How to Quickly Copy Your Games into Batocera

Quick tutorial that will show you how you can quickly copy your games and files into Batocera. It's a new feature introduced with Batocera 31.

I want to emphasize that you connect your Ethernet cable from your Windows PC to your Batocera system. I did not connect it to my Wifi Router.

Links About Products Mentioned in the Video (Amazon Affiliate):

USB Hub with Ethernet Port

Ethernet Cable:

My Batocera Systems:

Our Discord:

Our Website:

Our Retrogaming Store where you can purchase T-Shirts, Hoodies, Crewneck Sweatshirts, Long Sleeve T-Shirts, Baseball T-Shirts, Masks, Mugs, Pillows, Totes, Tapestries, Pins, Phone Cases, Stickers, Magnets, and other merchandise with or without our logo.

[BlindMaphisto]

Finding this video after spending an hour trying to get my steamdeck to connect to my windows share was such a huge relief. Amazing that batocera does this better than microsoft. Thank you!

[sethawarren]

I really appreciate your videos. I’m building a Batocera arcade to hang on my wall and couldn’t do it without your help. Now this is a strange random thing to comment on, but I have to say you really have a great voice. You should consider public speaking, story telling, audio book recording, etc. you have a nice tone and intonation in the way you speak. Or just carry on with YouTube lol. Thanks again bro.

[dustinrossi]

You do the best batocera videos ever man !! May not be the " best " front end but I'm loving it. You've helped make my system enjoyable for me and the kids making memories ! Thanks can't put a price on that. Ya doing God's work

[smackm]

Thx for this video. Realy easy to acsess the shared folder now. You are the best !

[RetroRick]

Awesome, the speed got 10X faster here, thank you sir 👏

[ST-vtpj]

You got options: "Just thought I'd share what worked for me. So you have your USB flashed with Batocera, right. For me, I had to go with 31 for my out-of-date PC. Now how do I add ROMs to my USB? I suppose I could add ROMs via SSH but that would require me to have 2 different devices. That's out. Here's a quicker way. You have your Batocera USB flashed. Grab a second USB. The larger the capacity, the less time you'll be spending transferring ROMS. On that 2nd USB, flash it with Linux Mint. Once it's flashed with Linux Mint, open that drive and you'll see a bunch of folders. Create a NEW folder and name it whatever would be easily recognizable by you. In that folder, put your ROMS that you are going to transfer. I suggest keeping things simple and keep everything grouped by systems/emulators. Once you have these ROMS saved in the folder that is easily recognizable to the 2nd drive just leave it plugged it there plugged in. Set it and forget it as Ron Popeil would say. Now if you aren't already familiar with how to get to your PC's BIOS menu, be sure you find out before moving on. When you're ready, restart your PC and perform the steps to get to BIOS menu. For my Dell, I pressed F2 once my PC turned back on. Once you're in the BIOS menu, go to the tab at the top labeled "BOOT". 2 settings need to be changed: "secure boot" needs to be disabled and "boot order #1" needs to be changed to "USB". * When you're ready to go back to Windows, just revert to what it was originally. Once you made sure you have the correct settings, go to the "Exit/Quit" tab at the far right and select "SAVE AND RESTART". If you did everything correctly, when your PC starts back up, it should be booting Batocera. Once Batocera is loaded and you're on the main screen, hit "F1" which should take you into Batocera's "file manager". In the column on the left, you SHOULD see your "Mint" drive listed under it's easily recognizable name. Open that up and you should see your ROMS in its easily recognized folder. "Select all" and either cut or copy. Then look again at the column on the left and there should be an actual "ROMS" folder. Clicking on that will open all the different emulator folder. Now since you were wise and grouped your ROMS according to systems, you can just open the appropriate folder and paste everything into each one. Once you are finished transferring, go to the settings at the top left and click on "close window". That will take you back to Batocera's main menu. Click on "start" to bring up the "settings". Go to "quit" at the very bottom and select "restart systen". When Batocera has reloaded, your ROMS are now listed under each emulator. And if you REALLY want to save yourself A LOT of time and headache searching for ROMS that actually work, head straight to "the vault" at vimm's lair. 100% success rate with EVERY SINGLE ROM. Tell em Large Marge sent cha!"

[KaraokeDuov]

Here' an idea. EmuElec has a built in feature in there ES menu, you select to copy roms from a flash drive or external HD and just let it go.

[Aesop]

Works perfectly from a Linux PC as well (typed the same text in KDE's Dolphin file manager - worked perfectly!)

[chansolkim]

are u connect the lan cable trough router or u just go from a laptop or a pc n then goes to the batocera computer ??, in my case i still got 2-3 MB eventhough i using my ethernet cable from my first laptop to my second laptop that have batocera in it

[TheObserver]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!

This video really helped me out. Putting Batocera on my Pi Boy DMG :D

[brandonadcock]

My wifi is connected and I downloaded themes and it works. But I can't get the share folder to populate on my pc to put the roms on, what am I doing wrong?

[noentry]

My pc cant pick up batocera in any ftp ethernet laptop to desktop network am i doing something wrong?

[FarizCahyo]

Great!

May I ask something, for windows user to open the batocera linux-system using another application something like DiskGenius etc. just to copy files while operating windows into batocera system. would it be works? I've done it before, but none my copied roms files didn't shows up on batocera

[saibot]

How can I change the Game load screen? currently mine is loading an image for any game.

[foxxxdie]

Can I create and share a folder in a second hard drive to acces via local network?

[osmanmshahaj]

Is it possible to access a share drive on Batocera? I have a drive with just roms on it I want to access from my windows PC.

[ErandNatsa]

Please Help, how to insert game into MaMe folder?

[thatjournalguy]

Great work on ALL your videos. I have successfully set up my own Batocera system on a portable HD that my gaming PC can boot off. However, does this trick work with this configuration? I mean, trying to access the same portable HD on the same PC but it's booted up to Windows? I can't seem to get it work.

Or are you assuming that my Batocera system is on a DIFFERENT computer on the same network? Please confirm because I think I'll save so much time doing things this way.

[johnhanes]

I down loaded a few ROMs and now the Dolphin emulator will not launch any games, the Libereto Version works though. Also the new ROMs downloaded did work and now will not load. What could be the issue?

[doom]

If you have your windows drive and batocera drive in the same pc, can you share your file using this method?