Where Are Arcade Games Settings Stored?

[ConkerKing]

good evening,

i hope someone can help me out.
Please let me know where exactly all the dip, video, Joystick etc. settings for each Arcade Core/Game is the info saved or stored? i have done update all and now ALL my specific settings for each game are gone ....and now i must do every setting from hand again

...I have an older Backup from the SD Card, but i dont want to screw up more, and want to prevent such a mess in the future

Thanks in advance

Greetings

[jca]

Check /media/fat/config.

[ConkerKing]

Thank you, i try there.

Cheerz

[lloydsmart]

Sorry to necro-post, but is there a way to make these arcade settings, especially high-scores, be stored on an SMB share e.g. RetroNAS? The idea being that high-scores and settings would be a) backed up, and b) accessible from multiple MiSTers?

Thanks

[Kevh182]

Sorry to necro-post, but is there a way to make these arcade settings, especially high-scores, be stored on an SMB share e.g. RetroNAS? The idea being that high-scores and settings would be a) backed up, and b) accessible from multiple MiSTers?

Thanks

I was just tinkering with this recently. Using the cifs_mount.sh script, I am able to mount the "nvram" folder and "dips" folders that live inside the "config" folder to my NAS.

Do not mount the entire "config" folder to your NAS with "cifs_mount.sh", this will cause some strange behavior with your MiSTer not being able to load it's config files properly.

Use the following config for "cifs_mount.sh" at your own risk:

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SINGLE_CIFS_CONNECTION="true"
LOCAL_DIR="config/nvram|config/dips"

You may have to create the "config/nvram" folder and "config/dips" folder inside your MiSTer SMB share.

This is how I have my "cifs_mount.sh" script configured to share data between my two MiSTers:

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LOCAL_DIR="games|saves|savestates|screenshots|config/nvram|config/dips"

There are some additional arcade .cfg files that cannot be mounted to a NAS because they live inside the root of the "config" folder. The MiSTer devs would have to re-organize the config folder to make this happen.