Just a heads up guys, if you install retropie on top of raspian you have to install the usbromservice from the manage packages/ manage optional packages in the setup ui.
How do you install the usbromservice? I'm super new to all this and need it dumbed down alot lol. I installed retropi no problem on my rpi4 however I cannot figure out how to move roms to the pi for the life of me. I tried formatting a USB to fat32 and putting the folder named retropie in it and when I plug it in to my rpi4 and boot up retropie it does nothing and I think this may be why
justin B what the original commenter is referring to can be found in the RetroPie setup. I’m also fairly new to all this, so I’m not sure if that’s helpful!
Thank you so much!!! I recently just found my pi and wanted to do some games on it. Didn't think it would be this complicated. I am so glad I found this video it worked!!!
I think this would make for a fun arts and crafts project. It'd be really dope to have a collection of USB sticks in those Flash Pac Blu-Ray style cases, displayed next to your modern game collections.
A good alternative if you don’t have the option for internet on Pc and Raspberry Pi connected over IP adres.Thanks for sharing.I’m learning more and more🤗
Thanks! I managed to get my usb hard drive to work. I also found out for the portable hard drives you need a y usb cable to supply power to it. I simply have it hooked to my laptop for power. Works great.
i just recieved my odroid xu4 switched from pi 3b+ and my external drive portable 4tb i'm going to see if this works with my portable drive 4tb so i can add more psp and dreamcast games you're tutorials are amazing always and good explained i watched all you video's and subbed.
@@joelthompson1668 i have the odroid xu4 and 4tb portable drive but for some reason i don't understand how to connect the drive it isn't working but it does work on the pc i have also a 400tgb micro sd card so i'm using that atm until i figure out on how to use my 4tb portable external drive
You can enable exfat on the retropie as well if you wish to use Windows formatting. Quit ES and type in the command line the following: sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils Press enter. Make sure you are hooked up to the internet. After that you can use exfat formatted USB drives just like a fat32 drive.
thanks for this video man a shop my mum works at closed down one location and my mum gave me 1x 1gb usb and 2x 32gb and 2x 8gb i wanted to use these usb with my pi so as i did not want to have to buy a bigger sd card so thanks for this video mate
So, I'm very new to this whole Raspberry Pi & RetroPie thing. I am not very knowledgeable about it at all. Recently, I purchased the LABISTS Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Complete Starter PRO Kit with 32GB Micro SD Card (4GB RAM). I was finally able to get it set up and I was able to play a few games on it last night (5/26/21). The main reason why I decided to go with a Raspberry Pi was because I'm a child of the 80s and 90s. I wanted to have a system that let me play retro video games such as arcade games and console games (Genesis & SNES) from that time period. The problem I've run into now is that some of the roms work fine and others don't. I can't figure out why this is happening. I have heard that arcade roms use MAME, etc . . . Some of the arcade and 16-bit console roms are working, but other ones are not. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix this latest issue that I'm facing? Thanks.
As usual thank you for your videos, always super clear and incredibly well put together. - Just a thought you mention at some point when copying the files from the pie to the thumbstick drive that you can't tell when it's done if there isn't LED on the thumbstick but can't you simply tell by looking at the back of the Pie board and check if the little green LED is still on?
I see the rom files you are moving are zipped files. Can the roms be transferred over to RetroPie unzipped? Like.. BIN or SMD files? All my roms on my PC are unzipped for other windows emulators. Thanks for the content!
It worked for me 100% I can now play command and conquer ps1 going to add more C&C now so happy thanks ...... I tried doing it with a USB and the file manager, wow its like Fort Knox I couldn't get in at all but this way works perfect! left right sneeep snipe ...... da da dadada do dododo dodoo do yes I'm that happy that I'm even typing the tune in the game THANKS!
My problem: Instead of having all the games transfer to the usb stick is there any way to leave the usb stick as extra storage. My rip4 sd card is 256gb but my usb sd card is only 32gb. Reason why is my image is so large that there is no room left to save input config even if I expand my card size in raspi config. So that usb stick doesn’t need to copy files just store new game data.
Hey. Can you please do a video that shows how to delete rooms that were on the SD card after setting up the retropie-mount usb option ? I have my roms on the usb but can’t find and delete those that were on the sd card.
So once this whole process is done, where would any scrapping end up, oh, and game saves too. In other words, once this is done, what gets written where (microSD or external) Please cover all that you can think of that would get written and where it would go after the process. Thanks.
Retro rom service is not available in my options :-( and using 4.4. found out the hard way you have to enable it first but you never mentioned on the video. Another thing to note... romservice syncs what you have on your external SD to the PI as well. so my pi run out of space!! Am i missing something here?
ETA Prime do you know if I can store roms on a non-USB drive, like the nvme drive attached to my cm4 carrier board? I'm running retropie from the emmc... Fantastic channel BTW...
what is the max capacity of a usb drive that a rpbi4 can boot ? for example if we download images from arcade-punks that are 256gb can we burn on usb-ssd drives or it has to be definitely an sd-card of 256gb ?
Love the videos and sorry to be stupid. I am using a 256 gd Wolfano sd card image, and it is great, and I doubt i will add too many extras. But I would like to add (or try to add) return to castle wolfenstein - that is a classic (from my younger days). The biggest flash drive I have ever bought is half of the size of the sd card I have this image on. Can I add extra games onto the retro with the usb, or must the usb be larger than the sd card? Can I run some games off the usb and others off the sd is I guess what I am trying to ask?? I understood that games on the sd could be deleted from the pi (from your video), but still do not fully understand if I could add extras on a USB drive - it is "only" 128. Thanks again for the great videos. Enk
Hi, ETA !!! Thnak you for this video !! there is a way to insert manually Video snaps or screenshot directly into the external hard drive or the images/videos stay always on the SDcard ? Thanks for your answer !
I’m new to the SBC game. Just ordered an Asus Tinker Board S and plan on loading up RetroPie. Can I load RetroPie onto the onboard emmc, but run the ROMs off the SD card? I can only find info on the USB rom service. Just wanted to figure this out as much as possible before everything is delivered and I dive into this fantastic voyage. In any case, thanks for the great tutorials. Cheers!
i know this is an older video but ETA is my go-to for this stuff given I modded my cab to his specs.For some reason when i put my usb into my Rasberry pi with my transfered new roms. it only shows the games on the usb stick and does not merge or save them.I have formatted in FAT32 and enabled usb in retroarch settings. I can play them off the usb but as soon as I reboot my original libraby is there but nt the new additional roms..what am I doing wrong? i followed these steps to the letter.
Dude I'm having the same problem it doesn't transfer my ROMs but it does create folders on the USB stick so I'm thinking maybe I should remove the ROMs from the SD and load them on the USB I'm going to try that and I'll get back to you usually ETA has got it but this time it's not working
UPDATE: I'm using RetroPie 4.4, using `retropie-mount` folder seems to do nothing but empty the USB stick, if I use "retropie" instead of "retropie-mount", it copies all contents of the USB stick inside the micro SD card which is not what I wanted, what am I missing?
Quick question, can does it COPY the ROMS over or does it MOVE them to the external drive? I was asking cuz if it copies them I was wondering can I then go back and delete them from the SD Card to get that space back?
Can additional games be added via usb? I was thinking maybe putting everything from Atari 2600 to Dreamcast on a 512 GB micro SD card and the putting my PS1 roms on a 256 GB usb stick for additional space
Hi eta, I have been trying to use the usb method for the roms, but when i boot up retropie the usbromservice keeps failing. I tihnk dis might be because i havent been able to format my usb as fat32. I did make sure the service was enabled btw
How long should I leave my usb plugged in after enabling rom service? I don’t have a light and there’s probably around 28 gb worth of games on my sd cars
i only get nes games to populate instead of all systems ? their file extensions are correct. any advice? i paused on your subfolders. and how the folders inside of 'roms' matters i guess... changed the name of my devices and they all populated next time i powered on... super dumb
My usb stick has both retropie-mount along with (bios, splashscreen, retropiemenu, and roms all of these on the outside of the mount folder) is that okay or no? I see your games are INSIDE of your mount folder whereas mine are on the outside in the roms folder the pi created
Thanks for the tutorial ETA Prime! As always tremendously helpful. Just having a slight issue as the RetroPie menu item is now missing so I can't access any settings etc. I can see all my emulators and access the roms, just not the RetroPie menu. Any idea how I can get it back?
Hey Prime I have looked every where and can't find any tutorials on it, but could you do a tutorial on how to setup joystick and buttons with the group pins? I have a single player bartop with 6 buttons and a start and select buttons also. I don't want to use the zero delay I want to use the gpio pins.
Great video tut and another box ticked for my build, just wondering is it also possible to make the retropie system back up and sync images and media from my mobile phone, i use android cells always will (apple sucks) so in theory it should be viable ... is it?
If you have two Retro pi arcades and One does not have games on it can I just put my usb in one and then put the usb in the new retro pi and will the games be on my new retro pi
I have an Asus ChromeBox 2. I upgraded the ssd to 128gb and 16gb of ram. Installed Ubuntu and Retropie/EmulationStation. My problem is I am running out of storage space. Is there a way to do this on Linux? I want to transfer all of my roms to an external.
Question. Would it be possible to have the raspberry pi running a software (say the wii software) and you could have a disc reader attached to it so when a wii disc is inserted into the disc reader I could play the inserted game. Edit: I am new to the raspberry pi and I happen to have some games from a friend who was getting rid of them, so I wanted to make something that could run them but I can't find out how to do this anywhere. (Other than some sketchy websites)
I recently got into a Raspberry Pi 3b+ and I'm thinking about buying a rec room Masters 4 player arcade. I however I'm having trouble keeping all the me emulators on the home screen after I reboot. How do I do that? I'm also learning with trial and error on how to add roms. Is there any way that you can create a video showing how to do all of these ateps for beginners?
do the new roms folders have to be zipped or does it work even if theyre unzipped? edit: no they work aswell when in unzipped folders. thanks for the video, worked! i get a strange failure message when booting saying it cant load the usb mount service but it works in the end. :)
This didn't work for me on my Raspberry pi 3 with retropie. After removing my 256 GB jump drive from my Raspberry pi, it had sup folders, and one of them was named "roms," but it didn't have console folders in it, or any games. I have 53 consoles on my device. Over 1000 games. SD card has 120 GB. When I put the Jump Drive into the pi, start emulationstation, it only gives me the option to quit. Is it because of my SD card being full? It says I have 0 available space. I want to expand the storage.
I know this is late AF but do you need games on your pi first in order for this to work cause I followed the steps and no folders are created on usb drive.
Just a heads up guys, if you install retropie on top of raspian you have to install the usbromservice from the manage packages/ manage optional packages in the setup ui.
Life saver bro. a+++
Awesome thank you!!
How do you install the usbromservice? I'm super new to all this and need it dumbed down alot lol. I installed retropi no problem on my rpi4 however I cannot figure out how to move roms to the pi for the life of me. I tried formatting a USB to fat32 and putting the folder named retropie in it and when I plug it in to my rpi4 and boot up retropie it does nothing and I think this may be why
justin B what the original commenter is referring to can be found in the RetroPie setup. I’m also fairly new to all this, so I’m not sure if that’s helpful!
Legend, had just got the hammer out to "take care of the pi" then I saw your comment.
If only you posted a week ago would have saved me searching on google. I'm spoiled, your videos are great.
This is so much easier than what I used to do. (Auto mounting a disk and renaming all the folder extensions) thanks.
Never too late to say this, so thank you a great deal for this. Keep up the epic work.
Thank you so much!!! I recently just found my pi and wanted to do some games on it. Didn't think it would be this complicated. I am so glad I found this video it worked!!!
Hii, where did you download the roms from??
I think this would make for a fun arts and crafts project. It'd be really dope to have a collection of USB sticks in those Flash Pac Blu-Ray style cases, displayed next to your modern game collections.
I'm getting my own Raspberry Pi soon! Happy :)
did you get it?
did you get it?
ETA Prime, thanks for another great informative video, as always the step-by-step instructions are very easy to follow, I'm going to try this today.
Clear and concise tutorial. Thanks so much for making this!
A good alternative if you don’t have the option for internet on Pc and Raspberry Pi connected over IP adres.Thanks for sharing.I’m learning more and more🤗
Thanks! I managed to get my usb hard drive to work. I also found out for the portable hard drives you need a y usb cable to supply power to it. I simply have it hooked to my laptop for power. Works great.
i just recieved my odroid xu4 switched from pi 3b+ and my external drive portable 4tb i'm going to see if this works with my portable drive 4tb so i can add more psp and dreamcast games you're tutorials are amazing always and good explained i watched all you video's and subbed.
I'm about to do the same let me know if this works!
@@joelthompson1668 i have the odroid xu4 and 4tb portable drive but for some reason i don't understand how to connect the drive it isn't working but it does work on the pc i have also a 400tgb micro sd card so i'm using that atm until i figure out on how to use my 4tb portable external drive
Best video showing exactly what I was looking for, thank you a million times
I’m so dumb but slowly figuring this all out thanks to you
Thank you so much. Can you share me what are your games from atari 7800? i'm trying to get some good games for that console.
Thanks for this! I've been wanting to get a raspberry pi 3 b and I already have a 1TB external HDD lying around that I was hoping I could use.
Thank you for a good and simple tutorial
Ich bin durch Zufall auf deinen Kanal gestoßen und habe ihn direkt abonniert.
Immer tolle Erklärungen, leicht und verständlich rüber gebracht! I like!
You can enable exfat on the retropie as well if you wish to use Windows formatting. Quit ES and type in the command line the following:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
Press enter. Make sure you are hooked up to the internet. After that you can use exfat formatted USB drives just like a fat32 drive.
Damn... Wish the retropie could play GameCube games
thanks for this video man a shop my mum works at closed down one location and my mum gave me 1x 1gb usb and 2x 32gb and 2x 8gb i wanted to use these usb with my pi so as i did not want to have to buy a bigger sd card so thanks for this video mate
So, I'm very new to this whole Raspberry Pi & RetroPie thing. I am not very knowledgeable about it at all. Recently, I purchased the LABISTS Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Complete Starter PRO Kit with 32GB Micro SD Card (4GB RAM). I was finally able to get it set up and I was able to play a few games on it last night (5/26/21). The main reason why I decided to go with a Raspberry Pi was because I'm a child of the 80s and 90s. I wanted to have a system that let me play retro video games such as arcade games and console games (Genesis & SNES) from that time period. The problem I've run into now is that some of the roms work fine and others don't. I can't figure out why this is happening. I have heard that arcade roms use MAME, etc . . . Some of the arcade and 16-bit console roms are working, but other ones are not. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix this latest issue that I'm facing? Thanks.
As usual thank you for your videos, always super clear and incredibly well put together.
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Just a thought you mention at some point when copying the files from the pie to the thumbstick drive that you can't tell when it's done if there isn't LED on the thumbstick but can't you simply tell by looking at the back of the Pie board and check if the little green LED is still on?
I see the rom files you are moving are zipped files. Can the roms be transferred over to RetroPie unzipped? Like.. BIN or SMD files? All my roms on my PC are unzipped for other windows emulators. Thanks for the content!
It worked for me 100% I can now play command and conquer ps1 going to add more C&C now so happy thanks ...... I tried doing it with a USB and the file manager, wow its like Fort Knox I couldn't get in at all but this way works perfect! left right sneeep snipe ...... da da dadada do dododo dodoo do yes I'm that happy that I'm even typing the tune in the game THANKS!
could this method be used to run games from a floppy drive?
Could you possibly do a video on the Odroid XU4?
How do I run my games off of my external 4TB hard drive with using any of my sd memory/
My problem: Instead of having all the games transfer to the usb stick is there any way to leave the usb stick as extra storage. My rip4 sd card is 256gb but my usb sd card is only 32gb. Reason why is my image is so large that there is no room left to save input config even if I expand my card size in raspi config. So that usb stick doesn’t need to copy files just store new game data.
Can it rum roms off of multiple locations? IE. NES off the SD and PSX off the USB?
Did you find out?
Don't You have to format in ExFat mode , for larger disks/ USB keys ? And if yes, Will it work ? Thanks.
Hey. Can you please do a video that shows how to delete rooms that were on the SD card after setting up the retropie-mount usb option ?
I have my roms on the usb but can’t find and delete those that were on the sd card.
so in retropiesetup i do not have usbrom services as an option
Great informative and easy to follow video. Thanks
So once this whole process is done, where would any scrapping end up, oh, and game saves too. In other words, once this is done, what gets written where (microSD or external) Please cover all that you can think of that would get written and where it would go after the process. Thanks.
anyone find how to fix this?
Thank you ETAPrime.
I always learn so much from you.
Another simple and great video. Does it also transfer the video snaps i have already scraped and are in the sd card?
thank you this was really helpful!!😀
Retro rom service is not available in my options :-( and using 4.4. found out the hard way you have to enable it first but you never mentioned on the video. Another thing to note... romservice syncs what you have on your external SD to the PI as well. so my pi run out of space!! Am i missing something here?
I have the Pi4 4GB. I'm running RetroPie through Raspian and I don't have the USB ROM service.
RetroPie is version 4.5.1
Download all the optional drivers
Legendary video my dude. Keep it up!
ETA Prime do you know if I can store roms on a non-USB drive, like the nvme drive attached to my cm4 carrier board? I'm running retropie from the emmc... Fantastic channel BTW...
Out dated content you should show more video details of how to do it step by step!!
Thanks for that very good tutorial. It works perfectly
If you take the USB and plug it into another pie, will it boot up ?
MrRockfish01 only the games if you copy the (mount) part of the video on the SD
What would cause it to tell me theres been an error and go back to the rom selection menu?
I appreciate the video. Will retropie support larger drives (500GB), etc? Keep up the great work!
John Pratt I'm running a wd 1 tb passport external hdd. no issues at all
i'm going to ask the same question but some friends over here already answer it ... so thank guys !!
what is the max capacity of a usb drive that a rpbi4 can boot ? for example if we download images from arcade-punks that are 256gb can we burn on usb-ssd drives or it has to be definitely an sd-card of 256gb ?
Love the videos and sorry to be stupid. I am using a 256 gd Wolfano sd card image, and it is great, and I doubt i will add too many extras. But I would like to add (or try to add) return to castle wolfenstein - that is a classic (from my younger days). The biggest flash drive I have ever bought is half of the size of the sd card I have this image on. Can I add extra games onto the retro with the usb, or must the usb be larger than the sd card? Can I run some games off the usb and others off the sd is I guess what I am trying to ask??
I understood that games on the sd could be deleted from the pi (from your video), but still do not fully understand if I could add extras on a USB drive - it is "only" 128.
Thanks again for the great videos.
Enk
This might be a stupid question but do you really have to format the drive to be able to play games of it?
how to do this on a macbook?
pls share tutorial.
Is there any way to add games already on the usb drive to the RetroPie and not vice versa?
Hi, ETA !!! Thnak you for this video !! there is a way to insert manually Video snaps or screenshot directly into the external hard drive or the images/videos stay always on the SDcard ? Thanks for your answer !
Another great video. Do you know if there is a list of emulator systems the emulation station supports available?
where can I find the games and the BIOS? I have bin. but nothing seems to be correct. I missing something to see the games on my PI
I’m new to the SBC game. Just ordered an Asus Tinker Board S and plan on loading up RetroPie. Can I load RetroPie onto the onboard emmc, but run the ROMs off the SD card? I can only find info on the USB rom service. Just wanted to figure this out as much as possible before everything is delivered and I dive into this fantastic voyage. In any case, thanks for the great tutorials. Cheers!
i know this is an older video but ETA is my go-to for this stuff given I modded my cab to his specs.For some reason when i put my usb into my Rasberry pi with my transfered new roms. it only shows the games on the usb stick and does not merge or save them.I have formatted in FAT32 and enabled usb in retroarch settings. I can play them off the usb but as soon as I reboot my original libraby is there but nt the new additional roms..what am I doing wrong? i followed these steps to the letter.
Dude I'm having the same problem it doesn't transfer my ROMs but it does create folders on the USB stick so I'm thinking maybe I should remove the ROMs from the SD and load them on the USB I'm going to try that and I'll get back to you usually ETA has got it but this time it's not working
Exactly verbatim over here ..tell me how that goes ill follow You.
David Hunt Did you ever find the solution?
UPDATE:
I'm using RetroPie 4.4, using `retropie-mount` folder seems to do nothing but empty the USB stick, if I use "retropie" instead of "retropie-mount", it copies all contents of the USB stick inside the micro SD card which is not what I wanted, what am I missing?
Quick question, can does it COPY the ROMS over or does it MOVE them to the external drive? I was asking cuz if it copies them I was wondering can I then go back and delete them from the SD Card to get that space back?
Can I use the usb stick with my pi zero w
Can additional games be added via usb? I was thinking maybe putting everything from Atari 2600 to Dreamcast on a 512 GB micro SD card and the putting my PS1 roms on a 256 GB usb stick for additional space
It is a limitation of FAT32. Retropie is also compatible with exFAT.
Do you know if the rom transfer from the pi to the sun will continue if they all didn’t copy the first time. It got interrupted.
Hi eta, I have been trying to use the usb method for the roms, but when i boot up retropie the usbromservice keeps failing. I tihnk dis might be because i havent been able to format my usb as fat32. I did make sure the service was enabled btw
OK I like your video, but, how do you use NTFS or larger hard drive.?
Also retropie -mount Doesn’t seem to be working for me
How long should I leave my usb plugged in after enabling rom service? I don’t have a light and there’s probably around 28 gb worth of games on my sd cars
Hi Eta, can i use my internal HDD? i created diffrent partition. Thanks
i only get nes games to populate instead of all systems ? their file extensions are correct. any advice?
i paused on your subfolders. and how the folders inside of 'roms' matters i guess... changed the name of my devices and they all populated next time i powered on... super dumb
My usb stick has both retropie-mount along with (bios, splashscreen, retropiemenu, and roms all of these on the outside of the mount folder) is that okay or no? I see your games are INSIDE of your mount folder whereas mine are on the outside in the roms folder the pi created
I don't want to transfer all my sd card games to my usb. i just want to add inside the usb stick some psx games. What is the right process to do that?
I also want to know
Tsigarinho Good question! Since the video splashscreen moves also to the USB stick, it doesn't show up in most cases.
Thanks for the tutorial ETA Prime! As always tremendously helpful. Just having a slight issue as the RetroPie menu item is now missing so I can't access any settings etc. I can see all my emulators and access the roms, just not the RetroPie menu. Any idea how I can get it back?
Wow thanks again ! You just got another subscriber.
Hey! Very clear and straight forward steps, mind I share this video in my tutorial?
Hi
there is a way to do that with an secondary SD card connected to SDIO?
thanks a lot great videos
is there a way to transfer from the USB to SD card in a similar way
Hey Prime I have looked every where and can't find any tutorials on it, but could you do a tutorial on how to setup joystick and buttons with the group pins? I have a single player bartop with 6 buttons and a start and select buttons also. I don't want to use the zero delay I want to use the gpio pins.
Thanks for the clear explanation!
Will i still be able to use the roms i have on my SD card while using the USB?
i am transferring via network method but wen i click a game on retropi the game doesnt start but its listed?
Can we use both sd card and usb drive at the same time?
Great video tut and another box ticked for my build, just wondering is it also possible to make the retropie system back up and sync images and media from my mobile phone, i use android cells always will (apple sucks) so in theory it should be viable ... is it?
is it possible to do the same with a external dvd player?
It would appear your video is not complete as mine now boot expecting at last 1 game on the usb drive and I can't access the setup to change it back.
If you have two Retro pi arcades and One does not have games on it can I just put my usb in one and then put the usb in the new retro pi and will the games be on my new retro pi
I have an Asus ChromeBox 2. I upgraded the ssd to 128gb and 16gb of ram. Installed Ubuntu and Retropie/EmulationStation. My problem is I am running out of storage space. Is there a way to do this on Linux? I want to transfer all of my roms to an external.
Will this still work if I have no games? I can't find any way how because I can't use network share for some reason.
Question. Would it be possible to have the raspberry pi running a software (say the wii software) and you could have a disc reader attached to it so when a wii disc is inserted into the disc reader I could play the inserted game.
Edit: I am new to the raspberry pi and I happen to have some games from a friend who was getting rid of them, so I wanted to make something that could run them but I can't find out how to do this anywhere. (Other than some sketchy websites)
Wow, I'm really glad I found this video now I don't need to buy another SD card considering I have tons of USB sticks ahaha
What if you partition a 59gb drive to have a 32GB partition, can that be Fat32
I'm having trouble scraping the roms images into my USB instead of the SD card any tips yall have for me?
I recently got into a Raspberry Pi 3b+ and I'm thinking about buying a rec room Masters 4 player arcade. I however I'm having trouble keeping all the me emulators on the home screen after I reboot. How do I do that? I'm also learning with trial and error on how to add roms. Is there any way that you can create a video showing how to do all of these ateps for beginners?
do the new roms folders have to be zipped or does it work even if theyre unzipped?
edit: no they work aswell when in unzipped folders. thanks for the video, worked!
i get a strange failure message when booting saying it cant load the usb mount service but it works in the end. :)
This didn't work for me on my Raspberry pi 3 with retropie. After removing my 256 GB jump drive from my Raspberry pi, it had sup folders, and one of them was named "roms," but it didn't have console folders in it, or any games. I have 53 consoles on my device. Over 1000 games. SD card has 120 GB. When I put the Jump Drive into the pi, start emulationstation, it only gives me the option to quit. Is it because of my SD card being full? It says I have 0 available space. I want to expand the storage.
When you scrape games on the hard drive, are the scrapes stored on the hard drive as well?
can i have roms at sd card and usb stick at the same time? can i access them both?
mine is sayin fail on usb when trying to get games off usb drive to the gameboy any thoughts
what if you are moving a usb you already had set up on an old RPi to a new RPi?
How will this behave if you put in say 3 USB thumb drives?
I got everything working, but the retro pi menu isn't popping up, just the emulators.
I know this is late AF but do you need games on your pi first in order for this to work cause I followed the steps and no folders are created on usb drive.
with the disclaimer, does this mean that if I click on all of the links that it will be supporting you more than if I clicked on the links just once?
I seem to be missing that service option completely, did they remove it?