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    Nes cart Pi USB hub woes

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      hendrix
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      Nope...tried the suggestion and still not working :(

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        edmaul69 @hendrix
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        @hendrix i use the rockband usb hubs in the nes carts. If you use a pi zero you need to convert it from standard usb to micro usb. It has to be the ones that are 4 ports in a row and not the self powered ones. They work great for me.

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          hendrix @edmaul69
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          @edmaul69 Superb, thanks for the tip....do you have a link?

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            edmaul69 @hendrix
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            @hendrix here is one ebay example of the one you want. Notice on the right side of the vi-power there is one row of small text. If it has two rows and a huge 4 then you dont want it. The one with the huge 4 is the powered hub version.

            http://m.ebay.com/itm/Rock-Band-USB-2-0-4-Port-Hub-VP-H209B-ViPower-for-PS3-XBox-360-Wii-Fun-Games-/172568946926?hash=item282de928ee%3Ag%3A3o8AAOSwSlBYwhka&_trkparms=pageci%253Aed510fbe-130b-11e7-b48f-74dbd18097bc%257Cparentrq%253A10a2dcb215b0a624b91a254cfff76edf%257Ciid%253A24

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              edmaul69 @hendrix
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              @hendrix also if you look here you can see how i laid out the hub, hdmi and power.

              https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2583/my-sony-pistation-1-and-super-mario-bros-zero-cart/3

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                hendrix
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                Holy moly that's impressive. Love it!!
                Thanks for the heads up on the hub too.
                Will get one ordered asap!!!
                I've just had an amazon basics hub delivered too a confirm that works too.
                Case closed - the pi Zero is a fussy bugger haha

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                  BigC
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                  Hello, i just happen to have the same issue. i know that some unpowered hubs works and others like some on ebay, don't. my issue is i decided to build a couple of these for myself, friends and family but since i have ordered a bunch of these i'm kinda stuck with them. is there really no work around to fix this? the hubs are working perfectly fine on my computer, i give it a max load to see if it was some kind of buffer issue or something, but i was charging 2 device while transferring stuff from one usb drive to an other all connected to the hub. there was no issues. i have one or 2 other kind of hub that works, but it would be good if i could use those i have already ordered.

                  any help is welcome

                  Thanks

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                    hendrix
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                    Hi Big C
                    unfortunately, like you, I am lumbered with several 'working' USB hubs which do not work with the zero.
                    Try the one suggested by edmaul or the Amazon basics one I suggested. These do work.
                    As for the reasons others don't. I'm assuming its something to do with the hub chipset??

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                      edmaul69 @hendrix
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                      @hendrix @BigC also usb 3.0 hubs dont work on any pi if i remember correctly so you definitely want to avoid them.

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                        BigC @hendrix
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                        @hendrix Oh well i'll have to find a use for them. i found cheap ones at walmart for 10$ so that will be that

                        @edmaul69 yeah i'm using usb 2. my goal was to get a cheap hub and the usb 3 are rather exempensive for the use ;)

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