@Danorak1981 Well that was helpful - thanks! I saw the guide on their site, but didn't know I needed to do that RPi config for the ControlBlock if I wasn't installing a switch or controllers (yet). I'm brand new to this type of thing, but I'm loving it.

I followed the guide (I'm also an idiot), and it seemed to install correctly. I'll need to connect my switch to the ControlBlock before I know for sure that my setup works. Thanks again!

The answer is yes. The issue might be finding the right power adapter the fit the plug as the OEM adapter for the nes was 9v, 1amp.

@Jeddo no worries. I've done worse, sometimes resulting in fried parts. I'm glad it was something easy. Sometimes you just need another set of eyes to look at the problem.

Go to this website: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/add-reset-switch-raspberry-pi/
And look for this section: "Give Your Raspberry Pi A PC-Style Soft Reset Switch" It's about 1/3 of the way down the page. (the entire page has relavent info though)
The section I'm talking about has this video:

As long as you have a rev2 or newer Pi, you can add a simple reset switch that'll work how you want.

Minor soldering (adding a 2-pin header) involved. You can just solder the switch directly to the header if you need to.

Note, I've never actually done this myself.

@rbaker said in Is 2.4A enough?:

@HenrikoMagnifico I have a brick similar to what you describe but I have 4 usb ports on it. It is rated at 4.5A. This means that inside my cabinet, I can power the pi comfortably with joypads, keyboard and an ipac decoder. I also have another for charging things like phones and kindles at the same time. As long as your current draw across all devices doesn't exceed the rating of the charging device, you will be fine. No need to worry about how the current is shared. Your devices will only draw a maximum as described on their case. E.g. This keyboard I'm on is 70mA, so only 0.07A out of the 4.5A available. Look on the back of devices, usually printed on. A charger can never output more than a device needs so don't worry.

Thanks for the help, I will purchase the USB charger I talked about earlier :)

@Slighty Does it do it with the noobs sd card? I think that 64GB cards are not formatted as FAT32, but as exFAT, you must use a tool to convert them to FAT32, as a Pi cannot boot from an exFAT partition. You must use an alternative formatting program after using the official one, to convert (re-format) the resulting exFAT file system to FAT32. Something like http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

I can't explain the initial power up thing, maybe something is happening to the card during the bootfail that fixes it ready for next time only for it to fail again. Is your card compatible with the list? I doubt that it's a hardware issue to be honest, it has to be with the setup of the card.

@nickuspga this powerblock might be of interest to you. Then if it is an arcade button you are trying to use, find one that is not a momentary pushbutton