Resurrecting an older Picade

Picade
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I’ve inherited a Picade that came partly disassembled and without a back panel. From the look of the files on the SD card it was setup in ~2020 and last tinkered with in 2023. Other than that (and some dust) it seems to be mostly functional.

It’s a Pi 4 B Rev 1.2 running Raspbian Buster and it boots to RetroPie / EmulationStation with the joystick and buttons working. It seems to have a Picade X USB-C HAT but the soft power switch is damaged. It also has the 6-button plasma kit for the control panel and that seems to be cycling through a rainbow sequence. Oh, and the top has a hole in it, I’m not sure if that was for anything functional?

Any advice on things I should be doing to update this?

  • Assuming I stay with the current Pi 4 setup, how straightforward is it to update to latest Pi OS w/ Retropie etc and still have all the nifty Pimoroni hardware work smoothly?
  • I suspect (?) the existing hardware might not be Pi 5 ready, would that be a correct assumption?

Thanks for helping me to bring this into more modern times!

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I’m running Raspberry Pi OS Trixie now, with Retropie on top, and have the plasma buttons working.

Does anyone have a template / outline for the back panel of the cabinet, so that I could get one laser cut? Currently it is missing, which is great for air flow, but less good for dust…