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Pi in the Sky...

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  • #62
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Not sure on the PI 3, but there is a header on the PI 2 that you can solder onto and connect a power on/off button. It's not on the GPIO, its on the board itself.
    Did it myself and it works as advertised.


    Edit:
    That might have been a reset button rather than power on/off, cant remember.


  • #63
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Grand, I can live turning on a wall switch so - the exercise won't kill me. :pac:


  • #64
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I just use the start menu in Retropie, and click shutdown system...it's ready to plug out after a few seconds. Again though, that's with metadata saving now switched off (as I have all the artwork & descriptions I need). With it switched on, and having full romsets, a shutdown can take literally minutes.


  • #65
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,522 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    Myrddin wrote: »
    I just use the start menu in Retropie, and click shutdown system...it's ready to plug out after a few seconds. Again though, that's with metadata saving now switched off (as I have all the artwork & descriptions I need). With it switched on, and having full romsets, a shutdown can take literally minutes.

    27 mins if you have 14k games :)


  • #66
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    RedXIV wrote: »
    27 mins if you have 14k games :)

    Jaysus :eek: Are you gonna leave it like that or switch the "save metadata on exit" setting to "off"?


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  • #67
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,522 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Jaysus :eek: Are you gonna leave it like that or switch the "save metadata on exit" setting to "off"?

    Turned it off, I'm only human, I couldn't wait that long every time!

    Came home from work to find my kids playing donkey king county! Proud!


  • #68
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    RedXIV wrote: »
    27 mins if you have 14k games :)

    That's the problem with rom sets, you start out with everything and end up playing nothing.


  • #69
    Corholio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    Got Pi 3 and installed everything with retropie, just about 20 SNES roms for now. The ROMS load and play fine but I'm not getting any sound from any of them. Everything works fine except the sound.

    It seems to be a somewhat common problem with Pi, I'm completely noob with script etc so I haven't tried any of the fixes, that may or may not work. Have checked sound setting in Emulation Station as well and they are fine. Any other things I should check?


  • #70
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    I'm surprised there is no 'commercial' solution to this by now.

    I did built my own power on/off circuit for my Retron Pi build, used a little microcontroller & a relay to switch the power via on and off. When switch off it triggered a shutdown on the Pi by pulling on one of the GPIOs, had to write a little monitoring program on the Pi for this.

    So, ya its hassle but it my case I had to do it as the Retron case has a big power switch on the front of it :)


  • #71
    TinCool
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    Corholio wrote: »
    Everything works fine except the sound.

    If you're running sound thru hdmi then read this post.
    https://m.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/3evgyi/retropie_30_no_sound/

    I had the same problem and the un commenting of one line and addition of another 2 in the config file mentioned plus a reboot sorted it.


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  • #72
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Myrddin wrote: »
    I just use the start menu in Retropie, and click shutdown system...it's ready to plug out after a few seconds. Again though, that's with metadata saving now switched off (as I have all the artwork & descriptions I need). With it switched on, and having full romsets, a shutdown can take literally minutes.

    Yeah Shutdown System was what I was using last night. Turning off that metadata saving sounds like a mandatory thing to do, feck waiting minutes for anything to turn off!


  • #73
    Corholio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    TinCool wrote: »
    If you're running sound thru hdmi then read this post.
    https://m.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/3evgyi/retropie_30_no_sound/

    I had the same problem and the un commenting of one line and addition of another 2 in the config file mentioned plus a reboot sorted it.

    Thanks a lot for that! It was the addition of the other 2 that fixed it.


  • #74
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Myrddin wrote: »

    1) Format sd card using SDFormatter
    2) Burn latest Retropie image to card using Win32DiskImager (4.0 as of now)
    3) Boot Pi up, & allow to run first boot procedure
    4) Configure joypad (it should be autodetected if connected by usb)
    5) Connect to Wi-Fi (RetroPie menu, wifi)
    6) Disable USB-Rom Daemon (RetroPie setup, setup/tools, usbromservice, disable)
    7) Change User Password from default
    8) If there are any updates (4.01 in this case) - SSH via Putty - sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh (Update All Installed)
    9) Reboot with - sudo reboot
    10) Identify usb drive mount point (sudo fdisk -l) (/dev/sda1 in this case)
    11) Format the attached drive to ntfs (fat32 doesn't support symlinks, and these are VERY important later) (sudo mkfs.ntfs -f /dev/sda1)

    So got some time to look at setting this up tonight but am stuck at step 10 & 11. The WD PiDrive is all connected up and is recognised by lsusb and dmesg but when I fdisk -l it's showing as /dev/sda not sda1. It also doesn't let me format /dev/sda saying it's an entire drive not just a partition.

    Is there some other step I'm missing? Do I have to download gparted and muck about with that?

    Here's an cobbled together image showing the results of lsusb, dmesg and fdisk:

    ekRYf5s.png


  • #75
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    You need to create a partition first using fdisk before formatting it..

    Or do it the easy... Use a windows PC to format the usb drive to NTFS and then copy all the ISO & ROMS onto it, its a lot faster then transferring them via the PI.


  • #76
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Cheers bandit, will try that later tonight.

    Didn't know I could do that step in Windows, thought the drive would've had to be setup by the Pi because it's linux based? Obviously not. :)


  • #77
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    So i ordered this yesterday and its out for delivery today (crazy fast).
    Can i format the full drive to ntfs, dump my legally owned roms to the drive and hook it up to the pi? Or do i need to create linux partitions (which is what i thought we had to do).


  • #78
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    No need for Linux partitions, it has drivers for NTFS so will work with them just fine.

    If its only for storing the ROMs and ISO's then I'd mount the NTFS partition as readonly, you can either use a symlink from /home/pi/roms to the USB drive (probably /dev/sda1) or you can mount the USB drive directly on to /home/pi/roms - just make sure you have the correct directory structure on the USB drive first.


  • #79
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Cool, looking forward to giving this a go. It's been a while since i did retro gaming with the Pi, mostly nerd projects lately with them.


  • #80
    Deep Thought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,595 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    ok...so this looks like a great way for me to get in the Retro Gaming world..

    My next question is...the games...where do you get them, are they rom that you then add to the HDD?

    Sorry ifs its areal newbie Q

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • #81
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Deep Thought wrote: »
    where do you get them

    We're not allowed discuss that I'm afraid.
    Deep Thought wrote: »
    are they rom that you then add to the HDD?

    Yup. :)


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  • #82
    Deep Thought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,595 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    We're not allowed discuss that I'm afraid.

    ah :eek: ...though you just bought them some where ;)

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • #83
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,407 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    What you could do is speak about it in the context of Vectrex roms. They're all public domain and legally shareable :D


  • #84
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    @Andrew - yeah I formatted my PiDrive via Windows (NTFS, because it supports symlinks). I'll edit post #2 to include that :)


  • #85
    CiDeRmAn
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    What you could do is speak about it in the context of Vectrex roms. They're all public domain and legally shareable :D

    I got schooled on that on the FB Vectrex forum, apparently they aren't public domain at all, they are still owned by Jay Smith and he allows the software to be freely disseminated.
    I'm not sure about the ultimate legality though, particularly in cases like Pole Position, a port from a game property still owned by Namco.


  • #86
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,522 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    The pi hut are doing 10% of Raspberry Pi 3's today if anyone is looking at picking up hardware?
    Amazing news today! 10,000,000 Raspberry Pis have been sold!

    To celebrate, we're offering 10% OFF the Raspberry Pi 3 - Model B today! (ends at midnight tonight 8th Sept 2016)

    Buy them here

    Worth noting though that this is just the bare bones board, if you want power cables etc, you're better off picking up a kit


  • #87
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    RedXIV wrote: »
    The pi hut are doing 10% of Raspberry Pi 3's today if anyone is looking at picking up hardware?



    Buy them here

    Worth noting though that this is just the bare bones board, if you want power cables etc, you're better off picking up a kit

    Damn! I bought 3 of them yesterday from Pimoroni :0/


  • #88
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Cool, just bought one to upgrade the Retron Pi :)


  • #89
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Does anyone know how to turn off that 'Loading...' grey window that appears when you select a game? Thought I saw Myrddin mention turning it off but can't find that post now (else I was just imagining it!).

    Got the PiDrive sorted and games copied over - initially copied a few using WinSCP (wired connection) to make sure I'd done it correctly. Then just plugged the drive back into the desktop PC and copied them en masse (only those that I actually own ofcourse).

    Next steps are the scrapping (using that faster link) and sorting out some scan line filter. Then hook it up to the proper tv and see does it still work. :)

    /Edit: Actually, that 6x6 enclosure is handy in that it blocks out that blinding light from the PiDrive (jesus it's bright!). It would be perfect if it was half a cm wider just so I didn't have to push in the usb cable when putting the case back on (and the cable to be a bit longer). Although to be fair once I get the setup complete I won't be taking it back off that often.


  • #90
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Does anyone know how to turn off that 'Loading...' grey window that appears when you select a game? Thought I saw Myrddin mention turning it off but can't find that post now (else I was just imagining it!).

    When I select a game, it goes to a black screen for about 2 or 3 seconds, & then loads the game...maybe that grey screen thing is part of Retropie 4.2, as I'm still on 4.1?


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  • #91
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Myrddin wrote: »
    When I select a game, it goes to a black screen for about 2 or 3 seconds, & then loads the game...maybe that grey screen thing is part of Retropie 4.2, as I'm still on 4.1?

    Will do a bit of Googling - it's only lasts 1 second approx so it's not a big deal, just be nicer to have black screen then game screen. It mentions 'Loading...' and that errors will be logged to a particular folder etc.


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