**Creating a Freshly Formatted Fat32 USB Drive**

A freshly formatted fat32 USB drive is now available, ready to be used with RetroPie. To begin, we want to create a new folder inside of your USB stick and name it "retropie". As you can see, the retropie folder is empty, waiting for us to fill it with emulators and games.

**Loading Emulators onto the USB Stick**

We will now take this USB stick out of the computer and place it into the Raspberry Pi while it's powered on. The Raspberry Pi will create two folders inside of the retropie folder: "configs" and "roms". When we open up our roms folder, we'll see a list of emulators available for use. Let's say we want an SNES ROM - we grab a SNES ROM and put it in the SNES emulator folder.

**Loading the USB Stick into the Raspberry Pi**

Now that we have our SNES ROM loaded onto the USB stick, we can place it back into the Raspberry Pi. The light on the USB stick will start flashing as the Raspberry Pi begins to write the new folders inside of the retropie folder. We wait until the flashing stops and then pull the USB stick from the Raspberry Pi, placing it back into the computer.

**Accessing the RetroPie Emulator Directory**

Now that we've loaded the USB stick back into the computer, we can access the RetroPie emulator directory. Our freshly formatted fat32 USB drive now has a "configs" folder and a "roms" folder, complete with emulators for various game consoles. We'll load some NES roms onto the USB stick, dragging them over to the retropie folder.

**Loading ROMs onto the Raspberry Pi**

We will now place the USB stick back into the Raspberry Pi, which will copy all the roms that we just loaded onto it to the SD card of the Raspberry Pi. This process may take a few minutes, depending on how fast your USB stick is. Once complete, the Raspberry Pi will reboot, and we can access our new emulators.

**Accessing Emulators after Reboot**

After rebooting the Raspberry Pi, we see that our new emulators are listed in the front end of the RetroPie interface. We press "Start" on our controller to start playing a game, select "Quit", and then restart the system. As we play our first game, we can see that the controllers are already set up for most emulators out of the box.

**Loading Games with the Controllers**

We're now able to load games using our controllers. To exit a game, we press "Start" on our controller and select "Quit". This makes it easy to navigate through the menus and play games without having to worry about complicated controls.

**Future Content: Installing ROMs over Network and BIOSs**

In an upcoming video, I'll be showing you how to install ROMs over network and load BIOSes. This will allow us to access a wide range of consoles and games on our Raspberry Pi, including PlayStation 1, Game Boy Advance, and Dreamcast titles. I appreciate your feedback and suggestions - if this video helped you in any way, please hit that like button and subscribe for more content.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys it's ETA prime back here again and today I wanted to show you guys how to install retropie emulation station on your Raspberry Pi 1u raspberry pi to your Raspberry Pi 3 or your Raspberry Pi 0 I'm going to show you how to install the OS to the SD card I'll show you how to set up your controller and I'm going to show you how to add roms just to get a start so you can play some basic emulators on your Raspberry Pi so first up we're going to need to download the retro PI image and we're going to go ahead and open up a browser window here and all of these links will be in the description you can go ahead and click on those from this video here and it'll take you on over so first up we need to get the retro PI image for the Raspberry Pi unit that you're running so we want to go to pet rock block comm we're going to go here to where it says retropie project and scroll down to downloads and depending on the Raspberry Pi you're using you will download one of these images tells you here this is for the Raspberry Pi 1 or the Raspberry Pi 0 this one here is for the Raspberry Pi 2 or and the raspberry pi 3 so I'm using the raspberry pi 3 I went ahead and downloaded this will go ahead and we want to download the standard version as you can see it started downloading here so about close to 1 gigabyte I've already downloaded it and place it on a in a folder on my desktop I'm going to go ahead and close out of here next up we're going to need win32 disk imager this will allow you to write the retro PI image to the SD card that you're going to place into your Raspberry Pi this is a very safe software I've been using it for years go ahead and click this link here to download it takes a few seconds to download it'll take seconds to install and you definitely need this and then one last thing I suggest you get is SD card formatter now you will only need this after you flash your card using win32diskimager if you ever want to use your card for something else let's say you're done messing around with your Raspberry Pi you want to use your SD card in a laptop or even your Android phone it will only show up as 52 megabytes after you install a image using win32 disk imager so SD card formatter will allow you to restore the SD card to factory settings and you go ahead and just download it from here and it's very self-explanatory we'll go ahead and exit out of both of these all the links will be in the description I'm going to cancel my download because I already have it placed in a folder named PI 3 on my desktop now it comes as a zipped image I'm going to go ahead and extract this and I'll fast forward it for you guys ok now that I have extracted the image it will be in a folder it will be retropie version 3.6 and i'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 so this is the image I need this image is for the Raspberry Pi 2 or the Raspberry Pi 3 after you unzip it it's 2.5 gigabytes I'm going to go ahead and close out of here and open up win32diskimager now you want to make sure that your device that you're flashing to is your SD card now my SD card is my e drive and I named it SD card it usually chooses the correct removable storage but just double-check that you can do that by opening up a browser window here and as you can see SD card is my drive e now you want to click on little blue folder here and you want to go ahead and go to the folder you extracted your retropie to double click on the image disk image file and we're going to go ahead and write it to the SD card now this will take a second depending on how fast your SD card is so I'm going to go ahead and fast forward this also for you guys you okay so the image was flashed successfully to the SD card okay so the image was flashed successfully to the SD card now we're going to go ahead and move on to the Raspberry Pi we're going to go ahead and plug in all of our peripherals like I'm using a wired xbox360 controller I'm using Ethernet and I have a wireless keyboard also that I'm going to plug in and then we'll plug in the power and I'm recording with an elgato hd60 so we're going to be right up on the screen 1080p I'll show you guys how to set up the controller and also install your roms that you want to use I'll show you how to install them through a USB stick and over network storage okay so this is the first boot it's going to do a file size expansion front end and we'll go ahead and set up the controller and get some roms on this baby like I said before this is a Raspberry Pi 3 and I am using a wired xbox360 controller so as you can see it has detected my gamepad and all you need to do is go ahead and hold the a button and set up the controller now this is pretty much self-explanatory follow the prompts and you should have no problem so this is the DS pad start select a B X Y left button left bottom trigger button right bottom left top right top now this is the left thumbstick only so you're going to press in on the left thumbstick you're going to press in on the right thumbstick now we're using the left analog analog stick here up-down left-right up-down left-right and we are good to go okay so we're going to go ahead and scroll through here and as you can see we don't have many emulators right now that's because we don't have any roms now in order for let's say n64 to show up we need to put some n64 roms on this unit same with PSP or SNES or NES so one of the easiest ways to install roms is to use a USB stick now you're going to need a clean USB stick it doesn't have to be clean but I always use a clean one and you want to make a folder on it named retropie then you want to plug the USB stick into the Raspberry Pi wait for the light to stop flashing then you can take that USB stick out place it into your computer when you open up that retropie folder that you created you will see a list of emulators then you take a corresponding ROM and place it within the right emulator folder so let's say you want to put SNES roms you grab some SNES roms and you drag them over to your SNES folder that was created now I'm going to go to the computer and I'm going to show you how this works ok I'm back at the PC now I have a freshly formatted fat32 USB Drive here now what we want to do is go ahead and create a new folder inside of your USB stick and name it retropie now that you have a retropie folder inside of the USB stick as you can see it's empty we want to take this USB stick out of the computer and place it into the Raspberry Pi while it's powered on and it will create two folders inside of here one will be named configs and the other will be named roms when you open up your roms folder you'll see a list of emulators so let's say you want an SNES ROM you grab a SNES ROM and put it in the SNES emulator folder let's go ahead and do that now I'm going to take the USB stick from the PC place it into the Raspberry Pi wait about 30 seconds depending on how fast your USB stick is if you have a light on it wait till it stops flashing then you can pull the USB stick from the Raspberry Pi and place it back into the computer and we can load some roms so I'm going to go ahead and do that now I just put the USB stick into the Raspberry Pi well it's still powered on the light is flashing which means it's writing the new folders inside of the retro PI folder we just created and we're still flashing here and it just finished flashing I'm going to go ahead and pull the USB stick from the Raspberry Pi and place it back into this computer okay so you see the folder that we created on the USB stick now it has a configs folder and a roms folder so here's all your emulators that you can run on the Raspberry Pi using retropie emulation station so I'm going to load a few roms on here I have a bunch of my roms directory here and let's go ahead and load some NES roms we'll just take these and drag them over let's go ahead and do some SNES roms drag them into the USB stick let's go ahead and do some what else do I have here Gameboy advanced might as well go to our GBA folder ok now well that's copying in order to play certain emulators like the Game Boy Advance you need a BIOS and you need to load the BIOS over web storage and I will show you guys how to do that in just a sec but let's go ahead and go back to the Raspberry Pi we're going to place the USB stick back into the Raspberry Pi it will copy all the roms that we just load it on to the USB stick it will copy them to the SD card that you flashed your image to and you'll be able to play some SNES and some NES right now let's go ahead and do that back at the Raspberry Pi like I said before as you can see now we don't have any SNES or NES emulator listed so that USB stick we just made let's go ahead and put it into the Raspberry Pi and what this will do is copy it will copy all the roms that we just installed on the USB stick to the SD card of the Raspberry Pi now like I said before your best thing is to have a USB stick with a light on it so you can see when it's done copying everything and mine seems to be done I'm going to go ahead and reboot the Raspberry Pi one time and we should have some more emulators listed on this front end here so you press Start on your controller go to quit and restart system soon as my USB drives done flashing and there we go we're going to restart the system now okay that's the fresh reboot with the new roms we have Game Boy Advance listed now Nintendo Entertainment Center system and Super Nintendo Entertainment System and as you can see those are the roms that I copied to the USB stick they are now installed into retropie and you can go ahead and play them so let's start a quick game real quick here just press a on your controller and as you can see we're running SNES right now the controllers are already set up for most emulators out of the box when you set it up for the first boot on the Raspberry Pi so like I said before I'm actually going to make another video now about how to install roms over Network and install your BIOS so you can play PlayStation 1 Game Boy Advance games and Dreamcast games so in order to exit a game go ahead and press Start and select on your controller or bring you right guys I appreciate you watching if this helped you out at all if you could hit that like button and subscribe I try to make these easy this one's getting a little long now sorry about that but I'm sure you can figure it out so I have another video coming up on how to load roms over network and how to load bios's so thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys it's ETA prime back here again and today I wanted to show you guys how to install retropie emulation station on your Raspberry Pi 1u raspberry pi to your Raspberry Pi 3 or your Raspberry Pi 0 I'm going to show you how to install the OS to the SD card I'll show you how to set up your controller and I'm going to show you how to add roms just to get a start so you can play some basic emulators on your Raspberry Pi so first up we're going to need to download the retro PI image and we're going to go ahead and open up a browser window here and all of these links will be in the description you can go ahead and click on those from this video here and it'll take you on over so first up we need to get the retro PI image for the Raspberry Pi unit that you're running so we want to go to pet rock block comm we're going to go here to where it says retropie project and scroll down to downloads and depending on the Raspberry Pi you're using you will download one of these images tells you here this is for the Raspberry Pi 1 or the Raspberry Pi 0 this one here is for the Raspberry Pi 2 or and the raspberry pi 3 so I'm using the raspberry pi 3 I went ahead and downloaded this will go ahead and we want to download the standard version as you can see it started downloading here so about close to 1 gigabyte I've already downloaded it and place it on a in a folder on my desktop I'm going to go ahead and close out of here next up we're going to need win32 disk imager this will allow you to write the retro PI image to the SD card that you're going to place into your Raspberry Pi this is a very safe software I've been using it for years go ahead and click this link here to download it takes a few seconds to download it'll take seconds to install and you definitely need this and then one last thing I suggest you get is SD card formatter now you will only need this after you flash your card using win32diskimager if you ever want to use your card for something else let's say you're done messing around with your Raspberry Pi you want to use your SD card in a laptop or even your Android phone it will only show up as 52 megabytes after you install a image using win32 disk imager so SD card formatter will allow you to restore the SD card to factory settings and you go ahead and just download it from here and it's very self-explanatory we'll go ahead and exit out of both of these all the links will be in the description I'm going to cancel my download because I already have it placed in a folder named PI 3 on my desktop now it comes as a zipped image I'm going to go ahead and extract this and I'll fast forward it for you guys ok now that I have extracted the image it will be in a folder it will be retropie version 3.6 and i'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 so this is the image I need this image is for the Raspberry Pi 2 or the Raspberry Pi 3 after you unzip it it's 2.5 gigabytes I'm going to go ahead and close out of here and open up win32diskimager now you want to make sure that your device that you're flashing to is your SD card now my SD card is my e drive and I named it SD card it usually chooses the correct removable storage but just double-check that you can do that by opening up a browser window here and as you can see SD card is my drive e now you want to click on little blue folder here and you want to go ahead and go to the folder you extracted your retropie to double click on the image disk image file and we're going to go ahead and write it to the SD card now this will take a second depending on how fast your SD card is so I'm going to go ahead and fast forward this also for you guys you okay so the image was flashed successfully to the SD card okay so the image was flashed successfully to the SD card now we're going to go ahead and move on to the Raspberry Pi we're going to go ahead and plug in all of our peripherals like I'm using a wired xbox360 controller I'm using Ethernet and I have a wireless keyboard also that I'm going to plug in and then we'll plug in the power and I'm recording with an elgato hd60 so we're going to be right up on the screen 1080p I'll show you guys how to set up the controller and also install your roms that you want to use I'll show you how to install them through a USB stick and over network storage okay so this is the first boot it's going to do a file size expansion front end and we'll go ahead and set up the controller and get some roms on this baby like I said before this is a Raspberry Pi 3 and I am using a wired xbox360 controller so as you can see it has detected my gamepad and all you need to do is go ahead and hold the a button and set up the controller now this is pretty much self-explanatory follow the prompts and you should have no problem so this is the DS pad start select a B X Y left button left bottom trigger button right bottom left top right top now this is the left thumbstick only so you're going to press in on the left thumbstick you're going to press in on the right thumbstick now we're using the left analog analog stick here up-down left-right up-down left-right and we are good to go okay so we're going to go ahead and scroll through here and as you can see we don't have many emulators right now that's because we don't have any roms now in order for let's say n64 to show up we need to put some n64 roms on this unit same with PSP or SNES or NES so one of the easiest ways to install roms is to use a USB stick now you're going to need a clean USB stick it doesn't have to be clean but I always use a clean one and you want to make a folder on it named retropie then you want to plug the USB stick into the Raspberry Pi wait for the light to stop flashing then you can take that USB stick out place it into your computer when you open up that retropie folder that you created you will see a list of emulators then you take a corresponding ROM and place it within the right emulator folder so let's say you want to put SNES roms you grab some SNES roms and you drag them over to your SNES folder that was created now I'm going to go to the computer and I'm going to show you how this works ok I'm back at the PC now I have a freshly formatted fat32 USB Drive here now what we want to do is go ahead and create a new folder inside of your USB stick and name it retropie now that you have a retropie folder inside of the USB stick as you can see it's empty we want to take this USB stick out of the computer and place it into the Raspberry Pi while it's powered on and it will create two folders inside of here one will be named configs and the other will be named roms when you open up your roms folder you'll see a list of emulators so let's say you want an SNES ROM you grab a SNES ROM and put it in the SNES emulator folder let's go ahead and do that now I'm going to take the USB stick from the PC place it into the Raspberry Pi wait about 30 seconds depending on how fast your USB stick is if you have a light on it wait till it stops flashing then you can pull the USB stick from the Raspberry Pi and place it back into the computer and we can load some roms so I'm going to go ahead and do that now I just put the USB stick into the Raspberry Pi well it's still powered on the light is flashing which means it's writing the new folders inside of the retro PI folder we just created and we're still flashing here and it just finished flashing I'm going to go ahead and pull the USB stick from the Raspberry Pi and place it back into this computer okay so you see the folder that we created on the USB stick now it has a configs folder and a roms folder so here's all your emulators that you can run on the Raspberry Pi using retropie emulation station so I'm going to load a few roms on here I have a bunch of my roms directory here and let's go ahead and load some NES roms we'll just take these and drag them over let's go ahead and do some SNES roms drag them into the USB stick let's go ahead and do some what else do I have here Gameboy advanced might as well go to our GBA folder ok now well that's copying in order to play certain emulators like the Game Boy Advance you need a BIOS and you need to load the BIOS over web storage and I will show you guys how to do that in just a sec but let's go ahead and go back to the Raspberry Pi we're going to place the USB stick back into the Raspberry Pi it will copy all the roms that we just load it on to the USB stick it will copy them to the SD card that you flashed your image to and you'll be able to play some SNES and some NES right now let's go ahead and do that back at the Raspberry Pi like I said before as you can see now we don't have any SNES or NES emulator listed so that USB stick we just made let's go ahead and put it into the Raspberry Pi and what this will do is copy it will copy all the roms that we just installed on the USB stick to the SD card of the Raspberry Pi now like I said before your best thing is to have a USB stick with a light on it so you can see when it's done copying everything and mine seems to be done I'm going to go ahead and reboot the Raspberry Pi one time and we should have some more emulators listed on this front end here so you press Start on your controller go to quit and restart system soon as my USB drives done flashing and there we go we're going to restart the system now okay that's the fresh reboot with the new roms we have Game Boy Advance listed now Nintendo Entertainment Center system and Super Nintendo Entertainment System and as you can see those are the roms that I copied to the USB stick they are now installed into retropie and you can go ahead and play them so let's start a quick game real quick here just press a on your controller and as you can see we're running SNES right now the controllers are already set up for most emulators out of the box when you set it up for the first boot on the Raspberry Pi so like I said before I'm actually going to make another video now about how to install roms over Network and install your BIOS so you can play PlayStation 1 Game Boy Advance games and Dreamcast games so in order to exit a game go ahead and press Start and select on your controller or bring you right guys I appreciate you watching if this helped you out at all if you could hit that like button and subscribe I try to make these easy this one's getting a little long now sorry about that but I'm sure you can figure it out so I have another video coming up on how to load roms over network and how to load bios's so thanks for watching\n"