RetroPie

[redbox]

I've finally got my RetroPie setup working and it's awesome.

I used the following:

- A Raspberry Pi
- The RetroPie SD Card Image
- A cheap USB SNES Controller
- A 14" CRT TV (I bought a Sony Trinitron from Gumtree for £10)

I plugged the Pi into the TV via a SCART adapter (similar to the old ones for PS2/Wii etc) by using the composite (yellow) video out and the 3.5m jack audio out (to white and red splitter cable).  I have a nano WiFi dongle plugged into the Pi along with the USB SNES controller and no hub is required, it just all runs from the Pi's power.

You have tonnes of emulators and the ones I've tested so far all work flawlessly.  The front-end is really nice too as you can set it up so that it just uses the USB SNES controller so no keyboard or mouse is required.  It's just like using the real hardware except you have loads of them and all the ROMs you could ever want...!

I'd highly recommend it as a retro gaming platform - it's really cheap (the whole lot cost me under £50) and very flexible.  It can be a real b*tch to setup though (hey, it's Linux) but a lot of it is described here and also there's quite a lot of support on the RetroPie website.

Now all we need is a CPC emulator for the Pi that works with it and it'll be complete 

[MacDeath]

Also one for iOS please...

[Gryzor]

Wish there was a way you could choose a different device you boot the Pi from. I'm using my Pi as a media player, all tucked away, and it'd be nice to be able to have a USB drive containing the RetroPie distro with ROMs, then choose when I wanna boot from it.

Btw, a little tip; I found out that, if you have a scenario where you move files over the network to an external device connected to the Pi (in my case a HDD through a HUB since Pi doesn't provide enough power), formatting that device with ext4 instead of NTFS will triple the throughput! Easy to understand since the Pi won't have the NTFS overhead to deal with, but I was surprised at the difference...

[redbox]

Just a quick addendum - don't buy the cheap USB SNES controllers as they're sh*t.

I ended up buying two original controllers from eBay along with one of these adapters.  More expensive but well worth it.

Wish there was a way you could choose a different device you boot the Pi from. I'm using my Pi as a media player, all tucked away, and it'd be nice to be able to have a USB drive containing the RetroPie distro with ROMs, then choose when I wanna boot from it.

You could write your own boot-up script that means you could choose...?  XBMC and Emulation Station should both work with Raspbian?!

Btw, a little tip; I found out that, if you have a scenario where you move files over the network to an external device connected to the Pi (in my case a HDD through a HUB since Pi doesn't provide enough power), formatting that device with ext4 instead of NTFS will triple the throughput! Easy to understand since the Pi won't have the NTFS overhead to deal with, but I was surprised at the difference...

[Gryzor]

Nah, unfortunately; I'm using OpenElec which is pretty closed and you can't do much with it in terms of tweaking. There's Berryboot of course, which could do it if I copied the storage partition and moved it onto the new system installation to restore my running, customised system, but Berryboot doesn't include Openelec betas; heck, it doesn't even include RetroPie