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    Pi Labs has Retropie pre-installed in their Twister OS. Sort of...

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      VictimRLSH
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      I tried out Twister OS, and it has a few neat tricks it can do such as pre-installed box86 WITH the proper i386 architecture libraries (which I still can't figure out how to get to install in Raspbian). It also has an install of Retropie with ONLY the Retropie menu itself on the carousel and nothing else installed. You still have to go to Retropie-Setup and install the main packages and go from there, and it DOES install from the official repositories. Is this legit or not? I'm siding towards OK because it gets the latest official packages from the repository, but I'm not part of the project so it isn't my call. Pi Labs doesn't sell anything at all, so is that a commercial use?

      System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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        mitu Global Moderator @VictimRLSH
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        WITH the proper i386 architecture libraries (which I still can't figure out how to get to install in Raspbian)

        Usually via dpkg --add-architecture and then adding the proper entries in the apt's repository sources. See https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO.

        It also has an install of Retropie with ONLY the Retropie menu itself on the carousel and nothing else installed.

        This usually happens on an empty RetroPie system :), without any games/ROMs and - possibly - most of the emulators not installed.

        You still have to go to Retropie-Setup and install the main packages and go from there, and it DOES install from the official repositories. Is this legit or not? I'm siding towards OK because it gets the latest official packages from the repository,

        That's really not a relevant method to determine if it's 'legit' . Code-wise, yes, sure.

        Pi Labs doesn't sell anything at all, so is that a commercial use?

        I don't think so, but I don't know very well the channel. There's plenty of users showing all sorts of setups on the pi4 and Raspbian, trying out new things. Even if they include RetroPie in their setup, it doesn't mean it's bad - after all, it's open source and the code is for everyone to use and modify.

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          VictimRLSH @mitu
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          @mitu Ahh, I'm thinking I don't have the right repos in my sources. When compiling things it knows what libs it needs, just not where to get them.

          System Config: Retropie 4.4 with full desktop, RPi 3B, 256gb SD, 5v 2.1A 5,200 mAH USB battery. EasyMSX controller mounted with Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4 (non touch). Also running 4.6 on a 4gb Pi 4 serving as my primary desktop computer now.

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