SNES does not show at all

Tanneseph

All that said.... I put SNES roms on my thumb drive. The Pi doesn't see them there! And it selectively choose when it didn't and didn't see a pile of PS1 roms. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

mediamogul

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

I'll have some more time this afternoon, during which I'll hook up a Windows keyboard and see if that's the issue.

That'd be a good idea. I use a Mac myself, but I always keep a PC keyboard available for anything outside of the Apple ecosystem just in case.

I couldn't find a place to update my keyboard setup.

The keyboard configuration is located in the Raspi-Config, accessible from the RetroPie menu in Emulation Station. Once there the settings are under 'Internationalization Options'.

I put SNES roms on my thumb drive. The Pi doesn't see them there!

What are the extensions of the SNES ROMs? I don't think it should matter, but do they have any unusual characters in the file names?

martincrocenzi

@tanneseph is there any way you can try with other micro sd? any other in order to verify if it's a hardware issue with it or with the configuration on the raspberry itself, considering there's nothing wrong with the model. So, if you have the chance, try to install a previous version of Retropie on the "new" SD and only add SNES games to the proper folder. Check if every game you drop on it is being recognized within Emulation Station. It shouldn't be such a pain in the 4$$.

Tanneseph

Figured this was the fastest and most accurate way to provide that info:

https://imgur.com/a/KqnBX

rbaker

@tanneseph Have you tried dragging them to the Pi yet?

Tanneseph

@rbaker Many times.

rbaker

@tanneseph So they must be there now?

rbaker

@tanneseph I have just tried a clean boot. No roms. Accessed the folders from a PC. Went to mycomputer like on your image posted above, opened the snes folder, right click, copy. Open roms folder right click paste in snes folder. Restart Emulationstation. Rom shows up. You don't have parse gamelists turned on do you?

rbaker

@tanneseph Take a look at this sequence. Boot up your Pi first, then follow this path. You can then place your roms.

rbaker

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

Figured this was the fastest and most accurate way to provide that info:

You know your setup shows that those files are on your PC and NOT the Pi right?

Tanneseph

Thanks for your tireless help, all of you.

I downloaded WinSCP. Because of what an amateur I am, it took me a bit to learn that SSH was a thing (still don't quite know what it is), and how to enable it on the Pi and blah blah blah, but in the end I can transfer files via WiFi!

Alright, so maybe we're closer to understanding A Thing, because when I try to directly transfer the SNES roms, I get some interesting information.

The first is that it won't do a mass transfer. It does one at a time. That one hesitates, then spits out an error message:

General failure (server should provide error description).
Error code: 4
Error message from server: Failure

Common reasons for the Error code 4 are:

Renaming a file to a name of already existing file.
Creating a directory that already exists.
Moving a remote file to a different filesystem (HDD).
Uploading a file to a full filesystem (HDD).
Exceeding a user disk quota.

Note that I'm nowhere near exceeding my 64gb thumb drive.

A file is placed in SNES, but gets the additional ending .filepart. It has been consistent. I now have three files that have done that, starting with "Bahamut Lagoon (J).smc.filepart" I will do some Googling on that, but here it is in case that is meaningful to one of you. I'm painfully green at this, but it -feels- like we're closer to having the information we need to fix something. Fingers crossed!

rbaker

@tanneseph Why WinSCP ?- can you not see the Pi via windows?, see the map I posted above.

Tanneseph

Trying to add missing PS1 roms (I decided to check the two while I had such an easy comparison via WinSCP) has the same effect. So I jumped back to the main directory for the thumb stick, and checked how full it was under Properties. I have 12.1GB full on a supposedly 64GB stick. Same error message, to be extra clear.

With the error's comment on different filesystem: My roms on my desktop are stored on an HDD running Windows. I my OS is actually located on a smaller SSD, and if that would make any freaking difference, I'd do a double transfer in a heartbeat.

rbaker

@tanneseph Also, you are talking about a thumb drive all of a sudden? Are you wanting to run roms off a thumb drive or use a thumb drive to put roms onto your Pi? either way, WinSCP file transfer is no good to you! All my advice is about getting a ROM from a WIndows PC onto the Pi SD card in seconds!

Tanneseph

@rbaker said in SNES does not show at all:

@tanneseph Why WinSCP ?- can you not see the Pi via windows, see the map I posted above.

I thought I had to use -something- in order to transfer files via Wi Fi? I'm about to be busy for a bit, but afterwards I look at your path and give it better attention /blush.

Tanneseph

@rbaker said in SNES does not show at all:

@tanneseph Also, you are talking about a thumb drive all of a sudden? Are you wanting to run roms off a thumb drive or use a thumb drive to put roms onto your Pi? either way, WinSCP file transfer is no good to you! All my advice is about getting a ROM from a WIndows PC onto the Pi SD card in seconds!

I'm wanting the safety of not having roms and OS in the same place - isn't it all at risk of being corrupted otherwise?

The OS is on a 16GB micro SD. If sticking the thumb-drive means it all transfers to the Micro SD, we've got our culprit - 12.1 GB of roms makes sense. Retropie is 4-ish GB, right?

So.... I can't play games off of my thumb-stick? I thought you could keep them separate!

rbaker

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

I thought I had to use -something- in order to transfer files via Wi Fi?

No you do not. You just browse to the Pi. You can use WinSCP but it does the same thing windows does but with more involved logging in. It's not clear what you are actually trying to do now. You are either
a) Trying to get a snes rom onto your Pi SD card - in which case my advice stands
b) Trying to use a thumb drive to automatically transfer roms from it to your SD card
c) Trying to use a thumb drive to store your roms and launch them from it ( No roms on the Pi)

rbaker

@tanneseph said in SNES does not show at all:

So.... I can't play games off of my thumb-stick? I thought you could keep them separate!

Yes you can, but this whole process does not need Wifi or files to be "transferred" etc.

Just do this: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ -Post 2 in this thread!!

Tanneseph

I absolutely understand your frustration. Thank you so much for still trying to help, because my newness to so much jargon has led me to be REALLY thick. I didn't understand that the Pi's default behavior was to pull the roms off of the stick, and that there was all that about "mounting" and "daemons"( that's all still nonsense. I clearly need to look up some definitions.). Next leisure block I will spend serious time with that page. I cannot thank you enough, nor apologize hard enough.

ByteThis

@tanneseph Tons of info..wiki's ,githubs etc out there. To educate oneself with knowledge is gold. Lots of great educated and talented people around the Retropie scene. You will tinker more than you play..haha.