Sega Megadrive case from RetroFlag!
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@Ranma Cheers for the comment, anyway.
It looks like I have to now wait until Sunday, as it's sold out from my initial supplier and I'm now with a supplier who can't do next-day prime. Oh well, a day off on Sunday, then. I just hope the delivery man doesn't skip Sunday and deliver Monday - I've had this a few times in the past. -
Got this case today and it looks ace! Really taking me back to my childhood in the early 90s
I've one problem with it though and it may just be me. I can't get the safe shutdown to work.
I already have the script installed because I have the NES case, and the power on button works, as does reset, but it doesn't run the shutdown script.
Where am I going wrong with it?
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Did you put the switch on on the board? There's a small switch you have to put into the on position before you assemble it.
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@Ranma yep, it's connected
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If you need to open this case for whatever reason, do not forget to remove your SD card first!
I've got to rebuild my system from scratch! All those games, all that saved progress!
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@MisterMints Oh dear ... Take a break - take a KitKat.
Be happy - 2x32GB equals? 64GB :D
I think @caver01 can tell you the same story ;)But If you setup your new case you can try my script ... it is a fork of the retroflag script but with a few more features. You can read more about here
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@MisterMints Thanks for the warning. Sorry to hear about your card.
I know it's too late now but Win32DiskImager, on Windows, can do a perfect image of your card. I used it to transfer 128Gb card to a new 256Gb card. -
Awww MrMints! That's awful. I'm really sorry to see this happened to you. I was VERY lucky insofar as I'd seen the tutorial videos beforehand and they explicitly warn you not to leave the card in when assembling.
Fair warning. That's my project for today.
Back up my bloody SD card! You never know when something crazy will happen!
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@John_RM_70 That's a good call, and I wish I had done that - I'd at least still have most of my games intact, if not the saves.
On a similar note, are the 3B and 3B+ the same? What I'm thinking of doing is making a Christmas present for someone with one of these cases, and while I'm doing that I may as well just rebuild my system to the same spec. So if I use an image for the 3B and copy it to an SD card intended for the 3B+ will that work?
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@cyperghost said in Sega Megadrive case from RetroFlag!:
@MisterMints Oh dear ... Take a break - take a KitKat.
Be happy - 2x32GB equals? 64GB :D
I think @caver01 can tell you the same story ;)But If you setup your new case you can try my script ... it is a fork of the retroflag script but with a few more features. You can read more about here
This looks great! A bit more functionality than the standard one.
Thanks for sharing.
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@MisterMints The only difference between my 3B+ and my friend's 3B is in the overclocking section of my config.txt, everything else is identical - we both use CRT TVs + 3.5mm jack. I made my own custom image from scratch, adding everything required for progressive 240p output, but my overclocking is based on my 3B+ specs (1400mhz cpu, etc..). I took a copy of my image to my friend, to test his CRT, only with the overclocking removed, and it worked exactly the same.
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@cyperghost said in Sega Megadrive case from RetroFlag!:
@MisterMints Oh dear ... Take a break - take a KitKat.
Be happy - 2x32GB equals? 64GB :D
I think @caver01 can tell you the same story ;)Yeah, I did that to a 64 gig SDcard. Not fun.
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@John_RM_70 said in Sega Megadrive case from RetroFlag!:
@MisterMints The only difference between my 3B+ and my friend's 3B is in the overclocking section of my config.txt, everything else is identical - we both use CRT TVs + 3.5mm jack. I made my own custom image from scratch, adding everything required for progressive 240p output, but my overclocking is based on my 3B+ specs (1400mhz cpu, etc..). I took a copy of my image to my friend, to test his CRT, only with the overclocking removed, and it worked exactly the same.
Doesn't seem to be working quite that way for me. But perhaps I built it the wrong way round.
Built the new system on a 3B+, and when I've copied that SD card and stuck it in the 3B I'm getting an overheating/temperature icon in the top right corner. Is the OS on the SD telling my 3B CPU to run at 3B+ speeds? Can I underclock/return to normal speed settings in the config file?
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@MisterMints On my friend's card, in his config.txt, I simply put everything to stock.
total_mem=1024
arm_freq=1200
gpu_freq=400
core_freq=400
sdram_freq=450That is for a Pi 3 only. I didn't do any overclocking, I simply left them at stock.
If you are getting overheating/temperature icon, perhaps use the settings above - but with slightly lower settings ?
If you want to undervolt you can use "over_voltage", despite it's name it will undervolt.-16 (0.8v) to +8 (1.4v) in 0.025V steps. So, a -16 will give you 0.8V, while +8 will give you 1.4V.
over_voltage=-16
For min voltage.to
over_voltage=8
For max voltage. Obviously, stock would be over_voltage=0, so maybe work down from there. Perhaps look at a couple of Pi heatsinks ?
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@John_RM_70 said in Sega Megadrive case from RetroFlag!:
@MisterMints On my friend's card, in his config.txt, I simply put everything to stock.
total_mem=1024
arm_freq=1200
gpu_freq=400
core_freq=400
sdram_freq=450That is for a Pi 3 only. I didn't do any overclocking, I simply left them at stock.
If you are getting overheating/temperature icon, perhaps use the settings above - but with slightly lower settings ?
If you want to undervolt you can use "over_voltage", despite it's name it will undervolt.-16 (0.8v) to +8 (1.4v) in 0.025V steps. So, a -16 will give you 0.8V, while +8 will give you 1.4V.
over_voltage=-16
For min voltage.to
over_voltage=8
For max voltage. Obviously, stock would be over_voltage=0, so maybe work down from there. Perhaps look at a couple of Pi heatsinks ?
Thanks @John_RM_70 I'll take a look, but I'm getting other issues now too, and as this is a thread to talk about the MegaDrive case I'm going to start a new one over in the Help pages rather than clogging this one up with my problems.
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I will say I did notice something today that I was't too crazy about. The location of the LAN port and additional USBs is clever as could be but it is really annoying trying the get the cable out. Oh well though. I only direct connect my Retropies to my network for initial configuration.
Still love the heck out the case and the controller.
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@simpleethat there is a litte piece of plastic which you can take out to put the cable through and put the lid back on - this is the best case from Retroflag so far for me (had them all).
cheers
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@Anthrax said in Sega Megadrive case from RetroFlag!:
@simpleethat there is a litte piece of plastic which you can take out to put the cable through and put the lid back on - this is the best case from Retroflag so far for me (had them all).
cheers
While that's true, that piece is annoyingly close to the connector, eg. none of the Ethernet cables I have at home can bend enough to make it possible to get it through there! I think I may have to buy a flat Ethernet cable just for pi because of that.
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@Silent Then I guess I was lucky ;-) And with the new Raspi 3 B+ I got the Wifi is pretty good so I ditched the cable after few trial runs... (a new cable would be cheaper than a new raspi though ...)
Maybe there'll be a MEGAPi+ case revision one day... -
@Anthrax said in Sega Megadrive case from RetroFlag!:
@Silent Then I guess I was lucky ;-) And with the new Raspi 3 B+ I got the Wifi is pretty good so I ditched the cable after few trial runs... (a new cable would be cheaper than a new raspi though ...)
Maybe there'll be a MEGAPi+ case revision one day...I wish I could use that, but the WiFi AP I have closest to the Pi is 2.4GHz only and I need 5GHz for sensible streaming.
Oh well, so far it's just standing with this lid removed, and I'll fix that up when I get a new cable. Other than that, I absolutely love this case! The only issue I noticed is that with fan off (I upgraded it with a fan control PCB) Pi gets really hot in there. No wonder they recommend a fan.
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