![]() ![]() To reboot RetroPie from the command line, do: With a physically attach USB keyboard, you can simply press F4 to exit the RetroPie UI and be transported to the shell. You can either exit the RetroPie UI to get to the shell or use SSH, the latter being the more difficult option. Now, there are a couple of ways to get at the command line – because at some point you’ll need to! So I’ll show you how now. Plug in everything as this point while being mindful to connect the power adapter ’til the very end so connect SD card, TV/Monitor, USB keyboard, gamepad, ethernet, and power adapter. ![]() ![]() On Linux, get to the command line and proceed as follows, assuming your SD card in sdb.ĭd if=retropie-4.1-rpi1_zero.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M Hit the “Restore Backup” button and select the RetroPie SD-Card Image that you hopefully unzipped – it should only have a. Select your SD card in the left hand column once you open the Application. ApplePi-Baker does require administrative privileges so don’t be surprised if it asks for your password. ![]() There’s a great tool called ApplePi-Baker. Download this small executable and proceed with these instructions. Windowsįor Windows we can use a tool called Win32DiskImager. Various options exit to accomplish this feat. Next, we’ll need to write the RetroPie image to your SD card. If you’re on Linux, you can use a tool called GParted to proceed with the formatting. For El Capitan and newer, simply click the Erase button, Select MS-DOS (FAT) as the Format, give it a name, and click the Erase button. For Yosemite and older, navigate to the Erase tab, select MS-DOS (FAT) as the Format, give it a name, and click the Erase button. If you’re on a Mac, you can do so by opening the Disk Utility by navigating to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Select the FAT32 option and click the Start button. If you’re on Windows, go to the trusty Explorer, find the SD card, right-click it, and select Format from the context menu. So while we’re at it insert the SD card into your reader and proceed to format. It’s probably good practice to format your SD card, not technically needed when you write an image to a card, but we’ll do so anyway. There should be two versions of RetroPie one for the RPi Zero or 1 and another for the RPi 2/3. Write the RetroPie Image Downloadĭownload and decompress the most recent version of RetroPie. I produced the following guide with RetroPie version 3.8.1. Please note, I strive to keep my articles relevant and up-to-date but inevitably guides like these will not reflect the latest and greatest, as such, certain things: screens, menu items, & links may likely change over time. Kodi Display Power Management (Advanced).Some free time and a little command line know-how would help!.Mini USB power adapter (at least 2 Amps for RPi 2/3).MicroSD card (at least 16GB) and an SD card reader.USB gamepad (Buffalo Classic USB, or old Xbox, 360, PS controller).I assume you know why you’re here and what you want to accomplish – let me help you along your journey! Requirements 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”Īnd Kodi, well, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last while, you’d know what it is and what it does – no need to explain.Īll righty, enough of that. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want. 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. RetroPie, as you may or may not know (and ripped from the RetroPie homepage), “allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi or PC into a retro-gaming machine. Questions and comments are always welcome and encouraged. I’ll also cover some advanced topics like connecting you RPi to a NAS and configuring display power management. What if there was a way to run Kodi directly from RetroPie? More specifically, start Kodi directly from the RetroPie UI interface EmulationStation, instead of rebooting? In this blog post, I’d like to detail the process by which I did this and give a general step-by-step tutorial on basic setup and configuration. This time however, I’d like to simplify the process. If you’re curious how that was done, I urge you to check it out! Though a little complicated, it provided us with some flexibility to boot RetroPie and OpenELEC – a specific built-from-the-ground-up version of Linux only running Kodi. In a previous series of blog posts, I detailed the process by which we can triple boot the Raspberry Pi with three separate OSes (Raspbian/RetroPie/Openelec). Novemin Raspberry Pi / Retro Gaming tagged KODI / Raspberry Pi / Retropie by bobby ![]()
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