Cant upload roms
  • I seem to be having a problem uploading my roms. I have tried the front end loader, going through my pi desktop, file explorer and even ftp. I have tried filezilla and classic ftp and both keep giving me errors. I tried to change my folders to "777" through both programs and most folders would change but then i still seemed to get an error with each folder. When i try to transfer them on the raspberry pi desktop it tells me that i don't have permission and i try to change that and it still doesn't work. nothing seems to work for me to transfer my roms. Ive tried different roms and none work. Really have been trying to get metal slug to work but even nes roms won't work. I have been able to get them to work when using the retropie image. For some reason when it comes to adding them to my emulators in pimame they won't transfer. Any help would be appreciated.
  • Had the same problem here today (Raspberry Pi as Christmas gift - yay!). The issue seems to be that the PiMame installer script sets everything as owned by "root", whereas the instructions for transferring the ROM files have you logging in as "pi".

    To fix things, try the following commands to set the PiMame folders to be owned by the "pi" account instead:

    sudo chown -R pi:pi emulators/
    sudo chown -R pi:pi roms/
  • did you use the sd card image or the installer?
  • This happened with the installer on a fresh Raspbian setup.
  • i had originally used the sd card image of retropie then used the installer for pimame. I changed a folder to pi from root and that seemed to work. now in my neo-geo emulator i have the list of rome in red and one that i sent thats in yellow. Now my problem is how do i run it? how do i get that one to work? the roms in my nes folder work good its just my neo-geo that aren't working.
  • Thank you so much clocky! Those 2 commands fixed it.
  • @clocky, thank you! I spent some time trying to figure that out

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