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Billy Mays (R.I.P. ya loud bastard)

MWUAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!

Fixed it... Here's a good one for you all - Yahoo "news" stories. You know the ones where the title is the whole story and some schlub did no research or article writing whatsoever. Usually a grand one liner then some face-rolling on the keyboard.

Top 25 movies that didn't suck!! #9 will shock you!

eBay - RARE!!!!ONEONE111!!

"LOL" - biggest lie on the intehwebs... Watch my wife text LOL all the time and I KNOW she didn't even chuckle. 'nuff said.

I was going to try it with the 3B+ but I also have an X-Arcade joystick to mod. Since I KNEW the 3B was compatible I just put that one in it. Adultery is right though I think they'll have updated scripts soon but nothing as yet. (Well TBH I haven't checked this weekend since I had to work.) I was originally going to go with the NESPi case but I like the fact I didn't have to attempt a physical mod to get a safe shutdown and, well.... I like the SNES better than the NES! Sue me. EDIT: I think that some of the reviews are saying the Kuma 9000 doesn't work with the 3B+ because of the new PoE pins next to the GPIO pins. These 4 pins block the massive mega-ultra huge heatsink from being mounted.

Not so fast...

Well on the Tankstick on my Arcade cabinet I use the bottom 4 buttons for shoulder buttons when needed but, more importantly, I use them for the universal exit configuration in GameEx. On the Solo? Pretty sure there are a ton of buttons to configure them to. ------------------------------------------------ EDIT: I forgot about my Super Kuma 9000 case! Came in yesterday and I had it up in 10 minutes. Case includes a custom board that connects to the GPIO which adds functional Power and Reset switches. The shutdown script installed fairly quickly. I REALLY like this thing! Only $19.91 on their homepage and Amazon.

Got my hands on an X-Arcade Solo today. Only thing missing is a DB9 Male/Male coupler. Once I get that in I am going to drop one of my Raspberry Pi systems in it and a fan.

So I got a very nice surprise yesterday. My Pi 3B+ came in already! It only shipped from Massachusetts so being only one state away I got it in 2 days. Here's my post from Atari Age on the things I noticed so far:

Yeah so I have been contemplating buying a 3rd board to use in a different project now that I have this stable. (Wife stole 2nd board for her own use ) SOOOOOooooooooo........ Since I was spending the money anyway I bought a Pi 3B+. Should be here today. Now I just need to wait for them to develop the newer RetroPie build. Apparently this board either won't run on Jessie or just doesn't like it but now it needs Stretch. I already bought a 5v/3A power adapter so now this board will get that one. Bah... who cares? I have the new board coming and will be ready to go when they release! MWUAHAHAHAHAHA!!! EDIT: ALL RIGHT!!! Got my package yesterday afternoon... I ordered a Pi B+ instead of a Pi 3B+. Stupid fast fingers ordering before reading thoroughly. So that one is going back and the new one is already on order. Should have it Thursday-ish. Revel in my stupidity!! I know I am...

Hadn't heard that...

Well I can already tell the difference on this card vs the previous two. Setting up video snaps was much faster, the videos load faster, they SEEM smoother (that could just be me though) and I have abused the card somewhat. Nothing bad has happened at all. Backing up the image as we speak.

I bought this at work today. This will be (probably) my last attempt at running the Pi. SanDisk 32GB card

I may look into that. While I AM enjoying the Pi3 project the constant SD card corruptions are driving me batty. the eMMC option the ODROID offers seems like I would appreciate it more. Plus... who doesn't like more power?

Wow this has been a fun few weeks. I can't remember the last time I spent so much time on a project I enjoyed. My Retropie is about 75% finished as far as setup and BACKUPS(!!!) go. I still want to go through the systems and set up Box Art in the Marquee section. It looks pretty good with the systems I have done it for already. Everything has a video clip. I either downloaded it from Emumovies or chopped up a Youtube gameplay video. In some cases I found PSP trailers which is really nice. How about a commercial for your game instead of just a gameplay video?? I'm in! Got my PS3 controller set up and persistent through reboots. Changed my intro splash screen to an awesome video I came across. I now have it booting to a 256GB USB drive instead of the 8GB SD card. It did take me forever to figure out the PSOne emulation and get it to stop skipping and freezing. Smooth as ice now. My favorite part of all of it so far? Destruction Derby 2(PS1) and Puzzle Quest(PSP) both work flawlessly! Accomplishments.... aaaaaahhhhhhhh.... so sweet. Next up: powered USB hub and an XArcade Solo to house it all. EDIT: INCREDIBLY pissed off right now. All I did was reboot the Pi - nothing else in the last few days at ALL - and I'm dealing with a "Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown- block(179,6)" error. I'm about to test how small it actually is and flush it...

https://www.gog.com/game/the_king_of_fighters_2002 next 42 hours. Aaaaand done!

So I grabbed myself a Raspberry Pi 3b from fleabay a week ago. (Also got one for the missus as well...) I installed RetroPie on it this morning... 3 times. First two times I did it something went wrong. First install got halfway through and corrupted. Not sure why. Second install *I* corrupted for lack of Linux knowledge. Silly me playing in the command system when I only know DOS commands. Third time's the charm!! EVEN THOUGH it took me an hour to get the keyboard to stay on the US setting... I have a few systems loaded on the 32GB card and loading more now as I type. I also learned about Selph's superior scraper program and started getting info and artwork from the web. My XBox 360 Rock Candy controller is the perfect gamepad for this setup. I wish I had done this sooner! Any advice for the newbie? What's your setup and experience with the Pi?

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