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      purple2d
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      I got a Mini Picade a while ago with a RP4 and finally got around to setting it up. Downloaded the latest RP4 image onto a card and plugged it in. Everything worked until I got here:
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      Then the screen just goes blank. I couldn't find any boot options help other than disabling boot text. Is there something I need to add to the boot file to get the controller prompt to show up?

      Any help appreciated.

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        mitu Global Moderator
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        Looks like EmulationStation doesn't propertly start or the screen is not properly set-up.
        You can enale WiFi and SSH on the system and login remotely and try running the Picade installation script, which should set-up the input drivers and maybe add some extra parameters for the display driver ?
        To disable EmulationStation starting up automtatically you can temporarily run the RetroPie-Setup script and choose just Boot to console instead of starting EmulationStation.

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          purple2d @mitu
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          @mitu Thank you! I will try these solutions. Hopefully that fixes it.

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