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UPDATE: Relocating the home folder to a USB flash drive is a much better option. \u00a0Found that folders don’t ln -s very nicely. \u00a0Editing fstab and referencing the drive by UUID is the more elegant solution. \u00a0Added bonus, can power down, plug into a PC and update the games more easily.<\/p>\n
I’ve been playing with RetroPie this weekend on a Raspberry Pi 3.\u00a0 Using iBuffalo controllers I purchased from Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 The micro SD card I am using is only 8GB, however all the guides I’ve seen list a difficult method for installing games to an external USB drive.\u00a0 RetroPie simply runs a Linux distribution, and as such has access to all types of fun file tools.\u00a0 In this case, the easiest one I’ve found is to use symbolic links to the external drive.\u00a0 This takes a little bit of work setting up ssh access and some command line kung-fu, but it is basic stuff.\u00a0 Retropie expects to find the files for each system in ~\/RetroPie\/roms\/{systemname}.\u00a0 By default the first external drive is mounted at \/media\/usb0\/.\u00a0 If we take this information we can “ln -s \/media\/usb0\/{systemname}\/* ~\/RetroPie\/roms\/{systemname}\/”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As far as the operating system is concerned, it will check the default folder and treat the files as if they were where they belonged.\u00a0\u00a0 All my games are already sorted by system so I just have to link each file to the default folders.<\/p>\n Added bonus, it’s also possible to install Kodi in RetroPie, making this an all in one system for retro gaming and media playback.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UPDATE: Relocating the home folder to a USB flash drive is a much better option. \u00a0Found that folders don’t ln -s very nicely. \u00a0Editing fstab and referencing the drive by UUID is the more elegant solution. \u00a0Added bonus, can power down, plug into a PC and update the games more easily. I’ve been playing … Continue reading RetroPIe!<\/span>