If you’re using a Raspberry Pi 4 or a Raspberry Pi 400, you will need a USB-C power supply and a micro-HDMI-to-standard-HDMI cable. Raspberry Pi 400 is also a great choice, especially if some of your favourites use the keyboard as a controller. For our tutorial, we’ll be using an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4. Choosing the right Raspberry Pi and accessoriesĪlthough RetroPie will work on any Raspberry Pi, even the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, we recommend using one with as much RAM as possible, because this will result in a smoother gaming experience. We’ll refer to this as “your usual computer”, to distinguish it from the Raspberry Pi computer that you are setting up for retro gaming.
You should have an account with Steam and at least one game installed.How to play retro games on your Raspberry Pi with RetroPieĪre you looking to (re)discover the joy of playing retro video games using a Raspberry Pi and RetroPie? Here’s everything you need to know to get started!įor the initial SD card setup, you’ll also need:Īnother computer connected to your network. You will also need a computer running Steam on Windows 7 or later, Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later, or Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or newer. Steam software on your computer, a Steam account and library of games.A router with Ethernet ports (5GHz wireless is not recommended for the Raspberry Pi).8GB or great microSD card with Raspbian Stretch installed.Now all you need to stream games from Steam to your Raspberry Pi is:
Previously you could install Nvidia GeForce on your PC (if compatible) and use the open source implementation of Nvidia's GameStream software (Moonlight) to stream games via your Raspberry Pi. What You Need to Play Steam Games on Raspberry Pi Now you can install Steam Link software on your Raspberry Pi to play games running on your PC. What is great about this is that you can set it up in just a few minutes.
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