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    Sega CD and PC Engine CD from an external usb pen drive using easy hax method

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    • zefolhadelaZ
      zefolhadela
      last edited by

      same happen, i was able to transfer, restart emulation station and games are there, when i restart the system, retropie delete the new games that i added, i can send the txt file when i get home

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @zefolhadela
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        @zefolhadela Oh, so the games are removed when you restart the system ? Looks like a problem with the 2 mount points - one of them is discarding changes maybe ? - not with Emulationstation.

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        • lostlessL
          lostless @zefolhadela
          last edited by lostless

          @zefolhadela said in Sega CD and PC Engine CD from an external usb pen drive using easy hax method:

          im using a rpi 3 B+ hooked up to a crt, 32gb sdcard, and a 1TB usb pendrive from ebay.

          There’s the problem right there. There is no such thing as a 1TB usb flash drive. These are known to be fakes and are actually 16 to 32 GB drives with the firmware hacked to read to an OS as 1TB. They are made poorly and have slow read and write speeds. If you load more than the 16 or 32 gigs, the drive starts to write over old data and corrupting it.

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          • zefolhadelaZ
            zefolhadela @mitu
            last edited by

            @mitu indeed, i think @lostless is right, is a problem with the pendrive. @lostless btw is that a chance that i get some of the files currupted right? cause some psx roms are not loading, since i start having problems with the files, is a chance that zipped files get currupted aswell? (im starting to get scared man, i get such a premiere collection picked up 1 by 1 man... ;S)

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            • zefolhadelaZ
              zefolhadela @zefolhadela
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              @lostless @mitu looking foward, i will try get some hdd to plug to try with it i think is by far my best choice

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              • zefolhadelaZ
                zefolhadela @zefolhadela
                last edited by

                @mitu how can i go back to the original configuration, just unplug pendrive, restart system, and copy the stuff to the original location?

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                • lostlessL
                  lostless @zefolhadela
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                  @zefolhadela if something is not loading, the file is corrupt. There is no way to recover the data

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                  • zefolhadelaZ
                    zefolhadela @lostless
                    last edited by

                    @lostless sure just random games, from psx. i think this only damage some psx games.

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                    • zefolhadelaZ
                      zefolhadela @lostless
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                      @lostless can i put you just a simple question? some of my psx game got currupted and i cant eeven load them, but all roms (most zip files) are running.. my question is can some roms be currupted but still running? (i was playing sonic hedgedog on genesis and i notice some frame drops randomly, so i start suspecting i need to replace all my games, in other words, nightmare for me .sbolded text

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                      • lostlessL
                        lostless @zefolhadela
                        last edited by

                        @zefolhadela If a game is running, it is not corrupt. I never notice frame drops on sega genesis games. Thats a different issue not related to the memory card.

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                        • zefolhadelaZ
                          zefolhadela @lostless
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                          @lostless much thanks for the anwser man. is good to know that i dont need to replace all roms. i need to check that, maybe is the crt config (which makes pi run at 240p) but pretty sure is not about that

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                          • lostlessL
                            lostless @zefolhadela
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                            @zefolhadela If you are using any type of additional video filters, you my notice few frames dropped. The PI not very graphically strong. The only filter i use is the built in bilinear filter in retroarch, which doesn't take any cpu resources.

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                            • zefolhadelaZ
                              zefolhadela @lostless
                              last edited by

                              @lostless nahh, im not using filters i am aware of that, i have my pi hooked up to a crt direcly, i just have my boot config modified, so i have menus ate 480p and that switch for game to 240p. something like this https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8476/retropie-240p-15-khz-rgb-scart-tv-guide/2

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