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    Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?

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      ParadoxGBB
      last edited by

      For me, I'd love to push getting DosBOX ECE built / running and seeing if I can get Windows 95/98 running on the thing, opening up a few additional titles from my childhood.

      Windows 3.1 already runs great on the Pi3B+ (at least for me).

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      • JirynJ
        Jiryn
        last edited by

        Is the Pi 4 4GB even out yet?
        I can't seem to find it in stock anywhere

        Also, do you recommend their power supply, or would any USB-C Work.
        I see Canakit has a set that comes with an adapter, which is why I asked.

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        • SanoS
          Sano
          last edited by

          IMHO the separate USB3 bus and full 1Gb Ethernet now open the possibilities to make a decent budget NAS/cloud/seedbox.
          I plan on buying 2 USB3 external HD, a powered USB3 hub and making a LVM RAID1 NAS based on a Pi4, probably on top of retropie.

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          • DarksaviorD
            Darksavior
            last edited by Darksavior

            I will need to figure out how to place the pi4 in my dead pal snes since I can't find an 18AWG usb-c extender.

            For shaders, I hope the gpu can handle some of the better crt shaders or maybe the existing pi ones at a higher res.

            For some reason, lr-snes9x (latest) has gotten huge slowdowns lately. Games like Kirby3 and Trials of Mana will no longer play fullspeed on my pi3b+ at 1.45Ghz. I'm just sick of not having a device capable of doing full speed snes.

            I also hope to move more games to lr-fbneo and see how well a newer mame runs. Managing arcade romsets for multiple emulators is annoying.
            I'm also wondering how well psx-beetle runs even without a dynarec.

            The flirc pi4 case preorder is still on sale. pishop.us has the 2GB pi4's in stock so I ordered mine today. I also ordered the official usb-c psu from there. Accept no substitutions. Some sites, including that one, will try and sell you a bundle with a 3rd party one. This site in particular bundles it with the 2.5A microusb version with a usb-c adapter...

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            • hooperreH
              hooperre
              last edited by

              All these projects sound awesome (particularly the Pi-Hole / file-server route), but I'm concerned a bit regarding security. Is changing the Pi's user name and password and the SSH port enough?

              4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
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                @hooperre said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                Is changing the Pi's user name and password and the SSH port enough?

                You don't have to open the SSH to the world and for pi-hole you don't need to expose the PI to the internet - it can sit in your LAN behind your router.

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                  hooperre @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu How about for RetroPie? I have been wondering this in general for a while.

                  4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
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                    @hooperre said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                    @mitu How about for RetroPie?

                    I don't understand the question.

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                    • hooperreH
                      hooperre @mitu
                      last edited by

                      Is changing the Pi's user name and password and the SSH port enough to protect my Raspberry Pi from brute force attacks from Chinese bots?

                      I assumed by enabling SSH I'm making my Pi accessible, but now that I'm thinking about it, there's no external IP address for it so that's probably what you were referring to. So it would be behind my router as well. My MotionEyesOS Pi OTOH I guess is the one I would need to worry about, which does have an external IP and has a changed password and port.

                      I'm assuming all these bots are using the default login with port 22.

                      Sorry, this is stupid I just haven't really thought about it much. I remember there being a discussion about whether SSH should be on by default and the admin team decided not to so I kind of assumed the RetroPie project left Pi's prone to attack if SSH was enabled.

                      4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                      • cyperghostC
                        cyperghost @hooperre
                        last edited by cyperghost

                        @hooperre said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                        Is changing the Pi's user name and password and the SSH port enough to protect my Raspberry Pi from brute force attacks from Chinese bots?

                        Better than nothing.

                        I'm assuming all these bots are using the default login with port 22.

                        Yes and if you set it to defaults your Pi will be visited by several "friends" very soon. I suggest to use a logfile watcher that will deny access after 2 attempts with wrong password. But leaving SSH open is a security risk at glance.

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
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                          @hooperre said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                          Is changing the Pi's user name and password and the SSH port enough to protect my Raspberry Pi from brute force attacks from Chinese bots?

                          Depends on the new password, it's its relatively simple, it's not going to be enough.

                          I assumed by enabling SSH I'm making my Pi accessible, but now that I'm thinking about it, there's no external IP address for it so that's probably what you were referring to. So it would be behind my router as well. My MotionEyesOS Pi OTOH I guess is the one I would need to worry about, which does have an external IP and has a changed password and port.

                          It depends. If you have IPv6 enabled on your router and your ISP supports it, you might find that your PI can get a - public facing - IPv6 address. Your router should also have a firewall to prevent the direct access.

                          I'm assuming all these bots are using the default login with port 22.

                          Commonly, yes.

                          Sorry, this is stupid I just haven't really thought about it much. I remember there being a discussion about whether SSH should be on by default and the admin team decided not to so I kind of assumed the RetroPie project left Pi's prone to attack if SSH was enabled.

                          I think that was an upstream (Raspbian distribution) decision, but it's still a sensible default.

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                            hooperre @mitu
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                            @mitu said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                            @hooperre said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                            Sorry, this is stupid I just haven't really thought about it much. I remember there being a discussion about whether SSH should be on by default and the admin team decided not to so I kind of assumed the RetroPie project left Pi's prone to attack if SSH was enabled.

                            I think that was an upstream (Raspbian distribution) decision, but it's still a sensible default.

                            Oh, absolutely. Just hadn't thought about it since that discussion much.

                            4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                            • langestL
                              langest @thelostsoul
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                              @thelostsoul said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                              @KN4THX I am mostly interested in reducing input latency with optimized settings for 8 and 16 bit systems. Also I am excited about the improvements on newer MAME versions and off course the Nintendo 64. My current environment is an overclocked Pi3B.

                              Pretty much this. Also getting more frames in Yoshi's Island

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                              • langestL
                                langest @hooperre
                                last edited by

                                @hooperre said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                                Is changing the Pi's user name and password and the SSH port enough to protect my Raspberry Pi from brute force attacks from Chinese bots?

                                Disable login with password and setup ssh-key authentication.
                                Much smoother as well, since you won't be prompted for a password either.

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                                • hooperreH
                                  hooperre @langest
                                  last edited by

                                  @langest Any idea where I could read more about this? This would be new to me. Thanks!

                                  4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @hooperre
                                    last edited by

                                    @hooperre See this if you're using Putty.

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                                    • hooperreH
                                      hooperre @mitu
                                      last edited by

                                      @mitu said in Raspberry Pi 4 : What are YOU going to do now?:

                                      @hooperre See this if you're using Putty.

                                      Thanks!

                                      4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                        hotmetal007
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                                        I want to make a nas server for using plex and hifi music :V, and i have some sanwa kits to make a new arcade machine, i was thinking in a Cadillacs and Dinosaur theme :V

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                                          pi2user
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                                          A pi 1 is with 100mbit ethernet and 512mb ram is already massively overpowered for running pi-hole. Ive used one like this for years. Cpu barely goes above 20%, network bandwidth for dns requests is measured in kilobits, not gigabits, and much of the ram is unused.

                                          So by all means buy a pi4 for pihole but you can save money by using any pi with an ethernet port that you already have.

                                          I'll be buying a pi 4 to get better performance with snes and ps1 emulation.

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                                          • DarksaviorD
                                            Darksavior @pi2user
                                            last edited by

                                            @pi2user Yep, I retired my pi2 as a pihole. I'm even powering it off the router's usb port.

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