@voljega I'm not doing it incorrectly. I did my research and there are some mame rom games that will work with only one mame emulator and not both, unless you know of a tool that can convert the rom zip file to work with a specific emulator of my choosing.

As a developer I thought it would be possible to do. Since the rom game would not load under one emulator (and I hear that behind the scenes it throws an exception error) that the underlying code would continuously pick the next emulator in the Emulator Advanced Configuration menu of choices until one of them loads the game or it goes back to the main screen because none of the emulators would work.

I have a feature request..

if a game doesn't load using the current emulator that is set in the Emulator Advanced Configuration menu, then it will automatically try the remaining emulators that are available before it breaks you out back to the main screen if none of the emulators work.

For example. MAME has two Emulators in the Emulator Advanced Configuration menu. Some of my mame rom games will load with one of those two emulator options while other mame rom games will load with the other option.

it would be great if it automatically tried all of them so that it prevents me from manually flipping from one to another.

@voljega thanks for 4TB follow up... I'm going to get one and follow your advice on NTFS usage.
Having the Pi provide the power to 4TB MyPassport is good news as well..

cheers!
tom

I am deciding to buy a Western Digital MyPassport 4TB external USB hard drive to use for Recalbox.. and I have a couple of questions.

1. Can the Raspberry Pi 3b+ provide electrical support this device as the external hard drive draws power from the USB port.
2. If I change the Recalbox settings for external use, will it detect and support the external hard drive?
3. Is it as easy as some of the youtube videos where once I change to the external sessions, plug in the USB hard drive to create the folder structure and then plug it into my computer in order to copy the roms to it?

@voljega might as well have said that considering that you said that due to the limited ram that there isn't any good reason to scrape directly on your recalbox.
Might as well remove the feature to make way for other features/enhancements and use the ARRM external tools then

@voljega so are you saying that the Scraping feature will no longer be available for version 6.1 and onwards?

I've tried those other external ones.. not had much luck with them.. or at least the ones I tried for my Windows 10 computer.

Over each release of Recalbox, there has been that one annoying scraping issue that pops up frequently.

"Error Saving Reized Image. Out of Memory? Disk Full?"
<retry> <skip> <cancel>

Since 6.1 is having its scraping feature fixed. Is there anyway for you guys to manage this resize error exception handling error and automatically default it to SKIP and allow it to continue scraping.
Some of my rom folders have thousands of roms in it and even if I let the scraping run on its own, I still have to baby sit it and click on the SKIP from time to time which increases the time of the scraping process to complete.

I'm using Scraping feature of Recalbox 4.1..

I've disabled the setting 'User Decides Conflict' so that it can run through all my games automatically.

The problem is that from time to time the scraping gives the "Error Saving Resized Image" and waits for me to retry or skip.

Is there anyway for the Recalbox software to automatically be set to 'skip' so that the scraping feature can complete on its own so that I don't have to baby sit it.

thx

@paradadf

I was using PS2/3 as an example..

Are there any consoles you are envisioning that would work with Pi4 that were placed on the back burner with 3B+ due to hardware speed compatibility?

Just getting an opinion from all of you if the Pi4 hardware is powerful enough to support game consoles that were released in the early 2000s .. such as PS2 & PS3 ??