Hm, well, that has not been my experience with RetroPie, I've had none of the issues you mention. For sure, it's community seems to be bigger and more active, but it's older than Recalbox and, for what is worth, I've got every question that I posted on Recalbox forums propperly answered. I believe the latest version of Retropie even got the browser monitoring feature implemented on Recalbox ages ago, so I don't get the impression that you had about the development being so much more alive on Retropie. I can see why is so popular with people who like to work a lot with Linux, or even have a very personal project going on with arcades and whatnot, but I just want it to play games reliably, so Recalbox is my thing.Ībout development, Recalbox is pretty much alive: the final 4.0 came out this weekend and the next release will bring Dreamcast and PSP with the new Kodi. amature? With that weird prompt messages when you launch a game, Terminal this and that. In Recalbox, it was an one time job: never needed to reconfigurate anything regarding controllers.

I had to setup my officialy supported DS3s (yeah.) every. Other issue that I had with it was losing controller configurations. In Recalbox, I just copied the files to the microSD card, switched the Pi on and done, it was working fine. I've had to discover by trial and error that I had to uncomment some configuration in a obscure txt file in order to make it deliver sound through my pretty standard TV. I've lost three days setting up Retropie because the way it ~doesn't~ recognizes my TV. Recalbox is meant to just work and it does. Sorry, but it kind is hard and fiddly to set up.

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