sudomod

Thanks, I'll try your tips for the next one

After testing it for a while on the weekend. I wouldnt recommend my "solution". I played few hours and the kitchen foil got loose. I glued it, but it didt work well....

So i hope my softbuttons will arrive soon

Hey great work on the build - glad I was able to help with what I've done so far. So real nice mods and ingenuity on this build, that's awesome!

Looks top drawer

I se you did the battery monitor mod. How did you change the pin for the ‘a’ button? I’ve looked in the retrogame.cfg but don’t get any wiser since the pins don’t match up. Love your build

Thanks Lphillimore

Hey Lafleur, I was going to answer your PM but I think it's better to leave the solution here to everyone.
For this build I had to do 3 trace cuts on the pcb for A, R1 and UP.
"A" and "R1" because the ADS need it and "UP" because when you install the MintyPi battery monitor script,
pushing 'UP' button will switch on/off the battery icon with some lag if you are playing......
As I was unable to find where to change this key to toggle on/off icon in the script, I just made a trace cut and changed the mapping of "Up" button.
If somone know how to do it without trace cut you are welcome to post your solution
Be carefull when you do a trace cut, take your time and dont cut anything else.

Basically you just direct solder your buttons to the Pi, You can check on the wiki which GPIO are free to use here >
https://github.com/GameboyZero/GabozePo ... in-Mapping

I used 30AWG silicon wire to solder the 3 buttons, they won't take too much space in your shell
Here what i have done >
You can trace cut "UP" button if your Pi is allready in place, you have enough space to cut under the Pi, just be carefull and take your time.
Check and recheck before cutting

After this I changed the mapping like this:
- connect to SSH with putty. And you can edit it, CTRL + X to exit > Y to save change > enter to leave.
- Or just edit your retrogame.cfg when you plug your SD card on your computer.
At the end, reboot your console, wait untill you are on the game systems selection screen, push start and remap again your buttons in emulation station using the "gonfig input" option

Good Luck with your build

Thanks a lot. I’m so confused on all those PIN numbers and I actually don’t understand how you came up to those, but you are using the same pin for the ‘a’ button as I so I’m just changing it and hoping for the best

Ok, I think I understand why you are confused.
Maybe because you didn't see that Physical Pin numbers and GPIO are not labeled the same way.

Check this picture Let's take for exemple the A button after you did the modification to use an ADS.
The physical pin on your Raspberry Pi is the number 29 and the corresponding GPIO is 5
So if you solder something on your Pin 29, you will have to configure Retropie (or any other software) to use GPIO 5
Just use the picture and it's easy to understand

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After testing it for a while on the weekend. I wouldnt recommend my "solution". I played few hours and the kitchen foil got loose. I glued it, but it didt work well....

So i hope my softbuttons will arrive soon

You glued the aluminium foil to the membrane with cyanoacrylate glue or universal glue (a.k.a UHU)?

UHU....

Hi ely, first of all thanks for sharing your solution. I think the problem is the footprint of your pcb, which is the same as mine and I think that makes the contact harder. Recently the pads are made with an improved footprint (I think), which may solve the problem that you expose.



I will test both footprints and we'll see how it goes.