Retropie and Chromebook

Skylo

There are what?

mitu

Basically, you put the RetroPie image on the SD card, then insert it into the Pi, and boom

That should work. I thought you wanted to run the RetroPie on the Chromebook - that's what I was referring to as unsupported.

Clyde

@skylo said in Retropie and Chromebook:

There are what?

I accidentally sent the post while typing. It's complete now. 😊

Skylo

@mitu Nah, I was saying run RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi 3B.

Skylo

So, let's say I wanted to download a premade image with ROMs. There is a TON out there. There's a website with roms where you can download premade images. How would I... like burn the image to the SD card? What would I use?

mitu

@skylo said in Retropie and Chromebook:

here is a TON out there. There's a website called something where you can download premade images. How would I... like burn the image to the SD card? What would I use?

As I said, we don't support 3rd party images. Also, links to sites with copyrighted material/roms are against the forum rules.
If you wish support here in the forums, use the image from retropie.org.uk/download.

Skylo

Ok. Well, how long would it take for me to add my own ROMs? And how would I do that from a Chromebook anyway? I've only seen it done from windows.

mitu

Using your network, you can access the Samba shares on RetroPie from your Chromebook and copy the files over.
https://coehelp.uoregon.edu/how-to-guides/connecting-a-chromebook-to-a-file-share/
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/#samba-shares

Clyde

@skylo ChromeOS is Linux-based, so it should be able to read and write RetroPie's sd card directly including the second partition with the rom directories, whereas Windows can only read the first partition in FAT 32 – given that your Chromebook has an sd card reader.

Skylo

Oh also, another question. I'm going to use a Waveshare game hat for my RetroPie. Does it matter how big your screen size is?

Clyde

@skylo You should open a new thread for that new question.