Adding new roms?

LadyEmilia

Hi,

I have my retropie setup with a handful of roms. I haven't used it in about 6 months and recently got some more roms I would like to add.

However, when I plug my microSD card into my laptop there isn't a section for the emulators or rooms. The games are in EmulationStation when I start it.

Is there an easy way to add more roms directly to the SD card without having to format it? I just had a really hard time configuring the wifi/bluetooth/etc and don't want to have to deal with that again.

Thanks for reading!

~LE

elf0

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senkun

@LadyEmilia

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

elf0

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LadyEmilia

@senkun

Thanks but I tried that and none of that is working for me and I wanted to avoid formatting.

misslehead3

@LadyEmilia Ok then we more information.

Are you able to see the pi on the network? Does it have an ethernet cable plugged in?

LadyEmilia

@misslehead3

No Ethernet cabled plugged in, I have a WiFi dongle connected

Brigane

@LadyEmilia if your wifi is connected properly you should see a Retropie directory on your network. You should be able to transfer your roms though there.

Ornitorick

Acces "\\retropie" on Windows explorer

glennlake

First, it sounds like your computer is running windows. Windows can only see the Boot folder because the retropie folder is formated ext3/ext4 and Windows has a hard time reading it(at least Windows 7 does). I can't help you much there. If you can find someone with a linux box you can take your sd card, put it in a reader and insert it into that box and you should be able to see the retropie folder as well.

You could download a raspian image to a separate sd card, boot up your pi with that and use your card reader to open the retropie folder on the RetroPie sd. First copy your new game roms onto the desktop of your new raspian bootup. Then plug in your RetroPie sd in your card reader and you should see the retropie folder. On your RetroPie sd you can mine down thru home, pi, RetroPie, roms and finally to the folder holding the roms for your games. Then you can drag-and-drop your new game roms into their proper place.

I hope this helps.