@tar
The bit I used was about the size of the shaft/thread, or so I thought.. the smallest I owned.
I admit I DID go full speed.

I'm afraid I probably destroyed the board by now.

I was using a 1/16 drill bit made for all surfaces
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I took the bits to a local do it yourself hardware place (Locally owned ace) and they tried to sell me 2 things, a borer and this screw removal kit..

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I've tried all of them, none worked...

@mitu Thank you sirs

@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/

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

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

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

@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 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).

OK many thanks for this!

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?

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

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.

@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.

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 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.

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