@ortsac hate to hijack this, do you have pictures of your completed project? You may have built exactly what I need to build myself for the misses. I am looking to also emplace a Pi3 into an authentic NES console, for use just for NES and SNES emulation. I would like to bounce some ideas of you if possible as well as get some feedback/guidance of any issues you may have ran across.

Thanks for that elaborate answer. I need to step through this now.

Thanks @petrockblog!
I just tried it out using some stipped wire.
Connecting Plyr 1 GND or Plyr 2 GND with Player 1 B for a short moment will indeed "reset" out of the current running game!

The new GamepadBlock supports switching between the various controller modes via a virtual COM port.

For the ControlBlock a Bash script could be written that changes the controlblockservice.cfg file and reloads the ControlBlock service. I have not had time to work on that yet, though.

@petrockblog I think you can best answer on this ;)

I saw your switch built in a NESPi case - it should fit perfectly in.
But what will happen in the following scenarios:

I use a momentary switch and press the button to powerdown (I think it's clear what will happen) I use a momentary switch, do a shutdown via software (Quit >> Shutdown system)

The Mausberry switch fails in this case, because it will miss the physical button press and therefore needs a GPIO signal sended to the Mausberry circuit (Take a look here).

If you don't do this modification the Raspberry will shutdown as usual but the Mausberry switch is still active and does not respond to any button switch. So you have to cut main power or reset the circuit to make it work again.

After the installation of the PowerBlock and the ControlBlock drivers you need to enable the driver in a second step. I realise that this is not intuitive so that I created a patch for the RetroPie Setup. In the future, the drivers will be enabled with the installation.

@meleu My nespi is practically done. The reset is working wonderfully,

Hi just wondering with the LED ring style button did you managed to get it to work with the powerblock only lighting up the ring when latched on?
Thanks,
Tom

Hello, I am very sorry if that email got lost somehow. Please contact me again at contact (at) petrockblock (dot) com!

There was indeed a problem with the HTML handling. I have corrected it.

Sounds good, exactly the answer I was looking for.

@thedon

I`m sure meanwhile you solved the Problem.

Do you remember what has been the reason for the controlblock showing all Buttons are constantly "ON"?

I am trying to set up a new Arcade Station with RPi3+Controlblock V1.6 + 2 x Sanwa Joysticks & Buttons and I have the same Problem right now.

@attorneyinsc To what is rhe ControlBlock wired to? "arcade", "mame", "snes", etc? What controller do you use? Post your controlblockservice.cfg file.

There was a problem with missing includes that slipped through with the recent minor update.

I have just pushed the fix. Everything should work now, sorry!

Connected the leads straight from the 5v pins directly to the male side of the power and everything worked fine, so it is the nintendo side of the barrel jack.. i've got a new one on order so... This is resolved!

Best Toggle switch I found on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B01EA6KHK2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It works great!

@jeddo Questions:

Is the issue repeatable? Meaning, does it always show the issue after 2 hours of play? Does it go away after you give it a rest, say an hour? It could be that you have some thermal issues elsewhere, not necessary the RPi.

Does the power supply itself heat up after two hours of play? Is it hot to the touch? If the supply is not properly designed it could run into thermal issues and its efficiency to sustain the desired power output deteriorates. If that's the case see if you can have it replaced.

Do you have access to the ControlBlock while you're having the issue? Can you feel if any of the components in the ControBlock is heating up? If so which of the components?

@petrockblog

Thanks for a great product :D

@dbinott I think it's best that you post your own thread. You might have a different setup than @hodgoes2001
Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first