Put the card in your Raspberry Pi, boot it up and you should see a rainbow screen followed by the Emulation Station boot screen. Just make sure that when you're finished writing to the card, you eject it rather than just yanking it out of your computer to avoid data corruption. Pi Filler is an alternative app.Īs these both have graphical interfaces you can't go too far wrong, as long as you keep track of where your RetroPie image is kept, i.e. For Mac OS X there's a dedicated Raspberry Pi writer software that works very well, called RPi-sd card builder v1.2. Using Windows? Just use the Win32 Disk Imager software available to download from Sourceforge.

Next we need to write the image to the card.