Unofficial RPi5 RetroPie image.

Gond

@sugarfree Your "Full image" is to large for users of Mega.nz to download without paid services.

Any chance you could break it up, or mirror it elsewhere?

sugarfree

@Gond In the banner with the payment options, choose 'Continue Download.' I just tested it, and it's working as before. I don't have an account with Mega either, I am using the free plan.

Gond

@sugarfree Ah, so what it did was it let me "download" the first 5.0GB of the file the other day, and then 6 hours (or more) later I used the link again and it let me download the last bits. I now have the image.

Looking forward to trying this out, thank you so much for making this! :)

user128561

@sugarfree If anyone who already has the file could upload it to a another hosting service, I'd appreciate it. I'm having similar problems to those in this thread with issues on Mega.

user128561

@sugarfree If anyone who already has the file could upload it to a another hosting service, I'd appreciate it. I'm having similar problems to those in this thread with issues on Mega.

sugarfree

@user128561
I will try to upload them to a Google Drive account in a few hours (or days).

Anyway, I strongly recommend using the manual installation process guide so to have the latest system updates and, more importantly, official support from the forum.

ExarKunIv

@sugarfree your basic once will still get all the updates. That's the one I use for my testing.

And since they have not taken down this post. If someone uses it. They will probably give them help since it's not a third party image.

Your Vulcan once obviously had changes so it will not update with our some work.

But it's still good. I will be using that one later for my testing

sugarfree

I moved the images to Google Drive. I hope this doesn't cause any issues this time.

ByteThis

@sugarfree said in Unofficial RPi5 RetroPie image.:

I moved the images to Google Drive. I hope this doesn't cause any issues this time.

I find myself downloading from Mega that you have to stay on that download page of their site or it loses connection or slows down to the point of non-existence.
It's not your file..just the site itself is strange.Downloads the file then has to download to one's PC. .

Thanks for sharing your build.

user128561

@sugarfree Thanks a lot!
And thanks for the build. It works for me, and I'm not sure I could even do it the manual way, so you're a life saver

Lolonois

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matchaman

Have the links been deleted?

sugarfree

@matchaman I deleted them to make space on the drive to upload the newer ones, but I have issues with disconnections when I am trying to upload the newer ones. I reverted them for now, and I will try again in the next few days. Sorry.

Update: New images have been uploaded.

ExarKunIv

@sugarfree thanks for updating your images

FYI when we click the link we get this

Request access, or switch to an account with access.

sugarfree

@ExarKunIv Thanks! I forgot to give permissions to everyone who has the link. Fixed.

Retrodade

@sugarfree
Not sure what I’m doing wrong on the full version
I grabbed it, removed the extra extension to show an image file, burned to formatted card
And I’m only getting the red/white box saying trying to boot but nothing happens
I tried to Redo it , same thing

The lite was fine
I’d like to try the full
I’ve tried multi cards as well they are doing the fake thing

Ideas?
Thanks

sleve_mcdichael

@Retrodade said in Unofficial RPi5 RetroPie image.:

removed the extra extension to show an image file,

You...didn't just rename it, did you? You have to unpack the .xz archive (or use an imager like Balena that can do it for you).

sugarfree

@Retrodade said in Unofficial RPi5 RetroPie image.:

@sugarfree
Not sure what I’m doing wrong on the full version
I grabbed it, removed the extra extension to show an image file, burned to formatted card
And I’m only getting the red/white box saying trying to boot but nothing happens
I tried to Redo it , same thing

The lite was fine
I’d like to try the full
I’ve tried multi cards as well they are doing the fake thing

Ideas?
Thanks

I have compressed the image using the .XZ compression algorithm. You don't have to uncompress the file, just write the image.xz with the free Pi Imager tool.

By the way, removing the .xz extension is not the right way to handle the file, as it can corrupt the image.

Retrodade

@sugarfree ok thank you so much, yes that's what I'm doing wrong Thanks looking forward to trying this one