There's also an easy way to transfer your ROMs automatically from an FAT32 or exFAT formatted USB stick. I don't know if NTFS will work with this, too.

@Impman66 said in Is WinSCP or Putty necessary?: So it begs the question, is WinSCP, Putty, or any other "file sharing" program necessary? no, there are 3 supported methods of copying roms, and you're simply using the third: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/#samba-shares

@hermit Thank you sir! You are my hero today @mitu Good to know! woulda saved me some time knowing that

@mitu success - I'm now in. Thank you so much for your help - much appreciated and sorry for my daft questions

@Shaddonai said in Unable to SSH into RetroPie: Or this (The part of creating a .txt on boot) https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Wifi Thx. this did the trick. I had to pull the arcade apart and plug in the network directly.

All sorted now. Thank you

Have you logged into the pi with this IP address before? Make sure you have the right IP address of the Pi. Have you accessed any of the ssh config files recently? I've done this and made a typo rendering the configuration useless. To find the ip address in four ways. With a keyboard plugged into the pi, press F4 and use the CLI to type in ifconfig you'll want to use the inet address of either the wlan0 or eth0 interface. There is a menu option in emulationstation that will give the ip address most of the time. And with windows you could type arp -a to check the arp cache for the address it will be one of the dynamic addresses of the associated interface. Of course you want to make sure that it is connected, with ethernet you will know. With a router I guess you could log in to the router and check the ip address there. You should start with ssh, when you get the right address I'll help with winscp.

@Clyde Well ifconfig works just fine in Debian Stretch / Retropie 4.4 I just tested it in the linux terminal. It also seems that ip addr works as well. So doesnt matter which one will be used. Either one will do just fine. :-)

thank you. it's ok. I can connect to ubuntu with the IP and my passeword in Winscp. not need a IP in Retropie.

@SpudsMcToole Glad you finally got it working !

@mitu Thank you! I have not done any of this in a while and I noobed out on the basics. Much appreciated.

I have the same issue using SNES Mini theme by @ruckage . The video snaps are left-aligned, not centered as they should. How do we modify the alignment?

I got it, man im so stupid, i was using PI instead of pi. My god it took me an entire day, thanks for the help guys.

@afunnyname Did you enable SSH on your Raspbian image ?

@sano @mitu thanks for the reply’s I sorted it. I used WinSCP and played about with the synchronise button on there and it worked a treat! Downloaded wheel arts and renamed all the ps1, Gbc and GBA files I downloaded them through a torrent and must have been badly named. Thanks

@jonnykesh thanks for the extract. Since I can't copy - i went thru it line by line and could not find any differences. I thought maybe I added a character somewhere and this is what i needed to validate. I really appreciate your help. if you (or anyone) has any other ideas, I am willing to try!

@joelgbr (1) Is your Pie on the same network as your computer? (2) What username and password are you using for WinSCP? It should be username: pi password: raspberry (3) The Host name on WinSCP should be the IP address of your Pie... (You can find that by using the ShowIP function located in the RetropieConfiguration area... (4) You can also use a Windows 'file explorer' window to talk to the RP by typing in // IP address (making sure it is recognizing it as a network instruction, and not a website) (5) Install RetroPieManager (one of my favorite) by following the video below. It lets you access via your webrowser, by putting in the IP address followed by :8000 . It's pretty slick, and let's you know if the files you uploaded are compatible in those folders. Only issue with it is it doesn't quite work well will large files (500mb+)

@edmaul69 ok i will try that and i tell you if it's work thanks for your times

Thanks a lot! I assumed that because it requires root access, it would be impossible to edit like that. Problem solved! :)

If you SSH into the Pi, you can run the following commands to reset permissions on some key folders: sudo chown -R pi:pi /home/pi sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/configs That will change the ownership user:group to pi:pi for all files and folders under those paths. The first one is the home directory where ROMs and other files are stored, and the second has configuration information including games list xml files.