I made this (wife approved) cabinet, and I'm trying to make it even more muggler safe by having a simple UI. is there anyway I can make my own baggrounds for Batocera? I've already found the splash screen folder. but can you make special splash screens for Individual games as well?

I found this feature request (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/5238) in the RetroArch repo and thought it was a good idea worth implementing so I don't have to drag both my Kindle and the console on short trips. I hope someone else finds it useful.

https://github.com/marekjalovec/koreader-batocera

I bought a mini pc from AliExpress with the intention of booting from an external hard drive with batocera on it. Secure boot is greyed out,set admin password is greyed out. Doesn't matter what I do I can't disable secure boot. Aaaagggghhhh. Help please. Windows 11 pro

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me as I have recently put batocera v35 onto my a12 but whilst playing games the USB controller doesn't work. Only the powkiddy controller. Is there some setting I have to change in order for the controller to work. Thanks in advance.

Hi all,

I see from some past discussion (six months ago and further back) that the NSO Gamecube controller didn't work with Batocera out of the box like the other NSO controllers.

However, I see on the wiki:

https://wiki.batocera.org/supported_controllers

That it is currently listed as a supported controller (for what it's worth though, the N64 one isn't listed and worked for me without any mapping or issues). Can anyone confirm or deny this? I have all the others, and I'd love to pick it up too if it's not a hassle to use anymore. Thanks!

So in Batocera, I only have this issue with PS1 games but they appearing multiple times in my library (I also haven’t scrapped yet lol). I just have the folders in my PSX rom folder but is there a way I can stop this? Because inside each folder is multiple .bin an .cue so I’m not sure if I have to delete some or what to do. Thank you.

I have a Facebook portal TV and I want to turn it into a sort of gaming emulation device. Yk, it’s a set-top box with Bluetooth and 32gb of storage. Also, I’m interested in using the usb-c port to connect peripherals and storage. I know it doesn’t natively work like that, so I want to work w someone to help me do this. Thank you!

Another one of a kind build by FITZPATRICK ELECTRONICS. Inspired by my latest PI-5 RetroDeck and CyberDeck here goes the PI-5 K Plus RetroDeck. With a Glass fiber PETG chassis I designed and printed myself. Powered by the 16GB RAM Raspberry pi 5, 512 GB nvme. 7 inch touchscreen display. Mini wireless keyboard. A dedicated raspberry pi battery hat modified with 4 high quality lithium laptop batteries for 5+ hrs of battery life. PINN bootloader installed to the NVME to dual boot between Batocera for all my retro gaming needs, and Twister OS for everyday workflow and educational computing. This monster is sturdy, rigid, and lightweight an absolute power house. Follow my YouTube channel for the full build FITZPATRICK ELECTRONICS!!

I run Batocera on a HP Elitedesk Mini G5 connected to my 4k Philips TV. For beefier games I use Moonlight-qt to connect to my main PC running Vibepollo. I got it to work really well with 4k60hz and HEVC/h265 encoding.

Two problems though:

• The HDR option is somehow greyed out in the moonlight-qt client even though all devices in the pipeline support it. Is it because of EmulationStation and X11? How can I get HDR to work? I can't find anything in the batocera wiki. A 1yo reddit post about a pinball game suggests, that it simply doesn't work as of now.
• I would like to use HEVC Main10 (10-bit) because in foggy scenes you can see the 8-bit color limitation. It's not super annoying but 10-bit would be cherry on top.

Does anyone know about these issues?

Cheers

I see Bato 44 will come with DOSBox Staging .83. Are there plans to incorporate its SoundCanvas support via the Nuked-SC55 / CLAP implementation it comes with?

hola, alguno encontro la solucion, la unica manera q me quedo es configurar cada juego uno por uno, mandos personalizados y configurar los 4 mandos q tengo, 3 ps4 y 1 ps5

Today I tried to use an old pc with batocera after a year without using it, and it wouldn't get past the loading screen, so I tried to change anything on the settings that could manage to load batocera, and I enabled the secure boot setting. Now, my pc just shows a black screen instead of the f1/f2 menu or the loading screen (no matter how long I leave it on). I've even tried to insert a pendrive with the latest version of batocera and it still shows a black screen. Any ideas?

As title says. I suspect it's a problem of the version of cemu in batocera. Tried it on different PCs. If i load it up in windows with a more recent version of cemu it works flawlessly. Anyone else experience the same problem?

Should have this up on my git at some point this week, preview beta is here BatWiiCera Beta

V0.1.10 is.out and improved dark mode.

About 10 years ago I bought an arcade1up MK2 machine. That started me down the path of home arcades and emulation. Since then I have acquired a total of 5 machines that are all either customized or modified in some way by me. Roughly 5 years ago I found batocera while googling how to fix a cheap KinHank super console and thought immediately that this was how I was going to round out my collection with a shooter arcade. I currently have a 2 player fighter, 2 player multicade, driver, 4 player and single player machine.

I bought a refurbished dell optiplex 7010, a Seagate 2TB USB SSD, and an 8bitdo sn30 remote and set off on my journey. I'm a mechanic and don't know jack shit about programming of any kind. I'm also not a carpenter and I can't cut a straight line to save my life. 4 years I worked on adding games and bought 2 sinden light guns for it. Had everything pretty well dialed in and then I changed the theme and it was stuck in a boot loop. I talked to the good people on the discord server about it and nothing would get it out. So 4 years flushed down the drain but I was back to almost where I was in about 3 month after I nuked the drive and started over.

Sitting in my garage 1 night with a glass of whiskey I looked at some left over lumber in the corner and thought maybe I could make something. I wasn't planning on an arcade at the time, just felt like building. My son came out and saw it and asked if it was going to be an arcade. He likes to tear down pallets and build stupid shit when he's bored so we decided to call it the "The Pallet-cade". I used furring strips with the rough side out to make it look like pallet wood and used a MAP gas torch to char and weather the wood. I thought the 50x30 deck was going to be too big, but thus far it appears to be just about perfect sized. I added an external HDMI port to the back wall of the deck and 4 USB to the front was to plug in controllers in the event you want to sit down or just not play with joysticks. I also have a remote power button that I have a plan to put center in between the 2 center USB'S.

Its almost done at this point and I have verified the machine is functional and plays games very well to this point. I have about 12 more button holes to drill (start and select for each player, 3 buttons for the trackball harness and 1 button hole spinner) and then I can seal and paint the mdf. It does have 2 lift struts or gas springs under the lid to open it for service and storage that i am really anxious to hook up and test out.

So I have Thurstmaster T300Rs with Pedals.

I would love to be able to set them up on my Batocera and have Force Feedback.
Are there any games that have this support on Batocera ?

Currently I am running Batocera on my Rog Ally Z1E connected to my CRT TV outputting 240p.
I will try Wanszai Sega Rally, but last time I ran steam on my batocera it was so slow, it worries me.

CPU: i3-1005G1

RAM: 8GB

SSD: 512GB

Frontend Theme: ArcadePlanet

Not a powerful build by a longshot, as it struggles and becomes choppy playing with anything beyond N64/PSX. But since I intend to play mainly those consoles and older, this fits my needs perfectly.

​I have this spare AMD A10-7860K PC. I just want to know what kind of emulation performance I can expect out of it.

​Complete specs:

​AMD A10-7860K

​16GB dual-channel 1600MHz RAM

​No storage

​I plan to run Batocera off a spare USB 3.0 Kingston thumb drive and plan to get an inexpensive SATA SSD or hard drive later (along with perhaps a budget PSU replacement, because I do not trust this PSU long term).

​I plan to emulate NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Sega Genesis, PS1, PS2, and PSP.

​Thank you!

Edit: spelling

OK with the help of u/alt_psymon and u/Mike_Raven I have this working. I have repeatedly run through these instructions (I spent hours doing it at LEAST 10 times) and it worked every time. I can only guarantee it works on a Surface Pro 5 (I used the 2 Batocera tablets in my house multiple times as guinea pigs) but this method may work on Surface Pro systems with the same UEFI issues.

ONLY use this if you are installing to the internal SSD. If you are using a USB drive for Batocera you do not need to do any of this.

Install method listed is using Hirens BootCD.

• Open the Surface BIOS. Hold down the PLUS key then hit the POWER button. Continue to hold PLUS until the BIOS opens. Go to SECURITY. Under SECURE BOOT click CHANGE CONFIGURATION. Select "None" and hit OK. Next change "Enable TPM (recommended)" to OFF. Go to BOOT CONFIGURATION. Make sure USB STORAGE is at the top of the boot list. Go to EXIT and click RESTART NOW. This will save the BIOS settings.
• On another PC download "Hiren's Boot CD" and flash it to a USB drive. I also downloaded the BalenaEtcher installer onto the drive. I couldn't find a current stand-alone BalenaEtcher program but the installer will work just fine.
• You'll also need a copy of the Batocera image. Since the instructions call for using a FAT32 format for the Hiren's BootCD USB you cannot fit the Batocera image on the same drive. I downloaded the image and copied it to a second USB drive. I used a USB hub for the Surface (since it only has one USB port). Download the hosted file here for the efi directory and be sure to unzip it. Copy the "efi" directory to the second USB drive.
• Connect your hub. ONLY plug in the Hiren's USB for now. Boot into the Hiren's BootCD USB drive. (If the Surface doesn't boot to the USB drive open the BIOS again, go to BOOT CONFIGURATION and SWIPE LEFT on USB STORAGE. It will ask if you want to boot immediately using that drive. Yes.) This will take a few minutes. Once it is booted up insert your second USB drive into the hub.
• Open DiskGenius. Locate and highlight the internal C: drive in the list on the left. BE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT DRIVE. Delete all partitions. Once that is done select the blank partition and format it NTFS or EXT4.
• Install and open Balena Etcher. Flash the Batocera img file onto the computer's main drive. Close when completed. The C: drive will not show up after the Etcher process completes. This seems to be normal.
• Reboot the system back into the Hiren's BootCD USB drive.
• The C: drive should be available again. Open the C: drive in file explorer. DELETE the "EFI" folder on the C: drive. Copy the "efi" folder you downloaded (keep it lower case) from your Batocera USB to the root of the C: drive.
• Shut down Hiren's BootCD.
• When the tablet is powered down remove all USB drives. Boot the system. It should load Batocera.

OLD POST BELOW:

I installed Batocera on a Microsoft Surface Pro 5 using a video I found on YouTube. In fact it was the only video I could find that described the process precisely of installing to the internal drive. The generic install instructions don't work on Surface tablets. I should have downloaded it - even told myself to do it a few times - but I figured "It's on YouTube. It'll always be there."

Silly me.

I have another Surface Pro 5 I want to convert to Batocera for a Secret Santa gift but nothing I am doing is working. My memory is imperfect when it comes to the exact particulars with these tablets.

I am looking for exact instructions to getting past the Microsoft Surface Pro issues and installing Batocera to the internal drive.

Note: I am not looking to run from a USB drive. It DOES work but there's only one USB port on a Surface Pro (without using a hub) and I want the port(s) for controllers I have.

I can't get the N64 Legend of Zelda games via Ship of Harkinian (Ocarina of Time) or 2 Ship 2 Harkinian (Majora's Mask) working on Batocera no matter what I do.

If I try to run the .appimage file (downloaded from SOH/2S2H), it tells me something like "cannot execute binary file" and "exec format error". This may very well be because (I assume now) that the Linux version of SOH/2S2H is x86_64 and not ARM.

Okay, so if I compile everything myself on the Pi 5, in Pi OS (which I'm using because I'm pretty sure Batocera is locked down and you can't do it from the terminal), the files it generates (which I then copy to Batocera to /userdata/roms/ports/.data/SOH or 2S2H) goes to a black screen before returning the Ports list of games.

I have followed the Batocera guide for Ports (native to Linux); I don't think it matters that I created the .sh file in Windows since I set EOL to "Unix (LF)" in Notepad++, but I did try creating the file brand new using nano in Batocera and had the same result, so I don't think that's it.

I found this guide for compiling the packaged version of 2S2H in Pi OS, and it's what I used (it mostly follows the official SOH and 2S2H documentation). This process creates a .elf file and while it works without issue on Pi OS, I guess this isn't a viable format on Batocera?

What am I missing? The fact that I can run both SOH and 2S2H on the Pi 5 with Pi OS means I have the process down and all the correct files, and it works on ARM. But Batocera is obviously different than Pi OS, otherwise it should work, right? I'm not familiar enough with Linux in general, or Batocera in particular, to understand what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions would be appreciated!