Experimental Pi PiBoy DMG Kit Assembly Guide- Raspberry Pi 4 GameBoy

[@sm0thrdhp]

I'm so pumped to get mine, I just keep watching these videos over and over. lol

[@hugodonnadie]

Me too😂

[@danderson7755]

Man bro, me too. I won't get mine til the end of Oct or first week of Nov

[@leonhawkins1955]

You guys get yours yet?

[@pgtmr2713]

Day 6: Watching this again to gauge if I can make my own aluminum heatsink to slip between the fan and processor. It looks possible. Double sided thermal tape. I'm going to drill as many holes as possible in a flat piece, hammer it against another aluminum heatsink that has the proper depth for the chips, and cut to fit around everything else. Might even make some vent holes in the plastic. We'll see.

[@starboyk]

Thanks for this video! I made a custom case for this back in 2021, but it never quite closed up tight enough after. Either the back triggers would be smashed all the way in, or - as I'd been using it - I'd left a few screws about three turns too loose. Sure, it liberated the stuck triggers, but I didn't feel comfortable taking it out of the house. Cracked it open last night, and narrowed it down to the aluminum heatsink from Experimental Pi's overclocking kit. It was jutting up on one side due to a choke that's about twice the height of the CPU (don't quote me on the technical terms, I just like fixing things). Took a hacksaw to a remove a 10x10mm corner, put it back together, fits flush finally! Problem is, I forgot which screw holes were for what. This video helped me resolve that issue, so thank you very much!

[@RCfromtheNYC]

Nice little DIY kit! I pre-ordered mine and plan to go a little deeper into this unit and install colored Famicon buttons.

[@totophi]

Would be nice to have a GBA gen. 1 (“landscape”) option as I have an injury, making a wider case an attractive concept.

[@ryjelsum]

Take a look at the ODROID-GO. 60 dollars (80 dollars assembled if you can't or don't want to do it yourself) and it has a decent rockchip SoC in it. I have no personal experience with it but it looks mighty interesting to me.

[@UNSCPILOT]

I agree, a GBA built on this bases would be perfect

[@nicolas.adenis-lamarre]

does it work with batocera ?

[@Sajin_71]

I just ordered mine today, and I'm extremely excited for it. The only caveat is I may or may not have missed the first batch being shipped out.

[@yanx007]

I talked to one of the developers and he says that they are now shipping daily.

[@WhySoBroke]

Yan on KZbin Do you get a notification when it is shipped? I don’t want to bother support, I rather have them working hard putting those babies together

[@Sajin_71]

I also did ask them on Facebook, they confirmed the daily shipping thing. And you get an email notification when yours gets shipped out. My order was sadly in the 3000s, so I'm going to assume it'll be shipped out by the end of this month.

[@bgzdarrell]

can you pretty please do a video going through a bunch of games/review? I love your videos.. ty :) - I bought a fully assembled one yesterday.. unsure when itll ship.. but im super excited and jealous you reviewers got it!

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

Heya Peeps.. Here's a new Discord for PiBoy DMG - discord.gg/tVSMNhmdNR

[@commander_nojj]

ETA PRIME now that you've had time with this unit would you pick this over the Odroid Go Advance or would you still say the Odroid is your handheld of choice this year?

[@mikinos822]

You're right, not bad, I have sausage fingers, so there were a few times I needed to take a breath. Additionally, I had heat sinks I needed to remove (wasn't aware they wouldn't fit with the fan, yeah I'm new at this kind of thing). What had me was wondering, is why you didn't screw down the HDMI adapter. Well, I tried for almost 20 mins and no joy/impossible. Good tutorial as always. You and another dude are the reason I settled on the Pi Boy DMG.

[@DarthPooh]

All I want know is can it play GameCube full speed and psp full speed?

[@stephenmcgee3482]

just ordered one yesterday. I'm super excited to load this thing up with the same build you did! pi4 4gb. Probably going to pick up a 64gb SD card as well.

[@lordofsquad]

If you ordered the assembled version it actually comes with a pre-flashed 64GB card

[@esprithk]

wow. Thumb up for your video. This is the easiest GameBoy kit I have seen in the market at the moment.

[@SordidEuphemism]

I wonder if it'd be possible to solder a cable to the USB 3.0 ports and run it to a SSD in the battery box...

[@UNSCPILOT]

Given that SD cards can be up to 1 terabyte, and you can get high capacity low profile USB storage, trying to stuff an SSD in seems like unnecessary extra bulk. An m.2 NVME on the pi itself would be good though

[@UltraPrimal]

A cool retro GameBoy style Pi case that can be played both as a handheld and as a console? This is exactly what I've been looking for! I was checking their website and noticed they also have other colour cases you can buy. But unfortunately there's no option to just buy an assembled kit, or even just the full kit, with one of the other colours in place of the original GameBoy grey. Seems like if you want a fancy colour, you're stuck with an extra case and doing some disassembly and reassembly no matter what.

[@vincentgerritzen8749]

can i use the raspberry pi 3b too for this?

[@kirbystar1]

Yes

[@lastdeezylastdon]

Im a huge fan of everything you do. Do you think that frankensteining an ice tower cooler for the ras pi out the back would still have this thing operating? Im thinking of carefully cutting out a square in the plastic and having the ice tower pop out the back.

[@dirtydirtmcgogurt]

Im looking at their website. Is there anything missing, if I "part it out"? As in, you can buy the kit, or you can buy all of the components individually (Don't need/want some of the extra features). ETA Prime mentions the PCB being inside already. SO... is the PCB included in the one of the individual parts (like the replacement case, etc.)? Can't seem to find any mention of a PCB on any of the part descriptions. Or should I stop nickel and dime-ing, and spend $30 more on the kit? I guess it's worth mentioning, that I enjoy making RPI projects... So, I don't mind doing extra work to save a few bucks.

[@juggalotuz04]

Is there enough room to put a small heat sync on the CPU/ GPU?

[@ETAPRIME]

A copper shim would fit perfectly

[@juggalotuz04]

@@ETAPRIME that's what i was curious about, thank you.

[@Rick_Todd]

I'm sure people will start to make silent cooling options for this after a short while , How is the fan noise if you fully overclock the Pi 4 to the Maximum ?

[@Pender666]

@@ETAPRIME Thanks for the vid. I just got one kit fully assembled with 4gb using your affiliated link. Watching some videos shows great performance improvements when using 64bit os instead 32bit retropie distro. Looking in the tutorial section on experimental pi website there's a topic about installing the safe shutdown and OSD. But in item 8 they say I must add dkms and the kernel headers but not explaining how. Can you please make a video showing how to install lakka or Ubuntu matte on piboy dmg but with that step in the video? Thanks a lot for your videos.

[@flognort]

hey ETA i just ordered one of these along with an order from adafruit of a pi4 and a zero. I saw the piboy was compatible with the zero, could you make a video assembling it with the zero? Always love the vids, Thanks

[@Jerryli72]

I have an Pi4 in an old Style NES Shell, my Question is, do i have to remove the 3 Heat Sinks?

[@gabnc7915]

i was wondering the same thing

[@SweetBlu]

Yes unless it is a VERY thin/low profile as you can see there is no space between the fan and fan hat. I am pretty sure it pretty much touches the cpu lol

[@Jerryli72]

Ok, i have to remove it. That are Sinks that were in a Pack with Power Supply, Red/White Case, etc. Are they easy to remove?

[@NScherdin]

Most likely. The fan is pretty close to the top of the chips on the PI4. I only found one really low profile heatsink(more like a thermal spreader with some ridges) that would probably fit. The tiny heatsinks you find on eaby are too tall if that gives you some reference. But in general heat should be kept around 55 to 60c with the default fan profile.

[@NScherdin]

@@SweetBlu2mm gap or so from the heatspreader on the Pi4 main processor. Measured by mark one eye ball so I could be off a little.

[@fabulousasia9848]

What would you suggest to be the best way to map the buttons? I have everything installed but I can't seem to find the best mapping for the buttons. Thanks!

[@ken3609]

I do I need the HDMI adapter for the pi4?

[@Propergame]

Thanks for giving me great content so early

[@mcellycell]

I didn't see a heat sink on the pi4. can you use a heat sink or is not needed because of the fan? sorry if i should know this but i'm not an experienced pi user yet.

[@razorx2024]

could you recommend some heatsinks you could apply to this that wouldn't interfere with the fan thanks.

[@SirZanZa]

it really dont need any, not even at max OC the fan is more than enough

[@walidtyawil8215]

I just received mine but when i turn it on, the screen is blank even tho i put the right image that is already tested and did the reset by holding left analog stick down but still no luck!

[@Rick_Todd]

How is the fan noise if you fully overclock the Pi 4 to the Maximum ? I'm sure people will start to make silent cooling options for this after a short while.

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

How do this one work if you wanna connect it to a tv? Does the screen go black if it detects a hdmi? Can you connect an electricwire like normal?

[@charliemaybe]

i really want to run raspbian with a GUI and the pre-made image is the lite version with no GUI. How do I modify my own image because their website does not help. the instructions do not make a working image on the pi boy dmg with a full raspbian image

[@zaakir1255]

My experimental pi is just flashing red. It was working a month ago. And now I don’t know what to do

[@rcaetano223]

Can we install some low profile heatsinks on the pi for better cooling? Can you suggest some heatsinks?

[@tombixler]

Are you able to use this as your controller and have the hdmi output to a larger monitor? Sorry if newb question

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

Is that battery pretty snug? Do you think it's possible to fit a heftier amp/hr battery in it?

[@Rickyrick423]

I ordered the assembled kit plus an all black shell. I wonder if it’ll be easy to switch out the insides. Most concerned for the screen. Hope it’s not glued on

[@xstlthx]

I just ordered a shell as well and emailed them about the glass. Nathan at ExperimentalPi said the glass is already installed on the shells. It's not recommended for a user to replace it themselves and they probably spend more time on that than any other part of the build!

[@NScherdin]

@@xstlthx The LCD just slides out of one case and into the new one. Its a snug fit because we have a rubber bumper on the bottom of the lcd. The glass, however, is not removable so each case comes with it already installed. Well, techically you could remove it but I wouldn't recommend it.

[@xstlthx]

@@NScherdin Yeah man! I was just trying to convey to him what you told me this morning :). Definitely appreciate the work you guys are putting into this project!

[@bimbadil]

Waiting for my package, bought it after your first video about it ;) Your link was helpful ;)

[@jub8891]

did your package arrive?

[@bkrman]

Hi ETA PRIME, please could you check if the PiBoy build controls would work for selecting boot options using a multiboot SD card? I would like to use this case as a portable console but have the option to plug an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse and use it as a standard raspberry desktop computer. Thanks!

[@TheOddybody]

Black PCB looks so clean. Want this set.

[@sebastienbleau7870]

Does the helders tech megabat 4.5 battery fit in the in the battery compartment

[@kvn1529]

hi, question i am really bad with computers and all this.... so I actually bought a sd card with a lot of games for my rasberry pi but when I installed everything the piboy dmg's screen never boots is there a way you could help me fix this problem please? btw I only have macbook and when I put the sd card to my laptop I cant find the roms .... Thank you in advance

[@carlbergstrom2627]

That looks fantastic, but why are the xyz and abc buttons labeled backwards? Edit: on closer inspection I see they wanted the snes Nintendo button layout xy on top and ba on bottom. I guess I just grew up with Genesis and the six button abc xyz layout.

[@Richie016]

Tearing down the portable console to assemble the rpi-4 is awesome.

[@cb4j]

I've been looking at these this week. Looks like the site has updated today with 1-3 week backorder, raised price on the base kit by $10 ($99.95) and it doesn't include the LiPo battery or power supply. Maybe that was always the case but it wasn't as clear before.

[@das_oni]

Hey there, thanks for the video. Could you tell me if i could use a copper heatsink mod on the chips? They are propably 4,5 - 5mm high. Would they fit between the piboy board and the raspberry board? Could you tell me this?

[@csolisr]

No way to move the speaker a bit more to the center? I really, REALLY hate asymmetrical mono speakers

[@wewd]

That's how the GameBoy always was, and most 8 bit and 16 bit consoles had mono sound anyway.

[@csolisr]

@@wewd Indeed, and I hated those too. Had to carry my headphones everywhere because of that.

[@ThylineTheGay]

Have you heard of the circuit sword by kitero?

[@charlyrivera2562]

Amigo por qué no funciona como una Raspberry pi normal? Le puse mi Raspberry pi 4 que funcionaba normal con microsd de batocera, también como Tv BOX y cuando esta armada en la piboy dmg pongo la Microsd de batocera, TvBOy y de rasbian y no levanta imagen. Solo levanta imagen con retropie de experimental pi. Hay alguna solución para que funcione como una Raspberry pi normal al estar armada?

[@literallymemoviesenjoyer]

hello eta prime this is a very irrelevant question but can my gaming laptop run rpcs3 on 4k 60fps without lag specs: cpu: i7 9750h gpu: geforce gtx 1660ti ram: 16gb

[@franlucas16]

Excuse you can this case for Retropie and normal use with distros Ubuntu, Librelec

[@AaronJones-kw9to]

Will heat sinks fit under that hat in this case?

[@guardiangibbs2663]

I have a spare raspberry Pi 3b+ that never gets used. I'm gonna have to get this and use it for portable 4th gen or older.

[@Garthock]

Is this thing loud? Seems like it would be with that big fan on it

[@omersucuoglu8469]

Any chance you could do a lineage os build on the pi boy dmg? been trying to get it to work with no joy so far

[@Jacksons_Palmer]

My Raspberry pi 4 has heat sinks on it, do you think it will fit with the fan on it or not?

[@XxrockxX30]

I don’t see any software to download it like you described

[@doro4414]

Are buttons and display GPIO driven???

[@scott1986]

Thank eta for this video 😊💯👍. I am your biggest Italian fan👍

[@STR82DVD]

Amazing build lad. Huge thanks.

[@mervcharles8365]

Im late to this video but the link is broken. Are they still selling these?

[@leonoliveira8652]

These cases are pretty nice. I wonder what one like that, a pi zero/zerow, and pico-8 would look like. I mean, its a bunch of really good lightweight games, some better than NES or GB. It's sad how hard it is to prepare, tho.

[@joelvandam]

I can't wait for them to send ship them out. Planned a full Chrono Trigger play through!

[@bigshacaca6932]

@etaprime which do you prefer piboy dmg or odroid be? I can't decide

[@TheRealMax77]

Will you ever do a emulation test on the chuwi hero box?

[@antoine3777]

Hi ! I have a question 😊 do you think a 8gb raspberry pie 4 is usefull for that piboy dmg or the 2gb is enough (and i'll take the assembled version) ? Thanks !

[@ahlidap]

I hope soon we can get a good laptop case for rpi4... No 300$ educational and thick stuf. Just something like this, but with keyboard and bigger screen... Does anyone knows of something like this at the moment?

[@UltraCon79]

Does the fan directly contact the chip? Shouldn't we use a one of the small heat sinks?

[@NScherdin]

About a 2mm gap. Same concept as the Pimoroni fan shim. Fan directly cools the CPU.

[@UltraCon79]

@@NScherdin safe to overclock to 2ghz?

[@NScherdin]

@@UltraCon79 Its been tested to 2.147ghz. Not all versions of Raspbian supports it. 2ghz seems to work on all OS versions. Above is a bit hit or miss but physically the Piboy can provide the power necessary to try.

[@Real_The_Goof]

I love the hulking size of this thing!

[@billybob7502]

how do you set up the Z button for n64? love the content

[@Parasiteadvent]

I can't wait!!!

[@mjones329]

Is there room for a thin heat sink?

[@leontchekmedyian]

@ETA PRIME can you please check a new version called DMGx that is coming out. It will have color cases, USB-C, and better fan venting. Thanks!

[@danielkennedy5210]

Can you use that kit on an original dmg gameboy

[@natevirtual]

can you swap the fan for a 10mm noctua one?

[@BlastarX]

Does this device's LCD gets video from GPIO Pins ?

[@DigiCrit]

What does ETA stand for plz? answer

[@kangaroo4024]

Would a pi 5 fit? :)

[@maharj1]

Okay you have pretty much sold me on getting one of these prebuilt units. I have one question. For my current retropie build I downloaded a prebuilt image. Can I do the same with this handheld?

[@bigmalletman9453]

i'm sure someone somewhere will start community images at some point, but it sounds like Experimental Pi will have their own image already.

[@almostmatt1tas]

What an awesome product this is.

[@ImmaSayKOOHWIP]

Any clue what operating system would be best to turn this into a portable doomsday information terminal?

[@retrogamingnmore2513]

Thank you ETA another excellent video

[@Rule7SK]

what you really need is a video showing how to flash the card and the steps you take in updating the firmware and all this stuff. That's the only part nobody shows you. The instructions on experimental pie aren't easy. That's def. an important part that you missed in this video. Especially people that have a corrupt card and want to re-flash it and start over.

[@venusprinzj8094]

I used a pi4, but if i turn it on, its only flashing green and thr back light turns on. Nothing happens after that. Can some one help me?

[@cruzin1383]

hey eta prime have you been able to run the virtualmans 1.98 image on this? i got mine and i cant run it, if you can help me out that would be great. PS im running the pi4 4gb.

[@mutechannel13]

I have a 32gb image running and I have another card with Vmans 512gb image to match my arcade. I had issues but I notice the brand of the sd card mattered alot. I tried plenty of cards. The Samsung Evo 3 is the only card I got to boot in this pi successfully without any error messages or issues

[@titogreggy]

This video just confirmed my purchase. Can you do a video removing the screen? I’d like to see how easy it is, I want to order the DIY kit with the different color housings. Thanks!

[@foxbox19]

Just preorder one. Thanks ETA

[@stevematix]

Hope for a landscape version 🕹

[@DigiCrit]

they have one coming in the summer

[@cyyxc]

Very nice!

[@esmith13]

This thing is GREAT! I love mine! @ETA Prime do you know what the key command is to show/hide the overlay info at the top? Mine is on all the time...

[@SweetBlu]

When did you order to already have yours???

[@esmith13]

@@SweetBlu April/May if memory serves...

[@NScherdin]

No key combo but you can edit the /home/pi/osd/osd.cfg text file to disable/enable what shows. You can also edit the fan profile in that file.

[@altersilentium]

I have to wonder if it would be worth using the 8gb Pi or if it would be overkill?

[@Xanar]

Can you use the PiBoy as a Raspberry case and kinda use it as a Desktop when you're at home?

[@chingoedw88]

I think you can

[@juggalotuz04]

@@chingoedw88 yes

[@davidnetix]

You can if you install the HDMI adapter.

[@IRWPD]

Seems straight forward to put together.

[@razorx2024]

how easy would it be to mod this so it has L1, L2 and R1, R2?

[@netrodus]

Since pi4 can take Android. Does it make sense to use it in this setup.

[@brytonsumampow2979]

Is there any way I can review this to? I want this to be my first vid on my new channel I just made it is a tech channel

[@multicat2742]

I would suggest just buying one.

[@brytonsumampow2979]

Multi Cat I can’t wait until September

[@SweetBlu]

Why can’t you wait until September?

[@brytonsumampow2979]

SweetBlu it is a long time

[@SweetBlu]

Bdog 8910 nah. It’s like a month man. And even then they aren’t gonna send reviewers any more early. They are already sent out. Plus they only send out to reviewers who have large followings that why they do it. Just start doing reviews and get followers and you’ll get review units eventually man.

[@denverterry7717]

do you have any promo codes for these. maybe free shipping or something?

[@Shredbmx221]

Does anyone know if I can run a version of Raspbian with mouse keyboard and monitor from my piboy with pi4b?

[@cs9927]

Is this the base or full kit?

[@WilburforceBuckshot]

I heard this is commimg to amazon before the end of year :) ill be waiting for that as its too expensive because of shipping to my country.

[@Rick_Todd]

You better be quick then , because you know what happened with the RetroFlag GPI case don't you ? It's a big risk if you ask me.

[@WilburforceBuckshot]

@@Rick_Todd well ill wait either way. As there is no way in a thousand years id pay $54 for shipping. What a massive waste of money!! If i cant get it later then i guess my loss, but better than flushing $54 down the drain for shipping.

[@Rick_Todd]

@@WilburforceBuckshot Yes your right , i just ment thats what i did last time with the GPI case and it was sold out forever on Amazon i could not get one. even when new stock arrived they all sold out within minuets . If you wanted one you had to keep refreshing the Amazon page every 2 to 5 mins 24 hours for days or even weeks on end.

[@Rick_Todd]

@@WilburforceBuckshot Also i think i only paid around $25 to ship all the way to the UK , you must live on the MOON , lol

[@WilburforceBuckshot]

@@Rick_Todd aye close enough! At least as far as shipping companies seem to think...Australia :L i would of paid if it was $25

[@vitaminsherbert]

Is this compatible with the 8gb model Raspberry Pi 4?

[@drecksyutube]

wow what a great device

[@superduty4556]

"Wow, what a great audience"

[@drecksyutube]

@@superduty4556 xD