__ _ __ _ _ __ ______\ \_\\_______________________\///__________________________//_/ /______ \___\ /___/ | .__ __ | | | ___ __________/ |________ | | \ \/ / ____/\ __\_ __ \ | ; > < <_| | | | | | \/ ; : /__/\_ \__ | |__| |__| : . \/ |__| . . . : H/Q Another Droid BBS - andr01d.zapto.org:9999 : ; ; + --- -- - . - --- --- --- - . - -- --- + : : | ROMS... need ROMS... | : : ` --- -- - . - --- --- --- - . - -- --- ' In some point, i am sure you have searched for rom files in the net. You used google, find some sites, go to some big lists, clicked the links, got 100+ adds, waited for 15secs to get the link, managed to download the rom and when you launched the emulator, you find out, that is not running or it needs a bios image etc. etc. etc. Isn't that frustrating enough? What if i told you that there is another way, easier? Wanna know? OK... make a donation at https://paypal.me/xqtr come back, click the adds, wait for 15 secs.... nahh... i am joking... The solution is not very simple, but not difficult also. You'll have to download a torrent file and in that file you'll get a bunch of roms, bios images, screenshots for the games and more. There is a group of Raspberry Pi enthusiasts who use RPis with Retropie to play games. They build a site and also build RPi images with RetroPie containing thousands of games! All well picked and organized! So, go here: https://www.arcadepunks.com/retro-pi-downloads-page/ Find the image file, you thing it suits you and download it, after that you have two choices. Use the image as it is in a RPi or you can open the image file and copy the content for use in your pc. I am not gonna tell you how to burn an .img in a sdcard, but i will tell you how to open the .img to your pc and copy the files... In a terminal write this command: fdisk -l /path/to/image/file.img You'll get a response like this: Disk xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.img: 14,9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sec Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xf2d3cb4f Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type ./DZ MiniPie Turbo 16GB.img1 * 8192 124927 116736 57M e W95 ./DZ MiniPie Turbo 16GB.img2 124928 30375935 30251008 14,4G 83 Linux There are two partitions in this disk/image file, as it should be. We don't care about the first one. The second one has the goodies. To mount this partition we first create a folder in our system, where we will mount the image. For example: sudo mkdir /media/user/rpi_image Also make you as the owner of the folder with: sudo chown user:user /media/user/rpi_image The problem is that the .img files are not images of a partition, but of a whole disk. That means they start with a bootloader and a partition table. You have to find out the offset of the partition and mount it with the offset option of mount. To do this we multiply the Sector Size, in this case is 512, with the partition Start position, which is 124928. 512 x 124928 = 63963136 <--- this is the offset To mount the specific partion we give this, in the terminal: sudo mount -o loop,offset=63963136 file.img /media/user/rpi_image Check your file manager ;) Navigate into the RetroPie directory and you will find all roms and bios images, gathered and organized! Have a nice time... + --- -- - . - --- --- --- - . - -- --- ' _____ _ _ ____ _ _ | _ |___ ___| |_| |_ ___ ___ | \ ___ ___|_|_| | 8888 | | | . | _| | -_| _| | | | _| . | | . | 8 888888 8 |__|__|_|_|___|_| |_|_|___|_| |____/|_| |___|_|___| 8888888888 8888888888 DoNt Be aNoTHeR DrOiD fOR tHe SySteM 88 8888 88 8888888888 /: HaM RaDiO /: ANSi ARt! /: MySTiC MoDS /: DooRS '88||||88' /: NeWS /: WeATheR /: FiLEs /: SPooKNet ''8888"' /: GaMeS /: TeXtFiLeS /: PrEPardNeSS /: FsxNet 88 /: TuTors /: bOOkS/PdFs /: SuRVaViLiSM /: ArakNet 8 8 88888888888 888 8888][][][888 TeLNeT : andr01d.zapto.org:9999 [UTC 11:00 - 20:00] 8 888888##88888 SySoP : xqtr eMAiL: xqtr@gmx.com 8 8888.####.888 DoNaTe : https://paypal.me/xqtr 8 8888##88##888 .