Category: Raspberry Pi

Shrink a Raspberry Pi or RetroPie .img On Windows with PiShrink

PiShrink is a bash script that automatically shrink a pi image that will then resize to the max size of the SD card on boot. However, thanks to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can now run it on Windows! Prerequisites Install Linux on Windows with WSL Rasberry Pi / RetroPie backup .img An .img …

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Find RetroPie Unscraped Data

This is intended to be used as the supplemental script (3_CheckXML.ps1) to be used in conjunction with the 1_Clean-NoIntroRoms.ps1 and 2_CompareFolderResults.ps1 scripts. This script allows you check missing scraped data in RetroPie by examining the gamelist.xml file for each game system on you RetroPie. This can save you HOURS of time manually checking for missing …

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Compare RetroPie ROM Folders

This is intended to be used as the supplemental script (2_CompareFolderResults.ps1) to be used in conjunction with the 1_Clean-NoIntroRoms.ps1 and 3_CheckXML.ps1 scripts. This script allows you to compare the files/roms in 2 directories to show the differences in files of each folder by using the compare-object cmdlet. It is intended to compare the different results …

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RetroPie Install Guide RaspberryPi 4

This is the updated article specifically for the RetroPie on the RaspberryPi 4 with the Retroflag NESPi 4 Case. This will support up to most systems up until Playstation 1 (PS1). If you’re interested in RetroPie on the RaspberryPi 3/3B+, you can refer to my original article but please note this one has some additional …

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RetroPie Install Guide

This original guide is meant for the Raspberry PI 2/3/3B+ (Updated 11/5/2020) *** Click the below link to see the updated version for the RaspberryPi 4B! *** https://sigkillit.com/2020/09/09/retropie-install-guide-raspberrypi-4/ Hardware Used You can easily go cheaper on the hardware by getting USB controllers, getting a smaller MicroSD card, not adding the optional fan, or by not …

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Clean No-Intro 2018 ROM Set

IMPORTANT UPDATE 6/07/2023 – Major Rewrite for v6.0!!! Overview I did not want my RetroPie to be cluttered with ROMs I did not want. I only wanted the original games, I did not want duplicates or revisions, and I only wanted games in English so I could read the on screen text. For example, the …

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