New Pi Man help
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The Hyperspin/Hyperpie combo looks like a bunch of scammers - selling preloaded systems with games. The RetroPie image - and quite a few of the emulators - have non-commercial licenses, it's illegal to sell them.
We don't support such 3rd party images - pre-loaded with ROMs and sold against the project's license.The image we're supporting and building is the one from retropie.org.uk/download.
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I love how they make it sound like they are selling something unique. But really they are just repackaging someone else's software (free software) with a bunch of roms. All the pictures of the scantly clad women really are the icing on the cake. These guys really take shitty scammers to a whole new level.
But youre lucky you came here first before buying because now you can save yourself a ton of money by setting up retropie for free now. :)
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Thanks for the replies guys, really appreciated.
Any chance of help with my other queries?
Also, is Hyperpie something I have to give up on? I kind of liked the front end of how it runs like Hyperspin (the PC based thing)
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To be honest man if your going to be putting this nice hardware in this nice cabinet, I’d spend a little extra money and build a nice PC to run this all with and forget about the pi....
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What would the benefit be? Does Pi run slower than a PC would? Is there noticeable lag?
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A PC has more power than a PI or any other small board computer (SBC), both CPU and GPU wise.
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@taz101 said in New Pi Man help:
Also, is Hyperpie something I have to give up on? I kind of liked the front end of how it runs like Hyperspin (the PC based thing)
They aren't doing anything you cant do yourself. Just looks like they are using emulation station or attract mode as the front end. Plus they have so many systems set up on that image I don't know how you would ever find anything...
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@taz101 said in New Pi Man help:
Is it possible to stretch the Pi so it goes full screen appose to having sidebars?
Is the Sanwa stick and buttons listed above the correct ones to use for my setup, and how do I connect them to the Raspberry Pi?
Do I need to buy anything else kit wise to make this work?
Does the stick & buttons need any configuration once connected i.e how does it know which button is top left, bottom right etc?Some good comments guys! Anyone care to chime in on these ones?
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@taz101 said in New Pi Man help:
Is it possible to stretch the Pi so it goes full screen appose to having sidebars?
Yes you can set resolution and aspect ratio to your hearts content.
I don't have experience with arcade style controls but it should be very easy to setup. There are a lot of people who use setups similar to what you're looking for.
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@taz101 said in New Pi Man help:
Also, is Hyperpie something I have to give up on? I kind of liked the front end of how it runs like Hyperspin (the PC based thing)
It looks like the Nevato theme of the frontend Attract Mode which is available in Retropie's experimental packages.
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@taz101 you would need something like this to connect the controls to the pi:
2.8mm for Japan controls, I've ordered from that website a few times and have no complaints. I'd also recommend trying to wire up this:
https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/on-off-240v-inlet-switch-socket.html
It's nice having it all controlled with one switch and just one kettle lead needed to plug it in.
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@taz101 you probably will need to configure controls after, I did with my bartop and made custom screens to show the controls while the game loads. Makes playing a lot easier.
Hyperpie is Retropie with Attract Mode and themes added ready to go, you can get the base image for it for free so don't pay someone for it.
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