128 GB Retropie SD Card - Retro Classics with Video Previews for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

I had a different product from this company and it had about 6500 games on it and I enjoyed it so much I thought I'd upgrade to the 15,000 one. let me tell you...too many games. I spent 6 hours just picking out the ones I knew to put into my favorites folder. I love that most of the games have a little video on them and not just a picture. The videos that did not work I just switched them back to a picture. Great product. Just plug in and play. I had to tweek some of the games so they would work right and configuring the controls for some are a bit tricky. But all in all I give this product a 5 star rating. Buy with confidence. and above all...back up your disk. I put this chip in my Aracde1up Street Fighter addition and it works great because it has the right amount of buttons. :)

Retro Pie preloaded with Roms. Even came with instructions on how to properly back up the SD card so you can safely make a backup before the actual install. It will take time to restore depending on the speed of your system, but that's only while doing a restore. As for the performance of the Retro Pie card I'm using the Raspberry Pi 3 and it works fine. There's a lot of options and a quick youtube search or google search will help with any technical adjustments you'll need to make for your set up. This had a ton of emulators, even the Virtual Gameboy. Be sure to do your research on setup and you'll really save on this step. The time cost of assembling Retro as an image and trying to populate with Roms is very time consuming. This will save you a ton of time googling, downloading, extracting etc.

If you are too lazy or just dont have the time to DL and set-up your own images, this is def the way to go. Good card with a ton of games, its overwhelming. Majority of games work too! No issues running it on my rasberry pi 3b+. Be advised that if you do encounter an issue or questions, the seller does not respond, so you will be on your own in that regard. Luckily the retropie online community is very helpful and you can find a solution to almost all of your problems in the forums.

Turns out that in order for mine to work, you have to turn on your TV before powering on the Pi - it automatically senses the resolution of the TV and sets the display accordingly. So, if you power up everything with a power strip like I was doing, the Pi turns on first, then I turn on the TV, and the display didn't work.Once I turned on the TV first, it started up normally and worked great! Once I got it started up, I was able to set the resolution to my TV manually and now it starts up normally every time.But the card itself is as advertised - tons of roms that work great!

Just received, i put it in raspberry pi 4 8gb and i get a 00000044 error code saying my board needs newer software. I decided to check the SD card with disk genius and it appears to be fine with lots of roms. Not sure how to fix this but im going to try to update the original raspberry pi software and check.Ill update my review when and if i get this working.

Don't expect much support from the seller. I emailed them because my controller could not be recognized. He replied that he wasn't familiar with the controller and to search YouTube for an answer. I emailed two more times but never heard from him again.He sells prebuilt systems in addition to this SD card. My guess is that the card is configured and locked down for his prebuilt system and its controllers. I understand this, when you sell a system you don't want the buyer messing it up and it's a DYI hobby. Regardless, this card should be plug and play for the most part. Even a keyboard could not be recognized. I would configure the controllers in EmulationStation but when a game starts the controller could not be recognized. I spent 8-10 hours figuring out a fix. These are fairly common controllers BTW. The problem was/is that controller settings in EmulationStation were not being copied to Retroarch. I believe it's because of Linux permissions and the way he's launching emulators. I had to manually add drivers, manually update the config files, and manually configure the ports on my PI to recognize the controller. By manually I mean manually edit the files. On screen menus/tools were would not work. But, seems like it's working now.On a positive note, the card arrived quickly and it has tons of content. I haven't had any problems with the games.

Yes, you can get all this content for free. But how much do you value your time? This collection not only has 11,000 games, yes with some duplication, but also has introductory video, images, and a short write up. You can do this all for free, but I think the cost is well worth the saved 100+ hours of work. It even comes with good instructions for a RP newbie to back up the SD card. I'm an IT expert who builds my own computers and knows Linux well. I'm sure I could create this same configuration, but my time is worth more to me. Highly recommended!

Stunned at how good this is. Ive struggled with joystick setup issues on another sd card setup previously bought and recently moved into a arcade1up setup. Swapped that out with this one and everything is working great. Ive got a 16:9 vertical monitor in the cab so the menu isnt great as its apparentlt setup for a 4:3 horizontal but after i back this up will try to install a vertical menu system. Vertical games even expand to fill the screen once they are started!