Let's try this again...
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2 years later, and with my better understanding of technology in general, i'm going to try and get Retropie to mount a DVD drive. Any ideas?
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M mitu moved this topic from Ideas and Development on 4 Oct 2022, 19:37
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@RetroFloppy08 re-read the advise you got last time? :) https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26855/how-can-i-use-a-usb-dvd-drive-without-having-to-mount-it/28?_=1664987537095
not sure what else there is to say on the matter.
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Taking a look, it seems like the DVD drive is automatically mounted, at least in Pixel Desktop mode. Can someone point me toward a script that launches the given game?
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@RetroFloppy08 Found a method to make a custom collection. It now reads from the directory that the disc contents can be found in (/media/pi/DISCNAME)... but I still need to mount it, as it only does it automatically in the Pixel Desktop.
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@RetroFloppy08 Hi, sorry if this has already been mentioned, but have you considered /etc/fstab ?
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@RetroFloppy08 said in Let's try this again...:
Taking a look, it seems like the DVD drive is automatically mounted, at least in Pixel Desktop mode. Can someone point me toward a script that launches the given game?
Before you think about launching the game, you'd need to think about a script that identifies what system the game is for that you've put in the drive.
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@Crush I tested it with a dummy folder, with a Genesis ROM. It works great. There's no script for detection yet, but if you could point me towards a good command for it (right now, my best bet is mount) that would be awesome.
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@kiro Checking now, is it a file or folder?
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oh my god. i've done it.
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@RetroFloppy08 aaaand it broke itself. Great. One moment it works, the next it doesn't.
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@RetroFloppy08 it's a file, where you tell the operating system what to mount at boot, it should automatically mount anything that is in there as lon as the syntax is correct.
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@kiro Did a little fiddling with it, and now it reads from /dev/sd0 instead of the UUID. It's done. After 2 years, I did it.
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Little update for the very little people who still look at this thread;
I wrote a .sh file that remounts the DVD after a swap, so you don't have to reboot the entire system. You do, however, need to restart EmulationStation.
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@RetroFloppy08 Another update: Added two more lines to the script so EmulationStation reboots itself.
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