Vanilla Raspbian vs. RetroPi

[Synnth3t1k]

I'm curious as to what OS everyone is using. Are you using Vanilla Raspbian, or are you using RetroPi? What are the pros and cons of both systems?

[Kilren]

I'm curious as to what OS everyone is using. Are you using Vanilla Raspbian, or are you using RetroPi? What are the pros and cons of both systems?

As far as I can tell, RetroPie has been the go to OS around here. It works, and it works well, and that is what wermy is featuring in his guides. I haven't personally used vanilla raspbian enough to give an honest opinion about it, let alone pros and cons, but retropie hasn't disappointed.

[Ganreizu]

Wouldn't vanilla with emulators strain the system more? Whereas retropie has all emulators and extra stuff preloaded without having all the unnecessary stuff that a full blown OS has.

[Synnth3t1k]

I was only wondering. I was thinking about trying to load movies onto a memory card and run it. I'm not to sure how much stress it would put on the pi0. My wife and I are about to make a road trip down to Florida. I figured it would be something nice for her, besides playing retro games. I know she's going to be burning up Mario Bros. 3

[Fleder]

Also, how would you navigate the terminal/X with only a few buttons and no keyboard?

[Mad_Duke]

I'm actually going the Attract-Mode way. It's going to be maintained. I have emulation station and attract-mode frontends plus Kodi so I can switch with only the buttons between movie watching, streaming and games. Will probably even Launch into Kodi later when everything is set and then Attract-Mode from there. Or just keep Attract-Mode and go into Kodi. But everything works!


If you are going the retropie route and want to watch movies I would recommend adding the Kodi to the "ports" part!