July 8, 20223 yr I just stumbled across something called RetroNAS recently. It's an open source project to allow people to have an easier means of streaming their game backups from a centralized server to various game consoles & retro systems with network capability. I personally love this idea since I think it is a better alternative to buying a larger storage media for each individual console or system. Keeping storage at the console level also generally means having no parity protection which is a bummer. I think the key selling point of RetroNAS is to simplify the setup of the various tools and protocols required to facilitate the communication between server and the various game consoles/systems however many of these protocols are older and insecure. In this instance I think that keeping something like RetroNAS containerized would be preferable. At the moment there is a lot of interest in getting this packaged up as a docker container for use on systems such as Unraid, QNAP, Synology however the developer for RetroNAS does not have personal experience with such systems. Does anyone know how feasible it would be to make this as a container for Unraid? For reference here is a link to the project on github along with a video introduction by RetroRGB: Github: https://github.com/danmons/retronas Youtube Video:
July 12, 20223 yr I have been looking into this project for awhile and funny enough my whole unraid setup exists only to backup my collection so this would be an awesome addition as a docker
August 30, 20223 yr I've never made or maintained a Docker image before, but I've been wanting to do this one for a while. Are there any guides you guy would recommend?
February 26, 20233 yr space invader one has answered your prayers https://github.com/SpaceinvaderOne/RetroNASinabox on Ca as RetroNAS_inabox
April 1, 20242 yr @SpaceInvaderOne Anybody else having an issue with installing the Docker? Every time I start the Docker to install the VM instance, I just get the following: Quote md5sum: /retronas_vm_location/RetroNAS/retronas.zip: No such file or directory Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses. You may still be able to access the file from the browser: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1M7NjLSTd2Erpj2R0Ud7P0dM9wim8JHUo md5sum: /retronas_vm_location/RetroNAS/retronas.zip: No such file or directory % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 816 0 816 0 0 2556 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2557 Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses. You may still be able to access the file from the browser: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1hIR7um_cIbMSDUFTd_X8fY0UilycK3QR md5sum: /retronas_vm_location/RetroNAS/retronas.zip: No such file or directory Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses. You may still be able to access the file from the browser: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1Kaz3eEQheuimgBi41ltNLVLkMyrHOwwf md5sum: /retronas_vm_location/RetroNAS/retronas.zip: No such file or directory Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses. You may still be able to access the file from the browser: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1x3AIawf5Fa27M_qsJQVB6Kw1Gop35R7Z md5sum: /retronas_vm_location/RetroNAS/retronas.zip: No such file or directory Cannot retrieve the public link of the file. You may need to change the permission to 'Anyone with the link', or have had many accesses. You may still be able to access the file from the browser: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1M7NjLSTd2Erpj2R0Ud7P0dM9wim8JHUo md5sum: /retronas_vm_location/RetroNAS/retronas.zip: No such file or directory % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 816 0 816 0 0 287 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 287 Access denied with the following error: Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... Downloading file from link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M7NjLSTd2Erpj2R0Ud7P0dM9wim8JHUo/view?usp=share_link ... Access denied with the following error: Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... Downloading file from link: https://remotecomputer.co.uk/assets/vdisks/retronas/retronas.zip ... Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... I have tried all the Google drive links. None seem to work. There have been a lot of downloads in the last 24 hours And have most likely used all of today's available bandwidth. Please try again in 12 to 24 hours when the allowance should be reset. domains_share: /mnt/user/domains RETRO_SHARE: /mnt/user/RetroNAS No vdisk detected. Continuing. Downloading file from link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hIR7um_cIbMSDUFTd_X8fY0UilycK3QR/view?usp=share_link ... Access denied with the following error: Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... Downloading file from link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kaz3eEQheuimgBi41ltNLVLkMyrHOwwf/view?usp=share_link ... Access denied with the following error: Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... Downloading file from link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x3AIawf5Fa27M_qsJQVB6Kw1Gop35R7Z/view?usp=share_link ... Access denied with the following error: Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... Downloading file from link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M7NjLSTd2Erpj2R0Ud7P0dM9wim8JHUo/view?usp=share_link ... Access denied with the following error: Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... Downloading file from link: https://remotecomputer.co.uk/assets/vdisks/retronas/retronas.zip ... Downloaded file has an incorrect checksum. Trying next link... I have tried all the Google drive links. None seem to work. There have been a lot of downloads in the last 24 hours And have most likely used all of today's available bandwidth. Please try again in 12 to 24 hours when the allowance should be reset. Edited April 1, 20242 yr by apefray
April 13, 20242 yr I'm having the exact same error with latest Unraid 6.12.10 Seems the installation of this app is now broken :(
September 6, 2025Sep 6 This docker installs well and all for me BUT there are two issues as I can find. 1) It does NOT like dual CPU's so in the VM unpin one. 2) Set Primary vDisk Bus to SATA in the VM config as well. After those two fixes I got it up and running well and I am just at the setup stage. Thing is SpaceInvaderOne had a video guide but it seems to be gone. Bummer. So now it's off to figure out the setup I guess BUT it works for me here on an old HP Z820. IF you gt the downloading errors just try again after a few min. SpaceInvaderOne has the files stored on free hosting services and at times they have reached their limits. Edited September 6, 2025Sep 6 by Dick Dawson
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