Hi Everyone,
I’m just starting my handheld based on a Gameboy DMG. So far I have the Raspberry Pi 2 configured to use my ADAFRUIT 2.8r screen using Retropie 3.2.1 (Thanks srfrboybob for help and advice). Rather than use a controller through the GPIO I’m going to try and use the guts out of one of those cheap SNES controllers on ebay (£3.50) and connect it through the USB this will give me greater flexibility I’m hoping. Having open the controller up its very easy to modify as its only a single layer board.
The problem I’m having at the moment relates to the power. I’m a little twitchy about connecting an LIPO and controller board ADAFRUIT 1000c. I would rather connect a commercial available USB portable charger block. I have a Urban Revolt Powerbank 4400mAh. Which will provide 5V @ 1A which sounds perfect. It’s a little big but I reckon it may fit inside (9.1 x 4.4 x 2.2 cm) especially if I disassemble it. The alternative is to use 4 x AA batteries with a PowerBoost 1000. I prefer the latter to be honest keeps it more authentic.
I will update when I get a Gameboy DMG shell I did buy one off ebay but I reckon it might be fixable so I don’t really want to gut it unless its no good.
Thanks
Mount your USB stick to the standard roms directory.
mmmm here is the guide I followed, to get it working on my 3 retropie setups.
I just re wrote it as you need to add a label and that guide doesn’t have that in it
How to Mount USB Disks on Raspberry Pi
sorry, spelling mistake
try this command
sudo mkdir /media/USBdrive
then
sudo mount -a
my apologies
(I’ve corrected that post now)
I followed steps 1, 2, 3 in step 3 I added
UUID=80D7-12F9 /media/USBdrive vfat defaults 0 2
Saved and exited.
Then I typed sudo mount -a
And it said mount point /media/USBdrive does not exist
It would be great if there was a quick setting rather than having to edit config files every time I update!
It’s great that this is now in the retropie setup, however it doesn’t work if your roms are stored anywhere other than default locations. I have roms on a USB and therefore this doesn’t work!
Hi,
Does RetroPie support playing CD-ROM based games from the original disks using a USB CD drive? Specially for PSX, Sega Saturn and SEGA CD games?
Thanks
1) sudo e2label /dev/sda1 USBdrive
2) sudo mkdir /media/USBdrive
3) sudo nano /etc/fstab (to make Linux automate this process for you)
UUID=0000-0000 /media/USBdrive ext4 defaults 0 2
(so it looks like the image I’ve attached, taking into account i have 2)
ctrl + X to save
4) sudo mount -a (This will mount all file systems as listed in the /etc/fstab configuration file)
Well, bought this one from Amazon (the ‘Buffalo Classic USB Gamepad’ that looks like a SNES controller). Like the reviewers said there, it doesn’t feel as cheap as you’d think. It’s D-pad is reasonably suited for Mame (i.e. 4-way, not 8-way!). But this one too tends to let Pac-Man go up or down when you press too hard on left or right. That is: it almost supports 8-way. Maybe a keyboard is still the best way to go…
Hello,
Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but I did not see anything about it.
I use an Xbox ONE and a Logitech Rumblepad 2 for controllers on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B running Retropie. I’d like for the Xbox controller to be the default in every emulator I use. This is the case on most emulators, unless I try to play two player and/or it is a N64 game. In that case, the Rumblepad 2 is always chosen as the first controller; regardless of where I have the USBs plugged into on the Pi.
Is there any way in the configuration files to set the default controllers for all systems? Again, the USB port swap deal is not working for me. Thanks.
Hi. Another controlers question:
Is it posible to use at the same time a keyboard (buttons wired to GPIO pins) as P1 controler and a USB joypad as P2 controler?
I am trying to figure out how to make it but with no success…
Thanks in advance!
your USB drive, give the error about the superblock a google
it would not let me
Also issue with usb or linux?
This is the code i have put in so far
pi@retropie:/dev $ cd ..
pi@retropie:/ $ ls
bin dev home lost+found mnt proc run srv tmp var
boot etc lib media opt root sbin sys usr
pi@retropie:/ $ cd dev
pi@retropie:/dev $ ls
autofs loop1 ram10 snd tty26 tty48 uinput
block loop2 ram11 stderr tty27 tty49 urandom
bsg loop3 ram12 stdin tty28 tty5 vc-cma
btrfs-control loop4 ram13 stdout tty29 tty50 vchiq
bus loop5 ram14 tty tty3 tty51 vcio
cachefiles loop6 ram15 tty0 tty30 tty52 vc-mem
char loop7 ram2 tty1 tty31 tty53 vcs
console loop-control ram3 tty10 tty32 tty54 vcs1
cpu_dma_latency mapper ram4 tty11 tty33 tty55 vcs2
cuse mem ram5 tty12 tty34 tty56 vcs3
disk memory_bandwidth ram6 tty13 tty35 tty57 vcs4
fb0 mmcblk0 ram7 tty14 tty36 tty58 vcs5
fd mmcblk0p1 ram8 tty15 tty37 tty59 vcs6
full mmcblk0p2 ram9 tty16 tty38 tty6 vcsa
fuse mqueue random tty17 tty39 tty60 vcsa1
gpiomem net raw tty18 tty4 tty61 vcsa2
hidraw0 network_latency rfkill tty19 tty40 tty62 vcsa3
hidraw1 network_throughput sda tty2 tty41 tty63 vcsa4
hwrng null sda1 tty20 tty42 tty7 vcsa5
initctl ppp sdb tty21 tty43 tty8 vcsa6
input ptmx sdb1 tty22 tty44 tty9 vcsm
kmsg pts sg0 tty23 tty45 ttyAMA0 vhci
log ram0 sg1 tty24 tty46 ttyprintk xconsole
loop0 ram1 shm tty25 tty47 uhid zero
pi@retropie:/dev $ ^C
pi@retropie:/dev $ sudo e2label /dev/sda1 USBdrive
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1
Couldn’t find valid filesystem superblock.
pi@retropie:/dev $
Hi I finally found the solution for my problem, so I explain it in case someone else needs it:
It’s a probleme with udev configuration, the new device manager used by SDL2.
To make my joystick work, I had to setup rights for my user + add the INPUT_ID_JOYSTICK tag on it to be recognized as the Joystick.
I created the following file:
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-joystick.rules
with this content:
# My Joystick
KERNEL==”event*”, ENV{ID_MODEL}==”USB_JOYSTICK_PS3″, MODE=”0644″, ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=”1″
More infos on:
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/e3e00f8e6b91/README-linux.txt
spelling corrected
Message which comes up
pi@retropie:/dev $ sudo e2label /dev/sda1 USBdrive
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1
Couldn’t find valid filesystem superblock.
Corrected the spelling of “e2label”
and below comes up
pi@retropie:/dev $ sudo e2label /dev/sda1 USBdrive
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1
Couldn’t find valid filesystem superblock.
pi@retropie:/ $ sudo e2lable /dev/sda1 USBdrive
sudo: e2lable: command not found
1) sudo e2label /dev/sda1 USBdrive
2) sudo mkdir /media/sda1 USBdrive
3) sudo nano /etc/fstab (to make Linux automate this process for you)
UUID=08D4-47E3 /media/USBdrive vfat defaults 0 2
(so it looks like the image I’ve attached, taking into account i have 2)
[attachment file=”Screen Shot 2016-02-21 at 11.12.16.png”]
ctrl + X to save
4) sudo mount -a (This will mount all file systems listed in the /etc/fstab configuration file)
Yes it is all the “UUID”
thats copy paste from retro pi terminal after “sudo blkid”
Again when i have the folder “retropi” on the local dir of the usb [main directory] it does not allow me to be able to see its content.
when I use the below i cant see the files when i try the see LS
“cd /media/usb0” 0-7 (tried all of them)
“ls”
Okay I will post soon. I just noticed on boot up it says failure to start USB mount@dev A SDA services.
If that’s the problem how do I fix it?
ok I’m writing a guide for a fellow member, and I’ll do the same for you, if you like, I just need a little info
exit emulationstation and type:
sudo blkid (and press enter)
now can you post everything that returns from that command, I also need to know the format type of your USB drive your wishing to use
Very new to raspberry pi 2 and retropie. I was able to get retropie 3.5 running. Now I want to run my roms from a USB flash drive.
I have already plugged my flash drive into my computer and created a folder called retropie. Then plugged the flash drive in the raspberry pi, which created the roms folder.
I have read and seen tutorials about typing LS /media/usb0* to find out which drive my USB is mounted in. The only problem is that this shows no USB is mounted. I have even tried ls /media/usb0-7 and still nothing.
I know the USB flash drive works because I was able to have a ROM work from the SNES folder that was created and copied over to the SD card.
Do I need to format the USB in a certain format? Do I need to change any settings in retropie? Any help would be appreciated
i have same issues here, tested different bt adapters. i need to insert the usb cable to the controller everytime i reboot, then bt begins to work
ok, I have to go to work now, I’ll get a guide set up, do you no what format the USB drive is formatted to?
okay so when i have the folder on my USB called retropi on the front it does not ready my usb but when i move it is allows me to see my usb?
on the start of set up everytime that i have a usb in i get an error
[FAILED] Failed to start usbmount@dev-sda.service
See ‘systemctl Status usbmount@dev-sda.service ‘ for details
best bet is not to put the file system on there.
keep that on the SD card and point the rom folder locations to the usb device
When creating a clone of your ext4 file system in order to host RetroPie from USB, is it best to use DD to create an image first, then write it to your USB; lastly expanding the file system with resize2fs, or is it OK to use the copy and paste features within Gparted, and use it to resize the file system?
I ask because I keep getting file system errors every since I installed this new 250Gb USB Sata external HD.
I am using a 2.5A PSU btw.
Cd /Media/usb0
Ls
But just recently its not reading the usb on start up it was having a failed message after the retro pi load up
And when doing the above commmand it does not find the usb
The rom service will use your usb to copy games from it to the SD card.
If you can detail out the commands your using to find your usb and mount it to a folder, I can help you out with getting them running directly from the usb.
I have just downloaded the latest Retro Pi and it refususes to run roms from usb no matter what i have tried.
When into each individual rom folder
And edited the cfg setting for the path to run from usb and not sd but cant get it working got a rpi2.
Tried multiple usbs thinking it may be the uusb.
My pi i filling up with games and dont know how to run roms from usb
Already enabled rom service in Retropie-setup.
Any help appreciated.
Hi guys,
Got RetroPie set up – excellent. I don’t have any issues with it at the moment but I have a problem with Kodi and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have:
Pi Model: 2 B etc
RetroPie Version Used: 3.5
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected:
Controller used: Xbox 360 and Rii
Error messages received: NA
Guide used: Issue with youtube Kodi addon and also this post on the kodi forum
The youtube addon in Kodi is broken, and there’s a way to fix it as explained in the reddit link/”guide” above. I’ve followed the “guide” and got my own set of Youtube API keys, but now I need to “Locate the file – login_client.py which should be located under: <Kodi_Addons_Directory>/plugin.video.youtube/resources/lib/youtube/client”.
I’m not at all linux savvy so I have no idea where to find this file so that I can make a copy of it and edit it in order to get the youtube addon working again.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Canc
