Great video, I think I will try this out as I mod my Street Fighter 2 legacy cabinet. Quick question though regarding the script - will the script in this video cover everything: using the cabinet's on/off, volume switched and shutting everything down? Or will I have to run the scripts separately? Thanks again!
Question.. why not just use the arcade1up power button to activate the power strip and then just plug the pi and other items directly to the power strip? Without having to connect the pi in line? Is that not possible?
That is definitely possible and actually easier. The only problem is that it would shutdown the Pi abruptly and you might lose recent configurations done in the RetroPi UI (or worst case corrupt your sd card). The way I did it makes sure the Pi gets shutdown gracefully so all processes can save or clean up resources.
@code-recipes936 is there way to edit the shutdown script so it can wait longer before shutting down, it looks like it is shutting it down to fast on the pi4. It is not allowing it to save the metadata to the system.
Excellent video - I have a few questions about using this power switch mod on my own cab - Can you respond with your email address or Facebook messenger name?
Great video, I think I will try this out as I mod my Street Fighter 2 legacy cabinet. Quick question though regarding the script - will the script in this video cover everything: using the cabinet's on/off, volume switched and shutting everything down? Or will I have to run the scripts separately? Thanks again!
Yes, the same script will ask you to configure each one of those things. You just need to answer Yes to the ones you want to configure.
This worked one 💯%! I ha had my negative and 5v lead on the wrong terminals!
Hey man, good work. I am trying to do the same but with an atomic pi instead of with a rasberry pi... any details on that?
sorry, I have only work with a raspberry pi
Hi. This is exactly what I'm looking for but I tried to run your script through putty and it could not install your files. Please help..Thank you!
Question.. why not just use the arcade1up power button to activate the power strip and then just plug the pi and other items directly to the power strip? Without having to connect the pi in line? Is that not possible?
That is definitely possible and actually easier. The only problem is that it would shutdown the Pi abruptly and you might lose recent configurations done in the RetroPi UI (or worst case corrupt your sd card). The way I did it makes sure the Pi gets shutdown gracefully so all processes can save or clean up resources.
Hi, will this work on pi 4b ?
I have only tried it in my Pi3 but it could probably work out of the box or with minor modifications
@code-recipes936 is there way to edit the shutdown script so it can wait longer before shutting down, it looks like it is shutting it down to fast on the pi4. It is not allowing it to save the metadata to the system.
Can your script work with a regular arcade push button? Or does it have to be the a1up power switch?
Not as is but the script would need to be modified
Excellent video - I have a few questions about using this power switch mod on my own cab - Can you respond with your email address or Facebook messenger name?