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[Ignatz Mouse]

This also explains why Recalbox still lacks drivers for the Bluetooth module onboard of the Pi3, which is scheduled to be released along the new Dreamcast and PSP emulators on the 4.1 edition.

Dealkiller for now. BT PS3 controller is my go-to for Retropie.

I really just need to get back to cleaning things up on it. Most of if works, but I have a ton of homebrew crap I need to move and need to figure out why so many games don't work on MAME (my main use of the Retropie is MAME).

 

[wowbaggerBR]

Dealkiller for now. BT PS3 controller is my go-to for Retropie.

I really just need to get back to cleaning things up on it. Most of if works, but I have a ton of homebrew crap I need to move and need to figure out why so many games don't work on MAME (my main use of the Retropie is MAME).

You can plug a Bluetooth dongle through USB. I don't know where you live, but here you can find a nice one for less than a dollar. Yeah, not ideal by any means, but it'll be over soon.

holy shit mate, I have an sd micro with my retropie image already on it and I am just waiting for my Pi3 to arrive, now you are making doubt myself and might re-format the sd card and install recalbox on it instead, damn you.

Recalbox get some flak from Retropie users and I don't know exactly why. Probably have something to do with the fact that Retropie came first and it is an awesome base from very interesting custom projects and Recalbox seeks for more casual users, the kind that don't care that much about figuring things out, or manhandling Linux stuff.

I'd say give Retropie a shot. Maybe it works ok for you right from the bat.

 

[fester]

Oh god, I need to get DOS games going under Retropie (or Recalbox, I'm finding Retropie a little too fiddly). Hopefully AdLib/OPL emulation is acceptable enough.

The music is probably the only negative thing about this for me. Yes, it's acceptable enough, but all my DOS games were originally played with a SB16 + Roland SCC-1 so I was pretty spoiled. But it's not bad enough that I'd go to the expense/effort of setting up an external MIDI solution for the RPi.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

I'm good at manhandling Linux stuff (I was an SA for a long, long time) but sometimes I don't want to bother.

That said, any tweaks I want to make at this point are with the emulators themselves. I would really like to get the Amiga or ST emulators working properly, but haven't taken the time.

 

[The Omega Man]

So I've heard that you can't have 2 of the same kind of controllers plugged in at the same time in Recalbox, like for example 2 SNES USB controllers to play a 2 players game is a no no with Recalbox is this true?

 

[wowbaggerBR]

So I've heard that you can't have 2 of the same kind of controllers plugged in at the same time in Recalbox, like for example 2 SNES USB controllers to play a 2 players game is a no no with Recalbox is this true?

Where did you got this info? I run it with tho DS3 controllers through the same Bluetooth dongle all the time.

 

[The Omega Man]

Where did you got this info? I run it with tho DS3 controllers through the same Bluetooth dongle all the time.

from this post on reddit from a guy who is having problems

https://www.reddit.com/r/recalbox/comments/5fxmfo/for_the_love_of_lucifer_please_help_me/

then I saw this video from today on youtube:

https://youtu.be/yoAScDrAHb4?t=11m10s

 

[RoadHazard]

Sorry, but it kind is hard and fiddly to set up. Recalbox is meant to just work and it does.

I've lost three days setting up Retropie because the way it ~doesn't~ recognizes my TV. I've had to discover by trial and error that I had to uncomment some configuration in a obscure txt file in order to make it deliver sound through my pretty standard TV. In Recalbox, I just copied the files to the microSD card, switched the Pi on and done, it was working fine. I didn't need to do anything fancy.

Other issue that I had with it was losing controller configurations. I had to setup my officialy supported DS3s (yeah...) every. single. time. that I've got out from a game. In Recalbox, it was an one time job: never needed to reconfigurate anything regarding controllers.

Plus Retropie seems so... amature? With that weird prompt messages when you launch a game, Terminal this and that. I can see why is so popular with people who like to work a lot with Linux, or even have a very personal project going on with arcades and whatnot, but I just want it to play games reliably, so Recalbox is my thing.

About development, Recalbox is pretty much alive: the final 4.0 came out this weekend and the next release will bring Dreamcast and PSP with the new Kodi. I believe the latest version of Retropie even got the browser monitoring feature implemented on Recalbox ages ago, so I don't get the impression that you had about the development being so much more alive on Retropie. For sure, it's community seems to be bigger and more active, but it's older than Recalbox and, for what is worth, I've got every question that I posted on Recalbox forums propperly answered.



Yep.

Hm, well, that has not been my experience with RetroPie, I've had none of the issues you mention. Everything just worked as expected on the first try. Very simple, very plug-n-play. Was this an older version you tried? But yeah, I understand that it sucks if you have to mess with stuff like that to even get going.

The launch menu is there so you can change stuff like which emulator core you want to use for the game you're launching. You can't do that with Recalbox, then...? Usually it's not necessary, but sometimes you can get much greater results if you experiment with different cores for certain games. Either way, RetroPie has the recommended cores set by default, and you can very easily disable that menu if you never want to mess with it. In general, unless you have some specific odd issue (like you had), RetroPie is just as simple and plug-n-play as Recalbox from what I can see. You don't have to know anything about Linux, you never have to touch the terminal (but if you do want to it's very powerful, of course), etc. The only "hard" part is that you have to burn an image onto your SD card I guess, you can't just drag and drop a bunch of files.

I'm sure Recalbox is great as well, I just can't see what it offers me that RetroPie doesn't. Just seems like a more limiting and less flexible version of the same thing to me.

 

[Iced]

I'm personally using Recalbox for how easily I can switch between using Kodi and playing classic games (the two main reasons I got a Pi). I was turned on to Recalbox in this thread and haven't really looked into other options, but I'm quite satisfied with it so far. Had to make a couple of tweaks to get everything working the way I wanted, though.

 

[The Omega Man]

Hm, well, that has not been my experience with RetroPie, I've had none of the issues you mention. Everything just worked as expected on the first try. Very simple, very plug-n-play. Was this an older version you tried? But yeah, I understand that it sucks if you have to mess with stuff like that to even get going.

The launch menu is there so you can change stuff like which emulator core you want to use for the game you're launching. You can't do that with Recalbox, then...? Usually it's not necessary, but sometimes you can get much greater results if you experiment with different cores for certain games. Either way, RetroPie has the recommended cores set by default, and you can very easily disable that menu if you never want to mess with it. In general, unless you have some specific odd issue (like you had), RetroPie is just as simple and plug-n-play as Recalbox from what I can see. You don't have to know anything about Linux, you never have to touch the terminal (but if you do want to it's very powerful, of course), etc. The only "hard" part is that you have to burn an image onto your SD card I guess, you can't just drag and drop a bunch of files.

I'm sure Recalbox is great as well, I just can't see what it offers me that RetroPie doesn't. Just seems like a more limiting and less flexible version of the same thing to me.

I tried both and decided to stick with retropie, the ability to switch cores is huge and indeed I can custom make everything to my likeness, I did have to get my hands dirty a couple of times by going to obscure menus etc put after a while is not that intimidating I understand the appeal of Recalbox as a plug and play thing but the advantages of retropie are there if you are willing to use, I switched a few default cores for example for N64 different games run better with different cores and for the Pi 3 the lr-mame core is better as it has the same retroarch config screen so I put that on default as well. overall I am quite happy with this thing

 

[CrashPrime]

I'm sure Recalbox is great as well, I just can't see what it offers me that RetroPie doesn't. Just seems like a more limiting and less flexible version of the same thing to me.

Ease of install/use and menu music.

The music is a big deal for me as it makes it better for a kiosk mode when gifting.

 

[RoadHazard]

I tried both and decided to stick with retropie, the ability to switch cores is huge and indeed I can custom make everything to my likeness, I did have to get my hands dirty a couple of times by going to obscure menus etc put after a while is not that intimidating I understand the appeal of Recalbox as a plug and play thing but the advantages of retropie are there if you are willing to use, I switched a few default cores for example for N64 different games run better with different cores and for the Pi 3 the lr-mame core is better as it has the same retroarch config screen so I put that on default as well. overall I am quite happy with this thing

Yeah, N64 is the big one for me as well. For SM64, for example, I went from laggy 320p with the default plugin (GLideN64) to almost perfect 30fps at 1080p by switching to glesN64. Very nice. Haven't had quite such luck with other games, but yeah.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

Hm, well, that has not been my experience with RetroPie, I've had none of the issues you mention. Everything just worked as expected on the first try. Very simple, very plug-n-play. Was this an older version you tried? But yeah, I understand that it sucks if you have to mess with stuff like that to even get going.

The launch menu is there so you can change stuff like which emulator core you want to use for the game you're launching. You can't do that with Recalbox, then...? Usually it's not necessary, but sometimes you can get much greater results if you experiment with different cores for certain games. Either way, RetroPie has the recommended cores set by default, and you can very easily disable that menu if you never want to mess with it. In general, unless you have some specific odd issue (like you had), RetroPie is just as simple and plug-n-play as Recalbox from what I can see. You don't have to know anything about Linux, you never have to touch the terminal (but if you do want to it's very powerful, of course), etc. The only "hard" part is that you have to burn an image onto your SD card I guess, you can't just drag and drop a bunch of files.

I'm sure Recalbox is great as well, I just can't see what it offers me that RetroPie doesn't. Just seems like a more limiting and less flexible version of the same thing to me.

I still disagree. That was the short version about my issues with Retropie...

I tried both and decided to stick with retropie, the ability to switch cores is huge and indeed I can custom make everything to my likeness, I did have to get my hands dirty a couple of times by going to obscure menus etc put after a while is not that intimidating I understand the appeal of Recalbox as a plug and play thing but the advantages of retropie are there if you are willing to use, I switched a few default cores for example for N64 different games run better with different cores and for the Pi 3 the lr-mame core is better as it has the same retroarch config screen so I put that on default as well. overall I am quite happy with this thing

Recalbox lets you change cores easily, far more than Retropie in fact, since it presents you if a nice GUI just for that. You just need to hit select on the game that you want to run with a different core, go to "game options" and change to whatever you like. On the general configurations, you can set a different core for all games in a given system as well.

 

[Conan-san]

Oh god I wish there was a simple way to edit the metadata on items, Retropie shits itself open if you come near it with anything remotely untoward (Like Translations ie: Secret of Mana 2 or Hacks ie: Sonic 3 Complete) and even neo geo roms FFS.

I tell you, if Bluetooth worked on Recallbox I'da switched instantly.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

Oh god I wish there was a simple way to edit the metadata on items, Retropie shits itself open if you come near it with anything remotely untoward (Like Translations ie: Secret of Mana 2 or Hacks ie: Sonic 3 Complete) and even neo geo roms FFS.

I tell you, if Bluetooth worked on Recallbox I'da switched instantly.

Recalbox has a GUI just for that. But you'd need a dongle to use Bluetooth at the current version.

The next one, at alpha stage currently, comes with natively supported Bluetooth and a virtual keyboard, so you won't need to rely on an actual one just for edit those kinds of settings.

 

[Conan-san]

Yeah but getting the images is still an arse.

If I could just throw a USB at it, tell it to copy an image and do that I would jet grab some templates and go to town but as it is, pft)

And when I meant "Bluetooth" I meant internal bluetooth. if I wanted to make an apple out of my Pi then I'd buy dongles for days.

 

[MRORANGE]

Game Pie Advance $79.95 (pcb + screen) bring your own GBA shell and you are good to go.

Buy here
Build Guide

Video

 

[ty_hot]

Ordered my Pi3, with a case/charger/heatsink, 16gb class 10 sd, and a cheap keyboard. all for 65. price is ok, but I still missed the 32 euro price before blackfriday in the pi (paid 40 now).

For those more familiar: I want to use it primarly to run some code in R (i already checked and have a tutorial to make it up and running os raspbian). So if I prepare the SD with the Raspbian, then install the R program, I can after install the retropie using this guide and have everything on it?

 

[QuantumZebra]

Got a Canakit Pi 3 and 2 of those $10 SNES usb controllers for my daughters playroom and got Genesis and SNES on it.

Having a helluva time with getting Bluetooth controllers to work on it... the damn thing keeps vibrating 24/7 when on bluetooth.

Other than that it's pretty sweet so far.

Anyone know if the rPi3 can handle N64/PSX?

 

[ThatsMytrunks]

Anyone know if the rPi3 can handle N64/PSX?

PSX to an extent, N64 not really.

 

[Harlock]

If N64 is a big deal for you, could be better build a mini pc good enough to play n64 games at decent framerate and even emulate gamecube and wii to have the full package.

 

[ScOULaris]

Anyone know if the rPi3 can handle N64/PSX?

Overclocked the Pi 3 can play a small selection of quality N64 games at decent framerates, but overall it's not the best solution for N64 emulation. It does play Mario 64 flawlessly, however, even at stock speeds using the Mupen64plus-hires core.

As for PS1, it should play nearly all games at full speed no problem.

 

[Cheetos is Pretty Awesome]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/583173617/raspi-boy-retro-handheld-emulation-console-electro

This is up as well. I backed it but I'm still thinking; the shell doesn't look that great but having a full arsenal of SNES controls is nice on a handheld. Can always pop the rubbers and buttons out and use real SNES/SFC ones.

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

Possibly a stupid question but is there any place to buy one of these ready-built and in the form of a portable handheld system (with a little screen and all that)?

 

[MRORANGE]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/583173617/raspi-boy-retro-handheld-emulation-console-electro

This is up as well. I backed it but I'm still thinking; the shell doesn't look that great but having a full arsenal of SNES controls is nice on a handheld. Can always pop the rubbers and buttons out and use real SNES/SFC ones.

I don't like the shell as well but it's amazingly good value for money and the guy has put a lot of work into this.

 

[MRORANGE]

Possibly a stupid question but is there any place to buy one of these ready-built and in the form of a portable handheld system (with a little screen and all that)?

ebay has some now and then, but really expensive, just search 'retropie handheld'

 

[patrickthehedgehog]

Anyone get a Pi recently that works in Seattle? Had a convo with someone about this before coming into work this morning and thought it'd be funny if they're a gaffer!

 

[whome0]

Retropie gets emulators and new systems faster because Retropie is built on top of a complete OS (Raspbian).

Recalbox is made from scratch in the sense that it doesn't have those structures, nor drivers, so everything needs to be adapted to it with developers actually writing packages to port things from other places to every new release. This leads to slower cycles.

Different design principal so is this a reason Recalbox is missing few emulators such as Commodore64? They are using only Retroarch compatible emulators(?) so can provide a centralized controller configuration, overall unified experience etc.

 

[pompidu]

Quick question, my vilros pi3 came today and I'm wondering if retropie works with the 360 wireless controller(the one with USB adapter)?

 

[8-Bit Sunset]

Game Pie Advance $79.95 (pcb + screen) bring your own GBA shell and you are good to go.

Buy here
Build Guide

Video

Would love to have this.
Wish there was one for 6 buttons though.
Mighty tempting though for old mame and PC Engine gaming on the go though. Decisions, decisions.

EDIT: And sold out

 

[Flavor]

Would love to have this.
Wish there was one for 6 buttons though.
Mighty tempting though for old mame and PC Engine gaming on the go though. Decisions, decisions.

EDIT: And sold out

It's not sold out. It's actually in preorder.

The link that was posted was to the old version.
Please see http://www.flashmasta.com/product/game-pie-advance-diy-kit-v2/

Also, we are working on building in X/Y buttons. The first version had A/B and L/R.

In fact, just today we were modifying the PCB layout to include an option for X/Y. You should be able to read about the addition of X/Y on that page I just linked.

 

[Shaneus]

Would love to have this.
Wish there was one for 6 buttons though.
Mighty tempting though for old mame and PC Engine gaming on the go though. Decisions, decisions.

EDIT: And sold out

I still want a handy wireless controller that mimics the Saturn pad. I have a USB Saturn controller that I can use, but a BT one would be even better.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

My birthday (and Christmas) is coming up, and I'm not askign for much this year. I am wondering if there are any recommendations for Retropie handhelds or bartops that people have experience with. I'm not much of a builder.

 

[pompidu]

I got Roms in all the correct folders but no emulators show up. Just the retropie banner with configuration underneath it. I have no idea what to do from here. Google is not helpful

Edit: fixed it. Got to disable 'ParseGameListOnly'

Edit 2: sound isn't working now

 

[spoonztt]

Does that announcement about Windows 10 running on ARM processors mean that we might have Windows 10 running properly on the Pi soon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONI0zfEnBPU

 

[Datschge]

Does that announcement about Windows 10 running on ARM processors mean that we might have Windows 10 running properly on the Pi soon?

Considering you can't even install Win 10 on systems with less than 2GB RAM (and previous versions went into permanent slow-ass swapping mode when used with 1GB)? Good luck.

 

[stangend77]

Quick question, my vilros pi3 came today and I'm wondering if retropie works with the 360 wireless controller(the one with USB adapter)?

I can't officially state that it does for Retropie as I use Recalbox, but I use a cheap X360 wireless control adapter with my X360 control on mine flawlessly.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

Does that announcement about Windows 10 running on ARM processors mean that we might have Windows 10 running properly on the Pi soon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONI0zfEnBPU

Nope. Seems to be Qualcomm related and Pi's rely on Broadcom SoCs. Besides, even the Pi3 has a ridiculously slow ass RAM (DDR2), something made even worse by the fact that there is only 1 gig of it... so, nope.

 

[The Omega Man]

Do you guys crank up the resolution output per core? is it worthy? like MAME outputs a 640x480 but you can select 1280 x720, worthy?

 

[Jane Mansfield]

I bought this and love it! Comes with a great case and a 32GB card which can be ideal for ROMs

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C6Q2GSY/?tag=neogaf0e-20

So I bought this 2 weeks ago, and it finally arrived. YAY!

So now what?

Do I follow the instructions that were included in the CanaKit first and then install Recalbox? Or do I install Recalbox right away?

I'm so new to this.

 

[ScOULaris]

So I bought this 2 weeks ago, and it finally arrived. YAY!

So now what?

Do I follow the instructions that were included in the CanaKit first and then install Recalbox? Or do I install Recalbox right away?

I'm so new to this.

I highly recommend Retropie over Recalbox if it's primarily emulation you're after.

For Retropie, just follow the instructions here:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation

 

[Jane Mansfield]

Well what I meant was do I need to install an operating system (i.e., Raspbian) onto the raspberry pi before installing recalbox.

And I choosing Recalbox instead of Retropie because it has Kodi.

 

[ScOULaris]

Well what I meant was do I need to install an operating system (i.e., Raspbian) onto the raspberry pi before installing recalbox.

And I choosing Recalbox instead of Retropie because it has Kodi.

Retropie does as well, but Recalbox has an easier interface for switching between Emulation and Kodi.

 

[wowbaggerBR]

Well what I meant was do I need to install an operating system (i.e., Raspbian) onto the raspberry pi before installing recalbox.

And I choosing Recalbox instead of Retropie because it has Kodi.

Highly recommend Recalbox instead. Easier to use and it has Kodi installed by default. Bringing Kodi to Retropie could be a huge pain in the ass, depending on how confortable you are with Linux stuff.

 

[colinp]

Highly recommend Recalbox instead. Easier to use and it has Kodi installed by default. Bringing Kodi to Retropie could be a huge pain in the ass, depending on how confortable you are with Linux stuff.

I don't remember doing anything in the command line to install Kodi on my pi last month. It was entirely GUI related. It's really not that hard.

Some other config stuff OK, but installing Kodi...?

 

[wowbaggerBR]

I don't remember doing anything in the command line to install Kodi on my pi last month. It was entirely GUI related. It's really not that hard.

Some other config stuff OK, but installing Kodi...?

Nice to know that. Last time I used it yhere were some sudo somethings involved.

 

[CrashPrime]

So is there a way to output a Pi in 240p to a CRT (component) or am I better off just going the Wii route?

 

[ty_hot]

My Pi3 just arrived. I am such a noob that I bought a keyboard with it because 'how am I supposed to use it?' - thankfully I didnt open its box yet so I can return it to Amazon, as I found out I can use my own computer (and even the screen of my computer!) in my Pi.

I have my 16gb class 10 sd card ready with Raspbian but I dont have a 2.5A charger yet =( gonna arrive next wednesday. shit. I only have some 750a phone chargers so I am can only look at it and be amazed at how small it is.

 

[The Omega Man]

Do you guys crank up the resolution output per core? is it worthy? like MAME outputs a 640x480 but you can select 1280 x720, worthy?

quoting myself, what resolution output are you running your MAME games?

 

[ZeroCoin]

I know a lot of people are going back and forth over recalbox vs retropie, but they really are very similar. I feel it's pretty easy to break it into 2 groups of technical skill. If you wouldn't feel comfortable typing in a command line or editing config files, stick with recalbox. If that doesn't bother you or you want better emulation support and options, go with retropie.

Recalbox definitely seems easier for new users, pretty much everything is in a polished GUI, and several things are already setup f from the initial install (background music, Kodi, etc). I feel like new consoles and emulators take longer to roll out on recalbox because they need to have that polished GUI in place.

Retropie can easily install those packages and many more emulators, but it does flip back to a more basic Linux UI at times which can throw new users for a loop. But the flip side is that there are tons more options for retropie. If you aren't comfortable hacking away at something or searching for a solution that someone else did, might not be the image for you.

I've used both, initially rolling with recalbox until I started seeing the limitations. I've since switched to retropie. But, there is a value in the user friendliness of recalbox. I'm planning on building my brother an emulation machine as a gift. I'll be using recalbox because while he would be able to figure out retropie, I don't think he'd enjoy it.