How To Create Your Own Batocera Emulation Gaming Build Image | Retro Gaming Guy Tutorial

In this video I show you how to create your own Batocera build from scratch.

00:00 - Intro
01:36 - Download Batocera
07:53 - Download BIOS Files
12:06 - Install BIOS Files
15:47 - Install Roms
20:55 - Connect WiFi
22:30 - Scrape Games
24:52 - Add Themes
28:36 - Map/Setup Controllers
30:57 - Ending

For more information on recommended products for your Batocera Build, check out the links below...

SATA SSD/HDD Adapter (as shown in video)

Samsung 512GB SSD

Samsung 1TB SSD

Samsung 2TB SSD

Samsung 4TB SSD

Seagate Barracude 1TB HDD

Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD

Seagate Barracuda 4TB SSD

BATOCERA BIOS FILES

Check out the videos below on various Batocera Tutorials.

Setup Dreamcast on Batocera

Add BIOS Files to Batocera

Fix Audio on Batocera

Improve PS2 Emulation on Batocera

Setup PS3 on Batocera

Setup Sega Model 3 on Batocera

Add Gamecube to Batocera

Enable NVidia Drivers on Batocera

Remove Vertical Lines in Batocera Games

How To Setup & Use Screenscraper on Batocera

Add Wii Games on Batocera

Improve N64 Emulation on Batocera

Map & Setup An Xbox Style Controller on Batocera

Map & Setup Gamecube Style Controller

Setup a Bluetooth Controller on Batocera

Change Your Batocera Theme

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[saiyanraoh]

Thanks for a current batocera guide! You earned a sub. I’m going to put this on a 5TB external HDD. Going to run this on my gaming PC and my incoming GPD Win Max 2

[kevinhanley]

That's a very good guide! It's worth pointing out that not all Wi-Fi dongles work, so you need to check with a compatibility list. I've had no problems with getting Batocera to work with 2 x PCIe expansion cards to USB 3.0 for an additional 8 x USB 3.0 devices (gaming controllers and hard drives work), but will only boot into Batocera from the motherboard's USB port.

[stressless]

Awesome guide mate. Thanks for making it 🎉🎉

[onebigbadgamer]

Your video tutorial helped me create an amazing retro gaming Dell pc system with over 100, 000+ games. Thanks @RetroGamingGuy 😀

[peternieves]

Just wanted to say great guide very helpful. Thank you.

[ladreamin]

This is amazing! this video should have more views Gonna try this with my raspberry

[VeggieGamer]

Holy cow!! I spied that Zak McKracken and the Alien Mind Benders theme at - 27:18 !! :D

Great video man! Planning on getting this soon myself! :)

[DaisyHollowBooks]

I really appreciate those guide. I just got a PC that I want to use for gaming.

[jucealva]

Excellent way to explain how to configure it, thanks for the contribution.

[bill]

It's worth mentioning that when scraping it is best to have your room file names be "clean" (removing "USA!! V1.2" etc). This will get a far better coverage of your games as the scraper may not identify the game correctly. I think the alternative to this is to change the meta data for each individual game. Changing the actual file names is a far quicker process overall if you have thousands of ROMs.

[adonian]

at least your video shows me where to get etcher... the other 2 videos I watched didn't... THX now I can build a dedicated PC for retro games.

[cheynespc]

followed the video made it work and used gpio of raspi for controller
thankyou.

[bilalali-hqtk]

nice bro good videos and help ful thanks

[KWPZ]

I put it on a SanDisk USB drive. It's the same USB drive used by another Batocera video guide here on YT. Mine hang or screen freezes while playing games even on low end systems like the NES although it also like this on PS1 games and in times even on the main Batocera menu.

I'm using an Acer Aspire ES13 laptop that is on Windows 10. This laptop can play the standalone Duck Station emulator for PS1 and run games no problem.

Now I put RetroBat on my USB and it works fine. I'm just wondering why it hangs on Batocera.

[Garry]

Great video as always. Ive got batocera on a hdd with games but i would like to copy the hdd to a ssd but im not confident enough to begin to know how and what to do it and what software to use as i don't want to mess it up. If you could would you do a easy to follow video on how to please.

[gregsmith]

I've also used a Windows 10 Bootable usb stick (Hiren’s BootCD PE x64 ) and Roadkil's Disk Image 1.6 software. To successfully burn the downloaded Batocera IMG file to an internal HDD/SSD without having to remove it from the computer.

[svenneumann]

i just have screenscraper fr to scrape on my ps4 build and it fails. i have a look now into files if it easy can be changed. any general tip? i saw some infos where 3 sources for scraping were available

[MergedElement]

Do you have a guide on how to add your own picture, video and description for modded game?

[choboutube]

Cheers. What about saving the batocera drive as an image please?

[Dai]

How do you resize it to add kore games? I deleted it the # after I add and noticed not enough room? Thxs