Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!

Hiroshi

I haven't felt this range of emotions since The Water Temple.

Ignorance is bliss huh? (But still no defence from the law!)

markyh444

Yeh, @mediamogul killed a guy with a trident!

Seriously though, you should probably lay low for a while as you will be wanted for murder...

daeks

@herb_fargus @BuZz as the discussion is mostly the same might it be an idea to add that kind of information ("we only support images from retropie") to the "first read before post article"? With some note about the illegality of pre-made images with Roms

rbaker

@daeks like in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules ?

space cadet

Politics or high school? ; )

Capeman

I just recently left a retropie facebook group that started off as a support group but slowly overtime turned into a "were making a preloaded image that looks like hyperspin" forum and filled with mostly kids/trolls... (group used to be called Retropie but changed its name to Project HyperPie, best avoided, nothing of value anymore)

What really amazes me is people start off as ignorant to an issue, but when they are informed of the negative facts associated, they immediately go into "defensively and willfully ignorant" mode... they get mad when presented with facts they dont like and start attacking anyone who doesn't subscribe to their version of reality. This is kind of behavior is hitting a fever pitch lately here in the States, doesnt even matter the subject anymore.

People are just terrible.

mediamogul

@Capeman said in Purchased my first Pi 3 (retro Pi)...HELP!!!:

People are just terrible.

That was my prom theme.

Hiroshi

There's a pre-populated 64gb image on torrent sites called "Project RetroPie" too, which can't help.

It's ironic that the Mini-NES and such have actually (massively) increased the amount of ROM piracy.

Capeman

@Hiroshi Exactly! Nintendo's "popularity by scarcity" tactics have caused an absolute flood of people looking for some way to play old games on a little box, and what comes up on the first google search?

128GB PRE LOADED RETROPIE WITH 65,000 GAMES ROMZ WAREZ OMG LADY GAGA KEYWORD KEYWORD KEYWORD NES-MINI

space cadet

I think it's so much more fulfilling to do it on your own! So east download the retropie image, setup, and add roms. Who needs 65000 games? I'm lucky to play 1 a week with my lil ones!

markyh444

@space-cadet I'm only allowed to play Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends on the Megadrive on mine when my son is about because he likes it.

He knows nothing. That game is shit.

Capeman

@markyh444 My oldest (3yo) is just getting started with games, we play Freeway on Atari because it's the simplest fun game i could find.

Also got my wife to do some gaming with me in the evenings (which i consider doing the impossible)... but she ONLY wants to play tetris 2 player... so im not sure if i consider that a victory or not.

markyh444

@Capeman 2 player Tetris! I'd not claim that as a victory if I were you...

Hiroshi

@Capeman Two-player Tetris is a gateway game to Dr.Robotniks Mean Bean Machine!

Capeman

@markyh444 i did the first week or so... im on about week 4 of nothing but tetris... I mean, c'mon, there are other/better puzzle games! She won't even try Puzzle Fighter 2

space cadet

What I meant was between taking care of lil ones and work there is no time to play : (

markyh444

@Capeman You should load up a two-player Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends session on the Megadrive dude....

Capeman

@markyh444 Oh im already planning on adding that gem! I like to give really bad games a good run through sometimes.

backstander

@markyh444

I'm only allowed to play Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends on the Megadrive on mine when my son is about because he likes it.

My son loves Thomas but all he wants me to do is load up Kodi so he can watch the 1st Pixar Cars movie. I mean it was a great movie the first time I watched it but I'm getting really tired of it. Lucky for me there's a 3rd Cars movie coming out soon. Maybe it will give us a little more variety. Also he loves the 2nd Disney Planes movie.

You should try the SNES version of Thomas for some variety. For some reason it's completely different than the Megadrive version but it's still crap!

markyh444

@backstander I'll admit I did load up the SNES one previously, but preferred the repetitive tedium of the Megadrive one. sigh