Update All With an External Drive

Kernel, Main, Utilities & Applications, Miscellaneous Devices.
User avatar
neogeo81
Posts: 374
Joined: Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:52 pm
Has thanked: 32 times
Been thanked: 45 times

Update All With an External Drive

Unread post by neogeo81 »

Hi folks
Is there a way to change the path of the mame and hbmame roms download to an external harddrive?
If i want to update the roms it loads everything again to my sd card because it is empty there.
thanks for the help
jca
Top Contributor
Posts: 1911
Joined: Wed May 27, 2020 1:59 pm
Has thanked: 145 times
Been thanked: 454 times

Re: Update All With an External Drive

Unread post by jca »

Create update_mame-getter.ini and update_hbmame-getter.ini containing
MRADIR=/media/usb0/_Arcade
ROMMAME=/media/usb0/games/mame
ROMHBMAME=/media/usb0/games/mame
FoxbatStargazer
Top Contributor
Posts: 994
Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:44 pm
Has thanked: 309 times
Been thanked: 228 times

Re: Update All With an External Drive

Unread post by FoxbatStargazer »

I was able to put similar lines into update_all.ini and it worked?

Also only use the MRA line if you want the cores themselves stored on your external drive. Usually I would keep cores on the SD card and just ROMs on the drive.
thorias
Posts: 4
Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2021 11:37 pm
Been thanked: 2 times

Re: Update All With an External Drive

Unread post by thorias »

Look on: https://github.com/theypsilon/Update_All_MiSTer

From this section:

"Alternative Setups

Other setups that might be useful for you:

JTBIN ZIP: Users that would like to download @jotego betas by default, can use this setup instead. You may also enable this option from the Settings Screen in the "Jotego Updater" submenu.
usb0 ZIP: For people using USB as primary storage. You will be able to run this script from there and install all cores, roms, and MRAs on /media/usb0.
DB9/SNAC8 ZIP: Enables Extended Native Controller Compatibility for Genesis and NeoGeo/Supergun controllers.

NOTE: You should extract also all the INI files contained in these."

This is exactly what I've done downloading and following the instructions with my external USB drive and all works perfect!
dyne
Posts: 24
Joined: Wed Jan 12, 2022 11:26 pm
Has thanked: 3 times
Been thanked: 1 time

Re: Update All With an External Drive

Unread post by dyne »

I’m going to bump this as the usb update all is exactly what I plan to do when my storage arrives. The wording of “run this script from there” is throwing me off. Will you place the usb0 zip in the SD cards script folder or do you place it in the root of your usb drive and the MiSTer OSD will see it to run?
lajcik
Posts: 4
Joined: Thu May 26, 2022 5:43 pm
Has thanked: 7 times
Been thanked: 1 time

Re: Update All With an External Drive

Unread post by lajcik »

I'm going to bump this as well to say that the mame getter scripts seem to want the rom directories to be named "games/mame" and "games/hbmame" explicitly.

So if you move your roms to an external hdd make sure the directories are games/mame and games/gbmame and the paths in your ini files are:

Code: Select all

ROMMAME="/media/usb0/games/mame"
ROMHBMAME="/media/usb0/games/hbmame"
and NOT

Code: Select all

ROMMAME="/media/usb0/mame"
ROMHBMAME="/media/usb0/hbmame"
since the script will just revert back to the sdcard :o

I just spent almost an hour trying to figure this out and even started to read the scripts before i realised the reason for this so I hope this saves someone some time :)
Post Reply