One cool thing i have found with the video snap screensaver is that pressing start on your controller when you see a video snap it will load that game for you to start playing
the random video screensaver is not only the coolest part about having videos its my new favorite feature for retro devices! you can choose to play any game, as shanb had mentioned, simply by pressing start. you can also skip each video by pressing select
thanks for this video. you should use the default theme for such demonstration while other theme not always implement all. one point of the default theme is that it is here to demonstate all ui feature.
Have you done a video on changing out the background music? The tutorial through their website is very vague. The paths it shows for the original music is empty and when adding in my own music which meets the requirements, I just can't get it to play. Defaults to the built in music. Which for me is like 4 songs and one of them is beyond annoying lol.
Great video, quick question. When i launch a game the screenshot of the game is full screen and looks distorted. How do imake it small screenshot like yours?
Hello I have problem in my batocera 35...Maybe you know why after pressing select and appearing view options not show advanced system options at the very bottom...were previously visible...
hi can you please help me? how to reload all games back to normal? why i still have over 120,000+ games roms in the roms folder but i only have 102,573 games that show on all game list?
Another great tutorial. But one question, in the default theme there is no game carousel option in the game list view style. But my raspberry is 3B and is no so powerfull for this theme. Is there anyother theme thac can display game logos instead of plain text but is also light for my 3B to handle?
I have a question about the VRAM limit that maxes out at 1000MB (at least on my mini desktop that has Intel graphics chips). Is that limit for the VRAM used only during the Batocera GUI, or is is for everything being emulated on the device as well? I assume if I had a full sized desktop with a real graphics card (between 2GB to 6GB), THEN maybe the video ram limit would have a lot more features in the gui and maybe there wouldn't be just a 1000MB VRAM limit. I could build my next Batocera Linux emulation station out of a refurbished workstation with a graphics card, instead of my micro Lenovo Thinkcentre pc. I threw in extra memory to max it to 16GB. It has a quad-core i5 cpu and it runs pretty fast, but I think if I want more out of my GPU, I might have to settle on a larger desktop. But anyway, if you know anything about how to alter the vram cap, any help or comment back would be appreciated. Thatnk you.
I've been looking the most basic thing for two days and couldn't find anything a normal person can understand, how to restore settings and everything to default? Like a soft reset??
You mean on some themes when they show a game video running on the front system view? I think there are themes that may include that as part of theme but from the many themes I tested I think most rely on video snaps you have for games. So if for eg you dont have any it would just show a static video screen, like a white noise video of nothing.
I'm ready 4 dis series, me want a delete button on the screen shot viewer, the screen shot that appears as a console, i want 2 delete them while watching the image on batocera but only has the zoom and go back.
@@BatoceraNation I will, also, if u're planning another tutorial video, How to reset ur defaults in batocera will be very helpful, I'm case we messed it up, lol, also I don't know how 2 use the cheats on retro arch.
Hey sry to bother you im getting in to batocera because of you thx.I was just wandering on the screensaver video's what dirt bike rom and system was that? The one @ 17.27
Hi Jeffrey! Unfortunately, I don't know. I have thousands of games and the screensaver randomly picks one of them. I don't know that one in particular since I haven't played with it. Sorry.
@@BatoceraNation Thx man! Maybe you know the answer to this.I have an intel/nvidia gpu laptop(i have enabled nvidia by removing the #'S from windows)my laptop freezes on games in nvidia mode which i fixed mostly by turning off vsync but FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST I CAN NOT ENABLE HDMI OUTPUT.UNDER VIDEO OUTPUT IT ONLY SAYS E-P10 OR SOMETHING! However when i boot into batocera my tv/projector(i tried both) shows the splash screen the cuts off and reappears on my laptop.I tried a mix of the hash tags on and off in the notepad in windows,yet nothing works.ITS DRIVING NUTS LOL,HOPEFULLY YOU CAN HELP OR POINT ME TO SOMETHING,I CAN NOT FIND A FORUM OR SOLUTION
I tired several versions from 33 to 30 ,tried ssh commands,tried boot.conf globalvideoput=hdmi10(also hdmi 1-15 since in settings audio came thru by setting it to custom) eventually i deleted it and just switched to retrobat thru windows thx man
@@jeffreypeters5578 oh then you went thru all the steps. My next step would have tried video out in settings and manually editing it in the config file. Last attempt might be using a USB C to hdmi Adapter. But I would go with retrobat or Launchbox to get the Nvidia support.
hello i love your videos and wondered if you could do a video showing how to set up custom system for example i would like to separate psp and psp minis
As usual one request from me man. It's about net play. I know how to join and know the requirements for it but do not know how to initiate my own net play. Tutorial on this , please ! Thanks.
Oh I just found out while scraping manuals. Enter the system. Hold "A" on the game you wish to initiate netplay . Start net play host. I gues that'd be it. Since this is a retroarch feature , will work for the retroarch core based systems I guess. Got work tomorrow so haven't tried it.Hope it helps. But yea, retro achievements and netplay can be one of your helpful videos. 🙂
I have Batocera 32 and there is no Arcade Panel, Super NES, Alternate Super NES or Xbox One controller help icons,why is that? The Arcade Panel setting is the closest to the 6 Button Button Layout that would make it easy to navigate using my 8-BIT Do 6 Button Genesis/Saturn Style Controller without having to memorize which buttons do what like which button is Back and which is Select or Enter on the 6 Button Controller. It's Annoying that Batocera still does not properly support the 6 Button Controller and only supports controllers with the button layout in the Diamond arrangement, when you go to set up any controller it only shows the action buttons in the 4 button Diamond style layout so there are no Z or C buttons.
Great video. I do have a question that I still haven’t found the answer to. How in the world do you quit a game without the console turning off? This is driving me up the damn wall
Hotkey and start at same time by default. So if you havent changed the default hotkey button try select (that would be default) and start at same time.
Awesome coverage of a whole bunch of UI-related settings! Unfortunately, this is right before the patch that's going to rename a bunch of them! But hopefully it should still be easy enough to work out what is what.
He Man, Great Video. I am new on Batocera but love it and your video’s help a lot :-D You have much more options in your “THEME CONFIGURATION” menu. I am on version 32 and cant find the “REGION” or “BUTTON” settings etc. Am I doing something wrong or missing something? Thank you if you give me a response:-D
I'm sorry. I'm on Batocera Beta 33. I didn't realize there was much change until after I uploaded the video. It is safe to use the Beta 33. You can upgrade from within Batocera.
Same here. In fact, I have the exact same v32 (2021/09/20) as Batocera Nation here in his video he's using for the example, but do not have 'Theme Configuration' under Appearance in UI Settings. I have 'Gamelist View Style' instead. Want to change to US region to get Genesis, but have nowhere to select it. Is there a way to enable this somehow?
as far as i have read pi4 doesnt natively support vertical screen mode. is there any plans to get it working on a pi4 or a workaround to force it? thats all ive been wanting. seems we have to use android to get that.
When it comes to actual game performance though from what I read on the Batocera forum it doesnt matter if you are running games off a usb2,usb3,HDD or SSD. The exception though may be PS3 games though.. Which would only matter if your Batocera PC is powerful enough to emulate PS3 anyway. Using an SSD may boot your system a little quicker and boot large disc games quicker too. And ofcourse as BN mentioned, it should also make the UI more snappy too if you have say video snaps. Id love to use an SSD myself but Id need a 2TB one but those are still a little expensive for my taste. So using a regular internal HDD is still a good choice when it comes to value for storage size.
@@fonzitheman Cheers for chiming in man :-) were running on a pi 400 so no go on the ps3 anyway until maybe pi 5 or 6 hehe and the price is the big one since me and my m8 are working on the ultimate emu collection were going for every rom on every system that'll run so were looking at 8-16tb..... i'm hoping it'll work out to 8tb not 16tb though because the wd_black 8tb is a superb ext hdd which i'm running on my ps5 currently so i know it works well. --- What are you guys thoughts on total size for all roms up to ps1/dreamcast era? --- Hyperspins largest is 16tb but that goes to a newer generation and me and my m8 are working to rid ourselves of duplicates suxh as removing all french/german/japanese versions etc.
You can also download many ES themes on the internet and use them in Batocera, since it uses ES too. Most wont have the theme cfg option though so not as customizable since may be designed for other OS's like the Pi. (Hope this comment doesnt get deleted BN.. Cant make it much shorter lol)
Check email BN. Man, i tried to comment and edit so many times and didnt work. I made a shorter cut down comment of my original too, and it showed, i rechecked 30secs later and was there. Now its gone… TF ..I give up.
thanks alot, i ask how could you record the screen with batocera ?
Hey i need to know too....have yoy found?
One cool thing i have found with the video snap screensaver is that pressing start on your controller when you see a video snap it will load that game for you to start playing
That is cool
Oh wow! I didn't know that. Wish that I had known that I would have added it on the video. Thanks for sharing. 👍
the random video screensaver is not only the coolest part about having videos its my new favorite feature for retro devices! you can choose to play any game, as shanb had mentioned, simply by pressing start. you can also skip each video by pressing select
thanks for this video. you should use the default theme for such demonstration while other theme not always implement all. one point of the default theme is that it is here to demonstate all ui feature.
Good suggestion.
Have you done a video on changing out the background music? The tutorial through their website is very vague. The paths it shows for the original music is empty and when adding in my own music which meets the requirements, I just can't get it to play. Defaults to the built in music. Which for me is like 4 songs and one of them is beyond annoying lol.
Not yet. But this is a great idea for a future tutorial. I will put it in my list.
Great idea
Great video, quick question. When i launch a game the screenshot of the game is full screen and looks distorted. How do imake it small screenshot like yours?
Great video. Would it be possible to add a clock on one of the corner while playing games?
Hello I have problem in my batocera 35...Maybe you know why after pressing select and appearing view options not show advanced system options at the very bottom...were previously visible...
Great video very informative ☺
Is there anyway to have game controls displayed on screen when opening each game or something like that? Would be super helpful
I have a question im running batocera on old laptop i doesn't have a hdmi output is here a way to screencast the screen to a android tv?
Van you make a video about how to create new collections on Batocera? Thank you.
Yes, that's next.
hi can you please help me? how to reload all games back to normal? why i still have over 120,000+ games roms in the roms folder but i only have 102,573 games that show on all game list?
i have a issue on my batocera, evertime i change the game or restart the ES, the configs i've made are reseted , can u help me?
subbed! thank you for the great videos. I really appreciate your hard work here.
Thank you!
Awesome vids!! By any chance are you from the East Coast?
Bingo! Born and raised in NYC. Living in Texas now.
@@BatoceraNation I live in Killeen, Texas. My family is from P.R. and South Jersey
does anyone know..is there a way to disable the menu option "delete game"? This way it doesn't get deleted accidentally.
Switch your system settings from FULL to KIOSK.
@@nerdloftgaming thank you
Another great tutorial. But one question, in the default theme there is no game carousel option in the game list view style. But my raspberry is 3B and is no so powerfull for this theme. Is there anyother theme thac can display game logos instead of plain text but is also light for my 3B to handle?
Since I don't own one, I'm not too clear. Download different themes and try them out to pick your best one.
Please, does anyone know the name of theses games that show on the video?
17:19 - A Mario Game
17:27 - A Motocross Game
How to change screen brightness batocera?
I have a question about the VRAM limit that maxes out at 1000MB (at least on my mini desktop that has Intel graphics chips). Is that limit for the VRAM used only during the Batocera GUI, or is is for everything being emulated on the device as well?
I assume if I had a full sized desktop with a real graphics card (between 2GB to 6GB), THEN maybe the video ram limit would have a lot more features in the gui and maybe there wouldn't be just a 1000MB VRAM limit.
I could build my next Batocera Linux emulation station out of a refurbished workstation with a graphics card, instead of my micro Lenovo Thinkcentre pc.
I threw in extra memory to max it to 16GB. It has a quad-core i5 cpu and it runs pretty fast, but I think if I want more out of my GPU, I might have to settle on a larger desktop.
But anyway, if you know anything about how to alter the vram cap, any help or comment back would be appreciated. Thatnk you.
Man, you are super cool! I love the way your present your videos. Thanks a bunch for this amazing content. I'm loving Batocera!
Thanks so much!
I've been looking the most basic thing for two days and couldn't find anything a normal person can understand, how to restore settings and everything to default? Like a soft reset??
Amazing like always.
Thank you so much 😀
Is there a way to make your battery % show?
Do you have to scrape videos to have video previews in the themes? Or do some of the themes automatically come with video previews? Thanks
You mean on some themes when they show a game video running on the front system view? I think there are themes that may include that as part of theme but from the many themes I tested I think most rely on video snaps you have for games. So if for eg you dont have any it would just show a static video screen, like a white noise video of nothing.
Very useful, thanks! great channel! Batocera is amazing
Thanks!
Thanks for all the work you are doing, has really helped in my Emulation build.
I love comments like these.
I'm ready 4 dis series, me want a delete button on the screen shot viewer, the screen shot that appears as a console, i want 2 delete them while watching the image on batocera but only has the zoom and go back.
You might post your great suggestion on the Batocera forum.
@@BatoceraNation I will, also, if u're planning another tutorial video, How to reset ur defaults in batocera will be very helpful, I'm case we messed it up, lol, also I don't know how 2 use the cheats on retro arch.
I have investigate in yutuv, I'm using cheats.
Today I found that the screen shot can indeed be deleted.
Hey sry to bother you im getting in to batocera because of you thx.I was just wandering on the screensaver video's what dirt bike rom and system was that? The one @ 17.27
Hi Jeffrey! Unfortunately, I don't know. I have thousands of games and the screensaver randomly picks one of them. I don't know that one in particular since I haven't played with it. Sorry.
@@BatoceraNation Thx man! Maybe you know the answer to this.I have an intel/nvidia gpu laptop(i have enabled nvidia by removing the #'S from windows)my laptop freezes on games in nvidia mode which i fixed mostly by turning off vsync but FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST I CAN NOT ENABLE HDMI OUTPUT.UNDER VIDEO OUTPUT IT ONLY SAYS E-P10 OR SOMETHING! However when i boot into batocera my tv/projector(i tried both) shows the splash screen the cuts off and reappears on my laptop.I tried a mix of the hash tags on and off in the notepad in windows,yet nothing works.ITS DRIVING NUTS LOL,HOPEFULLY YOU CAN HELP OR POINT ME TO SOMETHING,I CAN NOT FIND A FORUM OR SOLUTION
@@jeffreypeters5578 maybe try making a new image with different version of Batocera. That's definitely a weird bug.
I tired several versions from 33 to 30 ,tried ssh commands,tried boot.conf globalvideoput=hdmi10(also hdmi 1-15 since in settings audio came thru by setting it to custom) eventually i deleted it and just switched to retrobat thru windows thx man
@@jeffreypeters5578 oh then you went thru all the steps. My next step would have tried video out in settings and manually editing it in the config file. Last attempt might be using a USB C to hdmi Adapter. But I would go with retrobat or Launchbox to get the Nvidia support.
I'm looking for an option to make the UI vertical...I know how to "tate" the games but not the UI.Anyone knows this or isn't supported?
hello i love your videos and wondered if you could do a video showing how to set up custom system for example i would like to separate psp and psp minis
Super helpful
As usual one request from me man. It's about net play. I know how to join and know the requirements for it but do not know how to initiate my own net play. Tutorial on this , please ! Thanks.
2nd this .
I will add this to my list of future tutorials. I have not tried this myself but I plan to experiment with it.
Oh I just found out while scraping manuals. Enter the system. Hold "A" on the game you wish to initiate netplay . Start net play host. I gues that'd be it. Since this is a retroarch feature , will work for the retroarch core based systems I guess. Got work tomorrow so haven't tried it.Hope it helps. But yea, retro achievements and netplay can be one of your helpful videos. 🙂
I have Batocera 32 and there is no Arcade Panel, Super NES, Alternate Super NES or Xbox One controller help icons,why is that? The Arcade Panel setting is the closest to the 6 Button Button Layout that would make it easy to navigate using my 8-BIT Do 6 Button Genesis/Saturn Style Controller without having to memorize which buttons do what like which button is Back and which is Select or Enter on the 6 Button Controller. It's Annoying that Batocera still does not properly support the 6 Button Controller and only supports controllers with the button layout in the Diamond arrangement, when you go to set up any controller it only shows the action buttons in the 4 button Diamond style layout so there are no Z or C buttons.
You might want to post your suggestion in the Batocera forums
Great video. I do have a question that I still haven’t found the answer to. How in the world do you quit a game without the console turning off? This is driving me up the damn wall
Hotkey and start at same time by default.
So if you havent changed the default hotkey button try select (that would be default) and start at same time.
Anyone know how to set fast forwarding as a Toggle instead of a hold in Games? I’m on a raspberry pi 4.
Awesome coverage of a whole bunch of UI-related settings! Unfortunately, this is right before the patch that's going to rename a bunch of them! But hopefully it should still be easy enough to work out what is what.
I've done both tutorials using the Beta Version 33. I will take a look at the final version to see if this needs to be redone.
It's the only Software with a "Scratch-Feature" :D
He Man, Great Video. I am new on Batocera but love it and your video’s help a lot :-D
You have much more options in your “THEME CONFIGURATION” menu. I am on version 32 and cant find the “REGION” or “BUTTON” settings etc. Am I doing something wrong or missing something?
Thank you if you give me a response:-D
I'm sorry. I'm on Batocera Beta 33. I didn't realize there was much change until after I uploaded the video. It is safe to use the Beta 33. You can upgrade from within Batocera.
Same here. In fact, I have the exact same v32 (2021/09/20) as Batocera Nation here in his video he's using for the example, but do not have 'Theme Configuration' under Appearance in UI Settings. I have 'Gamelist View Style' instead. Want to change to US region to get Genesis, but have nowhere to select it. Is there a way to enable this somehow?
as far as i have read pi4 doesnt natively support vertical screen mode. is there any plans to get it working on a pi4 or a workaround to force it? thats all ive been wanting. seems we have to use android to get that.
You will have to ask the Developers on the Batocera forums or Discover Server.
Really need a tutorial on ADDING EMULATIONS.
The developers are in charge of that. In addition, if the emulator doesn't have a Linux version, it becomes more difficult.
You can try to run emulators in Wine. I’ve had some success.
Great video!
How do you get full screen?
In Batocera's Menu? In the games?
@@BatoceraNation well in the menu it does not go full screen when I rotate it?
@@Jaysson83 Are you using a handheld? If so, which one?
@@BatoceraNation oh I am it’s a Onexplayer
@@BatoceraNation I was able to get the menu full screen but the games still don’t display full screen
man how to turnoff menu voice guide?
Try F3 on keyboard.
Or, in system settings/screen reader text to to speech.
@@fonzitheman thanks man, i turn off screen reader and its worked
Thank you ...how to install popcap games?
Some might be successfully installed using the Windows installation method. Not all those games will work.
are you running from an sd, ssd or hdd?
Cheers :-)
I run it off an SSD.
@@BatoceraNation thx for the info :-) seeing your speeds and knowing its an ssd will help me in deciding which storage medium to go with :-)
If you have a lot of games and scraped images and videos. SSD is the way to go.
When it comes to actual game performance though from what I read on the Batocera forum it doesnt matter if you are running games off a usb2,usb3,HDD or SSD. The exception though may be PS3 games though.. Which would only matter if your Batocera PC is powerful enough to emulate PS3 anyway.
Using an SSD may boot your system a little quicker and boot large disc games quicker too. And ofcourse as BN mentioned, it should also make the UI more snappy too if you have say video snaps.
Id love to use an SSD myself but Id need a 2TB one but those are still a little expensive for my taste.
So using a regular internal HDD is still a good choice when it comes to value for storage size.
@@fonzitheman Cheers for chiming in man :-) were running on a pi 400 so no go on the ps3 anyway until maybe pi 5 or 6 hehe and the price is the big one since me and my m8 are working on the ultimate emu collection were going for every rom on every system that'll run so were looking at 8-16tb..... i'm hoping it'll work out to 8tb not 16tb though because the wd_black 8tb is a superb ext hdd which i'm running on my ps5 currently so i know it works well.
--- What are you guys thoughts on total size for all roms up to ps1/dreamcast era? ---
Hyperspins largest is 16tb but that goes to a newer generation and me and my m8 are working to rid ourselves of duplicates suxh as removing all french/german/japanese versions etc.
Please chapters or add bookmarks to your videos.
You can also download many ES themes on the internet and use them in Batocera, since it uses ES too.
Most wont have the theme cfg option though so not as customizable since may be designed for other OS's like the Pi.
(Hope this comment doesnt get deleted BN.. Cant make it much shorter lol)
This one finally did not get deleted!
Someone lives near a highway. Lol.
Wt.. My comment got deleted?
By yt? I didnt add links or anything, dont understand..
I don't know what happened. I haven't deleted anything. Usually gets deleted when there is a link. So it's odd that it got deleted. Try again.
@@BatoceraNation
Yeah i know, odd.
Will post again soon.
Check email BN.
Man, i tried to comment and edit so many times and didnt work.
I made a shorter cut down comment of my original too, and it showed, i rechecked 30secs later and was there.
Now its gone… TF ..I give up.
@@fonzitheman youtube has recently been a lot more strict with what it deems as spam comments even though they aren't spam