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NULL mag Issue 05 23 ROMS!... need ROMS!
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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...
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