Copy Our Latest Image
Download our latest image for your Raspberry Pi here.
Download that .img file (It might be a set of .zip files that you need to download together and unzip.)
Then use the Win32 disk imager to put the image on a fresh SD card.
Make your own Image
Use Win32disk imager to create a img file of your Raspberry Pi image.
Use pishrink to shrink the file: https://sigkillit.com/2022/10/13/shrink-a-raspberry-pi-or-retropie-img-on-windows-with-pishrink/
c:/RPI/ is where our images are stored.
cd /mnt/c/rpi
sudo ./pishrink.sh retropie48.img
That shrinks it.
Clean Mothbox data before cloning
This has good tips: https://fleetstack.io/blog/disk-space-cleanup-raspberry-pi
Clear the logs via
journalctl --vacuum-size=50M
Then use Win32 disk imager to put the image on a fresh SD card (can be different sizes too!).