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7:21 am
Ken
August 15, 2021
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I’ve recently completed my first ever mod of anything since I have no discernible DIY skills :). I have the legacy Arcade1Up Pac-Man cabinet and I followed/adapted ETA Prime’s modding guide and installed a Raspberry Pi 3 B+.
I bought a Sandisk Extreme 128gb Micro SD card and I’m now on my 3rd day trying to get a working image when the mod itself took less than a day. The one image that’s worked so far is the Scoony and Hursty’s 16gb Vertical Rise image, although the aspect ratio seems off because the left hand side of the screen is cut off. I had to create a 16gb partition on my SD Card and format that to FAT32 as well.
I’ve downloaded the 128gb Ultimate Vertical Retropie image but it just refuses to work and I get the black screen on boot.
I’ve formatted the SD Card to FAT32 and NTFS and it won’t boot. I’ve taken the power out of the Pi multiple times and plugged it back in and it still won’t boot.
I’d really appreciate some advice on what I’m clearly doing wrong and even some suggestions for Vertical arcade-only images that work as well.
Thankyou nice people.
9:53 pm
May 14, 2015
Offline Every image you find on Arcade Punks that we have done a video from has came from the actual same source you are downloading from – so the proof is in the pudding – they work.
Heres our method…
https://www.arcadepunks.com/knowledge-base/write-img-sd-card/
Check your SD Card, ensure you are using the correct Pi and so on…
9:40 am
Ken
August 15, 2021
Offline I appreciate your reply, thankyou.
While I have no real DIY skills, I do have some skills as far as the technical side goes. I know how to write images to SD Cards and I understand getting images that are compatible with the right device and so on. I used to work in I.T. so that side of things is pretty straightforward to me.
The Sandisk Extreme SD Card is/was brand new and purchased from Amazon. Since I made this post, I actually bought a second card – the “Kingston Canvas Select Plus” 128gb Micro SD, also from Amazon.
While this one is also a Class 10, it has a slightly lower read speed than the Sandisk extreme as I wondered if that might have been the problem.
As I did the first time, I tried writing the image with Win32DiskImager and Balena Etcher both times and both times I had the same problem – black screen on boot.
So that’s two brand new SD Cards and an image explicity designed for the Model Pi that I have, both written using two different utilities and both times, nothing works.
Since I wrote the original post, I decided on using the Scoony and Hursty image and that works just fine. I figured out the aspect ratio issue purely by chance, but it works – i can load and play games just fine on my cabinet, so I’d suggest that it’s not a hardware issue.
7:19 am
May 14, 2015
Offline Its definitely strange, as the vertical pi images we have on site are all personally tested (with video proofs) and have thousands of downloads each with little complaint, either way glad you got an image playing now 🙂
9:25 am
Ken
August 15, 2021
Offline Well the weird thing is, i started again yesterday and tried to be methodical about it. On each card, I used the default windows partition manager to delete all the partitions that these images had created and used the SD Card formatter that you’d linked to to do a full ‘overwrite’ format of each one, which formatted them both to exFAT.
Used Win32DiskImager again to burn the ‘Ultimate’ image to each card and still nothing happened. Since my Cabinet is in another room to my PC, I decided to unplug the Pi from the cabinet and bring it into the same room as my PC so I could at least plug it in to a HDMI port on my TV.
I went back to the SanDisk Extreme SD card and deleted the partitions again and re-created a new one as NTFS and re-burnt the image to it. Plugged it in to the Pi connected to my TV and, again, black screen of death.
Got fed up and switched the TV over to another channel to watch something and forgot about the Pi for about an hour. Switched it back to see that it was displaying an “Under Volatage detected” error so I unplugged the power and plugged it back in and .. it booted.
I quickly unplugged it again and went back to my cabinet and plugged everything in and turned it on and it did indeed boot – initially – into attract mode.
Upside down.
It made me laugh as I thought that’s just how my luck would go. So I followed the tips about updating EmulationStation binaries and added the “ScreenRotate” flag in autostart.sh.
The boot up video was still upside down but EmulationStation was the right way up – albeit it with completely the wrong aspect ratio as it was stretched beyond the screen size of the cabinet.
So I’ve either got to go through every. single. resolution in raspi-config to try and fix it or play with the config.txt file to try and fix it.
Or just copy off all of the arcade roms and add them to the Scoony and Hursty image that works for me. So either way, it’s going to be a headache.
3:20 pm
May 14, 2015
Offline Its a real easy process.
- Download
- Extract ( https://www.arcadepunks.com/knowledge-base/extract-multi-rar-archive/ )
- Write to SD card (which also formats/partitions all for you) ( https://www.arcadepunks.com/knowledge-base/write-img-sd-card/ )
Not sure why you are having so many issues , very strange – either way glad it all sorted 🙂
5:03 pm
Ken
August 15, 2021
Offline Well it’s not really sorted because none of it is really playable as it stands.
But then I’m copying off all of the roms before I do anything because at least I can add them to the working image I have. It’ll probably be easier just to manually edit the various collections and favourites on that one than it would be to figure out the aspect ratio problems.
4:36 am
Ken
January 5, 2021
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Hey Jason,
I went through exactly the same things you’re going through last year! I just wanted to say that the Ulimate Vertical is really great, once you get it up and running. I’m not sure how I can share my version of Ult Vert but I managed to get it rotated, added the Attract Mode configs and have configured joystick controls for many of the more problematic games on the image. It seems there was an older version of the image which you could rotate the screen, but the newer version you cannot. There’s no way to get the old one from Arcade Punks or from Backups.me so if you know of a way for me to make my version available to you, LMK and I’ll send it. I guarantee mine works.
11:44 pm
May 14, 2015
Offline Nate said
I went through exactly the same things you’re going through last year! I just wanted to say that the Ulimate Vertical is really great, once you get it up and running. I’m not sure how I can share my version of Ult Vert but I managed to get it rotated, added the Attract Mode configs and have configured joystick controls for many of the more problematic games on the image. It seems there was an older version of the image which you could rotate the screen, but the newer version you cannot. There’s no way to get the old one from Arcade Punks so if you know of a way for me to make my version available to you, LMK and I’ll send it. I guarantee mine works.
Hey if you want to share your version nate, drop us an email gamers at arcade punks dot com and we’ll link you to a ftp site we can share it from there 😀
6:42 am
Ken
January 5, 2021
Offline ok cool! I’ll try it.
11:56 pm
Ken
August 15, 2021
Offline hey, so sorry for the delay in replying. “Life” and all that.
I’d definitely be interested in Nate’s version if that’s possible ??. I’ve actually pulled all the arcade roms off Ultimate Vertical, as well as Mr Burns, and combined them with the Scoony image which is working, aside from having a lot of horizontal games and also games that need more than the three buttons i have like Street Fighter, but then that’s not the end of the world.
Every time I have a session on the cabinet, i just go through and tweak the games by deleting any duplicates and others that might not work for some reason, so i can always fine tune that eventually, but Nate’s version sounds like it would be ideal.
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