retropieProvenance matters
Keep the history. Keep the credit.
A transparent record of what was imported, rewritten, linked, and left with its original publisher.
The content inventory
The public WordPress API reported 67 news posts and 17 pages in the September 26, 2026 UTC snapshot. The licensed documentation repository contained 186 Markdown guides. All discovered news posts have an original summary here; all documentation pages are available in the reference library.
| Material | Treatment |
|---|---|
| 186 documentation guides | Imported from the GPL repository, with license, attribution and raw Markdown. |
| 67 public news articles | Original brief summaries with dates and source links. Full article bodies and media are not copied. |
| 17 public website pages | Inventoried below; applicable topics rewritten for this independent project. |
| Forum posts and comments | Remain upstream. This is not a copy of user conversations or accounts. |
| Donation and account pages | Remain upstream; no donor records, payment forms or transactions are imported. |
Documentation provenance
Pinned source revision: 175f5b158f16938a39cad64f21db94496e320cbf. Imported content retains the GNU GPL version 3 license and upstream contributor copyrights. Original README and navigation/credit metadata are included. Each rendered guide exposes its original Markdown.
Source archive SHA-256:
fbcbae6b3e8d973437509466cccaa056c2f4fc3873d9540a9909ad3f9aaf45b4Presentation changes are described on every guide: local link rewriting, heading anchors, HTML sanitization, and links in place of remotely hosted illustrations. Local documentation assets retain any individual notices, including the separate upstream logo license.
Website-page inventory
The original site's sponsor, hosting, legal and privacy statements describe that site. Our About, Support, Legal and Privacy pages describe this independent project instead. Source links below are provided for context.
- Logo and Logo License ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Sponsors ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Donor Dashboard ↗ — upstream-only account/payment context
- Legal & Contact ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Cookie Policy ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Systems in RetroPie ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Development ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Building your own RetroPie machine ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Donate ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Hosting information ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Donation History ↗ — upstream-only account/payment context
- Transaction Failed ↗ — upstream-only account/payment context
- Donation Confirmation ↗ — upstream-only account/payment context
- About ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- News ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Download ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
- Home ↗ — topic covered by original project content or source context
Download provenance
The older-hardware catalogue links directly to three original upstream 4.8 release files. We checked the published MD5 values, generated SHA-256 hashes, tested decompression, and checked the exact file lengths. An initial S3 mirror was retired in favor of direct upstream links; that bucket is now private. See the manifest and source/license notes. Hardware testing is a separate task. Weekly development metadata is refreshed through a validated adapter; its SHA-256 values apply to extracted images, and endpoint checks are not full-file or hardware validation.
Corrections are welcome
Sources can become outdated, and a versioned snapshot is not a claim of current compatibility. A correction should include the affected page, a primary source and the relevant version or test evidence. See how to contribute.