My build (now with secondary shoulder buttons!)

[Flavor]

Typically, I would say YES. In theory, you can use the RetroPie menu system to do updates. The only problem is with the joystick driver, and there is a fairly simple way to update that (after you update everything else).

However, with this latest RetroPie 4.4 update, I have heard that a lot of people "break" their installs when updating. RetroPie seems to recommend that you do a fresh install. Of course, then, you'd need to move/copy all your stuff from the old SD to the new SD. I think it can be a hassle.

If all you wanted was the additional button support, you could get/install that from GitHub.

From memory, it would go something like this

cd /home/pi/Freeplay/
mv mk_arcade_joystick_rpi mk_arcade_joystick_rpi_OLD
git clone https://github.com/TheFlav/mk_arcade_joystick_rpi.git
cd mk_arcade_joystick_rpi
chmod a+x ./install.sh
./install.sh




After that, you could 'nano /etc/modprobe.d/mk_arcade_joystick.conf' and edit it accordingly (and reboot for it to take effect).