How to install Retropie on Raspberry pi 4 (In Raspbian)

Install Retropie on Raspberry pi 4 (Inside Raspbian OS)

Here again, Today I’m gonna show you how to install Retropie on raspberry pi 4. This is a bit different from installing just a retro PI Image to an SD card. So we have to install Raspberry Pi OS and then install Retropie inside of that Operating System. This method should get a lot of people up and go until retro pie officially releases their retro pie Image for Raspberry pi.

 

You are obviously going to need a Raspberry pi 4  1,2 or 4-gigabyte model that will work. I recommend at least a 32 gigabyte of SD Card and I’m going to use 64 for this blog and we also need another computer to install the Raspbian Image to the SD Card. In this blog, I’m gonna be using Windows but this also works for Linux or Mac. So with all of that out of the way lets get started.

How to install Raspbian OS (Skip if Installed)

Step 1: Firstly we need to download the free Raspbian image from the official website: Download raspberry pi

Step 2: Download the Raspberry pi OS (Desktop and Recommended Software)

Step 3: Next, We also need to download an application to flash that Image to an SD Card  from Download Etcher

Step 4: Place them on the desktop for easy access.

Step 5: At first, make sure that you have the SD card you want to flash insert it into your PC.

Step 6: From Inside of Flash application i.e. etcher select the option select Image and navigate to the location where you got your Raspbian image i.e. on desktop. And double click on the Raspbian Image. (if the image is compressed, uncompress using 7-Zip software)

Step 7: Then make sure you have the correct SD card chosen.

Step 8: And then click on flash, now it is going to install the operating system to the SD card. This could take a little while depending on how fast the SD card is.

Step 9: You may receive a few warnings like Windows can’t read the drive just go ahead and close these down.

Step 10: Now its time to go to the raspberry pi 4. We are going to take this SD card and place it into the raspberry pi 4 we will plug in our HDMI keyboard and power.

 

Step 11: The first boots will take a little longer than normal and has to resize the partition and get everything ready.

Step 12: When all this is finish we will be redirected right into the Raspbian booster desktop.