USB Romservice BIOS transfer bug?

herb_fargus · 18 May 2017, 03:34

It seems a few others have mentioned it and I just tested it out myself to see if I could reproduce and it seems I am getting the same results. I transferred CTR over for the psx and tested with the USB to transfer the bios.

Specs: Pi 3 running the 4.2 image after updating the setup script
sandisk 8GB blade Fat32

These are my steps:

update setup script
enable usbromservice
create retropie folder on usb
plug into pi and wait
pull out and plug into pc
folders created, though to note: I don't remember what the intended function is if it is to copy over any existing roms and files to the USB or if it was just to copy over the folder structure. Anyways on a quick review it looks like only the folder structure was copied over but no files themselves.
then I copied over my scph1001.bin file over to the BIOS folder of the usb
plugged into the pi... and nothing transferred.
rebooted... and nothing transferred still.
plugged back into pc
transferred snes rom to snes folder
plugged back into pi
rom transferred fine.

so there is something going on with the bios folder. I'm not sure if this is something that was introduced with the retropie-mount stuff or just a fluke that happens with more people than me but I'd be interested to see if any other people can reproduce or have other findings.

AlexMurphy · 18 May 2017, 05:10

@herb_fargus Purely anecdotal... but from posts here and on reddit it seems to be a (relatively) common issue. I'm sure I could track a few down but no doubt they will come to you. It always seems to be in relation to PSX. Maybe a coincidence.

BuZz · 18 May 2017, 07:31

@herb_fargus I will look into it.

BuZz · 26 Jul 2017, 19:10

This should now be fixed if updating retropie-setup and rebooting.

BuZz · 26 Jul 2017, 21:53

@herb_fargus Sorry correction - Will need to update RetroPie-Setup, then disable and re-enable the usbromservice for the scripts to be updated. I need to rework this module so this is more automatic.

herb_fargus · 27 Jul 2017, 00:07

@buzz gold star to you good sir. Will test when I get a free moment

Flavor · 8 Sept 2017, 16:43

Just to add a bit of info, I had this problem and @herb_fargus helped me fix it by telling me to try the enable/disable (which worked well). Thanks @buzz and @herb_fargus!

Link to my post in case there's any useful info there: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12750/01_retropie_copyroms-seems-broken-won-t-sync-bios-and-configs