On your Windows machine, open the file manager.Ģ. ROM transfer times will vary greatly depending on your connection (Ethernet being the preference) and the amount of ROMs and their size.ġ. Adding Games via SMB (Samba)Īdding games via a network share is a convenient and laughably simple task thanks to RetroPie automatically configuring an SMB (Samba) share. The games list will now update and show the available computers / consoles for which there are now games. When complete, remove the USB flash drive and press START and from the menu select Restart Emulationstation / Restart System. This could take minutes for a few games, or hours if transferring a large amount.Ħ. The time that this will take depends on how many games are transferred over. Eject the flash drive from your computer and place it back into a USB port of the Raspberry Pi 4. For example, put atari 2600 games in the /atari2600 folder.ĥ. Copy your games to the correct system / console folder in retropie/roms/.
