@markyb2021 said in pi 4 gaming kit:

One other thing is heatsinks and fans
Ive read you don’t need either , and also that you do need them

I have my Pi 4 in the "official" (red & white plastic, said not to have the best in terms of ventilation) case with the official fan & heatsink.

The fan is set to come on at 80 °C to cool it down before thermal throttling occurs at 85.

The fan never comes on.

It does work, it just never gets that hot.

It idles around 55-60 depending on the season. While playing it creeps up into the mid-high 60s, and even reached into the low 70s this past summer when the temperatures were up but I've never seen it higher than, like, 74.

I don't overclock, or play much in the way of N64.

@adambegood

Nice to hear you have found a good solution !

I am doing fine !
Soon I have 2 weeks off from work ;-)
I want to do some nice things.

I am also planning on going to an old friend.
(because we already postponed several time because of corona)
He has build an 1:1 scale F1 simulator with pedals and steering wheel that have the feel of an original F1 racing car.
Now he has it's own company with a friend who sell these pedals all over the world.
So I am quite curious what he has made.

@iandaemon Thanks, done!

@mitu yes, you are right

Good day. After troubleshooting everything including the motherboard and usb cables I found out from the seller that the Dragonwise controllers will not work with the PI 4. FInd this odd, but that is what they said Only PI 3. Does anyone know of controllers you could recommend that are known to work with the PI 4? Tried every search combination but not finding any specifically stating they will work. Would appreciate any help.

@lostless understood, I'm on my own with this thing now unfortunately but it will be a learning experience.

@retropieuser555 Multiplayer is fine for any other emulator. Goldeneye is actually the only game in which I use lr-parallel. I understand it, it is pretty outdated, but seems to work best for this specific game.

When I attempt to play multiplayer for Goldeneye, player 2 looks fine, but the window for player 1 blinks super fast. It is definitely unplayable in this mode.

@mitu Thanks for the reply! I’m not at my Pi at the moment but when I get situated, I’ll give that a shot and report back!

@metal-ghost

Hey I got it to work. When pairing via Bluetooth I don’t wake up the VCS Classic controller until about 30 seconds or so after the searching for Bluetooth with the pi. That way the VCS controller does not turn off before it finishes.

Once I set it up in emulation station I launch a game and the controls get mapped all wrong for some reason so I go into RetroArch under settings->input->port 1 (or something like that I’m not at my pi right now) I’ll reconfigure the controls and save controller profile.

Now it works except the paddle. Unfortunately it’s using a different scheme (I believe it starts at 0 and wraps all the way to 1 when it resets to zero, I’ve seen people explain it better on Reddit). It works great on stella on my windows. But I haven’t figured it out on Retropie. I’ll keep looking and trying things to get the paddle to work.

@dankcushions Thanks, I'll try the video thing.
I'm very sorry to hear that the splash screen is not solved!
I'll wait for the next update.

@jimmyfromthebay If you're into computers as long as I (starting with a Commodore 64 in the mid eighties), cables are among the first ususal suspects for any kind of strange effects. 👾👻💩

Glad that it worked for you. Have fun with RetroPie!

I am working on a script that'll not only do the installation but will also make a nice little EmulationStation menu for ya automatically. https://github.com/BenMcLean/RetroPiePico8

It isn't ready yet but just FYI.

@jimmyfromthebay said in Does anyone have Pico-8 working on a Pi 4?:

Going to write up a 2001 version of that tutorial.

Power up the flux capacitor, doc !

@lupin it may well be a generic thing that would affect the official retropie image also but they are not supported here because we don't know what has changed under the hood, and also do not want to encourage the distribution of illegal material under the retropie name, etc. the image maker calling it 'official' is particularly egregious...

@fadangalini

Well that disabled the onboard, but still no audio...
I can only laugh at all the problems I keep getting!

@gandalth23 said in Wii emulation performance using Vulkan on Pi4:

I confirm the behavior for Mario Kart Double Dash.

In your other thread you seem to have found a solution for Mario Kart Double Dash. What exactly is the fix? Using that fork of dolphin or the Gecko codes you provided?

Best,
gandalth

The solution to get rid of the blue fog screen is to install the Ishiiruka version of dolphin....

Actually you CAN emulate the PS2 on the Pi 4, but the speed is abysmal and the legwork required is insane. The tl;dr version of the story is you need to install Windows 10 using Windows on Raspberry and run PCSX2. SOME games run at playable speeds, but not many. Disgaea 1 and 2, Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, Final Fantasy 10, and Final Fantasy 12 are playable. There are likely more, but those are the ones I've tested.

@mitu Thank you, That fixed it.

I changed it because I found emulation station running first was affecting the performance of the pi when doing normal desktop processes and it would quickly get annoying to have to exit emulation station and type startx to get to the desktop(for me let alone my son).

will go back to searching and see if i can figure something else out.