LCL Pi Boy

retrofan333

I bought the handheld LCL Pi Boy on Alixpress site. And Im not sure which version of RetroPie img they use.

mitu

@retrofan333 Ask the seller for support, we don't support scammers.

retrofan333

@mitu They didn't respond. I thought someone might help me

sirhenrythe5th

Not here.
3rd-party-images are images-non-grata.

retrofan333

I just like to know the tutorial. I'm not selling it.

sirhenrythe5th

we dont support 3rd-images at all, nethertheless if you want to buy or sell one.
Offer Ali-Express money for support, they might answer then.

retrofan333

@sirhenrythe5th I will ask someone else then.

mitu

@retrofan333 said in LCL Pi Boy:

I just like to know the tutorial. I'm not selling it.

The tutorial is here.

Ask for your money back/refund and don't encourage scammers by buying their faulty and illegal products.

retrofan333

@mitu Thanks Mitu, I tried this tutorial before and it not working.. They probably modify the RetroPie img file somehow...

sirhenrythe5th

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hansie

@retrofan333 Hi retrofan333.
I have a LCL Piboy and I am loving it.
You ask 2 questions, one about the emulators.
I don't really know how to help you with that.
Know that the regular images for the Raspberry Pi don't work on the LCL.
It must be something with drivers i guess.
All my emulators work great...

But on the second question I can help you.
That goes about the upgrade to a bigger card.
Make an image off your own card with for example Win32diskimager.
Burn that image to a larger card.
Than get a program that can resize partitions.
I used: minitool partition magic. Its free, use Google.
With that program you can resize the ntsf partition to use the extra free space off your larger sdcard.
I did exact that and it works like a charm.

bollwerk

Sorry to necro this post, but for anyone in the market for a device like this, I would suggest this over the LCL - https://www.experimentalpi.com/
They respect copyright laws and retropie licensing, because they don't sell it with the image included, the default image should work right from the start, and they give instructions on how to add their customization to the Retropie image.
The company is also based in California, so you're likely to get better support. (LCL is notoriously difficult to reach, I've read)

Denys06

I have to reassemble this post because I am in the same situation as @retrofan333.

I want to install a clean and updated version of Retropie on my LCL PI Boy. My screen always remains on the display on a black LCL background. I also use the image found on experimentalpi.com but it also doesn't work on my LCL Pi.

Please can you help me get Retropie working on this gameboy?

bollwerk

@Denys06 I eventually figured out how to do this, however I had to pull 2 files from the original image that was shipped with the LCL Pi Boy.
The most important file is the driver file for the screen - mzdpi6.dtbo, which is located in the overlays folder of the boot partition.
The other file was the modified config.txt, located in the root of the boot partition, which has settings specific to the screen in the device.

With a clean Retropie image on a new card, put the card into the device and power it on, then let it boot up with the blank screen.
I don't think SSH is enabled by default, so you'll have to power the device back down after it's done booting, rebooting and expanding the partition. Give it 10 min or so to be safe.
After it's powered off, pull the card out and put it into your PC's card reader.
There will be a FAT16 boot partition you can access.
Put the mzdpi6.dtbo file into the overlays folder in the boot partition.
Then rename the existing config.txt in the boot partition and copy the original config.txt into the boot partition.
That's it!
Remove the card, put it into the LCL Pi Boy and boot it up.

Caution - the config.txt he created/modified has changed over time, as he apparently switched screens at one point, so make sure you use the one that came with the original image, if possible. However, the driver file seems to be the same regardless, which is the most important part.

MazHoot

@bollwerk I have the same problem, I'm trying to run raspbian on pi boy. At first I was stuck on LCL screen, but after adding mzdpi6.dtbo + config.txt of original pi boy sd card, the screen is no more stuck to lcl but it has vertical colored lines. I don't see other things, only these lines.

Have you an idea for that?

PS : if you wonder why I do that it's because I bought pi boy only for using little piggy tracker, a free program for make music with gamepad or buttons. And the retropie which is in my original sd card has problems, each time I change something in the sd card (using sd usb adaptor to linux computer), emulationstation doesn't start for a while (so i'm stuck on black screen, and it sometimes start again completly randomly...)
So i'm searching something more stable and I already know how to boot directly on little piggy tracker it is working on an other raspberry pi

Thank's