PiGRRL Zero troubleshooting adding roms
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Hello, I looked around for help on this but it is extremely difficult to properly troubleshoot this on a 2" screen. Long story short I am using a modified version of Retropie from this tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/pigrrl-zero/software
This is a modified version of retro pie to be able to use the soldered controls for a piGRRL zero project. The OS and controls are working properly and I am able to play the version of doom this OS came with. The problem is I cannot setup my 256MB USB drive (its all I got handy) to interface with this system properly. I have it formatted in FAT 32 and created a retropi folder, however after connecting it to my pi zero build it never created new folders. USB ROM Service should be enabled by default but it is extremely difficult to see menus on such a tiny screen and I cannot use the HDMI port on the pi zero board anymore (I am literally looking at this through a magnifying glass).
Now I can easily remove the SD card, and I can easily interface a keyboard to the Pi... however seeing the screen is difficult so any help would require telling me what option it is in the list etc.
The second problem I am having is windows cannot see the entirety of the SD card with the OS on it, which I thought would be an easy way to add roms. Does anyone know how to access this missing space?
Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed here? I am at a loss for what to attempt next.
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@when_suddenly said in PiGRRL Zero troubleshooting adding roms:
have it formatted in FAT 32 and created a retropi folder, ...
The folder should be named retropie, not retropi, see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/#usb-stick. Check the name and see if it's correct.
The second problem I am having is windows cannot see the entirety of the SD card with the OS on it, which I thought would be an easy way to add roms.
Windows does not read a Linux formatted partition without extra software.
Does anyone know how to access this missing space?
Use a Linux computer to read the SD card or install a driver like Paragon ExtFS on Windows to be able to read the Linux partition on the sdcard.
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@mitu Yeah the folder is named retropie not retropi that was just a typo in the forums
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Then you'd have to check whether the USB service is enabled.
The image we provide has it enabled by default, 3rd party images may have not - we don't know how are they configured and this one of the reasons we don't support them.
If the Pi has wireless (Pi 0W), then you can configure WiFi and enable SSH to transfer files from your Windows system. This can be done without a keyboard display - see here and here.
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@mitu so I bypassed the usb key step by interfacing my sd card to my computer directly with a linux driver. I have put the roms in the various folders that existed in root/home/pi/RetroPie/roms, I put an archive of nes games in the .nes format, snes games in the .smc format, genisis games in the .md format, gba games in .gba etc....
The problem is none of the emulators show up on boot. I looked at another form for this issue and apparently they had their "Parse Gameslists only" option set to on... however I cannot even access that option in the emulation station main menu. The "other settings" tab is completely missing.
I am seriously at my wits end after troubleshooting this present for 5 days straight in the software. does anyone have any ideas?????
Also somehow installing ext2fsd has messed up my USB ports on my PC and it will only recognize USB devices on startup.
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@when_suddenly said in PiGRRL Zero troubleshooting adding roms:
The problem is none of the emulators show up on boot. I looked at another form for this issue and apparently they had their "Parse Gameslists only" option set to on... however I cannot even access that option in the emulation station main menu. The "other settings" tab is completely missing.
That means you're using a very old EmulationStation (and possibly RetroPie) version. Emulators not showing up on boot means also that they're not installed. Looking at the date of the installation document, it's from 2016, so it looks like they're using an old image.
Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download and we can provide support, otherwise ask the provider of the image for help.
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