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    Issues Running ROMs from FTP

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @zalterego36
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      @zalterego36 said in Issues Running ROMs from FTP:

      I can also access the media server through the network list on my computer. I ran a command suggested by TP link on my Windows 10 machine and entered the credentials, now it appears like a regular drive. I can also access the RetroPie Raspberry Pi4 the same way.

      This means that CIFS is working.

      mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=192.168.0.1,unc=\192.168.0.1\volume1,nounix,noserverino,user=USER,prefixpath=roms,pass=********
      mount error(112): Host is down

      This means your PI cannot connect to the share. If the IP address is correct and you can reach your router from the Pi, then check if you don't have an ACL/Firewall on the SMB/CIFS share you added on the router.

      If might also be a CIFS/SMB version mismatch, try changing thevers mount parameter, from 3 to 1, to see if it works:

      vers=arg

      SMB protocol version. Allowed values are:

      • 1.0 - The classic CIFS/SMBv1 protocol.

      • 2.0 - The SMBv2.002 protocol. This was initially introduced in Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2008. Note that the initial release version of Windows Vista spoke a slightly different dialect (2.000) that is not supported.

      • 2.1 - The SMBv2.1 protocol that was introduced in Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2.

      • 3.0 - The SMBv3.0 protocol that was introduced in Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

      • 3.1.1 or 3.11 - The SMBv3.1.1 protocol that was introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2016.

      Note too that while this option governs the protocol version used, not all features of each version are available.

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        zalterego36 @mitu
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        @mitu

        Okay, I feel like I'm getting somewhere. I ran the suggested code with the version adjustment in there (had to Google it to figure out where it went):

        sudo mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0,username=USER,password=PASSWORD,nounix,noserverino //192.168.0.1/volume1/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

        and it didn't seem to do anything, then I ran it again and it returned:

        mount error(16): Device or resource busy
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

        Which seems to mean that it's mounted...right?

        Only problem is that when I move to the next step , adding the mount command to autostart.sh, it doesn't pick up anything. It's set to wait for my network on boot.

        When I try to navigate to it it just says that no such directory exists.

        Any other suggestions or something that might give me more information? (Also, I appreciate your help with this. I'd like to get it up and working, though I may need to adjust my expectations).

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator
          last edited by

          @zalterego36 said in Issues Running ROMs from FTP:

          and it didn't seem to do anything, then I ran it again and it returned:
          mount error(16): Device or resource busy
          Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

          Which seems to mean that it's mounted...right?

          Probably, but you can check with mount or df -h to see if the remote folder is mounted. If it is, then make sure you add the uid and gid parameters so that the pi user can write/read from the share.

          .. username=UN,password=PW,nounix,noserverino,uid=pi,gid=pi
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            zalterego36
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            @mitu said in Issues Running ROMs from FTP:

            df -h

            I ran that command and I got a few things, but the one that stood out was:
            //192.168.0.1/volume1/roms 2.8T 1.6T 1.2T 57% /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

            So it looks like it's mounted. I went into file navigation that's built into retropie, and I navigated to home > pi > retropi > roms and I could see all the files on the hard drive. I have some PSX and GC games there that I haven't loaded up yet, so I know it's not on the SD card.

            However, none of them are showing up in the launcher.

            I've added uid and gid parameters, and it doesn't seem to help.

            Am I missing something? Running scrape again doesn't pull up additional games. Is there some sort of import thing I'm missing?

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @zalterego36
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              @zalterego36 said in Issues Running ROMs from FTP:

              Am I missing something? Running scrape again doesn't pull up additional games. Is there some sort of import thing I'm missing?

              Check if the pi user can write to the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms folder. If yes, restart EmulationStation and see if your games show up.

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                zalterego36
                last edited by zalterego36

                @mitu said in Issues Running ROMs from FTP:

                Check if the pi user can write to the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms folder.

                Here's what I did...

                I ran, ls -l /home/pi/RetroPie/roms
                It returned, drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 0 May 7 03:59 for all the subfolders in 'roms'.

                It looked like all the permissions where there (correct me if I'm wrong), but I decided to throw everything at the wall. I ran sudo chmod 777 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

                Again it returned drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 0 May 7 03:59 for all the sub-folders in Roms.

                I rebooted and still no change. Can I force a library update? Or is that a Kodi thing?

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                  mitu Global Moderator @zalterego36
                  last edited by mitu

                  @zalterego36 Can you restart EmulationStation only, without rebooting ?

                  Or exit EmulationStation, then run it with

                  emulationstation --debug

                  and post the output.

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                    zalterego36
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                    @mitu said in Issues Running ROMs from FTP:

                    restart EmulationStation only

                    No joy on the software restart. Here's the output from debug:

                    May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "mastersystem" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "megadrive" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "msx" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/n64/gamelist.xml"...
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/neogeo" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "neogeo" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml"...
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ngp" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "ngp" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ngpc" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "ngpc" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pcengine" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "pcengine" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "psx" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie/gamelist.xml"...
May 13 07:47:51 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/sega32x/gamelist.xml"...
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/segacd" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "segacd" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/sg-1000" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "sg-1000" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl2:   Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes/gamelist.xml"...
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/vectrex" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "vectrex" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/zxspectrum" is not a directory!
May 13 07:47:51 lvl1:   System "zxspectrum" has no games! Ignoring it.
May 13 07:47:52 lvl3:   SystemView::getViewElements()

                    I can't make much sense of it. The only thing that stands out to me is that the PSX one is coming up as 'Not a Directory'.

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                      zalterego36
                      last edited by zalterego36

                      @zalterego36 said in Issues Running ROMs from FTP:

                      PSX one is coming up as 'Not a Directory'

                      Wait. I fixed that one. I'm apparently an idiot and had capitalized it. Lord, I'm sorry about that.

                      I think it's working! I'm going to test it out a bit.

                      EDIT: It looks like everything is working, but NES, SNES, GBA, and N64 games are blinking for some reason. Like, they lose video randomly. But I don't think that's a problem with the network...PSX, 32x, and GBC are working. I'll poke at it a bit and see if I can find something else.

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                        zalterego36 @mitu
                        last edited by zalterego36

                        @mitu

                        I wanted to thank you properly, it seems like I'm up and running aside from some issues with a few games (NES, SNES, GBA, and N64) blinking. But I'll figure that out on my own (or I'll make a separate post...). Fixed! Needed to uncomment HDMI_drive=2 on /boot/config.txt. Just leaving that behind for anyone else having the issue.

                        Seriously, thank you very much. Even my saves are going into the drive now!

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