This is far simpler than the alternative, which is to connect a keyboard and monitor to the Raspberry Pi Zero W to then set up WiFi and SSH. When working with a Raspberry Pi Zero W, as there is no network port, you will need to enable WiFi and SSH as well so that you can connect to it when it first boots. Have fun playing with your Pi, and I’ll see you again soon.Preparing a Raspberry Pi Zero with WiFi and SSH Mendhak / Code Preparing a Raspberry Pi Zero with WiFi and SSH If you’ve found this useful make sure to click the like button and subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss any of my upcoming videos. So that’s your new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W running the full version of RetroPie giving you access to all the great computers and consoles. I’ve turned on the frame rate display so we can see how well it’s performing and as you can see we’re getting a full 60 fps on this fairly intensive PS1 software. Restarting EmulationStation will get it to pick up on the new games and we can then have a play. The easiest way is to look for the \\retropie Samba share that RetroPie creates and them simply drag and drop the game folder into the psx folder in the roms section. Once you’ve downloaded the ROM archives we need to create a folder with the uncompressed files, and then transfer that across to the Pi. I’ve made a video about how to turn on their broken download links so again check out the description below for a link to that video. So lets install a high end PS1 game – Colony Wars to see how well it performs. Your Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is now a mini emulation powerhouse. In the root of that you’ll find the config.txt file which you can edit with a text editor such as Notepad or Atom – don’t use a word processor like Microsoft Word! If you can’t get RetroPie to start at all, take out the SD card and put it in your main PC. Try 1300 (1.3GHz) and reboot to see if that works. Hit Ctrl X, Y and enter to save the file and then reboot.Įverything should boot OK, but if you find your system crashes you’ll need to reduce the value above for the arm_freq setting. This will run the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 at 1.4GHz, up from 1GHz, and give the memory a bit of a boost as well. Even the weekly RetroPie builds don’t have the very latest kernel software so we can upgrade directly from the Raspberry Pi Foundation repositories.Ĭall up the Emulation Station menu by pressing the Start button and quit EmulationStation. So now we need to run a full update on the Raspberry Pi to make sure we’ve got the very latest drivers. You can check this by looking at your network settings in the RetroPie section. Once you’ve got that set up you’ll need to reboot the Pi.Īt this point you should have a full screen display and you should be connected to the Internet. You’ll first be asked to specify your country, then your wireless network details. Then back in the main menu select System Options, and WLAN. Turning this off will remove the black border around the screen, if you have one! Once that opens we can select the Display option and then Underscan. Selecting the RetroPie menu item will let us run the Raspi-Config utility. Once that’s all up and running we need to do a little bit of house keeping. You now need to boot up the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 board with this SD card and go through the initial RetroPie controller setup. Select the RetroPie image and burn the SD card. When you run the imager just scroll down to the bottom of the OS list and select the custom option to allow you to use a downloaded image file. I’ve recently switched from Etcher to using the Raspberry Pi Imager package which seems to offer a really easy way to create your Pi boot disks. Once you’ve got hold of that you need to burn it onto an SD card. So from here you can download the Pi 2/3 image. They are not fully tested so we do have to be aware that there may be some issues, but in general they are fine and they do include more up to date kernel software including more up to date drivers. These are the latest builds of RetroPie that are updated each week. The current release version, as of November 2021, doesn’t include the correct software, but it is present on the weekly build versions of RetroPie. It also has a newer WiFi and Bluetooth chip that again needs an updated driver. The Pi Zero 2 uses the same processor cores and the 3B+, so that image is more compatible with it. The new Pi Zero 2 uses a different set of hardware to the original Pi Zero so the official SD card image has the wrong drivers in place. If you’ve just taken delivery of your brand new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W you might be disappointed to find that RetroPie won’t install correctly onto your new board.
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