Easiest way to load games onto Pi Zero

dalehitchy

Het everyone.

I had a Pi 3 and previously transferred over games via FTP. Just got the pi zero and wondering whats the easiest / best way to transfer games over. All i have at the moment is on mini to standard usb cable which I have a controller plugged into. Is it possible to do it currently with what I have. I think before on the pi 3 there was an option to just plug in a usb stick and it will automatically just copy games to sd card. is this still an option. If so do i listerally just plug a usb in and thats it?

Thanks

meleu

The best and easiest way for me is insert the microSD in a SD adapter and then insert on my laptop SD slot. Transfer everything I want to the microSD.

[EDIT: I have Linux Mint on my laptop.]

edmaul69

@meleu doesnt work on a pc. You only see the boot folder.

meleu

@edmaul69 sorry. My tip is incomplete. My laptop is running Linux Mint. Windows can't read the SD formatted for RetroPie.

HOW

So any tips how to acheive without another Linux device? Thanks in advance :)

senkun

@HOW said in Easiest way to load games onto Pi Zero:

So any tips how to acheive without another Linux device? Thanks in advance :)

putty, drag and drop, if you have wifi dongle.

@dalehitchy said in Easiest way to load games onto Pi Zero:

option to just plug in a usb stick and it will automatically just copy games to sd card. is this still an option. If so do i listerally just plug a usb in and thats it?

I believe that's still possible, been a long while since I did that. Make sure you have a folder named retropie on the stick. Try it out and see, can't hurt.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms

HollowSavant

@dalehitchy so if anyone comes looking for this thread years in the future, the roms file locations, which a previous user failed to state, is located at "/media/pi/retropie/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/" within the SDcard itself. you just need to pick the folder for which your rom is supported(GBC, GBA, etc). so for pokemon crystal it will look like this: /media/pi/retropie/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/gbc/pokemon_crystal.gbc

you will need to be using some type of linux OS to be able to see this folder as windows cannot see above the boot folder.