Is Retropie for Beaglebone Black Possible?

[GaM3r2Xtreme]

I'm not entirely sure if this can even be achievable, but would anyone know if retropie could be installed on a beaglebone?

I would assume since a debian image is available, there might be a way to tweak an install onto they processor. I have downloaded the RetroPie-Setup git to the system, but I'm stuck at setting the __platform variable for the script to recognize the beaglebone as a workable board.

Any thoughts?

[BuZz]

@GaM3r2Xtreme if the board has accelerated x with opengl, you could try the generic-x11 platform.

[GaM3r2Xtreme]

Thanks Buzz,

I'll look into that to make sure it does. Based on a quick search, it seems like there is a little bit of a workaround in order to get opengl to work, but I will see.

When the script is asking to manually set the __platform variable, is that as simple as:
__platform="generic-x11"

Then checking with a quick:
echo $__platform

After which rerunning the setup script, or is this variable hard-coded into the source somewhere?

[BuZz]

sudo __platform=generic-x11 ./retropie_setup.sh

It is likely there will need to be code changes to work properly, but I cannot help further as I don't have one of these boards.

[A Former User]

Maybe change the name though. RetroBone? RetroDog?