Changing where save state files are saved - EmulationStation????

FlynntMaverick

Just set up retropie a week or so ago. trying to get (snes at the moment) to save state files in mounted share (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Saves). Share works at boot and is writable, but the save state files keep saving to the default folder (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes)

I've added this line to both the all config and the snes config:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg:
savestate_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Saves"

/opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg (above the #inlculde...statement):
savestate_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Saves"
#include "opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

But changing where save state files are saved is not working, they keep saving in the ....roms/snes folder. FYI this is a folder in my windows drop box folder so I can continue games anywhere I go.

What Am I Missing??

BuZz

Have you typed those configs in manually to the forum ? They contain errors eg in the include line.

Please read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Please format any configs in code blocks (``` before and after)

I would need to see your complete /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and /opt/retropie/configs/snes/retroarch.cfg as well as the output of this command ls -la /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

FlynntMaverick

I did type manually in the post. here are direct copies.

snes/retroarch.cfg - http://pastebin.com/ABbwDVcw
all/retroarch.cfg - http://pastebin.com/J04jBrUb
ls - http://pastebin.com/jBMcrGub

FlynntMaverick

ok links not working, but the pages exist. pasted text. late for work though. sorry, thanks, and i'll try agiain later.

BuZz

I fixed your post. Will check.

BuZz

Your "Saves" folder is owned by root. it has write permissions for all users, but you might want to change that to be owned by pi (chown -R pi:pi /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Saves)

Your config looks correct at first glance though.

FlynntMaverick

well the Saves is a mounted share (windows share) and is done at boot. the Saves directory is owned by pi , but at boot it mounts as root. I've tried to forcing it with username=pi in the fstabs but still comes up as root. chown or sudo chown doen't change the owner. The directory is writable when logged in as pi.

So to test, i've unmounted, directory shows owned by pi. emulation does save correctly..
But mount it, its owned by root, emulation station will not save there (even though its wriatable).

so I guess i need to figure out how to get it to mount as pi. Thanks for leading me down the right direction.

FlynntMaverick

Well, got it to mount with uid=pi,gid=pi at boot, but still no joy.

dankcushions

@FlynntMaverick
have a look at https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive#configure-fstab-to-automatically-mount-usb-drive

this is how my fstab looks and it saves to my drive ok.

BuZz

Try mounting with uid=1000,gid=1000 instead of the name pi. The uid/gid should be numeric afair

FlynntMaverick

no joy.
the share doesn't have a uuid to use in the fstab.
here's the line in the fstab as it is now:
····//10.0.0.10/Share/Folder /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/Saves cifs username=pi,password=raspberry,uid=1000,gid=100id=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,x-systemd.automount 0 0
Inline code
if it helps, its a Pi3, rasbian jesse image, then emulation station installed on the side.