Help, my Retropie won’t boot anymore!!! What do I do?
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@redghost357 Did it came with ROMs on it ? Then it's not the same image.
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@mitu I bought ONLY an sd Card from the store “RaspberryPiXtreme” they don’t sell Retropie or roms which INDEED is illegal.
It was installed legally(free) before the sd was shipped. I’m a newb so I had them download everything for me, so it’s absurd to think of legal issues in this context
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@redghost357 Really ? Looking at their website, they sell quite a handful of pre-loaded images. They're literally the definition of scammers which profit from selling RetroPie.
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I do not see how a preloaded sd isn’t official. It was the Retropie version 4.3 image.
Moving along, just how exactly do I retrieve the content and roms since you so claim it’s possible (since supposedly I’m the only guy on the forums with a corrupted Retropie image as I have had no success in searching for answers in any other posts)
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@redghost357 said in Help, my Retropie won’t boot anymore!!! What do I do?:
I do not see how a preloaded sd isn’t official. It was the Retropie version 4.3 image.
As I said, we don't offer support for 3rd party images, especially ones sold with RetroPie.
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You might try booting your pi with a usb drive, then pulling off the roms via WiFi. Very tricky though, probably more work than learning Linux to get at them.
Since you are in for a ton of work either way, you might as well join a rom community and learn to get and manage rom sets. The rims are the easiest thing to get and building the thing is the real fun of it all, which is why i’ll never understand why people buy those “pre-loaded” systems; it’s like buying a model airplane and having someone else build it
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@redghost357 said in Help, my Retropie won’t boot anymore!!! What do I do?:
I suppose their are more testimonies than mine out there on Retropie images randomly crashing?
More often than not, those mysterious types of issues tend to come from users such as yourself who bought a pre-configured setup. Buyers seem to assume that since the sellers have gone through the trouble of starting a business, albeit an illegal one, they must know what they're doing. However, in most situations, these con artists either don't know much about setup, or simply don't care if it breaks down after purchase. Compounding the problem is that since the buyers didn't set anything up themselves, they have no idea where the problems might be in order to fix things themselves or even make an informed report here. The good news is that you now own everything you need to create a RetroPie system from scratch. As far as the ROMs are concerned, I wouldn't trust that they were sourced correctly anyway.
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@redghost357 said in Help, my Retropie won’t boot anymore!!! What do I do?:
I do not see how a preloaded sd isn’t official. It was the Retropie version 4.3 image.
How do you know the configurations of this "4.3" image. The latest is v4.4 – released April 14, 2018 and is available for free download. Other than all the legal reasons stated already, nobody can possibly know how the scammer has set up the configuration files and therefore all support is futile with question following response following another question about "mine is not like that" etc. etc. Unless you start from a known "official verified image" people are guessing and nobody is prepared to waste time on that.
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@redghost357 said in Help, my Retropie won’t boot anymore!!! What do I do?:
Anyways... how exactly can I retrieve the content and roms from this sd Card, I don’t want to lose anything.
Would like detailed steps.
The best and maybe easiest way to do that would be a Linux live system booted on any PC from a usb medium. @mitu already mentioned Ubuntu, which is targeted at "normal users"™ without much technical knowledge. There is a myriad of webpages and videos that explain its usb installation and usage in minute detail.
Another option would be Raspbian, a variant of Debian (which Ubuntu is also based of) for the Raspberry Pi. Its Desktop "Pixel" is also user friendly, if a bit spartan because of the Pis hardware limits. As you may have guessed already, you'd run Raspian directly on your Pi. If you want to try that, you could take a look at NOOBS, an easy-to-use installer for different operation systems for the Pi, including Raspbian. Many Pi vendors offer sd cards with pre-installed NOOBS, some are linked on the NOOBS webpage.
In both cases, you could access the Retropie card (whose Linux file system Windows can't read by itself) and transfer its contents to other usb or network drives before starting the real endeavor, setting up Retropie from scratch.
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@clyde Will give it a try when I have time
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