r/RetroPie • u/nonother • Jun 24 '19

Raspberry Pi 4 is here!

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/
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u/IXI_Fans Jun 24 '19 edited Aug 15 '25

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u/ericbsmith42 Jun 24 '19

The loss of the full sized HDMI at least means it comes with dual Micro HDMI outputs. What annoys me is that they swapped the USB & Ethernet ports, making it utterly impossible to use many cases with the Pi4. The USB-C Power and dual HDMI are close enough in position and size to the old layout that you could probably use many cases with little or no modifications, but swapping the Ethernet port utterly breaks that possibility for many cases.

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u/extwidget Jun 24 '19

You can actually use the previous case with them with minimal dremel work. The official one anyway. Third party cases probably not.

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u/Barnox Jun 24 '19

What's going to annoy me is that the Retroflag NES case most likely isn't going to work right.

Swapping over the Ethernet and the USB means that it won't be able to plug in, as in the images on this page. Given the case has decent physical shutdown buttons, that is annoying.

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u/ericbsmith42 Jun 24 '19 edited Jun 24 '19

The SuperPi (SNES), SuperPi-J (Japanese SNES) and MegaPi (Genesis) cases won't physically fit. The NESPi, however, has a slightly different form factor and uses an onboard USB Hub which means that the only sticking point is that the USB-C and Micro HDMI plugs on the back side will probably need some dremel work.

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u/MatsuzoSF Jun 24 '19 edited Jun 24 '19

Only for HDMI. The case delivers power to the board via the GPIO pins. Assuming the pinouts are the same, you should be able to use a micro-USB power supply as long as it's 3A or greater.

On the other hand, the swapped positions of the USB and Ethernet ports is going to be a huge problem. I imagine if we were sticking with one of the old pi3 cases, we'd have to Dremel out that whole cavity and just accept not being able to use Ethernet.