Raspberry pi

MRTULES · 31-12-2013 04:41PM

Do I need 2 SD cards for noons and retropie? Can I just get away with 1 for retropie and not use noons at all?

gugleguy · 31-12-2013 05:03PM

Oh,, I'm feeling nice today. ,............

Go into any phone shop and say you have a Sony Xperia Z phone. Even if you don't. I'm m not being sarcastic. Say you need a new power supply to plug into the mains.
Use this to power ur Pi. Secondly, MRTULES go to ur nearest physical book shop and ask about buying a book about Linux for beginners. In either the phone shop and the book shop don't t mention the raspberry pi especially if ur outside Dublin.

wandatowell · 31-12-2013 05:05PM

gugleguy wrote: »

In either the phone shop and the book shop don't t mention the raspberry pi especially if ur outside Dublin.

Oh really??

gugleguy · 31-12-2013 05:07PM

Really ur query about 2 SD cards MRTULES, as the owner of 2 raspberry pis I believe this project is beyond your current expertise. Right, I'm off.

davo2001 · 31-12-2013 05:08PM

gugleguy wrote: »

don't t mention the raspberry pi especially if ur outside Dublin.

Erm why?!

gugleguy · 31-12-2013 05:10PM

PM me if you want a PowerPoint presentation on the Raspberry Pi. I did one presentation to a live audience in a Dublin shop.

davo2001 · 31-12-2013 05:13PM

gugleguy wrote: »

PM me if you want a PowerPoint presentation on the Raspberry Pi. I did one presentation to a live audience in a Dublin shop.

How about you kindly answer the question instead?

Chet T16 · 31-12-2013 05:17PM

It feels awkward in here

gugleguy · 31-12-2013 06:08PM

Clearly I've spent too long in After Hours forum and TCD forum (following. One particular. Thread there) today.

MRTULES · 31-12-2013 06:23PM

For those that helped, thank you. It is much appreciated. For those who didn't, thanks anyway you are obviously much more intelligent than I am or ever will be. I will disregard your comments and continue to try and learn to use the raspberry pi.
My question about the 2 SD cards might not have been clear. I am wondering if I need noobs at all if I just intend to use it as a SNES emulator or can i just use retropie.

MrVestek · 31-12-2013 06:35PM

MRTULES wrote: »

For those that helped, thank you. It is much appreciated. For those who didn't, thanks anyway you are obviously much more intelligent than I am or ever will be. I will disregard your comments and continue to try and learn to use the raspberry pi.
My question about the 2 SD cards might not have been clear. I am wondering if I need noobs at all if I just intend to use it as a SNES emulator or can i just use retropie.

Hi MrTules,

My YouTube series 'Raspberry Pi Ally' has three episodes up dedicated to setting up RetroPie at the minute which may be of some help.

http://www.youtube.com/mrvestek

You can join the following FB group too if you have any queries:
http://www.facebook.com/mrvestek

Hope that helps!

Johnboy1951 · 31-12-2013 06:37PM

MRTULES wrote: »

For those that helped, thank you. It is much appreciated. For those who didn't, thanks anyway you are obviously much more intelligent than I am or ever will be. I will disregard your comments and continue to try and learn to use the raspberry pi.
My question about the 2 SD cards might not have been clear. I am wondering if I need noobs at all if I just intend to use it as a SNES emulator or can i just use retropie.

NOOBS is provided for those new users who want things to work for them without much if any manual involvement (my opinion).

NOOBs is only to facilitate the installation of one of the provided operating systems. For any other OS its image should be used.

For those who are prepared to learn a little as they go, then 'images' are provided.
Such 'images' have to be 'burned' (written to) the SD card in a similar manner that a CD is 'burned'.
The image contains all that is required to boot the Operating System.

There might be some more items to be attended to after first boot ...... for instance set up of various things, maybe expand the filesystem to use the full size of the SD card etc.

Instructions will be given with each image on the relevant site.

I know nothing of emulators ..... but I would say that it is very useful to have more than one card.
It means you can at minimum, try other images/operating systems, without wiping the one on the main card, which you might have spent some time perfecting.
(as an aside .... it is also a simple matter to make your own image of a tweaked install for safe-keeping)

I would also advise you get Class 10 SD cards ..... you need to be careful when selecting the cards. (definitely no slower than class 6)

Keep at it. Expect to fail regularly, just be prepared to do it again.
Trial and error is a great way to get the feel of things ..... and learn also

MRTULES · 31-12-2013 06:38PM

Thanks. I mentioned it in previous thread. Already a subscriber. Great vids

MrVestek · 31-12-2013 06:52PM

Thanks MrTules.

Is there a particular reason you need noobs and RetroPie? You could just follow my videos from Episode 1, that will run you through flashing the SD card... it's pretty much good to set up from there.

longhalloween · 31-12-2013 07:51PM

gugleguy wrote: »

In either the phone shop and the book shop don't t mention the raspberry pi especially if ur outside Dublin.

Just don't mention it anywhere.

Power supplies are easy to come by. Just search for a 5V 1A micro USB supply.

Here's Farnell, but Ebay, Deal Xtreme Aliexpress, second hand on adverts ect are cheaper: http://ie.farnell.com/raspberry-pi-psu/rpi-psu-uk-mk1/power-supply-raspberry-5v-1a-uk/dp/2254792

Check the former and MyMemory.co.uk for SD cards.

Hot UK Deals throws up decent offers every so often too.

Plenty of free RPi books online, and some not so free ones that can be obtained from the usual pirate sites. All the best RPi projects are online too, so I wouldn't spend money on a book unless you like to have one beside you when you're writing code.

MRTULES · 16-01-2014 12:25AM

So I got my Pi and started set up of retropie. All was going well at first. I had retropie up and running. I had done all the updates ect. I had even managed to get my roms onto it aswell but then came the first problem. As I dont have a usb hub I had to connect my ps3 controller and bluetooth thingy but then had no keyboard.
After a lot of looking around I managed to download some software to enable me to access my pi remotely on my pc. But alas, it seems it still doesn't want to config my ps3 controller at all.
Can I use the ps3 pad as a wired controller? and just forget about bluetooth for now?
As always, any help is much appreciated.

MrVestek · 16-01-2014 04:31AM

MRTULES wrote: »

So I got my Pi and started set up of retropie. All was going well at first. I had retropie up and running. I had done all the updates ect. I had even managed to get my roms onto it aswell but then came the first problem. As I dont have a usb hub I had to connect my ps3 controller and bluetooth thingy but then had no keyboard.
After a lot of looking around I managed to download some software to enable me to access my pi remotely on my pc. But alas, it seems it still doesn't want to config my ps3 controller at all.
Can I use the ps3 pad as a wired controller? and just forget about bluetooth for now?
As always, any help is much appreciated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Jk8up_Aqw

MRTULES · 16-01-2014 04:38AM

Thanks. I have been following your videos all along.
I just managed to get this sorted.
Need to sleep but Zelda is too good.
I will be dreaming of "sudo ./retropie_setup.sh" lol

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