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    How to use fba-libretro games from external drive

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    • jeffajam
      jeffajam last edited by

      Really lost here as the games just don't show up. I've got all the games on an external USB at the root level and the games locations pointed to the external drive but it still doesn't show up. Any help? Do I need to set RecalBox to use fba-libretro anywhere?

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      • voljega
        voljega Banned last edited by

        What did you modify to achieve that ? Files, configuration, etc Do you want only fba_libretro on external drive or all systems ?

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        • jeffajam
          jeffajam last edited by

          All I'm aiming to do is have my game library on a USB drive. They're predominantly for use in FBA, but there are some other ROMs on there too.   I've been trying to edit fstab to mount the external drive at '/recalbox/share'. however whenever I reboot, the USB drive is given a different device ID and the games don't show up (it never uses the same 'SDA' as the one I've used in the fstab file).

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          • voljega
            voljega Banned last edited by

            Well if you're on 4.0.0 you can discard all your fstab or other modifications and simply use the existing option in Emulation Station menu 🙂 It's in System Settings

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            • jeffajam
              jeffajam last edited by

              Haha, I have tried that but it's still having none of it 🙂 Any specific directory structure needed for it to work off external drives?

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              • voljega
                voljega Banned last edited by

                Well power off your recalbox, unplug your your hard drive and check it on a computer Recalbox should have automatically created a whole directory structure under /recalbox/share  (or just /share I don't remember) then just copy your roms into /recalbox/share/roms, replug it into your recalbox, restart the recalbox and all should be ok

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