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Accessing Your Files

Everything NX Redux uses (ROMs, saves, BIOS files, artwork, music and videos) lives on the SD card. You can reach it two ways:

Way How it works
Over Wi-Fi with SFTP Browse and copy files from your computer while the SD card stays in the device
With a card reader Power the device off, take the SD card out and open it on your computer

Over Wi-Fi (SFTP)

  1. Connect the device to Wi-Fi (Settings → Network).

  2. Turn on Settings → Developer → Enable SSH / SFTP. The hint under the toggle shows the device's IP address and login, e.g. root@192.168.1.8 Password: tina.

    Settings → Developer with Enable SSH / SFTP

  3. Connect from your computer with an SFTP client using:

    Field Value
    Protocol SFTP
    Host the IP address from the hint
    Port 22
    Username root
    Password tina on Brick and Brick Pro; leave empty on Smart Pro S

  4. Go to /mnt/SDCARD. That is the root of the SD card.

To have SFTP available every time the device starts, also turn on Start SSH / SFTP on boot.

More detail

SFTP is file transfer over SSH, so it comes with the SSH server: when SSH is on, SFTP is on.

SFTP clients

Any SFTP client works. FileZilla is free and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux:

  1. Open File → Site Manager → New site.
  2. Set Protocol to SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol.
  3. Fill in the host, port, user and password above, and connect.
  4. Accept the host key the first time.
  5. Drag files between the left (your computer) and right (the device) panes.
More detail: other free SFTP clients
  • WinSCP (Windows): choose SFTP as the file protocol.
  • Cyberduck (macOS, Windows): choose SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol).
  • Linux file managers: type sftp://root@192.168.1.8/mnt/SDCARD into the address bar of Files (GNOME) or Dolphin (KDE).
  • Command line: sftp root@192.168.1.8 or scp game.zip root@192.168.1.8:/mnt/SDCARD/Roms/....

Keep the device awake during big transfers

Wi-Fi drops when the device sleeps, which stops a transfer. For long copies, keep the device awake or turn on Developer → Disable sleep.

Turn SSH off on networks you don't trust

The login is root with a well-known password (or none on Smart Pro S), so anyone on the same network can reach the device while SSH is on. Turn Enable SSH / SFTP off when you're done.

With a card reader

Power the device off, remove the SD card and put it in a card reader. It opens like any other drive on your computer. Put the card back and power on.

SD cards are built per device model

Put a card back into the same kind of device it came from. To move saves between devices, use Device Sync instead.

On macOS, run Developer → Clean dot files afterwards to remove the .DS_Store and ._* files Finder leaves behind.

What's where

Folder Contents
Roms/ Your games, one folder per system
Saves/ In-game saves
Bios/ BIOS files for systems that need them (Cores & BIOS Files)
Cheats/ Cheat files (Cheats)
Collections/ Your game collections
Music/ Files for the Music Player
Videos/ Files for the Media Player
Overlays/, Shaders/ Screen overlays and shaders
Emus/, Tools/ Your own community paks (see Getting Started)
.userdata/ Settings, save states and logs (hidden folder)
.system/ NX Redux itself — don't change anything here

Folders starting with a dot are hidden by default; turn on "show hidden files" in your client or file manager to see them.