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3. A Closer Look at RetroPie

Mark Frauenfelder1  and Ryan Bates2
(1)
Studio City, CA, USA
(2)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 

RetroPie is an emulator operating system that integrates a number of retro gaming projects. RetroPie itself sits above Raspbian, a flavor of Linux written for the Raspberry Pi. It neatly combines two popular emulator front ends, RetroArch and EmulationStation. RetroPie is a feature-rich platform with many options for customization. In this section, we’ll go a bit deeper into its capabilities.

To explore RetroPie’s options, you should have a keyboard, mouse, and gamepad controller. You also need to make sure ...

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