#HOW TO SET UP RETROPIE FOR FTP INSTALL#
#HOW TO SET UP RETROPIE FOR FTP PRO#
#HOW TO SET UP RETROPIE FOR FTP TV#

#HOW TO SET UP RETROPIE FOR FTP PRO#

Although not cheap, these are great controllers and 8bitdo has a growing reputation for bluetooth controllers- it’s latest has been reviewed positively against the official Switch Pro controller. I’ve had my controllers for a while now and it looks like the SF30 has been discontinued in favour of the SN30. The benefit of this particular USB stick (and the Integral for that matter) is they’re mini sticks, so hardly protrude from the USB port at all, making them harder to knock. The microSD card weighs in at a little under half that. A 256GB stick comes in at £27, which isn’t too shabby. With the OS and Retropie on the internal microSD card (which is a pig to swap out from the case- it require 4 screws, and the HDMI ribbon cable to be removed), all the media is stored on a USB micro stick.

#HOW TO SET UP RETROPIE FOR FTP INSTALL#

The boot time was terrible when I tried the install on either of the two USB sticks I’ve got, so I stuck with microSD. My SanDisk Extreme Pro 64 GB microSDXC is pretty fast, certainly faster than the Integral Fusion or the SanDisk Ultra Fit USB sticks I tried. I’ve still got my Retropie install on microSD card rather than switching to USB for a couple of reasons.

Why did I go for a shim over a conventional fan? No need to drill the case to mount it, and given there is already a case fan, it was tasked with simply shifting the hot air towards the case fan which expelled it. However some testing showed that an intensive session at Soul Calibur that saw 80+ degree temps was capped at the mid 50s once I installed the shim. Some assembly is required and I have to admit I was skeptical about how effective it would be.

Without active cooling the Pi4 will hit some pretty spectacular temperatures- mine hit 84 degrees before I purchased a fan shim. You can run your Retropie set up without additional cooling but to get the best out of the more modern emulators, such as the Dreamcast and PSP, you’re advised to overclock your Pi4. The touchscreen isn’t implemented in Retropie but it does work in Raspberian OS, which it’s possible to drop into (more of that later). Well there’s not much point in having a touchscreen case without the touchscreen to go with it is there? the 7inch rocks a 800 x 480 resolution, so it perfect for everything up to the Dreamcast. There are a couple of caveats with this case though, firstly you’ll need to order the 3.5mm extension cable as it doesn’t come with the case (and since the sound isn’t going to a HDMI source with speakers, you’ll need it) and secondly, you’ll need a 6.5mm drill bit (and a drill) to seat the 3.5mm jack on the case as there isn’t a pre drilled hole for it. I found the official case to be aesthetically great but almost impossible to get a decent viewing angle from. The Smartpi Touch Pro is a bit of a beast it’s significantly more bulky than the official touchscreen case but has one important extra that the official case doesn’t- the screen is tiltable.

#HOW TO SET UP RETROPIE FOR FTP TV#

The TV also has about a billion devices plugged into it already and is very popular with the rest of the family, if you want something to have a quick blast on, a self contained set up without any of the compromises of a handheld is an ideal middle ground. A lot of the games I play started off their life in extremely low resolution- some of the arcade games would have lusted after 320×240 (PAL standard definition), and that doesn’t look great on a 60 inch 4K telly, never mind the aspect ratio. There is absolutely nothing to stop you simply hooking up a Retropie install to your TV or monitor. There are reasons behind every choice, and below I’ll run through the hows and whys. I’ve got a Logitech Wireless keyboard and an 8bitdo SF30 Pro connected too. Oh, and the ROMs sit on a 256GB Sandisk Ultra USB microstick. My Retropie set up started life on a Pi 3b+, with a 64GB mSD card that contained the OS and the ROMs, and have now evolved into an overclocked Pi4 in a SmartPi case, with a built in 7 inch touchscreen, some custom themes and bezels sets, and a CRT shader. Heck, you don’t even need to put your Pi in a case, just hook it up to a PSU and connect the HDMI to a monitor or a TV set and you’re one controller and some ROMs away from being sorted. Since it’s so easy to get Retropie up and running, it’s easy to never make it past the default settings. Running Retropie on a Raspberry Pi is so easy, even my brother can manage it and in a sense that’s a problem.

How to set up retropie for ftp