Empty es_systems.cfg

Zangdaarr

Hi there,

I am currently exploring the file system of retropie. My goal is to have retropie to read my Roms on my windows desktop.

I read that all systems are linked in the es_system.cfg file, which is located at two locations:

~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
etc/emulationstation/es_system.cfg

I went to both places, and open the file with sudo nano es_system.cfg, both files were empty (at least in ~/.emulationstation it did not exist before I opened it).

My retropie is working fine, so why are my system files empty ?bolded text

mitu

@Zangdaarr said in Empty es_systems.cfg:

etc/emulationstation/es_system.cfg

It's /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg.

Zangdaarr

Indeed !

It's empty on ~/.emulationstation and filled etc/emulationstation, is there a reason for that ?

By the way, is there any way to map the $home folder and access it via Samba ?
Because I can access only to \retropie so far

mitu

It's empty on ~/.emulationstation and filled etc/emulationstation, is there a reason for that ?

Yes - one configuration file is enough, EmulationStation will use the 1st one available. The main (system) configuration file is maintained by the RetroPie-Setup script, if a user wishes to customize it, they can copy it to $HOME/.emulationstation and modify it there, overriding the one in /etc/emulationstation.

By the way, is there any way to map the $home folder and access it via Samba ?

Yes.

Zangdaarr

How can I do that ? I am pretty new in Unix and Networks actually :D I did not find a way to go all the way back from \retropie to the root and mount it as a disk

mitu

You'd need to modify /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the folder you want to share, with a similar set of configuration options as the other RetroPie share

[...]
[pi-home]
comment = pi-home
path = "/home/pi/"
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755

The easiest way would be to enable SSH and use WinSCP to see the files on the RetroPie system, you'll have access to the entire filesystem.