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    I am new to the whole rom downloading and am trying to figure out how to download to my pc then I can transfer to retro pie. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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    depends on the emulator used

    usually just donwload to your PC extract it if the emulator does not support zipped roms (not all do) then copy to the SD card or USB HDD or whatever you used for storage to a folder that the emulator of choice reads the roms from or lets you browse to

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    I have tried downloading from nestopia and it is a zip file but unable to unzip or what to use, any other ideas and how to open the file?

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    7-zip from PC

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    Thanks for your help, it worked and have some games transferred

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