How to Install Batocera 31 on a PC

An easy installation guide on how to install Batocera 31 (Batocera 5.31) with information also on how to obtain the Bios 31 files and a Rom guide as well.

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[sbash]

Well....I just subscribed to you my friend!
Great video. I have some experience messing around with emulators and modding systems, but my Barocera experience has been limited to a pre-made image on a pi4 (which is awesome)
I've been wanting to make a more powerful system with an older PC and this is the channel I've been looking for.
good work

[anonymousanonymous_]

Nice ! Looking forward to the video going over the new features as well 😀

[intrepido]

Thank you for the notification, i have been waiting for v31, starting to prepare my USB, this is where having a hard drive dedicated only 2 store roms pays off. : V

[FreezerBurnt]

In my opinion Botacera works way better than other Frontends. The install and configuration with this video helped alot. Thanks again.

[westinmcleod]

If you want to boot from an internal HDD rather than a USB stick.. Follow the same process but hook up a sata HDD and get either a sata to usb adapter or just manually hook it up to your motherboard and flash the image file to the drive with etcher :) simple enough !

[billfletcher]

I do not understand why there are any thumbs down dislikes - this is a great tutorial, easy to understand WTF!!!!

[RobertN_]

Okay, it took me a day to figure it all out, BUT IT WORKS!!! This is so awesome. Now, one more question, how did you get all the artwork for the boxes and videos and whatnot. Thank you so much for this. Batocera is so damn cool

[iKevinF]

I’ve never installed batocera before, but would it be safe to assume that the process in the video, including using the flasher app, would be the same if installing to a standard 3.5” internal hard drive? I don’t have a big USB drive laying around but I do have an empty 1GB drive.

[beerhigh]

14:18 im stuck here, my usb is not showing in the boot options

Edit: lol all i have to do was to flash my mobo to update to the latest bios

[javierbrenner]

Increíble información! muy bien explicado! Incredible information, tanks!

[pepitovfr]

I like how you pronounce "Batocera" 🙂

[JT-vgqn]

I have done EVERYTHING step-by-step and Batocera still will not boot... Can't figure what I'm doing wrong! Just will wait, and goes right into Windows... At 14:13 in your video, there is nowhere in my HP BIOS like that or lets me install/update new. Could it just be that the HP EliteBook 8400p just will not allow you to do that? I would like a frontend but if not, I can run with individual emulators just the same

[Mrmikeytheaccountant]

Great video! I did have a question about loading ROMs from external storage: if my batocera machine has an internal optical drive can I pop a Blu-Ray with all my ROMs on it into the drive and then copy them over that way?

[Cyberbrickmaster]

The file system is scaled tiny on my 4k TV display, to the point where I can't even see the mouse cursor, unless I move up close to the TV. How do I fix this?

[GabrielGBjas]

How do you install it in a windows partition? Could you make a tutorial in that? I would like to have it in the same HDD as windows in a partition

[theklamps]

I want to create a retro gaming PC, is it possible to flash batocets to my main internal m.2 drive (do I need to create a partition to avoid losing my OS?) And can you have batocera look for tons on a other internal HDD?

[westinmcleod]

Do I have to boot from the usb every single time ?

[ScottMorgan-ybxi]

Great Videos, I've had Batocera loaded and enjoying the trip.
I have run into one issue and have found one other post with the same problem.
Installed Batocera on a external drive for my laptop and everthing was working fine displayed on my laptop.
I figured I would use the HDMI out to a monitor which worked great as well.
Now when I try to reboot to my laptop (no HDMI) the splash screen comes up and then goes black even though Batocera is still running.
Basically it will not boot to laptop display it will only boot to monitor now. Any ideas?

[pad]

If you are having the issue of F1 literally doing nothing I figured out how to work around it. I am using a Raspberry Pi 4 and had this issue, here is the fix:
1: Install Batocera as normal (I installed it to a micro SD card)
2: Use an external interface as storage (I'm using a USB stick) and in the storage settings find and select your device
3: Select "Quit" in the main menu and select "Reboot" (You'll notice it takes a little longer on booting up this time) this allows it to place all the necessary folders on the device
4: Select "Quit" in the main menu and select "Shut Down"
5: Remove the storage device (USB stick) from the Raspberry Pi and insert it into your PC (I'm using a windows PC). Windows will recognize the drive no problem as it has not been reformatted since Batocera itself has not been installed to it, Batocera only moves it's storage folders over to it. Now you can drag and drop your files freely. With the BIOS files just Highlight the whole selection and drag over, click to replace the files with the same name.
6: Add all your ROMs to the appropriate folders (Make sure they are the appropriate format) and ENJOY!!!

[lanjohnson]

Hi I have just installed this system and I've watched a lot of your videos which are very helpful...I have installed batocera on a 2tb hardrive and everything works fine apart from I have to keep but all the setting in like up scaling etc ...nothing seems to be saving....