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      ROMs on USB Stick Questions

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      @mitu Thanks TONS! I did have the ROMs in mame-advmame but in a subdirectory. That didn't cause problems with lr-mame2016 so I didn't think it would be a problem for advmame. DOH! 😖

      Now on to the next task, getting all of the buttons correctly mapped in advmame!

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      Multiple USB Thumbdrives Read Only

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      @windg Thanks, that did it. The old thumbdrive is showing read only even on my windows pc. Think that one is good as gone.

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      Roms from USB drive not loading in Emulationstation after Restart (SOLVED)

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      mituM

      There's a topic in the Raspberry Pi forums for USB SSDs - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=245931 - pinned at the top of the troubleshooting section.

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      Games aren't always detected from USB connected SSD

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      @mitu So I tried that just now it actually caused a 20 second delay in the start up process. So I reverted the changes and I've actually just disabled the usbmount services manually and added a line in fstab to mount /dev/sda1 as a work around. Now it boots normally every time.

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      Read psx roms off SD card & USB

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      @xtv said in Read psx roms off SD card & USB:

      One solution could be splitting this into two subdirectories, like A-J and K-Z, one of them being a symlink to the USB drive.

      That would be a simple visual solution to "hide" the separate-location structure. You could also split it on release year or franchise to help hide the fact.

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      SkyScrapper put videos on USB drive

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      Many thanks for this, I will read through the material and then give it a go. Steve

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      EmulationStation does not find any game.

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      mituM

      If you can read them via the terminal, then it's ok.
      What happens if you restart Emulationstation, after booting ? Will the games show up ?

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      Need help running roms from USB

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      Having trouble running ROMs from USB using automount

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      mituM

      @2fst4u To be fair, this is the most common problem when dealing with a Pi Zero - the hub. Glad you got it working.

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      USB drive randomly not showing up until reboot

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      EfriimE

      @ZioDarkmage
      sudo fsck.fat /dev/sda1
      I always have this where it says it was not properly umounted. I'm looking into it.
      Oh well, It is probably nothing.

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      Clarification on running roms from usb drive please

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      mituM

      @chubsta said in Clarification on running roms from usb drive please:

      Transfer the existing RetroPie file structure

      That's clearly under the Manual Mount section and - obviously - in direct contradiction with the previous sentence from the Automatic method

      It will proceed to automatically copy the RetroPie folder AND all of its contents (you may need to reboot to start the copying)

    • ILuvRetroGamesI

      how do you add a new console to a usb

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      ILuvRetroGamesI

      ok sry

    • DougAD

      USB Drive Format

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      DougAD

      @steptoe Have a look at this link. exFAT is faster than FAT32.

      https://www.flexense.com/fat32_exfat_ntfs_usb3_performance_comparison.html

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      Adding USB drive to Pi3 prevents any ROMS from showing up

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      ClydeC

      @jonnykesh I meant @rbaker. The TO got it right IMO, talking about transferring ROMs to the USB drive and linking to the right docs for that.

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      running a game OFF OF a usb?

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      @djpj3000

      Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

      https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/

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      Store ALL configs (ES, retroarch, retropie, etc) to external drive and mount it as home directory

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      What was the solution? I'm trying to mount all my configs and roms and everything on an external usb so the 'OS' just runs from the card and nothing else.

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      Multiple usb sticks

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      @mitu I never ended up doing this I realized I'm an idiot and I could just transfer all the other ROMs to the SD card lol thanks for the help though

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      Savestates save slowly

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      @chipsnblip said in Savestates save slowly:

      avestate_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/SaveS

      I thought of this solution but I also use the hard drive on PC with Retroarch. It's helpful to have the savestates in the same folder as the rom! ;)

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      RetroPie USB Mount wiped when removing roms off SD?

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      DarkWolfD

      @Allanbuzzy You can't speak of a installation here! The usb helper script only copies the roms from the sd card to the usb stick and keeps them on both! It won't delete anything

      If you plug in the usb and start up retropie it mounts the usb device to the /home/pi/RetroPie folder, so everything on the sd card is "hided"!

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      USB Rom Transfer - how do you know when it is complete?

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      @spud11 after loging in through ssh, you can use "du -sh <directory>" to check the size of the directory and can also use "ls <directory>" to see all the files that are in <directory>