boxart and snaps on USB mount rather than SD?

[duiz]

I just got a pi4 and have been able to setup a manual install just to get used to the filesystems and such. One thing I wanna do that I can't really find much in the way of documentation on is store boxarts and video snaps on my USB, as my internal SD is only 16gb and I don't wanna overfill it (nor can I even transfer files to it via ssh so it's a mute point)

So is there a way to direct retropie to seek out boxart and snaps on the USB via the retropie-mount method?

[simpleethat]

@duiz it looks for the medias through the location specified in the gamelist.xml. The retropie-mount method mounts the roms and config folders from the USB so unless your media is in another location it will find them.

What I've found to make my life easier is to use Skraper to gather all my medias for various ROM collections. By default it saves the gameslist in the folder with the ROMs (ie roms\nes) and the medias in a subfolder (ie roms\nes\media\video). I like this arrangement so I can easily add systems to other builds with copying one folder vs having to go to multiple locations to copy roms, gamelists, and media.

[duiz]

@simpleethat So trying out a few things, I got the video play by using these addresses in the gameslist.xml

		<image>home/pi/RetroPie/boxart/nes/3-D WorldRunner (USA)-image.jpg</image>
		<video>home/pi/RetroPie/videos/nes/3-D WorldRunner (USA).mp4</video>

However the boxart does not show. So atleast I'm halfway there.

[mitu]

Try adding the / before the relative path, so it becomes

<image>/home/pi/RetroPie/boxart/nes/3-D WorldRunner (USA)-image.jpg</image>