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    • hooperre

      Multiple USB Thumbdrives Read Only
      Help and Support • usb mount usb stick usb roms • • hooperre

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      hooperre

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

    • A Former User

      Roms from USB drive not loading in Emulationstation after Restart (SOLVED)
      Help and Support • estation roms not loadin usb drive usb roms • • A Former User

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      mitu

      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.

    • sad_muso

      Games aren't always detected from USB connected SSD
      Help and Support • ssd usb roms • • sad_muso

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      corezon

      @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.

    • WarPig4

      Read psx roms off SD card & USB
      Help and Support • psx games usb roms externalstorage sd card game list • • WarPig4

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      IanDaemon

      @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.

    • theendisnye

      SkyScrapper put videos on USB drive
      Help and Support • skyscraper videos usb roms usb-stick • • theendisnye

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      theendisnye

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

    • fantasma

      EmulationStation does not find any game.
      Help and Support • emulationstaion games not found externalstorage usbmount usb roms • • fantasma

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      mitu

      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 ?

    • 1uke_

      Need help running roms from USB
      Help and Support • retropie linux bionic beaver linux 10.04.3 usb roms • • 1uke_

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    • 2fst4u

      Having trouble running ROMs from USB using automount
      Help and Support • usb roms hard drive automatic mount • • 2fst4u

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      mitu

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

    • ZioDarkmage

      USB drive randomly not showing up until reboot
      Help and Support • usb roms usb issues troubleshooting • • ZioDarkmage

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      Efriim

      @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.

    • chubsta

      Clarification on running roms from usb drive please
      Help and Support • usb roms • • chubsta

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      mitu

      @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)

    • ILuvRetroGames

      how do you add a new console to a usb
      Help and Support • usb roms ps1 ps2 • • ILuvRetroGames

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      ILuvRetroGames

      ok sry

    • DougA

      USB Drive Format
      Help and Support • usb drive usb roms • • DougA

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      DougA

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

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

    • Sam Lowry

      Adding USB drive to Pi3 prevents any ROMS from showing up
      Help and Support • usb usb roms usb transfer • • Sam Lowry

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      Clyde

      @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.

    • djpj3000

      running a game OFF OF a usb?
      Help and Support • usb rom service using usb usb roms • • djpj3000

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      BuZz

      @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/

    • feel

      Store ALL configs (ES, retroarch, retropie, etc) to external drive and mount it as home directory
      Help and Support • configuration external drive config file usb roms • • feel

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      sunwind

      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.

    • jwbmonk

      Multiple usb sticks
      Help and Support • usb usb roms usb-stick • • jwbmonk

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      jwbmonk

      @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

    • ViddyD33

      Savestates save slowly
      Help and Support • save state savestate slow usb roms retropie 4.2 • • ViddyD33

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      TitQuentin

      @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! ;)

    • Allanbuzzy

      RetroPie USB Mount wiped when removing roms off SD?
      Help and Support • usb roms retropie • • Allanbuzzy

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      DarkWolf

      @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"!

    • spud11

      USB Rom Transfer - how do you know when it is complete?
      Help and Support • usb roms usb rom transfe • • spud11

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      scar

      @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>

    • DM0X

      RetroPie STILL Doesnt support USB?
      Help and Support • troubleshooting usb roms • • DM0X

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      DigitalMonkey

      [Not sure this is what you're looking for but....]

      This is what I've done (ignore the attract mode bit) -

      Runs it all from the HDD (SD card is still needed), has been working fine for me.