Adding ROMs Directly to SD Card? [IDEA/HELP]
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Hello everyone! Now, this is kind of an idea AND a wondering-if-I-can type of thing. I am wondering if you could possibly reroute the ROM folder locations to be directly on the SD Card instead of having to SSH in or use a USB stick? This would be ideal for putting on ROMs for people who have trouble SSHing, and the USB stick can kind of get annoying. Thanks!
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@AppleBabies the roms are on the sd card. It's explained on the first installation page:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#install-retropie-image-on-sd-card
You need a Linux distro or tools to read the ext4 filesystem directly.
If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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Well, I understand that much. But my question is, is it possible so non-Linux users that do not have the tools to access the root files of the card can simply just have the roms folders along with all of the kernel files and such? I saw this implementation with Adafruit's CupCade, where you could simply put ROMs on the SD card without having to open partitions and then they would just be copied over to the internal ROM folder.
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I don't like that idea. It would mean having a custom partition layout for the image (and would mean space is wasted on the fat32 partition). RetroPie is designed to work without stuff like this - i's primary a system to set up emulators on Raspbian/Debian type os - the image is just provided for convenience and is a Raspbian Lite base.
If you want to read/write the root partition on Windows you can use http://www.ext2fsd.com/
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@AppleBabies you can access the Entire Retropie folder (ROM, BIOS, ect) on any machine...
When it's off you just plug the SD card in... If it's on then you just access it from the Windows network
In terms of the kernel... Windows won't be able to read those files... And unless your good in Linux programming changing the kernel is bad...
But if your looking for a way to access the config files remotely outside the Windows freindly folder, you could use tye beta program in the ideas section and then use 7-zip to open....
But that is in beta and currently only backs up
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@AppleBabies said in Adding ROMs Directly to SD Card? [IDEA/HELP]:
Well, I understand that much. But my question is, is it possible so non-Linux users that do not have the tools to access the root files of the card can simply just have the roms folders along with all of the kernel files and such? I saw this implementation with Adafruit's CupCade, where you could simply put ROMs on the SD card without having to open partitions and then they would just be copied over to the internal ROM folder.
On Windows... Go to my computer/computer
Open network places and find the pi
Then click on ROMS and put the Roms in there....
It is how you put Roms directly on the SD card from a Windows computer
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@herb_fargus said in Adding ROMs Directly to SD Card? [IDEA/HELP]:
@AppleBabies the roms are on the sd card. It's explained on the first installation page:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#install-retropie-image-on-sd-card
You need a Linux distro or tools to read the ext4 filesystem directly.
Not the Retropie folder that he is talking about... It can be accessed by Windows and Linux
(I personally like using Windows because it's less files to hassle with)
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@Drakaen391 Herb's quite correct - they're samba shares, windows accessible but not "direct".
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@Drakaen391 Exactly, that is how I always did it. I also use this method to edit the .cfg files.
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