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    • xdman21
      xdman21 last edited by

      Hi one month ago i've bought a GamePi20 to wire to my raspberry pi zero W

      the main issue is that i've tried to install it by the two methods from the official website (with retropie preconfigured image and manually).

      Always is showing a blank screen and when I try to use the controller doesn't works too.

      alt text

      (link to the image of gamepi blank screen) https://ibb.co/gVzXmhW

      this test was made with the prebuild image given inside this webpage https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/GamePi20

      more concretely this image https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p0ZP9lnxIu-2mvGVU91y_Z_Z0VdJC7oV/view

      and I should add too that the battery works correctly with the led and my raspberry works too.

      as there's not so much info about that it's a bit difficult to solve it by yourself

      Any idea? Thanks.

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      • mitu
        mitu Global Moderator last edited by

        We don't support 3rd party images - if the image provided by the vendor doesn't work, then you should contact them and ask for support.

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        • DelsArcade
          DelsArcade last edited by DelsArcade

          I am having the same exact issue. And I'm using the official Retropie Image on this site. ( https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.5.1/retropie-4.5.1-rpi1_zero.img.gz )

          I've also gone so far as ordered another Gamepi20 (thinking my first one was defective) and the new one that just came in does the exact same thing.

          If I hook it up to an external TV, it does display everything properly, but the LCD screen does not mirror or seem to display anything on the Gamepi20, when it should.

          It seems to work fine for ETA prime here in this video:

          What do you guys think? I'm about to return both of them if it doesn't work.

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          • mitu
            mitu Global Moderator @DelsArcade last edited by

            @DelsArcade said in Gamepi20 screen and controller not working:

            What do you guys think? I'm about to return both of them if it doesn't work.

            Did you follow the steps from https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/GamePi20#Method_2:_Install_driver for installation over the RetroPie's image ?

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            • e654562
              e654562 last edited by

              has anyone got this working.. I tried the image from waveshare and it works.. but not latest retropie. i tried to install using the retropie official image and that one gives blank screen.

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              • h2805270
                h2805270 last edited by

                have you managed to fix it?

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                • vaypinD4D
                  vaypinD4D @DelsArcade last edited by

                  @DelsArcade hello..i am wondering the best way to change the size of the image...the text and gameplay are extremely small

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                  • whisperrs
                    whisperrs @h2805270 last edited by

                    @h2805270 et all, there is a step missing on the waveshare wiki, you need to uncomment the dtparam=spi=on line in /boot/config.txt

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                    • gneeman
                      gneeman @mitu last edited by

                      @mitu Thanks for your suggestion. I had the same problem as the original poster. Ah yes ... read the instructions.

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