@zippiz you shouldnt ever duplicate threads. The mods will move it when they come across it.

@nounours You'll be looking for continuity from the traces on the cart pcb. You'll also have to desolder chips or remove them from the circuit by scratching out the traces or they'll interfere. You need a clear trace or the USB stick will be hard to read.

Look at the pic of my cart. Traces go from the front of the cart to the back and to the front again. Try and find the 4 shortest traces for less interference. Thats what the multimeter will do to make your life easier. If it beeps from one end to the other then it should work.

There are solder points very near to the cart pins too. You can use those but you must use the same pins for all the carts, of course. Depending on the cart, those might be the best to use. Here is an example. 4 short traces. Then the traces are scratched out from the back out so they're cut off from the rest of the circuit for less interefence.

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Hi Chris,

I have just started using Retropie and the Games DB is rubbish for Amstrad. Can i get a copy of yours and I'll add to it?

Thanks
Lee

very clean

nice work

@legacy Hello Can i get this theme?

Edited the post with a link for a breadboard pi 0 build using a spi display.
Please tell me what you think.
Final price would go down a fourth, and final build would be smaller.

@chuskie yep it may be an OS incompatibility. Usually on Windows and retropie the directory format may differ and the build fails to load the images. Tried to check Kodi error log? If not try looking in these directories for the LOG file:

Android: {storage}/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/temp/kodi.log iOS: /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/Kodi/kodi.log Mac: /Users/{my_user_name}/Library/Application Support/Kodi/kodi.log Windows: C:\Users{user_name}\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\kodi.log Linux: ~/.kodi/kodi.log OpenELEC: /storage/.kodi/kodi.log OSMC: /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log XBian: /home/xbian/.kodi/temp/kodi.log Raspberry Pi: /home/pi/.kodi/kodi.log

Also take a look at this tutorial on [deleted].

@Wulf I hooked it up to the original power supply and the controller was still acting up. I am going to hook up my old PS2 fat and try a game out on that to see if the controllers are bugged out. If not, it's the adapter and I am in a bit of a pickle.

UPDATE: So I hooked up the ol' fatboy and tested both of my controllers. They both work flawlessly. I dismantled the usb adapter from the PS2 slim and hooked it up to the computer, and I got similar (bad) results that were on the Pi. One controller doesn't work at all, and the other has button issues. So I am assuming the USB adapter is shit. The good news is my controllers work okay, and I don't have to buy some off ebay, the bad news is that I need to order another USB adapter....

@japanwings Will you make a SNES kit? Would buy instantly. (EU Snes/JP Super Famicom)

Today I managed to test all of the components outside the case, and everything works with my test Pi. Running off the battery without a booster works just fine with a Zero.

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Cranking up the volume in RetroArch makes the piezo loud enough to hear for general gaming, even if it's not quite high fidelity.

Everything plays really nicely now that I'm using the board where I soldered to the chip pads instead of the old "make your own test pad" method.

Next up I need to make everything fit in the actual case. First up, removing unnecessary stuff from a Pi Zero. This looks awful, but it works. If anyone has tips on removing the USB ports, HDMI port, or camera connector in a cleaner manner, please let me know.

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Every little bit of thinness is going to help with this build.

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@evilhoshi I think you could add systems and name them however you like, then drop roms into the folders you setup. This wiki page describes the steps.

@MadRikXIV have you tried rotating your heatsink to get your wifi working? The direction it is facing can have an effect on the wifi because the heatsink acts as an antenna. Taking it out of the acrylic case will help some too.

Awesome work

@Gosenbach the teensy route is bread and butter for the gameboy modders. there is a bit of a guide here

http://sudomod.com/game-boy-zero-guide-part-2/

@maz glad to help.

This is the last update (I felt I could get the icons even closer to the style of ruckage's originals, and believe that I have). Here are ALL of the assets I've adjusted for the ruckage/es-theme-snesn-mini theme for RetroPie. This includes backgrounds, labels and icons for the auto-random list that goes with all the different configurations of this theme that are available by editing config.xml that comes with the theme. They are as follows:

Icons
es-theme-snes-mini/art/icons and es-theme-snes-mini/art/icons_usa
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/art/nes_icons and es-theme-snes-mini/art/nes_icons_usa
auto-random.png

Logos
es-theme-snes-mini/art/logos and es-theme-snes-mini/art/logos_usa
auto-random.png

Backgrounds
es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_blur/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_blur_usa/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/bg_tron_usa/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/blurred_shots/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

es-theme-snes-mini/background/nes_mini/auto-random.png
auto-random.png

Lovely build dude.

Did you wire your joystick properly? What kind of joystick and USB encoder do you have?
If buttons can be configured but joystick is not responding than probably joystick is not compatible with usb encoder (if you bought whole kit with encoder and joystick it's probably not possible) then you haven't wire whole setup properly.
But give us some more details or post some photos.