Batocera Raspberry Pi 5 Emulation Setup Guide

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:59 - Stuff you may need
02:08 - Batocera Download
02:34 - Pi Imager
03:11 - Write Image
04:36 - Batocera First Boot
05:07 - Map Buttons
06:10 - Turn Off Background Music
06:37 - Safe Shutdown
06:56 - Exit a Game
07:13 - Network Setup
08:08 - Update Batocera
08:27 - BIOS & ROMs
11:18 - Update Game Lists
11:40 - Copy over USB
12:53 - Check for Missing BIOS
13:22 - ROMSet incompatible
13:51 - Download New Themes
14:17 - Apply Theme
14:56 - Scrape Artwork
16:16 - Game List View Style
16:42 - Locate Games
17:08 - Play Arcade Game
17:24 - Aspect Ratio (per game)
17:50 - Aspect Ratio (global)
18:28 - Overclocking
19:15 - Light Guns (Sinden)
19:53 - Light Guns (AimTrak)
20:16 - Pi5 on Legends Ultimate Arcade
20:47 - Automatic Game Collections
21:13 - Recoil
22:01 - Remove Decorations
22:34 - Set to Full Screen
22:56 - Outro

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A few quick tips:
• Exit a game: SELECT+START
• Insert a credit (Arcade): SELECT
• Start a game: START or A
• Exit Emulation Station: START, move down to QUIT

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[Deftonesd]

What a great video, getting Retropie into Raspberry pi 5 is a bitch, but for the first time, I got Batocera and I'm not going back to Retropie. All your steps worked flawlessly.

[galbyman]

After watching this In am dumping Retropie and moving to this platform.

[targetrein]

I'm having a horrible time trying to get gamecube games to run on Batocera Pi5 (Dolphin), even at 1x using Vulcan - very, very choppy. Any tips you could recommend on getting these things to run at playable speeds? Great guide btw. All of the older stuff (Dreamcast, SNES, etc) seems to be running perfectly.

[richarddukard]

2 important CONS for batocera on the pi5 compared to retropie or even other pcs running batocera.
1. Batocera on the pi5 does NOT support ps2.
2. Batocera on the Pi5 does NOT support flatpaks or Wine, so you wont be able to install web browsers, windows games, steam, etc.

[chrisumali]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[DjSoundcrusher]

Is it possible to emulate gamecube games with the pi 5? The 4 isn't powerfull enough, will this do the trick?

[walledrodeo]

Great video very helpful thank u I have a question I have a 4tb hard drive of games now since there only a 128 gig sd card how do I get all my games on it

[MABstr]

I'm sorry to bother but I can't get my pi5 to boot Batocera. I try flashing the image as you show on the video but I'm never able to safely remove the sd. When starting the pi it powers on but nothing boots up

[devincurrie]

Great video, I have played different frontend and I like both EmuStation and Batocera.

Which console system that RPi 5 cannot emulate yet at this time? E.g. PS3

[melkert]

Hmm thanks for this.
I was over complicating this.
Sounds like i need to use my xbox 360 controller, have it plugged into the port first before having it boot.

I was just trying to use a USB keyboard to move around the menus on the PI to find the bluetooth menu, nope, key bindings don't work...
Some keys do work, just not the arrow keys.

Thanks man, I'll give it a go with my 360 wired controller to start with and then attempt to pair some other wireless ones.
Does the USB keyboard have move arrow and enter functionality whatsoever to add controllers?

[ystebadvonschlegel]

I have an old Wells Gardner D9205 CRT monitor with VGA only input. Will this system work with old CRT VGA outputs? I've struggled to get normal windows to even boot to it and most front ends aren't designed for that small screen size.

[RonnieMohammed-vo]

After installing batocera and using fbneo successfully to play roms, is there a way to remap buttons inside the FBNEO emulator. I cant map buttons for roms loaded with FBNEO, can anyone help?

[RonnieMohammed-vo]

Can any say how to remap buttons when using the FBNEO emulator in Batocera?

[TAZWK]

What do you think raspberry pi 5 or beelink mini pc for running batocera?

[mikem]

Is there a way to completely shutdown the system so light turns off?

[opium_apple]

I already have raspberry pi os installed on my pi5 4gb, and I am struggling to get emulation station to launch from terminal. Can this do that?

[MyChannel-vmdw]

Please do an ANDROID curated 1tb image build so we can finally bring turn key emulation to phones.

[Remert]

Any recommandations for pinball games with a pi5 running batocera?

[gooseuk]

Where is a good place to get all the bios from ? Could do with every one in one place and dragging them over.

[kiodiekin]

Over clocking does nothing for emulation