RetroPie on Raspberry Pi zero

[jeddhaury]

Hello,

So kinda new to actually doing stuff with raspberry pi but i have been watching videos for a long time and have had two pi zeros laying around for the kids at work. Well over the weekend I ordered a pi 3 to create a retropie with after the disappointment of not getting a NES classic edition. My pi 3 RetroPie station is working great and I decided this would be a great first project to do with the kids at work but first i wanted to do one to bring it in and just show it to them. So I loaded retropie up onto another SD card, plugged it into my pi 3 to load roms onto it from a flash drive. Then i plugged it into the pi zero and plugged that all up to the tv and am now getting a weird screen with an old style joysticks made of * and @ displaying filesystem information such as uptime, memory, processes running, ip address (nonexistent as it is a pi zero), and temperature. Any idea why this is happening or suggestions as to what I should do?

Update: I tried reformatting the SD card reimaging it with RetroPie and starting over but directly on the Pi Zero but it once more ended up on the same screen.

Thanks,

Jeddhaury

[BuZz]

You need to use the pi1/Zero image. The rpi2/3 image won't work on the zero.

[jeddhaury]

Wow I feel so dumb, i guess I forgot it was a different image for those.

Thanks!