Ras Pi 1 >4 SD card issues (roms not visible or loading)

raspberry_beret

Hi gang!

I bought a Raspberry Pi 1 second hand for next to nothing earlier this year with Retro Pi + over a thousand games already installed then splashed out on a new, shiny Ras Pi 4 shortly after so that I could also run some N64 games and have more than 2 players etc.

I successfully flashed Raspian (including Retro Pi for Ras Pi 4) onto the same SD card yesterday and it installed and ran almost immediately onto my new Ras Pi 4 but none of the roms on the SD card were detected and I wasn't able to scrape any either, despite having a play about with settings, so my question is this: how can I locate and run said roms?

When I plug the SD card into my laptop using an SD card reader, none of the games show up there either (the visible files are mainly kernels and the like) but when I first got my Raspberry Pi 1, they could all be seen and edited etc by connecting it to my wifi router using an ethernet cable and then going into the directory using my laptop.

Do I need to change the file extensions or delve into the settings more deeply on Retro Pi for Ras Pi 4??

Hope that all makes sense and that this particular quandary hasn't been covered on here a million times already but I'm very new to the world of Raspberry and Retro Pi!

Cheers

mitu

@raspberry_beret said in Ras Pi 1 >4 SD card issues (roms not visible or loading):

I successfully flashed Raspian (including Retro Pi for Ras Pi 4) onto the same SD card yesterday and it installed and ran almost immediately onto my new Ras Pi 4 but none of the roms on the SD card were detected and I wasn't able to scrape any either, despite having a play about with settings, so my question is this: how can I locate and run said roms?

If you installed the Pi4 RetroPie image from retropie.org.uk/forum, then the content of the sdcard was overwritten, you're starting from scratch. The previous contents of the sdcard have been erased.

When I plug the SD card into my laptop using an SD card reader, none of the games show up there either (the visible files are mainly kernels and the like) but when I first got my Raspberry Pi 1, they could all be seen and edited etc by connecting it to my wifi router using an ethernet cable and then going into the directory using my laptop.

This doesn't seem like a RetroPie standard image.

raspberry_beret

Hi @mitu,

Thanks for your response,

I actually downloaded Raspian from the official RasPi website, does that still mean that everything is overwritten?

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/

Cheers.

mitu

@raspberry_beret If you wrote the .img file that you downloaded from the Raspberry Pi site on your sdcard, then yes, it's the same.

raspberry_beret

@mitu Crumbz!! Ok haha. Any recommended sites or way that I can do a batch download or scape of particular games (ie: Gameboy Advance , SNES, N64) instead of just trying to download them all individually again?

BuZz

@raspberry_beret No - and read the forum rules as asked when subscribing

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

raspberry_beret

Soz m8, didn't see the bit about requesting roms, downloads and packs and the like.

raspberry_beret

While on the same topic, I'm still having a lot of issues with getting my Raspberry Pi 4 to recognise and run roms if anyone can help? After having made the leap from Raspberry Pi 1 to 4, it all feels quite messy and confusing and I wasn't quite anticipating it to be complicated.

I have my RasPi4 connected to my wifi and it's showing up fine on my otherwise very temperamental 2011 Macbook Pro. I can go into the directories and see the roms folders and drop zip files in there etc but it's still not recognising or loading them properly.

I'm dropping the correct zipped roms into the correct folders (ie: GBA in roms in gba and N64 roms in n64) but despite restarting both Raspbian and the emulation station and my laptop, it still doesn't seem to be updating or recognising the games properly (?)

When it does show some of the roms and I try to start them up, i'm taking my time to select the right emulators for the right games but more often than not, it just goes back to the configuration menu.

Can anyone recommend a reasonably quick and surefire way of loading new games onto my Raspberrry Pi 4?

Thanks!

mitu

@raspberry_beret said in Ras Pi 1 >4 SD card issues (roms not visible or loading):

Can anyone recommend a reasonably quick and surefire way of loading new games onto my Raspberrry Pi 4?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/

raspberry_beret

@mitu said in Ras Pi 1 >4 SD card issues (roms not visible or loading):

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/

Thanks!