[PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?

[cyperghost]

@mitu said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

It's usually present in most of the 3rd party ROM filles/badly configured images

Yes I know :) And there are good reasons that it is not installable by RetroPie itself.

I've downloaded some from these images to see how they are configured.
Most of them are just crap. Using old RP versions, Broken Wifi, Inconsistent file layout, modified RetroPie-Setups.....

But with tonnage of ROMs with different file headers, beta versions....

All in all I agree with you ;)

[magicfly]

@mitu said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

@magicfly How much free memory do you have on the system, with Emulationstaton started ?

Hi, thi is the situation with ES running.
I'm not a Linux expert so I typed free -m to see the free resources, let me know if i'm wrong.

@cyperghost i've found that toolkit because its ease to configure an hard drive with roms, but i'm ready to uninstall it and i'm open to any solution, but i need help to make it happens because i' not so linux addicted.
Thanks in advance to everybody!

[cyperghost]

@magicfly said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

but i'm ready to uninstall it and i'm open to any solution,

No it's okay as long as you took the original image from here.
But as @mitu already said these scripts are spreaded widly on ready setted images and then the chances (and willingness) to help users is near to zero. Because we do really know nothing about these internal hacks,improvements and file versions.

About the Eazy Hax-Toolkit. Well it tells you to format your devices to NTFS and my experience was that NTFS is incredible slow in loading. So I use ext3 (best choice) and for the sakeness of portability FAT32. The only advantage for NTFS over FAT32 is the ability for symlinks....

Read more about here: Running ROMs from a USB drive and @mitu is one of our experts here - so his advices are helpfull ;)

[magicfly]

yeah i tried with symlinks, the /home/pi/retropie/roms was correctly linked to the one on my drive but it's the same problem, no roms are loaded, black screen and goto back to the list :(

[mitu]

@magicfly Follow the docs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ - to run your ROMs from an USB drive and don't rely on the 'Easy...'. How large is your external disk ?

[magicfly]

@mitu said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

@magicfly Follow the docs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ - to run your ROMs from an USB drive and don't rely on the 'Easy...'. How large is your external disk ?

should i follow the manual method?
My hd is 1TB, and it's a WD elements portable see here

[BuZz]

Looking at the code briefly for the toolkit I would definitely not recommend running anything from it. A right mess.

I don't think we should offer support for anyone who has run this.

[magicfly]

oh well, you convinced me to uninstall it; this is just why i didn't know it was so dangerous.. :)
btw thank you, i'll try the manual mode. just a question, do you suggest to use ntfs or fat32 (i'm on windows...) Thanks.

[omen_peter]

@magicfly said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

@mitu said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

@magicfly Follow the docs - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ - to run your ROMs from an USB drive and don't rely on the 'Easy...'. How large is your external disk ?

should i follow the manual method?
My hd is 1TB, and it's a WD elements portable see here

I use a WD Elements external HDD mounted using the automatic method. It's NTFS formatted and works fine for me. Worked straight out of the box (no additional formatting required).

[mitu]

@magicfly Use Fat32 if you can. The only limit is the 4Gb per-file limit, but since you're running on a PI, I assume you don't want to run Wii/GC games.

[magicfly]

@omen_peter how many roms do you have?

[cyperghost]

@BuZz said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

Looking at the code briefly for the toolkit I would definitely not recommend running anything from it. A right mess.

I don't think we should offer support for anyone who has run this.

As I said: Eazy Hax 4 da 1337z
I did not take a deep look, but it uses SSH remote scripts. So I stand to my sentence

And there are good reasons that it is not installable by RetroPie itself.

I think it would also to be a good idea to explain in the FAQ why you should use suggestions made. So the advantage for FAT32 is the 100% compatibilty for a wide spread of Operating Systems (Unix, Mac and Windows)
NTFS is a proprietary file system ......
My personal experience with Raspbian it is awfully slow for file operations and only usefull if you need symlinks (this is not possible with FAT)

[omen_peter]

@magicfly said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

@omen_peter how many roms do you have?

Well I certainly can't match your total (got to be some kind of record?), but I have a few thousand (more once I look into getting FBA and MAME running - hopefully in next month or so).

With regards to formatting, there are many on this forum that are more tech savvy than me. I mean, I had no idea what a proprietary file system was. Looked it up and I'm still none the wiser. At the end of the day though, I bought my HDD solely for use with RetroPie. I have a Windows 10 PC at home that makes it very easy to manage and backup my roms, game saves etc... so is perfect for what I use it for.

Hope you get your system working.

[magicfly]

Ok. i've just backed up my 500GB of roms on my notebook.
Maybe it's better to reimage my SD with the default retropie image, format my external disk with fat32 and try the second manual method.
I'll give you news. Thanks for now everybody!

[zefolhadela]

yaiks maybe that is my problem aswell cause i add two new systems and a lot of games and none works if those are in the USB

[magicfly]

Ok. Just formatted with FAT32, connected to the PI and reimaged my sd with the official retropie image.
Now i'm stuck here:

Later, I'll try disconnecting the hard disk at the boot, configuring wifi and country and try to reconnect with the PI completely configured.

Thanks for now :)

[magicfly]

@zefolhadela said in [PI3B+ & Retropie 4.4.4] Limit on Roms stored?:

yaiks maybe that is my problem aswell cause i add two new systems and a lot of games and none works if those are in the USB

can you tell me the amount of roms on disk? thanks!

[zefolhadela]

@magicfly not that much. I was using easy hax and i change for the oficial rom tranfer so i have my games stored in the pendrive. But know when i store all my psx games to de pendrive, i put the pen in the pi and the psx roms are gonne.. having just 10psx games of 100psx games . I dont knoe why this is happening

[magicfly]

Hi,
i followed the manual method using my hard drive with NTFS.
Don't know what was happening when it was formatted with FAT32 but i got the error 0x80070052 after a lot of roms where copied (googled for half a day but no solution found) so i went back with NTFS, and now every time i launch a rom, emulationstation freezes...just hit F4 and restart from bash with emulationstation

this is my fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=f2d3cb4f-01 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=f2d3cb4f-02 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
use dphys-swapfile swap[on|off] for that
UUID=F6381E5F381E1EE5 /home/pi/RetroPie ntfs nofail,user,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 2

is it correct?

this is from es_log.txt
lvl2: Attempting to launch game...
lvl2: /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS fba /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/1942a.zip
lvl1: ...launch terminated with nonzero exit code -1!
lvl2: Creating surface...
lvl2: Created window successfully.
lvl2: Added unconfigured joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (GUID: 030000005e0400008e02000010010000, instance ID: 0, device index: 0).
lvl2: Added unconfigured joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (GUID: 030000005e0400008e02000010010000, instance ID: 0, device index: 0).

any idea what's happening?thanks

[mitu]

@magicfly As I said in my first post - do you have enough memory available ?
There might be an error be in the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file, check that file also. ES launches Runcommand, but Runcommand is unable to start the game

lvl2: /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS fba /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/1942a.zip
lvl1: ...launch terminated with nonzero exit code -1!