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Damn, mine made it through UK customs nice and quick.

Be patient guys it will come!

Received mine today. So far so good. It took a few attempts to get the casing together initially. Once it was the screen was flickering so i just kept tightening the screws(didnt go to hard on them initially after seeing people saying about threading) and the flickering stopped. Got pixel tft downlo...

This mornings update... 31/08/2017 8:54 (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) Arrival at border point in the destination country Mine is so close, now it just has to make it past UK customs and then its up to royal mail to mess it up. So I should be getting it in about a week that means hopefully! Al...

Yeah I ordered through the website (about #402 i think) and have my tracking number.

It's just a waiting game at this point.

What the guy above said!

The Ribbon cable seems to be protruding more at the top.

What the guy above said!

The Ribbon cable seems to be protruding more at the top.

Wouldn't say it's a 100% no. You'd need to solder the pogo pin connections to the pi. Whether it has the same contacts on the other models I'm not sure exactly. I've been considering trying to hack onto a pi3 in the future. Then after you have it working electrically the casing is the next obstacle ...

Sorry to be 'that guy' but I'm sure Pierre said several times in the updates about how providing a copy of retropie and especially ROMs will jepordize the project? Distributing it here is putting Pierre at risk and indirectly retropie/ES/retroarch etc Do with that what you will, just pointing it out...

I'm #402 on the website orders. Gmail must be wondering why I'm checking my inbox so much more than usual!

Can't wait to get the good news of a tracking number but looks like I'm gonna have to

I've been checking the updates on the kickstarter page so hopefully it will get dispatched this week.