Abdessamad Derraz
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The dry run, the Batocera walkthrough and the narrowing line of wiki/installer.md were typed by hand and went stale with each list. generate_installer_doc.py now runs install.py against the committed lists in a sandbox, dated by each list, and the pipeline runs it at step 7.
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First install, step by step
From an empty BIOS folder to games that start.
You need: internet and some free space.
1. Open a terminal and paste
A terminal is a window where you type commands. Paste your system's line, then press Enter.
Open the Start menu. Type PowerShell and open it.
irm https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i.ps1 | iex
Open Terminal, in Applications, then Utilities.
curl -fsSL https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i | sh
Open a terminal.
curl -fsSL https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i | sh
Switch to Desktop Mode and open Konsole.
curl -fsSL https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i | sh
Install Termux, a terminal app, and run these lines.
pkg install python
termux-setup-storage
curl -fsSL https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i | sh
On Batocera, Recalbox and similar setups, see Get your files.
2. Check the setup it found
It opens a menu:
RetroBIOS: Where do you play?
Found on this machine:
> <your setup>
Another setup or folder
BIOS folder: <its folder>
- Right folder? Press Enter.
- Wrong folder, or a handheld's SD card? Choose Another setup or folder. Press / and type the device (Miyoo Mini), or browse.
Arrows move, Enter chooses, Esc goes back (A and B on a handheld). On a touch screen, tap a row twice to open it, once to tick a box.
3. Install
Press Enter on Install. Choose systems keeps the consoles you play.
Game data (only a game reads it) has its own row.
Old card? In a card reader, choose Copy the BIOS files from your old card or a folder, then the card.
4. Wait
Esc or Ctrl+C stops, B on a handheld. Run again to resume.
5. Read the result
- Done: all files are in place.
- Finished with errors: run it again. It retries only those.
- Finished with files missing: run it again online.
- Nothing installed: the screen says why. See If it stops.
For line-by-line questions (screen readers), add --plain.
What the command does
Check it later
Add --check to the same command. It changes nothing.
curl -fsSL https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i | sh -s -- --check
All good:
Everything is in place.
Undo
Replaced files go to retrobios-backup beside your BIOS folder. The result
says how to restore them.
If it stops
Nothing was found here.
Choose your setup, then its folder. Where the screen offers Another setup or folder, choose it first.
Error: Python 3.8 or newer is required.
Run the command the message shows, then the installer again.
RetroPie 4.8 has Python 3.7.3, and its update finds nothing newer. Run it on
a computer, with RetroPie's bios share open, \\RETROPIE\bios from Windows:
curl -fsSL https://abdess.github.io/retrobios/i | sh -s -- --platform retropie --dest <the bios share>
Error: the downloaded installer does not match its expected fingerprint.
Nothing ran: something changed the file. Try another network.
Cannot create ...
You cannot write there. Do what the message says.
The card is full
Nothing was written. Free some space there.
The game still does not start
See When a game does not start.