RetroPie STILL Doesnt support USB?

DM0X

Ive been waiting for an easy way to load roms off of my external for years now. I've heard Recalbox does it now. Why is this feature still not in retropie?

dankcushions

@DM0X except it does:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms#usb-stick

or if you want them to be run FROM usb rather than transferred: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive

DM0X

I'd like to add, I found this:

Automatic Mount (Easiest Method)

As of December 30, 2016 a simple automated method was added to run roms from a USB drive.

First Update the RetroPie Setup Script
Re-Enable the USB ROM Transfer Service
Format your USB drive to FAT32 per directions above
Create a folder called retropie-mount on the USB drive
Plug into Raspberry Pi
It will proceed to automatically copy the RetroPie folder AND all of its contents (you may need to reboot to start the copying)
NOTE if you have a large ROM collection already on the SD card it will copy all of the ROMs too so make sure your USB is large enough. It is easiest if you haven't added any roms yet.

Once the folder structure is copied over the USB will be mounted over the RetroPie folder so any ROMs you add to your pi will be run off of the USB.

DM0X

@dankcushions said in RetroPie STILL Doesnt support USB?:

@DM0X except it does:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms#usb-stick

or if you want them to be run FROM usb rather than transferred: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive

It edited my last post. It doesnt work. My 500gb hdd is formatted to fat 32, has the folder in it, but it never copies a damn thing.

dankcushions

@DM0X what version of retropie? did you follow all the steps above?

it works fine for me, so you've done something wrong or your drive isn't compatible somehow.

DM0X

@dankcushions followed all the steps. I think Retropie 4. This sd was last updated at the end of January 2017

DigitalMonkey

[Not sure this is what you're looking for but....]

This is what I've done (ignore the attract mode bit) -

Runs it all from the HDD (SD card is still needed), has been working fine for me.