Connect RETROPIE (in Raspberry Pi) to Personal Computer

[Loquo]

Hi there!

I'm editing and polishing my romsets in RetroPie. So, I'm changing images, editing names, descriptions, genres, etc.

Unfortunately, I don't know any way to perform all this stuff only with my PC. Then, I need my PC with Filezilla to edit/replace images (I want PAL covers) or roms, and I need to conect another keyboard to my Raspberry Pi to edit names, descriptions, and so on...

There is a way to conect my RasPi to my computer and this way to do all this with only one keyboard? For me its very unconfortable using two keyboards for do all this...

Notes:

• I try Putty, but it doesn't show the emulationstation interface, only the code background.
• Yes, I know that I can to extract the gamelists and edit all this out of the raspberry, but it is awful, boring and dangerous.

Thank you all in advance!

PD: I didn't see any other topic about this, sorry if there were any and I miss them.

[mitu]

But you don't need Filezilla or SSH - you can access the gamelists and artwork from your PC via file shares, at \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation. There should be folders for gamelists and for artwork. I recommend using Notepad++ to edit the files.

[Loquo]

Thanks for answer.

That's true, but I would like editing on the emulationstation interface.

For example, I conect a keyboard via USB to my RasPi and then (along with my game pad) can edit metadata watching my tv, playing a bit of the game to correct some data, etc. I would like to do this with my laptop keyboard, connecting the raspi to my laptop. It is even possible?

[mitu]

@Loquo said in Connect RETROPIE (in Raspberry Pi) to Personal Computer:

I would like to do this with my laptop keyboard, connecting the raspi to my laptop. It is even possible?

I'm not following. I just said you can connect from your PC (or laptop) to the RetroPie system over file shares so you can edit the gamelist data. Isn't this what you wanted ?

[IanDaemon]

@Loquo So you want your laptop keyboard to control EmulationStation. Correct?
I'm not sure if that's possible. It would depend on your laptop.

[Loquo]

Yes @IanDaemon ! That's it! I would like connect my laptop to RasPi in the way I can use the laptop to write things in emulationstation metadata edit interface.

I'm not english native, maybe I can't express myself properly, sorry.

Ian, how does it depend on what kind of laptop I have? What I would have to try? Is there any program to connect the laptop to RasPi and control emulationstation?

Thankes in advance!!

[saccublenda]

@Loquo So you want to run emulationstation on the pi and then use the laptop keyboard to edit game metadata instead of using a keyboard connected to the pi, is that right?

[Loquo]

Yesss! @saccublenda

The reason is: I am scrapping game by game, then replacing the NTSC box cover for the PAL cover (I need my laptop with explorer and filezilla/WinSCP to do this) AND I like edit things like genre/numers of player/description/name of the game etc (I need another keyboard connected by USB to the RasPi to do this).

If I can run emulationstation with my computer, then I only need my laptop and no extra keyboard. My labour is a long-term labour and remove the second keyboard would be very confortable.

[saccublenda]

@Loquo So you also want to run emulationstation on the pi but through the laptop. I guess this is possible through ssh with X forwarding or something like this, but honestly I’m not sure. Someone with better technical knowledge must answer this.

[mitu]

@Loquo said in Connect RETROPIE (in Raspberry Pi) to Personal Computer:

If I can run emulationstation with my computer, then I only need my laptop and no extra keyboard. My labour is a long-term labour and remove the second keyboard would be very confortable.

You can either use the Windows version of EmulationStation and edit from your laptop - transferring the ROMs, artwork and gamelist on your laptop - or use something like ARRM for gamelist management. I think ARRM is more convenient and faster (once you learn it) than manually editing from EmulationStation.

EDIT: As a plus ARRM can do the scraping for you.

[Loquo]

OMG! This ARRM tool looks trully A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

I didn't have any knowledge about this tool! This could be the answer for all my troubles!

Thank you!