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bbegin:
--- Quote from: Phreakwars on June 17, 2021, 01:12:52 pm ---At war? Don't know where you are getting that idea from. I'm just stating what has been known all along about them. You can either accept the consensus and documented proof as done by myself, several YouTuber's like ETA Prime, and many others in the retropie forums, or you can believe what you want to believe even if proof contradicts it. It's a free world.
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I don't think there is any "consensus" at all over the usages of a Raspberry Pi 4 in an arcade cabinet. It all depends of your needs. You seems to appreciate demanding games that are only emulated correctly on a PC, that's fine. For many of us, arcade fans, we just need a compact system that is able to emulate flawlessly 80's, 90's and many 2000's games and the Raspberry Pi 4 is perfectly fine for that.
Vocalitus:
--- Quote from: bbegin on June 17, 2021, 02:00:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: Phreakwars on June 17, 2021, 01:12:52 pm ---At war? Don't know where you are getting that idea from. I'm just stating what has been known all along about them. You can either accept the consensus and documented proof as done by myself, several YouTuber's like ETA Prime, and many others in the retropie forums, or you can believe what you want to believe even if proof contradicts it. It's a free world.
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I don't think there is any "consensus" at all over the usages of a Raspberry Pi 4 in an arcade cabinet. It all depends of your needs. You seems to appreciate demanding games that are only emulated correctly on a PC, that's fine. For many of us, arcade fans, we just need a compact system that is able to emulate flawlessly 80's, 90's and many 2000's games and the Raspberry Pi 4 is perfectly fine for that.
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I'm no stranger to Lag on RetroPie. PSX titles sometimes lag out horribly. Only two laserdisc games work on Retropie, and the odd game I like is Dig Dug and Ms Pacman, and it is a small vertical screen that MAME and Daphne only uses 50% of it for some other dumb reason, but Emulation Station is full screen. It works, its small and I am going to add a LCD marquee to it. More I think about it - the M73 would work with some serious mods, and should be fast enough for demanding games like PS3 and Dreamcast with Big Box, but it is overkill, and enlarge my carbon foot print. :dizzy:
I just want the dumb thing to stop booting up every hour or so...
PL1:
--- Quote from: Vocalitus on June 17, 2021, 07:16:48 pm ---I just want the dumb thing to stop booting up every hour or so...
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Maybe use some type of mechanical power switch on a modded USB power cord.
It can't boot up if there's no power applied. ;)
Scott
Vocalitus:
--- Quote from: PL1 on June 17, 2021, 08:19:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vocalitus on June 17, 2021, 07:16:48 pm ---I just want the dumb thing to stop booting up every hour or so...
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Maybe use some type of mechanical power switch on a modded USB power cord.
It can't boot up if there's no power applied. ;)
Scott
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It does already, via the Countercade On/Off switch and pin 5 and 6 on the GPIO. :(
And before you ask......yes I checked ground and its isolated.
Its posessed I tell you. I knew I shouldn't have added that SteamLink App. It was a nice little Pi before that. :hissy:
PL1:
--- Quote from: Vocalitus on June 17, 2021, 09:10:05 pm ---It does already, via the Countercade On/Off switch and pin 5 and 6 on the GPIO. :(
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No, it does not. :banghead:
1. The momentary switch on pins 5+6 only works if power is already applied to the Pi.
- That switch has nothing to do with providing (or interrupting) operating power to the Pi.
2. No operating power applied to the Pi = Pi can't boot.
- If the Countercade switch is "off" and the Pi still randomly boots, the Countercade switch obviously does not remove operating power from the Pi.
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What I'm talking about is either using a switched power strip . . .
. . . or a latching/rocker/toggle switch on the Pi's 5v input line like the latching pushbutton on this power supply.
- You can easily mod a cable like that by replacing the pushbutton switch with a rocker or toggle switch.
If neither of these approaches sound good to you, consider either doing a fresh install or . . . get a young priest and an old priest . . . :lol
Scott
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