Starting EmulationStation from the console does not work. Well, it appeared to have worked, and OOTB no less!! (Excellent job on the scripts there, PRB!) So, two hours of downloading, dding, installing, and package configuring later (I had to enable non-free sources and locate the package for my WiFi card), and I was set to perform the experiment: get the RetroPie scripts from GitHub and see if I could just run it and do the setup from sources. I stopped using it because I couldn't figure out how to get the leopard to stop throwing "f" keystrokes at random, and because my job offered to buy me a new one. It's an ASUS U46E with 8GB ram, a generous 750GB drive, Sandy Bridge i5 quad (2410) 2.3 GHz. So I broke an old laptop out of storage to test. So, I wondered: is it possible to run the RetroPie scripts on stock Debian? That is, not Raspbian, but amd64 Debian on a "real" computer. I wanted a little more OOMPH out of it (e.g., run PSX and PSP games at full res, MAME 2014 class arcade titles, fancy shaders, etc). So my arcade machine is a retrofitted Tekken TAG, full size, powered by a Raspberry Pi 2, screened with a 30" 16:10 monitor, and controlled through a trio of Teensy 2.0's, two mapped to the original controls and coins, and one mapped as a keyboard to provide controls (e.g., ES menu, exit game, bring up RetroArch conf, etc).
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