I reverted to an older fw. All is good. Protip, never buy vizio. They remove features. They removed chroma 4:4:4 in later fw updates and it screwed everything up.

@mitu said in Bluetooth Authentication failed on RPi4 using 4.5.8: The Pi4 is a work in progress and some things might not work - see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. As a diagnostic step, try installing Raspbian (Desktop) on your sd card and see if you're able to pair/connect your controller. What controller are you using ? Please add more details, just as indicated in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Thanks @mitu I think its just an issue with the GUI side, when I used bluetoothctl in the CLI I was able to scan and pair my devices without issue.

@jimmi4u You problem might be that the gamepad is not P1, hence it's not active on the current system. That goes for all the controllers - if the F710 is P1, then it work, but the others don't work anymore. If you want to control the order, try @meleu's joystick ordering tool - https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection.

@VictimRLSH You have my sympathies. Such problems are one of the reasons I try very hard to avoid anything that needs online activation of any sort.

@Darksavior mine drops to the console if that's where I start it or if from ES, drops me back there. I'll try mitus suggestion first and see how that goes. It would be nice to be able to use this as I move my computer to the living room currently each time for the wife and I to game. I finally brought my Pi4 home today so I might just give this a shot as well and see what happens with both retropie and SL later on.

I believe that is a Windows only device

Yep. Found it. Not sure how I missed it before.

@Drakaen391 Pins #2 and #4 can be used to input power without usb power or run devices with usb power so you have two to choose from. There are even more grounds. Pins # 1 and #17 are 3V power outputs. I used those instead of the 5V because they would run the fan slightly slower which meant quieter fans as I didn't like the noise.

If you're not familiar with the Linux command line, then I'd say you'd be spending more time learning it than installing and using RetroPie. Hence my advice.

@ohmycommodore said in Difference between Retropie and Lakka: Lakka's "light theme" seemed to be WHITE TEXT ON WHITE BACKGROUND. hardest. game. ever. In Germany, there's the tradition of East Frisian jokes. One is about the national flag of East Frisia allegedly being a white eagle on white background. 😉

@Bartrack This video shows several heat tests on the Raspberry Pi 4 with and without passive and active cooling: This video is interesting because it shows the FLIRC case (which doesn't come with a fan but the whole case is a heat sink) keeping the Raspberry Pi 4 cool enough and not being throttled: I have a FLIRC case with the original Raspberry Pi 3B and it works quite well!

@KN4THX It really is. It also is a very complex table, I still enjoy playing it to this day. It is a long read, but if you want to get it running, all the answers are in here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4783/howto-pro-pinball-timeshock-in-dosbox-on-rpi3

it's all on git: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/ follow the commit messages and PRs and you can see what's being developed. beyond that, there's discussions going on behind the scenes, but there's no formal roadmap. remember this isn't a job :)

Good to hear all is working well! I still need to buy a Pi 4 so it will take some time for testing it out.. Thanks for the support!

Great news, will do ASAP!

@Brunnis said in No Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019.: I'll be getting the 2GB version. I just don't see the point in getting the 4GB version unless you're going to run desktop type workloads or know, specifically, that your workload is memory intensive. More RAM is also useful for speeding up repeated hdd/ssd/sd access, since Linux uses unused RAM for buffering the file system. You can see this via the command free -h ("h" means "human readable" for more human-friendly numbers). Example from my Laptop: total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7,7G 2,2G 2,5G 405M 2,9G 4,8G Although the "free" memory seems to be only 2.5 GB, temporary buffers take 2.9 GB. The real amount of free RAM is 4.8 GB, since the system clears the buffered data as soon as the memory is needed elsewhere. (Don't ask me why the numbers don't seem to add up perfectly, I don't know the actual math behind it.)

I don't see it in any way different than other SBCs based on the RK3399 - there are countless ones released recently (like the Rock/Pine series). The XU4, despite being 'older' I think it has better support as far as RetroPie is concerned (i.e. emulators tested, graphic drivers, GPIO, etc.). Do note that a better CPU and better graphics usually mean also you need a cooler/heatsink in these cases.