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    • TPR

      Keyboard and Mouse Not Working Together?
      Help and Support • keyboard issue mouse hardware • • TPR

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      TPR

      @mitu It's honestly just a super basic, no frills, nothing special keyboard. I did also think about that whole mouse index and wonder if it was maybe giving priority to the keyboard, but then I actually did a test with a simple Dell wired keyboard and it did the same thing. It was seriously weird af.

      Here's the keyboard I am using:
      https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073TSKFRX/

    • winer

      Where to buy HW within the European Union
      Help and Support • build hardware arcade controls • • winer

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      IanDaemon

      I think a "pre-historic laptop" rivals most (not all) Raspberry Pi hardware specs unfortunately. XD

    • Big_D

      Pi 4 Hardware acceleration
      General Discussion and Gaming • hardware video acceleration • • Big_D

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      mitu

      'twas never true. All Pi models have accelerated GPU rendering for video or OpenGL(ES) support under Raspbian (Raspberry Pi OS).

    • Colstar

      Cheapest Raspberry Pi compatible keyboard?
      Help and Support • retropie hardware keyboard • • Colstar

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      Colstar

      @crush Thanks for the info, will get another PSU.

    • Daragon

      Intel NUC 8i5BEK
      Help and Support • intel nuc upgrade hardware • • Daragon

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      YFZdude

      @daragon said in Intel NUC 8i5BEK:

      EDIT3 (and the last): NEVER and NEVER run an emulator using sudo command, that's why I could not properly configurate my controller - Retropie runs emulators without sudo I suppose...

      Ah yes, this might make some sense after all. If you ran it with sudo the first time, the configuration file probably got saved with root ownership or permissions. Then when it runs as the regular pi user from ES, it doesn't have ownership or permission to edit the file most likely. I've seen the Windows version of this snafu before.

    • Derbyste

      What Hardware?
      General Discussion and Gaming • raspberrypi hardware • • Derbyste

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      SgtJimmyRustles

      @Derbyste Happy to help. But I mean, if you're interested in MegaDrive, you can get the MegaPi case for the RPI 3b which is VERY nice in my opinion (I personally own one).

    • uilfut

      I'm about to install retropie, should I use pi3b+ or pi4b
      Help and Support • hardware pi3b+ pi4 • • uilfut

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      uilfut

      OK many thanks for this!

    • Rhystic1

      My Hyperkin Duke Xbox One Controller is not detected by the system
      Help and Support • retropie 4.5 hardware controller xpad pi4 • • Rhystic1

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      Rhystic1

      Quick update and some interesting details:

      Following

      , the controller is immediately recognized, though as a "Generic Xbox Pad". It works, but whenever I shutdown or reboot, I need to do this all over again. But what is strange is that I shouldn't need to be doing this at all: for one thing I never had to go through this workaround with my Pi 3, and second because the Xpad driver already has the device ID configured correctly and recognized as "Hyperkin Duke Xbox One Controller", but it seems that it's refusing to recognize it for me.

      So why is this happening?

    • Zangdaarr

      Install retropie on an "old" computer
      Help and Support • hardware desktop retropie setup • • Zangdaarr

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      markyh444

      @ChaosFox or like @mitu says, install Ubuntu and then Retropie...

    • Tango

      Newbie - Setting up Arcade Machine, Question about hardware requirements
      Help and Support • mame systems configuration hardware • • Tango

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      tackett1980

      Honestly there is enough information out there about installing retropie or some other front end on a PC that the process is pretty easy and spelled out even for someone as tech stupid as me. Given the price vs performance of relatively old and cheap PCs vs a new pi or even a pi4 for that matter, if I had it to do over again I would just go the PC route especially after figuring out that what some people define as “acceptable” performance for emulators like dream cast and N64 is an entire galaxy removed from what I would consider even playable.

      So really it all comes down to your specific needs.

      If your trying to emulate simple games >25-30 years old then a pi3 or 3b+ should be able to do it and honestly there are even exceptions to that depending on the game.

      If it’s after the last two decades just go PC.

      But really, sit down and make a list of about 10-20 games that you basically can’t live without, research the hardware needs for them and go with the strongest one.

    • Wolf64

      Minimum hardware specs for decent emulation
      Help and Support • hardware non-pi install specs • • Wolf64

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      barbudreadmon

      @dankcushions well, they are OCing the pi4 to 2.16Ghz (cooling tower ? maybe water cooling ?), downclocking the emulated cpu to 30% (so any game that used more than 30% of gamecube's cpu speed is out of reach), and that's still far from perfect. The situation will probably improve when we get affordable SBCs at the level of a snapdragon 845, but we are still probably 2-3 years away from that.

    • sommers9

      Best platform for Retropie or Retro gaming? What are you running?
      General Discussion and Gaming • retropie hardware raspberry pi 4 • • sommers9

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      simpleethat

      For up 16bit era stuff I'm running a Pi 3B+ in an R2D2 that I think I will make another of when there is official support for Pi4. I also have a GPi case with a ZeroW for portability and such.

      I've got a few other 3B+ builds sitting around in Retroflag cases. I've got a 10L beer keg that I was thinking of turning into a portable emulation machine but I don't think it would get much use.

      For more intensive emulation I have and Odroid XU4 in that snazzy N64 style case with the screen on it. It's a great little board but I use my Pi setup a lot more.

      Not really relevant but I'm thinking of modding my Wii to be able to play GameCube games from an HDD.

    • Swedishkiller12

      Can the raspberry pi 4 run N64 games?
      General Discussion and Gaming • raspberry pi 4 n64 hardware cpu • • Swedishkiller12

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      thelostsoul

      @Swedishkiller12 It has more power and an important software part (GLES compatibility) is solved/improved. The emulators on N64 still could need some work, but the Pi 4 will most probably be a big improvement on N64 games. We can't say more than this.

    • accountToSearch

      GPIO Devices not detected
      Help and Support • gpio joystick buttons hardware detection • • accountToSearch

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      fdr4prez

      Sounds like retrogame isn't installed, or it isn't loading when booting, or isn't configured properly.

      If you open the terminal (press F4) and push your buttons and see if the corresponding letters appear.

      If you see no letters when moving the joystick or pushing buttons, then retrogame isn't working

    • lawarmotte

      Raspberry defective with RETROPIE ??
      Help and Support • hardware boot problem ssh retropie • • lawarmotte

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      quicksilver

      @lawarmotte no worries, you're not the first person to make this mistake. :)

    • owld

      Arcade controllers now working?
      Help and Support • configuration hardware • • owld

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      owld

      Thank you! I will try!

    • vsilvalopes

      [Help] How to pair use four Dualshock 3 joyscticks simultaneously ? Retropie x86 and Retropie Rpi3
      Help and Support • dualshock 3 help joysticks hardware • • vsilvalopes

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      mitu

      @vsilvalopes I know the Dualshock4 new driver (well, it's the same driver for both DS3 and DS4) also adds a device for the touchpad present on the controller (which appears as a mouse), but I don't remember the DS3 controllers having the same touchpads.
      Can you pair one DS3 controller, then run the following 2 commands

      lsusb cat /proc/bus/input/devices

      and post the output ?
      Have you installed the customhidsonly driver from the RetroPie-Setup drivers section before pairing the controllers ?

    • gamersgonnagame

      Hardware for multiplayer (4 players)
      Help and Support • hardware multiplayer suggestions • • gamersgonnagame

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      Clyde

      @quicksilver Thanks for the summary. I found these threads from you about overclocking:

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16155/overclock-stability https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16930/overclocking-discussion https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17544/core_freq-vs-gpu_freq-n64-performance

      and this thread by @thelostsoul that you participated in:

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17032/stresstest-a-fanless-overclocked-pi-3-b-no

      I will read them in my next spare time.

    • thelostsoul

      RetroPie on NVIDIA Shield TV. Is it possible?
      General Discussion and Gaming • nvidia android hardware • • thelostsoul

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      thelostsoul

      @mitu I was hoping to get rid of Android itself, so RetroPie could replace the OS. Then RetroArch would be the next best thing to it.

      If anyone have experience with it and reading this, please report here. I am curious.