Compete noob needs help

BuZz

@jimmynoon try another sdcard. Ranting as above is not going to help. (And will not aid in people wanting to help you).

It could have been power related. We have seen it many times. You can't reliably power a rpi3 from a USB port.

rbaker

@jimmynoon you still have not posted which retropie image you downloaded. How many times do you want me to ask? If you try and boot a pi3 with the image for a pi1/0 it won't work. Are you using the correct one? Is your sd card on the compatible list?

jimmynoon

https://retropie.org.uk/download/ - I used the second image from this website. Extracted with WinRAR and burned to SD card with Win32DiskImager. I did say I used this website.

jimmynoon

And it can't be the SDcard as surely bugger all would happen if the SD card was faulty. I go through the install but then I can't seem to get anything to run post retropie install.

jimmynoon

Sorry if I am ranting but this is highly frustrating when I know deep down it's something I'm missing in terms of my lack of linux knowledge, not hardware issues.

markyh444

@jimmynoon Well no, if there's bad sectors and you write some of the image to some of those, it'll probably boot but not work correctly.

It's like if you've got a dodgy hard drive. Some things may work and others won't, depending on where on the drive the data is written.

rbaker

@jimmynoon if your card is not on the list, it will not work with the raspberry pi. The process is quite simple with regard to retropie but if you ignore how to set up a pi, it will not work. It would help if you posted the full set up. Here is my setup....

Raspberry Pi 3
2.5 amp PSU @ 5.1V with 1.5m micro USB - element 14 version
128gb Sandisk micro sd card - verified
Retropie image downloaded for Pi 3 - 4bf44fa37bb9db72b9d7c6dfab6fe015 from this site
Devices connected - ipac2 and PS3 controller

So have you checked your Power Supply lead? Is it too long? Wrong type? All these details matter in ruling out issues. The fact is that retropie is simply supplied as an image. Follow the guidance from the Pi website followed by the guidance on this one and after 4 mouse clicks, you are in emulation station. By the way, no Linux knowledge needed. I have none.

rbaker

@jimmynoon also, have you watched you tube and compared what you did?

jimmynoon

I've managed to sort it after going through settings and finding that my install was beyond basic and needed to add further modules. No sd card issue, power supply issue. It was software related. I'm having trouble getting psx games to work but nes and megadrive are fine so I'm happy for now.

BuZz

@jimmynoon well, you gave so little information what you gave pointed to those as a possibility. You never detailed what steps you took etc.

rbaker

@jimmynoon If you are using a USB port on a pc to power your Pi, it will never work properly as soon as you stress it, connect controllers to it or do anything meaningful. Beyond basic? Modules? What do you mean? I and others would be interested to know what your issue actually was.

markyh444

@rbaker I just wish people would help us out a little bit so we can actually help them.

BuZz

@markyh444 Unfortunately some are not willing to spend the time, but are happy to waste our time (By expecting us to mind read) :)