Is Retropie ever coming to the Pi 5?
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I bought this thing when it came out and it has been sitting on a shelf for what seems like years now... Is the install ever coming or not? Otherwise I'm just selling it before eBay shag me come February with their changes.
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If you bought the Pi 5 to use with RetroPie, you made a mistake as there are no guarantees Pi 5 will ever get a RetroPie release.
I don't understand why you didn't buy a Pi 4 or 400, which is already supported by RetroPie. You have to remember than the PI 5 still isn't powerful enough to run Saturn, GameCube or PS2 at an acceptable speed anyway, so a Pi 5 would literally offer nothing extra to what the Pi 4 offers on RetroPie anyway.
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got my rpi5 in july and got retropie going from day 1 using this guide. i'm not that well versed in linux and even got dolphin, aethersx2, and steam (from piapps) working with some tweaking, and chatgpt.
dunno about gamecube games but saturn games run well enough, and some ps2 games run surprisingly well albeit with hickups, robotech comes to mind. same goes for wii games but i've only tried the house of the dead ones.
on steam, even if steam itself is pretty laggy, i run pixelart games and with different grades of success i've managed to get most of the ones i have going (43 playable so far) with minimal hickups. for one, tmnt shredder's revenge runs really well native! recently i even got epic games launcher installed and got the untitled goose game running with wine (also from piapps). granted, on low specs but it still looks great! for whatever doesn't run on the pi there's always the not so elegant steamlink..
i repurposed it for homeassistant, but i had retropie on a rpi4 before and i do notice the difference overall so imho it does offer extra to what the 4 did..
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@MCG_1983 Sorry but on my Pi5, Gamecube, Wii and PS2 runs very well, except some games. In Retropie, Bookworm Lite.
My Pi5 is overclocked (arm_freq=2900, gpu_freq=1100, v3d_freq=960) in a Retroflag 64Pi case with stock fan and never overheated.
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@MCG_1983 said in Is Retropie ever coming to the Pi 5?:
If you bought the Pi 5 to use with RetroPie, you made a mistake as there are no guarantees Pi 5 will ever get a RetroPie release.
I don't understand why you didn't buy a Pi 4 or 400, which is already supported by RetroPie. You have to remember than the PI 5 still isn't powerful enough to run Saturn, GameCube or PS2 at an acceptable speed anyway, so a Pi 5 would literally offer nothing extra to what the Pi 4 offers on RetroPie anyway.
There are tons of arcade (and other) games which would run far far better on the 5 than they do on a 4.
It does seem completely bizarre that we've waited so long for one of the most popular uses for a Pi. I'm in the same boat as the OP, this thing's been gathering dust forever waiting for an official Retropie build, it's all I bought it for because even if nobody explicitly SOLD it as such, I never imagined for a second it wouldn't get Retropie pretty quickly.
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@JimmyFromTheBay I agree. The last version of Retropie works on Pi5 almosts as good as on Pi4. There are no risk do an official release for Pi5.
Maybe if one was released quickly, more users could have helped to solve basic problems, like the 0% soundbar which still exists today without a solution exclusively on Retropie.
Anyway, all pi are "experimentals", anytime. We are always experimentating something on Pi2, Pi3, Pi4 as on Pi5 in 2025.
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