Building a Raspberry Pi

I just got a Canakit, a 256GB Sandisk micro-SD, and the RetroPi image and I was set. I just used one of my old PS3 controllers as the controller as well as a cheap Mayflash arcade stick for fighting games. I've spent way more time playing on this than I have my PS4 over the last year.
 
GSP_37 said:
I think I knew that part, but didn't know if it mattered if V was less than 5 and A was bigger than recommended.
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Having too many amps from your charger won't hurt anything, the Pi like most electronics will only draw the power they need.
iirc anything not labelled as "fast" charging should run at 5v. @Madmick would be the one to give the info on charger specs.
 
I saw a recent article about Raspberry Pi with official 64-bit OS. Is this a "gamechanger" with the ability to use more than 3GB or whatever it was of RAM?

Is it now time to buy a Pi 4 with max RAM?

I also bought an official Apple 5W USB brick made in India for on the road emergency use, so may use that for power supply instead of what I bought from Home Depot that had slightly less than specs asked for. (I don't remember if I previously used iPad or iPhone USB brick for Pi 3)
 
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GSP_37 said:
I saw a recent article about Raspberry Pi with official 64-bit OS. Is this a "gamechanger" with the ability to use more than 3GB or whatever it was of RAM?

Is it now time to buy a Pi 4 with max RAM?

I also bought an official Apple 5W USB brick made in India for on the road emergency use, so may use that for power supply instead of what I bought from Home Depot that had slightly less than specs asked for.
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Unless you're running a Pi with more than 4gb of ram or the software you're using has a 64 bit version, there's not really a reason to upgrade to 64 bit. For now.
The Pi OS has always been able to use more than 4gb of ram, it just used some wizardry to achieve it.
If you were doing a fresh install, I'd go with the 64 bit version. If you have a Pi running already, I wouldn't reinstall the OS just for 64 bit.

Trying to find any Raspberry Pi for sale right now is difficult. Digikey has an estimated lead time of 1 year on most models.
 
Maybe by the time I could buy a 8GB Pi 4, a newer more powerful one will be released. Good thing I didn't buy the components for Pi 4 yet.

Looking forward to seeing what 64-bit + 8GB RAM does with the faster processor for PPSSPP, N64.
 
GSP_37 said:
I saw a recent article about Raspberry Pi with official 64-bit OS. Is this a "gamechanger" with the ability to use more than 3GB or whatever it was of RAM?

Is it now time to buy a Pi 4 with max RAM?

I also bought an official Apple 5W USB brick made in India for on the road emergency use, so may use that for power supply instead of what I bought from Home Depot that had slightly less than specs asked for. (I don't remember if I previously used iPad or iPhone USB brick for Pi 3)
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If you are using a Pi for RetroPi, memory doesn't really matter. Even the DC emulators don't really use more than 1GB of memory. Emulation is more of a GPU/CPU thing. You probably won't see much emulation improvement until there are Pi's with CPU's that run at a constant 2ghz.

Edit: read some of the older posts from this thread and it looks like you knew about this.
 
I'd skip the Rasberry Pi and build a Mister instead. You might be paying more money but it'll be accurate and the updates are exciting.

Pis are cheap and easier to use but you'll probably run into some compatibility issues and emulation can be spotty.

 
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$370 for Mister sounds like too much. I like how Pi has all sorts of stuff ready to go and the much cheaper price.
 
If it’s just retro games you’re after just download massive rom packs. I’ve had over 10k games on my busted pc for years and I just use usb controllers or you could use adapters if you prefer the real ones. USB ones auto program but I don’t think real ones with adapter cords do.
The only issues are with some N64 games.
 
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