RetroPie Starter Kit

This repo may only be useful for my own personal setup. I keep my roms on a USB Drive (optional NAS config as well), I renamed all my rom folders to a company-system format so they all line up nicely, my PSX collection is entirely set up as .m3u playlists to prevent duplicate listings, and I re-organized the es_systems.cfg so systems in the UI appear in a more logical console > portable > year order rather than nonsensical alphabetical.

Some of these "steps" are just references in case I need to re-download artwork, get button ids for a new controller, etc.

Power Button:

SuperPi Case Script
Argon ONE Case Script
curl https://download.argon40.com/argon1.sh | bash

Games on USB:

Turn OFF USB rom service before inserting USB drive containing roms:
RetroPie Setup > Configuration / tools > usbromservice
Upload configs/all/autostart.sh (all rom folders should be at /System/games on the USB drive)
Shutdown
Insert USB drive containing roms
Power on

Games on Network Share:

Edit configs/all/autostart.sh, modify user, password, path, and upload

If you can't save (states/battery/etc.) to the mounted share:

sudo chown -R pi /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/games

art-book-next-retropie

Replace config files for better UX

Proper SuperGrafx Support:

Upload configs/supergrafx

Systems List:

Upload configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

Sega CD CHD Support:

Upload configs/segacd/emulators.cfg

PSX Controller Not Working:

Change the controller type from standard to analog (this can only be done in the RetroArch core for PSX (hotkey + X)

Artwork:

cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/games/[system] - replace [system] with game system folder name
/opt/retropie/supplementary/scraper/scraper -append -console_src=gdb,ss -max_width=505 -max_height=540 -image_dir=media -image_path=media

After Update:

RetroPie Setup > Configuration / tools > autostart > Boot to EmulationStation

JoyStick Test:

jstest /dev/input/js0

Rotate Logs:

Some controllers will create endless error logs (this technique will force the logs to obey normal logic and not fill your system SD card to the point where it is unusable)

Edit /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog

monthly
size 10m
rotate 12
missingok
notifempty
compress
delaycompress

/var/log/syslog {
  postrotate
    invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
  endscript
}

/var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/mail.err
/var/log/*.log /var/log/debug /var/log/messages {
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
  endscript
}

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