Bullseye

Refazeshot1

Looks like they released a stable version of Bullseye a few days ago. Are their any updates on retropie as to when we can run this? I tried looking for news and haven't really found anything.

BuZz

@refazeshot1 No. The next image will be based on Buster. Then I will look at bullseye support on the RPi.

Refazeshot1

@buzz I guess that's not a bad thing. Everything is working great for me on buster. Keep up the good work.

windg

I am using Pi OS Bullseye daily, i believe it is not the right time yet to be used for RetroPie.

Lolonois

@windg thanks for setting this straight.
@Refazeshot1 this topic has been covered more than once: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/tags/bullseye

Positively, for anyone who may asking it in the future:
In general I can not understand the ado about Bullseye for RetroPie. There will be a Bullseye release, but it will be ready when it's ready.

There is not need to rush as Buster is officially supported upto Dec 2024.

If someone really needs a Bullseye based RetroPie earlier, he or she should state why, or even better should have run a survey here for the specific functionality which only can be fulfilled with Bullseye and if some other users also desperately missing that functionality.

If you are tech savvy you are welcomed to start a Bullseye port by yourself (with like-minded), if you are not you can hire someone to do so.

TL;DR In any case, please remember that RetroPie is a hobbiest and open source project which is run in the spare time of the maintainers (and contributors). In particular this means the maintainers don't owe you anything.

HTH

Robinson

@windg said in Bullseye:

There is not need to rush as Buster is officially supported upto Dec 2024.

It is only 18 months. ;)

sleve_mcdichael

@Robinson said in Bullseye:

@windg said in Bullseye:

There is not need to rush as Buster is officially supported upto Dec 2024.

It is only 18 months. ;)

Well, it was 33 before you bumped this old topic. You got something to contribute?

kozlikk

Hi,
I am new to retropie, but I was able to run in on raspbian bullseye. I am running rpi4 as a HTPC and audio player. It is not option for me to use pre-made images of retropie as I do not want to install and configure again all services already running on my pi.

So I just gave it a try. I have followed the manual installation steps. First run of retropie_setup.sh ended with errors that quite many deb packages cannot be found or installed. I am not sure why because I could found and install almost all those packages manually using aptitude. Well my system was not fully updated, so maybe that could be the reason.

One more execution of retropie_setup.sh complained about missing omxplayer package. That package is no more part of raspbian but I have succeeded to find it in some raspbian repo: https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/o/omxplayer/omxplayer_20190723+gitf543a0d-1+bullseye_armhf.deb So I have installed it. I have no idea whether the omxplayer works. What I have read about it, it should not work on bullseye. But retropie_setup.sh was happy with it and compiled the EmulationStation.

Now it is complaining about missing ilclient.hand it cannot build omxiv. Although I have found some sources with the ilclient I even did not give it a try installing them. They wrote it will not work on Bullseye and I even do not know what is the omxiv good for and whether I need it.

Today I was able to run EmulationStation. Well it was quite surprise for me that it works :-). But kids was able to play some old nintendo games, so I am happy :-).