USB rom service working in latest version?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have just installed 3.4 from scratch and inserted my usb stick with all my roms on. Nothing happened. I usually see the light on my usb stick flickering for ages.

Is the usb rom service working in this version?

I when into configuration and enabled it, rebooted, still no luck.

Has the folder structure changed?

Regards

[petrockblog]

what is your current folder structure ? do you have everything in a retropie folder ?

[Anonymous]

Yes. I have a retropie folder with a roms folder. I am going to try blanking the usb stick, creating a retropie folder and let it build the structure just in case it has changed.

Will report back.

[Anonymous]

Got the folder structure built onto the usb stick. Copied Neo Geo roms on to it.

It copied 40 of them and stopped at ‘F’ for ages.

I rebooted the Pi and after about an hour it is up to 74 games (I have 268 roms).

Either it is stopping after a while or it is very slow.

[labelwhore]

My guess is it’s just super slow. Some of my roms are on a USB HDD attached to my pi. That HDD is formatted in such a way that windows can’t see it. Since all my PCs are windows machines, I have to transfer roms to the HDD via SSH to the pi. The USB transfer speed is snail-like. lol

I’ve spent many hours on google looking for a way to speed it up, but nothing has worked.

[Anonymous]

The strange this is that it wasn’t slow in 3.3. The light on the USB stick flickered like mad.

It does seem to be doing it, just very very slowly.

[Anonymous]

I just discovered that trying to load any of the neo geo roms fails. The screen goes black and then goes back to emulation station. Even if I change the emulator it fails.

I think I might have to go back to 3.3 and wait for an update.

[labelwhore]

If you find that 3.3 is super slow also, then find a fix. Please report back. I’ve had the issue I mentioned since 2.4 or so.

[Anonymous]

Just to confirm. I went back to 3.3 and it is all working fine. Roms are copying on much much quicker and the neo geo emulator is working correctly.

Next time I will wait a while before upgrading.

[lomiccw1]

It’s hit or miss for me. It loaded ~1,110 roms in less then an hour, but that is only 50% of the library on my USB. Now it has spent +14 hours and it has transferred less than 10 roms. I’ve rebooted and it doesn’t help. I agree; it gets hung for some reason. the slow rom transfer isn’t a function of it moving bigger files, and I still have plenty of free space on the sd card… I think it is a bug. I might report the issue on the GetHub page if others have noticed this too. Godspeed and happy gaming.

[petrockblog]

It is nothing to do with retropie itself but perhaps an issue with the underlying OS (Raspbian). Might be worth rolling back the RPI kernel to see if it is a kernel related problem (and things like trying the old sdcard driver – dtoverlay=mmc to /boot/config.txt)

[Anonymous]

I have had a similar problem with 3.4

It worked fine with just a small handful of tiny NES/SNES/Genesis roms, but when I tried large PSX isos it failed every time. The USB stick would blink for less than a minute or so and then transfer would stop.

I disabled the USB rom service using the setup script and just manually copied them over from the USB stick using terminal commands and the transfer speed was normal.

[dccelly]

Same here. Its broken in 3.4.

Loaded up a thumb drive with a bunch of roms and went shopping for an hour and about 19 games transfered. All the virtualboy roms. Yay! SSH or terminal until it get resolved.

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