Retropie freezes

A Former User

Hi
I have a problem every time I leave the emulatinstation my retropi freeze
For example to play games or edit files.
And now I would like to know why, how I could fix it or how I could save my save states on a USB.

BuZz

Please read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first as directed when opening a forum account and provide more information. Including if you have overclocked etc.

A Former User

@BuZz
Resbarry pi 3 moudel b
Usb controler
Usb keyboard
Sd card image version 4.0. idont know exactly becaus of the freezes
Some times it dont freez imidiatly when I open the configuratins or some thing like that

BuZz

What is the output rating on the Power Supply (It will say something like 5v Xamps etc) ?

Have you made any configuration changes (eg overclocking) ?

A Former User

@BuZz
Where can I find the power supply?
I just changed the hdmi_group hdmi_mode and hdmi_drive

BuZz

At the end of the USB power cable - it's the part that plugs into the wall socket.

A Former User

@BuZz 5V 2500mA

GtBFilms

@lkmaster When you say it freezes, do you have to pull the power to restart, or is there just a very long (several minutes) delay when exiting EmulationStation?

I've found that if you have a huge collection of ROMS and scrape all the metadata it has a serious impact on the time it takes to exit EmulationStation/shutdown.

It does eventually exit though.

You can speed it up by switching off the parse gameslist on exit option but I think you may also lose any game metadata (last time played, total hours played) etc?

A Former User

@GtBFilms
I have to restart and some times i get in to a game and then it freezes after arround 3 mins and I have to restart too.
I have to restar arround 10 times to get in a game.

A Former User

@lkmaster
If no body knows how to help me. Do some body know how to save my save states on a usb so I can reinsall retropie but not lose my savestates.
This would be very helpfull as well.

backstander

@lkmaster
There's a backup script from @Drakaen391 that you could try:
https://github.com/Drakaen391/rpibu

Another option if you just want to backup saves is you could run this from the command prompt:

find /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ -name "*.srm" -o -name "*.state*" | tar --transform 's|/home/pi/||g' -PcJf retropie_game_saves.tar.xz -T -

Restore with:
tar -C /home/pi -xJf retropie_game_saves.tar.xz

I actually got the above script here on the forums but I can't remember who posted it.
After you run this you can just move retropie_game_saves.tar.xz over to your USB flash drive

BuZz

@lkmaster

Try another Power supply / USB power cable
Try another SDCard with a new image

A Former User

@backstander
Thank you but I'm a linux beginner so I don't really understand this ^^
Can you give me some examples or comands becaus I dont know what to do.

A Former User

@BuZz but if I use a new image I lose my save states

backstander

@lkmaster
You can either press F4 on an attached USB keyboard to your Raspberry Pi (aka RPi) or SSH in using something like PuTTY. Once you get logged in, just type in (or copy & paste) exactly from my previous post (the first line in red).

find /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ -name "*.srm" -o -name "*.state*" | tar --transform 's|/home/pi/||g' -PcJf retropie_game_saves.tar.xz -T -

Next make sure you have your USB flash drive plugged in to your RPi and then type cp retropie_game_saves.tar.xz /media/usb0
Another way to do the same thing is from your Windows PC use FileZilla to get retropie_game_saves.tar.xz from the /home/pi/ directory.

After you have re-installed RetroPie on your microSD card and you back up and running, then with that same USB flash drive in either push F4 and type cd /media/usb0 then tar -C /home/pi -xJf retropie_game_saves.tar.xz
or push it back over using FileZilla then press F4 and just type tar -C /home/pi -xJf retropie_game_saves.tar.xz

Hopefully that wasn't too confusing!
You might give this a read! List of common Linux commands:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/commands.md

BuZz

@lkmaster said in Retropie freezes:

@BuZz but if I use a new image I lose my save states

use the instructions above / or just copy your roms folder off over the network - also see https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie#making-a-backup-option-1

A Former User

@backstander
I have done it like u said and now when I try to load my save state this apers
Failed to load state from "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/dragon quest IV ...

A Former User

@lkmaster
I did a back up before I reinsalled retropie

backstander

@lkmaster said in Retropie freezes:

I have done it like u said and now when I try to load my save state this apers
Failed to load state from "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/dragon quest IV ...
.
I did a back up before I reinsalled retropie

did you restore your save states by extracting the retropie_game_saves.tar.xz file after reinstalling RetroPie?
tar -C /home/pi -xJf retropie_game_saves.tar.xz

A Former User

@backstander yes but maybe my savestates are in another direktory do you know how I can check this or change this?