Raspberry Pi: RetroPie 3.1 released

Today, petRockBlog announced a release of the new version of their Raspberry Pi project RetroPie.

RetroPie is a project residing at petRockBlog, which aims to provide a comprehensive set of works that turn Raspberry Pi into a retro-gaming console and allow players to easily relive their nostalgic memories . Because of that, RetroPie has gained lot of popularity since its release in 2012.

3.1 changelog:

• Workaround for lr-snes9x-next crashes for certain games.
• New theme installation script and excellent new theme “Carbon” which is lighter on memory than the Simple theme (no more white screen of death! – works with all systems).
• Initial bluetooth module for pairing keyboards.
• We now provide images for use with Berryboot.
• Moved Super Mario War out of experimental.
• New default lr-fba-next emulator for rpi2 owners.
• Added lr-mame2003 (based on MAME 0.78) emulator.
• Minor Emulation Station tweaks, reduced time to skip buttons, and improved parsing with brackets in gamelists.
• New experimental modules – sselph’s scraper and lr-mame2010 (based on MAME 0.139)
• Improved ps3 controller pairing.
• Initial support for installing RetroPie manually on Raspbian Jessie and OSMC (via source only – consider this experimental for now).
• Splashscreen improvements- can be added from samba shares, splash videos play all the way through without emulationstation cutting them off.
• Lots of bugfixes, and improvements to the RetroPie Wiki.

First reactions to 3.1:

Retropie version 3.1 looks awesome. On cosmetics alone I saw upgrade. I’ll update on how it plays here soon

— Chris (@Retrocore_RCVGM) October 6, 2015

Retropie 3.1 fixes a lot of issues with PS1 emulation. Games that didn’t work on 3.0 now work on 3.1. Pi owners should upgrade.

— Chris (@Retrocore_RCVGM) October 6, 2015

Raspberry Pi at Hackinformer:

• Check out our Guide to RetroPie
• More Raspberry Pi-related articles: here and here

Other useful links:

• How to update RetroPie (at github.com/RetroPie)
• RetroPie download section (at blog.petrockblock.com)
• List of all systems for which you can find emulators in RetroPie (at http://blog.petrockblock.com/)

Here’s a video example of what you can do with RetroPie:

Source: petRockBlog