⚠️ This is in early development stages

RucoPie is a sweet, easy to use alternative to systems like RetroPie, Lakka or Recalbox. It targets Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 to be used via HDMI.

Features

• Automatically scaled, pixel-perfect games in any resolution
• Automatically scaled, pixel-perfect UI in any resolution, with some underscan unless your screen is any of:
  • HD (1280x720)
  • Full HD (1920x1080)
  • WQHD (2560x1440)
  • 4K UHD (3840x2160)
• Fast environment, built on top of DietPi
• Support for pretty much every Libretro emulator
• Built-in Multimedia Player
• Multi-Language:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
• Flexible theme system
  • Multi-layer, dynamic backgrounds
  • Per-theme icons
  • Other tweaks for opacity, shadows and sizing
• Heavy operations are asynchronous (file I/O, large data processing)
• Extra video options for bilinear, stretching and other tricks
• Audio equalizer with 17 presets (Winamp-based)
• Screen Spin for 90°, 180° and 270°
• Easy WiFi setup
• MIT Licensed (for everything inside root/RucoPie, other stuff may have a different License)

Some screenshots

How to try this out:

• Install DietPi on your Raspberry Pi and start the system
• Connect to the Internet and enable Onboard Wifi
• Enable automatic boot
• Set OpenSSH as default SSH server with dietpi-software (this is for roms transferring)
• Run the following script and follow the steps

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tavuntu/rucopie/main/setup.sh | bash -s

• Reboot, and it should be ready to go!

Things to do/fix:

• Integer coordinates for background to behave smootly
• filesystem speed (add LFS) (done)
• Persist optimal resolutions for cores and general preferences (done)
• Support joysticks via USB (done-ish)
• Wireless internet conexion screen (in progress)
• More video options (in progress)
• Add more themes (in progress)
• Add animated boot screen
• Add background music manager
• Add audio equalizer with profiles, if possible (added alta equal tool)
• Bluetooth joystick support
• Locale/Country settings
• Skip button while mapping joystick for UI
• Change the terminal banner
• Add Favorites
• Recently played
• All games
• Vertical mode
• Add other languages (done: Spanish, French and German)
• Multimedia player
• Game scrapping for listing
• Other things not in this list

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Notes

• RucoPie was inspired by RGB-Pi
• Not everything described in here is implemented yet