Retropie is not copying internal folders on flash drive

TcMan

I'm absolutely new to this. I bought my raspberry PI 3 B on amazon and followed all the steps. Apparently, everything worked just fine until I got to the last part, which was transferring the ROMS. I tried 2 flash drives. I formatted them to FAT32 and created the folder "retropie" (I even created a folder retropie-mount to test, because I read this somewhere). When I plug the flash drive back to the raspberry pi, it keeps blinking forever and never creates the internal folders for the ROMS. The version on my retropie is the latest 4.5.1. I even tried to ENABLE USBROMSERVICE under the configuration/tools, but it's not even there. Any help would be very appreciated. This is very frustrating.

mitu

Do you have the usbromservice package installed ? It's in the Optional package section, if it's not installed then it won't appear under Configuration/Tools.

Did you use the image from retropie.org.uk/download to perform the installation ?

TcMan

@mitu I don't think I have the package installed. I will look for.

That's how I performed installation:

sudo apt-get install git lsb-release
Next,
cd (Press Enter)
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
(Press Enter)
cd RetroPie-Setup (Press Enter)
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh (Press Enter)
This may take some time, when it is done you will

Thank you for your reply.

Clyde

@mitu Shouldn't the transfer of roms via usb be possible ootb in the official RP image? At least https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/ isn't mentioning anything about having to install or enable usbromservice.

mitu

@Clyde The RP image already contains the usbromservice and it's enabled (I think). That's why I asked what image was used for installation, but it seems a manual installation (over Raspbian) was done, instead of using an image.

TcMan

@mitu So, should I use a image? Do you think something went wrong during installation? Should I uninstall and reinstall retropie?

mitu

@TcMan said in Retropie is not copying internal folders on flash drive:

@mitu So, should I use a image?

That's the preferred way of installing on a Pi and it's faster than a manual install.

Do you think something went wrong during installation?

No, I don't think so, but it something went wrong then you'd have an error note after the installation.

Should I uninstall and reinstall retropie?

If it's already installed, then no, there's no need to reinstall.

Clyde

@TcMan So, did you install the package usbromservice from the optional packages in the Retropie setup as @mitu suggested?

TcMan

@Clyde Not yet. I'm still at work, but I'll try as soon as I get home and I'll let you know.

TcMan

@Clyde got it! It was the usbromservice package! Tks guys

Clyde

Have fun with Retropie. :)