🥧 RetroPie (RPi4)

And WM8860 GPIO soundcard addon (speakers)

• Installer resizes partition to span micro SD card capacity

• Place games in pi/roms/<game_folders_of_choice>

• Place bios in pi/BIOS

• Access console/shell (TTY) after boot with keyboard combo: CTRL + ALT + F4

• sudo raspi-config

  • Change localization and keyboard mapping

    Localisation Options (for both)

• cd Retropie-Setup

• sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

  • C Configuration / Tools

  • 843 wifi - Configure WiFi

• Check with wavemon first: wavemon

• sudo iwconfig wlan0 freq 5.7G

• sudo apt-get install build-essential git cabextract curl linux-headers-rpi

• sudo apt install default-jre libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 cabextract

• git clone https://github.com/medusalix/xow.git

• cd xow

• make BUILD=RELEASE

• sudo make install

• sudo systemctl enable xow

• reboot

• The following to update or uninstall xow

  • sudo systemctl stop xow

  • sudo systemctl disable xow

  • sudo make uninstall

  • repeat git clone etc. (if updating)

• Configuring button Layout

  • Y = X

  • X = Y

  • A = B

  • B = A

• CTRL + ALT + F4 (TTY/console Access)

• cd Retropie-Setup

• sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

• Install packages

  • sudo apt-get install xboxdrv

  • Enable xboxdrv

    • sudo systemctl stop xow

    • sudo systemctl disable xow

    • sudo systemctl enable xboxdrv

    • sudo systemctl start xboxdrv

      If that doesn’t work restart the system

  • reboot

• Try Dinput mode (Android) if Xinput doesn’t work

  This was the only way I could use this controller with RetroPie

• git clone https://github.com/respeaker/seeed-voicecard

  • or: https://github.com/HinTak/seeed-voicecard

• cd seeed-voicecard

• sudo ./ubuntu-prerequisite.sh (needed?)

  Needed?

• sudo ./install.sh --compat-kernel

  Not required from /HinTak/seeed-voicecard)

• reboot

• sudo raspi-config

  • Change soundcard to wm8960 (System Options > Sound)

• speaker-test

• Change volume

  • Access RetroPie Configuration menu via RetroPie UI

    • Audio > Mixer > F6 > seeed-2mic-voicecard

      • First speaker option changes volume

• Uninstall

  • sudo make uninstall

  • sudo ./uninstall.sh

Keep fire extinguisher nearby

• sudo nano /boot/config.txt

  over_voltage=6
  arm_freq=2147
  gpu_freq=750
  

• reboot