Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement

skankieflank

@windg
Will this work on my existing setup of RetroPie which uses pi4b as I've got my setup exactly how I want it but to have more power for some games which need just alittle more power it would be great. It would be amazing if we can just replace the board and boot our same sdcard.

mitu

@skankieflank said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

Will this work on my existing setup of RetroPie which uses pi4b ...

No. The new board will be supported by a new - also unreleased - RasPi OS, so it will not work with the existing RetroPie image.

skankieflank

@mitu
Do you know if it would be possible to upgrade my existing setup to the new OS in the future.

mitu

@skankieflank said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

Do you know if it would be possible to upgrade my existing setup to the new OS in the future.

Just like any OS upgrades so far, it's not recommended to do it in place, a backup/restore of ROMS/Configs is recommended. Let's wait until we get there though.

skankieflank

@mitu
Thanks, Hopefully exciting news for the future of RetroPie.

dodonpachi

@mitu said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

No. The new board will be supported by a new - also unreleased - RasPi OS, so it will not work with the existing RetroPie image.

Considering YouTubers already received some boards, I'm surprised they haven't provided any to you all. Surely the Pi foundation is aware that retropie is responsible for much of their sales.

retropieuser555

Exciting news! Be interesting to see where the power jump sits and how the capability is (and frankly how the demand and bad the stock issues are)

mitu

@dodonpachi said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

[..]. Surely the Pi foundation is aware that retropie is responsible for much of their sales.

I'm not sure we're having such a big chunk of their sales as you think. If I'm looking at the RPI Imager stats, we're under 3% of the installations done through their tool.

dodonpachi

@mitu Does that include installations with third party apps like Etcher, or pre-built images from the usual suspects?

I wouldn't have thought that emulation made up, say, 70% of their sales -- but I'd be quite surprised to hear it was less than 10%.

mitu

@dodonpachi said in Raspberry Pi 5 - official announcement:

@mitu Does that include installations with third party apps like Etcher, or pre-built images from the usual suspects?

Of course not, those are RPI Imager stats only.

Johhny5

@mitu I was one of the people who got Pi 5 Hardware in advance - i dont have a great need for it, so would be happy to send it to the developers of retropie if it would help get the upgrade moving.
I was only going to use it to make a retro console anyway..

George Spiggott

Dreamcast and PSP Emulation test at 9:59. I long since sold my Pi 4. How does this compare with an overclocked Pi 4?

dodonpachi

@George-Spiggott Dreamcast was okay on 4, so I don't see too big of a difference. PSP, however, is significantly better. Tekken runs much smoother than before.

mrmadcatz

@windg This was the first thing I thought of as well, and I am super excited at the prospect of that!

hawkes_84

@windg at this point I just want to play some ps2 ditties that I never got to play. Metal Gear Solid 2&3. Need to finish Silent Hill 3 and 4. Some Wii games would be good too. I'm guessing Nintendo 3DS is out the question?