It is possible to put a Pi Zero inside of the gameboy color i have seen a lot of video's on YouTube just it is a lot of work.

@farrisgoldstein I find when that happens it's because the image is too big. Make it a bit smaller and it's all fine.

@rbox420 To skip mapping a button, just long press an existing button on the gamepad - like instructed on the mapping screen.

@haemogoblin said in Rigging reset and shutdown buttons:

I think I now have the power button in the bag, using a Pimoroni on/off shim.

I've written a small tutorial for the OnOff SHIM here

Well, then I voided the warranty, I knew that in the back of my mind but didn't think about it so late at night. :( Luckily it's a $10 board.

But being back in March, this was resolved in Raspbian according to the links but I had the issue on a new Pi Zero W the other day with the latest image of Retropie for Pi1/0.

I'll have to remove the flag and see if it fixed it when I upgraded the sd card ( cant remember if i did it right before or right after, I was half distracted by Smallville reruns).

Thank you

If you need help then I might be able to assist in some areas. I have a bit of an addiction to making tiny things

https://hackaday.io/project/21553-pi0cket-tiny

Adafruit did make a small arcade machine in a similar fashion

https://learn.adafruit.com/worlds-smallest-mame-arcade-cabinet/overview

@lamaman1971 There are lots of good answers on this page:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

You should read the documentation, especially this page, and take a close look at the compatibility lists. Those lists are Google spreadsheets that do have some crowd-sourced testing results, so you might have to try something to see for sure what works for you (or what acceptable performance means to you). Fortunately, most of the classics work well, but since this is somewhat subjective, it's hard to have a "definitive" list.

@herb_fargus lol. Found a half a beetle. When i was a kid i opened a snack size dole can of mixed fruit and it was just water and rocks. They didnt even give me mixed rocks....
My ex wifes ex husband got a back of doritos and it had a beetle that was coated in the cheese powder and deep fried. It was pretty gross seeing the pics.

@ruckage said in How to put a Pi Zero in a NES-controller, no 3d casing.:

@zippiz said in How to put a Pi Zero in a NES-controller, no 3d casing.:

Thanks for the link, what link should I use for your theme in my video?

You can just link to the main topic for the theme if that's okay: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8391/cardboard-mini-nes-nes-mini-and-famicom-mini-themes

Sure, Im going to use this https://goo.gl/57ugoc =)

So anybody?

Is it even worth a try, to add SD in Pi3, run the script and (???) remove reboot from it... would that download the script and then install in at the next boot?

@ZEL-SK8 It totally is possible! But please look it up first. A quick google search can solve most of your problems. I beleive it is call retrogame.

alright, thank you very much. I am now able to change the resolution of my waveshare.
but the aspect ratio doesn't change at all. eve though I specify the aspect ratio in the hdmi_cvt-argument

@meleu

I have one of their v1 boards when it was called game pi advance. Here my build log.

Gba worked well (can't remember the core off the top of my head) but if your wanting gba achievements, it didn't run mGBA very well. There new free play CM3 board with the built in pi 3 sounds really impressive.

I also have a Gameboy Zero which uses an original DMG-01 shell, with X and Y added to the front and L and R added to the back. Sudomod.com I'm currently upgrading mine to a raspberry pi z w and New hdmi screen.

The weirdest thing is that the GameBoy Zero run mGba very well but the game pie advance didn't, same pi, same retroarch version, same core version.

I am going to put it in a NES advantage, and the two player switch "might" be used for power ON/OFF instead.

Thank you for reply.

Hi, I had a similar problem. It appears I have solved it by forcing the monitor to use HDMI input in the settings as opposed to autodetect. Hope this helps people encountering this issue in the future ;D
Cheers,
Tina^^

I only had time to run two tests on the 4.1.14 setups, and one on the 4.1.5. I hit F4 to exit out of Emulationstation (thought that would be best for the test).

So first things first, the Linux version:

uname -a on the 4.1.14 system says:

Linux retropie 4.4.26+ #915 Thu Oct 20 17:02:14 BST 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux

uname -a on the 4.1.5 system says:

Linux retropie 4.4.34+ #930 Wed Nov 23 15:12:30 GMT 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux

(which doesn't make sense to me because if I'm reading it right the 4.1.14 is dated about a month BEFORE the earlier 4.1.5? - yes I double checked it)

And the AikonCWD benchmark tests:

4.1.14 Pi Zero #1:

Raspberry Pi Benchmark Test Author: AikonCWD Version: 3.0 temp=43.3'C arm_freq=1000 core_freq=500 sdram_freq=500 gpu_freq=500 sd_clock=50.000 MHz Running InternetSpeed test... Ping: 41.189 ms Download: 55.11 Mbits/s Upload: 11.64 Mbits/s Running CPU test... total time: 140.9210s min: 18.51ms avg: 56.36ms max: 167.58ms temp=48.2'C Running THREADS test... total time: 187.7533s min: 55.33ms avg: 75.09ms max: 175.15ms temp=47.6'C Running MEMORY test... Operations performed: 3145728 (123569.78 ops/sec) 3072.00 MB transferred (120.67 MB/sec) total time: 25.4571s min: 0.00ms avg: 0.03ms max: 79.21ms temp=47.6'C Running HDPARM test... Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.00 seconds = 19.97 MB/sec temp=46.0'C Running DD WRITE test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 68.1628 s, 7.9 MB/s temp=44.4'C Running DD READ test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 24.8409 s, 21.6 MB/s temp=43.3'C AikonCWD's rpi-benchmark completed!

4.1.14, Pi Zero #2

Raspberry Pi Benchmark Test Author: AikonCWD Version: 3.0 temp=44.4'C arm_freq=1000 core_freq=500 sdram_freq=500 gpu_freq=500 sd_clock=50.000 MHz Running InternetSpeed test... Ping: 39.223 ms Download: 52.72 Mbits/s Upload: 11.70 Mbits/s Running CPU test... total time: 141.0996s min: 23.53ms avg: 56.41ms max: 175.19ms temp=49.8'C Running THREADS test... total time: 179.6370s min: 49.04ms avg: 71.85ms max: 158.69ms temp=50.3'C Running MEMORY test... Operations performed: 3145728 (124335.28 ops/sec) 3072.00 MB transferred (121.42 MB/sec) total time: 25.3004s min: 0.00ms avg: 0.03ms max: 99.41ms temp=51.4'C Running HDPARM test... Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.02 seconds = 20.56 MB/sec temp=50.3'C Running DD WRITE test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 61.7905 s, 8.7 MB/s temp=48.7'C Running DD READ test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 24.8082 s, 21.6 MB/s temp=48.7'C AikonCWD's rpi-benchmark completed!

4.1.5, Pi Zero #2 again (#3 is scraping ROM's right now ;)

And FML.....are the repositories down???? I've tried this like 5 times now... pi@retropie:~ $ curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aikoncwd/rpi-benchmark/master/rpi-benchmark.sh | sudo bash % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 2172 100 2172 0 0 7028 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 7144 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libmysqlclient18 mysql-common The following NEW packages will be installed: libmysqlclient18 mysql-common sysbench 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 702 kB/758 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,475 kB of additional disk space will be used. Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main mysql-common all 5.5.52-0+deb8u1 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main libmysqlclient18 armhf 5.5.52-0+deb8u1 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] E: Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/m/mysql-5.5/mysql-common_5.5.52-0+deb8u1_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] E: Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/m/mysql-5.5/libmysqlclient18_5.5.52-0+deb8u1_armhf.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:41c9:1:3ce::11 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Raspberry Pi Benchmark Test Author: AikonCWD Version: 3.0 temp=51.4'C arm_freq=1000 core_freq=400 sdram_freq=450 gpu_freq=300 sd_clock=50.000 MHz Running InternetSpeed test... Ping: 47.37 ms Download: 31.19 Mbits/s Upload: 11.36 Mbits/s Running CPU test... bash: line 38: sysbench: command not found temp=51.4'C Running THREADS test... bash: line 43: sysbench: command not found temp=50.8'C Running MEMORY test... bash: line 48: sysbench: command not found temp=51.4'C Running HDPARM test... Timing buffered disk reads: 56 MB in 3.10 seconds = 18.04 MB/sec temp=51.9'C Running DD WRITE test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 73.4755 s, 7.3 MB/s temp=55.1'C Running DD READ test... 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 27.6583 s, 19.4 MB/s temp=55.1'C AikonCWD's rpi-benchmark completed!

@markyh444 Class 10 sandisk card turned up, i installed the OS, and i managed to get past the button definition screen and onto the setup screen but it keeps freezing again :( now i have no idea what it could be!

@dankcushions said in Zero: Exit a game, system freezes, screen is dim, can't SSH in...:

the reason for adding over_voltage is to INCREASE stability; higher clocks demand more power. however it also raises temps...

for shader performance i would have thought only GPU and maybe memory performance overclocks are relevant.

I tried some new settings last night, and ran it for a good solid 20 minutes switching from game to game like I was doing before (where I could ALWAYS get it to freeze at some point) – and it seemed to be good. Think I dropped each "recommended overclock" number by 25 (475, 475, 475), AND changed the two voltages to 3. Think temp was still around 60º which is normal while you're using it I believe. I will test it even more tonight (including writing down the FPS numbers to see how they compare to the full 500 overclock - I think SNES was still down to like 54-57 instead of 60 FPS...which would be fine as long as it doesn't crash).

CRT-Pi Shader performance I gave up on for SNES and Genesis to be honest. It's just too much on the pi Zero even with the full overclock to get to that magic 60 FPS. I'm trying to keep CRT-Pi for NES (as it helps 8-bit look better to a much greater degree than 16-bit IMO), but will have to see if I get any of the weird pausing which plagued the non-overclocked Pi Zero with lr-quicknes + CRT-Pi.