Help with roms

Goose_box · Post by **Goose_box** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 2:35 am

First time using retropie and I don't know how to go about installing roms. I don't have a usb port as I went on to use teensy and no usb hub. Is there any way I can transfer my roms directly onto the sd card?

Thanks for any help

Fleder · Post by **Fleder** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:12 am

Goose_box wrote:First time using retropie and I don't know how to go about installing roms. I don't have a usb port as I went on to use teensy and no usb hub. Is there any way I can transfer my roms directly onto the sd card?

Thanks for any help

So you soldered the Teensy directly to the one USB Port of the Pi0 and used PWM Audio?
Well, this is unfortunate and makes things a bit more difficult for you.

You can use a file explorer that supports the file system of the Pi0 and writing and then copy them with this to the pis SD,
as you will not be able to write/read the needed partition in windows.

alien0matic · Post by **alien0matic** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:16 am

A (virtual machine with a) linux distribution might be the only way to get roms onto the sd card.

Fleder · Post by **Fleder** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:27 am

alien0matic wrote:A (virtual machine with a) linux distribution might be the only way to get roms onto the sd card.

No, there are certain file explorers for windows. I am using one to transfer roms to my OPiPC for instance.

tronicgr · Post by **tronicgr** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:49 am

1. Place your SD card in any other raspberry you have available ( I assume you have a spare one)
2. Power up the raspberry with HDMI screen connected.
1. Connect your raspberry to network with a USB-Ethernet adapter (or USB hub with Ethernet jack on it).
2. Read the IP in Retropie menu.
3. Open windows explorer and enter in the path line: \\192.xxx.xxx.xxx\ (IP address or GBZ)
4. Navigate to roms directory and paste the roms in the emulator's folder.

Simple as that.

Thanks
Thanos

alien0matic · Post by **alien0matic** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:54 am

No USB ethernet with the teensy on the USB slot. My guess is, that he doesn't want to desolder everything everytime he adds a rom.

[mention]Fleder[/mention]: Everything I tried for windows sucked and worked badly or didn't work at all. I'm now using a virtual box image with Ubuntu for all ext3/4/5 filesystems.

Goose_box · Post by **Goose_box** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:38 am

Thanks for all of the responses. Yes I know I'm an idiot.. I just didn't want to spend anymore money on the project as I went through 5 usb hubs and neither of them worked when I hooked them up so I did without it thinking I can just add roms to the sd card.

I am running Mac OS X and trying to find a way to access the different partitions using this.

I kind of screwed myself here unfortunately

Fleder · Post by **Fleder** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:41 am

Goose_box wrote:Thanks for all of the responses. Yes I know I'm an idiot.. I just didn't want to spend anymore money on the project as I went through 5 usb hubs and neither of them worked when I hooked them up so I did without it thinking I can just add roms to the sd card.

I am running Mac OS X and trying to find a way to access the different partitions using this.

I kind of screwed myself here unfortunately

https://www.paragon-software.com/de/home/extfs-mac/

Kilren · Post by **Kilren** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:14 pm

Another option is a LiveUSB with your linux OS. Ubuntu or Linux Mint are both great choices for this simple option. Google liveUSB and you'll get the info you need.

obey_yourmaster · Post by **obey_yourmaster** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 8:14 pm

Kilren wrote:Another option is a LiveUSB with your linux OS. Ubuntu or Linux Mint are both great choices for this simple option. Google liveUSB and you'll get the info you need.

I was in the same situation as the OP, and this helped immensely. Many thanks!

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