Need to Download RetroPie 4.7.1 Image…

jdmcs

TL;DR Is there no longer a way to download a 4.7.1 image from a trusted source?

The issue:

I made the timely but unfortunate decision to live stream a build of a Pimoroni Picade last night… which ended in failure, as a number of arcade buttons were not performing their expected behavior. However, when I tested buttons with the multimeter, I found only one button that was defective (registered as open even when pressed).

I am trying to run RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. I used Raspberry Pi Imager to create the microSD card, and while I thought it told me that it was using 4.7.1, it seems as if it actually used the 4.8 image. Yeah for managing to grab the latest version without knowing it.

When I went to install Pimoroni’s Picade drivers using the instructions in the install guide, they installed, but complained that they were running on an unsupported OS. Somewhere I saw a note that this could lead to unexpected behavior, which would describe my issue. (Multiple arcade buttons seemed to map to the same keyboard character.)

The Pimoroni Plasma drivers are also having issues… again, seems to be an issue with the version of Linux and not anything to do with RetroPie.

Therefore, I think I’ve run into a compatibility issue with the version of Linux that’s used on the RetroPie image. However, I have a good reason to suspect that I also have a hardware issue (even if it turns out to be the one arcade button that’s bad).

I’d prefer to debug one issue at a time, starting with the hardware.

Therefore, I’d like to download a RetroPie 4.7.1 image so that I can make sure the hardware is working properly. However, all roads… err, links on pages that say how to download 4.7.1 leads to the main Download page, which only has 4.8 available.

And if the 4.7.1 isn’t compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4, I’ll go find my 3B…

Is there not a way to download that version from a trusted source?

ExarKunIv

@jdmcs they have all the versions, old and new on the RetroPie github

here's the link for the 4.7.1 image
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.7.1/retropie-buster-4.7.1-rpi4_400.img.gz