skhg/retropie-custom

🎮 Setup a retro gaming system on the Raspberry Pi 3B+

retropie

This repo is:

• Instructions for how to set up a RetroPie machine from scratch
• A collection of scripts to manage launchers for ports such as chromium-browser which run inside EmulationStation
• cron configuration with rclone to automatically back up saved games and roms

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 3B+
• Raspberry Pi tall case
• 32GB microSD card
• Right-angle HDMI cable
• SNES-style gamepads
• Apple Magic Keyboard
• Apple Magic Trackpad

System setup

1. Download and install the Raspberry Pi Imager
2. Use this to flash the microSD card
3. touch /Volumes/boot/ssh to enable SSH on boot
4. touch /Volumes/boot/wpa_supplicant.conf to create WiFi configuration file
5. Add WiFi config as specified here
6. Insert microSD and run first boot
7. Change user pi password
8. sudo apt-get install vim
9. Copy SSH key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
10. Run sudo raspi-config and...
    1. Change GPU memory to 128MB
    2. Disable the splash screen on boot
11. Edit /boot/config.txt and set hdmi_force_hotplug=1 - enables HDMI even if the connected TV is not yet switched on
12. Install Rclone
    1. curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
    2. rclone config
    3. Follow instructions at https://rclone.org/dropbox/
       1. New Remote - n
       2. Remote Name - Dropbox
       3. Storage Type (Dropbox) - 9
       4. client_id blank
       5. client_secret blank
       6. Advanced config - n
       7. Use auto config - n - Remote machine
       8. Paste results from desktop command rclone authorize "dropbox"
       9. Is this ok - y
       10. Quit config - q

RetroPie setup

1. Install RetroPie
2. Configure to boot into EmulationStation
3. Install RetroPie-Extra

Chromium setup

1. Run the Chromium "Media Centre" script
2. Open retropie_setup.sh and select Manage packages > Manage experimental packages and install chromium.

Steam Link setup

1. Follow these instructions
2. Install Steam Link streaming on the host machine

Set up this repo

1. git clone [email protected]:skhg/retropie-custom.git
2. cd retropie-custom
3. ./setup.sh
4. Restart EmulationStation