
The input configuration here will configure the controls for operating Emulation Station ONLY (and not the emulators within).
If all went as followed you should successfully be greeted with the RetrOrange Pi loading screen (and what a pretty one it is)įollowed by the Emulation Station (the frontend for RetroPie) controller configuration –
Load that sucker into the SD slot on the Orange Pi and plug in the power supply. Twiddle thumbs for a moment until the image has been written to the card. Open up Win32 Disk Imager and write the Image to SD (doublepeasy). tar.gz image using 7-zip or other archiving soft. Extract your hot new download of the RetrOrangePi. (Hit Option Setting and switch Format Size Adjustment to ‘ON’, easypeasy) Make sure you have at least an 8gb SD card ready and plugged into your computer then open SD Card Formatter. Your favourite archiving software ( 7-zip?). RetrOrangePi SD image (As of writing currently version 3.01, make sure to select the version specific to your OrangePi model). Strongly suggest purchasing one from wherever you ordered the board in the first place. Some chargers don’t have quite enough juice for the board to work properly and the micro USB port doesn’t supply power for most models of the Orange Pi. If at any point your system just hangs when turning on the Orange Pi, this is probably the reason. SIDE NOTE – Make sure you have a decent 5V 2A DC Power supply for the Orange Pi. I will be setting up the SD card from a Windows 10 machine. Either way I don’t care to use the stock system so… without further rambling…
Perhaps this is because I hit update when prompted I’m not sure.
Not good is this.Īs far as I can tell barely anything on the stock system actually works (at least on my Orange Pi+ 2e). Step 1.1 would be to get your flash card loaded with an operating system.īooting straight into the Orange Pi without an SD card inserted to the SD slot will bring you to the custom Android Rom (flashed to the eMMC memory chip) made by the Orange Pi developers. Ok, so you’ve just opened your Orange Pi and put together any heat sinks or hardware type things involved.