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- How to set up retropie 2016 install#
- How to set up retropie 2016 software#
- How to set up retropie 2016 download#
Win32 will pick up any removable media including SSD's.
How to set up retropie 2016 install#
If you're on a MAC, please use ApplePi Baker, or a Linux machine, use Unetbootin. They are all very simple, so please download, install and open your chosen software:īrowse to the RetroPie image file, and select the SD card as the "device".īEFORE YOU HIT WRITE - Please make sure that you have selected the correct device.
How to set up retropie 2016 software#
There's one more piece of software we need to burn our image - Win32 Disk Imager.
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Now that you have a nice clean SD card, we're now ready to copy your operating system image over! The image burning process will completely erase the card so please back-up any information that's currently stored on the card if it's required.Īll of our SD cards come pre-loaded with NOOBs OS, so please ensure that your SD card is formatted before writing the software! Most card can be formatted easilly using the SD card associations card formatter here. Use the SD to USB card reader to insert your SD card into your PC.īefore proceeding, please ensure that your SD, or Micro SD card is completely formatted, and that any information you want or need has been removed from that card. We now need to flash the image onto a blank SD card. This is the file that needs to be burned onto our SD card. You can use any of the usual unzippers for this task, we'll be using WinRAR. You need to extract the files before you can write the image to your SD card. Once this has downloaded, you'll be rewarded with a file named "retropie-vX.X.X-rpi2_" or similar. The file is about 1GB so this may take a while! You can download the RetroPie image from here.
How to set up retropie 2016 download#
Therefore, you'll need to download and write the RetroPie image to an SD card. There’s quite a bit of setup, so please follow the guide below carefully!ĭue to licensing restrictions, we are not allowed to sell RetroPie pre-installed on an SD card. RetroPie already has many emulators installed on it but in order to play the games you'll have to find and the download specific ROMs yourself. An emulator is an application that mimics a specific console (such as a SNES) and allows you play a ROM for that console.
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In order to play retro-video games you need a game ROM and an emulator to play it on.