Le Potato + Retropie Setup

Video for assembling the Le Potato and installing Retropie. There are a few issues I hit and wanted to share how to get around them. Including Emulationstation command not found.

Please Note: You must have your network cable plugged in to run the commands that fix Emulation Station not found error

Restart Command:
sudo shutdown -r now

Fix for "EmulationStation: command not found" error.

Install JSON command:
sudo apt install rapidjson-dev

Launch Retropie Setup:

[homet]

Hey the video was VERY heplful. I recently picked up a le potato on sale and followed your directions exactly. Im having audio issues that i cant seem to fix. The volume slider on retropie defaults to 0% and will not stay at 100% after I adjust it. The audio does not want to output through hdmi. Have you had the same issue?

[theox]

Andrew, Have you had a chance to look into the booting problem with no sound and having to reboot multiple times to get sound. I have tried several different images, and it is the same problem on all. I wonder if everyone has the problem. Sometimes I can get between 1 to 5 boots in a row with no problems and then maybe one or two reboots with no sound. Other then that, it works just like the Raspberry PI.

[nirogaming]

i still cant get it to work
the fix dosent work the enthernet isconnected properly and is working so i dont know whats happing please help

[FarAwayTimesGames]

You're doing god's work, yesterday I tried the OS images for EmuElec and Lakka, both had tons of issues and couldn't seem to run games. Then I installed Raspbian and installed RetroPie on top of that, after four hours I still couldn't get sound to play in-game. Might try the stand-alone image at some point.

[gijoel]

Have you been able to setup wifi with this? I keep getting no wlan0 interface detected when I try to tell it to connect (I do have a wifi dongle plugged in.)

[mannahfarmandforge]

Hey bud thanks a bunch! I tried setting up retropie manually on the raspbian os and it was very finiky and didnt like my afterglow 360 controller. After finding the dedicated image everything is running like a champ! PS1 and older gen games are running very smooth. If you have a second to answer I dont see how I can install other emulators on the dedicated Retropie image? I wanted to see if it could run PS2 games but cant find the installer anywhere. Is this because Le Potato isnt powerful enough for it? Is there a Retropie image for the renegade? Or should I pony up the cash and get a Orange Pi 5? I plan on making a couple for family members who enjoyed the older consols growing up and the le potato is at just the right price for extended family christmas gifts.

[alienconcept]

Is the heat sink completely necessary?

[knife]

might be silly to ask but is that really the most up to date image for retropi? I wish their website wasn't so outdated, it doesnt even have a link to it on their "downloads" page.