Consoles missing - Running ROMs from a USB drive

rietzelucas

Hey all,

I am trying to run roms from a USB using the automatic method, as as laid out in the wiki, and am running into two issues:

I am running a tripleboot pi - with Kodi and Raspbian - and found that once I plug my usb in, I lose my custom links to the other operating systems, and the Retropie settings menu (as seen below)

However, once I unplug the usb and reboot, those links return. Is there a way to keep these with the usb rom option?
My USB drive currently has the Retropie folders (roms, bios, configs) with unzipped roms for the following consoles:

3do (added folder myself)
amiga (added folder myself)
atari jaguar (added folder myself)
gameboy
gameboy advance
gamecube
n64
snes
psx
ps2
saturn
segacd
virtual boy

However the only consoles that show up are:

gameboy
gameboy advance
n64
snes
psx
segacd

Any suggestions on how to get these to show up?

Thanks in advance!

rbaker

@rietzelucas You need to install the emulators as explained here:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#installing-additional-emulators--ports

rietzelucas

@rbaker Thanks rbaker. Just after posting this I saw the forum post related to that. Just checking it out atm. Thanks for the quick reply!
Any suggestions on how to resolve my first issue?

columboscoat

@rietzelucas try adding an empty "ROM" folder for Kodi and Desktop / Raspbian on the USB. That might fix it. If empty folders don't work copy the folders over from the Pi to the USB. And RetroPie too, of course.

Darth_Farter87

I just made all operations, i copied a couple of neogeo rom in their folder, that's all' ok, but i didn't saw retropie game page (wifi, raspi option, retropie option, filemanager) and Dreamcast page with two rom (this Rom are in SD card Dreamcast folder)?

rietzelucas

@columboscoat I tried both creating a folder, and copying the existing folders from the RetroPie folder over and they still don't show :S

rbaker

@rietzelucas Not really as I don't know what customisations you have in place.

rbaker

@Darth_Farter87 said in Consoles missing - Running ROMs from a USB drive:

I just made all operations, i copied a couple of neogeo rom in their folder, that's all' ok, but i didn't saw retropie game page (wifi, raspi option, retropie option, filemanager) and Dreamcast page with two rom (this Rom are in SD card Dreamcast folder)?

If this is a question, I have no idea what you are talking about. Please open your own support request and read:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

rietzelucas

@rbaker I am using this triple boot build with OSMC. Outside of that all I've done is update raspbian and retropie to the latest builds.

rbaker

@rietzelucas So it's now time to post some details on these custom links, config files, what you have done etc?

herb_fargus

@rietzelucas we don't provide support for 3rd party images.

rietzelucas

@rbaker To my knowledge the only modifications are in the es_systems.cfg file. It has been altered to include a call to a script to boot the pi into a different partition / os. The boot scripts are stored in the roms folder (/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/kodi/Kodi.sh).
Outside of this I don't believe there are any other modifications.

At the moment I have three games on my sd card, and found that when I mount the USB, I lose those games. So my thought is that perhaps the es_systems.cfg file is being overwritten to whatever is on USB, and therefore won't see anything on the SD card?

rietzelucas

@herb_fargus It's not a 3rd party image, it's someone's preconfigured noobs setup with 3 partitions: one with Retropie, one with Kodi, and one with Raspbian. It's still the default Retropie image on top of a headless raspbian os. It was done this way so you would have less overhead when running Retropie (rather than having Raspbian with the GUI with both Kodi and Retropie installed and running on it).