Can't mount games from / (Root) Directory

t34p075 · 02-03-2021, 12:44 PM #1

In current beta version 5.0-13178, I am able to mount games from the Root directory, / . However, in the latest nightly, it defaults to the Home directory (the one with Documents, Downloads, etc), and I cannot go up the directory tree any further. This is causing an issue for me, as I'm manually mounting a directory there from another partition. It works perfectly in beta version, but not in latest nightly. Is there any way to manually set the path for game ISOs?

Thank you

**JosJuice** · 02-03-2021, 06:44 PM #2

(By the Home directory, I'm assuming you mean the emulated external storage?)

Yes, the same update made it possible to edit the game list paths manually. Open /sdcard/dolphin-emu/Config/Dolphin.ini, increment ISOPaths (under [General]) by 1, and set ISOPath0 (with the 0 replaced by the previous value of ISOPaths) to the path you want. If you've already added a game list path that you don't want, you can just replace that path instead.

Warning: If you are using Android 11 or newer, this will stop working with a Dolphin update in November due to Scoped Storage.

~~Pimenov~~ · 02-03-2021, 07:54 PM #3

(02-03-2021, 06:44 PM)JosJuice Wrote: (By the Home directory, I'm assuming you mean the emulated external storage?)

Yes, the same update made it possible to edit the game list paths manually. Open /sdcard/dolphin-emu/Config/Dolphin.ini, increment ISOPaths (under [General]) by 1, and set ISOPath0 (with the 0 replaced by the previous value of ISOPaths) to the path you want. If you've already added a game list path that you don't want, you can just replace that path instead.

Warning: If you are using Android 11 or newer, this will stop working with a Dolphin update in November due to Scoped Storage.

But will scoped storage prevent me from running games from sd card?

**JosJuice** · 02-03-2021, 08:02 PM #4

(02-03-2021, 07:54 PM)Pimenov Wrote: But will scoped storage prevent me from running games from sd card?

No.

t34p075 · 02-03-2021, 11:18 PM #5

(02-03-2021, 06:44 PM)JosJuice Wrote: (By the Home directory, I'm assuming you mean the emulated external storage?)

Yes, the same update made it possible to edit the game list paths manually. Open /sdcard/dolphin-emu/Config/Dolphin.ini, increment ISOPaths (under [General]) by 1, and set ISOPath0 (with the 0 replaced by the previous value of ISOPaths) to the path you want. If you've already added a game list path that you don't want, you can just replace that path instead.

Warning: If you are using Android 11 or newer, this will stop working with a Dolphin update in November due to Scoped Storage.

Thanks for this I’ll try it.

If it stops working in November, what do I do then? Or will there be another fix?

**JosJuice** · 02-03-2021, 11:32 PM #6

(02-03-2021, 11:18 PM)t34p075 Wrote: If it stops working in November, what do I do then? Or will there be another fix?

Supposedly you can force disable scoped storage for an app using adb, but I haven't tried it.

t34p075 · 02-03-2021, 11:42 PM #7

(02-03-2021, 11:32 PM)JosJuice Wrote: Supposedly you can force disable scoped storage for an app using adb, but I haven't tried it.

Update to say your fix worked perfectly. I'm using a Nintendo Switch running Android (which is a great device for Dolphin, btw), and I can mount the FAT32 partition of the SD card to the storage /mnt/switchsd, which is so much more convenient because file transfers are much faster to that partition and I don't have to make a large Android partition on my SD card this way.