We now need to flash the image onto a blank SD card. This is the file that needs to be burned onto our SD card. You can use any of the usual unzippers for this task, we'll be using WinRAR. You need to extract the files before you can write the image to your SD card.
Once this has downloaded, you'll be rewarded with a file named "retropie-vX.X.X-rpi2_" or similar. The file is about 1GB so this may take a while! You can download the RetroPie image from here.
Therefore, you'll need to download and write the RetroPie image to an SD card. There’s quite a bit of setup, so please follow the guide below carefully!ĭue to licensing restrictions, we are not allowed to sell RetroPie pre-installed on an SD card. RetroPie already has many emulators installed on it but in order to play the games you'll have to find and the download specific ROMs yourself. An emulator is an application that mimics a specific console (such as a SNES) and allows you play a ROM for that console.
In order to play retro-video games you need a game ROM and an emulator to play it on.