Transferring Roms
Due to the nature/complexity of Copyright/Intellectual Property Rights Law, which differs significantly from Country to Country, ROMs cannot be provided with RetroPie and must be provided by the user. You should only have ROMs of games that you own.
There are three main methods of transferring roms:
USB
- (ensure that your USB is formatted to FAT32 or NTFS)
- first create a folder called
retropie
on your USB stick - plug it into the pi and wait for it to finish blinking
- pull the USB out and plug it into a computer
- add the roms to their respective folders (in the
retropie/roms
folder) - plug it back into the raspberry pi
- wait for it to finish blinking
- refresh emulationstation by choosing restart emulationstation from the start menu
see this video for reference:
SFTP (needs an active internet connection)
- Wired (needs ethernet cable)
- Wireless (needs wifi dongle) There are many SFTP programs out there, for windows many people use WinSCP for mac you can use something like Cyberduck
Default username: pi
Default Password: raspberry
You can also log in as root if you wish to change more files than just the roms, but you first need to enable the root password which is explained here
Samba-Shares (needs an active internet connection)
- if on windows type
\\retropie
into the computer folder. You can also replaceretropie
with your Raspberry Pi's IP address
- if on MAC OS X open finder, select "Go" menu and "Connect to Server". Type
smb://retropie
and hit "Connect".