Raspberry Pi computers don’t come with power cables. This is the computer that will run RetroPie. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B in either 4GB or 8GB Here’s what I recommend: Hardware/software needed for RetroPie Read on to get started! What do I need to set up RetroPie?īefore we get started, you’ll need some basic hardware.

You’re about to enter an exciting new world of classic gaming using modern technology and displays. Setting up RetroPie is made easier by gathering everything you need ahead of time, following this helpful guide, and enjoying the process of learning how the whole thing works. However, setting up RetroPie can be a frustrating endeavor for the uninitiated. Sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.RetroPie is a collection of emulators that enables gamers to play thousands of vintage video games on modern displays using a Raspberry Pi single board computer. After you have rebooted you will need to go into the “RetroPie setup” in the GUI or using You will need to add the following to that file you just opened To do this we need to edit a file, I’m using vim but you can use what ever text editor you are familiar with. By default the pi will use the 0 snd_bcm2835 which is the headphone jack, We need to tell the pi that we want it to use 1 snd_usb_audio as the default audio interface. You can see the USB sound card on the second line. Which should give you these back in the command line You can ether SSH into retropie or using a keyboard press F4 to bring up the command line.įirst thing to do is check to see if your pi can see the USB sound card, Use the command below So you should have your USB sound card inserted and boot up retropie. So plug-in your USB sound card and boot up retropie. Its super easy to get this to work with RetroPie, I found THIS blog post which made it really easy to set up. This was not the case so I had to track down the exact one that they were using in the MintyPi build, You will need to search for PCM2704 and it look like the one below Hardwareįirst of all I thought I could get away with one of their super cheap USB soundcard like the one below So I thought I could do the same to add sound to my ZeroBoy. I seen that the MintyPi was using a USB sound card to give their handheld a speaker by soldering a speaker to the 3.5mm jack. The 2 down sides to my ZeroBoy build I did recently were that it didn’t have a build in battery power and that it didn’t have sound.

How to setup usb for retropie