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can't find an AIO

Post by kalamazandy » Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:30 pm

I thought these were available when I started the project. In my haste, I realized it said preorder, and I can't seem to find one Anywhere. From what I'm reading Helder is no longer making them?

So for now I have a tiny crappy backup camera screen, running with my raspberry pi zero w on a cheap phone battery backup. I still have no audio, but that should be resolved with an AIO right?

Oh, and my original gameboy has been sitting on my desk mocking me the whole time. Like, "oh, you think you're going to jam new stuff in me and make me play snes, and some cool games? We'll see." Stupid mocking gameboy. It knows I don't have a chance of finishing this project.

I also can't get the screen to be legible in the retropie menu. It's a backup camera, variant 7 I think. I did have to jump the 12v wire to the...shoot, I can't remember what it's called. Anyway, I had to force it to work with 5v instead of 12v. The screen also shimmers a bit, but I saw something about forcing it to progressive scan.
These screens are actually 480x320 though right? Shouldn't I force the resolution to that so it scales things properly? It looked like the only way to control that was through hdmi controls, which I'm not using though. We're buying these screens so we can just use the composite wires right?

Any help pointing me to the right directions would be appreciated. It's a tough thing to just start, without really much knowledge of any of this.

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Re: can't find an AIO

Post by Helder » Tue Jul 10, 2018 2:00 pm

RetroGamingNow sells my AIO boards but there are others here who have some similar boards, look at the Sales/Trade forum.
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Re: can't find an AIO

Post by tinkerBOY » Wed Jul 11, 2018 5:57 pm

kalamazandy wrote:
Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:30 pm
I thought these were available when I started the project. In my haste, I realized it said preorder, and I can't seem to find one Anywhere. From what I'm reading Helder is no longer making them?

So for now I have a tiny crappy backup camera screen, running with my raspberry pi zero w on a cheap phone battery backup. I still have no audio, but that should be resolved with an AIO right?

Oh, and my original gameboy has been sitting on my desk mocking me the whole time. Like, "oh, you think you're going to jam new stuff in me and make me play snes, and some cool games? We'll see." Stupid mocking gameboy. It knows I don't have a chance of finishing this project.

I also can't get the screen to be legible in the retropie menu. It's a backup camera, variant 7 I think. I did have to jump the 12v wire to the...shoot, I can't remember what it's called. Anyway, I had to force it to work with 5v instead of 12v. The screen also shimmers a bit, but I saw something about forcing it to progressive scan.
These screens are actually 480x320 though right? Shouldn't I force the resolution to that so it scales things properly? It looked like the only way to control that was through hdmi controls, which I'm not using though. We're buying these screens so we can just use the composite wires right?

Any help pointing me to the right directions would be appreciated. It's a tough thing to just start, without really much knowledge of any of this.
The most commonly used screen is a 3.5" 320x240 composite screen. Most backup camera are like this. Just search for Game Boy Zero on YouTube and watch as many tutorials as you can.
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