在 Firestick 上使用 Retroarch 玩复古游戏

In this article, we explain how you can install RetroArch on your firestick so that you can play all the old retro games using just your amazon firestick.

But first, let us explain what Retroarch is.

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What Is Retroarch

Retroarch is a great app that is made for many different devices as well as the amazon firestick and amazon fire tv. With RetroArch it allows you to play all the classic retro games from the ’70s, ’80s, 90′s even into the 2000s.

Some of the classic games you can play are:

• Mario 64
• Sonic
• Goldeneye
• Zelda
• and hundreds more

So RetroArch is what you call an emulator which the app can mimic all the classic game consoles such as the 任天堂 64, Snes, Sega Mega Drive, Gameboy, Playstation, Xbox, Atari, and many more old retro consoles.

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Does Retroarch Work With Any Firestick

Yes, Retroarch will work with any amazon firestick whether you have a second-generation firestick or even a third-generation firestick or later models. So this works on a 4K firestick too and also any Fire TV or Fire Cube.

The app will also work fine on laptops, PC, Android Smartphones, and Android Boxes.

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How To Prepare The Firestick For Retroarch

Make sure to allow apps from unknown sources

Ok, what you will need to do is make sure you have “allow apps from unknown sources” turned ON so to do this follow the below.

1. 去 设置
2. 选择 设备
3. Go into 我的消防电视
4. 打开 开发者选项
5. Then change Apps From Unknow Source 到 在

The above will allow you to add Retroarch to your firestick with it being a third-party app. Once you have finished this guide you can turn off allow apps from unknown sources if you wish.

Install The App Called Downloader

This app will allow you to easily download Retroarch from our website right to your firestick making things much easier for you.

The first step you need to do is go to 找 on your amazon firestick homepage then down to search 和 按确定

Now start to type the word “下载器” using your amazon firestick remote and you will see the word “下载器” appear, go down and click on it.

You will now need to 按确定 on the orange downloader icon 并选择 得到 进而 打开.

Once you have opened the Downloader app you will need to make sure on the left-hand side you have Home selected then type in this web address below carefully.

Once you have typed the above in the same you can click on Go which will start downloading the RetroArch app.

You will not be met with a pop-up box just choose Install and wait 20 seconds for it to install then choose Open and make sure to choose ok to grant access to “Read External Storage” when you see the message.

If you see a message asking to Allow Retroarch to access photos, media and files just choose Allow.

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Connect A Bluetooth Controller

You will need a Bluetooth controller to be able to play the games which you can get here from Amazon or you can also use a Playstation 3, 戏院4, Xbox 360或 Xbox One controller to play the retro games with.

What you need to do to pair your Bluetooth controller to the firestick is follow the below.

1. 去 设置 on the firestick home screen
2. 然后选择 Controllers and Bluetooth Devices
3. 现在选择 Game Controllers
4. Then Add New Game Controller

Now the firestick will look for your Bluetooth controller so make sure you put the Bluetooth controller in pairing mode for it to pair up to the firestick once you have seen it to choose on the tv screen.

Another bonus with connecting your Bluetooth controller to the firestick is you can also control the firestick as if the controller was an amazon firestick remote which makes things easier as well.

Please note: If you want to get really go retro you can get the actual controllers from your favorite old retro games console but a Bluetooth version like this one but all other Bluetooth controllers will work too.

How To Set Up RetoArch On A Firestick

Now that you have RetroArch installed on your firestick you will need to know how to get the 罗马书 (Games) and how to set up Retroarch so you can play all the classic retro games.

Add Emulator Cores

Once you are inside RetroArch you will need to install what is called cores (模拟器) to do this choose Load core

What will happen now is the app will see you are using a firestick remote unless you have already connected your Bluetooth controller if not the firestick remote will be slightly mapped different just while you use the RetroArch app.

So to get into load core you will need to press the back button on the firestick remote which will now act as an OK button.

现在点击 Download a Core using the back button on the firestick remote

The cores are the actual emulators meaning the old retro consoles you want to activate on the firestick.

For example, for this guide, we will go with the Sega Megadrive (or Sega Genesis for our USA fans)

You can select as many console emulators as you like just make sure you press the back key on the remote on the emulators you want to install unless you have a Bluetooth controller connected.

The core or emulators will download and install very fast and you will see a green hashtag next to every console emulator you have chosen to install.

Please note: You will see many of the same emulator names but they will be built by different developers so if a game doesn’t work you can choose another developer’s version of the same emulator.

Ok, now you have some emulators installed it’s time to start to load the 罗马书 (Retro Games) onto the firestick.

How To Install A File Manager On Your Firestick

In this next step, you will install a file manager called ES文件资源管理器 this will allow you to send Roms (games) from your laptop, PC, Macbook to your amazon firestick wirelessly.

您需要 press the home button on your firestick remote to return to the main home screen then go to Find and Search.

现在输入这个词 ES文件资源管理器 and then click on the name.

You will see the ES file explorer icon so click on it

然后选择 得到 and once installed choose 打开.

How To Send Files To Your Firestick Using ES File Explorer

Once you have opened the file manager you will need to go down on the left-hand menu 到 网络 然后 View on PC.

Now go across with your firestick remote go across 和 down to the blue bar that says 打开 and click it 在

Now you will see something like the screen above with your IP address being different so write this IP address down the one that starts with ftp://192.168………

Now what you will need to do is if using a Windows 电脑 you will need to use an FTP program called Winscp which you can download below

WinSCP

If you are using a 苹果笔记本 要么 iMac we recommend using Filezilla as you won’t be able to download Winscp so you can download FileZilla from the below link for your apple device

Filezilla

Logging into the firestick with the FTP program

We will be covering only windows in this guide on how to use WinSCP to add games to the firestick but the process is near enough the same if you are using a MacBook.

Ok, you will need to open Winscp, and once it’s open enter just the numbers from what is displayed on the firestick or what you wrote down so it would be something like 192.168.??.?? in the part that says Hostname.

Remember to put the port number in where it says “port number“. Your port number is the bit after the slash “/” in the IP you wrote down or what is displayed on the TV screen. Normally the port is always 3721.

In the section above it, called File protocol you will need to change this from SFTP to FTP.

Now leave both the username 和 暗号 empty and tick the box that says anonymous login.

So once you have finished you should have something that looks like the above we have entered our own IP address from our firestick but yours should look similar

现在 click on login and you will see the folders inside your firestick.

Once you see all the folders you will need to go in the folder called Retro Arch 和 then right-click on any white space inside Retroarch and choose New 然后 go across to Directory 和 create a new directory 和 name it exactly roms.

Now all you need to do is once you download the games you simply drag them and drop them into the roms folder you just made but wait I hear you saying “where the hell do I download the games??“

Well, we have the perfect website where you can download all the best classic games (ROMs) and more.

Where To Get Roms (Games) For RetroArch

The best place we have found to get free ROMs of all the classic games you might remember is RomsGames you can click the below and it will take you to their website

Roms Games

Once you go on the website you can use the left column to choose a console you would like the game from remember you must also have the console (emulator activated on the firestick)

For this example, we will choose 任天堂 64 as this console rocks and for the game, we will choose Super Mario 64 as this game was great and the first 3D game to ever come out. (See you learn something new every day)

What Is Rom Hustler?

Once you have chosen your game you will see a big green button that says Save Game simply press on it and it will start to download any game you have chosen.

The game will be downloaded as a ZIP文件夹 this is fine DO NOT unzip the game as you will simply go into your downloads folder where the games you want are on your PC and simply drag and drop the zip folder into the “roms” folder on the WinSCP application you have open so it will then look like this image below

Ok, Ok, Ok, we are nearing the end of this guide so congratulations on getting this far you now just need to know how to play the game on your RetroArch app on the firestick.

So once you have loaded all the games in the “roms” folder you can close your laptop and focus just on the firestick now.

How To Play Games In Retorach On The Firestick

So now the final section is how to load up the roms inside RetroArch so you can bring back your childhood or show your children the real deal games.

So on your firestick 按下主页按钮 to go home then go into your app folder 然后去 Retroarch.

Now choose the second option down called Load Content you will see this below

现在进入 /storage/emulated/0/RetroArch

Then into the folder called roms you created earlier and then simply select the game you want to play but remember to load many emulators (cores/consoles) from the beginning of this article so the game will load.

Once you have selected your game choose Load Archive 和 Voila!!! the game will start playing.

That’s it that’s the end of the guide we hope this helped you set up your firestick to play old retro games and consoles using Retroarch on your firestick.

请注意。 Always make sure you go inside ES 文件浏览器 和 check the memory left on the firestick as you don’t want to put too many games on just add a few games at a time.

To see how much memory your firestick has left you will need to open ES file explorer 然后去 Local 然后去 首页 and you will see it say internal storage just make sure to keep it ideally under 95%

Here are some FAQ questions we got asked

My Game won’t Load?

Make sure you have the emulator (consoles) installed for whatever console the game was made for. You can do this in the Load Core section.

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