Make a SD card for importing roms
- ODROID-GO supports only FAT file system.
- The Emulator supports
- Game Boy (GB)
- Game Boy Color (GBC)
- Game Gear (GG)
- Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
- Sega Master System (SMS)
- ColecoVision (COL)
Format as FAT
Insert a SD card to the system before proceed with.
Windows
Open a This PC window and click mouse right button on the SD card, then click format.
Select options referring to the screenshot below, and make sure that FAT32 is selected for the File system.
Linux
Press shortcut ALT+CTRL+T to open a Terminal window.
Find out the device file name for inserted media.
- host
joshua@joshua-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l ... Disk /dev/sdc: 7.4 GiB, 7948206080 bytes, 15523840 sectors 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: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 2048 15523839 15521792 7.4G 83 Linux
In my case, /dev/sdc is that name.
Unmount the partitions for the SD card.
- host
joshua@joshua-desktop:~$ sudo umount /dev/sdc?
Enter the following command to format as FAT.
- host
joshua@joshua-desktop:~$ sudo mkfs.fat /dev/sdc1 mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
Eject and insert again the SD card.
And Enter the command below to check if the SD card is mounted well and the partition is FAT.
- host
joshua@joshua-desktop:~$ df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... /dev/sdc1 vfat 7.4G 4.0K 7.4G 1% /media/joshua/3B5E-B96C
Download the skeleton files and move them
Download Skeleton file
Uncompress and you can see 2 directories, odroid and roms.
Move your games
- Move the games to the proper directory under the /roms directory of the SD card.
- Generally, the name of the target directory is the abbreviation of the system.
- e.g. If you have some Sega Master System games, move it to /roms/sms directory.
Move the games to the proper location of the SD card.
- Additional ROMs can be added to the appropriate folder in /roms:
- nes - Nintendo Entertainment System
- gb - Nintento GameBoy
- gbc - Nintendo GameBoy Color
- sms - Sega Master System
- gg - Sega Game Gear
- col - ColecoVison
- ROM files must be decompressed (unzipped) and have the same extension as the folder in which they are placed.