Thanks man - i created the save folder and gave permissions and all is fine now. all my games are in mydocs - these are the commands and things i'm doing to make them work (change folder names as needed): in xterm: for file in /home/user/MyDocs/Roms/Pre/com.gameloft.app.driver/driver/*; do ln -s "$file" /home/user/applications/com.gameloft.app.driver/driver/; done copy the real exec file in the sylinked folder chmod +x /home/user/applications/com.gameloft.app.driver/driver/driver /opt/preenv/bin/desktopgen /home/user/applications/com.gameloft.app.driver/appinfo.json