i would remove the pi from the case and run it caseless whilst you’re debugging. fans and cases are additional points of failure. i would also ask these kind of general pi support questions on the raspberry pi forums as you’ll probably get better answers. you’re not at the retropie stage (and we don’t support pi4 officially yet)

@steptoe 1TB SD-Cards are available from SanDisk for about 450 Euro. Of course this is much more than a HDD would cost!, but there are Freaks like me and the Threadstarter, that dont want external Hardware connected to the Pi. Concerning the loading times: i dont care about that. Imo its fast anyway compared to loading times of a C64 😊 I does not matter to me if a game loads in 2.5 or 2.2 seconds ☺ But of course thats my cup of tea, everyone should do as he like!

@ThisGuyEveryTime said in Cannot boot Image, Can boot Noobs: I tried on another sd to unpack with 7-zip and then burning using win32image and that still does not work How did you format the card? Did you use this application? before using win32 disk imager? Is the card compatible? See this list When you extract the image, it should be a Disc Image File which is 2.4GB in size. Write this to the card. The zip file is about 600MB before extraction. Try unzipping with something else.

I just tried my MicroSD card into a USB 2.0 MicroSD card reader and booted into Retropie. It's giving me faster speeds on 4K random read and write. WTF?! LOL

@collcroc123 That's normal. Once you start the system, the 2nd partition will be expanded to fill up the free space (that shows up as Unallocated). The 1st partition is the boot partition, only holding the necessary files to start the system and then the actual OS and its files will be on the 2nd partition.

Are you using an USB microSD card reader? Either way, the mounts on RetroPie are managed by usbmount, not by Kodi itself.

@guybrush said in New TV: Black frame | Undervoltage | Upgrade to Nespi + and 3B+ | Micro SD card: Will I have problems with smooth gaming when storing the games on the NAS and would the Pi 3+ make a difference in that department? I'd say the difference you'll see is negligible, since once the game/rom is loaded in the emulator, there's little network activity or file transfers over the network. One exception would be - maybe - CD based games where the game is loaded from the CD images (.iso/.bin/.chd). The network speed would help the loading times. But if you are already content with the Pi 3 and the current setup (ROMs on the NAS), it wouldn't make a noticeable upgrade.

@Winklepicker Now at some time had passed, how has having that space unlocked been working out for you? Noticed any ill effects?

@isrnick I second this method. I don't know what started causing it but after a certain point every card I re-write I have to delete partitions/volumes.

This is all explained here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

@mitu Legend! Seems so simple I feel dumb for not even considering that

@bytethis the biggest problem is samsungs are the best and they are faked soo much more than any others. I actually had gotten a 128gb bootleg version off of amazon. I am willing to pay the local price to guarantee its legit. Sucks you had a bad card.

@RedBatman not much you can do unless you shrink the free space down on your installation. I'm sure there's a Linux command you can run to do that. But then each time you move the image back to your sd card you will have to rememeber to expand the file system again.

@Seedname101 please follow the guidelines agreed when signing up. This thread is from 2017. Please create a new topic. Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Thx

There's a program for Windows called Paragon EXTFS that allows Windows to see the linux partition. With that program you can drag and drop files on the sd card.

@enderandrew This isn't necessarily the case because some USB 2.0 flash drives are a lot slower than what the USB 2.0 standard allows in my experience. With A USB 3.0 flash drive, you will likely see performance much closer to the maximum USB 2.0 is capable of on the Pi as they are built for speed. I bought a low-profile USB 3.0 drive for this reason and in my case, throughput did not disappoint.