An unrestricted sub for fans of Retropie on the Raspberry Pi. Discussion and links to pre-made images, roms (and their sources), Gamewizard and related subjects encouraged.
FOR PREMADE IMAGES:
Use a torrent program such as www.qbittorrent.org
In Qbittorrent, select File -> Add Torrent Link -> Copy the magnet link -> Select download
In windows, use win32diskimager to copy the image to your 16GB SD card. Make sure the card is formatted, you can use SDFORMATTER. Insert the SD card into your Raspberry Pi, turn it on, configure the controllers and you're ready to go.
A big thanks to: ARCADE PUNKS, level1online, DrewTalks, MadLittlePixel, SimplyAustin, and E.T.A. Prime for everything that they do
Hi, just stumbled on this community while searching.
I will be working on a demo in a few (or many) weeks, but would appreciate any help for designs and concept art for my mascots!
You can learn more in here! https://rentry.co/retrotorrents
Community page (Signal group) https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/RetroTorrents
I just feel the need to point out that there are complete nointro and redump sets on archive.org distributed in nested zip files (any modern emulator supports unzipping by one level). You can browse through the files and download them individually if you have a (free) login to archive.org. They also have torrents. I would imagine that those are what most of the "advanced" users would use instead of direct download sites like vimm's lair etc. It might be a good idea to address that in the rentry page, because as far as I understood things, direct download sites have been dogwater for ages. I've been using archive.org for over a decade for ROMs, so listing benefits compared to that would be good.
Another great resource, for emulation software, is 4chan's Emulation General Thread's wiki.
That said, I'm still going to support this project if I can.
Archive.org's continued existence seems to be in minor jeapordy lately. Their torrent functionality is also not 100% reliable, with some torrent contents not consistently matching the direct download content (a few individual roms being corrupt through the torrent but fine as direct dl). Plus I have never been able to get the direct download as a web source when there are ni seeders thing to actually work in any torrenting client.
It would be good and useful to have a group of seedboxes seeding the latest fullsets, and a group of people to ensure the magnet links get distributed far and wide.
On top of that, there's a pretty big gap right now for retro PC game archival, as well as romhacks/patches and PC game compatibility patches.