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Raspberry PI Retropie or Batocera images? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trying to find a ready to go image for a Raspberry Pi 5, either RetroPie or Batocera (or others I'm not aware of) for retro gaming. I know of Arcade Punks, but is there any other resource? Tried downloading a 128GB image from them and its taking forever due to no seeders. I did check megathread but wasn't able to find anything so far.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Honestly I think it would be easier to find rompacks with more seeders, Download batocera and then add your Roms yourself. It's not that much more work although it might feel like it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Download bato. Download rom pack. Put roms in rom folder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good point. I think you're right. I suppose that way I can cut out some of the junk roms I'll never play. Good call.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely worth it to curate your library. It makes it a lot better when you actually get to playing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was mostly worried about coming across some junk roms that won't play, etc. But that's probably not so common.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Funnily enough, I actually had problems in the past with junk roms in all-in-ones. I'm sure there are good, currated all-in-one images out there but I found the flexibility of managing my own library to be worth it cause there are so many great sources of roms. For retro, my favourite is vimms lair. Check it out if interested

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I love Vimm's Lair and have used it a bunch. Only reason I didn't start there this time is I want a new build for a Pi 5 and boy, Vimm's is slooooooow. Great project and service offered though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@Father_Redbeard @owen you can easily find pretty complete rom packs and then check it all with DAT files (a database of checksums)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where do you like to find them? I looked at the Megathread, but couldn't really find a retro-centric source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

@Father_Redbeard archive.org for the roms, and no-intro for the dat files