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. By 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. NOTE: RetroPie is not a part of EmulationStation. If you have problems with it, report them on the RetroPie GitHub issues page. EmulationStation is only the front-end. Furthermore, the version of EmulationStation provided by RetroPie is a fork adding some RetroPie. How to play retro games on the Raspberry Pi with RetroPie. In order to show you how to play retro games on the Raspberry Pi with RetroPie, we have to cover a few different steps. First, you’ll have to install RetroPie, which is a kind of operating system that includes EmulationStation – which is itself a powerful group of emulators.

Ok, so first you need to download the game, and place it in your Rom folder, located in the Mame folder.
Do not unzip the games... leave them as is.

Then Fire up your mame, and click on 'All games' option, which should be located on the left column, to display the list of all games.

Scroll down to find the name of the game you just added.
You can either find the full name, or the short version of it, which should be the name of the zip file.

Add Games To Retropie From Mac To Windows 7

Right click it, and select 'Audit'
After a short scan, mame will tell you if the game has passed the audition or not.
If it has, it's fine and good to go... if not, then either there are files missing from the game, which means it wont play properly or not at all.

How To Add Games To Retropie

Solutions are:
Either get another version of the game, or download a different version of mame.
Not all games work with the same versions of mame.

Add Games To Retropie From Mac Computer

There is a way to audit all your games at once, but the scan takes a lot longer.
To do this, simply go the 'File' in the command menu and select 'Audit all games'