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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2015
- This guide will show you how to copy roms to your RetroPie installation without needing a network connection. I used RetroPie 3 beta 4.
This will use a standard USB thumb drive.
More information here:
github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-... - เกม
For whatever reason I couldn't get my raspberry pi to connect to my network and was struggling to transfer my roms....but now it is working great thanks to a USB thumb drive and this video!! Thank you very much for taking the time to explain this.
This, in conjunction with the wiki, was incredibly useful and helpful. Thanks a lot!
Thank you this was really helpful. I've had a nightmare trying to connect my laptop to the RP, this has helped tenfold.
Good to know you have this option. Thanks for all the great videos.
Sean McHugh Thanks for your comment :) It should help out those who cant get their Pi networked.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that goku gave cell a senzu bean.
Less waffle more instruction! Thanks though, was informative. :)
Thanks - very helpful to me being as I am a newbie to retro-pi and rasp pi! Thank you!
excellent how-to. thank you very much
Awesome Video thanks man
Great video thanks for your help..
Very useful and simple - thanks!
awesome vid thanks man helped alot
worked great! thank you!
I had an old Pi 0 with no wifi. This got it working.
thank you so much for this.
Thanks for help !
great video.
Thanks! My USB stick didn't have the "retropie" folder in root, so the PI was not creating the directory structure. The other tutorial neglected to mention that step (surprise surprise.)
+Steve Capone yes you can! This is particularly useful if you have a smaller USB stick that cannot hold your entire ROM set, you can do them in batches. since the pi doesn't really indicate whether or not there is file transfer going on, it helps to have a USB stick within led to show file activity. If you don't have that, just leave the stick inserted for several minutes. you will probably need to restart emulationstation after the file transfer is complete to show the new ROMs that have been copied over.
+Steve Capone that I'm not sure about. I use a PS2 controller, but I have it plugged into a USB port. I just purchased a wireless wi-fi USB dongle to use with the Raspberry Pi 2, and it worked flawlessly. I just plugged it in, and the system recognized it by default. so I have Wi-Fi capability on my pi, but I unfortunately do not have a wireless game controller to test it with come out so I can't answer that. I'm sure if there's a will there's a way however. Good luck on that!
I don't get the ROMs folder. On boot it says something like "FAILED usbmount". :(
me to :/
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Thanks so much for your help Floob! I have a question about transferring PSX ROMS. Should I transfer the folders containing the ROMS and .Cue files, or just the ROMS [.Bin Files] themselves? I don't want to confuse Retropie.
+F1000X Hi. Its best to transfer the .bin and .cue if it has multiple tracks in the disc.
Check out my PSX video for some more details th-cam.com/video/a7JtysTXaAU/w-d-xo.html
Can you add artwork and game descriptions via this method? I'm trying to figure out the best way to add artwork and descriptions for titles that cannot be scraped.
I did this with a USB drive that I lost. Is there a way I can use a new one? My pi doesn't seem to trust my replacement or any other. Thanks much!
Can retropie support nested folders under the respective system folders? If i wanted to separate all the roms alphabetically into folders will they still be read properly?
This seems to doesn't work on me. I am doing the process, but the files are not transferred to from the flash to SD card. Any idea?
is it possible to have the retropie os on a flashdrive, my 32 gig sd card isnt big enough for some reason
Can't I simply drag and drop the ROMs from my PC onto the SD Card when it is inserted into my PC in the correct folder for the ROMs?
you simply can't navigate to the roms folders, because you only can access the boot partition of the sd card. the system partition is not readable for a PC
MusicDiscoveryNet | MDN If you use linux, then yes. It will show up as retropie. If you use Windows, it will not read the retropie partition. Not sure about Mac.
I'll agree with Vladimir Vlad, because I'm still new and writing code or does seems like Linux might be better with stuff with that, but simple stuff like drag and drop files would be easier with Mac and PC and a thumb drive, like I said still new and my thumb drive got formatted and I'm having trouble get the flash drive to work again.
Does this copy from USB stick to sd card on the pi? Also are you concern about privacy if using a network? to transfer roms?
I dont know from where you copied the couple of files that you placed on the megadrive. ...
Excellent! :)
José Miranda Thanks Jose! :)
Nothing gets uploaded to my USB when I plug it into the pie (after following all of the steps). I am dual booting, maybe this is the problem?
Did you was drunk?
Thanks!
What format does the usb drive need to be in order for the retropi to copy the folders?
I used MS-DOS FAT when formatting this on my Mac using the Disk Utility app and it worked great.
Ur a lifesaver :D
so I have tried this several times, and I only get about 30 folders under /retropie/roms/ on my flash drive... any ideas?
This was really helpful. Thank you very much. Can I copy bios (GBA roms wont run) using a USB stick as well? I'm using Retropie/Kodi combo v8 by "Smithers", if that means anything =)
+Kykk Mollberg Nvm, I quickly learned everything there is to know about Linux commands and solved it.
For anyone else with same problem:
Hit F4 to get to Terminal.
cd /media/usb
sudo cp gba_bios.bin /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS
It is possible to only read (run) those roms on a external drive? Well, to free some extra space on the mini SD card. If you know what i mean.
+Kyo Saeba Yep - that should work if you mount the disk. michael.otacoo.com/linux-2/mount-physical-disks-in-linux/
Floob
Thanks for the tip. ^^
wait i don't understand do need to put the roms in the right folder's ? or does retropie do that for you ?
RetroPie will create the folder structure on the USB stick for you
Yo man , thanks for the guide but i'm running into a problem. the first time i put ROMS on my usb it detected them all withouth a problem. now the 2nd time i added some games only the bios of my ps1 shows up and some extra snes games. all the rest that was added has been left out and unfindable. old roms still work and show up
when i try to copy roms to the folders, it says it stopped working and restarts. please help
How did you get to the terminal? My pi boots to the emulator selection screen
Press start to go to
Main Menu > Quit > Quit Emulationstation
how do you get back into emulationstation when the by boots up to the black screen that you have there? I'm on my 7th attempt, I'm using RPi3B+ MBv6, everything was working until I added 1 psx game& 'force performance'. It went straight to the boot screen & I couldnt get back into ES. Anybody have an easy solution?
Michael Rulentlez try typing “emulationstation”
@@keylime4427 tried that, didn't work, so I just reimaged it. I had no clue how to get out of ssh shell, and back into emulationstation
this is kinda a dumb question but do you need both a micro sd card and a usb thumb drive to do this? or can you just install emulation station and all the roms on the thumb drive?
+123hellstorm You would need an SD card to boot the Pi in the first place, I dont think you can only have a USB drive.
thanks for the help. so could I get away with getting say a 8 gb micro sd card for the boot and emulation station and then get like a 64 gb thumb drive for the roms? if you could let me know I would appreciate it.
+123hellstorm Yes, although 4GB for the boot should be fine. Or you could just get a 128GB for the boot and be done with :)
can I copy the bios the same way?
could you have more than one usb drive?
where did you get the games?
Couple of questions I have filled my USB flash drive with about 7gb of Roms all in their correct folders, I've plugged into EmuStation I have no LED on this flash drive, how do I tell it's safe to unplug ! i.e. all Roms are copied ! I don't want to press f4 to refresh just yet, also are the files copied or moved from my flash drive, i may want to do this again on anther pi ! Thanks
i have no idea, either. There really needs to be some kind of on-screen notification that lets you know, or at least a way to figure out, for those with USB sticks with no light.
Actually, I think that if you look at the green light on the Pi itself, you'll see that there's no activity. Then, plug the USB stick in, and you should see the green light turn on, or at least blink (mostly on). As soon as activity stops or goes back to how it was before you plugged the stick in, you should be good.
Although I can't account for if there's background programs making use of the "hard drive" on the Pi.
I was able to move all my SNES roms over but they disappeared after awhile I don't know why
Nice video but I think the info could have been conveyed in 4-5 minutes. I cut it almost down to that by playing it at 2x speed anyway.
All my videos are waffly. To get to the point you are better off with checking out the Wiki instead:
github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms
What about MAME? Don't you have to keep them zipped or something? i can't get any MAME or NEOGEO to work.
Hi good video on retropie any update videos on retropie 4.2 add roms etc setup of roms usb or down over wifi
Don't suppose you can give me a hand. Or anyone for that matter. Did everything step by step you suggested in the video, however no emulators show up. It remains "RetroPie - 13 Games Available". Ideas? Where did I go wrong.
Many thanks in advance.
So how do I get to the games I've transfered onto it?
i have a usb-stick with 10gb of roms. i was too impatient and unplugged it too early. now i have only two emulators with some games. can i just plug it in again and retropie will continue copying the rest? and another (possibly very stupid) question: is retropie copying the games on to the sd-card?
+Khoa Le Hi. Yes, I think that it should continue with the copy job. Yes thats right the process copies the roms to the SD card, so you need to have enough space on the card.
+Floob you are awesome for doing all this and helping so fast. god bless you :)
+Floob it´s still so strange. i wiped the raspberry and the usb-stick. reinstalled retropie on the raspberry and copied the roms to usb-stick. on the raspberry i extended the space to the sd-card. i put the usb-stick into the raspberry and left it overnight, hoping that it would copy the whole 10gb of games to the raspberry. but it only copied about 2gb (actually two emulators with games). what am i doing wrong?
+Khoa Le How big is your card? If you type "df -h" does it show it has at least 10GB free? Try copying one directory of roms across at a time to see where it fails.
+Floob its a 16gb card. i tried everything, even folder by folder. nothing worked. now i did it via FTP and it worked like a charm. anyway, thank you so much for your help.
The roms are getting copyied to the SD card? So the SD card sizer matters right?
+Caroline Cussiol Yes - usually a 32GB should cover most bases.
Here’s a quick video. Yeah.
I copy the roms over and put my USB into the pi and follow the steps and the games show up in the megadrive file but when i run emulation station for some reason the games don`t show up. Is it because they are exe files
Yes because .exe files are for Windows.
roms shouldn't have the extension .exe The only thing I can think of is that those .exe files are actually emulators with a self contained rom(s). I know Sega used Kgen for one of their old compilations.
I have a question and hopefully I don't sound like a complete idiot, but can I put my emulators on the rasberry only and have the games only on a usb thumb drive and use that way? Basically I want the thumb drive to act like a game cartridge and the Pi as a console so to speak.
+Bo88y Beretta Yes that should work - although with 128GB micro SD cards, it should have a similar effect. You would want to Google for "mount usb retropie"
Ok thank you for the info, I really appreciate it.
do you need to use a keyboard every time you do this?
+chompy101 No, I'm just doing it to show the process, just using the USB stick should work.
even if you play games ,sometimes you need use keyboard
hey man what is 2 letters before retropie-setup i cant see it clearly
+Riley Its cd for change directory.
Thanks man
I used this method with Super mario bros 3 and I copied it to the n64 folder but the emulator still wont show up when I start it. Any ideas on what is wrong?
+Chris Goodrich Did it have the right extension?
github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Nintendo-64
+Chris Goodrich SMB 3 is a NES game. it needs to be put into the nes folder. only N64 games will go into the n64 folder.
this dosne not work. I am trying in every command i see and non of it works. it must be out of date, using rasberry pi 4
when i make a folder on my USB called retropie and pluck the USB into my RPi, it makes the rom folder outside the retropie folder. I tried to put the rom folder into therertopir but then i made another rom folder (still outside the retropie) pelase help
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+Kasper Bjarke Larson Does this help you?
github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/How-to-get-ROMs-on-the-SD-card
i found out.
i was running a outdated version of RetroPie.
thanks anyways
its not working on any of my usb drives...
do you need to do anything to them first
+Thomas Whitehouse its not creating the directory on my usb and i did make a retropie file and made sure it enabled on the rasperrypie
+Thomas Whitehouse The USB drive MUST be FAT32 on the file system, It will not recognize an NTFS stick.
I was happy to see a big list of games in the Nintendo page after copying them all, but none of the roms work. Haha.
I just realized when I copied there were duplicates - some beginning with underscores, and the ones that didn't begin with underscores do work. I just needed to scroll down to get to them.
im guessing this is changed since Jun 20, 2015 when this was posted...
Yes but its still works perfectley.....almost.
i followed all the steps but i cant find them in emulation station
+riley evans same
For some reason it's not creating anything on my USB. Do you think you could help?
x6z That happened to me as well. Try a different USB stick. Or if you post up on the RetroPie forums I'm sure others will help as well.
+x6z Happened to me today, USB stick had NTFS file system, I tried format it to FAT32 file system and it worked for me. Remark: Using Retro Pie 3.0 on RPi2, first I created folder "retropie" (without quotes) on root of flash drive as mentioned in tutorials.
+mrsmashcz Thanks for the tip!
+mrsmashcz Thanks, couldn't figure out why my usb stick wouldn't work until I saw this comment
got problems with my USB key ! and need help ....
first I instal retropie as they suggest (retropie.org.uk/download) and start read the "first installation"
I choose the right version of retropie ( I own a raspberry pi 3, the last one)
the file was in .img and instal on my microSD with etcher and them boot it up into my raspberrypi
I update my raspberry pi and instal/update packages (it said version: 4.3.8) and set the "usbromservice" to enable
them I put my USB key into the pie (with the new file "retropie" inside), wait until the little green light stop blinking them remove my USB key
From there, problems start ... when I plug the USB key back into my laptop (MacBook Pro) it said : "UNTITLED" can not be opened because the original element can not be found. And I can't open my USB key anymore. I can't even format it...
On the pie, I only update it, update package and do basic instal ... that it ... Of course as I said, I previously put my USB key one time into the pie with the "retropie" file ...
So my question: why my USB key doesn't work anymore? and why I can't have access to my key? and add the "roms" file inside the "retropie" file?
nothing in the retropie folder :(
This was eventually useful but the organization is all out of whack. This would have been much more useful if you'd started with "put your roms in a folder called retropie and then plug them into your raspberry" and *then* gone into how to enable USB transfers in Retropie if it's not working and all the other details.
what if you want to run roms off USB?
You need to use external USB,HDD,Powersource!
it won't let me select the USB ROM Service. any help? 3:13
+Kasper Bjarke Larson Do you mean that option isnt there for you?
no, the "USB ROM Service" button is there, but when i press enter on it, the screen flicks for a moment and then nothing happens
+Floob please help D:
how do i copy bios files?
+phizzler5051 BIOS files go into the BIOS folder under /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS
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sorry but im a total noob. how do i get into the derectory thing?
f4
:)
At around 3:58 cd and what?
+Survive the outdoors STO Thats a tilde sign. ~ Its on the hash key on a UK keyboard, it just means "go back to the home directory" Its the same as "cd /home/pi"
+Floob so can I type cd /home/pi?
+Survive the outdoors STO Yes, that would do the same thing.
+Floob thx!
is actualy done on a pi it looks like a pi emulator.
It hurts me how hard you smack on your keyboard keys.
What's wrong with scp? ;-) It is unix based afterall!
+Adam Bull The most common reason to use USB transfer is if you have no means of networking the Pi.
What!?
You could have made your point in 1 minute and yet you kept blabbering about stuff that isn't about "copying roms using usb" and waste everyone's time. Really.. This video could have been just 1 minute.
+Cagan Celik All my videos are me blabbering :) I do it so everyone can pick it up. If you have basic PC knowledge already you are better off at the wiki here:
github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/How-to-get-ROMs-on-the-SD-card
+Cagan Celik And then he would need to answer 100 questions in the comments, when people have missed something or just didn't understand or messed up something accidentally. RetroPie forum and TH-cam comments are full of those threads, where someone tutors very vaguely and then the thread is full of "why doesn't this work?! PLZ HALP!!!" Better do it properly and teach people what the f**k they're actually doing so they don't end up having more problems than help from the tutorial.
+Floob Keep up the good work! You're doing these tutorials just like they should be done: explaining what one is actually doing. If some people don't have 12 minutes to spend, that's their loss. :) To be frank: in that case they shouldn't be using RPi, or any Linux based system, to begin with. :P
+jarkokoo Thanks for the support :)
+Cagan Celik some people are so damn ungrateful...
Why on earth is this a 13 minute video?
omfg when does he actually talk about copying roms?