Coffee & Pi - Everything RetroPie
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This document summarizes a Coffee & Pi meetup about RetroPie. It introduces RetroPie, which allows playing retro games on Raspberry Pi. It discusses installing RetroPie using Etcher to write the image to an SD card. Basic configuration like WiFi and controllers is covered. Methods for transferring game rom files over the network are demonstrated. Additional RetroPie features like themes, scraping, and RetroArch are briefly mentioned. Local tech communities are listed for further support.
Coffee & Pi - Everything RetroPie
- 1. Coffee & Pi Everything RetroPie Brad Derstine Meetup: 10/23/2017 #CoffeeAndPi
- 2. Welcome to Coffee & Pi For hobbyists and technology students All ages and backgrounds are welcome! Beginner friendly workshops, demos and networking! We have coffee and pie!
- 3. Questions Has anyone never seen or used a Raspberry Pi? Does anyone work professionally develop for Pi or embedded systems/IoT? Windows or OS X? Who is from Philadelphia? Who is from the suburbs/outside the city/NJ?
- 4. Meetup Rules This is a beginner friendly meetup, focus on Pi, but open to information on other platforms and hardware. There are no stupid questions. Open discussion is encouraged, keep it friendly! If you have equipment you would like to talk about or test together, see me after the presentation!
- 6. About Brad 17+ years in IT, tech support, Linux administration Currently Senior DevOps Engineer for Health Union Mostly self-taught, with help from mentors and Philly tech communities. Love just building stuff! Not great at coding, really enjoy servers and apps! Coffee & Pi is meant to help people at all ages and skill levels to learn more about technology
- 7. Upcoming Coffee & Pi November - Looking for topic ideas, open to suggestions Will be more consistent with monthly meetups! March 3, 2018 - Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend Coffee & Pi is joining several Philly meetup groups and partners for one big event! Introducing Philly & Pi!
- 8. Philly & Pi March 3, 2018 - Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend http://rpf.io/bdayjamform Organizing to bring Philly meetups and groups together for workshops, demos, and talks to inspire people of all levels and ages to learn with Raspberry Pi Hoping to stream this and share Philly with the international Raspberry Pi community! Coffee & Pi Meetup Philly GraphDB MeetUp Philly IoT MeetUp DataPhilly Meetup Raspberry Pi Neo4j with Karin Wolok Workshops and demos by… Coded by Kids Hopeworks ’N Camden TechGirlz
- 9. Help Wanted! Philly & PI - More details to come soon! Raspberry Pi is in talks about streaming feeds during the weekend too! Anyone have any equipment or connections that can help? Will need volunteers if anyone is interested, will put you first in line for swag and includes a free Philly & Pi t-shirt! Let Brad know if you are!
- 10. DEMO!
- 11. Legal Disclaimer Using RetroPie is open-source and legal Downloading “roms” by copyright is questionable, grey area Should be safe. I’m not the internet police… I am not a lawyer, this is NOT legal advice. I, Coffee & Pi, and Health Union are not responsible for what you learn today or download tomorrow. All the info in this presentation is widely available on Google and Youtube! If you aren’t sure, feel free to talk to a real lawyer.
- 14. Raspberry Pi Hardware Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU, 1GB RAM Now includes built in wifi, bluetooth Raspberry Pi Zero W 1GHz, single-core CPU, 512MB RAM Mini HDMI and USB On-The-Go ports Now includes built in wifi, bluetooth
- 19. RetroPie play your favorite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with minimum set-up builds upon Raspberry Pi’s own Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects provides a large variety of configuration tools to customize the system Latest: RetroPie 4.3 - Released Sept 21, 2017 https://retropie.org.uk
- 20. Supported Emulators https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie- Setup/wiki/Supported-Systems Lists system, emulator(s) used, supported file extensions, If system/emulator requires a bios, lists the bios Also has original manufactured year/name and an image
- 23. Installing RetroPie Buy a RetroPie starter Kit online, will have RetroPie with Noobs on Micro SD card. Just insert, boot, and follow Noobs setup OR Download RetroPie 4.3 Image - Raspberry 3 https://retropie.org.uk/download/ Download Etcher (Win, Mac, Linux) https://etcher.io/ Use Etcher to write RetroPie to Micro SD card
- 24. Select Image and Drive
- 25. Use Etcher
- 26. Remove and Insert Micro SD in Raspberry Pi
- 27. Boot RetroPie
- 38. Ugh, I don’t have a trigger… Press and hold any button to skip that button config!
- 39. Press A on OK to save!
- 40. Yes use Select for Hotkey
- 41. You are done! Press A to configure.
- 42. Configuring RetroPie Lots of options, most defaults will cover a lot! At a minimum… WiFi Second Gamepad
- 43. Main Menu of RetroPie
- 44. Select WIFI
- 45. Select Connect to WiFi network
- 46. Useful Menu Tips On “blue” configure menus, can use gamepad Press up and down on D-pad to scroll through menu options Press left and right on D-pad to scroll bottom options (Ok, Cancel, Exit, Help) Press A to select (same as pressing enter!) OR just use a keyboard!
- 47. Select the WiFi SSID
- 48. Use Keyboard to type WiFi key
- 49. Connecting…
- 50. When done, will show IP and SSID
- 51. Main Menu of RetroPie
- 52. If you press Select
- 53. If you press Start
- 54. Adding Games aka “roms” See Legal Disclaimer! :)
- 55. Google “retropie usb rom transfer” if you want to do it the hard way…
- 56. We will do it the Coffee & Pi way! Over WiFi!!!
- 57. Use SHOW IP to Show IP Address Must be connected via network or wifi!
- 58. Showing IP…
- 59. On a Mac, use Finder
- 60. Connect to Server Using Samba (smb://) and IP
- 61. Connect as “Guest” (I know…)
- 62. Connect as “Guest” (I know…)
- 63. Select the roms volume…
- 64. Displays all the roms folders
- 65. Drop in some test NES roms
- 66. On Windows, use Explorer
- 67. Like Mac, double-click on roms
- 68. Double-click the platform and upload roms to folder
- 69. Should show the same roms as the Mac/Finder method
- 70. Once you copy the roms, restart EmulationStation!
- 71. Once you copy the roms, restart EmulationStation!
- 72. Once you copy the roms, restart EmulationStation!
- 73. After restart… Use the menu to select system
- 74. Use the system menu to select game
- 75. Change and play games across multiple systems!
- 76. Other RetroPie Features Bluetooth Scraping Themes RetroArch (advanced) File Manager (keyboard) (also advanced)
- 77. Bluetooth https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie- Setup/wiki/Bluetooth-Controller I did not have a bluetooth controller to try, but should work and definitely recommended! Cheap controllers are kind of flakey… you get what you pay for…
- 78. Scraping
- 79. Scraping Results
- 81. Install Themes
- 82. UI Settings
- 83. Change Theme
- 85. “Zoid” Theme
- 86. File Manager
- 87. RetroArch
- 88. Final Thoughts… Share what you learn! Keep experimenting!!! Connect with other local and online communities for more help and support! You have my permission to fail! Keep trying! Please leave ratings and feedback on meetup.com, it helps others to find and know how Coffee & Pi goes!
- 89. Raspberry Pi Resources Use the #CoffeeAndPi to show off your projects! We are on PhillyDev.org Slack #RaspberryPi You can use the Coffee and Pi meetup tools, email group, online discussion board Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help!
- 90. Philly Tech Communities Philly Python Users Group (PhillyPUG) https://www.meetup.com/preview/phillypug Philly IoT Meetup https://www.meetup.com/preview/Philadelphia- Internet-of-Things-Meetup Hardware - NextFab, The Hacktory (Needs help!) Youth - TechGirlz, Hopeworks, Coded by: Kids
- 91. Thank you! Questions? If you have equipment to test, come see me! #CoffeeAndPi