PiCade

All of the PiCades we received (5) had to be modified because of bad hole placement in the screen acrylic.
- We had to purchase a stepper drill bit and widen the holes so that the screws would fit through all three layers properly.
At least one momentary push button (yellow button on console) had to be replaced because it would stick.
Before you power on the PiCade you will need to get RetroPie installed and edit the /boot/config.txt file (read below).

Download the RetroPie image to a Windows PC. You will need to uncompress the .gz file using 7-zip. Then use Win32diskimager to burn the image to an SD card.

Don't be alarmed when you power up the PiCade/Raspberry Pi for the first time and nothing shows up on the screen. Because the Pi looks for an HDMI source before it powers up the USB ports, the screen will not be detected. Remember, the screen gets power from the USB port and if it has no power it looks like it is off or not present.
You can force the Pi to output to HDMI by editing the /boot/config.txt file (you can do this by popping the SD card into a a separate Raspberry Pi). Edit the /boot/config.txt by typing sudo nano /boot/config.txt into the terminal. To access the terminal just hit the F4 key on your keyboard. Add the line hdmi_force_hotplug=1 to the bottom of the config file, save, and then reboot your Picade to enable the change.

PiCade Keys to Remember

There are many public domain game roms that are available with no copyright restrictions for personal use.

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