roms and all in one board programming

[tlxxxsracer]

This will be my first rasphberry pi project and this is my first thread on this community.
I'm gathering all the parts right now and have read and watched wermy's guides.

Im trying to figure out how to not only program the all in one PCB board for the controls.. but once I get retropi on a microSD card, how to put roms on it.
I'm planning on making my gameboy zero as minimal as possible and keep it neat and tidy as possible. I dont plan on utilizing the USB hub.
So without the usb hub, how would i put roms on? Is there a writeup or video i can see for the programming of the PCB for the controls? Im not going to be using the teensy as the all in one board from helder
Sorry for a noob questions

[ChunkeeMunkee]

Even if you're not looking to have an internal hub set up to add additional permanent hardware, I'd still encourage you to wire up the Pi Zero's USB pads to an external port. That way you have a few options available:

• USB: You can insert a USB flash drive, and Retropie will format it and add folders for ROMs for the installed emulators. Then you just need to drag and drop the ROM files into these folders on a computer.
  
  WiFi: Through a wireless dongle you can FTP the ROMs over your home network.
  
  Bluetooth: Similarly, you could potentially send files across via an ad-hoc Bluetooth connection, from a computer or even a phone.

Sorry for the vagueness, I'm unsure of the details myself, but these methods could be really useful to you. Without at least one USB port available you're really going to struggle to get ROMs onto your GBZ.

[LimberEight]

Check out RetroPie's help page on transferring ROMs

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-se ... rring-Roms

It explains how to do it with USB, SFTP or Samba.

As for programming the PCB, sorry, can't help you there, but I think it may come pre-programmed.

[tlxxxsracer]

Even if you're not looking to have an internal hub set up to add additional permanent hardware, I'd still encourage you to wire up the Pi Zero's USB pads to an external port. That way you have a few options available:

• USB: You can insert a USB flash drive, and Retropie will format it and add folders for ROMs for the installed emulators. Then you just need to drag and drop the ROM files into these folders on a computer.
  
  WiFi: Through a wireless dongle you can FTP the ROMs over your home network.
  
  Bluetooth: Similarly, you could potentially send files across via an ad-hoc Bluetooth connection, from a computer or even a phone.

Sorry for the vagueness, I'm unsure of the details myself, but these methods could be really useful to you. Without at least one USB port available you're really going to struggle to get ROMs onto your GBZ.

Thanks that explains enough. As much as I wanted to keep the DMG clean of extra "non DMG" ports, i guess I will in order to have easy transfers and such.
Wish the zero had the push in micro-sd port like on the other models. Seems it would make it easier to access the micro SD slot if mounted where a cartridge would go

[ChunkeeMunkee]

If you're going for the pure DMG aesthetic, why not hide the USB port in the battery compartment?

[Helder]

My board comes preprogrammed you don't need to do anything except configure Retropie for PWM audio and power the board through the powerboost or similar device. Read the Wiki on the main page.