Playstation game saving on fat32 usb stick

[mfkl90]

Hello, i have a problem saving games on the psx emulator.
It wont save the games as the playstation games are opened on a fat32 usb drive.

It wont let me save them because of permissions and you cannot set linux permissions on a fat32 usb drive.

I just wondered if anyone else has had this issue and know a workaround.
using the fat32 usb drive to store the games is handy as you can access it on windows.
i dont want to format this usb to ext.

i have also looked at the /etc/fstab file as this seems to be a workaround, but i have no idea how to configure it with retropi.

anyone have anyideas?

[MrBrsnes]

Hey there,

I am looking for the exact same solution. Any help is very welcome. I’ve got this problem not only with the PSX roms, also with SNES.

I have already added the following to my retroarch.cfg file.

I am using my 16GB SD card with NOOBS (Openelec & Retropie) on my RPi2. I have copied all my roms onto my fat32 USB stick to safe some space on my SD card.

Is there a chance to active saving/loading here? Or can I change the path where the savee games can be located? It would be ok to have them on the SD card if necessary.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
MrBrsnes

EDIT: I’ve found this: – So I’ll give it a try later and let you all know.

[MrBrsnes]

@mfkl90

Try this:

sudo nano /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

Find the line:

FS_MOUNTOPTIONS=""

Change it to:

FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=vfat,flush,gid=plugdev,dmask=0007,fmask=0117"

Let me know the result.

MrBrsnes

[dpicc68]

i’ve used the following link to setup roms on USB.

http://electricgardener.net/2014/04/03/retropie-moving-games-usb-stick/

It seems to work….. the only issue I am having is scraping gambits within rom directory using Floob’s method.

Need to scrape in original rom directory…. then copy everything across.

[mfkl90]

[quote=87782] @mfkl90

Try this:

sudo nano /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

Find the line:

FS_MOUNTOPTIONS=""

Change it to:

FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=vfat,flush,gid=plugdev,dmask=0007,fmask=0117"

Let me know the result.

MrBrsnes
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yep, this worked a treat. thanks!

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