Permission denied

[oldgamepie]

Raspberry Pi 4b
Pi power
Retropie 4.7
Built from raspberry imagine writer
Trying to load roms into retropie and it's not loading them. On start up I noticed that I usbmount@dev-sda.services failed. After searching for help nothing really pointed to what's going but I did find this out when I fdisk -l everyone that was listed including usb/dev/sda showed as failed permission but I'm not sure how to grant permission. Help is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance

[mitu]

The message about usbmount@dev-sda is benign and can be ignored. Not sure why you'd use fdisk to grant permissions though, it shouldn't be needed if all you want is to copy files from the USB to the SD card.

How are you trying to transfer ROMs ? Have you looked at the Transferring ROMs page ?

[oldgamepie]

@mitu I wasn't using fdisk to grant permission. I was using to see if it was mounted and it said permission denied. And yes I have viewed the page for transferring roms it wasn't working

[mitu]

Use mount to see if the partition on your USB has been mounted, fdisk will only list the partitions on the disc.

[oldgamepie]

@mitu sorry, it seems as if I was wrong. Today I tried to do it by Wi-Fi and found the roms are there. Which makes wonder why are they showing? I know depending on how it's set up but by default it should show game systems for the roms but none of that is showing.

[mitu]

Care to be more specific ? Each system has a list of supported file extensions, so if the ROM files are correctly named and you restart EmulationStation, they should show up in the game list.

[oldgamepie]

@mitu ok I have a bunch of roms in nes folder and some in Atari folder I've restarted emulator and the pi nothing shows up when it restarted it just shows retropie

[saccublenda]

@oldgamepie What are the extensions of the atari and nes roms? What emulators are you using for atari and nes?

[oldgamepie]

@saccublenda nes .nes and atari I believe we're .bin

[saccublenda]

@oldgamepie Look into the file /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and see if .nes and .bin extensions are listed among the Nintendo Entertainment System and Atari 2600 extensions.

[oldgamepie]

@saccublenda yes the extensions are the proper ones for each system

[mitu]

Check EmulationStation's settings, under Other, and see if you have Parse Gamelists Only turned on. If you do, then turn it off and then restart EmulationStation.

[oldgamepie]

@mitu thank you, thank you, thank you that was the fix .

[mitu]

Hm, that's weird - by default that option is off, did you turn it on yourself ?

[oldgamepie]

@mitu I might have by accident because at on point I was having a hard time finding where to pair with bluetooth for a controller