First Time Installer

Spottedfeather

I will be installing a retropie system fairly soon and have a question. One tutorial I read said that I have to expand the SD card to get the system to read the entire storage. But another tutorial I read said that when you boot up for the first time, it does it automatically.

Which is it?

simpleethat

If you download the official image the file system will expand itself. If you download the image from anywhere else who knows.

herb_fargus

@Spottedfeather follow the official docs and you be fine

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

Spottedfeather

another quick question. I have the settings of mame just where I like them on my computer, (brightness, gamma, scanlines, curvature, vector bloom, etc...) I would like to know if it's at all possible to add my mame.ini, or individual game .ini files into a retropie. I can live without it if it's NOT possible, but just thought it would be nice.

mitu

@Spottedfeather It they're from a compatible MAME version, then you can copy them to the Pi, but if we're talking about current MAME - it's not yet available in RetroPie.

Spottedfeather

@mitu I'm not sure I checked right, but in the what's new file, it says 0.152. If I was going to add the .ini file, how would I do it ?

Spottedfeather

@Spottedfeather I am assuming that you can run Dragon's Lair in retropie, correct ? How would I go about it ?

mitu

@Spottedfeather I don't think that any of workable MAME variants in RetroPie are compatible with that version - configuration wise.
For Dragon's Lair, I assume you would need to use the Daphne emulator.

Spottedfeather

@mitu So, you can't move the ini file into retropie. But are there .ini files in the retropie version of mame that I can fiddle with ?

mitu

@Spottedfeather said in First Time Installer:

@mitu So, you can't move the ini file into retropie. But are there .ini files in the retropie version of mame that I can fiddle with ?

I'm not sure at which version MAME started using .ini files for settings, but for instance MAME2003 (based on Mame 0.78) uses .cfg files to store the settings. I'm not sure if any other MAME emulator used in RetroPie accepts .ini files for configuration - take a look at the available versions here.