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Your cart is empty.GeeekPi RETROFLAG NESPi 4 Case, with Safe Shutdown Safe Reset & SSD Case, Cooling Fan and Heatsinks for Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
JAH
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024
Great price and awesome features
Israel Guajardo
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2024
Great case for retro gaming. All fits great. With Recalbox I just needed to activate the parameter for soft shutdown, great compatibility. I just wish they make one for the Pi 5.
Sean Kendle
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2023
These are so incredibly nice. Great build quality, super convenient with all the heatsinks and fan included. I've purchased many of these Retroflag cases. Everyone loves the NES style look!
Tyler Waltz
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023
This case is almost perfect in my opinion. The build quality is really solid, it doesn't feel like a cheap piece of plastic. It looks fantastic in person. The SSD game cartridge was a brilliant idea and makes for an amazing gimmick. Putting it together was super easy and only took about 10 minutes at a leisurely pace. This is one of those products that makes you feel like the company actually cares about what they made. I do have 2 small faults for it but they wouldn't stop me from recommending it. First, I think that the USB cord for the SSD to the Pi was a bit oddly routed/a tad too short. Second, I think that the fan/ventilation could have been done better. It doesn't matter with most games but when doing long plays on PS1/N64 games it would be nice to have the Pi breathe better. Overall amazing product.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023
everything goes together pretty easy, if you have a basic idea on what your doing.everyone else is correct the cable from the ssd slot, could be longer it just barley fits, and you kinda have to squish it into the case.when i bought everything i bought them on black friday, so i grabbed a new 2.5 SSD, and plugged it into the case, when i did it didnt discover the drive, i message customer service and they said the drive would if i plug the usb into a pc, instead of a usb, i did that, and it still wouldnt show up, i had to assign it a drive letter in windows(im not sure how the disk manger works in linux) and set up a new partition on the drive, then it was plug and play!other side note, make sure you install the safeshutdown while the case is open, otherwise, you will have to take it apart and flip the switch, i did this, they warn you, i still did it, twice
Anglo in Quebec
Reviewed in Canada on October 18, 2023
I've had my pi4 for a number of years. It was in a very basic case that was more or less 2 pieces of acrylic and some standoffs. Works great as a full time media player even if it is a bit ugly.Wanting something a little nicer looking, I bought this NES looking case figuring it'd be a nice upgrade and something a bit more esthetically pleasing. And, it definitely is. The plastic feels like high quality and mimics an actual nes pretty well. the fit and finish looks good and the parts all lines up good.The size of the case is quite a bit bigger than i was hoping. I have an NES style case for a pi3b and it is quite a bit smaller. This case does have additional hardware to route nearly all the ports to the back of the case. so, you have to compromise somewhere i suppose.Now, the major issues. The wifi and bluetooth do not work in this case. Turns out, if you use the SSD connector and have it plugged into the usb3 port as the instructions attempt to express, it creates so much interference that your wifi and bluetooth become inoperable.I'm going to try some shielding tape to contain the SSD interference because it'd be nice to use (even tho OSMC doesn't support booting from anything other than SD card.. but that's not a problem relating to this case) I feel the shielding tape might also smother the wifi and bluetooth signals like the as the SSDs controller does with its EMI. Guess i'll find out.Generally, It's a nice looking case, but the internal design of it impedes other critical functions.Overall, disappointing and kind of a waste of time and money.Also, the included instructions are terrible and completely worthless.
K J Attwood
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2023
First Class product and service.
Daniel Barros
Reviewed in Spain on October 11, 2023
Tudo tal como descrito
Cliente
Reviewed in Italy on April 18, 2023
Come da descrizione carino e ben rifinito aspettate che torno a prezzi decenti, usato come case per Nas fatto con rasp, fa il suo, ventola rumorosa, si sente durante la visione di un film.
Noah Swint
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2022
It's a tight fit to get the usb cables in just right so you can actually insert the cables.I finally have a ssd on my raspberry pi. Time will tell if the fan and the heatsinks are enough to expel all the heat from the case.
Kermit
Reviewed in Germany on January 22, 2022
Ein perfektes Zuhause für den Rasperi4. SD-Karte und SSD lassen sich leicht wechseln und alles passt hervorragend,
Kyle C.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2021
This is the second version of this case. The way you can tell easily is that the front USB ports are both USB 2.0 while the original version has one USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0 port.The second version is cheaper, in both senses of the word, with a smaller heatsink solution and no front USB 3.0 port, but also a lower price. I think it's a good trade-off if youre going to use this as a retropie.But the main reason I got it was to get the USB to SATA board and transplant it into my version 1 case. This is because the original version uses a JMicron controller chip while this new version uses an ASMedia controller. I encountered lots of problems with the JMicron disconnecting and becoming unresponsive. This seems to be an issue I see other people have with Raspberry pi and/or Linux online. So far the ASMedia controller included with this version has worked much better.I was hoping I could just install the entire top half of the case onto my old case, but they have changed the molding of the plastic on this new version with longer screw pegs to accommodate the gap left by the lack of big heatsink on this new version. So instead I had to disassemble the case further to swap out the SATA board by itself.Now the SATA drive is not disconnecting during operation anymore and I'm so happy everything is working.
Sheryl L. Katz
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2021
This case is a fun design if you want to set up you Pi with a Nintendo theme. The thing is that it isn't quite so easy to put together as advertised. The paper instructions in the box are hard to read.Advice number one is: go to the website and download the directions there. They are in color and it is clearer which pins go where. You can also use your screen to make them bigger.Advice number two is: don't get confused by videos on Youtube. A could of videos show how to assemble the case but the reviewers had early versions or a prototype and what you get is different. The reviewers got a large fan with a big heatsink; I got a tiny little fan. It took me a while (because the instructions say nothing) to figure out that the fan snaps into a small square area on the lid of the case. The reviewers plug the power of the fan in with a small clip. You don't get that clip instead you get two plugs for GPIO pins. You can't plug them into the pins you normally would for a fans because those pins are used by the plug that connects the Pi to the case. Eventually I found two pins embossed with the word "fan" to plug them into.Advice number three: Don't expect to make sense of the screws you get. You won't get enough screws for all the potential holes and the directions are very unclear what goes where. You have to use some trial and error.I think this is a really ingenious little case but after trying it I decided I don't want to use it. While it is kind of cool to be able to pop an SSD in like a cartridge, I think that is too limiting because you need a case for each disk you want to use. The design of the case also takes away access to one of the USB ports, and the Pi is already limited for IO. I also don't like how large this case is, it takes away the small form factor of the Pi.Don't get me wrong. This is a good case for a retrogamer who is going to devote a Pi to retro games and who isn't planning on switching around SSD drives. But if you like to take your case out and get access to the GPIO pins or try different experiments with the Pi, this is not the right case.
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