Number to call for help?
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Is there a number or someplace to call to get help with Retropie going on a Raspberry Pi Zero. I am attempting to make the video game emulator and I am struggling. Im new to raspberry pi but I am pretty good at following directions and by all accounts, I have followed the instructional videos perfectly and I cant get anything to boot. The forums are great but sometimes its easier to talk to someone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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@hurkgt18 have you tried reading the official documentation? It's pretty straightforward and the steps are fairly detailed.
I'd avoid video guides as they're likely out of date.
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@hurkgt18 the info on the official wiki page is very easy to follow. As the other poster said, video tutorials are not usually made by the developers and get out of date quickly.
Unfortunately there is no help hotline since retropie is just a free program that the developers make in their free time. If you make a big enough donation to them though maybe they could open a call center! 😉
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@markyh444 Yes i have followed the docs from the retropie website. I have formatted my Sandisc class 10 16 gb mini SD card to Fat32. I downloaded the correct retropie image, extracted it and wrote it to the SD card. I inserted the SD card into the pi, correctly attached the cords and when I plugged in the power source which is more than adequate (5v 2.4 A) I get nothing. Not signal to my tv, no flicker of an LED on the Pi but the LED on my Amazon USB hub lights up.
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@quicksilver said in Number to call for help?:
If you make a big enough donation to them though maybe they could open a call center! 😉
I was thinking, it being "retro" and all, perhaps the big donation could go toward setting up a FAX-back system. You know, dial the number, input the index via DTMF, and of course, key in your callback number, and the system can send you faxes of the Wiki pages you request.
Maybe we could even run the FAX-back system on a Raspberry Pi? RetroFax.
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@hurkgt18 you could have a faulty Pi. Try downloading a raspian image and testing with that to confirm.
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@hurkgt18 or a faulty SD card. It becomes a hardware swapping game until you isolate the problem.
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@hurkgt18 said in Number to call for help?:
and wrote it to the SD card
Are you using SD card imaging software like Etcher.io to do this or just copying what you extracted onto the FAT32 formatted card? The card needs to be imaged with the download.
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@caver01 ive tried it with win32discimager and etcher.
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i'd also like to point out that i ordered the Pi off of ebay. And it was shipped to me in a plain white envelop with no padding and the envelope was scuffed and have obviously been heavily handled. Any chance something could have broken in transit. I have a new Pi on the way and this one I ordered from Adafruit.
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@hurkgt18 like I said, try a raspian image and see if it boots. Could be a faulty Pi.
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As I pointed out in your other thread, a usb hub isn’t good enough for the pi
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@markyh444 im downloading a raspian stretch lite. i unzip that and flash that to my SD just like I did with the retropie, correct?
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@caver01 haha thats awesome! Or maybe it could be like one of those tip lines that Nintendo had back in the day where you pay by the minute for game walkthroughs and advice.
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@drakaen391 the usb hub isnt what I am using to power the pi. Its just allows me to plug more than one controller into the pi when I play video game. i know i mistyped when I called it a amazon powerhub. Its a USB hub for multiple usb inputs.
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@hurkgt18 said in Number to call for help?:
no flicker of an LED on the Pi but the LED on my Amazon USB hub lights up
No flicker = no power. The usb hub is the issue here. What is it and how are you using it?
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@rbaker the usb hub is an Amazon Basics 4 port usb hub. It is plugged into the USb port of the Raspberry Pi and it allows more than one controller to be plugged in when playing games on the emulator.
Here is the link to the product:
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@hurkgt18 How can this be plugged into a zero?
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@rbaker with this:
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Samusung-Android-Windows-Function/dp/B00NF8MF3E/?tag=mti0oge5nzk-20
this is what I am attempting to do:
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@hurkgt18 are your USB connections pushed all the way in?
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