After 6 months of hard work we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.0.

This retro-gaming project brings together a collection of popular emulators for those computers and consoles that you grew up with from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, all wrapped up and ready to run on the famous Raspberry Pi. From Atari 2600, to Sega Mega Drive to Sony PlayStation, all your favourite systems are covered. What are you waiting for – get playing!

[box type=”download” align=”aligncenter” class=”” width=””]You can find the download of the RetroPie image in the downloads section.[/box]

[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” class=”” width=””]Installation Instructions can be found at Github: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation[/box]

RetroPie 3.0 Key Features

Automatic controller configuration for RetroArch from EmulationStation.

New system for single per system rom folders, default / per rom emulator switching, as well as per rom configurations.

Lots of configuration tools accessible from Emulation station including setting up WiFi, a configuration editor, file manager, audio settings and more.

Per system and per game menu to set video output and default emulator setting.

Basic Joypad control in RetroPie-Setup menus.

Option to add game roms via USB without network access

Now offering over 20+ emulators + ports.

Lots of other improvements / bug fixes from the 2.6 release.

Thanks to PetRockBlock, BuZz, gizmo98, Herb Fargus, Floob and all others who have contributed to the project.

Full changelog

3.0

New GUI for basic WiFi configuration and Config editing

Added Dragon 32 / TRS-80 (CoCo) emulator xroar

Added Super Mario War to ports

Move some emulators out of experimental – lr-bluemsx (Now default for msx), lr-mednafen-ngp, lr-mednafen-wswan, lr-mgba, lr-tgbdual, lr-vba-next

Added virtualgamepad to experimental which allows gamepad emulation via a mobile

Restarting setup script no longer needed after updating the setup script.

Improved support for video splashscreens and a centralised splashscreen repo (https://github.com/RetroPie/retropie-splashscreens)

3.0 RC 1: 18th July 2015

Input configuration improvements / fixes / optimisations

Basic joypad control in RetroPie-Setup / emulator prelaunch menus.

Make libretro Fuse default spectrum emulator (for easier joypad control)

Added new spectrum emulator ZEsarUX to the experimental section.

Added launching RetroArch with RGUI from the RetroPie menu in EmulationStation.

Various other bugfixes – you can follow changes as they happen on the GitHub site – https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commits/master

3.0 BETA 4: 18th June 2015

Work around issue with RetroArch GUI not accepting input/freezing.

Fixed up RetroArch control configuration via our new integrated input configuration.

Moved RetroArch joypad configurations to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

3.0 BETA 3: 10th June 2015

Integrated controls configuration for EmulationStation and RetroArch – On first start EmulationStation will ask for controls to be configured, and will then also configure RetroArch based on your choices. Note that there will be a delay after selecting OK whilst this is done – this will be improved later to give feedback so it doesn’t look as though EmulationStation has frozen.

New experimental modules/emulators: limelight (Networked game streamer for Steam), lr-tgbdual (gameboy color emu with link support), DXX-Rebirth port (Decent 1/2), lr-mednafen-wswan (Wonderswan emu), lr-mednafen-ngp (NeoGeo Pocket emu), uae4arm (Amiga emu), lr-fuse (ZX Spectrum emu), lr-caprice32 (Amstrad CPC emu), lr-gw (Game and Watch simulator). All modules prefixed with lr- are libretro cores for use with Retroarch.

New startup picture with new RetroPie logo.

Added additional ES theme “Color Pi”

Dosbox bug fixes / Ability to launch custom shell scripts.

Wifi configuration under RetroPie menu (wicd-curses).

PS3 controller setup improvements

Various other fixes / improvements.

Disabled root password by default (re-enable by typing sudo passwd root if needed)

3.0 BETA 2: 4th April 2015

More launch options for Hatari

Resize framebuffer with video mode change (and allow frame buffer res to be changed independently for terminal/X apps)

Improvements to minecraft-pi launch script

Added some experimental modules – Adventure Game Studio engine, yabause (Sega saturn), virtualjaguar (Atari Jaguar), beetle-vb (Virtualboy), mgba (game boy advance)

Added ProSystem (Atari 7800 emulator)

Fixes to mupen64plus build

Various other fixes / Improvements

3.0 BETA 1: 26th March 2015