BIN/CUE Files - not showing in Emulation Station

akafox

@simongeoghegan yes sounds like you may have a different problem on your hands there...

seems to be that the usb drive (thumb drive) is not mounting...

but I have to ask..is your path set right for ES to find them on your USB device?

mitu

@simongeoghegan Please give more details about your setup as described in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

simongeoghegan

I'm assuming so, as I don't believe I've changed anything since having the Pi (about 5 weeks), however I can check.

Do you know what it should be/how I find what it currently is?

Really appreciate your help with this. I suspect this may also be causing a further issue I've been experiencing of task failure in relation to saving games too, so hopefully i'll be killing two birds with one stone.

In terms of my set up, I have the following (apologies I don't know the answer to all questions):

RetroPie Version Used: 4.4
USB Devices connected: USB Memory Stick (San Disk Ultra USB 3.0 - 64GB)
Controller used: Microsoft Xbox 1 Controller
Error messages received: "failed to start usbmount@dev-sdaservice"
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant): Unknown (Occurs on start up on Raspberry Pi)
Guide used: No
File: No
Emulator: PSX

akafox

@akafox said in BIN/CUE Files - not showing in Emulation Station:

but I have to ask..is your path set right for ES to find them on your USB device?

USB devices have different names no matter which one you use so if you have changer devices you need to make sure the path is correct (although I think retro pie paths are..umm "generic" in a sense.

But remember default path is /home/pi/RetroPie/psx so that is why you have to change the path to your usb drive if you wish to play them off of that

(I run my from a powered usb hard drive...)

and another question...did you copy them to a home/pi/RetroPie/psx folder on the usb stick? If you did then it tried to copy the games to your SD card..and only copied what it could before it ran out of room.

If however you just placed them on there "raw" (no folders ect.) like I said check your es_systems.cfg and check the path is set correctly. If from there it doesn't work..THEN we know something is wrong for sure.

simongeoghegan

@akafox thanks for this.

Regarding the folder location, is this a location on the actual Pi (as opposed to the folder location on the USB)?

If it is, do you know how I can check that out, assuming through the f4 menu using a command?

I have the USB set up in folders (RetroPie/ROMs/psx) so assume I just need to check the same applies on the actual Pi?

BobHarris

@simongeoghegan The caps are wrong on your usb..that might be the problem why your games don't get transferred. The easiest way is to have an empty usb drive..create a folder called 'retropie' . Plug it in your Pi and wait for the light to finish blinking. Pull it out and now all the folders you need are there, in the proper case.

I don't prefer this though. Like many I don't transfer my roms to the sd card, but keep them (and the save files) on the usb: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/

simongeoghegan

@bobharris apologies, I should have realised about the capitalisation, the actual folder (with correct caps etc.) where the psx roms are is:

F:\retropie\roms\psx

I'm just about to try your suggestion now so i'll feed back on this :)

simongeoghegan

So I did some digging around regarding usbmount and found some instructions which gave some commands as to how to move everything from the Pi to USB stick:

video link:

I did this (successfully I think) however once rebooted, my Pi tells me that it cannot find any system. Check that your paths are correct in the systems configuration file, and your game directory has at least one game with the correction extension.

Having checked the memory in my desktop computer, everything is still on there so i'm even more baffled now.

Ultimately, I likely just don't know Pi well enough and have probably messed about too much. All this pain to try and relive nostalgic playstation games! :)

mitu

If you're just starting with RetroPie, then I'd say re-install the image, then follow the instruction in the docs for storing your ROMs on the USB stick and running games directly from it. It has a nice and fresh video especially for 4.4, thanks to @herb_fargus :).

simongeoghegan

Not sure what the problem was but after uninstalling/reinstalling RetroPie, everything is OK now.

Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions - I can finally immerse myself back into my youth via Final Fantasy 8 :)

akafox

I would make everything pbp format to save space :D