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RetroPie 4.7.1

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February 2021

Les Pounder loves retrogaming and Raspberry Pi, so with RetroPie and the new Raspberry Pi 400 the question is: will he find his Nirvana?

- Les Pounder

RetroPie 4.7.1

RetroPie runs on all models of Raspberry Pi and is the most user-friendly way to start emulating classic “retro” machines with very little configuration. That said, if you want to delve deeper then RetroPie has plenty of tools to make your setup unique!

IN BRIEF

For arcades and home consoles, the 1980s and 90s were a golden era. Cartridges gave way to CD media and we saw games mature from simple pixelated sprites into 3D worlds of wonder. Emulating your favourite computer or console from this period of computing history is relatively simple, and thanks to RetroPie we can do this with a Raspberry Pi.

The latest version of RetroPie (4.7.1) is available via the RetroPie website and the official Raspberry Pi Imager. There are different images for each model of Raspberry Pi, including the latest version – the Raspberry Pi 400 – that we used as our test device.

Installation of RetroPie is simple. We used the

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