BuZz    Happy Pi Day After a long wait, we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie . . The RetroPie . images are built on the latest version of the Raspberry Pi OS Lite Buster which is now their legacy release . This image supports the latest Raspberry Pi Zero W... Continue reading The...

BuZz    Thanks very much to Vilros who are generously making a donation to the RetroPie project for every Raspberry Pi gaming kit they sell. Vilros was founded in with the goal of helping to create a more technological society. They are passionate about promoting STEM education and making it easily......

florian    TL;DR The ControlBlock provides a soft power switch and status indication functionality, as well as an easy to use interface for original and arcade game controllers. It has been updated now with a dedicated power switch IC to provide all the power that you need for your retro project. Also, it...

BuZz    RetroPie . . images are now available from the Download Page. Unfortunately a couple of bugs crept into the EmulationStation front end for the . release. A performance issue causing EmulationStation to have a poor frame rate and a bug affecting its built in scrapers. The performance issue...

BuZz    The Raspberry Pi is released today A Raspberry Pi based system built into a compact keyboard. To find out more about the new machine please visit https: rptl.io . RetroPie . is compatible with the new Raspberry Pi and can be downloaded from https: retropie.org.uk download Press...

BuZz    RetroPie . images are now available, and include a variety of changes and improvements. We marked RetroPie . as having beta support for the Raspberry Pi . We now believe it to work well enough to remove the beta label. RetroPie . supports the new Raspberry Pi . Please see... Continue...

BuZz    We are very pleased to announce RetroPie . with beta support for the Raspberry Pi . It’s been some time since we last updated our pre built images. However development has been ongoing in the background, and a lot of changes have been made since the last release. Note that we... Continue...

florian    New revisions of ControlBlock and PowerBlock are fully compatible with the Raspberry Pi Safe power button functionality of both boards also supports momentary buttons now The Raspberry Pi was recently made available and provides various hardware improvements. However, due to minor changes in...

BuZz    As detailed in the last post https: retropie.org.uk composite out broken on retropie there were some issues in the last image due to the updated Kernel. A newer Kernel has been released for Raspbian Stretch that resolves the composite output issue, but we also had problems...

BuZz    It has come to our attention that composite video out is broken on the . image due to a firmware bug. We updated the firmware kernel to one from Raspbian Buster as the latest Raspbian Stretch kernel had an issue breaking Sony Bluetooth devices. However it seems that the more recent... Continue...

BuZz    After some delays due to recent issues we are pleased to announce RetroPie . . This version does NOT work on the recently released Raspberry Pi . We are currently working on support for this. IMPORTANT UPDATE: It has come to our attention that composite out is broken on this release.... Continue...

BuZz    On the nd March, RetroPie developer Jools Wills was interviewed on the excellent digitalSoup podcast. Big thanks to digitalSoup for inviting us on the show. If you like geeky banter including retro gaming, their podcast is definitely worth a listen. Interview is here: https: digitalsouppodcast...

BuZz    Good news We now own the trademark for RetroPie in the USA thanks to help and support from Eckland Blando. In February it came to our attention that a rd party had trademarked the RetroPie name in the USA. They were using the trademark to illegally sell our... Continue reading The post...

BuZz    RetroPie . is out, bringing with it Raspberry Pi Model B support via our new Raspbian Stretch based images. Raspbian Jessie is no longer receiving firmware and kernel updates, so the move to the new version was required. For RPI users it is recommended to start from a fresh... Continue...

florian    Many of you are building personal arcade and gaming machines. Part of those projects is to decide which type of controls should be used. Also how to connect those controls to the computer is another question. If you want to connect original controllers in an easy way things get even... Continue...

BuZz    RetroPie . includes a lot of improvements to our default launcher Emulation Station, including Favourites Recently Played and custom ROM collections, video and image screensavers, power saving modes, and the ability to configure your own RetroArch hotkey enable button when setting up your gamepad...

BuZz    A lot has happened since . , with updates to EmulationStation adding video support and fixing the dreaded white screen of death. Many packages have been updated and RetroPie . includes the latest RetroArch v . . as well as Kodi installed optionally . There are new experimental packages...

BuZz    Just a quick update to thank everyone who has contacted us with offers of advice and support after we posted https: retropie.org.uk legal help needed . We are currently replying to mails and reviewing all options. Thanks again Continue reading The post Thanks for the support appeared...

BuZz    RetroPie has been trademarked in the USA by a rd party. They are using the trademark to issue take down requests to retailers, including those who are just selling hardware listed as compatible with RetroPie . Meanwhile they are selling RetroPie via their website and Ebay. There is a risk that......

florian    The driver of the ControlBlock got updated What does this mean for you More functionalities New Functionalities player support: Stack two ControlBlocks on top of each other for player installation. Genesis Megadrive controller support: Use Genesis Megadrive TM controller with the...