In future updates, this will be used to better support updates and installation with the APT package system. The components that can be installed with the RetroPie-Setup Script were relocated to a user-independent location. This is the default configuration of the RetroPie SD-card image.Īlso, EmulationStation 2 introduces a much nicer look-and-feel, an internal scraper for ROM meta data, and a simple way for maintaining multiple themes. Depending on the number of emulated systems it is probable that you need a Raspberry Pi Model B with 512 MB shared RAM, where 256 MB are reserved for the GPU. EmulationStation 2 makes way more use of graphic elements.As with the previous version of EmulationStation the input configuration is located at ~/.emulationstation/.The systems configuration file for EmulationStation, previously located at ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg has moved to /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg If you would like to customize it, you should copy it to ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and edit that file according to your needs.The theme files are now located at /etc/emulationstation/themes.The binary of EmulationStation is located at /opt/retropie/supplementary/EmulationStation/.This can be installed with the RetroPie-Setup Script and is already located in the RetroPie SD-card image. SDL 2.0.1 is needed by EmulationStation 2.Here is a short list of important things related to EmulationStation 2: ĮmulationStation 2 also introduces some changes regarding a typical RetroPie installation.