Play roms from USB Hard Drive

Tagged: hard drive, retropie 3.0, roms, USB

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08/27/2015 at 02:41 #104793

niksteve70
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Hey everyone
I was wondering if you can help me with a problem, I am trying to play my roms and psx games through my Expansion Drive but cannot figure out how to get the roms to show up in Emulation Station. I have a Raspberry Pi 2, am using RetroPie 3.0, and I am trying to play my games off of a Seagate 2TB expansion drive. It would great if you could help me with this.

08/27/2015 at 03:04 #104796

momaw27
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http://mardell.me/blog/how-to-load-roms-from-a-usb-drive-on-retropie/

I think this is what I used to play off of my thumb drive.

08/27/2015 at 03:17 #104797

niksteve70
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Yeah I tried that and I could not get it to work

08/27/2015 at 13:08 #104807

tgilly
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Perhaps some more information or another or the same approach https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/how-to-run-from-usb-the-best-method/

08/27/2015 at 14:10 #104809

gonzothegreat
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this guide is good too..
InsecureSpike has mentioned this in a few of this posts….

i use it and always the extended procedure… it uses the usb device’s Partition unique GUID & Filesystem UUID incase you have any other usb storage on your Pi, for example if your using it for Retropie & another OS/distro also from what i gather its safer than just assigning drive names

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=44177&hilit=move%2broot%2bfs%2busb%2btutorial&sid=2503f9ffe9afaa2edb49aef4537a862a

08/27/2015 at 16:56 #104826

niksteve70
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I’m kind of confused about the first part of this method, do you write the RetroPie image file to the hard disk instead of a micro sd card?
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