I want to store the ROM on an external hard drive

lyon00

I want to store the ROM in an external hard disk. How do I operate to define the rom for reading the external hard disk.

GameCast

just choose the mentioned external HDD on batocera system devices , restart and it will boot on the new HDD .. shut pc down, enter on windows go to the mentioned HDD and you find a recalbox folder, just replace there the bios files and roms for the systems . boot batocera again and roms will show .

lyon00

GameCast You are talking about installing the system to a mobile hard disk，I think the system is installed on the hard disk of the computer, the rom is placed on the mobile hard disk, the game package is separated from the batodera system, and the system definition reads the rom on the mobile hard disk to use.

GameCast

lyon00 i talk about if you want use an external HDD you need make some small config and that small config will create a folder of recalbox on that external HDD .. that is all automaticly wen you choose that HDD on batocera to use intead your actualy HDD .

lyon00

GameCast That is, I need to install the system on the mobile hard disk. When I start the system with another hard disk, I will read the ROM of the other hard disk. It does not mean this. Or if there is no video teaching, I still don't quite understand.

GameCast

lyon00 you just wanna store the ROMs in an external hard disk right ??
no mather wo you have the boot instaled , you are able to choose another hard disk for roms storage only and that would not change the boot configs .. just choose the hdd on batocera system ..

lyon00

GameCast yes! I just wanna store the ROMs in an external hard disk .I want a detailed tutorial, do you have video tutorials?

GameCast

lyon00 very easy i explained to you before .. just boot batocera from usb, and enter on the system option and choose that external storage .. after that launch windows and replace the bios and roms folders from the old partition to the new one ..

bello

This is not what @lyon00 asking.
How is it possible to integrate an EXISTING SHARE/ROM FOLDER WITH FILES in Batocera?
But this must happen without deleting existing files on this path.
I will use a NAS therefore.

GameCast

bello @lyon00 wrote I want to store the ROM in an external hard disk.
is only a way out to store roms on an external hard disk , is change the hard disk on batocera system config . if he choose another Hard disk for storage , the previows will not run.. for now so long i know is not posible to pair 2 HDD´s or share folders for roms on diferents Hard drives .

lyon00

bello Use a NAS therefore will be good ？

lyon00

GameCast Store games on a nas
Instead of using the internal storage or an external usb key to store your data (games, saves, configuration, …) you can use a nas (network area storage) which can be a real nas, a computer or an internet box if is supports it.

Configurable items
The file to configure is present on the boot partition of the batocera. You can edit it from any computer ; it is at the root of the system and is called recalbox-boot.conf.

There are 4 things that you can map to your nas :

the whole user data directory called SHARE
only the roms directory called ROMS
only the bios directory called BIOS
only the saves directory called SAVES
or a combination of the 3 last one
Samba/Windows shares
Windows shares can use identification or a guest account to connect.

Examples of content of the file recalbox-boot.conf :

In these examples, the Windows share is called Documents and recalbox is a directory inside this share.

the whole user data directory on the nas
sharedevice=NETWORK
sharenetwork_smb1=SHARE@192.168.0.1😃ocuments/recalbox:guest
only the roms on the nas
sharedevice=NETWORK
sharenetwork_smb1=ROMS@192.168.0.1😃ocuments/recalbox/roms:guest
only the roms on the nas with an identification
sharedevice=NETWORK
sharenetwork_smb1=ROMS@192.168.0.1😃ocuments/recalbox/roms:username=john,password=wayne
roms, saves and bios on the nas
sharedevice=NETWORK
sharenetwork_smb1=ROMS@192.168.0.1😃ocuments/recalbox/roms:guest
sharenetwork_smb2=SAVES@192.168.0.1😃ocuments/recalbox/saves:guest
sharenetwork_smb3=BIOS@192.168.0.1😃ocuments/recalbox/bios:guest
NFS shares
Examples of content of the file recalbox-boot.conf :

the whole user data directory on the nas
sharedevice=NETWORK
sharenetwork_nfs1=ROMS@192.168.0.1:/mnt/Documents/recalbox
only the roms on the nas
sharedevice=NETWORK
sharenetwork_nfs1=ROMS@192.168.0.1:/mnt/Documents/recalbox/roms
roms, saves and bios on the nas
sharedevice=NETWORK
sharenetwork_nfs1=ROMS@192.168.0.1:/mnt/Documents/recalbox/roms
sharenetwork_nfs2=SAVES@192.168.0.1:/mnt/Documents/recalbox/saves
sharenetwork_nfs3=BIOS@192.168.0.1:/mnt/Documents/recalbox/bios

maioni

Is there a way to use this EXTERNAL DEVICE with all my roms and BIOS and use it into difference BATOCERA SYSTEMS?
I want to share a same EXTERNAL HD with my Batocera for RpasberryPi4, and for my Batocera X64. Is it possible?