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re: Building my first NES classic with Raspberry Pi 3
Posted on 12/5/17 at 6:12 pm to DieDaily
Posted on 12/5/17 at 6:12 pm to DieDaily
Thanks for the info. So I'll just download retropie. I've been watching videos on how to get the roms. It seems like you just put the file in the appropriate folder on the sd card, is that not right?
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Posted on 12/5/17 at 6:23 pm to Broham
quote:That is correct. If you want to have stuff like box art and other meta data (release date, developer, synopsis, etc.) then you'll need to perform a metadata scan of your roms. I can't give advice on how to do that because the method is certainly different than it was when I setup my current Raspberry Pi. However, you should have no problem finding videos on Youtube explaining the best, current method for that.
It seems like you just put the file in the appropriate folder on the sd card, is that not right?
Posted on 12/5/17 at 6:35 pm to Broham
You really don't have to touch the SD card. Once it's formated and retropie is correctly installed on it, you don't have to take it out of the RP3 again. You can transfer ROMs to it remotely over your wifi.
After setting everything up, connecting to your tv and turning on for the first time with the formatted SD card in, the first thing you should do is connect the RP3 to your wifi
Then get on your computer and go to your network settings to find everything connected to your network. You should see "retropie". Click on it and all of the emulator folders will be there. Then DL game ROMs to your computer and copy the file to the appropriate emulator folder there. It'll transfer your ROMs wirelessly over to the SD card that is still plugged into your RP3 that's connected to your tv. When you restart your RP3, your games will now be loaded onto it and play away.
You CAN take out your SD from the RP3 and plug it into your computer and drag the roms to each emulator that's now installed on the SD card. Then plug the SD card back into the RP3 afterwards and restart. But doing it over WiFi is quicker as you don't have to keep taking your SD card in & out to install new games.
After setting everything up, connecting to your tv and turning on for the first time with the formatted SD card in, the first thing you should do is connect the RP3 to your wifi
Then get on your computer and go to your network settings to find everything connected to your network. You should see "retropie". Click on it and all of the emulator folders will be there. Then DL game ROMs to your computer and copy the file to the appropriate emulator folder there. It'll transfer your ROMs wirelessly over to the SD card that is still plugged into your RP3 that's connected to your tv. When you restart your RP3, your games will now be loaded onto it and play away.
You CAN take out your SD from the RP3 and plug it into your computer and drag the roms to each emulator that's now installed on the SD card. Then plug the SD card back into the RP3 afterwards and restart. But doing it over WiFi is quicker as you don't have to keep taking your SD card in & out to install new games.
This post was edited on 12/5/17 at 6:44 pm
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