I got sober a few years ago and video games became my favorite hobby. I'm loving learning all this types of stuff and one of my kids helped me rig my vita up a while back. I'd love to get into doing this on old pcs and making handhelds.
Batocera is a great choice for retro emulation. Even up to ps3,depending on your PC hardware ofcourse. Be prepared to spend a lot of time setting up a build the way you like it though 😁 But hey, thats half the fun ☺️👍
When i discovered your channel i saw your first batocera guide and since that day I havent been so happy playing old school games on my potato PC, you are an absolute legend Sir.
Many good PC games released in 2000-2010 that could be played on igpu. Mostly shooters, though. Many console ports, too like Onimusha, Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2, etc.
@@main_tak_becus6689 Uhm, thats a good point, thanks for sharing this, I like PC games too, I am not an emulational freak tbh, I love good old PC games too, but sadly i am reliying on a very low end pc hardware, with a core 2 duo, 4 gigs of ram and a crappy nvidia gpu card, I am limited. and I love 80s/90s console games, including MAME (Arcade) games
@@nux3960 great. Many indie games also run on old hardware. I like Metroidvania indie games, but I sold my gaming PC 6 months ago because of financial issue and got a PS2 Slim. I completed more games on PS2 in 6 months than on my gaming PC for 4 years lol (I played arpg, wrpg, jrpg on PC so a game could last hundred of hours while on PS2 I play action adventure games which mostly can be finished in 12 hours or less). Nothing wrong with limited hardware, dude. Just enjoy it!
For classic PC games can check out GOG. I bought a lot of the old school games like King's Quest series, Might & Magic series, the old Dungeon & Dragons RPGs, Hexen, Heretic etc.
I absolutely love this video, not just because it was quite educational when it came to creating your own emulator machine, but how much you went into the little tricks that might help a first time user setting it up. plus easy to follow instructions. Now just gotta find myself the proper console i want to use.
Pro tip: If you have a separate PC, use a USB stick to write Ventoy onto it, _then_ fetch an image for basically any Arch derivative that will work for you. Provided the target computer doesn't have Windows already, you can use that to fetch from the AUR *balena-etcher* and then use _that_ with your PC to flash Batocera onto your larget machine's internal media. You then a) do absolutely nothing with your main PC except download games, b) have a spare OS on hand via Ventoy to boot into and c) don't need to spend the extra dosh on a USB to SATA adapter.
@@oplefirem There are _still_ people who insist Ventoy is useless tat. I think it's useless waiting for a rolling release distro to finish downloading expressly to waste more time flashing it again.
I didn't understand it, you have both arch and batocera on a ventou drive? I don't think that's what you meant but I didn't get which drive has what and the purpose. (I have Linux on my PC so the transferring games thing would not be a problem). Oh, you mean I plug the live iso on the "console" and use it to download and transfer games? Honestly, though it's probably not advisable I think it wouldn't be hard to just install Firefox on batocera right?
I recently built a pc with a 4th gen i5 I had laying around and install batocera on it. As I thought, this video has actually helped me with some useful tips I didn't know about, thank you c:
@@ch0nkyk0ng69 i think a build with i3 8th gen could play them. Very cheap cpu, much better vga chip than i5 4th gen and DDR4 instead DDR3. And the price difference is too low. Also maximize graphic card's memory from bios could help for that
Great video! I realized I had a completely empty hard drive installed in my old computer, which is hooked up to the TV in the living room for watching stuff online. Now my old PC is multi-functional, I can either boot it up as a Windows PC or as the Batocera gaming station. It only took about an hour to get it set up to play NES and SNES games, had a blast last night with my girlfriend revisiting games from childhood.
Hii I just wanted to ask you a question do you need a another pc to set up batocera ? . One more question if you set up batocera can you still use windows ?
I too am curious how this is working out. I'm thinking of getting an extra SSD for my main gaming pc and setting it up to run batocera. Can you add roms to the batocera drive while booted into the windows drive? Or do you still need to copy via a usb? What does your boot up process look like? How do you select which drive to boot? Do you have to enter the bios each time you want to switch?
@@RomanAyalaCarlos a bootable batocera, yes - you can still use windows on that PC. You just have to choose the boot device when starting up your system. There are videos about bootable batocera
Also good to know if you can't get into the bios a lot of the oem pre-built pcs have a little jumper pin that you either remove or move over to the other pin beside it and it will remove the lock on the bios.
Not even a gamer but enjoy these kind of videos as am fascinated about subject of emulating retro computers and game consoles to the point of being viable for play to contemporary gamers - and is a bit amusing that the x86-64-bit PCs used to run the emulation software are themselves on the verge of slipping into retro status :-)
One thing that's cool is if you choose redream and you've bought the full version, you can place the redream key in the configuration folder. Once you play a game after selecting redream, the config folder will show up (it won't until you've opened a game with redream). Then you'll have the ability to have more save States and higher resolution.
Yeah same. It's great so far. It couldn't scrape any art for Mega Drive Tetris, but it's really easy to use for someone like me who's never really done this before
You are a wholesome and passionate man talking about setting up an emulator station. In all your videos, you do it for your audience and for yourself. I notice that you really enjoy showing us what you like or what you discover. You are like a lil' kid talking about your fav toy car. Love your videos, man! Keep going on! Hope you are doing good after being sick!
isnt there a windows all in one program like batocera? Like retroarch? What would be the use of using batocera standalone ? Or are you planning on dual booting ?
Yes same! The closer it gets the more excited I am to see it :D I can’t wait to see more videos on it and really see what it is capable of! Every time a game comes out, like Cris Tales, I’m like ooh you could play this on the steam deck!
Between the vid and the comments, I can learn a lot about computer rehabbing , as I'm a novice at this stuff,just never had time to study and research before on computer tech. I'm trying to catch up with all the new stuff created in recent years for gaming emulation. Its really cool.
Lol, me too. My first ETA video was the Batocera setup video 2 years back. Second one was the T95 Max Android Box which I immediately bought after watching the video.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the entire process. Can't be easy making these long videos. I'm going to get the USB adapter to flash a spare SSD to swap in and out of my 3050 since it is so easy to do. 1 win 10 ssd and 1 batocera SSD.
Can I just say I really enjoy and appreciate all your videos. I often wonder how you dont tire of doing them, but appreciate that you keep churning them out. I LOVE that you dont waffle on about non related stuff and your videos are ALWAYS on subject and packed with lots of info. Seeing this recent video makes me want to try Batocera again. I think as good as the Pi4 is, a cheap i5 or i7 already comes ready for action. Size doesn't matter when moulting in a cabinet. Actually it doesnt even really matter when under a TV either. Thank YOU !!!
I think of something like that. But I need a real small pc. Actually I am happy with a raspberry pi 3 but I dream of some more demanding arcade titles. But the pi3 did all until know. But I don't use games which are not really arcade titles besides very old games.
If I ever come across an older PC that I can use specifically for this: I'm there! Looks like the best possible way to experience retro games on a modern OS.
I do find transfering the games via FTP to be the quickest method, since my LAN is fast and the HD's speed becomes the bottleneck instead of the of the much lower USB but to each their own. That's the beauty of DIY, there's not a single right answer.
I took a sff dell optiplex 9010 and cleaned it up very nicely. It now has an i7-3770, 16gb ddr3, and a gtx 1650 low profile. It plays todays modern games at respectable settings at 1080p 60fps. I installed windows 11 on it and I use it at my parents place since it doesn't take up a lot of space and I won't have to drive all the way home when my buddies hit me up to play games. It was a great investment.
Try *Craigslist or *offer up or even better *Facebook marketplace. Got myself a optiplex from Facebook marketplace for 160 usd. only reason I even opened an account
Hmm the info about setting up a controller for standalone emulators is wrong.. you need to set IT up in EmulationStation then they work automatic in all emulators. This is the purpuse of Batocera out of the box. Also you are wrong about changing the graphics :(, you can do this (for every standalone emulator and even per RA core) via EmulationStation (via advanced emu conf). This is also implemented by the devs, and I know IT took a lot of work! Kind of disappointed by this.
I'm using this as a guide to help me use my old pc parts so i don't have to look at them collecting dust. I'm pretty excited to play some old games on my living room tv as opposed to my PC monitors!
Man, I'm not an IT technician and this looks extremely hard to do but it was an awesome video to watch !!!! Epic tutorial you just made !!!! You know if I can do this on an old laptop gaming pc ?
After setting up BATOCERA myself, it was played satisfactorily with Intel's 1st generation i7 870 and Nvidia GT 730. Even if it wasn't an SSD, a high-capacity ROM pack (2TB) could be played without problems as long as you endured the tedious initial loading.
I've just picked up a optiplex 3070 with a 5th gen i5 for next to nothing Installed batocera and it works beautifully for everything up to PS2 or wii best thing I ever did
@@jordanmadick7378 depends on the specific systems you want to emulate. I'd got for something with a bit more grunt if you want the ps3 or newer systems
I'm using old core 2 quad dell optiplex mini i got for less than $30 and it works well in Batocera, since most games i played are from NES, SNES, GENESIS, PS1 and N64 + some old arcade shooter (MAME) era that didn't really require a powerful CPU.
also if you are running the small form factor, rather than mini, you can easily slap a low profile discreet gpu in there, no probs. Makes a world of diff, and you can pick em up at like free geek or other used / junk pc parts places
I started on the i5 4670T 4th gen and was satisfied with what it could emulate with Batocera. A little while after I thought Id upgrade a little without spending to much so I got another mini, or Tiny, or, USFF, so I got an i7 6700T 6th gen. Defo was a decent upgrade, I can upscale PSP, Dreamcast etc higher and it can run PS2 games the 4570T couldnt (at native res) and it can still upscale most Gamecube and quite a lot of PS2 to 2x but any higher and it will struggle which makes me think the cpu is more than capable its just when upscaling those high end systems the thing holding it back is the Intel HD530 graphics. And since its the mini model what I have in it is what Im stuck with. Honestly its fine but I do wonder how much further it could have been pushed with a dedicated gpu so the SFF version would have been a good option in hindsight. But I do like ultra small size of the T versions though regardless. So yeah, they always say when it comes to emulation cpu is more important than gpu and while this I think is true to a point, theres only so much brute cpu power can do. So if you plan to run those really high end systems like PS3 and 360,and upscale from PS2 up, a dedicated gpu will be a massive plus. 😊👍
This totally works with old Netbooks . Just installed the version for Intel Atom processors. Now my Acer Aspire One ( 1Gb of RAM) has a new lease on life. 🎮 👾
The Optiplex 5050s are plentiful, cheap AND they also have an M.2 SSD slot (SATA).. I believe some of the newer one's will support NVME. The bonus is they have built in wireless + wired, multiple front and rear facing USB-As, DUAL HDMI + DP outputs, they are just a dream to use for this purpose and they'e tiny. (they also have active cooling so you don't have to worry about fans, etc.)
Damn Batocera has come a long way since I last looked at it. They are definitely giving Retropie a run for their money, if not surpassing them outright.
If you flashed batocera on your ssd , u can restart windows from that drive by selecting it in boot menu, and copy our games inside batocera . it will see your other drives and u can just copy them. when ur done just take out and put it in your other system. I recently put batocera on a flashdrive and did it this way..works perfectly
I have an old mini pc as an HTPC and Retrogaming device on my TV. I set it up to connect to games on my NAS and it works great. I run a minimal install of Arch on it cause it has so many packages besides Retroarch so I can play other games as well.
lotsa good batocera games require a video card. i use nvidia gtx 1030 = about $70. those small optiplex have no space for a large drive = no updating batocera packs
Batocera can be setup in a USB drive or SDcard such that when you plug into your Windows PC it will boot to Baticera and if unplugged will boot into Windows by default. So it's a perfect dual boot setup.
I got sober a few years ago and video games became my favorite hobby. I'm loving learning all this types of stuff and one of my kids helped me rig my vita up a while back. I'd love to get into doing this on old pcs and making handhelds.
Batocera is a great choice for retro emulation.
Even up to ps3,depending on your PC hardware ofcourse.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time setting up a build the way you like it though 😁
But hey, thats half the fun ☺️👍
Me to dude got sober about 6 months ago and video games keep me sane
I'm still trying to decide between video games and the bottle.
@@Sh4rtL0rd pick the games
@@jjayala 🤔
When i discovered your channel i saw your first batocera guide and since that day I havent been so happy playing old school games on my potato PC, you are an absolute legend Sir.
Many good PC games released in 2000-2010 that could be played on igpu. Mostly shooters, though. Many console ports, too like Onimusha, Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2, etc.
@@main_tak_becus6689 Uhm, thats a good point, thanks for sharing this, I like PC games too, I am not an emulational freak tbh, I love good old PC games too, but sadly i am reliying on a very low end pc hardware, with a core 2 duo, 4 gigs of ram and a crappy nvidia gpu card, I am limited. and I love 80s/90s console games, including MAME (Arcade) games
@@nux3960 great. Many indie games also run on old hardware. I like Metroidvania indie games, but I sold my gaming PC 6 months ago because of financial issue and got a PS2 Slim. I completed more games on PS2 in 6 months than on my gaming PC for 4 years lol (I played arpg, wrpg, jrpg on PC so a game could last hundred of hours while on PS2 I play action adventure games which mostly can be finished in 12 hours or less). Nothing wrong with limited hardware, dude. Just enjoy it!
For classic PC games can check out GOG. I bought a lot of the old school games like King's Quest series, Might & Magic series, the old Dungeon & Dragons RPGs, Hexen, Heretic etc.
I absolutely love this video, not just because it was quite educational when it came to creating your own emulator machine, but how much you went into the little tricks that might help a first time user setting it up. plus easy to follow instructions. Now just gotta find myself the proper console i want to use.
Woohoo..now my old pc will no longer be a coffee table...
doing the Lord's work - rescuing old PCs from e-waste centers :-)
@@TheSulross Or in his case, from coffee stains lol :D
Or, you could have a coffee table that plays GameCube games!
@@OtioseFanatic and then make a coffee table book about coffee table gaming pc's :)
Unless you make a coffee table cocktail cab... then is can still be a coffee table and a gaming rig.
Pro tip: If you have a separate PC, use a USB stick to write Ventoy onto it, _then_ fetch an image for basically any Arch derivative that will work for you. Provided the target computer doesn't have Windows already, you can use that to fetch from the AUR *balena-etcher* and then use _that_ with your PC to flash Batocera onto your larget machine's internal media.
You then a) do absolutely nothing with your main PC except download games, b) have a spare OS on hand via Ventoy to boot into and c) don't need to spend the extra dosh on a USB to SATA adapter.
This should be the standard practice anymore. So much better
@@oplefirem There are _still_ people who insist Ventoy is useless tat. I think it's useless waiting for a rolling release distro to finish downloading expressly to waste more time flashing it again.
@@bluephreakr This is my exact issue, I have one drive with most images I need. No reflashing
I didn't understand it, you have both arch and batocera on a ventou drive?
I don't think that's what you meant but I didn't get which drive has what and the purpose. (I have Linux on my PC so the transferring games thing would not be a problem).
Oh, you mean I plug the live iso on the "console" and use it to download and transfer games?
Honestly, though it's probably not advisable I think it wouldn't be hard to just install Firefox on batocera right?
To get boxart for Marvel vs. Capcom, you need to rename the file to: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (USA)
Yeah, no-intro/redump naming conventions tend to work best.
I recently built a pc with a 4th gen i5 I had laying around and install batocera on it. As I thought, this video has actually helped me with some useful tips I didn't know about, thank you c:
Anything else I recommend batocera nation channel
@@anikitwoeight7623 good one, thanks c:
Do you play any PS3 or XB360 titles on your machine?
@@ch0nkyk0ng69 No chance. Not with a 4th gen.
@@ch0nkyk0ng69 i think a build with i3 8th gen could play them. Very cheap cpu, much better vga chip than i5 4th gen and DDR4 instead DDR3. And the price difference is too low. Also maximize graphic card's memory from bios could help for that
Awesome Video.. Thanks ! 🙌
Great video! I realized I had a completely empty hard drive installed in my old computer, which is hooked up to the TV in the living room for watching stuff online.
Now my old PC is multi-functional, I can either boot it up as a Windows PC or as the Batocera gaming station. It only took about an hour to get it set up to play NES and SNES games, had a blast last night with my girlfriend revisiting games from childhood.
Hii I just wanted to ask you a question do you need a another pc to set up batocera ? . One more question if you set up batocera can you still use windows ?
I too am curious how this is working out. I'm thinking of getting an extra SSD for my main gaming pc and setting it up to run batocera. Can you add roms to the batocera drive while booted into the windows drive? Or do you still need to copy via a usb? What does your boot up process look like? How do you select which drive to boot? Do you have to enter the bios each time you want to switch?
@@RomanAyalaCarlos a bootable batocera, yes - you can still use windows on that PC. You just have to choose the boot device when starting up your system.
There are videos about bootable batocera
Also good to know if you can't get into the bios a lot of the oem pre-built pcs have a little jumper pin that you either remove or move over to the other pin beside it and it will remove the lock on the bios.
@Jessi very true but if the bios lock is still on you won't be able to change any settings.
Not even a gamer but enjoy these kind of videos as am fascinated about subject of emulating retro computers and game consoles to the point of being viable for play to contemporary gamers - and is a bit amusing that the x86-64-bit PCs used to run the emulation software are themselves on the verge of slipping into retro status :-)
One thing that's cool is if you choose redream and you've bought the full version, you can place the redream key in the configuration folder. Once you play a game after selecting redream, the config folder will show up (it won't until you've opened a game with redream). Then you'll have the ability to have more save States and higher resolution.
I did this while ago on my stock iMac 8,1 20 inch it runs PSP quite well
I did it because of the other video eta did before
what are the specs?
My wii and game cube worka well
I have a late 2009 Mac Mini i may do this with - Any tips ?
I might try this on my iMac 5,1. But I doubt it will work very well
Batocera is awesome! Been using it on my Odroid N2+ for about a year now. Love everything about it.
does it autoupdate ?
Yes, auto update option is in settings.
@@umersalman1 Yep, just updated to the latest stable the other day
Thanks great video. Finally someone did a step by step that makes it easier. A lot of videos skip over some steps or information.
I’ve been slowly getting in to emulating games and I gotta say this is so far is the best video I’ve come across
Wow I have never heard of Batocera before. This is so dope
Its great if you have a spare PC and want a standalone emulation box.
It’s basically Retropie for a PC.
It's a nice OS and easy to set up and use.
Yeah same. It's great so far. It couldn't scrape any art for Mega Drive Tetris, but it's really easy to use for someone like me who's never really done this before
Also check Batocera Nation on YT and it is a few others that usually Batocera exclusively
You are a wholesome and passionate man talking about setting up an emulator station. In all your videos, you do it for your audience and for yourself. I notice that you really enjoy showing us what you like or what you discover. You are like a lil' kid talking about your fav toy car. Love your videos, man! Keep going on! Hope you are doing good after being sick!
Lol, you sounded like a fortune teller.
@@acejon2162 LMAO hahaha now that I read it again, bullseye, lol
Running this on the upcoming Steam Deck would be amazing. I honestly can’t wait for more info on it to come out.
Yep! I preordered the 256GB, it'll be running Batocera :)
isnt there a windows all in one program like batocera? Like retroarch? What would be the use of using batocera standalone ?
Or are you planning on dual booting ?
Steam deck doesn't come with Windows so you have to pay for it separately.
@@umersalman1 I plan on installing Batocera on a SD, it's an all in one which uses Linux and RetroArch on the backend
Yes same! The closer it gets the more excited I am to see it :D I can’t wait to see more videos on it and really see what it is capable of! Every time a game comes out, like Cris Tales, I’m like ooh you could play this on the steam deck!
Between the vid and the comments, I can learn a lot about computer rehabbing , as I'm a novice at this stuff,just never had time to study and research before on computer tech.
I'm trying to catch up with all the new stuff created in recent years for gaming emulation. Its really cool.
As always, great stuff! I'll definitely use one of these for my arcade builds
Smart!
This is an update to the first video i watched on this channel. You change my gaming life with it, I appreciate it man. Thank you.
Lol, me too. My first ETA video was the Batocera setup video 2 years back. Second one was the T95 Max Android Box which I immediately bought after watching the video.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the entire process. Can't be easy making these long videos. I'm going to get the USB adapter to flash a spare SSD to swap in and out of my 3050 since it is so easy to do. 1 win 10 ssd and 1 batocera SSD.
So let's see which PCs ETA is going to guarantee being sold out 😁. Love the work you put in, keep up the great work!
Can I just say I really enjoy and appreciate all your videos. I often wonder how you dont tire of doing them, but appreciate that you keep churning them out. I LOVE that you dont waffle on about non related stuff and your videos are ALWAYS on subject and packed with lots of info.
Seeing this recent video makes me want to try Batocera again. I think as good as the Pi4 is, a cheap i5 or i7 already comes ready for action. Size doesn't matter when moulting in a cabinet. Actually it doesnt even really matter when under a TV either.
Thank YOU !!!
Thanks for the update. I first got into Batocera watching the original setup video 2 years ago!
I plan to do this on my Steam Deck and dock it into my arcade cab
I think of something like that. But I need a real small pc. Actually I am happy with a raspberry pi 3 but I dream of some more demanding arcade titles. But the pi3 did all until know. But I don't use games which are not really arcade titles besides very old games.
If I ever come across an older PC that I can use specifically for this: I'm there! Looks like the best possible way to experience retro games on a modern OS.
Ha! And I was just getting bored for the Weekend.
Thank you very much, Mr. Prime!
Gracias amigo, por tomarte el tiempo y explicar tan detalladamente 😎👍 10/10
Nuevo suscriptor!
Saludos desde Colombia 🇨🇴
I do find transfering the games via FTP to be the quickest method, since my LAN is fast and the HD's speed becomes the bottleneck instead of the of the much lower USB but to each their own. That's the beauty of DIY, there's not a single right answer.
I took a sff dell optiplex 9010 and cleaned it up very nicely. It now has an i7-3770, 16gb ddr3, and a gtx 1650 low profile. It plays todays modern games at respectable settings at 1080p 60fps. I installed windows 11 on it and I use it at my parents place since it doesn't take up a lot of space and I won't have to drive all the way home when my buddies hit me up to play games. It was a great investment.
I built an arcade cab with an old Dell... I probably wouldn't do a Dell again, kind of a headache with all their proprietary weirdness.
Old Dell systems are the worst. My friend did the same thing and ended up having to source a couple systems for extra parts.
Dont worry, you are not alone. That experience with dell hardwares was pain
He packed 10 videos into one video. He is great.
This would go well with the steam deck
Nah you can just enter desktop mode and install emulators but you can always do that for better ui
Yes it would / will.
@@ChariPower Or you can simply install EmulationStation, which is the UI. It's also available on the AUR.
Thank you so much man! I am 37. Wanted to create nostalgy gaming machine. Good video!!!
As a wise man once said, anything can be a famiclone if you try hard enough
I just bought an optiplex 790 for 5 bucks from a garage sale along with a significantly newer HP (also 5 bucks)
This is going to be fun
@@ionpeen hey how did it turn out?
@ works perfectly, have plans on repurposing it into a media center
Hi, is my laptop sufficient?
Specs:
Acer 4740g
i5 430M (gen2)
8GB Ram DDR3 (upgrade from 4GB to 8GB)
480GB SSD
NVIDIA GT310m
You should be able to run systems all the way up to Wii.
My hero.... U revived my childhood bro.. Thaaanks
Do you have any specific information on why 3rd gen Intel CPUs work best? Was there a specific feature that was introduced in 3rd gen?
Absolute legend!!! Mate you got no idea how much your video has helped me, thankyou!!! 🙏
Hard to get these at a decent price. Everytime I go to Ebay, they are $200. :(
Ya I would look around, eBay isn’t the place to get them. A lot of schools have old PCs they don’t need.
Try them all. I got a 8th gen i5 8500t 6 core mini pc , 8gb ddr4 ram for 200. Just a freak listing. That was ebay.
check your university surplus store (if your university have them)
There is one on craigslist in Virginia under $150
Try *Craigslist or *offer up or even better *Facebook marketplace. Got myself a optiplex from Facebook marketplace for 160 usd. only reason I even opened an account
This is amazing and super helpful, thank you so much for creating this tutorial!!
i hope u get the steamdeck early sample for review sometime later😉
I noticed your video from 2018 had the older PCs priced at $15-$30. Oh how times have changed!
Hmm the info about setting up a controller for standalone emulators is wrong.. you need to set IT up in EmulationStation then they work automatic in all emulators. This is the purpuse of Batocera out of the box. Also you are wrong about changing the graphics :(, you can do this (for every standalone emulator and even per RA core) via EmulationStation (via advanced emu conf). This is also implemented by the devs, and I know IT took a lot of work! Kind of disappointed by this.
Great tutorial, exactly what I was looking for, thanks for this!
Ive always wondered what Batocera means.. turns out to be an ugly bug lol
Thank you for this video. I've just turned my old pc in to a retro games console for my nephew.
my favourite single board computer is raspberry pi 4 8GB ❤️.
But I did not have enough money to buy it. 😭😭
thank you for your dedication to excellence in every video!
Bro really leaked his ip 💀
😂
Awesome. I was hoping you would make this video
Awesome! Did'nt know about this. Thank you so much ETA 😀
You recorded this at 7 am! insane dedication to the channel
Great video! Convinced me to finally prepare my own retro machine :-)
I'm using this as a guide to help me use my old pc parts so i don't have to look at them collecting dust. I'm pretty excited to play some old games on my living room tv as opposed to my PC monitors!
Dude, thank you so much! I've been wanting to set this up. Great video. 😎👍
Wow ! Hats off to you. Great video, learned exactly what I wanted to do. Thanks a Many!
Dude, this video was so helpful! Thanks, man.
Great complete video man, all people need to get up and running!
New drinking game, take a shot everytime ETA says 'Batocera' 😁😁😁
Man, I'm not an IT technician and this looks extremely hard to do but it was an awesome video to watch !!!! Epic tutorial you just made !!!! You know if I can do this on an old laptop gaming pc ?
Awesome, as always, thanks, ETA Prime!
Fantastic review my man!
Two thumbs up!
After setting up BATOCERA myself, it was played satisfactorily with Intel's 1st generation i7 870 and Nvidia GT 730. Even if it wasn't an SSD, a high-capacity ROM pack (2TB) could be played without problems as long as you endured the tedious initial loading.
This is awesome! Thank you! That's a reborn of my old laptop 😃
Eta prime is the freedom fighter of emulation. Ur videos are awesome.
I've just picked up a optiplex 3070 with a 5th gen i5 for next to nothing
Installed batocera and it works beautifully for everything up to PS2 or wii
best thing I ever did
what do u reccomend i buy wanna emulate as much as i can for the cheapest
@@jordanmadick7378 depends on the specific systems you want to emulate. I'd got for something with a bit more grunt if you want the ps3 or newer systems
@@Crits-Crafts best cheapest option what do u reccomend
This is so cool. Thank you for introducing this to me.
Dear Mother of Mary it worked!
Thanks so much!
1000% trying this on an old laptop before i but a single card pc or used office pc. Should be able to do the older consoles. Fingers crossed 🤞
So very easy to follow, thank you so much for taking the time.
I'm using old core 2 quad dell optiplex mini i got for less than $30 and it works well in Batocera, since most games i played are from NES, SNES, GENESIS, PS1 and N64 + some old arcade shooter (MAME) era that didn't really require a powerful CPU.
Hey thanks for the content. Always plenty of videos and great quality advice👍
also if you are running the small form factor, rather than mini, you can easily slap a low profile discreet gpu in there, no probs. Makes a world of diff, and you can pick em up at like free geek or other used / junk pc parts places
I started on the i5 4670T 4th gen and was satisfied with what it could emulate with Batocera.
A little while after I thought Id upgrade a little without spending to much so I got another mini, or Tiny, or, USFF, so I got an i7 6700T 6th gen.
Defo was a decent upgrade, I can upscale PSP, Dreamcast etc higher and it can run PS2 games the 4570T couldnt (at native res) and it can still upscale most Gamecube and quite a lot of PS2 to 2x but any higher and it will struggle which makes me think the cpu is more than capable its just when upscaling those high end systems the thing holding it back is the Intel HD530 graphics.
And since its the mini model what I have in it is what Im stuck with.
Honestly its fine but I do wonder how much further it could have been pushed with a dedicated gpu so the SFF version would have been a good option in hindsight.
But I do like ultra small size of the T versions though regardless.
So yeah, they always say when it comes to emulation cpu is more important than gpu and while this I think is true to a point, theres only so much brute cpu power can do.
So if you plan to run those really high end systems like PS3 and 360,and upscale from PS2 up, a dedicated gpu will be a massive plus. 😊👍
Any chance i can use this on my Nvidia Shield?
i tried this on my ryzen 5 3400g and works amazing :) thanks for this video
This is very nice, I am doing this very soon . thank you ETA Prime
This totally works with old Netbooks .
Just installed the version for Intel Atom processors.
Now my Acer Aspire One ( 1Gb of RAM) has a new lease on life. 🎮 👾
Yoo this is awesome now my potato pc has been changed into French fries pc
can you easily play multiplayer with just adding multiple controllers? Also, does this mean you don't need windows OS at all on the drive?
ETAPRIME I love your videos on emulation and system builds.
The Optiplex 5050s are plentiful, cheap AND they also have an M.2 SSD slot (SATA).. I believe some of the newer one's will support NVME. The bonus is they have built in wireless + wired, multiple front and rear facing USB-As, DUAL HDMI + DP outputs, they are just a dream to use for this purpose and they'e tiny. (they also have active cooling so you don't have to worry about fans, etc.)
Great, setting up controls for the stand alone emulators was very helpful. Greetings
Strange, my Logitech gamepad is auto configured for all the emulators when I plug it in, don't even need to do anything.
I can’t wait to see this on the Steam Deck! Gonna be an incredible emulation machine! 😌 I can’t wait
No need to wait for deck, Aya Neo already can do it.
@@acejon2162 Oh yeah I heard about that but I'll wait for the Steam Deck :) appreciate it though!
No problem, ETA actually had quite a number of videos on it if you're interested.
@@acejon2162 Oh, awesome thanks!! I'm new to the channel :) saw Steam Deck videos pop up on RUclips and here I am lol
Thanks for this. Gonna try it soon!
Damn Batocera has come a long way since I last looked at it. They are definitely giving Retropie a run for their money, if not surpassing them outright.
If you flashed batocera on your ssd , u can restart windows from that drive by selecting it in boot menu, and copy our games inside batocera . it will see your other drives and u can just copy them.
when ur done just take out and put it in your other system.
I recently put batocera on a flashdrive and did it this way..works perfectly
Very informative video. Thank you so much!
Im gonna save this for later :) cant wait till i have what i need to start this
Awesome tutorial. Bookmarking this.
I love your channel. Subbed.
This was excellent. Thank you!
I have an old mini pc as an HTPC and Retrogaming device on my TV. I set it up to connect to games on my NAS and it works great. I run a minimal install of Arch on it cause it has so many packages besides Retroarch so I can play other games as well.
@ETA PRIME: Why don't you ever cover Retrobat? It's practically Batocera or RetroPie for Windows.
Maybe he has been using Batocera for years and have lots of experience on it?
Is Retrobat currently in a stable build condition?
@@acejon2162 V4.0 has just been released.
@@acejon2162 retrobat v4.0.2 is available. Stable.
2:55 the mechanical drive has be 2.5 inch in size and not 3.5 inch since 3.5s require 12v while 2.5s require 5v to work,
lotsa good batocera games require a video card. i use nvidia gtx 1030 = about $70. those small optiplex have no space for a large drive = no updating batocera packs
Im still using Win10 but I have an i7 3770 that is set up for this. It rocks!
Batocera can be setup in a USB drive or SDcard such that when you plug into your Windows PC it will boot to Baticera and if unplugged will boot into Windows by default.
So it's a perfect dual boot setup.