Hello,

Pi Model: Raspberry Pi 3
RetroPie Version Used: 4.1
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: PS3 controller + DataTraveler G4 64GB

As I said, right now everything works fine. My roms are on my SD Card.

When I insert my USB with roms in it. It seems to corrupt my retropie... I'm stuck at a terminal command and it shows kernel version, cpu temperature, but no way to get back to usual retropie interface..

Thanks,
JP

@Darix i would try sega cue maker. .ccd should work with it. Not sure about the other two. You can also try renaming it to .bin then running sega cue maker if it doesnt work the other way. Yes i know its a different format but i have gotten several games to work that way in the past.

you can try with UXS : https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5291/soft-universal-xml-scraper-v2-easy-scrape-with-high-quality-picture

@billybag No problem dude. We are here as a community to help and only direct people to the wiki as otherwise we'd be answering the same questions over and over that are already documented.

@pc4life0427 feel free to report them, but indiegogo doesn't give a crap. They'll take their cut, and they'll all go running off to the bank laughing.

@Arnik eg didn't read wiki mentioning the note about header less ROMs

try another rom, i have the appropriate one for mame 2010 and it works great for me

partially resolved. i had a setting enabled that was preventing new games from coming in via the scrape options.

I see the problem.

The problem is you have enabled ParseGamelistOnly - which will mean it doesn't scan for roms and only shows items from scraped gamelists. Hence your roms are not showing up.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/FAQ

Parse Gamelists Only: If on, it will only read the roms you have scraped, so if you add any new roms it will not look for them unless you turn this back off. it is off by default.
also - are you aware any es_systems.cfg in /home/pi/.emulationstation will override the retropie-setup generated /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg - you probably dont want that unless you are happy to maintain it manually.

This content on

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2359/emulators-not-displaying/17

Resolved the roms not appear.

I'm still dealing with being unable to set hotkeys on the controller.

Thank you for your help.

@jayram1408 Swearing / personal insults on the forum as your first post. Well done.

@NastyWays85
So I was never able to get the USB interface that i was using to work. I ended up buying a new one on Amazon and it worked great! I bought an Easyget 2 player zero delay generic game controller USB to Joystick for MAME & Raspberry Pi 1/2/3 retropie DIY projects. it was very easy to set up and worked instantly. Your arcade looks awesome, hope this helps, good luck!

Found the issue... I guess somewhere along the line (before I loaded ROMS), I modified this - "Parse gamelists only" ... all good for now!

I have a pi3 and the retropi setup screen says VER 4.1.10 at the top.

@jrhessey I updated the wiki :)

You need to Install Samba/USB/Send over Rom's via Card. I personally like the samba share and use the IP of the machine to send over ROM's
Log into your PC with the roms
//IPADRESS/

Go to the rom folder and copy and paste over the roms to correct location is it VERY Simple.

You will not see any games unless you load over the roms, the guides above are perfect this gets asked so much.

As you load the roms for each games they will show up after a reboot

@gnome73 said in New to Retro Pi - have some questions:

Im a RPi noob so hence why Im posting... have done some searching and the closest thing I found to answering my questions below is something called Attract but it appears to be a full reinstall of the RPi which I've only just got going so am a bit reluctant to do this

welcome! :)

My questions:-

Is there a nicer interface than emulation station ideal for kids? I've seen some youtube videos where there is a very graphical interface when choosing the games and the background wallpaper changes to match the game as you scroll through the list of ROMS - how do I set this up? Also I've seen a youtube clip on the attract mod which shows the ROMs as a grid with the game covers - but dont want to do a full reinstall.

that's attractmode. maybe someone can help you with the install, but i understand that right now it's easiest to use the full image (reinstall)

Also is there a way to go straight to the ROM selection screen and have all ROMs in 1 easy to scroll through list regardless of their Emulator?

it's possible but it would require a LOT of tweaking and file edits.

Is there a way to permanently save high scores from ROMs? I did a search and there was a suggestion to use the latest mame emulator lr-mame2003 (I am Retro Pi 4.1 on a RPi 3). Which leads me onto my next and final question..

lr-mame2003, yes: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/lr-mame2003#high-scores

I tried to run MAME Roms using lr-mame2003 and none would work... upon doing some digging I found that the Neo Geo emulator is used for MAME games? Once i put the MAME Roms in the NeoGeo emulator folder they worked! huh go figure? therefor if I can only run MAME via Neo Geo - will Neo Geo save games?

there's a lot going on here, huh? :) neogeo emulators should save games (why not try and find out?), but if you want to run mame games properly (the neogeo emulators will only run a subset of them), you should have a look at https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

@kez colecovision is only compiled for the pi also you'll get more answers if you start your own threads with your own questions rather than hoping you'll get one by piggybacking off of a solved thread

@herb_fargus that sucks sooo bad. That is one great game.

@flop said in running roms from sd card:

I think I didn´t understand your question well or you get confused with the guide and the method of copy games in rpi.

Your posted link shows you to run/load games FROM the usb; but for you want to do read this:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms

Format your SD and re-install retropie, then use one of the methods described in that link.

i can transfer roms to my pi just fine. what im trying to do is have the roms run off of my flash drive as i have more roms than my small 8 gig sd card can hold and i cant add any more roms at all. i have a 128 gig flash drive that im trying to get the roms to run off of.
i did everuthing in the guide that i originally posted and double checked that my UUID was right for my usb drive. but i get a popup when i boot emulationstation on saying we cant find any systems check that your paths are correct in the systems configuration file, and your game directory has at leas one game with the correct extension.