Is editing the fstab the only way to get RetroPie to mount a USB drive then?

@wetriner said in Use of external hard-drives (exFAT) for SAMBA share and rom-storage?:

In smb.conf in /etc/samba, there's a section at the bottom with all your shared directories. For example:

[configs] comment = configs path = "/opt/retropie/configs" writeable = yes guest ok = yes create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 force user = pi

All you should really have to do is follow this as a template and change the path, comment, and name. Your usb external hard drive probably gets mounted to /media/usb, although there's probably a by-id directory that you could use in case of wanting to distinguish between two or more drives.

You can store roms on it of course. The question would be really how you would want to implement the ability to use them. You could mount your usb drive straight into your roms directory, so it would just override everything on the sd if plugged in. You could also create a symbolic link to a subdirectory in each of your rom folders, so your hard drive roms would show up as a directory within each system's gamelist. Or you could make a copy of each of the systems you want in es_systems.cfg and have those point to something like /media/usb/snes.

so the exFAT format isn't problematic after all?

@MaroonOut09 well yes that too

@BuZz thank you sir!!! Ok, so now, SOME of the Atari games are working, 2 Genesis games load but the controller does nothing once it's on the actual game. As far as the Atari, I'm wondering if I just got some bad roms? As for the Genesis, Master System, and NES, I'm still at a loss.

@senkun said in File boots back to emulationstation, what gives?:

@Moco said in File boots back to emulationstation, what gives?:

This only effects certain files but when I click on it, it goes to a black screen and then back to the emulation station file list. Any way to fix this?

Eh? Nothing gives and nothing to fix here. When this happens it just means either (most likely) an incompatible file, or a corrupt file. So the fix would be first to try another emulator, or to get a working file.

Thank You! Getting a new file worked!

I'd thought cover art might be copyright, but would screenshot images? It's a little murky but a names only list for FBA, MAME, etc would be really useful as a starting point at least.

I expect I'll likely just have to do things the long way, going through each each game, tidying those that don't get anything from the scraper.

Mrdo now runs after a install using either the latest binary or source.

Myhero still crashes.

Listening for input, updating variables, other things... It may still render the screen even when "idle" too. 5% is pretty idle anyway.

I'm not actually that familiar with the ES code base.

Oh aren't I the stupid one.

Completely misunderstanding what 'hardcoded' means in terms of controls.

Guess I just have to wait until they're unhardcoded...

if when you restored your roms, you restored the .sh files in the ports folder, they will no longer be executable. I ran into this problem. Try this at the command prompt:

sudo chmod +x ~/Retropie/roms/ports/*.sh (I'm doing this path from memory, so may be slightly incorrect)

That should make the files executable...

@dannyboyswe Awesome!

this is what i got
http://www.banggood.com/5-Inch-HDMI-TFT-LCD-Touch-Screen-For-Raspberry-PI-With-Case-p-977666.html
but like i said, it was sold from an individual who had no idea about it, they didnt even know it had a screen on the other side, they thought it was just a piece of electronics, lol.

@herb_fargus Awesome, thanks. I knew it had to be something simple. I saw that link you posted before, but I didn't see anything about it being under Menu 3. Thanks again.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see where it says Menu 3 now. Ugh, I can't believe I overlooked that.

First, it sounds like your computer is running windows. Windows can only see the Boot folder because the retropie folder is formated ext3/ext4 and Windows has a hard time reading it(at least Windows 7 does). I can't help you much there. If you can find someone with a linux box you can take your sd card, put it in a reader and insert it into that box and you should be able to see the retropie folder as well.

You could download a raspian image to a separate sd card, boot up your pi with that and use your card reader to open the retropie folder on the RetroPie sd. First copy your new game roms onto the desktop of your new raspian bootup. Then plug in your RetroPie sd in your card reader and you should see the retropie folder. On your RetroPie sd you can mine down thru home, pi, RetroPie, roms and finally to the folder holding the roms for your games. Then you can drag-and-drop your new game roms into their proper place.

I hope this helps.