[lordasshat]

[quote=101513]Keep your roms on and play from network share.

I didn’t see this any where in the forums and thought it may be useful to any one who has more roms than space on their SD card.
This is how i have mine set up, and it works well havent noticed any major issues. I am using a raspberry PI II and running psx isos through the share.

1.) Create a windows share/Samba share on a computer/server in your house preferably hard wired. My share requires a username and password, you may skip step 3 if yours setup does not use them.

2.) make a folder in your home dir
mkdir ~/games

3.) create the .smbcredentials file and set username and password
nano ~/.smbcredentials

username=smb-user
password=smb-password

press ctrl+x, Y, and enter

chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials
4.) We now need to Edit the fstab so are PI will mount this share on boot. We need this to point to your server you can use the IP of your server or its Host name depending on your set up.

sudo nano /etc/fstab

past and edit
//YOUR-SMB-Server/Path/To/Share /home/pi/games cifs credentials=/home/pi/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

Press ctrl+x, Y, and enter

If your share has no username and password then use this fstab entry.
//YOUR-SMB-Server/Path/To/Share /home/pi/games cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

5.) To test that are share is working without rebooting we will now run a couple commands.

sudo mount -a
ls -al ~/games

If all went well you should see the files & folders listed on your smb share.

6.)Now for the last bit, run these commands to make a copy of your es_systems.cfg and edit to tune it to your setup. (Updated 3/31/2016)
sudo cp /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
nano /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

Find the emulator that you want to use your new network share of infinite storage.
I like to just comment out the path from the default set up like this.

<!--    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/psx</path> -->
    <path>~/games/psx</path>

Repeat for all emulators you are going to use with the network share.
Press ctrl+x, Y, enter.

You now can reboot your PI and verify that your roms show up and work.

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[lordasshat]

Thank You for posting the solution to your problem. I am glad every thing is working for you.

[lordasshat]

I havent tried to get turbografx cd games working, I do however have PlayStation games working as well as sega cd games. As far as i can tell it should work for the turbografx games. I had a problem with file extensions on the psx in my config once.

[lordasshat]

You should find what you need here.Raspberry PI manual audio jack

You can also force it in your config.txt by adding
HDMI_IGNORE_EDID_AUDIO 1

[lordasshat]

No problem.
[quote=101895]Set permission to folder “games” and now it works great.
Thank you very much for your time and help. Children would be happy…

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[lordasshat]

try
192.168.0.101:/volume1/games /home/pi/games nfs _netdev,rw,nfsvers=3 0 0

i am using NFS4 on my server

My cat /etc/exports

/var/server     (sync,no_subtree_check,rw)

[lordasshat]

I set NFS up on my pi and have it working try this.

192.168.0.101:/volume1/games /home/pi/games nfs _netdev,nfsvers=4,auto 0 0

if that doesnt work try.

192.168.0.101:/export/volume1/games /home/pi/games nfs _netdev,nfsvers=3,auto 0 0

[lordasshat]

I am guessing that your are trying to mount an NFS Share.

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

192.168.0.101:/etc/export/volume1/games on /home/pi/games type nfs rw,intr,tcp,nfsvers=3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384

Remove nfsvers if server is running NFS V4 set to 2 if running NFS V2.

sudo mount -a

I do not have NFS mount points set up on my PI and am guessing from man pages and ubuntu documentation. it has been over a year and a half since i last set NFS up. That being said, I am willing to help if you would like.

Please let me know if it works for you.

[lordasshat]

change //192.168.0.101:/volume1/games /home/pi/games/ cifs credentials=/home/pi/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

to

//192.168.0.101/volume1/games /home/pi/games/ cifs credentials=/home/pi/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

Let me know if you have any other issues, I am glad to help. ^_^

[lordasshat]

I am having the same issue as well. I am using a <link>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GO9XF44?psc=1</link&gt; iPazzPort wireless mini keyboard, if I press the minus key on wireless keyboard volume goes down but not if i use the volume key.

+1 on this issue

[lordasshat]

This still work but you must run sudo chmod 777 /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg and run psx emulator once to get psx_reamred* to show up in beta 3(I know 777 isnt best choice but it works.)

[quote=89433]nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg
change this line from its defaults to
pcsx_rearmed_pad1type “analog”
pcsx_rearmed_pad2type “analog”

also if the lines aren’t there add them.

I am assuming you are talking about psx games. I couldn’t find this fix any where hope it helps.[/quote]

[lordasshat]

I have been playing soul raver, sound is a bit crackly but it runs at full speed even with ISO on SMB share(RPI B+2).

[lordasshat]

[quote=89435]lordasshat

its working great now.

Thanks a lot
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NP glad i could help. :) hope it helps others and saves some on from the 4hr headache of trying to figure it out on their own.

[lordasshat]

nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg
change this line from its defaults to
pcsx_rearmed_pad1type “analog”
pcsx_rearmed_pad2type “analog”

also if the lines aren’t there add them.

I am assuming you are talking about psx games. I couldn’t find this fix any where hope it helps.

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