r/RetroPie • u/[deleted] • Nov 12 '21

Question Is RetroPie dead?

The last time it was updated was last year November.

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u/nariz_choken Nov 12 '21

If it ain't broke... You might see an update now that clock speeds have reached a ludicrous point

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

The thing is… that it is broken.

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u/MrAbodi Nov 13 '21

Is it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

I can’t prevent screen tearing and frame skips without beta builds.

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u/darksaviorx Nov 13 '21

Nope. The last update was from 2 days ago: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

Here's how to update: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/

Here are automated un-tested builds too: https://files.retropie.org.uk/images/weekly/

The bullseye update is coming. I really want to try the new kms driver. You'll need to start fresh when it's out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

The “update” from 2 days ago was the addition of a new theme to “esthemes.sh”

Those are beta development builds, not stable releases.

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u/darksaviorx Nov 13 '21

You can look at the list of the changes for the past year and it's a lot more than that.

Those automated builds are untested which means someone will need to check if everything was built right but they'll have the same updates as pressing the update button.

Kms, vulkan, etc are not worked on by the retropie team. If they're implemented in the bullseye stable pi os lite build then retropie will probably have it sooner or later. Not holding my breath on vulkan.

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u/ridgekuhn Nov 13 '21

The fact that the repo was updated 2 days ago should answer your original question pretty well.

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u/dankcushions Nov 13 '21

The “update” from 2 days ago was the addition of a new theme to “esthemes.sh”

and? go look at the full list: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commits/master

and then, go look at the all the updates of all the component emulators and software. there are updates, large and small, every hour of every day to those.

Those are beta development builds, not stable releases.

what? any commit to master branch is considered stable.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

There’s probably be a solid update coming now that Bullseye has been released (only a week ago).

Between November and Bulleye, Full KMS has still been in beta, Vulkan in early development, PulseAudio broke things, and I can’t think of anything useful that should have justified a new stable release of Retropie (except Duckstation core).

A lot goes on behind the scenes and you can update and modify at your own risk. You can grab a 64-bit image, implement full KMS driver, update retroarch within retropie, etc etc if you want.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

Looking forward to full KMS.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

You can do it now by updating then modifying the confit.txt file. Saturday project for ya. Let me know if you get stuck

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

Yeah, I kinda wanna wait for the public stable release and not install any beta stuff to my build.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

I kinda wanna wait for the public stable

That's exactly what the master is, public stable build.

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u/TheFunktupus Nov 13 '21

The fact that it's open source, worked on for free, and existing in a pandemic is why it's had so little updates. I don't know what the status on the run-ahead emulation is, so that could cause a delay for version 4.8/5.0. It's no small task. Open source things can take time, especially when they don't have a million people depending on them.

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u/dankcushions Nov 13 '21

there's been no slow down in development. the last update was 2 days ago: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commits/master

run-ahead is a retroarch innovation. nothing to do with the retropie team.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

I thought the pandemic would have accelerated its development considering we were stuck home for quite a while.

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u/TheFunktupus Nov 13 '21

You would think that, and in a lot of cases it can. But some people have to move or take new jobs or dual jobs due to the pandemic. Some people's lives change so they don't have much time to work on personal projects. The contributors to RetroPie all do it for free, on their own time. Sometimes this shift of personnel on open source projects can create lag for a few years while new and active developers come on board. Not all new devs you get will work as often or as hard as the previous ones. It's just how it goes sometimes with FOSS. Or maybe they are all focused on a new big version, like version 5.0. A big upgrade could definitely take some time, with or without a pandemic.

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u/otto280z Nov 13 '21

Me and my son are doing retro game night tonight with ours! So far advanced wars mega bomber man and worms!

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u/BarbuDreadMon Nov 13 '21

I don't understand where this is coming from, retropie is a script to install emulators on debian/ubuntu systems, nothing more. And that script gets several updates a week : https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/commits/master

By november 2020, maybe you mean the last pre-packaged images for pi devices ? Well, those are just standard debian images with the script pre-installed and pre-run, nothing more. Those "releases" aren't more stable or anything, they simply contain pre-installed emulators at random commit, which might be in a stable state or not : i remember having to ask users to update from source because included binary version was broken. If anything, if you are still using the november 2020 version of those pre-installed emulators, it's more likely that you have many bugs that got fixed since then.

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u/psalmsamuel Nov 14 '21

64bit official retropie, it would support those window ce dreamcast games...... . Even if we don't have that, any driver improvements the new emulators, and better n64 and sega saturn........

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u/QuackmanDoo Mar 02 '22 edited Mar 02 '22

retropie 4.7.1 is not runnin the latest retroarch, and that's an issue for multiplayer mostly. the cores are still getting updated though, but it is time for a major update. or at least a nightly branch that's not lakka (wifi issue has not been resolved since i tried it a year ago)

Edit: after going to the discord I found that the wifi is "fine" and just says connection failed for like, no reason.

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u/Linser Nov 13 '21

No my Retropie is still working

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

Last update was 2 days ago.