SNES does not show at all

Tanneseph

@rbaker said in SNES does not show at all:

@tanneseph Also, you are talking about a thumb drive all of a sudden? Are you wanting to run roms off a thumb drive or use a thumb drive to put roms onto your Pi? either way, WinSCP file transfer is no good to you! All my advice is about getting a ROM from a WIndows PC onto the Pi SD card in seconds!

I'm wanting the safety of not having roms and OS in the same place - isn't it all at risk of being corrupted otherwise?

The OS is on a 16GB micro SD. If sticking the thumb-drive means it all transfers to the Micro SD, we've got our culprit - 12.1 GB of roms makes sense. Retropie is 4-ish GB, right?

So.... I can't play games off of my thumb-stick? I thought you could keep them separate!

rbaker

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

I thought I had to use -something- in order to transfer files via Wi Fi?

No you do not. You just browse to the Pi. You can use WinSCP but it does the same thing windows does but with more involved logging in. It's not clear what you are actually trying to do now. You are either
a) Trying to get a snes rom onto your Pi SD card - in which case my advice stands
b) Trying to use a thumb drive to automatically transfer roms from it to your SD card
c) Trying to use a thumb drive to store your roms and launch them from it ( No roms on the Pi)

rbaker

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

So.... I can't play games off of my thumb-stick? I thought you could keep them separate!

Yes you can, but this whole process does not need Wifi or files to be "transferred" etc.

Just do this: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ -Post 2 in this thread!!

Tanneseph

I absolutely understand your frustration. Thank you so much for still trying to help, because my newness to so much jargon has led me to be REALLY thick. I didn't understand that the Pi's default behavior was to pull the roms off of the stick, and that there was all that about "mounting" and "daemons"( that's all still nonsense. I clearly need to look up some definitions.). Next leisure block I will spend serious time with that page. I cannot thank you enough, nor apologize hard enough.

ByteThis

@tanneseph Tons of info..wiki's ,githubs etc out there. To educate oneself with knowledge is gold. Lots of great educated and talented people around the Retropie scene. You will tinker more than you play..haha.

mediamogul

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

I clearly need to look up some definitions.

After learning a handful of key points, it all makes a lot more sense. Plus, when it's all said and done, you'll know more about how to maintain your setup, should future problems come up. The value of that can't be overstated.

Tanneseph

@mediamogul said in SNES does not show at all:

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

I clearly need to look up some definitions.

After learning a handful of key points, it all makes a lot more sense. Plus, when it's all said and done, you'll know more about how to maintain your setup, should future problems come up. The value of that can't be overstated.

That I ABSOLUTELY believe. And your respect and patience to that is greatly appreciated.

As far as the micro SD card with Retropie is concerned : I assume there's no reason to rewrite that again, right? Just empty the relevant folders?

Tanneseph

I... I have all my games!!!! I don't even know what to do now!!! I guess I finally hook it back up to my TV downstairs and play something!!!!

mediamogul

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

I guess I finally hook it back up to my TV downstairs and play something!!!!

Not so fast. There's some paperwork you need to fill out in triplicate first.

Tanneseph

@mediamogul said in SNES does not show at all:

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

I guess I finally hook it back up to my TV downstairs and play something!!!!

Not so fast. There's some paperwork you need to fill out in triplicate first.

I seriously laughed at this.