@vodkanakas Thanks for sharing your solution for others who might encounter the same problem. 👍

I sware I had it changed to what you said earlier. Changed both files and it's now showing my N64 ones. Hopefully I can get the rest to work... thank you.

@beoney1 said in Game gear emulation pi 3b+:

I feel like such a fool as I downloaded them as .exe files and not the ROM files. It works now!

There are no ROMs that are .exe files (unless we are talking about old dos games) make sure to delete those .exe files they are very likely to be viruses/spyware 😬

@mitu

I wanted to thank you properly, it seems like I'm up and running aside from some issues with a few games (NES, SNES, GBA, and N64) blinking. But I'll figure that out on my own (or I'll make a separate post...). Fixed! Needed to uncomment HDMI_drive=2 on /boot/config.txt. Just leaving that behind for anyone else having the issue.

Seriously, thank you very much. Even my saves are going into the drive now!

I did search and find this just now, sorry. I will try some tips from it tonight when I get home

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2870/running-roms-from-a-network-share

@lckool20 You can either do it using a desktop environment (if you have one installed) or use the command line. Have a read of this https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/commands.md

@markyh444 Thanks a bunch! I read through it and it does look very tricky. I'm thinking it may just be easier to do a fresh install to be on the safe side. Thanks again!

Problem solved using No-intro roms :)
Thank you all for your comments.

@sselph That looks great, I had no idea it would work that way!

Disregard the rest of this message. I found the solution on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Again, surprised it doesn't have anything to do with network shares but the solution will be the same.

In case someone else stumbles on this post and wants to know the solution I'll be going with; I'll be editing the savestate and savefile directory in the retroarch.cfg file. We'll make this a local destination and worry about space issues if/when the time comes.

I have another problem. I was apparently wrong about it being able to save to the share. The save files I saw in there were all from before I set it up this way and they don't update as we make progress.

When I hold Select + Right Shoulder, it says "Failed to save to /home/pi/RetroPie/smb" or something to that effect. I'll have to play with permissions and stuff on my Windows machine tonight but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

It's weird that I'm not finding anyone else that did a setup like this. It was one of the first ideas I had before the RasPi even came in the mail. Hopefully I'll get all the kinks worked out and write an all inclusive guide for it. Would love to see it put up on the wiki someday! :)

I take that back, I see where a couple of people touched on the subject and maybe more on Reddit but I can't access it at work :(. The one I was able to read barely got as far as I have and made no mention of issues with saving. I'm guessing it wasn't a problem because he was using NFS but I've never played with NFS shares so I can't speak to that.