Building and Upgrading with Retroflag's Raspberry Pi 4 Case

This is going to send power to the raspberry pi from the usb type c port on the rear and it's also going to allow us to enable that safe reset and safe power switch so I'm just going to triple check everything here I got all my usbs plugged in ethernet i have the gpio harness and the fan so i think it's time to put the top on and to do this you want to make sure you can get to this usb 3.0 port plug it right in and the top is going to sit right on here just like any other case it's going to kind of snap together and we have six screws that are going to go in from the bottom and you already saw me put the ssd in the cartridge here but there's four screws we need to put in two of the screws are going to hold the shell together and then two of the other screws are going to hold the ssd in place and i'm pretty sure they'll be selling these separately so you can always have different ssds with different games loaded or different operating systems because with the raspberry pi 4 we can now boot from an ssd it actually fits in here really nicely really love this design they've put this together very nicely you can always swap out this cartridge label if you want to put something custom on there we do have that safe power safe reset button access to all of the ports we need we also have access to the microsd card over here on the side and all that's really left to do is install retropie now if you flash the newer eprom you can actually install retropie directly to the ssd if you have your pi 4 set up correctly but i haven't flashed this particular pi so i'm going to be running retropie from the sd card and i'm just going to load my games from the ssd.

All right so here we are I don't have the ssd installed just take a look in there i've got a fresh copy of retropie unfortunately this monitor that i'm using does not have speakers built in so i don't have sound right now but for a quick test you can see how this functions using the apex fly digi controller with a 2.4 gigahertz dongle i'm gonna go ahead and plug in the ssd cartridge press start on my controller quit and restart the system i already have this retropie image set up for usb rom service super easy to do it's going to load my config and we'll see some games populating at the bottom of this emulation station screen here everything that you see now is stored on the ssd i'm just running the operating system which is obviously retropie from microsd card and all of my games are on the cartridge i just used the built-in retropie scraper to get all my artwork up and going and we'll just launch a game like i mentioned unfortunately this monitor doesn't have speakers built in and i don't have access to an external speaker with a 3.5 millimeter jack right now we'll just go with some psp soul calibur broken destiny let this load up i'm going to fast forward a bit to get through these menus so yeah it's working really well running these games from the ssd i'm also overclocked to 2.1 gigahertz on the cpu and 700 megahertz on the gpu haven't noticed any thermal throttling i mean we have that gigantic heatsink in here but there's not much ventilation so what i'm going to do real quick is just play for a little while and then check the temps we're going to stick with psp because this really stresses out the cpu all right so after about 15 minutes of testing with sega dreamcast and psp we're sitting around 57 to 58 degrees celsius which is really good for a little case like this especially with no ventilation and i did notice that dreamcast is pushing the cpu a little harder than psp did we were sitting around 22 to 25 with psp we're on up to 34 to 39 with dreamcast so yeah this is turning out to be a really awesome case and one of the best retro inspired cases for the raspberry pi that i've seen so far and i wouldn't expect any less from retro flag i mean they've done an amazing job with the other products they've put out so if you're interested in picking one of these up i will leave some links in the description price on this is 39.99 and in my opinion it's well worth it i'll also leave some of my recommendations for 2.5 inch ssds in the description below but that's it for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching.

The Case: A Great Option for Raspberry Pi Enthusiasts

Retroflag has created a great case for their raspberry pi 4, which is designed to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing. The case features a removable top that allows you to access the usb ports, ethernet port, and gpio harness from the bottom. It also includes a safe power switch and a protective cover for the microsd card slot.

One of the standout features of this case is its design. Retroflag has done an excellent job of creating a compact and sleek case that looks like it was made by a professional. The case fits perfectly with the raspberry pi 4, and the screws that hold everything together are hidden from view, giving the device a clean and minimalist look.

In addition to its great design, this case also provides access to all of the necessary ports and features for the raspberry pi 4. This includes the usb ports, ethernet port, gpio harness, and microsd card slot. The safe power switch is also a convenient feature that allows you to easily turn your device on or off.

Overall, Retroflag's raspberry pi 4 case is a great option for anyone looking to build or upgrade their raspberry pi project. Its design is both functional and aesthetically pleasing, and it provides access to all of the necessary ports and features for the raspberry pi 4.

The Price: Well Worth It

Retroflag has priced their raspberry pi 4 case at $39.99, which is a great value considering the quality and features that it provides. This is a relatively affordable option compared to other cases on the market, making it an excellent choice for anyone looking to build or upgrade their raspberry pi project.

In addition to its affordability, Retroflag's raspberry pi 4 case also offers a lot of value in terms of functionality and design. The case is well-built and durable, and it provides access to all of the necessary ports and features for the raspberry pi 4.

Overall, I highly recommend Retroflag's raspberry pi 4 case to anyone looking to build or upgrade their raspberry pi project. Its great design, affordability, and value make it an excellent choice for anyone in the market for a new case.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys it's cta prime back here again today i am super excited because i get to give you the first look at the brand new retro flag nespi 4 case obviously or the raspberry pi 4. yes you heard that right retro flag is back and now they're tackling the raspberry pi 4 and a lot of you might be wondering why was the nes the first one they released for the raspberry pi 4 and it really all comes down to the cartridge here because the cartridge isn't just for aesthetics you can actually insert a 2.5 inch ssd in the cartridge itself therefore inserting it into the nespi case and enabling external storage whether you're running laca retropie bottosera or a desktop operating system like raspberry pi os and like all of the other cases they have included a reset and a power button plus they have included a really beefy aluminum heatsink and fan combo that goes on your raspberry pi 4 and this is all included with the case itself raspberry pi 4 will be sold separately so yeah i'm really excited about this and i know a lot of other people are going to be because we've really been waiting for a new retro flag case for the raspberry pi 4 for almost a year now there was no sign of it and recently they reached out to me and sent me over one for review so that's what we're going to be doing in this video so along with the case itself we do get full instructions and they send a power supply it's a 5 volt 3 amp usb type c power supply and this is what they recommend to run with this new nespi case for the raspberry pi 4. so let's go ahead and move over to the case itself obviously we have that nes look and when it comes to these retro console style cases for the raspberry pi i don't think anybody does it as good as retro flag does on the front here we have one usb 2.0 port one usb 3.0 port we have our power and reset button moving around back gigabyte ethernet usb type c for powering the unit 3.5 millimeter audio jack and dual micro hdmi port so if you do want to run this with the desktop operating system you can use dual displays with it but i gotta say one of the most interesting features about the new nest pi case for the raspberry pi 4 is the cartridge itself i know it's a bit hard to see but inside of the case we have our sata connectors so inside the cartridge you're going to place a 2.5 inch ssd i have 120 gigabyte kingston ssd to test in here and i really do think this is an awesome idea now the sata drive that you're going to put in here will still be running over usb 3.0 but it should enable faster load speeds and we can get a lot more storage out of it and that's really the first thing i want to take a look at here with this case because i think that's one of the main draws this is a 120 gigabyte kingston 2.5 inch ssd that i picked up on amazon and all you have to do is place it right in the cartridge we're going to snap this back on they do include screws to hold it in here nice and neat from the back but once you have your ssd installed you can slot it right in the cartridge slot on the nes case itself and it will allow you to expand the storage of pretty much any operating system that you're going to run on this so let's go ahead and check out the case itself this is a fully unassembled brand new case and as you can see the sata drive is going to be connected to the raspberry pi 4 over usb 3.0 inside of the slot here i'm not sure if you can see it but we have the data and the power connector for the sata basically this is just a little hard drive bay at the top so that's definitely an awesome little feature for this case now along with the case itself you're also going to receive all of your hardware and a little screwdriver they've also included some thermal conductive pads in here for the included heat sink and speaking of the heat sink this thing is pretty beefy all aluminum with a 40 millimeter fan in here it should be whisper quiet the way they have it set up and there's a lot of metal here so you should be able to overclock this just fine inside of this case i wouldn't be afraid to go to 2.1 with this all day long i'm actually really glad that they're including a heatsink now because in the past with the other nespi cases for the raspberry pi 2 and 3 we had to add our own so taking a look in the case itself this is set up really nicely we have the little switch for our safe reset and save power we have our fan connector ethernet connected to the big main board in here we also have the power adapter that's going to go to the gpio pins on the raspberry pi 4. and there's one usb 3.0 cable and one usb 2.0 cable that needs to be plugged into the pi when we assemble this and that's exactly what we're going to be doing now i'm going to be using a raspberry pi 4 4 gigabyte model i've already done a test fit and i have added my thermal pads to everything in here so basically what we have here is three usb connectors that are going to connect to the raspberry pi 4 two usb 3.0 and one usb 2.0 we also have a plug that needs to go to the gpio pins on the raspberry pi 4 and ethernet so putting this thing together is pretty easy i'm going to go ahead and put my raspberry pi in here we need to make sure we have these usb ports in the correct location i'm going to plug one into the lower usb 3.0 port i'm also going to connect my ethernet while this goes in we'll just line up the ports on the back it's going to sit in there nice and snug just like this i'll just give you a closer look here we still have a free usb 3.0 port on the top i need to go ahead and plug this 2.0 in and the one on the top is going to be connected to the sata bay that's in the cartridge slot and before i plug anything else in i do want to add the heatsink you could opt to use some thermal paste with this if you really want to but i'm just going to set it right down on here with the pads included i'll plug in the built-in fan and in order to hold the pi and the heatsink down snug in the case we're going to use two of these black screws from inside of the case and when we go ahead and put the top half of the shell on we're going to use some screws from the bottom and that's also going to hold this pie in here and snug that heat sink down to the cpu and the final thing i need to do here is plug in the gpio harness this is going to send power to the raspberry pi from the usb type c port on the rear and it's also going to allow us to enable that safe reset and safe power switch so i'm just going to triple check everything here i got all my usbs plugged in ethernet i have the gpio harness and the fan so i think it's time to put the top on and to do this you want to make sure you can get to this usb 3.0 port plug it right in and the top is going to sit right on here just like any other case it's going to kind of snap together and we have six screws that are going to go in from the bottom and you already saw me put the ssd in the cartridge here but there's four screws we need to put in two of the screws are going to hold the shell together and then two of the other screws are going to hold the ssd in place and i'm pretty sure they'll be selling these separately so you can always have different ssds with different games loaded or different operating systems because with the raspberry pi 4 we can now boot from an ssd it actually fits in here really nicely really love this design they've put this together very nicely you can always swap out this cartridge label if you want to put something custom on there we do have that safe power safe reset button access to all of the ports we need we also have access to the microsd card over here on the side and all that's really left to do is install retropie now if you flash the newer eprom you can actually install retropie directly to the ssd if you have your pi 4 set up correctly but i haven't flashed this particular pi so i'm going to be running retropie from the sd card and i'm just going to load my games from the ssd all right so here we are i don't have the ssd installed just take a look in there i've got a fresh copy of retropie unfortunately this monitor that i'm using does not have speakers built in so i don't have sound right now but for a quick test you can see how this functions using the apex fly digi controller with a 2.4 gigahertz dongle i'm gonna go ahead and plug in the ssd cartridge press start on my controller quit and restart the system i already have this retropie image set up for usb rom service super easy to do it's going to load my config and we'll see some games populating at the bottom of this emulation station screen here everything that you see now is stored on the ssd i'm just running the operating system which is obviously retropie from microsd card and all of my games are on the cartridge i just used the built-in retropie scraper to get all my artwork up and going and we'll just launch a game like i mentioned unfortunately this monitor doesn't have speakers built in and i don't have access to an external speaker with a 3.5 millimeter jack right now we'll just go with some psp soul calibur broken destiny let this load up i'm going to fast forward a bit to get through these menus so yeah it's working really well running these games from the ssd i'm also overclocked to 2.1 gigahertz on the cpu and 700 megahertz on the gpu haven't noticed any thermal throttling i mean we have that gigantic heatsink in here but there's not much ventilation so what i'm going to do real quick is just play for a little while and then check the temps we're going to stick with psp because this really stresses out the cpu all right so after about 15 minutes of testing with sega dreamcast and psp we're sitting around 57 to 58 degrees celsius which is really good for a little case like this especially with no ventilation and i did notice that dreamcast is pushing the cpu a little harder than psp did we were sitting around 22 to 25 with psp we're on up to 34 to 39 with dreamcast so yeah this is turning out to be a really awesome case and one of the best retro inspired cases for the raspberry pi that i've seen so far and i wouldn't expect any less from retro flag i mean they've done an amazing job with the other products they've put out so if you're interested in picking one of these up i will leave some links in the description price on this is 39.99 and in my opinion it's well worth it i'll also leave some of my recommendations for 2.5 inch ssds in the description below but that's it for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on guys it's cta prime back here again today i am super excited because i get to give you the first look at the brand new retro flag nespi 4 case obviously or the raspberry pi 4. yes you heard that right retro flag is back and now they're tackling the raspberry pi 4 and a lot of you might be wondering why was the nes the first one they released for the raspberry pi 4 and it really all comes down to the cartridge here because the cartridge isn't just for aesthetics you can actually insert a 2.5 inch ssd in the cartridge itself therefore inserting it into the nespi case and enabling external storage whether you're running laca retropie bottosera or a desktop operating system like raspberry pi os and like all of the other cases they have included a reset and a power button plus they have included a really beefy aluminum heatsink and fan combo that goes on your raspberry pi 4 and this is all included with the case itself raspberry pi 4 will be sold separately so yeah i'm really excited about this and i know a lot of other people are going to be because we've really been waiting for a new retro flag case for the raspberry pi 4 for almost a year now there was no sign of it and recently they reached out to me and sent me over one for review so that's what we're going to be doing in this video so along with the case itself we do get full instructions and they send a power supply it's a 5 volt 3 amp usb type c power supply and this is what they recommend to run with this new nespi case for the raspberry pi 4. so let's go ahead and move over to the case itself obviously we have that nes look and when it comes to these retro console style cases for the raspberry pi i don't think anybody does it as good as retro flag does on the front here we have one usb 2.0 port one usb 3.0 port we have our power and reset button moving around back gigabyte ethernet usb type c for powering the unit 3.5 millimeter audio jack and dual micro hdmi port so if you do want to run this with the desktop operating system you can use dual displays with it but i gotta say one of the most interesting features about the new nest pi case for the raspberry pi 4 is the cartridge itself i know it's a bit hard to see but inside of the case we have our sata connectors so inside the cartridge you're going to place a 2.5 inch ssd i have 120 gigabyte kingston ssd to test in here and i really do think this is an awesome idea now the sata drive that you're going to put in here will still be running over usb 3.0 but it should enable faster load speeds and we can get a lot more storage out of it and that's really the first thing i want to take a look at here with this case because i think that's one of the main draws this is a 120 gigabyte kingston 2.5 inch ssd that i picked up on amazon and all you have to do is place it right in the cartridge we're going to snap this back on they do include screws to hold it in here nice and neat from the back but once you have your ssd installed you can slot it right in the cartridge slot on the nes case itself and it will allow you to expand the storage of pretty much any operating system that you're going to run on this so let's go ahead and check out the case itself this is a fully unassembled brand new case and as you can see the sata drive is going to be connected to the raspberry pi 4 over usb 3.0 inside of the slot here i'm not sure if you can see it but we have the data and the power connector for the sata basically this is just a little hard drive bay at the top so that's definitely an awesome little feature for this case now along with the case itself you're also going to receive all of your hardware and a little screwdriver they've also included some thermal conductive pads in here for the included heat sink and speaking of the heat sink this thing is pretty beefy all aluminum with a 40 millimeter fan in here it should be whisper quiet the way they have it set up and there's a lot of metal here so you should be able to overclock this just fine inside of this case i wouldn't be afraid to go to 2.1 with this all day long i'm actually really glad that they're including a heatsink now because in the past with the other nespi cases for the raspberry pi 2 and 3 we had to add our own so taking a look in the case itself this is set up really nicely we have the little switch for our safe reset and save power we have our fan connector ethernet connected to the big main board in here we also have the power adapter that's going to go to the gpio pins on the raspberry pi 4. and there's one usb 3.0 cable and one usb 2.0 cable that needs to be plugged into the pi when we assemble this and that's exactly what we're going to be doing now i'm going to be using a raspberry pi 4 4 gigabyte model i've already done a test fit and i have added my thermal pads to everything in here so basically what we have here is three usb connectors that are going to connect to the raspberry pi 4 two usb 3.0 and one usb 2.0 we also have a plug that needs to go to the gpio pins on the raspberry pi 4 and ethernet so putting this thing together is pretty easy i'm going to go ahead and put my raspberry pi in here we need to make sure we have these usb ports in the correct location i'm going to plug one into the lower usb 3.0 port i'm also going to connect my ethernet while this goes in we'll just line up the ports on the back it's going to sit in there nice and snug just like this i'll just give you a closer look here we still have a free usb 3.0 port on the top i need to go ahead and plug this 2.0 in and the one on the top is going to be connected to the sata bay that's in the cartridge slot and before i plug anything else in i do want to add the heatsink you could opt to use some thermal paste with this if you really want to but i'm just going to set it right down on here with the pads included i'll plug in the built-in fan and in order to hold the pi and the heatsink down snug in the case we're going to use two of these black screws from inside of the case and when we go ahead and put the top half of the shell on we're going to use some screws from the bottom and that's also going to hold this pie in here and snug that heat sink down to the cpu and the final thing i need to do here is plug in the gpio harness this is going to send power to the raspberry pi from the usb type c port on the rear and it's also going to allow us to enable that safe reset and safe power switch so i'm just going to triple check everything here i got all my usbs plugged in ethernet i have the gpio harness and the fan so i think it's time to put the top on and to do this you want to make sure you can get to this usb 3.0 port plug it right in and the top is going to sit right on here just like any other case it's going to kind of snap together and we have six screws that are going to go in from the bottom and you already saw me put the ssd in the cartridge here but there's four screws we need to put in two of the screws are going to hold the shell together and then two of the other screws are going to hold the ssd in place and i'm pretty sure they'll be selling these separately so you can always have different ssds with different games loaded or different operating systems because with the raspberry pi 4 we can now boot from an ssd it actually fits in here really nicely really love this design they've put this together very nicely you can always swap out this cartridge label if you want to put something custom on there we do have that safe power safe reset button access to all of the ports we need we also have access to the microsd card over here on the side and all that's really left to do is install retropie now if you flash the newer eprom you can actually install retropie directly to the ssd if you have your pi 4 set up correctly but i haven't flashed this particular pi so i'm going to be running retropie from the sd card and i'm just going to load my games from the ssd all right so here we are i don't have the ssd installed just take a look in there i've got a fresh copy of retropie unfortunately this monitor that i'm using does not have speakers built in so i don't have sound right now but for a quick test you can see how this functions using the apex fly digi controller with a 2.4 gigahertz dongle i'm gonna go ahead and plug in the ssd cartridge press start on my controller quit and restart the system i already have this retropie image set up for usb rom service super easy to do it's going to load my config and we'll see some games populating at the bottom of this emulation station screen here everything that you see now is stored on the ssd i'm just running the operating system which is obviously retropie from microsd card and all of my games are on the cartridge i just used the built-in retropie scraper to get all my artwork up and going and we'll just launch a game like i mentioned unfortunately this monitor doesn't have speakers built in and i don't have access to an external speaker with a 3.5 millimeter jack right now we'll just go with some psp soul calibur broken destiny let this load up i'm going to fast forward a bit to get through these menus so yeah it's working really well running these games from the ssd i'm also overclocked to 2.1 gigahertz on the cpu and 700 megahertz on the gpu haven't noticed any thermal throttling i mean we have that gigantic heatsink in here but there's not much ventilation so what i'm going to do real quick is just play for a little while and then check the temps we're going to stick with psp because this really stresses out the cpu all right so after about 15 minutes of testing with sega dreamcast and psp we're sitting around 57 to 58 degrees celsius which is really good for a little case like this especially with no ventilation and i did notice that dreamcast is pushing the cpu a little harder than psp did we were sitting around 22 to 25 with psp we're on up to 34 to 39 with dreamcast so yeah this is turning out to be a really awesome case and one of the best retro inspired cases for the raspberry pi that i've seen so far and i wouldn't expect any less from retro flag i mean they've done an amazing job with the other products they've put out so if you're interested in picking one of these up i will leave some links in the description price on this is 39.99 and in my opinion it's well worth it i'll also leave some of my recommendations for 2.5 inch ssds in the description below but that's it for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"