[boothy]

Hi all, me again :\ lol

I’m at my wits end lol, I have downloaded and installed all versions of this and I have no joy whatsoever with psx games. I am able to get them to appear (via usb) in a untouched version of retropie but any of smithers versions I cant get it to work. I have followed many guides and even tried using the vanilla version. All in all I am trying to run all my roms off SD internally except psx and sega CD which I want to run off usb externally.

Below is my path for the psx and I cant see where I’m going wrong. please tell me it is simple, because once I have this done I will be able to enjoy my retropie and then continue work on my bartop project :)

<system>
<name>psx</name>
<fullname>PlayStation</fullname>
<path>/media/usb0/psx</path>
<extension>.cue .ccd .cbn .m3u .mdf .pbp .toc .z .znx .CUE .CCD .CBN .ISO .$
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ psx %$
<platform>psx</platform>
<theme>psx</theme>
</system>

Ps smithers, your work has been fantastic and I personally would like to thank you for all your help and work.

Thanks in advance

Jodie

[boothy]

In my experience my friend i have found that the pi 2 3d games alot better as the pi 2 suffers with this. i do not believe its your sd, as you will probably know that most other platforms work ok ie Genesis and snes etc. I suggest if you require these games a pi 2 would probably do the job.

Jodie

[boothy]

[quote=102764]Thanks for ng this and coming back. Much appreciated. here area a few of my thoughts.

1 – I personally prefer my roms on usb/external. This also makes it easier to add/remove roms, especially for my non-technical friends. Plug it in PC and do what you need/ LoL

My directions for this –
-sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g (I have a 500Gb drive hooked with with psx games)
-sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/
-Edit fstab and add /dev/sda1 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms ntfs-3g 0 1

Done. No configs to change. No need to expand SD card. Maybe some users might like this and you do not have to make multiple versions?

2 – Your arcade classics gamelist is fantastic. I would keep them maybe and and users can overwite if they want to. If you do the usb thing above, and scrape, it saves the game list on the usb along with images and yours remain on the sd and just ignored.

Hopefully this helps and gives ideas.

Thanks

Luis

[/quote]

Luis can you help me with this i have tried your guide here and i am trying to boot psx games via usb. i have followed your guide and i get this;

pi@retropie ~ $ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the ‘fuser’ command.

i have tried changing paths although i know you havent, and still no joy. Can anyone lend a hand here. Other than this i have no other faults and will soon be able to enjoy my retropie rather than spend countless hours of coding and trial and error lol

Thanks in advance

Jodie

[boothy]

Thanks again Smithers for the heads up i will check the thread now. fantastic work may i add! Mega cd was great ive got it soley for sonic cd :)

Jodie

[boothy]

Is anyone experiencing problems with booing psx games off a usb? ive tried changing paths multiple times and still no luck. Any help would be much appreciated

thanks in advance

Jodie

[boothy]

Hi again guys, i have followed your guide herb about three times now and still no luck. It seems to be a problem finding the OMXplayer as when i go to configure splashscreen, the first line of text is “Could not find correct packages; OMXplayer, trying to install now? i have tried the guide about three times now and no luck, i have installed omxplayer at the start of the guide and it says that it is installed and up to date. is there something i am doing wrong?

thanks in advance

Jodie

[boothy]

Cant wait for this i recently tested your first version and it seemed almost perfect :) good luck

[boothy]

Hi there anton,

Thanks for your reply. Is this problem something to do with the SD card, if i transferred everything off on to a usb drive and booted from there could i store all the games on there? if not what is the capacity limit of roms before it begins to freeze if you know.

Thanks in advance

Jodie

[boothy]

Thank you guys for your speedy responses unfortunately i work two jobs so i wont be able to do this again until saturday evening but until then thanks again. I will let you know how i get on and, Herbfargus your videos are great and very helpful thank you again!

Jodie

Edit, Managed to follow your steps there quickly using winscp, when i finished everything and rebooted all i got was “waiting for dbus to appear” maybe i did something wrong as i was doing it fast.

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