Image for pi 3A+

chmitard

So the image for raspberry pi 2/3 doesn't immediately work for the new pi 3A+. It seems necessary to load up in a pi3B board and make a few edits before popping the card in the A+ board. The following is taken from a post by crash cortez on eta prime's facebook group:

"Put your sd card into your pi3b and go into terminal. Type:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
After that is done go into raspi-config and make these changes.
In advanced options
Memory split = 348
And in boot options make it
Auto login into console
Let it reboot an make sure it boots into emulationstation. Then turn it off and move the sd card to the pi3a+ and turn it on.
You might need to reset the WiFi country, I didn’t but others have.
Game on."

Cool, nice work crash. But what if you don't have another board on which to make these edits. Does anyone know of an image with these edits made already thats available to download?

BuZz

I will provide an image soon. You can try these - I built the other day. Untested

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_knGioK16E6eXJIZEtnMDJTeVk

mitu

@chmitard You can download the Raspbian Lite image and attempt a manual installation instead of using the pre-made image - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/.

chmitard

@BuZz Cheers for allowing access to this. I'll have a play and let you know how I get on!

chmitard

@BuZz Dude, I loaded up with the 4.4.4 image for pi2/3 and I'm currently setting a few things up, seems like a goer! thanks for your hard work!

seanygh

@chmitard How did you get on that image, is it up and running.

chmitard

@seanygh yeah man, seems pretty stable. I've not done anything too technical with it yet, but it loads up and plays the limited collection I've got.

seanygh

@seanygh ONLY USING RAsPIAN FURST

fdr4prez

@BuZz - I tested your untested img on my new RPI3A+ and it seems to work good, but I've not done much beyond booting and setup my controller. Thanks!!!

hhromic

@BuZz for what is worth, I've tested a manually created up-to-date image from official Raspbian plus latest RetroPie-Setup on an RPI 3A+ for some weeks and works flawlessly. So I definitively would refresh the official RP image with updated Raspbian to support this board. Great little board I have to say too.

fireslayer26

@BuZz Can I get this image?

BuZz

@fireslayer26 try this - please let me know if it's working ok. http://files.retropie.org.uk/images/weekly/

Latest code/base os as of 24th Feb and updated weekly (this weekly build system is still in testing).

mike1

@chmitard said in Image for pi 3A+:

"Put your sd card into your pi3b and go into terminal. Type:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
After that is done go into raspi-config and make these changes.
In advanced options
Memory split = 348
And in boot options make it
Auto login into console

its posible to do this without pi3 ?

mitu

@mike1 said in Image for pi 3A+:

its posible to do this without pi3 ?

@buzz posted earlier a link to a 3A+ compatible image, which you can use directly without fiddling or needing another PI.

vinny710

I know this thread is old, but have there been any updates? I've tried to download the untested image but the google drive folder was empty. Maybe I' m missing something ?

mitu

@vinny710 Yes - the previous post: http://files.retropie.org.uk/images/weekly/.