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.
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.
Thanks for the response! I will give it a go!
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.
Every retropie imagie I have seen includes retroarch.
If I where you I’d copy the directories that contain stuff you care about, and then install a fresh copy of V4.4
