Pi in a Super Famicom Build

Cybermen

@obsidianspider Very good work. I am also rebuilding and have a question. How did you connect the original reset button? On the bottom are 4 connection possibilities?

obsidianspider

@cybermen the reset button is discussed in this post earlier in this same thread. That said, there are multiple motherboard variants, so use your meter to test.

Cybermen

Super, Thank You.

obsidianspider

Update

I learned the hard way not to use rpi-update

It apparently updated you to the bleeding edge firmware, and not only did the update fail halfway through, but once it completed successfully, Linux kept crashing. Now to see if I can fix this mess. Fun?

obsidianspider

Well that was less than fun. Lesson learned, kids. If you have a heavily customized install, make sure you create an image of your SD card in case you blow it up like I did.

Also, take better notes. ;)

Things are working now, but it was a lot of head scratching to get all of my scripts in the right places.

Darksavior

@obsidianspider I updated to the latest stretch build and that didn't go well. The gamecon driver wouldn't build. I reverted to stable stretch and fixed some dependencies to get ES to compile. I made a backup just in case, but it looks like I won't need to use it.

obsidianspider

@darksavior I haven't tried Stretch. I heard it wasn't supported yet.

Darksavior

@obsidianspider Try at your own risk, but once I sorted my dependencies, ES and the emulators I use work fine https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16145/retropie-upgrading-raspbian-jessie-to-stretch

BillyH

@obsidianspider it's probably in the thread here somewhere but I can't seem to find it: have you linked the original power switch to a system shutdown, and if so, how?

Now that I have a Pi, I'm thinking about either murdering my old SNES or finding one to murder, and using it as a case for the Pi. If/When I do so, I may look closer to threads like these for inspiration.

obsidianspider

@billyh Please don't break a known working SNES just for a Pi project. There are millions of ones that are inoperable.

I used a Mausberry tied to the stock SNES power switch.