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    Raspberry Pi 3B+ (Plus) - Compatible?

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    • Substring
      Substring @Dessy last edited by

      @dessy sadly it won't help as it's a matter of how the kerbel detects the board. You'd need an UART to be helpful as of now

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        GameBoy last edited by

        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16307/retropie-4-3-15-stretch-images-for-testing

        In Retro Pi 4.3.15 the Kernel modyfied and work well on New Pi 3 B+. Did this help us for recalbox ?

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          Substring @GameBoy last edited by

          @gameboy nope, because we're on kernel 4.4 😛 we'd need to b*mp to 4.9, adapt kernel patches and rebuild. I'm working on it

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          • Gaetan
            Gaetan Theme moderator @Substring last edited by

            @substring Maybe it's a bit early for you to give the answer, but maybe you'd know already.
            Will it be the same Recalbox .img file to burn on both pi3 B and B+ or a different one ?

            Boards : Now: Nuc i7 7567u // Past: Rpi3 B, Rpi3 B+, Odroid xu4
            Controllers : Ps3 dualshock, 8bitdo SFC30 pro, Snes wired controller

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              Substring @Gaetan last edited by

              @gaetan i think it should be the same, can't be sure yet. It's mainly a dtb change (+ major kernel change concerning recalbox)

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              • Gaetan
                Gaetan Theme moderator @Substring last edited by

                @substring Thank you for the answer. Specially when I like it 🙂

                Boards : Now: Nuc i7 7567u // Past: Rpi3 B, Rpi3 B+, Odroid xu4
                Controllers : Ps3 dualshock, 8bitdo SFC30 pro, Snes wired controller

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                • hex12
                  hex12 @Gaetan last edited by hex12

                  @substring sorry but i am really curious to know if improvements on pi3 b+ will reflect in updated performance on recalbox, in particular in n64 emulation. Except the 200MhZ CPU speed, what i think could be useful is the improvements in termal, which i read should bring to a 1,2GhZ stable speed of Pi3 b+, where normal Pi3 should decrease to less than 1GhZ. For sure, as GPU doesn't change, there won't be a high performance increase on emulators, but maybe framerate could be a little more stable on emulators that requires more system resource and most of all if we user active dissipation (heat sink+fan). If you have some datas on that and can share, it should be good to evaluate differences with the two Pi3 models on our favourite applicaton 🙂

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                    Substring @hex12 last edited by

                    @hex12 ain't nuttin' 😞 voljega shared a benchmark showing some interesting improvements. Gralicek2 said they can ve nicely overclocked. So all in all, you could reach 1.5Ghz, maybe 1.6. I can't tell if it's good improvement, and we sadly have no benchmark suit available (tjat's something i'd love to write but we lack devs)

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                      • joinski
                        joinski @hex12 last edited by

                        @hex12
                        take a look at this little review:
                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_dEaRIevo

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                        • dizeLL
                          dizeLL last edited by

                          i've received today my new pi3 b+. libreelec and raspbian works. recalbox not.

                          @substring you got your pi3 b+ already? im so hyped to test the new performance on recalbox. 🙂

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                            Substring @dizeLL last edited by

                            @dizell we have an internal build working fine on pi3+, needs some fixing here and there, nothing bad. The real problem is that we can't include it in the current build as any kernel update would brick recalbox. Working hard on finding a solution without forcing people to reinstall from scratch

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                              noktambule @Substring last edited by

                              @substring said in Raspberry Pi 3B+ (Plus) - Compatible?:

                              Working hard on finding a solution without forcing people to reinstall from scratch

                              Thanks for your amazing work.
                              But don't worry, reinstall from scratch is not a big deal!

                              Raspberry pi 2; recalbox 6.1 ; carte SD SanDisk 32go; alimentation 2a; jeux sur disque dur externe auto alimenté; manette dualshock 3 officielle + clone chinois driver bluez ; branché en hdmi.
                              Ordinateur: Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS

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                                roman126 @noktambule last edited by

                                @noktambule @substring

                                Same for me, New Pi 3B+, and new fresh install to go with it! I have this obsession that new installs are always better than upgrades! I have the same thinking when updating my IOS devices 😄

                                Thanks for all the hard work guys, appreciated

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                                  Substring last edited by

                                  Pi3b+ forces us to switch to kernel 4.9 (we're on 4.4), and in the coming weeks, raspberry should switch for good on 4.14. So we can't always get that late comparing to official kernel releases. That's also forgetting the x86 kernel release cycle is much faster ...

                                  So i'm working on a new update process

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                                  • kazki
                                    kazki last edited by

                                    that's a good thing to know that a internal version of recalbox works with R3B+
                                    I'm building a second bartop and I'd like to use the new raspberry pi 3B+
                                    it's quite irrelevant to install recalbox from scratch since you always advised to use usb drive to store roms, of course it takes longer to load but I think it's worth the wait at every boot: I can manage my roms on a usb drive directly (adding and more often deleting titles from a full set, I know I should own the originals and so on)

                                    I tried retropie since the beta is compatible with P3B+ and to my humble opinion although it's really nice to be able to set every thing, I really appreciate the simplicity of recalbox

                                    Thanks for your efforts guys, I'm looking forward to installing recalbox on a new R3B+

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                                    • roman126
                                      roman126 @kazki last edited by

                                      @kazki agreed, how much longer does it take to load from USB? Twice as long, 3 times as long?, maybe I should try and find out for myself 😄, yes the very thought of trying to get all the roms off my memory card, to do a new build for 3B+ when it’s available fills me with dread. Time to invest in a decent Nano USB memory stick!

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                                      • kazki
                                        kazki @roman126 last edited by

                                        @roman126

                                        i just chronometered
                                        it took about 1min25sec to boot from usb drive on (i used a USB3.1 64GB Sandisk USB drive Sandisk Ultra fit newest version)
                                        compared to under 30 sec with a Sandisk Ultra micro sd card

                                        It can take a while to transfer roms through ethernet I think it's easier to manage my roms library from usb drive. That's not really the subject here so I won't develop

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                                        • roman126
                                          roman126 @kazki last edited by

                                          @kazki true, thanks I’ll give it a whirl

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                                          • Marcos Filipe Pereira
                                            Marcos Filipe Pereira last edited by Marcos Filipe Pereira

                                            I just bought my RP 3 B + put the latest Recalbox and did not work( no booting). 😞
                                            Do you know if there is a way to make it work ?
                                            Thanks!

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