Nes cart Pi USB hub woes

hendrix

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

edmaul69

@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.

hendrix

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

edmaul69

@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%3Aed510fbe-130b-11e7-b48f-74dbd18097bc%7Cparentrq%3A10a2dcb215b0a624b91a254cfff76edf%7Ciid%3A24

edmaul69

@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

hendrix

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

BigC

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

hendrix

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??

edmaul69

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

BigC

@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 ;)