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Welcome to RetroPie. RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi, ODroid C1/C2, or PC into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want.

If you’re using an older Raspberry Pi, you select the Raspberry Pi 0/1. If you’re using a Raspberry Pi 3 like I am, select the download for Raspberry Pi 2/3. Once you have downloaded your SD card image as a.gz file, you need to extract it using a program such as 7-Zip. The extracted file will be a.img file. For Mac users, the Utility. No emulator list would be complete without a mention of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. PiPlay (formerly PiMAME), a pre-built Raspberry Pi operating system made for gaming and emulation. It can emulate many retro consoles including Playstation, Genesis SNES, NES, Gameboy, Atari 2600. @hd474 said in Mac emulation on Raspberry Pi, Can't copy applications. I copied stuffit expander (.sit) to the unix folder. Stuffit Expander needs to be installed, but for the installer to survive the transfer without losing it's resource fork, you'll need find it encoded as a.hqx file.

RetroPie sits on top of a full OS, you can install it on an existing Raspbian, or start with the RetroPie image and add additional software later. It's up to you.

While the RetroPie Project originated at petRockBlock.com this is now the home of RetroPie.

Please note: No copyrighted games are included with RetroPie

Features

EmulationStation
EmulationStation is the frontend for launching all of your games.
RetroArch
RetroArch is a frontend for the Libretro API which standardises controls and adds features for many of the emulators. Many emulators used on RetroPie are due to the hard work of the Libretro team.
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Kodi
If you get tired of gaming you can watch your own movies or listen to music with Kodi: your own personal media centre. It can be installed from the experimental menu of the RetroPie Setup Script.
Themes
Choose from a variety of user created themes for EmulationStation from the built in theme installer.
Modular
The RetroPie SD image is built on top of Raspbian but RetroPie can be installed on any Debian based linux distribution.
Over 50 Systems
RetroPie has the most supported systems out of any retrogaming software for the Raspberry Pi.

RetroPie 4.7.1 images are now available from the Download Page. Unfortunately a couple of bugs crept into the EmulationStation front-end for the 4.7 release. A performance issue causing EmulationStation to have a poor frame rate and an bug affecting its built in scrapers. The performance issue affected Raspberry Pi 0/1/2/3…

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Ludo different from RetroArch?

Ludo will stay smaller than RetroArch by only implementing the core features and by targeting less platforms.
By not adding advanced functionalities, we aim to deliver a stable frontend for beginner users on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Some design choices are different. For examplem we support less cores, and choose cores for the user. The cores are packaged in the frontend so no additional step is required to launch a game.

How is Ludo similar to RetroArch?

Like RetroArch, Ludo is a libretro frontend, so the way of communicating with the emulators is the same.
Same cores, similar UI patterns, joypad driven UI, same game thumbnails, mostly the same game database, same terminology. It also shares some of the same developers, as kivutar is an important contributor of the libretro team, and all the people who provided help have also been members of the Libretro community.
It definitely shares a lot of the same core values.

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Why not implement Ludo as a menu driver in RetroArch?

To keep software stable on a number of different platforms, it is important to keep a small codebase with a good test coverage. It is also important to not introduce changes at a high rate.
RetroArch is an extremely active project and has a growing codebase that makes it harder to reach stability.
Also, RetroArch is a very powerful and sophisticated frontend, and one of the common criticisms is that it exposes too many configuration options for the average retro gamer.
Implementing Ludo as a menu driver of RetroArch would solve none of these core issues.For now, Ludo distinguishes itself from RetroArch by offering less features and focusing on a more easy to use interface.

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Does Ludo offer a better scanning method compared to RetroArch?

No, the scanner logic is basically the same and Ludo supports even less ROM formats.
CDs are scanned based on file name instead of serial number.
Ludo's scanner faster for this reason and because it leverages goroutines.

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Can you add feature X to Ludo?

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The answer is likely to be no, as we're trying to keep the code small, so only bugfixes are really welcome.
We encourage you to fork Ludo and add the feature yourself. It should be fairly easy given the scope of the project.
If you are able to author a very useful improvement with a minimum of changes, we might merge your changes.