How to Install Batocera on Steam Deck (Bios & Games)

This tutorial will teach you how to install Batocera on your Steam Deck. In addition, this tutorial will provide you with a crash course on Batocera so that you can quickly get the most out of your Steam Deck while running Batocera. Finally, I share exclusive content that you won't find anywhere else.

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[JeromeI]

Thanks you for sharing your time and helping us. By following this video i was abble to install a lot af retro games. Perfect !

[johnw]

Really struggling to install windows games on the Steam Deck version but they did work on my mini pc?

[yuyorock]

I installed mugen street fighter HD on my steam deck, but I can't go pass the title screen cause non of the buttons is start. How can I fix this? plz help me. Can I edit the controller configuration from mugen.cfg? I found it but I don't what I should change

[Waltkat]

Just got my Steam Deck OLED and I tried to follow this guide. Ran into three issues. Two I was able to figure out and the third, not. First issue was that I didn't know how to get to the menu page. This is not explained in the video. Second issue was that the display was turned 90 degrees, but I figured out I had to go to screen rotation in the menu (after figuring out how to get there) and reset the rotation from "Auto" to 90 degrees. The third issue I haven't solved yet, getting the Steam Deck under Batocera to see any WiFi networks at all. When running under Steam OS, no problem. When running Batocera, it can't see any networks, even if I manually enter my network SSID and password. Frustrating as hell.

[RedHorseAdventures]

Appreciate the video, helps a bunch...
One question, I have Batocera 36, went to archive, typed in "Batocera 36 bios" and no results. Maybe 36 already includes the necessary files?

[tommy]

Hi! Thanks for your guide :) I need one more information. Must the SD card for Batocera be formatted in a special file format? Or does it also boot with an SD card formatted via Steam Deck and the format ext4?

In other words: Can you use one and the same SD card (with the ROMS and BIOS) for both: EmuDeck and Batocera or do I need two SD cards? One formatted by SteamDeck (ext4) for EmuDeck and one formatted with rufus to boot Batocera?

Which file format will rufus "create" on the sd card?? AFAIK will EmuDeck need ext4 ...

[fonzitheman]

How long would the battery last if using just Batocera?
Any diff to Steam and how long would that be either way?

[FatTonyMaranzano]

Hi guys, I've got everything running perfectly on my deck, however when Iaunch Botw it asks for an update, how do we update wii u games? I have the update but unsure how to install.

[nickchinbb]

anybody know where I can put the naomi gd roms in the sd card and play it?

[dawve]

Hi I transferred some Gamefiles from an ntfs formatted usb drive to batocera as shown in the video. When I closed batocera all game files and bios had been deleted. What am I doing wrong?

[leonboy]

Thanks for the info and detailed guide

[CadaverSwag]

The "flash" process keeps messing up my formatted sd card.
During the validating step it asks me to format in the middle of it instead of upon completion, I hit cancel, and it then shows that the flash process has failed at the end. Then the micro sd card is unusable until I unplug it and then plug it back in.
Then it splits into a Batocera 6gb drive and another drive that asks to be formatted again. This bug keeps happening again even after completely formatting the micro sd card and deleting the split drives...

[yuyorock]

Hi! Now that batocera for steam deck beta version ended, how do I update it to the new version without erasing all my roms from the sd card when flashing new version?

[retroconsole_]

best Batocera tutorial out there. Nicely done.

[marryong]

hi i just want ask ...i just installed Batocera in SD 2 days ago.. but almost all emulator cannot play that game even mame nes or snes lol.. just psx and ps2 is fine.. what's that problem ? i already updated all that latest v35 bios already.. is that i need to download those emulator separate and manual install ? thanks

[aarongabbard]

Why not just put batecera on a external device and have it boot up the .exe as a non steam game? Rather than use the boot menu?

[jodanjames]

I installed batocerta 36 and get a distorted image when booting. Anyone have this issue? Works fine after, although sometimes boots to steam and says verifying steam installation.

[mohdfazli]

Nice video dude..just my problem..how to exit from the game..and back to batocera desktop?😅

[FreddyK]

I can't seem to get WiFi to work on batocera 36 beta.

is there a way to still use Batocera 35 beta?

[Cosmicsimpranger]

Batocera black screen everytime I try to boot it up says loading them just black screen