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      Questions for setting up Retropie

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      dankcushionsD

      @glovewithsauce i'm sorry, but asking for/providing links to to BIOS files is against the forum rules

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      Retropie 3a+ 2 player MAME arcade controllers

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      mituM

      Try to test the encoder using jstest - (see here) - to check if the joystick and buttons produce correct results.

      Is there a schematic you've followed to wire the joystick and buttons to make sure they're correctly wired ? Or does the encoder has labels for each connections indicating the correct wiring ?

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      Best first Pokemon game?

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      @mattrixk Going over the history of this I would say the best first Pokemon game I ever played was Crystal, I played and beat yellow before Crystal but Crystal had the held items in addition to 2 newer types

      also bug type Pokemon while they existed in the previous gen, they weren't as weak in gen 2 and they had better attacks like Fury Cutter and Megahorn so the gen 2 games were far more balanced, and they didn't have as many exploits if any either.

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      My First Bartop Build

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      What a superb work man! I always dreamt of doing something like that

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      First Raspberry Pi Zero build concerns?

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      So many options to choose for installation, what is ideal for a linux newbie?

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      @poja9 said in So many options to choose for installation, what is ideal for a linux newbie?:

      So there are no images for a non Raspbian based installation

      Nope. Not any official ones anyways.

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      Pi Zero W in NES cartridge. Christmas present/first build.

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      Very New Pi 3 User - Before I start Questions

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      @Avikus one thing to try is to put your tv in game mode. Dont use cheap usb extension cables or too long of cables. There are probably some stuff you can do on the pi but i dont know what they are. Plus we need more details of what emulators and games you have lag on.

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      Raspberry Pi 3 Inside a Sega Genesis 3

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      @mediamogul

      I ended up making a little pull tab...

      Thanks, I'm going to have to give this a try!

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      retropie problems (booting to command line)

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      ok i will try reinstalling it.

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      retropi arcade plans

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      @niallb84

      I put the link in the WayBack Machine on archive.org and got this:
      https://web.archive.org/web/20170312121052/http://arcadeforge.net/Arcade-Bartop/ArcadeForge-Bartop-Selbstbau-DIY::239.html

      Not sure if this is what you are looking for or not.

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      First time project

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      I have essentially the same kit, but mine was from Canakit. It will do the job. Yes you can set it up from a Mac.

      There are a ton of guides online and you would do well to familiarize yourself with the wiki content here. For real. Read it. Understand it.

      +1 Super brother point to you for taking on a project for your kid brother.

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      First install - What am I doing wrong? Here, my steps:

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      I was able to get Version 4.0.2 working (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases).

      The problem might have been a faulty microsd card (two microsd cards destroyed by two rpi's in one day :-( ).

      I recommend using etcher (https://etcher.io/) to burn the microsd card, it does a verify after writing the image.

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      My first pi build.

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      I love it! Does it still light up?

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      nothing booting up when I power up

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      Hi Franke808, Here are three main possibilities:

      The OS (written image) is corrupt/not present, The SD card is faulty, The Pi is faulty.

      When you wrote the image to the SD card, in Windows did it show that the card had free (and used) space and that you could open that 'drive' and see files on the SD card? If not, then you possibly didn't extract the image file 'prior' to writing it using Win32 Disk Imager.

      I had yesterday an situation that the Pi wouldn't boot with a reimaged (old) SD card. My problem was if I pressed the SD card in a certain place the Pi would boot. Long story short, the SD cards connection pads were worn and didn't make appropriate contact.
      I was able to use a spare SD card and successfully use that. Tip: Use a micro SD card in an SD card adapter so if the contacts wear, you just swap out the adapter without having to rebuild your OS.

      To test the Pi, try a different serviceable SD card.