Hello, I recently acquired a Naomi system and have successfully set up netbooting using a PC; now, I’d like to do the same using PiForceTools. Instead of buying a pre-configured Raspberry Pi kit (which includes a screen and memory card), I purchased a Raspberry Pi 3B separately. I couldn't find the Adafruit screen—it appears to be out of stock—so I bought the "I2C 16x2 RGB LCD KeyPad HAT with RGB Backlight V2.0" from DFRobot (link: https://www.dfrobot.com/product-188...0z2OIRytyf3zzXYSue-dBe8KOekLFvtTbO_r1Wtu9XVlw). I’ve already flashed the PiForceTools 1.5 image onto a 32GB microSD card, moved the ext4 partition to the end of the storage space, added games in .bin format to the "roms" folder, and included the `rgb1602.py` library. However, the screen remains blank—it doesn't light up, nor does it display any information. I’m a complete beginner at this; do I need to edit any settings, or do I need to compile a specific image to support this particular screen? Has anyone else tried using this screen? Thanks!
SOLUCIONADO Problems piforcetools lcd rgb DFROBOT
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If you have another sd card, try wipi
https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/naomi-pi-wipi-netbooter-compatible-with-pi-3-4.14019/
It’s been amazing and very easy to setup if your pi works. Only problem is you need to connect your phone to it as the controller, or you can set it to just boot to your game of choice on power up with no input.
Cheers
https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/naomi-pi-wipi-netbooter-compatible-with-pi-3-4.14019/
It’s been amazing and very easy to setup if your pi works. Only problem is you need to connect your phone to it as the controller, or you can set it to just boot to your game of choice on power up with no input.
Cheers
Thanks for the suggestion, but I want to use PiForce Tools; that’s why I bought the RGB display.
Another option is you want to go all out with a full colour screen is PiDimBoot:
https://gitlab.com/ezechiel/pidimboot
https://gitlab.com/ezechiel/pidimboot
It’s all sorted out now. Since I couldn’t find a solution anywhere, I took it upon myself to figure out how it worked—I was completely lost in the world of Raspberry Pi! I ended up modifying the files located in the `piforcetools` folder. Here’s a video showing the result:
I added a transfer progress bar and a percentage indicator for when a game is being sent, changed the welcome message, added a right-to-left scrolling effect for game titles that are too long, and included a "Now Running" indicator for the current game. Also, if there’s no activity on the screen for 10 seconds, the "Now Running" message triggers again. Take a look at the video—what do you think? If you like it and are interested, I can upload the files; perhaps an administrator could move this to a new thread and close this one out.
View: https://youtu.be/SJOMnGwz6Sw?si=AA4ZbBCiyVkJK0O6
I added a transfer progress bar and a percentage indicator for when a game is being sent, changed the welcome message, added a right-to-left scrolling effect for game titles that are too long, and included a "Now Running" indicator for the current game. Also, if there’s no activity on the screen for 10 seconds, the "Now Running" message triggers again. Take a look at the video—what do you think? If you like it and are interested, I can upload the files; perhaps an administrator could move this to a new thread and close this one out.