LogicalEgo Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Is quality. I love this thing. Fits all current pi models. I got lucky and snagged two at pre-order before the prices went insane. My nephews will be getting a very awesome xmas present this year. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothergoose729 Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Its on amazon for 25$ right now. I plan to get one. I am going to make a lakka build as a gift for my little brother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 On 10/17/2017 at 10:38 PM, mothergoose729 said: Its on amazon for 25$ right now. I plan to get one. I am going to make a lakka build as a gift for my little brother. Nice! Make sure to get this power supply. I had issues with mine, the board that the usb and power buttons run through demands a little more power. This fixed all my power issues. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01L8DVOFM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Cool stuff. I've got the Kintaro one: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothergoose729 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 14 minutes ago, keltoigael said: Nice! Make sure to get this power supply. I had issues with mine, the board that the usb and power buttons run through demands a little more power. This fixed all my power issues. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01L8DVOFM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I got a 2.5A power supply and it is working great so far. Only issues I have had is the shoddy wireless, which is just par for the course with the little Pi's. Mine works great, and the Pi sits in there snug as a bug. I am spending an inordinate amount of time getting boxart and everything setup. The media you download through Lakka is way to bloated for the slow storage on my Pi, and I don't want to risk data corruption by overclocking the bus. So instead I am poaching my LB image collection, resizing and compressing all the image by hand for what will probably be about 600 games I am loading on it. So far so good though. The XMB menus are responsive, and I don't get black images or unexpected crashes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 The image size and quality was also my issue with Lakka, Retropie - Emulation Station is not much better either. Good idea to resize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothergoose729 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 (edited) It is the 50mhz bus on the SD card that is the bottlneck. The limited memory also doesn't help. I have found that a per image size of 1mb or less is ideal. Anything over 2MB has noticeable load lag, and if you have a bunch of them it can cause the Pi to lock up. I set the maximum height on my boxart to 720px, and then resize the width to be proportional. After that I compress the PNG. Square images tend to be the largest, and some of them get up to 1.5mb or so, but it has worked so far in keeping the image sizes manageable even for a fairly large collection. I am getting a bit of a washed out effect on some of the noisier source image (the ones that go through a high resolution scanner look the worst for it). For the most part they look pretty decent. When I am finished with the project, I'll upload the my images and playlists for others to use if they want to. Edited November 13, 2017 by mothergoose729 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drphobus Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 just a little point of note if you use the fan option the noise can bring back the memories of retro PC's just try with heatsink only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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