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Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« on: June 24, 2019, 01:50:31 pm »
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/?variant=raspberry-pi-4-model-b-4gb

Raspberry Pi 4 is out. 3 Models 1gb, 2gb or 4gb ram. $35, $45 & $55 respectively.

I ordered a 4gb, but they are on backorder. CanaKit has the 1gb and 2gb available now as well.

https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-4-2gb.html


Still way too early to get any solid info on what they can do, but my kids love the setup I made for them with a 3. Hoping that the 4 will open up some better N64 or maybe even decent DC emulation.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2019, 02:10:37 pm »
I saw this and immediately went to order one, had in in the cart and everything. Then I remembered that I did the exact same thing 3 years ago when the Pi 3 was announced and that thing's been sitting in a desk drawer ever since.

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Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2019, 02:26:30 pm »
I saw this and immediately went to order one, had in in the cart and everything. Then I remembered that I did the exact same thing 3 years ago when the Pi 3 was announced and that thing's been sitting in a desk drawer ever since.

I lolled.

I did the same exact thing with the first Pi.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2019, 02:32:55 pm »
I have so many projects lined up that I won't need anything until the Pi 37 comes out. Which should be a couple years before Javeryh finishes his bartop.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2019, 03:18:55 pm »
I bought a Pi 3 from a buddy at work, who was gracious enough to set it up for me with RetroPi.  Played it for about a week till I couldn't stand the bad input lag and emulation on some systems.  Even after countless hours of tweaking with settings.
It's been collecting dust ever since.

I'm going to tear it apart and use it for my Naomi NetDIMM setup.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2019, 04:20:48 pm »
Kinda annoyed as last week I picked up a pi3a to solve the power issues I was getting with the 3b. This using USB c gives more options. Ah well. It will be interesting to see what newer stuff it can run.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2019, 05:54:45 pm »
Pi 3 is great.........for a lazy, small form setup when particulars don't matter.

That being said, that is surprisingly a pretty wide berth for for me to find use in it. I am finding new life in those old LCDs I have been hording for years. These are worth it to avoid the headache of setting up a PC rig, which can way too long for with a fresh copy of windows.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2019, 08:33:06 pm »
Would be awesome to get one running Stepmania or Dreamcast.  I haven't noticed any major lag with my Pis but I'm not anywhere near Opt in terms of playing abilities.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2019, 09:14:12 pm »
That’s not true. You’re pretty good at Chicken Shift.  Better than Neph and me!

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2019, 11:13:59 pm »
Would be awesome to get one running Stepmania or Dreamcast.  I haven't noticed any major lag with my Pis but I'm not anywhere near Opt in terms of playing abilities.

+1 on Stepmania and Dreamcast. 

Back during my year of stay at home Dad back in Lao, I had a R-pi urning retro pi on an LCD via composite. It was pretty sweet. Retro Pi makes some odd choses by default, like not using Nestopia as the default NES emulator. I couldn't play punch out until I figured that one out.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2019, 05:59:52 pm »
Looking forward to upgrading one of my ARpiCADE boxes when it's supported... it'll be hard not to upgrade two of the three I have running (I doubt my 4-way vertical cabinet really needs the Pi4)...
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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2019, 09:09:52 pm »
All my pi3's are in mini replica consoles.
might grab one of these in the winter if I have time to play with it.

but i have other projects for winter planed.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2019, 09:10:45 pm »
Would be awesome to get one running Stepmania or Dreamcast.  I haven't noticed any major lag with my Pis but I'm not anywhere near Opt in terms of playing abilities.

from what i've read stepmania compiles and runs on pi3 but it's dog slow.
maybe 4 has the guts.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2019, 12:21:10 pm »
Pi 3 is great.........for a lazy, small form setup when particulars don't matter.

That being said, that is surprisingly a pretty wide berth for for me to find use in it. I am finding new life in those old LCDs I have been hording for years. These are worth it to avoid the headache of setting up a PC rig, which can way too long for with a fresh copy of windows.

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Composite video makes it a good option for home console.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2019, 12:27:59 pm »
Benchmarks are out.  Looks like the Pi4 is legit and should run dreamcast with ease.  Also looks like it can be overclocked to 1.75 and be stable with the GPU overclocked to 600 too.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-4-b,6193.html

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2019, 05:19:01 pm »
I’m sure at some point I’ll get a r-pi4 and pair it with a retrotink.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2019, 12:47:02 pm »
Would the rpi4 with this retrolink or other rgb output board make a decent application for my 2 player mame cab/wg9200 arcade monitor/ipac? Looking to replace my dead pc and get something running quickly for the summer.. I'm not a purist and groovymame/pc tinkering took forever. If so, do you recommend 1/2/4 gig?

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2019, 09:13:51 am »
Kinda annoyed as last week I picked up a pi3a to solve the power issues I was getting with the 3b. This using USB c gives more options. Ah well. It will be interesting to see what newer stuff it can run.

That's the one aspect of this otherwise very welcome announcement that leaves a slightly sour taste in my mouth.

The RPi Foundation has stated quite categorically on numerous occasions over the past year that they would not release a Raspberry Pi 4 until 2020 at the very earliest. And yet here we are half-way through 2019 and they've done precisely that. They also pulled exactly the same trick when the Pi 2 was released.

Of course I understand why they do it. They want to protect sales of their existing product lines in the months prior to the release of a new model. However, that doesn't justify lying to potential customers. IMHO, anyone who's just bought a Pi 3B+ has the right to feel slightly cheated.
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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2019, 09:25:56 am »
If you bought it last week just send it back.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2019, 10:29:24 am »
Would the rpi4 with this retrolink or other rgb output board make a decent application for my 2 player mame cab/wg9200 arcade monitor/ipac? Looking to replace my dead pc and get something running quickly for the summer.. I'm not a purist and groovymame/pc tinkering took forever. If so, do you recommend 1/2/4 gig?

my experience is larger roms like newer golden axe games won't run on 1GB of ram on any device in mame.
if you don't care about those games stick with 1GB.
I'd probably go 2 GB's myself.



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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #20 on: July 01, 2019, 10:49:22 am »
Spend the extra pittance and get more RAM. I think the 1GB option only exists so they can still have an offering at their time-honored $35 price point.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2019, 02:16:59 pm »
Dreamcast for sure is the draw for me personally, Would love to be able to play Rush 2049 and all the other things a Pi can do already.  I think this one will have the power to overcome a good portion of the Mame lag issues many have seen, assuming effort is put into the coding, which with the support the Pi gets I am sure that will happen.  Give this thing a couple months to work out the bugs and we will all have less of a reason to look at the Odroid..  Could even be a cheap way to get Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa on Facebook, if you were so inclined..

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2019, 08:54:24 am »
among the great news with pi4 is that it (finally) has an open pixel clock, which means that, with a little time, we can reach "perfect emulation" (yeah, i know that perfect is a very personnal opinion about emulation, input lag, display etc ...)

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2019, 11:40:25 am »
Really starting to think all the people running emulation are like 90% of their market.  Seems like everything I'm hearing about changes in about this version was only to make them better for old games...


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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2019, 01:31:23 pm »
Really starting to think all the people running emulation are like 90% of their market.  Seems like everything I'm hearing about changes in about this version was only to make them better for old games...

probably because yourself you're most interested in retrogaming ? ;) The Pi has so many more ways of being used !!!

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2019, 02:22:51 pm »
Meh, all you ever hear about is emulation.  Even on non emulation sites.


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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #26 on: July 03, 2019, 03:55:34 pm »
Yeah, read I got the same vibe. Emulation by a landslide, followed by media centers PCs. I also see stuff on Carputers, which as far as I figured out, is just media center PC for the car.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #27 on: July 03, 2019, 06:23:23 pm »
Yeah, read I got the same vibe. Emulation by a landslide, followed by media centers PCs. I also see stuff on Carputers, which as far as I figured out, is just media center PC for the car.

I bought one to make an Octoprint server.
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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #28 on: July 04, 2019, 12:24:01 am »
And I own at least 5 and all they do is play old games.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #30 on: July 10, 2019, 01:22:25 pm »
This is reason number 1437 why you don't buy crap before it has spent some time in the wild.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2019, 02:28:24 pm »
WHERE'S YOUR PI GOD NOW HUH??

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« Reply #32 on: July 10, 2019, 02:46:21 pm »
WHERE'S YOUR PI GOD NOW HUH??

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #33 on: July 10, 2019, 02:57:29 pm »
Oof.  This especially sucks because the damn things are so power hungry.  Might be able to pick one up pretty cheap now, though.




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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #34 on: July 11, 2019, 10:55:46 am »
Really starting to think all the people running emulation are like 90% of their market.  Seems like everything I'm hearing about changes in about this version was only to make them better for old games...

The only other applications I ever hear about for them are network appliance type stuff like Pi-Hole, the kind of thing that isn't hardware hungry and can still work fine on a Pi 2. Everything else is always emulation, emulation, emulation.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #35 on: July 13, 2019, 04:53:43 pm »
I'm afraid of sounding too harsh if I say that you definitely have no idea of what a pi is really capable of ... NAS, kodi system, home stuff, straming server, control any hardware through its GPIO, camera ... and sooo much more ... just read https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #36 on: July 13, 2019, 09:14:25 pm »
NAS, kodi system, home stuff, straming server, control any hardware through its GPIO, camera

Oh look, network appliance type stuff that doesn't require any of the hardware improvements since the Pi 2.

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just read https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/

How about no?

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #37 on: July 13, 2019, 10:28:27 pm »
Just because it’s capable of all those things, pbj’s Point is still valid. Nobody cares about what the applications for this are, as long as they can play teh romz. Most people in casual conversation don’t mention all the non- gaming uses for the pi’s. All they care about is emulation.

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #38 on: July 14, 2019, 07:24:11 am »
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just read https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/

How about no?
Then it's pretty normal you just consider a pi as an emulation system :) That's a choice, not a worldwide fact ;)

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is out
« Reply #39 on: July 14, 2019, 11:23:36 am »
Then it's pretty normal you just consider a pi as an emulation system :) That's a choice, not a worldwide fact ;)

Why don't you highlight where in this thread where myself or anyone else said such a thing.