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Topic: Neo Geo X project
Here are a few photos of the build I made using a Neo Geo X docking station off ebay for £10. Initially I planned on using the hinged system to open the case, then I decided to make it more of a console and remove the hinge opening completely.
The whole inside of the docking station was removed, a laser cut base was added for mounting components securely. A usb hub and hard drive were also added, the power button was altered to switch two power sources off at the same time so that the usb hub did not remain on powering the pi.
The reset or menu button on the top of the Neo Geo X was removed and a working push switch was added, this switch is connected to an old USB keyboard encoder to operate the “ESC” key during emulation. The front houses a Memory card slot for the Pi to allow easy updating, I later changed this for a SD card extender ribbon taken from the Pi’s sd card.
The rear now has an added USB port, a standard HDMI port, stereo jack, additional power port for USB hub and internet port. The rear has a laser cut panel that acts as a vent where the hinge used to be. The whole case is kept securely together with three screws.
So I thought when I bought this it was going to have the standard micro usb port for power on it, so I could swap the supply I was using for the Pi 2 directly over… That does not appear to be the case.
Can someone please tell me what the plug type is for this power supply? I have looked everywhere and can’t figure it out. It’s clearly not micro-usb and not usb-b, anyone got a link to where I can buy a power supply with this kind of connector in the states?
Thanks for the help!
Topic: USB and roms
For months now I’ve been trying to figure out how to get roms on my pi. Finally I seem to have the roms on a flash drive, and I put them in the corresponding folders on my computer. However once I put the drive back in the pi, I couldn’t figure out how to get the games onto retropie. Please help!
Topic: External HDD Frustration
Hello,
I’ve read many topics of this forum to set up retropie. Most things work but the USB HDD kills me. I tried any suggestions I have found but nothing seems to work.
I took a 320gb WD Blue from my Thinkpad which I’ve replaced with a SSD and bought a SATA to USB adapter.
It shows up and I was able to format it. But I can’t access it respectively it seems so and there are no Rom folders created.
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1241:1503 Belkin Keyboard Bus 001 Device 007: ID 152d:2509 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS539 SuperSpeed SATA II 3.0G BridgeDisk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122504 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00015dda Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 625142447 312570200 83 LinuxAnd it does not show up here even it’s said above that it’s listed under /dev/sda1:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ blkid /dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="6782-8AD5" TYPE="vfat" /dev/mmcblk0p3: LABEL="SETTINGS" UUID="ae7ba22e-7f25-4575-97bb-b695ef0d2ee4" TYPE="ext4" /dev/mmcblk0p5: LABEL="boot" UUID="2B9B-8307" TYPE="vfat" /dev/mmcblk0p6: LABEL="root" UUID="c0fc5f89-e5e9-4aa2-b08b-b0617145c24c" TYPE="ext4"It says also the HDD is already mounted:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb0 mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /media/usb0 busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /media/usb0I couldnt mount it to /hdd1 which i created before and mounted it to usb0.
So, I dont know if there is a problem with the HDD or I’m just doing something wrong while trying to use it. At some point it said that there is a read-only permission.
How can I now use my HDD so I can place all the Roms there?
Topic: Ps3 button mapping in NES
Hi,
my ps3 usb controllers buttns in NES games are strange.
I have mapped it to use SQUARE as A and X as B. But in all NES games its X as A and CIRCLE as B. Its like this in games only, in emustation menu buttons are as mapped.
In SNES games the buttons work as I mapped them.
Thx for any tips!
Hi guys,
I’ve recently started working on my own Arcade system, and things have gone really well so far, until I start to use my Arcade joystiq and buttons to control the software. My arcade controller is a Xin-Mo 2 player usb controller.
It is being recognised by Emulationstation when I try to setup the controller. When I start to register the buttons, it registers the up down left and right, button A, and then thats it. I cant go passed button A :/. I did an EvTest on all the buttons and they’re all working. I even registered them with RetroArch. But the emulationstation config doesn’t work right.
I really need your help guys.
Thanks.
Hey people!
I’ve had this strange problem on two different setups now.
One RPi2 with 2x iBuffalo Famicom-style controllers, and one RPi (B) with 2x noname SNES style controllers. In both cases, USB.
I configured one of them with “Register RetroArch controller” from RetroPie-Setup so I presume they’re configured automatically.What happens is the second controller won’t work in some games unless I hold down a button on the first controller. Both controllers worked fine with Chip n’ Dale for NES, and TMNT tournament fighters for SNES, but not on Donkey Kong Country.
Has anyone experienced this? How do I fix it? Would manual controller setup fix it? :O :)
Hi all. I’ve pretty much got everything up and running, got the gamepad working, got scanlines working, etc. The last kink I’m trying to iron out is autosaving. I’ve got all my roms on a USB drive and I altered the es_systems.cfg file so that ES looks for roms on the USB drive. I’ve altered my retroarch.cfg file (the one in /opt/retropie/configs/all/) so that it says
# savestate_auto_save = true
# savestate_auto_load = true# savefile_directory = default
# savestate_directory = default
Shouldn’t the save states go directly to the folder in which the rom is located, on the USB drive? What am I missing?
Oh yeah, I guess I should add that I’m using the standard start+select command on the gamepad in order to exit ROMs.
Just bought a micro SD 16gb for my Raspberry PI 2, but i want more games on it and it’s full, got Kobi and tons of addons for that aswell.
Is’t possible to have games on a cheap 8gb stick? Only using 2 usb ports on the rPI2 so it would be nice if i could add some scummvm games on the USB.
