RetroPie Run Roms / Games From Usb Stick Or Usb Hard Drive

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In this video, i will show you how to run your Games/Roms from an external drive like a USB stick or USB hard drive.
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@possiblydoomed6252 4 жыл бұрын

Just a heads up guys, if you install retropie on top of raspian you have to install the usbromservice from the manage packages/ manage optional packages in the setup ui.

@wicketsarcade9895 4 жыл бұрын

Life saver bro. a+++

@fernandolozano9898 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you!!

@fizzlegloop 4 жыл бұрын

How do you install the usbromservice? I'm super new to all this and need it dumbed down alot lol. I installed retropi no problem on my rpi4 however I cannot figure out how to move roms to the pi for the life of me. I tried formatting a USB to fat32 and putting the folder named retropie in it and when I plug it in to my rpi4 and boot up retropie it does nothing and I think this may be why

@fernandolozano9898 4 жыл бұрын

justin B what the original commenter is referring to can be found in the RetroPie setup. I’m also fairly new to all this, so I’m not sure if that’s helpful!

@jbrevealsall 4 жыл бұрын

Legend, had just got the hammer out to "take care of the pi" then I saw your comment.

@ryansmith2454 7 жыл бұрын

If only you posted a week ago would have saved me searching on google. I'm spoiled, your videos are great.

@SuperFunkyB 7 жыл бұрын

Never too late to say this, so thank you a great deal for this. Keep up the epic work.

@mistermark12 7 жыл бұрын

This is so much easier than what I used to do. (Auto mounting a disk and renaming all the folder extensions) thanks.

@smallboxoftruths1585 6 жыл бұрын

I'm getting my own Raspberry Pi soon! Happy :)

@peterfehr5693 3 жыл бұрын

did you get it?

@somethingbetter6804 4 жыл бұрын

Clear and concise tutorial. Thanks so much for making this!

@Koko0 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!! I recently just found my pi and wanted to do some games on it. Didn't think it would be this complicated. I am so glad I found this video it worked!!!

@omarshaalan1886 4 жыл бұрын

Hii, where did you download the roms from??

@keechytasbard 7 жыл бұрын

ETA Prime, thanks for another great informative video, as always the step-by-step instructions are very easy to follow, I'm going to try this today.

@superx335 Жыл бұрын

Best video showing exactly what I was looking for, thank you a million times

@Neutrinos6 4 жыл бұрын

i just recieved my odroid xu4 switched from pi 3b+ and my external drive portable 4tb i'm going to see if this works with my portable drive 4tb so i can add more psp and dreamcast games you're tutorials are amazing always and good explained i watched all you video's and subbed.

@joelthompson1668 4 жыл бұрын

I'm about to do the same let me know if this works!

@Neutrinos6 4 жыл бұрын

@@joelthompson1668 i have the odroid xu4 and 4tb portable drive but for some reason i don't understand how to connect the drive it isn't working but it does work on the pc i have also a 400tgb micro sd card so i'm using that atm until i figure out on how to use my 4tb portable external drive

@martinaurik2189 3 жыл бұрын

A good alternative if you don’t have the option for internet on Pc and Raspberry Pi connected over IP adres.Thanks for sharing.I’m learning more and more🤗

@FlintG 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I managed to get my usb hard drive to work. I also found out for the portable hard drives you need a y usb cable to supply power to it. I simply have it hooked to my laptop for power. Works great.

@kidv2 6 жыл бұрын

As usual thank you for your videos, always super clear and incredibly well put together. - Just a thought you mention at some point when copying the files from the pie to the thumbstick drive that you can't tell when it's done if there isn't LED on the thumbstick but can't you simply tell by looking at the back of the Pie board and check if the little green LED is still on?

@blinxerizer5426 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! I've been wanting to get a raspberry pi 3 b and I already have a 1TB external HDD lying around that I was hoping I could use.

@tylershea9770 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so dumb but slowly figuring this all out thanks to you

@rwprime1 7 жыл бұрын

So once this whole process is done, where would any scrapping end up, oh, and game saves too. In other words, once this is done, what gets written where (microSD or external) Please cover all that you can think of that would get written and where it would go after the process. Thanks.

@peterjackson6127 5 жыл бұрын

anyone find how to fix this?

@bryguy2110 7 жыл бұрын

so in retropiesetup i do not have usbrom services as an option

@Riot1913 6 жыл бұрын

How do I run my games off of my external 4TB hard drive with using any of my sd memory/

@John-vx6lu 7 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the video. Will retropie support larger drives (500GB), etc? Keep up the great work!

@SoldatCrinale 7 жыл бұрын

John Pratt I'm running a wd 1 tb passport external hdd. no issues at all

@yasashikunizam1311 7 жыл бұрын

i'm going to ask the same question but some friends over here already answer it ... so thank guys !!

@GrandMasterLynx 5 жыл бұрын

Could you possibly do a video on the Odroid XU4?

@nbernaz 6 жыл бұрын

Great informative and easy to follow video. Thanks

@The1Creston 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ETAPrime. I always learn so much from you.

@codyguidry5619 6 жыл бұрын

You can enable exfat on the retropie as well if you wish to use Windows formatting. Quit ES and type in the command line the following: sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils Press enter. Make sure you are hooked up to the internet. After that you can use exfat formatted USB drives just like a fat32 drive.

@paige135 5 жыл бұрын

Damn... Wish the retropie could play GameCube games

@trackmastersdj 3 жыл бұрын

So, I'm very new to this whole Raspberry Pi & RetroPie thing. I am not very knowledgeable about it at all. Recently, I purchased the LABISTS Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Complete Starter PRO Kit with 32GB Micro SD Card (4GB RAM). I was finally able to get it set up and I was able to play a few games on it last night (5/26/21). The main reason why I decided to go with a Raspberry Pi was because I'm a child of the 80s and 90s. I wanted to have a system that let me play retro video games such as arcade games and console games (Genesis & SNES) from that time period. The problem I've run into now is that some of the roms work fine and others don't. I can't figure out why this is happening. I have heard that arcade roms use MAME, etc . . . Some of the arcade and 16-bit console roms are working, but other ones are not. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix this latest issue that I'm facing? Thanks.

@Mike310178 6 жыл бұрын

Ich bin durch Zufall auf deinen Kanal gestoßen und habe ihn direkt abonniert. Immer tolle Erklärungen, leicht und verständlich rüber gebracht! I like!

@wickerjared 2 жыл бұрын

I see the rom files you are moving are zipped files. Can the roms be transferred over to RetroPie unzipped? Like.. BIN or SMD files? All my roms on my PC are unzipped for other windows emulators. Thanks for the content!

@inorite4553 6 жыл бұрын

Can it rum roms off of multiple locations? IE. NES off the SD and PSX off the USB?

@DayWalk3rs 4 жыл бұрын

Did you find out?

@SynergyGamingTV 3 жыл бұрын

Legendary video my dude. Keep it up!

@Tay58382 5 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks again ! You just got another subscriber.

@marcoturrican8167 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, ETA !!! Thnak you for this video !! there is a way to insert manually Video snaps or screenshot directly into the external hard drive or the images/videos stay always on the SDcard ? Thanks for your answer !

@dreamer-1973 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clear explanation!

@Bashi_boi 4 ай бұрын

thank you this was really helpful!!😀

@JifferOderSo 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that very good tutorial. It works perfectly

@MrRockfish01 7 жыл бұрын

If you take the USB and plug it into another pie, will it boot up ?

@BBUBst 4 жыл бұрын

MrRockfish01 only the games if you copy the (mount) part of the video on the SD

@MrJ0mmy 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for this video man a shop my mum works at closed down one location and my mum gave me 1x 1gb usb and 2x 32gb and 2x 8gb i wanted to use these usb with my pi so as i did not want to have to buy a bigger sd card so thanks for this video mate

@79ober 5 жыл бұрын

Hey! Very clear and straight forward steps, mind I share this video in my tutorial?

@thecanunu2647 4 жыл бұрын

I have the Pi4 4GB. I'm running RetroPie through Raspian and I don't have the USB ROM service. RetroPie is version 4.5.1

@ryancausey3254 4 жыл бұрын

Download all the optional drivers

@yorkshirepud6676 6 жыл бұрын

It worked for me 100% I can now play command and conquer ps1 going to add more C&C now so happy thanks ...... I tried doing it with a USB and the file manager, wow its like Fort Knox I couldn't get in at all but this way works perfect! left right sneeep snipe ...... da da dadada do dododo dodoo do yes I'm that happy that I'm even typing the tune in the game THANKS!

@thomasd2354 Жыл бұрын

Out dated content you should show more video details of how to do it step by step!!

@paulomelo3459 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial, thank you!

@papialfi4251 5 жыл бұрын

The people that noticed \\RETROPIE does not work, use ur IP address. For example: \\[IP address]

@ancontriplea 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Can you share me what are your games from atari 7800? i'm trying to get some good games for that console.

@Tsigarinho 7 жыл бұрын

I don't want to transfer all my sd card games to my usb. i just want to add inside the usb stick some psx games. What is the right process to do that?

@goopy1982 6 жыл бұрын

I also want to know

@GASH_one 5 жыл бұрын

Tsigarinho Good question! Since the video splashscreen moves also to the USB stick, it doesn't show up in most cases.

@kevin31466 7 жыл бұрын

is there a way to transfer from the USB to SD card in a similar way

@exaturbo 6 жыл бұрын

Hey. Can you please do a video that shows how to delete rooms that were on the SD card after setting up the retropie-mount usb option ? I have my roms on the usb but can’t find and delete those that were on the sd card.

@jonathanhutchinson7776 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial ETA Prime! As always tremendously helpful. Just having a slight issue as the RetroPie menu item is now missing so I can't access any settings etc. I can see all my emulators and access the roms, just not the RetroPie menu. Any idea how I can get it back?

@matthewbalbis1629 4 жыл бұрын

so much thankyou ETA!!!

@richardsorge- 4 жыл бұрын

Don't You have to format in ExFat mode , for larger disks/ USB keys ? And if yes, Will it work ? Thanks.

@IanMcLeish 5 жыл бұрын

Love the videos and sorry to be stupid. I am using a 256 gd Wolfano sd card image, and it is great, and I doubt i will add too many extras. But I would like to add (or try to add) return to castle wolfenstein - that is a classic (from my younger days). The biggest flash drive I have ever bought is half of the size of the sd card I have this image on. Can I add extra games onto the retro with the usb, or must the usb be larger than the sd card? Can I run some games off the usb and others off the sd is I guess what I am trying to ask?? I understood that games on the sd could be deleted from the pi (from your video), but still do not fully understand if I could add extras on a USB drive - it is "only" 128. Thanks again for the great videos. Enk

@johnkaylor6554 6 жыл бұрын

After you transfer over the files to the USB stick, can you delete all the folders (bios, configs, roms, splashcreens) from the SD card?

@abdulrahmanmohammad4887 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Eta, can i use my internal HDD? i created diffrent partition. Thanks

@gagailos 3 жыл бұрын

Another simple and great video. Does it also transfer the video snaps i have already scraped and are in the sd card?

@janet.snakehole Жыл бұрын

could this method be used to run games from a floppy drive?

@jefffinch9356 21 күн бұрын

Great Video!

@grant78uk 7 жыл бұрын

Another great video. Do you know if there is a list of emulator systems the emulation station supports available?

@vincentguttmann2231 4 жыл бұрын

It is a limitation of FAT32. Retropie is also compatible with exFAT.

@jasonbarry3216 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you ETA.

@IamKonstantin 5 жыл бұрын

Retro rom service is not available in my options :-( and using 4.4. found out the hard way you have to enable it first but you never mentioned on the video. Another thing to note... romservice syncs what you have on your external SD to the PI as well. so my pi run out of space!! Am i missing something here?

@iradhill81 3 жыл бұрын

My problem: Instead of having all the games transfer to the usb stick is there any way to leave the usb stick as extra storage. My rip4 sd card is 256gb but my usb sd card is only 32gb. Reason why is my image is so large that there is no room left to save input config even if I expand my card size in raspi config. So that usb stick doesn’t need to copy files just store new game data.

@v2_null 5 жыл бұрын

UPDATE: I'm using RetroPie 4.4, using `retropie-mount` folder seems to do nothing but empty the USB stick, if I use "retropie" instead of "retropie-mount", it copies all contents of the USB stick inside the micro SD card which is not what I wanted, what am I missing?

@Kippykip 6 жыл бұрын

I seem to be missing that service option completely, did they remove it?

@DeepFriedLettuce 5 жыл бұрын

Will this work on my OdroidXU4 running ORA1.5.2?

@jesterman1302 2 жыл бұрын

ETA Prime do you know if I can store roms on a non-USB drive, like the nvme drive attached to my cm4 carrier board? I'm running retropie from the emmc... Fantastic channel BTW...

@nndn4513 3 жыл бұрын

how to do this on a macbook? pls share tutorial.

@GetLostGames1 7 жыл бұрын

Gui works great but maybe Sd formatter would be better for noobs. Love your videos PRIME!

@PixelGamer2_ 6 күн бұрын

use FAT32 Formatter to format higer than 32gb its a terminal app

@jeremyburge811 6 жыл бұрын

Hello, First off, your video is great. Nicely and thoroughly explained. I, however, am still having a hell of a time getting games from my usb stick to work on the actual pie. I am a 1st year coding teacher and was wondering if I could private message with you about how to do this. I have read a ton of stuff online so far but I feel that none of it answers my question(s). I have also tried your method in the video only to be met with an error log message when launching a game or just a black screen. I am trying to have this as a station in my classroom but so far all I have achieved is a LOT of frustration. Thank you and have a wonderful day! J. Burge Simon Middle School Hays CISD

@AnTiBoDyNL 5 жыл бұрын

Very helpfull video, thanks!

@murduck8798 3 жыл бұрын

This might be a stupid question but do you really have to format the drive to be able to play games of it?

@gabruekqbryh7871 3 жыл бұрын

Can I use the usb stick with my pi zero w

@tradicionmichoacana5758 7 жыл бұрын

hey for the hardrive do you have to plug it to an external source of power or will the raspberry have enough power to run with the drive. i have an 80gb laptop hard drive

@johnhayes1311 5 жыл бұрын

I’m new to the SBC game. Just ordered an Asus Tinker Board S and plan on loading up RetroPie. Can I load RetroPie onto the onboard emmc, but run the ROMs off the SD card? I can only find info on the USB rom service. Just wanted to figure this out as much as possible before everything is delivered and I dive into this fantastic voyage. In any case, thanks for the great tutorials. Cheers!

@LorHangChuan 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, is it possible to place all the PSX only games in Usb Stick & the rest remain in SD card?

@ThatRandomGarage93 3 жыл бұрын

What would cause it to tell me theres been an error and go back to the rom selection menu?

@5aeid 7 жыл бұрын

ETAPrime is there a way to play two player games on RetroPie, such as GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance?

@mucha766 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome information! I followed the steps but my controller stops working whenever I boot up a game from the hard drive. Any ideas?

@terreancepetty5138 4 жыл бұрын

where can I find the games and the BIOS? I have bin. but nothing seems to be correct. I missing something to see the games on my PI

@brentwittenburg9289 7 жыл бұрын

Is there an image with attract mode on it but no ROMs? If not is there a way to start fresh from noobs and add attract mode on. I don't remember if the updated 4.2 or higher has attract mode added on it already.

@nicholasterberg5977 7 жыл бұрын

Isn't XFat not an extended version of FAT 32? Wouldn't XFat work as well

@nathanielarzoine 4 жыл бұрын

Hi there is a way to do that with an secondary SD card connected to SDIO? thanks a lot great videos

@supergrafx 7 жыл бұрын

When you scrape games on the hard drive, are the scrapes stored on the hard drive as well?

@honda5233 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you ETA Prime

@dEaFTOLiGhT 4 жыл бұрын

what if you are moving a usb you already had set up on an old RPi to a new RPi?

@jcw232000 3 жыл бұрын

OK I like your video, but, how do you use NTFS or larger hard drive.? Also retropie -mount Doesn’t seem to be working for me

@snoopdoggdankkush9285 3 жыл бұрын

I got everything working, but the retro pi menu isn't popping up, just the emulators.

@HackySacksCommandBlocks 10 ай бұрын

Is there any way to add games already on the usb drive to the RetroPie and not vice versa?

@tman6457 7 жыл бұрын

Hey Prime I have looked every where and can't find any tutorials on it, but could you do a tutorial on how to setup joystick and buttons with the group pins? I have a single player bartop with 6 buttons and a start and select buttons also. I don't want to use the zero delay I want to use the gpio pins.

@antprintdesignprint5003 6 жыл бұрын

Great video tut and another box ticked for my build, just wondering is it also possible to make the retropie system back up and sync images and media from my mobile phone, i use android cells always will (apple sucks) so in theory it should be viable ... is it?

@ColsenWallis-z2w Ай бұрын

Thanks so much

@lifeclip9878 4 жыл бұрын

i am transferring via network method but wen i click a game on retropi the game doesnt start but its listed?

@Kaidxx06 5 жыл бұрын

When exporting the files to the USB what type of file do they have to be? I have .gba .nes and .sms

@MrSajmer 4 жыл бұрын

Question - can I upload roms by connecting a disk to the computer and using EXT2 to mount the partition?

@syeo501 4 жыл бұрын

Where are the games stored on the SD card? Apparantly they get moved from USB device to SD card but where are the ones so I can delet them there?

@realknots3525 6 жыл бұрын

with the disclaimer, does this mean that if I click on all of the links that it will be supporting you more than if I clicked on the links just once?

@glazed_vaseline 7 жыл бұрын

Do I have to turn off my whole raspberry p3 every time I pull out the USB stick or can I just unplug add roms and then plug back in while on ??

@theostillplays 4 ай бұрын

What if you partition a 59gb drive to have a 32GB partition, can that be Fat32

@roberthanson6534 6 жыл бұрын

What do you do if you are using a custom image that you downloaded

@Fajah69 2 жыл бұрын

How will this behave if you put in say 3 USB thumb drives?

@8osm3rka 7 жыл бұрын

Hello, what Android image I should use to make Android TV from Raspberry Pi3 B,, Android RT not working because it's can't play video

@hazaronur 3 жыл бұрын

Can we use both sd card and usb drive at the same time?

@protoolstdm7298 6 жыл бұрын

does the SATA cable converter work? for pc and notebooks hard disks in raspberry pi 3