Hey all, last week i was messing with my old rpi i had laying around. I had a couple of failed manual installs, before i realized there was just an image of retropie on the installer, and used it…

I messed around, installing some other things from the command line, that I read about on other dummy guides.

Well, i played a bit, and my saves for Metroid are borked… And the game has hotkeyed saves loads etc that are tied to reteoarch… I have a simple Buffalo SNES controller… So i dont have spare keys on it to rebind them to, and cannot completely unbind them even with a keyboard.

My question is, is retroarch part of the retropie install, or is it something i installed in the chaos of crap i did after my initial install? Can i uninstall it completely, or just reflash retropie? I have seen all of the losta regarding resetting the hotkey for the shortcuts… None of it seems to work, at least with this controller. Im supremely frustrated. I spent an hour or two assing with it last night… Configuring shortcuts from inside the game, without a rom loaded, and could not get any satisfaction.

Im pretty rudderless here, and obviously clueless about the inner workings of these things. So appreciate any advice.

  • @keen1320English
    2•1 year ago

    Retroarch is part of RetroPie. I also just installed RetroPie for the first time yesterday and have been trying to wrap my head around it all. Best I can tell, RetroPie = EmulationStation + RetroArch. EmulationStation is the front-end that makes using RetroPie more controller-friendly and adds some additional polish, and RetroArch is doing the actual emulation.

    Your best bet is probably just reflash RetroPie using the Raspberry Pi Imager. I haven’t gotten too deep into other features quite yet (shaders, shortcuts, saves/save states, etc.) so I won’t be much help there.

    • @howlerOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks for the response! I will give it a go!

      • @keen1320English
        1•1 year ago

        Let me know how it goes. I’m still figuring stuff out as well. Right now I’m running it on a RPi 3B but considering re-flashing on a RPi 4. I’m also trying to figure out if/how I can make certain emulators automatically apply a certain shader (e.g. scan lines on NES/SNES or LCD for Gameboy). This is just a side project for me at the moment so not sure when I’ll have time to go down the rabbit hole.