Now, you can easily launch the ExGear Desktop installer $. As soon as the downloading is finished, assign the “x” rights to the file: $ chmod +x install-exagear-retropie-v2.shĥ. Download a special ExaGear version for Retropie on Raspberry Pi devices $ wget /install-exagear-retropie-v2.shĤ. Type “cd /home/pi” and to enter the proper directory $ cd /home/piģ.

In Retropie interface press “Ctrl+Alt+F4” to open a terminal. All the manipulations are carried out inside the Retropie interface, so follow all the steps below to install ExaGear Desktop.ġ. Let’s assume, that you have already got your Retropie on an SD card up and running. Now, this pain has been cured! You may install ExaGear Desktop directly on Retropie and launch all the games, both PC and console ones, from one place! Espescially, if they have already been aware of ExaGear or have ever tried it for the purpose of playing Windows games on RPi. This causes a great inconvenience to combining the PC gaming and console retrogaming, players used to face. In fact, Retropie is usually installed on a separate SD card and being launched directly from it automatically as soon as you insert the SD card into the slot. You now can avoid all this endless switching between the applications. It’s worth saying that the best feature of ExaGear on Retropie is that you can now setup and launch your favorite Windows games right from Retropie GUI, which is way more convenient than using ExaGear Desktop separately.

If you would like to learn more, read the case of launching games on Odroid – there are much more games that you can try on RPi as well. To get the list of possible PC games, that we have already tried on Raspbian read this article. What’s the profit? With ExaGear Desktop, you’ll be able to play PC games on Raspberry Pi from really old and iconic ones (like Dune 2000 or Doom) to more modern and legendary (like Counter-Strike and Diablo II). So, let’s move a little bit forward to the main idea of this article – extending your Retropie features to add even more games to your Retropie gaming machine.īy saying the “extended” I mean that we have brought a new feature to the Retropie app by adding the possibility of ExaGear Desktop emulator to be integrated into Retropie interface. I guess that coming to that page, you are likely to be good at retro gaming, playing games on Raspberry Pi as well as the Retropie.

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