Pi Zero 2 released

[retropieuser555]

@suppafly yeah I had a pi3b (not a +) and it was ok for N64 if you were willing to accept there's only a few games it'll run, so wouldn't put much hope in that

[Ashpool]

@retropieuser555 said in Pi Zero 2 released:

Apologies wrote a different thread and didn't realise this was already here, I've ordered one and a pin header. Annoyingly they're not selling a version with the gpio pins so gotta solder them on yourself.
I've got a retroflag gpi so will be trying this out and seeing what we can squeeze out of it.

Mh, If you had ordered one with the GPIos allready in place (if such would have been possible), than you wouldn't be able to try it in the GPi Case, ain't it so?

But citing from the sellers description in the OTs link:

The successor to the breakthrough Zero W, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is a drop-in replacement for the original board, with the same form factor, connectors and mounting holes. Perfect for a project upgrade!

Sounds like there shouldn't be a problem with the case (Well, duno so far about the power consumption and shortened playtime because of such).

[DirtBagXon]

Maybe squeeze a little more performance out of this:

[retropieuser555]

@ashpool oh wait, you're right, I forgot the pi zero I got for the gpi was header less, d'oh! Oh well, spare header isn't a bad thing for another project.

I guess there's a couple of things that wouldn't run on the older arm version of the pi zero. Might be amusing (if incredibly impractical) to see if drastic will run for example

[kenjara]

@mitu So use the 2/3 image for the zero 2?

Just got my first zero 2's and looking to put one in my GPI case over the weekend.

[mitu]

@kenjara said in Pi Zero 2 released:

So use the 2/3 image for the zero 2?

Yes.

[Spatchcock]

Surprisingly, I received mine this morning. Well, I can confirm it boots and works with at least one Xbox 360 wireless controller, with the latest weekly snapshot image as @mitu mentions above :)

I'll hopefully have time to do some actual proper testing either later on today or tomorrow.

[Spatchcock]

@kenjara I'd be really interested to see how that works and whether I should get one (assuming they don't all sell out); I know that RasPi are saying that the form factor is the same, but it'd be interesting to know how the power of the Zero 2W affects battery life.

[retropieuser555]

[Spatchcock]

OK, had a chance to have a quick look over my lunch break - copied a few games over to it, changed a few settings and then for some reason, any time I tried to set up any controller, the controller setup screen froze and I had to F4 out of it.

Tried a few things, deleting the controller configs etc and that didn't work. Then I remembered that I'd changed the GPU memory split from 256MB to 64MB. Once I'd changed that back to 256MB, I could then set up the controllers and get that working OK. I tried a few different settings and now have GPU memory set to 96MB with no issues.

Default PS1 and SNES emulators load games OK; controllers aren't working so I wasn't able to test the games. I suspect I may have messed something up when deleting the controller mapping, but I'll have a look later.

That's all I've had a chance to do today.

@mitu - is there a particular place you'd like any Zero 2W specific issues logging, or should I just wait for the devs to get hold of their own? :)

[Spatchcock]

@retropieuser555 Great news!

[mitu]

@spatchcock said in Pi Zero 2 released:

is there a particular place you'd like any Zero 2W specific issues logging,

The Help & Support forum is where any issues should be reported.

[suppafly]

@spatchcock said in Pi Zero 2 released:

Surprisingly, I received mine this morning. Well, I can confirm it boots and works with at least one Xbox 360 wireless controller, with the latest weekly snapshot image as @mitu mentions above :)

I'll hopefully have time to do some actual proper testing either later on today or tomorrow.

You guys who live in first world countries make the rest of us wishing we could get a Zero 2 within 24 hours too :D

[retropieuser555]

Oct 29 15:50:11 lvl0: 	VolumeControl::init() - Failed to attach to default card!
ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1246:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4568:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5047:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2565:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Oct 29 15:50:13 lvl0: 	AudioManager Error - Unable to open SDL audio: ALSA: Couldn't open audio device: No such file or directory

So I've got it working, lr-mupenplus runs super fast right now but that's due to having no audio in the system.

Anyone got any ideas? It's not to do with pulseaudio is it? As I just checked that's not installed

[mitu]

@retropieuser555 You should open a separate topic.

[George Spiggott]

ETA Prime has already overclocked the Pi Zero 2 to 1.3Ghz.

[retropieuser555]

So here's my little test with the beta recalbox image

[dankcushions]

@george-spiggott
bit of a useless overclock for retropie, mind - core_freq and v3d_freq are far more beneficial to pi3 (and by extension pi zero 2) as bandwidth and gpu is the limitation, not cpu.

[ParadoxGBB]

Hey all,

Looking to maybe get one with a GPi Retroflag case, had a few questions for those willing to humor me (thanks in advance!):

1. About how much time do you get on a reasonable emulator, say NES, via the AAs? Anyone try rechargeables?

2. The case appears to not have an open port for HDMI out, but it looks like you could drill a hole up the top to do so and run the script to toggle between the displays. Has anyone tried this? Or suggest a different case?

3. Someone mentioned no HW video decoding on this board, has anyone attempted to run Kodi 8.7 (hopefully Matrix one of these days) on this through HDMI? Can you get 720p?

My dream device would be to have a handheld on a plane. It looks like this would be perfect because you could even power it with a USB bank if you needed to. And then, be able to check into a hotel room, plug this device into the TV's HDMI, and connect home via Plex, controlling it with my phone.

I have a Pi3 with a GameHat but while it can do the latter scenario OK, the handheld part is a bit too clunky for my preferences and it's not really that easy to travel with, although it was a fun experiment. This looks much better and not too underpowered.

Thanks again!

[mitu]

@paradoxgbb said in Pi Zero 2 released:

Someone mentioned no HW video decoding on this board, has anyone attempted to run Kodi 8.7 (hopefully Matrix one of these days) on this through HDMI? Can you get 720p?

That's not true. It's basically the Pi3B in a smaller package, even the Pi0 has HW video decoding (MPEG4).