Pre-Reqs

Required

• Raspberry pi 4 or higher
• microSD card (bigger the better)
• Power source
  • 5.1V 5A for pi 5
  • 5.1V 3A for pi 4
• Monitor or TV connected through MicroHDMI → HDMI
• Keyboard

Optional

• Gamepad
• Cooling (Not strictly required but Pi can get pretty hot when playing PS1 games or higher)
• Speakers
• Ethernet

Installing RetroPie (Pi 5 only)

• boot up your Pi with Raspberry Pi OS, and open the terminal

• Ensure git is installed:

  sudo apt install git lsb-release
  

  • (For me it was already installed)

• Then download the RetroPie-Setup script:

  cd
  git clone --depth=1 <https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git>
  

• Then execute the script:

  cd RetroPie-Setup
  chmod +x retropie_setup.sh
  sudo ./retropie_setup.sh
  

• Now you will be in RetroPie-Setup.

Adding ROMs

• Right-click your “roms” folder and choose “copy as path”
• Copy over your ROMs with the command:   scp -r <roms folder path>\\* <username>@<pi ip address>:~/RetroPie/roms/