Did you ever get this figured out? I'm trying to use buttons hooked up the GPIO for save/load/exit and I have not had good luck. I did try to use the Adafruit RetroGame, but I couldn't get it to work.

@bktrantam You should have mentioned your existing thread to avoid a parallel discussion. Just a friendly advice.

@BuZz It's good to know that it's a kernel bug. Thanks for the info.

@herb_fargus As posted above, I had tried both the automatic and manual methods with neither of them working. I managed to get it sorted out now though because it seemed like there was a permissions issue that would not allow me to run the RetroPie script from the USB pen from within OSMC.

I ended up keeping all data and scripts on the SD card and mounting the roms folder to the USB drive and having it work that way.

@raymerc no time to learn code like the present! We all didn't know how to code at one point in our lives

@BuZz Sure,

PSU: 5v 2.5amp
Emulator: Mupen64plus-GlideN64
Pi: 3 B
Retropie ver. 4.1

updated emulator from source

USB Devices connected: Keyboard
Controller used: Wii U Pro Controller Bluetooth

This is an update on running P2000T using the m2000 emulator by Marcel de Kogel.
(as described in the first post)

I made a module-script for it :

Place it in your RetroPie-Setup folder with :

wget -nv -O /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators/p2000t.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/main/00-scriptmodules-00/emulators/p2000t.sh

Then :

Install the module-script inside your RetroPie-Setup Place the cas files in : /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/p2000t When booting a .cas, select m2000 as the emulator

Here is some explanation on what the module-script does to get this emulator working properly :

It installs xorg, matchbox-window-manager and alsa-oss in needed It gets the emulator source code of m2000 by Marcel de Kogel It patches the X.c file : adding 24 Bits Per Pixel changing video mode 1 to 640x480 It makes a boot-script so m2000 runs in lightweight X enviroment (matchbox-window-manager) and uses oss audio simulation (aoss) to get proper sound It adds the default video mode of 640x480@75hz to /opt/retropie/configs/all/videomodes.cfg"
If it doesn't work for you, then select a better 640x480 video-mode or framebuffer-mode in the boot-menu It installs everything

Hopefully more people will enjoy this.

@NecroCorey When you go directly to it that way, it can sometime rebuild the master browser tables.

To be honest, Network Neighborhood has always been flaky (especially in the Windows 98 and XP days) so I always just type in the name directly.

I despise the backslashes since everything else in the world uses forward slashes. I think it was just baked into Microsoft stuff for so long that once the WWW appeared, it was too late to change things.

If you want, once you are connect to the pi, you can click on the little icon to the left of the address bar and drag it to the desktop to create a permanent link to "\retropie" (or once you see it in network again, click and drag to make a desktop shortcut). That might save future hassles.

EDIT: You are welcome for the help. My programming skills aren't good enough to contribute to Retropie, but I have years of tech support experience, so I just try to help out where I can.

@BuZz I have a premade retropie in my raspberry pi zero, I use this one to play with 8/16 bit consoles and c64 emulators, with my raspberry pi 3 B i try to learn what are the things I can do, try which mame roms works and which not (without mess my primary retropie in raspberry pi zero), try to instal 3.5 lcd.....

I'll give it a shot. Thank you.

Yeah, went through there and didn't find it before 'cuz it was buried in Raspbian Tools. Was just coming back to say I found it. Thank you though! :)

@badhorse nice case, for some reason it reminds me of a wireless router.

Hi @mediamogul @herb_fargus @wmodes ! Since I've had so much help from everyone on this site getting my own Pie setup, I wanted to go ahead and share my zmachine gamelist along with scraped data that's mostly complete as far as I know.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/uww54ob9zq3aa12/zmachine_gamelist_v01.zip

Obviously goes without saying this doesn't include the actual roms, but if you have your own should be fairly easy to get stuff in the right place. Let me know if anyone has thoughts on improvements. Thought about videos for example, but seems like overkill given that it's a text based game ;)

@877
You might also try PeaZip. It's built around 7-zip with better GUI and more compression formats supported.

Nice work. I much prefer the home made "quirkier" ones (no offence) rather than flatpacks.

I've nearly finished mine...Just the marquee to fit....

Unbelievable! THIS is how it should have been done from the start!

I've moved ALL configs over to the usb drive now and it easily shaves 8 secs off of boot time. The 4 raspberries screen used to sit longer. Now they are gone within 4-5 secs before loading my custom animation movie (which is still on the microsd). But everything else is on the usb drive now

I mounted dev/sda1 to /media/usb0 as I only plan on having a single usb flash drive in the system. I replaced the following directories with symlinks: /opt/retropie/configs to /home/pi/RetroPie/configs /etc/emulationstation to /home/pi/RetroPie/etc/emulationstation /home/pi/RetroPie to /media/usb0

As there are some symlinks within those folders, I simply renamed to the one I use. So for example in the download_images folder, "genesis" was symlinked to "megadrive", So I just removed genesis as all my roms use megadrive folder structures.

Now I can edit config files by simply inserting the usb drive into my windows computer and editing them, then simply pop the usb back in to see the changes. Plus I have all the theme settings, scraped images, etc all on the faster drive (usb much faster than microsd) so things like all the game images load much faster.

This leaves the microsd all but isolated to do just the core system work. I used to load my custom startup movie from USB too, but found that during startup, a lot of times the usb drive isn't ready yet so the video only played 30% of the time. Moving it to the microsd allowed it to be ready to go and plays everytime now.

I would definitely recommend doing this for power users but really I would recommend this for new users too as it is much easier to wrap your head around things when the data is all in one location.

I have not yet tried the readonly script, but I was more concerned about this part working first and it works even better than hoped! Long live the symlink!