After 6 months of hard work we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.0.

This retro-gaming project brings together a collection of popular emulators for those computers and consoles that you grew up with from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, all wrapped up and ready to run on the famous Raspberry Pi. From Atari 2600, to Sega Mega Drive to Sony PlayStation, all your favourite systems are covered. What are you waiting for – get playing!

RetroPie 3.0 Key Features

• New GUI for basic WiFi configuration and Config editing
• Added Dragon 32 / TRS-80 (CoCo) emulator xroar
• Added Super Mario War to ports
• Move some emulators out of experimental – lr-bluemsx (Now default for msx), lr-mednafen-ngp, lr-mednafen-wswan, lr-mgba, lr-tgbdual, lr-vba-next
• Added virtualgamepad to experimental which allows gamepad emulation via a mobile
• Restarting setup script no longer needed after updating the setup script.
• Improved support for video splashscreens and a centralised splashscreen repo (https://github.com/RetroPie/retropie-splashscreens)

RetroPie 3.0.0 RC1 is released

• Input configuration improvements / fixes / optimisations
• Basic joypad control in RetroPie-Setup / emulator prelaunch menus.
• Make libretro Fuse default spectrum emulator (for easier joypad control)
• Added new spectrum emulator ZEsarUX to the experimental section.
• Added launching RetroArch with RGUI from the RetroPie menu in EmulationStation.
• Various other bugfixes – you can follow changes as they happen on the GitHub site –https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commits/master

Version 3.0.0 BETA 4

• Work around issue with RetroArch GUI not accepting input/freezing.
• Fixed up RetroArch control configuration via our new integrated input configuration.
• Moved RetroArch joypad cofigurations to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

Version 3.0.0 BETA 3

• Integrated controls configuration for EmulationStation and RetroArch – On first start EmulationStation will ask for controls to be configured, and will then also configure RetroArch based on your choices. Note that there will be a delay after selecting OK whilst this is done – this will be improved later to give feedback so it doesn’t look as though EmulationStation has frozen.
• New experimental modules/emulators: limelight (Networked game streamer for Steam), lr-tgbdual (gameboy color emu with link support), DXX-Rebirth port (Decent 1/2), r-mednafen-wswan (Wonderswan emu), lr-mednagen-gbp (NeoGeo Pocket emu), uae4arm (Amiga emu), lr-fuse (ZX Spectrum emu), lr-caprice32 (Amstrad CPC emu), lr-gw (Game and Watch simulator). All modules prefixed with lr- are libretro cores for use with Retroarch.
• New startup picture with new RetroPie logo.
• Added additional ES theme “Color Pi”
• Dosbox bug fixes / Ability to launch custom shell scripts.
• Wifi configuration under RetroPie menu.
• PS3 controller setup improvements
• Disabled root password by default
• Various other fixes / improvements.