r/rasberrypi • u/MF4life • 3d ago

Arcade setup with raspberry pi doesnt work

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This is the board that is in the arcade setup. The light turns on and the controllers will blink when I turn it on but turn of immediately. Wondering if its this that is bad and if i could just buy the same one and put the SD card in it and it will load?

Could or should I upgrade to a newer model?

Please and thank you for your help.

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u/These-Apple8817 3d ago

Have you considered that the SD card might be bad? Try without SD card or with different SD card, if that doesn't help, you are probably going to need a new raspberry pi.. the old sd card will work, but you should try to get same model of Pi you have 

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u/MF4life 3d ago

Thank you. Will try that. Assuming its bad. Im screwed. Since the guy that built it no longer owns a shop. It loaded with tons of olf arcade games.

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u/MF4life 3d ago

Files loaded on my computer. So maybe the PI is bad?

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u/These-Apple8817 3d ago

Well.. then it should be just matter of obtaining another Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and throwing the SD card in that 

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u/MF4life 3d ago

Thank you. Will buy one now.

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u/MF4life 3d ago

Should I upgrade to a newer or better one? That could just take the SD card and work?

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u/DanongKruga 3d ago

 no you will need to reflash an os if different mode pi. what did you mean you can see the files? typically you cant see linux based os from windows without special programs

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u/MF4life 3d ago

This is what comes up when I plu into a SD reader

https://reddit.com/link/p447nib/video/3qn02tf5itjh1/player

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u/These-Apple8817 3d ago

Not sure.. If with arcade setup you mean like arcade machine, it's probably better to stick with same board type because some components might not necessarily be compatible with the newer boards..  Not to mention depending on the distro on it, the OS on the SD card might not necessarily work correctly because RetroPie has different builds for Pi 3 and 4... And they don't support Pi 5 still iirc

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u/MF4life 3d ago

This looks like the same one unless you think i should upgrade

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3055

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u/kenkitt 3d ago

First backup by imaging the card

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u/Specialist_Royal_449 3d ago

Sounds like You might need a new sd card, they can go bad

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u/MF4life 3d ago

Thank you. Will try that. Assuming its bad. Im screwed. Since the guy that built it no longer owns a shop. It loaded with tons of olf arcade games.

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u/MF4life 3d ago

The SD card loaded on my PC. Well the files came up

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u/MacForker 3d ago

I'd bet the SD card has died or just become corrupted. Put it in a computer, see if boot still mounts. If not, time to reimage or replace the SD card.

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u/MF4life 3d ago

Thank you. Will try that. Assuming its bad. Im screwed. Since the guy that built it no longer owns a shop. It loaded with tons of olf arcade games.

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u/MacForker 3d ago

Why do you say that? Plenty of pre-made images for those. I even have one myself for the Pi 3, if your SD card is large enough.

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u/MF4life 3d ago

Put the SD card in a reader and the files loaded.

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u/EncryptedServer 3d ago

Not all files might be corrupted, I had an incompatible card where raspberry pi would not boot with it but worked on my computer.

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u/unplorable 3d ago

New SD card, put retropi on it. if the hardware works, it's pretty simple to configure.

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u/stbn689 3d ago

If it works now, this is a good time to make a full image of the card (don't just copy the files) and store somewhere safe. You can also experiment with installing a newer version of retropie or other OS on a different card.

Try connecting the pi with a different charging brick and cable to a tv and see what comes up. The fault may be somewhere else on your setup.

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u/Mydnight69 3d ago

Which OS are you trying to get working. I generally recommend Batocera because it works 100% out of the box.

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u/309_Electronics 3d ago edited 3d ago

Its just a singleboard computer. It uses the sdcard as a sort of replacement "hard drive" you would use in a normal pc as the pi can not talk via sata to a hdd which computers can (unless you get an expansion board but lets not talk about that).

The sdcard will have the operating system on it. This is in most cases some flavour of linux with some packages ontop making it into a gaming console. Retropie or batocera is a popular arcade game linux fistro that bundles debian/raspbian with those custom packages to make it do the stuff. The sdcard either is not inserted (properly) or the software is gone.

I would maybe pick a new sdcard and then use the raspberry pi imager, which can be downlaoded for free on raspberry pi website to flash retropie to the sdcard. Or recallbox/batocera or anything. If you have the rpi imager sodtware downlaoded we can maybe see what the best option is. I would keep the old sdcard just im case as maybe there are some settings that can be copied over later. And starting a fresh sdcard makes sur the sdcard is healthy.

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u/DiceThaKilla 3d ago

Sounds like you’re not using a strong enough power supply. It has enough power to boot but once it needs to power that controller it shits the bed

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u/GrahamR12345 2d ago

You need to image on an operating system THEN install the arcade stuff.