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You don't really need to press a button for Pagurus to eat the banana. He will grab the banana if you are wearing it as a shell with his attack. I like to duck into the shell right as this happens, but I don't think you have to do that. It's more about waiting for the right attacks to come and being in close enough range for him to grab it and eat it. I think he can grab it on both the red and blue (the little warning icons) attacks that he does.

I just use SSH from a different machine on my network to access the CLI on any of my Batocera systems. On the Steam Deck one way is to press the button on the right side front of the Deck that has the 3 little dots on it. That takes you to the F1 menu. From "Applications" you can launch x-term, which will give you CLI access directly on the Deck. You will still likely need an input device connected to be able to type anything, so I recommend just doing it over the network from another machine. From a Windows 10/11 or Linux machine you'd just open a command prompt/terminal and type something like "ssh root@batocera" and then put in the default Batocera password when prompted (it's the word "linux", without the quotations). You can replace "batocera" in the ssh command above with the IP address assigned to your Steam Deck as well and it should work just the same.

@@eldermillennialvideogames thank you very much, this helped a lot.

you could also when he’s running towards you fall of the map when you’re full hp, then you’ll spawn back at the top and he’ll “drown” and instantly die XD

Does that still work on the latest patch version? I thought that got patched out around the same time they stopped the worms from being able to grab Pagurus. Could be mistaken though. I know the banana thing still works.

@@eldermillennialvideogames that I don’t know, srry. I platinumized the game last week so i can’t retry it also… (except new game file but i won’t be doing that soon😅)

No worries. I've played through it a bunch on all the different patch versions but haven't tried that. Shadow of the Erdtree is taking up all my time rn, so might be a while before I do another run of this game, too.

It probably depends since SBCs encompass such a broad performance range of devices. The Batocera method of running vpinball would likely only work if the platform is using the x86 based architecture. I'm pretty sure it's not an option in Batocera for other platforms and yes I'm saying that without actually firing up another system and verifying. You might be able to compile vpinball standalone for things like the rpi, but since vpinball is graphically demanding I don't think it would be a good experience on a lower end SBC like that. I'd like to see it on one of those $200-$300 Ryzen SBC's though. I bet it would run decently fine on something like that. I may have to get one of those to test it out. I don't have any decent Android devices so I can't test any of the builds for that either unfortunately. Honestly, I'm not that into Android in the first place. To be fair I haven't even tried running it on iOS or MacOS with Apple silicon even though I do have those and there are instructions on their GitHub for compiling for those. At the end of the day as long as it runs on Linux, I'm happy. Granted, I am a bit biased because messing around with Linux has been both a hobby and a career for me for a while now. The only real advantage I see to running vpinball on an SBC would be to try to save on space and power consumption like when putting it as part of a pincab build. Because I use vpinball exclusively through Batocera that isn't really a simple option right now. Though I do hear that Batocera is becoming more pincab friendly in their upcoming v40 release.

I don't own a rpi5 and don't have any plans on getting one, so I haven't tested it myself. My "offline" install method won't work because it contains the x86_64 versions of the emulators. And I don't think the curl -L script command will download the arm64 versions either (could be wrong about that, though). In theory if you had versions of the emulators for the correct architecture you should technically be able to get them to work on the pi. However, keep in mind that the rpi5 is not super powerful. Even if you got it working, I don't think it would be a smooth or enjoyable experience. I'm betting you'd be seeing mostly single digit frames per second.

Sure. The global firmware updates are typically in .zip format when you download them. Extract them and they should consist of a bunch of .nca files. Copy those to your Batocera system to the location /userdata/bios/switch/firmware/. Don't forget to put any updated title and prod keys into /userdata/bios/switch/. Press F1 and go to Applications. Launch the config for the Switch emulator you want to use. If it isn't already showing the correct firmware version (usually visible in the bottom right corner) then go to the Tools menu and choose to install the firmware. Browse to the folder that has the .nca files and install. For Ryujinx you can actually point it to the firmware .zip file with the appropriate selection under the Tools menu. Hope this helps.

Well the scrap hammer is typically going to deal more damage per attack than the basic fork. But I don't think it will do 70% of his health in one go like getting him to eat it will. Maybe I'm wrong? Plus it's just fun to beat him without ever actually attacking him.

True enough. Sometimes I forget this game has a "press button to win" mechanic built right in.

The curl -L method should be working. Only reason it can be a problem is that more often than not one of those download phases will timeout, but the script keeps moving along so at the end you'll think it went okay when it really didn't. The switch updater under "Ports" usually doesn't have this problem. So if that is working fine then that rules out a bad install. When you launch ryujinx-avalonia-config (or whatever it's called), check the Input setting and make sure that the Steam Deck controls are listed as the device with a type of "pro controller". You'll probably need to actually perform the mapping of the controls as well. Probably a good time to install newer firmware for Ryujinx as well while you're in the config app if you want to. After you've done that, hit Apply and OK and go back to the ES menu and try to launch the game from there using Ryujinx Avalonia. It's probably looking for a non-existant controller mapping config and that is what is causing Ryujinx to exit right after starting. That's behavior I've seen anyway. If that doesn't fix it then I'd have to take a look at the contents of your /userdata/system/logs/es_launcher_stdout and es_launcher_stderr files to figure out what's going on. What's the error you get trying to launch the yuzu config app? Back to my first point, I'd seriously consider running the Switch Updater if you haven't already just to make sure there isn't something janky with the initial install.

@@eldermillennialvideogames thanks for responding, it seems that I got it working. I did perform the switch update through the ports this morning. Not sure it helped, but the error I am getting from the yuzu config is "Invalid desktop entry file: '/usr/share/applications/yuzuEA.desktop" I went through every switch emulator and found the only that will play the games is RYUJINIX-LDN. I'll play on that one. I just heard that yuzu was a lot smoother. I have it on handheld because I was told that gives better performance on the streamdeck. This fan is driving me crazy though. I'm just glad I figured it out. The fan blows hard pretty hard though.

Glad you got it working. I just had to fire up my Steam Deck to check, but I don't believe Yuzu EA is working for me either. But Yuzu Mainline does work. Ryujinx-Avalonia is going to be the most up-to-date version of the Ryujinx emulator and it does work for me, but like I said, I first had to go in and map my controls manually in order to get it working from the ES menu. I'm trying to use Ryujinx more than Yuzu lately just because at least Ryujinx will get updates going forward. Haven't tested it in a little while on the Deck, but last time I checked Ryujinx performance wasn't awful, but it wasn't great on the deck either. Ryujinx is working great on my PC though. I've nearly made it all the way through Paper Mario: TTYD on it. Yes, I did pay for the switch game and download it to my Switch and yes I did almost immediately start playing it on an emulator instead. The fan can be annoying. As soon as someone can invent a powerful handheld gaming device with completely silent and effective cooling, they'll make a fortune.

@@eldermillennialvideogames not sure why the mainline one doesn't work for me. Yeah I did map the controls too under the pro controller. Thanks for your feedback. Like you said hopefully it will get better. Planning on giving my switch lite to my son and playing the games on my steam deck. I have the rig ally z extreme but the micro SD card slot died on me. It was an open box from Best buy, so I wiped my steam deck and made it retro/ switch handheld now.

I was messing around with a new Batocera installation on my Steam Deck and gave the curl method of installing Switch emulation a try. It's been a while. I see it has changed quite a bit since the last time I used it. For Ryujinx-Avalonia, there is no firmware installed so you'll need to install it. It's not too hard to find ryujinx firmware downloads online. I'm using v18 myself. I found a zip file containing the firmware .nca files and installed it by opening Ryujinx Avalonia and installing it from the zip (one of the drop down menus has this option). I also have the appropriate .keys files under /userdata/bios/switch/. Then make sure the Input under Settings is set to "Steam Deck (0)" and set it to be a Pro Controller. Go through the process of mapping each controller button (it's a pain, I know). Back in the Batocera ES menu, set your game to launch with Ryujinx Avalonia and set the "Auto Controller Configuration" option to "Off". That should get Ryujinx working. The curl method seems to no longer install Yuzu, so that's why it isn't working for you. You'll need to put the yuzu.AppImage and yuzuEA.AppImage files into /userdata/system/switch/. Once the app images are in place Yuzu should just work. It seems to be working fine with the automatic controller configuration set to "Auto". I may need to do an updated guide on this soon.

I don't know why there isn't a Zelda mgw file. That's a question that is probably best answered by Madrigal over at www.madrigaldesign.it. The .mgw files were designed to work with the simulators that Madrigal created. Since then, MAME became able to emulate the Game & Watch titles and has probably the most complete set of roms for it in .zip format, including Zelda. And because you can choose which emulator to run each individual game with in Batocera, you're free to mix .mgw and .zip files as needed to complete your set.

I probably would report it if it was something that was easily reproducible. I've fought him lots of times and only had this happen once so it isn't really a huge concern for me.

I won't add much to this because I see you've gotten several responses to your Reddit thread on the same issue at www.reddit.com/r/batocera/comments/1cvqam6/update_v39_duplicate_boot_options/. Honestly, if it were me I wouldn't worry too much about it as long as: 1. Batocera boots correctly and reflects the version you expect 2. Everything within Batocera is functioning 3. The amount of available and used disk space looks normal from within Batocera If you are truly concerned you could always do a clean install of Batocera v39 and let it handle the disk partitioning. First you should backup your /userdata folder from your existing installation before doing the clean install so you can restore it later if you want. But again, I'm not sure I would put forth the effort if Batocera is working just fine other than having an extra entry in the boot menu.

Thanks, I think I'll do this, clean install version 39 and then copy my previously saved userdata folder. Thanks again for your availability.

Happy it helped

Not really sure. In some areas they are yellow for me and other areas they are blue. My first shot in the dark guess would be that it's something related to graphics hardware or settings if you see a blue sponge in a video and the exact same sponge is yellow in your game.

It happened to me and I still can't tell you exactly what the hell happened. I was expecting him to come out of the bushes swinging but then it just...ended. It certainly clocked in pretty high on my weirdshitometer that day.

@@eldermillennialvideogames you seemed very high level for this fight tbh. high str with Hammer + dmg boost from cup is a lot of damage for a boss you fight early-ish.

It's just weird to me how quickly it goes into the cutscene. You don't really even see the health bar go all the way down. But yeah, I won't argue that I'm high level, but the game makes it too easy. If you focus solely on the ATK stat, you can nearly max it out before you even get to Flotsom by just fighting everything in your path as you move along exploring the first areas. And the cup is right there in the Sands Between or the Grove, so getting it early in the game isn't an issue, either. Honestly though, I would be on board for a nerf to drunken claw. I don't think the impact to the dodge roll is enough to offset the insane amount of damage it does.

Ha! I know, right?

Sorry, not going to provide direct links to roms. But I do give a "hint" in the description of the video on where you might look. But at the end of the day it is left up to the individual viewer to decide how and where to obtain the games.

It took me several attempts to get it down myself. Just make sure you're within his range when he does one of his big attacks like the one that gives you the red warning symbol. It seems like he tends to do them after the move where he frightens you. The real trick is fighting the urge to dodge roll away from it.

Se você camperar dentro da concha ele usa um ataque que garfa a sua concha e come. É só fazer isso e desviar dos outros ataques.

Nah, you should be super proud of what you accomplished. Well done!

you should have had the mantis punch adaptation and helped a shrimp guy stuck in a bong who would have told you this

@@jessybill7839 damn. Honestly, I fought him right when I entered the Sands Between, which was my first mistake lol. That's awesome tho.

There's something in the skill tree you can learn that lets you make a "hammer" by doing a charged attack against a shell. Assuming you have that skill you would just do a charged attack near a banana lying on the ground. I play on PC with a controller, so pressing down on the D-pad swaps it between the fork and your back.

This is insane how did you figure this out?

I'm pretty sure lots of people know about using a banana against Pagurus by now. An NPC in Flotsam Vale tells you about his allergy to bananas. Since I can only think of one type of banana in the game, it just kind of comes together, you know. Once I actually saw him eat the banana and saw the damage it did to him then I just asked myself the question of what if I do it with two bananas? And since I didn't see other videos of people trying it with 2 of them I thought I'd post one.

@@eldermillennialvideogamesnaw bruh i’m stupid i bought the hook skill instead of hammer and now i have no way to get more purple crystals and also the hook skill is confusing af to use 😔

Yeah, I rarely use the hook skill myself. There are a ton of crystals and enemies with the glowing purple eyes that give you crystals when you defeat them. Shouldn't be too hard to find some more. Or you can use a Shark Egg at the Moon Snail to be able to respec your skills. At least one Shark Egg is for sale at the Prawn Shop in New Carcinia.

I think I'm still short by 2 achievements. I wish it had some kind of NG+ because I could definitely see myself doing repeated runs of this game. I just did my second play through and it at least felt slightly different at times due to the changes in the recent patch.

I have a game suggestion it’s called animal well it’s a metroidvania and it’s published by big mode dunkys company

Thanks for the suggestion. I've actually been hearing really good things about that one. It's for sure on my to-do list.

@@MidnightAtom777 ill look into it I still have alot of games I bought and need to play finishing cyberpunk for the second time rn since the dlc funny enough I play one game at a time and I played another crab's treasure to test it out and ended up playing through the whole game because I was hooked lol

@@giyutomioka6885 oh okay nice

Unexpectedly fast. No one was more shocked than me. I keep telling myself that the red cup ability plus a charged hammer attack would do insane damage, but another part of me just thinks the game bugged near the end of the fight and gave me the win for some reason.

That's a good idea. I never think about shell insurance this early in the game. I just kept warping over to Slacktide to grab more and then attempting this fight. I'd say to enjoy this while it lasts. I mean, if I was going to nerf something it'd probably be the damage those bananas do to this guy.

@@eldermillennialvideogames i mean the whole thing with him is he’s allergic to bananas so theyre kinda supposed to be an easy mode

Sure, I get that. It just seems a little too easy, y'know. It could still be easy mode and be...slightly less easy I guess. Especially when there is already an easy mode involving the gun. It doesn't really matter to me because whether it changes or not I'm still going to do it. Can I and have I beaten him legitimately? Yes, multiple times. Do I still prefer feeding him the bananas? Yes.

Nope, no funny business here. He's allergic to bananas, which you learn about from an NPC, so it would seem this is one of the intended strats to beat him. Honestly, I wouldn't hate it if they nerfed it so each banana maybe only does 1/3 of his health, but right now 2 will fully beat him.

@@eldermillennialvideogames oh well i kinda just went in there and started whaling on him

That's why I like this boss...you can take different approaches to it depending on how challenging you want it to be.

Congrats on finishing it. Just finished my second playthrough a few minutes ago. And you're right about it being a bit of a tear jerker. There was way more emotion in this game than I thought there would be going into it. Also, they made a sad piano version of the crab rave song. I didn't ask for it, but I kinda love it.

@@eldermillennialvideogames Right?? Hearing the sad piano made me pause once I realized it was Crab Rave lmfao

Well that sounds awful. I am a little confused though. What windows app were you trying to run on Batocera? Since this video doesn't talk about using any windows apps, I'm just trying to figure out what exactly went wrong in your case so myself and others can avoid the same situation..

@@eldermillennialvideogames I was using the windows installer. I put NWO INFO WARS onto a test pc running widows 10 first and was able to play the game. Next I used ethernet from that windows 10 pc and i.p.share to place the NWO folder into the windows installer folder on my Linux batocera 37 gaming pc. I switched over to the batocera front end and updated the game list and opened the windows installer from the wheel and selected the game to be installed. It did so and no wine screen populated the first time and the game played. I closed out of the game to try mapping my game controller for the keyboard keys and returned to the now windows game app. I suppose it is not an app but the windows from the front end finding the game and turning it on. Instead of it running like before it opened a wine screen and I was stuck. I couldn't get out and my controller no longer worked. I rebooted the system and used mouse+keyboard to continue and found my Bluetooth keys had been deleted. I went back to windows and deleted the game, tried a reinstall failing and deleted again. This time it wiped my front end, time date, yuzu folder, all applications related to switch from application section of batocera. Switch keys, all saves and seemed targeted. It didn't touch the other bioses. It did kill switch/yuzu bios also. The roms stayed. I upgraded to batocera 39 hoping to get some restoration from lost folders at least but it is fractionated at this time. I have been working this image since 2018.

This method corrected 90% of the damage. None of my saved game progress survived. At least I haven't found it hidden in any trash bins yet.

Geez. That sounds like one hell of an ordeal you had to go through. I don't really play Windows games on my Batocera system, so I haven't encountered anything like that before. Well I do play ScummVM games on it, but not really any "modern" windows games. These days I get most of my newer games on Steam and play 'em on ChimeraOS. And that's mostly because I bought a Steam Deck and said this is cool, but how can I get this experience on my PC. And thus my dual boot Batocera/ChimeraOS system was born.

I haven't tried that personally. Even if I did I don't have a similar setup to what you're describing. In fact, I'm just now learning about zeDMD, but I do like any project that makes good use of ESP32 boards. All I know is the following pinball related items are listed as being added in Batocera v40, so maybe there'll be some improvements there: -Support for zedmd -DMD server (handling any dmd supported by libdmd) integrated with vpinball -Support for multi screens (for pincab, mame multi games)

@@eldermillennialvideogames Hi. on my channel there is clip about 3 screens on Batocera plus DMD, and it is streange that DMD have no colorization but second screen have, that means for me that zeDMD displays wrong version of it, do you have any idea on how to send colorized version to zeDMD? I was playing with settings but couldn't find nothing to fix it.

Yep, looks like they took care of it. I just ran the updater and it seems to be working fine for me now as well.

That sounds like SecureBoot. You could try disabling it in your BIOS if you haven't already. Some more advice on how to deal with it can be found here: wiki.batocera.org/secureboot

This is kind of an older video at this point, but I did have some customizations in place like the addition of Switch emulation prior to the upgrade. However the biggest issue was with the size of the boot partition, which as I understand it would've been a problem anyway requiring manual intervention whether or not I had any customizations in place. Then there was the psvita saves issue. I admittedly took the more convoluted route around that one, but it worked. I honestly can't remember what else I talked about in the video, but v39 has been working fine for me for a while now. I think for me, it was frustrating because previous upgrades had been so smooth that any bumps or ripples during this upgrade were just magnified because I'm used to them being so flawless. If anything that is a compliment to the entire Batocera team for the quality of their work. At the end of the day the issues gave me something to do and made me a little less bored for a little while, so I guess that was nice.

@@eldermillennialvideogames Thanks for explaining, makes more sense now. What about Steam (Flatpak) though, is it working again in Batocera 39 or is it still borked?

Haven't tested Steam on Batocera in a long time. I've been using ChimeraOS for Steam and have been very pleased with it. I dual boot on my PC, so it's just a matter of picking which disk to boot from, depending on whether I want Steam or Batocera.

You're welcome. Yeah that sucks about the "curl -L" method because I still like to use the Switch Updater in ports to keep Ryujinx up to date. Unfortunately it looks like it quit working because the Yuzu-EA downloader is pointed to the PineappleEA/pineapple-src repository, which was taken down. The script doesn't get the expected result and begins to fail which means it never gets to the part where it updates Ryujinx. I'm hoping they fix it soon. A couple of weeks ago the regular Yuzu downloader in the script was pointed to a new location in a commit, so I'm betting they'll do the same for Yuzu-EA. Once they do that both the "curl -L" and Switch Updater methods should start working again.

thought i was losing my mind it does not work

@@jonathandoe7490 I know right? I ran into it not working and that eventually led me to the news that the big N had been on a warpath with DMCA takedowns. My best guess is that they just need to update Batocera-switch-updater.sh, but there could be more to it. I certainly don't consider myself a developer.

Thanks. Most of the credit goes to those behind the ordovice/batocera-switch GitHub repo though. I just...borrowed it...and made a way to get Yuzu running using it without needing to download anything extra. But yeah...fingers crossed that it goes under the radar.

When launching in Ryujinx it just boots be back to the main menu. Is there a reason that yuzu gets stuck loading and ryujinx must kicks me out? When I look at the applications folder I don’t see Ryujinx too, is it hidden by any chance?

I haven't seen the issue where yuzu gets stuck on the loading screen before. Is this on a PC or a Steam Deck? What version of the firmware are you using (i.e. the prod.keys and title.keys you put into /userdata/bios/switch/)? I recommend version 17.x. I probably just didn't include the Ryujinx .desktop file that makes it show up in the Applications menu when you press F1. Since Ryujinx still exists, it wasn't a major concern of mine at the time. Just run the Switch Updater from the Ports menu to get it to show up. That will also make sure you have the latest version of Ryujinx-Avalonia.

You may actually have to wait a bit before running the Switch Updater script. It appears to be throwing an error at the moment because it is setup to download Yuzu-EA from the PineappleEA/pineapple-src GitHub repository, which was taken down by DMCA (along with a metric shit ton of other yuzu forks on GitHub). Hopefully the error will be resolved by the developer who maintains the repo where that script is pulled from. You won't have to do anything on your end since it pulls down the update script every time you run the updater. Just have to wait for it to be fixed.

@@eldermillennialvideogames thanks for reaching out I figured it out! So out of curiosity I tried different keys and found that yuzu would only work with 16.1.0, also I went into yuzu launcher and hit install keys even tho I already had it in the folders (posting this in case someone else has this issue in the future) otherwise great video helped a lot thanks!

That should work. I use my steam deck so infrequently these days that I just had to fire it up to check this. For me it's the little sandwich button just slightly above the right analogue stick and then the similar button on the opposite side of the deck to exit Yuzu. Same as for other emulators. It's Batocera v39 on the deck and I don't believe I did anything special to it to get it to exit like that.

Do you at least see the Batocera splash screen before it goes black? I wonder if it is booting properly just not outputting anything to the screen. Is it reachable on your network after a few minutes? What hardware specs are you running on? All I can think to suggest is: 1. Try disabling Secure Boot in your BIOS 2. Maybe look at batocera.conf on your installed system. If you've got any manual "es.resolution" settings, try commenting them out and let the system try to automatically detect the resolution. However, this should already be set to automatic if you just imaged v39 to the sd card and are trying to boot from that. You might also want to check the driver options in that file and make sure they are at sane values for your graphics hardware. Obligatory display issue help from the wiki: wiki.batocera.org/display_issues Might help you figure out what's going on by increasing verbosity during the boot: wiki.batocera.org/troubleshooting#verbose_boot My initial thought was that the installed boot partition might've been too small, but I know the updater in Batocera will detect this and throw an error (at least it did for me) and it also wouldn't be an issue for a freshly imaged v39 USB stick or sd card. If push comes to shove, you can always just revert back to v38 for the time being.

Is on the steam deck i never saw splash batocera just a few letters and then black screen i guess you using the img in a different place as pc , etc

i fixed, just download the v39 batocera and replace boot and config worked perfect

Any time!

It sounds like you've done everything correctly especially since it works until you reboot. The command "batocera-save-overlay" should allow the file in /usr/lib/libretro/ to persist through reboots. What's the output when you put the file there and run batocera-save-overlay? Do any errors show up in the output?

@@eldermillennialvideogames The .cgf file is saved, I already checked there and all changes were saved, my problem is the citra_libretro.so file, which after restarting batocera it is deleted, even though I use the command line as administrator, forgive my English error , I'm using the translator.

​@@eldermillennialvideogames The file I downloaded comes with 3 files, I only know where to paste citra_libretro.so, where do I put the other 2 files?

The "Batocera v39 Citra Libretro Core" on the Archive site should only have one file that you need and that is citra_libretro.so. Placing that file into /usr/lib/libretro/ and then running "batocera-save-overlay" should stop the file from being removed when you reboot the system. That is why I was asking for the output that you receive when you run batocera-save-overlay. There might be clues as to why this is happening in that output. Like if for some reason it isn't able to add that file to the overlay properly. Other than that you could probably put the citra_libretro.so file in a place where it won't be deleted, like inside /userdata/. Then you could add a script to copy the file into /usr/lib/libretro/ whenever the system boots. It's a little hacky but would probably accomplish what you want. The wiki has some help with scripting here: wiki.batocera.org/launch_a_script. I believe the custom.sh method will still work in v39, but I'm pretty sure it has been deprecated so it might not work in future Batocera updates. Just something to keep in mind.

@@eldermillennialvideogames errors when input the command "batocera-save-overlay" error in file I0, error write failed on "/overlay/saved/usr/lib/libretro/citra_libretro.so": no space left on device, man the space are 164 mb, after command the space is zero automatic, when reboot batocera the space back to 164 mb, another error is write error: Broken pipe (32)

Did you put your title.keys and prod.keys files (obtained elsewhere) into the /userdata/bios/switch/ directory?

@@eldermillennialvideogames I did. my batocera is running on a pi5

Oh Okay. Might just come down to the architecture then. My video was really intended for x86_64 CPU architectures. I can't imagine any current or recent Switch emulator running very well on a pi5 anyway. Maybe for 2D games....and that's a big maybe.

@@eldermillennialvideogames yeah it was just out of curiosity

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G. (it's a good APU, but I still put a dedicated graphics card in this box) RAM: 16GB Dedicated GPU: AMD Radeon 6600XT OS Dual Boot: Batocera for Arcade/Consoles || ChimeraOS for Steam (Sometimes I just use my Steam Deck instead, so I feel like I got my money's worth)

Glad I could help!

That's why in like every other Batocera video that I make I try to stress the importance of backing up /userdata. Probably the best thing any Batocera enthusiast can do. I've made so many changes to my system that there is no way I'll remember what they are or how to do them if I ever need to start over. Every time they release a new version, my brain says, "don't do it, everything is working fine." But of course, I can't leave well enough alone. The Vita thing sucked because it just ended up being the save location needed to be moved, in most cases, and the upgrade didn't handle that properly (it was supposed to). I think it's actually marked as fixed on the v40 beta change log. If you don't mind my asking, what errors are you seeing running Model 2?

My best guess is that it didn't like something that was changed in es_systems.cfg. Did you verify if the libretro core was working prior to rebooting your system? You can try reverting that file to the unmodified version to resolve the error you're getting. The "3DS" section of that file should look like this with the changes I prooposed: <system> <fullname>3DS</fullname> <name>3ds</name> <manufacturer>Nintendo</manufacturer> <release>2011</release> <hardware>portable</hardware> <path>/userdata/roms/3ds</path> <extension>.3ds .3dsx .cxi .axf .elf</extension> <command>emulatorlauncher %CONTROLLERSCONFIG% -system %SYSTEM% -rom %ROM% -gameinfoxml %GAMEINFOXML% -systemname %SYSTEMNAME%</command> <platform>3ds</platform> <theme>3ds</theme> <emulators> <emulator name="citra"> <cores> <core default="true">citra</core> </cores> </emulator> <emulator name="libretro"> <cores> <core>citra</core> </cores> </emulator> </emulators> </system> I'm not sure how much spacing matters in this file, but for the sake of argument let's assume that it does and make sure the spacing aligns with what is already used throughout the file. I copied the above from one of my working v39 systems. I assume you're running the same since it is the latest stable version of Batocera. In the absolute worst case scenario where you can't get it booting again, you can always reinstall Batocera and copy over your last /userdata backup to get up and running again reasonably quickly. If you don't have any backups, I would certainly get in the habit of making routine backups of the /userdata folder and storing them on another system or external media. You never know when something will go awry.

Ah my favorite breakfast cereal...Boot Loops. Sorry, I had to make a bad joke. If you wanna go back to 38, just plug Batocera into your Windows PC and follow the steps at wiki.batocera.org/upgrade_manually. There is a section on doing an upgrade/downgrade manually from a downloaded boot.tar.xz file. Basically you can download the v38 boot.tar.xz and extract it onto the boot partition of your Batocera drive. Always be sure to do a backup prior to any upgrades in the future, since anything can happen. I periodically back up my /userdata folder to another machine on my network just in case. That way if the worst does happen, I can just install Batocera from scratch, throw my userdata folder on it, and I'm good to go.