all handled by the emulators themselves, not Retropie.
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@octopus3535 Retropie is not an OS or software, but a way of installing and integrating many different emulators and front-ends together. Retropie uses many of the RetroArch emulators and wraps the EmulationStation front end over it to give it a slick feel. There is also another front end in development, and the option to install and use Attract Mode instead already.
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I know that Retropie uses RetroArch, but can you still edit the same settings in RetroPie as if you installed RetroArch station?
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@octopus3535 said in Which Station To Use?:
I know that Retropie uses RetroArch, but can you still edit the same settings in RetroPie as if you installed RetroArch station?
Yes you can. But, if you prefer to have just the PS3/PSP-looking RetroArch UI instead of EmulationStation and only just the libretro cores, you might want to look at Lakka instead. Lakka is a lightweight retro gaming OS that solely runs on RetroArch and works on a lot of devices (including the Raspberry Pi). It is the official OS for RetroArch and automatically has the RetroArch UI mode listed above enabled. Also, it has themes and shaders, just like RetroPie. You can learn more about it here.
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Yeah I saw what Lakka was i just assumed that it was a background Linux that RetroArch ran off of. I think in the end since I'm making one of the Gameboy Zeros I'll stick with Retropie on it and make a flash drive with Lakka. Over time if i decide to prefer on I'll change it that OS. Also is there any where that describes what cores are best?
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@octopus3535 said in Which Station To Use?:
Also is there any where that describes what cores are best?
yes, retropie's defaults :) you can look at individual system wiki pages to see more information about what the different cores entail.
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