
The system will boot and automatically re-size the hard drive partition to use all of your microsd card. After an automatic reboot if you connected your controls it will ask you to configure your game pad. Hold down a button on your game pad and go through the prompts. There will probably more options than you care to map to your controls. Just hold down a button and it will skip that input. The “A” and “B” are important as they go forward and back in EmulationStation.

Once you complete press whatever button you designated as “A” on the OK and you will go into EmulationStation. Note: You have only mapped controls to navigate emulationstation. We will map the controls for the emulators at a later step. Let’s get the system on our Wifi first by going into the RetroPie setup menu and “configure wifi”.
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Go ahead and plug in a usb keyboard so you can type in your wifi password after selecting your network. You should connect as with any other device. Make sure and write down your ip address. Press Escape on your keyboard and you will go back to EmulationStation.Īccess Your RetroPie Setup Easily From A Computerįrom here let’s make it so we can access our pi from another computer and also give it max memory for graphics. In the RetroPie Menu go to the Raspberry Pi Configuration Tool Raspi-config. Option 1 should already be done, but using your keyboard you can press enter to ensure you are using all of your microsd car space. Under A3 press enter and put 256 in the memory split and press OK. SSH will simply allow us to access the pi to put our games on and modify our controls for the emulators.Īfter enabling SSH pres escape and go back to your emulationstation interface. Now that your RPI3 is on your network and SSH is enabled let’s go to a computer on your network and access it. Let RetroPie Setup know there is Two Controllersĭon’t get overwhelmed if you are not used to command line.

In short we are simply pasting some text to the end of a file and saving it.
