Hi m8. this isn't working for me for some reason. I used 128gb mlp hyperpie image, usb hdd via powered hub and used the Easy Hax script from the emulationstation menu. When I plugged the hdd into the pc there was only a handful of systems in the roms folder. I formatted the drive again and this time tried the script from the pc like in the video. The script looked like it ran ok but when I plugged the drive back into the pc there was no roms folder at all?! Help!
So I'm a bit lost. put the retropie toolkit files where? if you mean put them on the hard drive somewhere and double click that 1st file, it opens then has some quick network error
When you unplug the hard drive and plug it into the Pi (Pi is now in wireless), what command are you typing into the CMD prompt to access the Pi in order to run that batch file? Sorry for all of the questions.
i'm having a issuer every time i go to use the tool kit it tells me unable to find host, my wifi is on the same network, SSH is enable, even put it on the SD card. what am i missing.
Can you maybe look into the USB mount part for retropie 4.2 and do a video on that and include snaps and art on a USB storage this is the ideal way of using multiple images
Hey. Answer this if you have time. Can I use a usb splitter and connect the external hdd to raspberry and my tv at the same time so that when I download lets say movie I could watch it on the tv via the USB section? Thanks
I am trying to add an external WD 4TB drive to my Pi3. I am running Debian 8. Not sure if it's Jessie(?).I have had other external hd and usb drive show up and I was able to access the contents. Not so with this drive. Error msg is: Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/pi/9C33-6BBD: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sda1" "/media/pi/9C33-6BBD"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' Any ideas? Thanks for the help.
I've got the earlier model of that 4tb hey back in around 2010. It came as a 2tb with the other 2tb mirrored for backup but u can change it easy to 4tb. But spewing I moved around alot years ago and now it just doesn't power on. There's no noticeable damage so I reckon it'd still work somehow. I can't even remember everything thats on it but anyway I should get it fixed cause it'd be perfect for this kinda thing. Having Wii, Gamecube, PS1, Dreamcast take up heaps too so I'm gonna def try get it fixed. Good to know about the non power ones too, cheers Drew!
Is it ok if i will do that with a 3.5 inch SATA HDD with an enclosure? And my HDD is partitioned into 2 drives. Will it work if I only format one of its partition to NTFS?
So, I am assuming when you first start, you'll need an SD card in the Pi in order to boot to Motion Blue, correct? Once you're done with everything, you'll be able to remove the card and boot the Pi with only the hard drive attached, correct?
Hello , plz provide me Amazon link of a HDMI non touch screen for raspberry pi 3. I'm running Kali Linux in this as ssh. So a HDMI non touchscreen monitor like u have in this video
Immaculate cable management Good video too. Wondering though, could you use the pi without the external drive to play games? Like if I want to take the pi to a friends place could I bring the pi alone and it will read roms from the sd card. And then when I go home and plug the drive in it'll be a seamless transition?
Have you seen anyone using a NAS or network drive to store and launch roms and other media? I have a 6TB setup for Hyperspin that lives on my NAS, would be great to share the files.
You list a Y-cable and powered hub in the description, are those just to make a portable hard drive (with no power source) compatible? I'm just trying to figure out if I buy the WD My Passport, if I'll also need to buy the Y-cable and hub.
is possible to just install retropie into an external and then just eliminated sd cards all together? (sorry if this is a silly question, i just started learning about the subject)
I have it working on my img build ! You need to change directory on both emulation station and attract mode using a script or shh in to its configure file.
There a way I can contact the coder ? I have the missing file that well add box art and videos and so on to the HDD :) he just need to rename the file to the folder that he has named. :)
Nice. Got an image on this now.. setting up REys on 16 gig SD with all the roms on a 128 gig usb thumb. oh and Santa Cruz is nice right now... heading out tomorrow.
I dont have a 128GB SD at hand, but I have 2 1TB hardrives. Think there is a way to hack one of your's or madlittlepixels images, using this method to boot from SD and load games snaps from HDD ?
Why would you need 10,000s of games when you are probably only going to play max 500? And why an external hard drive? I bet that if you were to download a full set of roms for each system RetroPie supports (excluding PS1), they would only take up around 30GB. My question is, why would you waste a 500GB external hard drive on roms that only take up 30GB?
There's 50 different systems from Retropie. going up to the nintendo wii, so yeah using pretty much the more "retro" titles you might get 30gb, might get more. The problem isn't necessarily the amount of games, it's more of the size of each game.So if you're trying to have the pi be a replacement for a PSX or PS2 you're going to need to use a larger hard drive since those had a standard of ~1gb size per game. Also it's about the choice. We all remember what it was like, having to pick what games we got (either you bought or had your parents buy if they even bought you games) so why only play games we remember or were interested in? Might as well have the 1,000 games to choose from so you can see what you like, and if you don't play something at least it's there as opposed to you wishing you had a way to add a couple more games that you'd want to try.
Jax Man if you're getting a pi from 2018 to play PS2 and Wii games I hope you enjoy 1FPS. A HDD this big is overkill but an advantage of not having your games and saves magically vanish off an sd card is good. The downside is its still not any better protected on HDD either lol. Just more data to lose in one go lmao. I keep my saves separate on another card and my games are going on physical media with a dvd drive. But whatever works lol.
The Ethernet port, the USB ports and the µSD all go through the USB 2.0 bus that is limited to a theoretical speed of 480Mbits/s (60MB/s). In practice you'll reach 20 to 40MB/s max, because of the CPU, encapsulation, etc... So even if you have a very very fast hard drive or µSD, you will be limited to 40MB/s. In this situation your hard disk is certainly faster than your µSD because of faster access time etc :)
What are you saying that I need to power etc a storage unit with at 0:57 ?
I want to build a NAS, or a 1080p video player. I already have a powered drive enclosure with a 2tb HDD
when you put the hard drive into the raspberry pi how did you get access to the file when you double clicked on the batch file
Hi m8. this isn't working for me for some reason. I used 128gb mlp hyperpie image, usb hdd via powered hub and used the Easy Hax script from the emulationstation menu. When I plugged the hdd into the pc there was only a handful of systems in the roms folder. I formatted the drive again and this time tried the script from the pc like in the video. The script looked like it ran ok but when I plugged the drive back into the pc there was no roms folder at all?! Help!
Sorry to dig up an old videos new to all this but is there a way to get this don't on bullseye
So I'm a bit lost. put the retropie toolkit files where? if you mean put them on the hard drive somewhere and double click that 1st file, it opens then has some quick network error
How can I do this with a Laptop HD with a pi 3 b+? Regards
Can is use usb to play games on my raspberry pi with out sd card? Or sd card its very important? Please i want a solution with sd card
where do you put the bios file for the psx?
When you unplug the hard drive and plug it into the Pi (Pi is now in wireless), what command are you typing into the CMD prompt to access the Pi in order to run that batch file? Sorry for all of the questions.
this working on Raspberry Pi 4 too?
i'm having a issuer every time i go to use the tool kit it tells me unable to find host, my wifi is on the same network, SSH is enable, even put it on the SD card. what am i missing.
Now I have pi 3 running on a PC and I’ve converted a 2 tb HD and I’m attempting to plug it into the pc and I don’t get the same thing you do
doesn't work for me :( using pi 4 B, berry boot and retropie for berryboot. All steps are ok but no ROM appers
Yeah different kernal look for pi 4 videos I did one for one of my newer images i reviewed
Can you maybe look into the USB mount part for retropie 4.2 and do a video on that and include snaps and art on a USB storage this is the ideal way of using multiple images
What about the folder retropie-mount after the formating the usb hard drive? Whats the difference? Thanks
Hey. Answer this if you have time. Can I use a usb splitter and connect the external hdd to raspberry and my tv at the same time so that when I download lets say movie I could watch it on the tv via the USB section? Thanks
What about a powered USB hub? You did not mention it but I assume it will work like it does on my PC :)
I am trying to add an external WD 4TB drive to my Pi3. I am running Debian 8. Not sure if it's Jessie(?).I have had other external hd and usb drive show up and I was able to access the contents. Not so with this drive. Error msg is:
Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/pi/9C33-6BBD: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sda1" "/media/pi/9C33-6BBD"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
Any ideas? Thanks for the help.
How do I delete drive expansion script from my retropie in order to let my toolkit allow me to expand my new 4tb External?
When I double-click on enable to expand to external hard drive, the page stay open for 2 sec and close! Do you know what the problem is?
I've got the earlier model of that 4tb hey back in around 2010. It came as a 2tb with the other 2tb mirrored for backup but u can change it easy to 4tb. But spewing I moved around alot years ago and now it just doesn't power on. There's no noticeable damage so I reckon it'd still work somehow. I can't even remember everything thats on it but anyway I should get it fixed cause it'd be perfect for this kinda thing. Having Wii, Gamecube, PS1, Dreamcast take up heaps too so I'm gonna def try get it fixed. Good to know about the non power ones too, cheers Drew!
Is it ok if i will do that with a 3.5 inch SATA HDD with an enclosure? And my HDD is partitioned into 2 drives. Will it work if I only format one of its partition to NTFS?
So, I am assuming when you first start, you'll need an SD card in the Pi in order to boot to Motion Blue, correct? Once you're done with everything, you'll be able to remove the card and boot the Pi with only the hard drive attached, correct?
Can you show a way to use the image off the hard drive to the Pi?
If I connect a ethernet cable well the external drive be able to access the Internet so I can scrape the games if not how can I add boxart
Yes in the file system it should be under usb devices
I take it theres no way to link the PI to images. I dont mind Roms in folder but I have become a snob for Attract Mode.
Hello , plz provide me Amazon link of a HDMI non touch screen for raspberry pi 3. I'm running Kali Linux in this as ssh. So a HDMI non touchscreen monitor like u have in this video
Is there a video like this but for the Odroid xu4?
If i follow this method, could i then scrape the roms on the hd locally on my PC using the UXS scraper? This would save many hours of scraping.
Sorry to bother but my hard drive has spoilt and i was wondering if i could use a rasberry pi in place of it? Is it possible
split?
Immaculate cable management
Good video too. Wondering though, could you use the pi without the external drive to play games? Like if I want to take the pi to a friends place could I bring the pi alone and it will read roms from the sd card. And then when I go home and plug the drive in it'll be a seamless transition?
Another very helpful video...thank you Drew
Would you recommend 3 or4? And do you think you could update for 4?
Have you seen anyone using a NAS or network drive to store and launch roms and other media? I have a 6TB setup for Hyperspin that lives on my NAS, would be great to share the files.
How do we setup ES/RP to look at the NAS?
Drobo and LinkStation (Buffalo Tech), both us NFS
joe husosky I was wondering the same I have a synology Nas with 8tb that would be the perfect solution
It's this like the USB loader function from 4.2, just make a folder on the USB-stick called "retropie-mount" and the games will stay there
Daniel Vester yeah but that doesn't allow you to pull roms from the motherboard mounted sd card then
how did you get amiga cd32 on retropie ?
Can it work on a 2.0 USB Harddrive? It has a power source.
Hello
Does anybody know where to get all those roms?
use google or arcadepunks, many website out there
You list a Y-cable and powered hub in the description, are those just to make a portable hard drive (with no power source) compatible? I'm just trying to figure out if I buy the WD My Passport, if I'll also need to buy the Y-cable and hub.
May be a dumb question but in the links you had the y splitter is that necessary? Or what is the purpose of the y splitter?
Is exFAT not acceptable?
it will work
is possible to just install retropie into an external and then just eliminated sd cards all together? (sorry if this is a silly question, i just started learning about the subject)
not sure but fyi it will load significantly slower...
do you have link so I can buy the special cable for the external hard drive that needs power
amzn.to/2qtDPYL and/or powered hub - amzn.to/2q4mUes
DrewTalks thank you very much for your time
Any time :)
DrewTalks have a great night 👍🏻
Will video snaps scrape from roms on hdd?
Imgs still saves on the sd ! He need to update his script to pull all art and so on from the USB as well.
I have it working on my img build ! You need to change directory on both emulation station and attract mode using a script or shh in to its configure file.
That would be cool!
There a way I can contact the coder ? I have the missing file that well add box art and videos and so on to the HDD :) he just need to rename the file to the folder that he has named. :)
Thats him Eazy Hax, there is a direct message function on his youtube channel or you can post here
Eazy Hax could you edit the script to add a directory for the missing folders ?
Also! you can use a powered USB hub when a system does not supply enough power.
Yes you could do that
sorry my initial comment was kinda arrogant!
quick question, do the rams have to be in a certain format to work? would they work off the launchbox?
Nice. Got an image on this now.. setting up REys on 16 gig SD with all the roms on a 128 gig usb thumb.
oh and Santa Cruz is nice right now... heading out tomorrow.
YEAH the entire Bay Area is nice as hell right now! Sweet setup!
Thanks so much for this man, I was wondering if we could do this. Its sometimes cheaper to just buy an 2-4Tb External then pay for 128Gb SDCard.
I dont have a 128GB SD at hand, but I have 2 1TB hardrives.
Think there is a way to hack one of your's or madlittlepixels images, using this method to boot from SD and load games snaps from HDD ?
Yeah you can adds roms to a usb harddrive and they will show up on existing images.
Found it easier to configure it on Windows than doing it on the actual Pi it's self..
can u use a pi drive to do this?
Thank you. I figured it out. I'm scraping for images now.
4tb's? Seems like massive overkill. I have a 500gb and that is overkill.
yes depends once you get into cd based games you can fill em up fast!
Will this work with a WD 8tb external HDD formatted to NTFS?
Thanks brother :)
Thanks for the help Eazy Hax you the man!
And remember to leave plenty of space on the sd card as the metadata and snaps will still save to the sd card not the external.
Amazing! Thanks a lot :D
Why would you need 10,000s of games when you are probably only going to play max 500? And why an external hard drive? I bet that if you were to download a full set of roms for each system RetroPie supports (excluding PS1), they would only take up around 30GB. My question is, why would you waste a 500GB external hard drive on roms that only take up 30GB?
There's 50 different systems from Retropie. going up to the nintendo wii, so yeah using pretty much the more "retro" titles you might get 30gb, might get more. The problem isn't necessarily the amount of games, it's more of the size of each game.So if you're trying to have the pi be a replacement for a PSX or PS2 you're going to need to use a larger hard drive since those had a standard of ~1gb size per game. Also it's about the choice. We all remember what it was like, having to pick what games we got (either you bought or had your parents buy if they even bought you games) so why only play games we remember or were interested in? Might as well have the 1,000 games to choose from so you can see what you like, and if you don't play something at least it's there as opposed to you wishing you had a way to add a couple more games that you'd want to try.
Jax Man if you're getting a pi from 2018 to play PS2 and Wii games I hope you enjoy 1FPS.
A HDD this big is overkill but an advantage of not having your games and saves magically vanish off an sd card is good. The downside is its still not any better protected on HDD either lol. Just more data to lose in one go lmao.
I keep my saves separate on another card and my games are going on physical media with a dvd drive. But whatever works lol.
Hi! Thank you for this video :)
However you said that loading games is pretty fast because it is USB 3.0, but the Raspberry's USB port is 2.0 ;)
ahhh good catch was thinking about my computer :) still I was worried that maybe slower than the micro sd
The Ethernet port, the USB ports and the µSD all go through the USB 2.0 bus that is limited to a theoretical speed of 480Mbits/s (60MB/s). In practice you'll reach 20 to 40MB/s max, because of the CPU, encapsulation, etc... So even if you have a very very fast hard drive or µSD, you will be limited to 40MB/s.
In this situation your hard disk is certainly faster than your µSD because of faster access time etc :)
mind = blown hahah, and thank you very useful info :)
Thank u just asked about this after seeing the 256 price vs 4tb
yeah exactly
great video.
Thank you Sammy!
It has to have it's own power source? Shit I just ordered a WD my passport 1tb.
Yes or you have to power it through another device or adapter
I cannot get my pi 3 onto my wifi with.
J
do you have your own business
no just freelance
DrewTalks what is freelance
working for different companies at different times rather than being permanently employed by one company.
DrewTalks how about house calls
don't do that