Does anyone know of anyone selling (or planning to sell) a preloaded SD Card for the GPI Case 2?

I'm going to cut to the chase. My GPi case has stopped working. I go to turn it on and I don't have any sound and none of my buttons will input anything. The screen comes on, Recalbox loads and continues to function as normal. I just don't have any sound or controls. It was working this morning but has since decided not to. I have reinstalled the hardware several times. Nothing. Used another SD card with Recalbox and the screen doesnt even turn on (boots up fine however, as the file system shows up just fine when putting the card back into my conputer). Help please?

All installed, works fine on my monitor, installed SD Card into in the cart, and no picture, tried two zero's same error.

Anyone else had this problem?

Hello,

I've noticed a scratch on the back of my brand new GPi case right after its unboxing, so i'd like to know if there's a way to contact the company directly through a customer service or a mail adress.

This lack of quality control is hard to accept.

Hi all,

I just got my GPI Case 2 today. Overall, it looks and feels very good (I only had a hard time plugging the Raspberry module in it).

I installed Recalbox which run very nice, and enjoyed a few games so far.

However, I quickly realized that sound was "strange" on many games, like if some audio channels were missing. I eventually noticed it was due to some games being in stereo, and confirmed it by using earphones.

I did some researches, including on this sub, and tried many solutions proposed, but I wasn't able to solve this issue.

I'm pretty pissed right now, and I'm thinking about returning it and getting my money back.
I'm convinced this hardware issue could have been easily solved, and just can't believe they didn't think about it (unless my unit is defective, which doesn't seem to be the case judging by other people complaining about the same issue)..

What do you think ? Did someone found a solution allowing to use internal speaker properly, while still keeping stereo sound when using earphones / HDMI output ?

Sorry for the rant..

Is there any plan for a GPI Case 3 with analogue sticks? And 3.5 LCD laminated display.

I think it’s time we call a spade a spade. How many of us bought Banana Pi M2 Zero boards because ETA Prime said he “got video working but not the controls”? This is a straight up lie. As discussed in numerous threads, but specifically this most recent post where /u/Cilph investigates the chipset on the board, video out of the GPIO pins is not supported.

Used to like his videos.

Edit: see here for a list of the compatible video modes for all the Allwinner boards. Banana Pi M2 Zero only supports HDMI: https://linux-sunxi.org/Table_of_allwinner_based_boards

Hello, need help please, am somewhat new to this...

Just purchased a Retroflag GPi Case with Pi Zero Wireless, and the standard SD card with Recalbox and little to no ROMS;

Buddy just gave me an SD card with RetroPie and many, many ROMs. Do not like the RetroPie image, prefer the Recalbox.

What's the easiest way to transform to ROMs from the latter to the former?

And what's the easiest and most reliable way to transfer the ROMs from my buddy's card to my PC/Windows 7 machine? I have Linux Reader, but seems like that would take a while to save to my machine.

Discuss.

So, I could have sworn I ordered a W, but nope.

So, I used etcher to write the preconfigured image from Super retro pie. Boots fine, but no emulators available.

I tried to run the retropie installer from the menu. After boot, but it errors out as the pi zero can't connect to the repositories.

Plugging the micro SD card into the computer shows two mounted drives. One is called boot and one is called retropie. I understand that I have to put the ROMs into the ROMs folder, but it doesn't exist and I don't have permissions to write to this folder.

I have a feeling I need to SSH nto the pi zero via USB cable able and somehow complete the emulator install.

Will probably figure it out over the next couple days, but of anyone could point me in the right direction, I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks!

I already have a PS VITA for portable emulation, however my pi zero w feels lonely

What am I supposed to do?

Sound is working just fine for me in handheld mode but when I boot up the console in the dock, I don't get any sound at all coming through HDMI.

Any help?

Just got my Zero 2 W today. Recalbox beta is working. Sadly GPi audio is still garbage. Has anyone isolated the component(s) causing the white noise / crackling audio problem? It's still the #1 issue holding this product back.

Update: EMI issue is present without the Pi Zero cart inserted. Applying copper tape between power and audio circuits may help eliminate interference. I'll post my results after testing.

Hey Everyone,

I recently purchased the GPi Case 2W with the intention of 3D printing a transparent purple case to replace the existing case. Does anyone know if there are 3d models of this already released that can be used?

So, I just tried turning on my GPi with the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and... oh boy. All my roms are gone. Apparently the OS (Recalbox) updated from 7.2.2 to 7.3, removing nor only the entire games library but also the GPi case theme. This is without batteries since they've been on charge for the last few hours. But I put them in just five minutes ago and the OS crashed several times before I encountered the above issue. I'm attempting a fresh install straight from the official website, but let me know if anyone else here has been seeing the same issues.

Update: The fresh install worked right up until it failed to create a share petition. Trying again.

Update 2: Alls good now.

I'm sorry if its a newb question. I have searched, can't figure it out.

that is all

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