Dude i just wanted to say how much i love your videos. You dont curse, You dont talk excessively, you're very informative, you answer most questions, and you're bringing gaming to the masses. Literally anyone can afford most of what you do. You deserve more money for this. Thank you so much, dont ever change.
Inspiring thanks, I just found out about Batocera on your channel, so I just got a cheap 4th gen dual-core i3 3.5GHz desktop (with space for a GFX card later), and i'm using it for WiiWare, PS2, GameCube and Dreamcast emulation right now!
Yeah old pcs are emulation power houses. I pulled an old i5 thinkpad out of the ewaste at work. Upgraded it to 16 gb of ram for laughs. The thing is a beast in terms of emulation.
I own an old ThinkPad T410 with an i5, 8GB RAM (originally 4GB), crappy Nvidia 3100M (256MB) GPU, and installed Linux Mint 17.3. Thing runs Kega Fusion, ZSNES, and a crapload of Neo Geo games flawlessly. Also runs Killing Floor (Steam) on max graphics settings!
Thanks Prime! I'm still loving that Black Friday Vivobook! It's a dream come true for portable Dreamcast emulation. It actually makes a decent laptop too. I ended up getting the 4gb version for $140. Runs everything I want.
I might give this a go on my laptop. The ability to load an emu based OS simply by plugging in an en external USB device makes this a no-brainer if you're into retro gaming.
Great vid. I've been waiting for details on laptops. Would love to see a vid on specs needed for great emulation on a laptop without breaking the bank. Assuming 1050ti is needed.
Setup a laptop last week with RetroPie, Batocera would not boot (maybe my system was too new or because it was AMD). Ubuntu installed just fine and then I ran the RetroPie setup. Its nice to have a retro setup you can put on the coffee table and play games while watching TV with the Fam
Recently I've had issues with recalbox. I had been flashing it to my hdd's for my projects but since it updated I lost sound on all of them except my pi3.
There is one good reason to test SNES/Genesis games on various hardware: fast forward. For JRPGs, the difference between a max of 110% speed on 700% speed really changes whether I'm willing to sit and tolerate such a game now days. It's also somewhat useful because on plenty of hardware I've seen wonky behavior (marginal frame rate differences with jerky display) which seems to relate to the distro--retropie, recalbox, retroarch in Linux, etc. So, just throwing out an idea but it'd be sort of interesting to compare sbc, snes mini, and low end laptops for that purpose. It's not, by far, a perfect guide on latency, but it can give you some idea of it. On a related issue, it took me a lot of time on an old Core 2 Duo with a GM965 (GMA X3100 integrated CPU) in Retroarch trying to figure out what was causing the obvious frame lags or screen tearing. Shaders, bilinear filter, video filter, and threaded video all would have slightly different results. I ended up actually turning of vsync and enabling thread video because that seemed to produce the best results--and certain combinations of the above would crash retroarch. Never really toyed around much with PS1 on it as I have a PSTV and really it feels more authentic going that route.
As much as that's true, it's unclear why it's the issue. vsync should prevent video tearing regardless and it didn't. With fast-forward could run games at ~350% so each frame at 100% should only take ~1/3rd to render leaving another ~2/3rd to process with video filter or shader (obviously gross approximations). IIRC, the shader actually reduced video tearing but introduced a noticeable frame or two delay/stutter. For some reason video filter or bilinear filter worked okay (with some tearing) but both together made tearing worse. My point is, it doesn't really much added up since in most of these examples I don't really see how the GPU pushing pixels should be causing inconsistent and as much as the X3100 isn't powerful, it does support Shader Model 3.0/Open GL 2.1 on Linux. None of this is complaints, btw. My personal guess is there's just been virtually no focus on such older hardware and how it behaves. It's the case, though, that the hardware should be able to do something as simple as not having video tearing. It's precisely the fact that in practice this is not the case which interests me on what hardware actually works well, what doesn't, and why. Is it the mini-distro used for these versions of retroarch? Do full versions of Linux have the same problem? If you used a really old version of Linux would it work better (presuming you can get Retroarch working)? Obviously, more my own personal pet interest I should investigate.
Just tested out batocera on an old 3rd generation Intel Core i5 desktop I have laying around, and it works great with everything so far with the integrated GPU, even with Wii games! Just wanted to tell you this trick: you can show the fps counter of the Dolphin emulator. If you connect through SSH to the computer running batocera (by default user: root, pass: linux), edit the file "/recalbox/share/system/configs/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini" and change the ShowFPS option from False to True. And now I have a question: How can I exit the dolphin emulator with the hotkey on the controller? For me it simply does not work.
You can upgrade RAM (and HDD/SSD) in most laptops, and RAM saturation might be the reason for batocera running slowly. Admittedly you may have to replace the RAM sticks if there are no upgrade slots, but most laptops support up to atleast 32gb in dual channel. In some laptops accessing the RAM is a pain but it's absolutely doable and going from 2 to 4gb might make that laptop run batocera much smoother.
99.9% of laptops sold in 2023 all on the board, they are stopping ram upgrading, same as onboard ram and ssd. They making it hard to right to repair laws, they doing it to stop people from doing upgrades them selves. that's Democrats and Liberal for you, like Apple and Microsoft.
ETA Prime...the man...the myth...the legend! Thanks for another great video. Its so nice to have your vids as a emulation resource. If you like big screen play, I assume if these have a decent video out port like HDMI, you could connect to a flat screen tv and play on a big screen as well.
I played around with batocera for a few weeks but realized you can't update emus. You have to wait for a new build. It's pretty much a live CD with no root privilege. So I went the Ubuntu 16.04 / retropie route. It's more tinker friendly.
Hey ETA PRIME, first of all thank you very much for the tutorials and the work you put in there. Its awesome. I installed my Retro Gaming Station right after I saw the tutorial on youtube on how to set it up on an old Tower. However, since then I have a problem with Batocera on my Acer Switch 5 (i5, 8GB Ram, Intel HD 620) and the internal speakers. I first installed Batocera on a 16gb USB drive. Everything worked out fine including internal speakers (AnalogACHblabla). Sound in menu and in games was fine. I was happy. Until i found out that i want more storage and used a 64GB drive. I installed everything once again from scratch and did everything the same as the first time. Copyed some roms on it and configured everything. But, and now the problem, the time i bootet on the 64gb stick I did not get any sounds at all and I cant find out whats wrong. I can still see the same AnalogBlaBla device in the menu and it is the one in use, but it somehow does not give out anything. Booting Windows 10 on the internal drive tells me that the speakers are working properly and its somehow a Batocera problem but nothing more. Did you ever experience this and if yes how did you solve it? Im not very used to linux so i would really apreciate any help. Thanks dude! PS: Sry for my bad english, Im from Germany. ;)
Have you ever heard of Dolphin ishiiruka? You should try it out, you'll get a pretty big boost in fps, I can play Mario galaxy 1 and 2 at 60-55fps with an Intel HD 4000
A heads up before anybody buys this laptop. It only has 30 GB of hard drive space. Windows already eats up 15 GB of space right out the box. Only thing bad about it.
Exactly. After upgrading from Win 10S to Win 10 Home, I allowed Windows Update to do its thing and when it was finished, disabled Windows Update, and poked around and cleaned up the system. Free space on the C: is now 16GB.
This would be how I'd set up emulation games. I was thinking of pc or mini pc, but they have been known for work projects. A laptop with usb devices(tablet,cellphone,ecigarrette) plugged into it ,with dvd player is a multi tasker. Thanks again for seeing cool devices.
Thanks a Tonne for sharing ur gaming knowledge especially in emulators topic. recently, i tried running my Dinasour Caveman cpu with Batocera 5.2 and it ended up with blackscreen. Im just seeing batocera linux words in a few seconds and walla.. wait for almost half an hour still black screen. Lastly, my pc only can accept recalbox. Luv all ur tutorials. Keep it up 👍👍👍
I'm thinking that most of these games are available online, at game sites from Google search. The rest of the stuff you do is so smooth, Looks fantastic. Especially with older hardware. Which are compatible with the older games. Back when pcs where over powering gaming console programs.
I did this with an old dell E6400. I doesn't allow my to play the latest and greatest ROMs, such as 3DS, but most other games do work. I installed Batocera Linux onto an 32GB SSD, and swapped the DVD RW Drive for a 9.5mm HDD caddy, and put in a 500GB SATA HDD. I do put 3DS games onto it, but i can use the HDD as ROM storage as well as being the default ROM storage for Batocera Linux.
The pronunciation of Asus isn't really a preference thing. They did a marketing campaign about it a couple of years ago because so many Americans say it incorrectly. It rhymes with Dr. Seuess, and does not rhyme with Christmas.
I'm planning on doing this with my old Asus Transformer tablet. I don't think it'll run gamecube/dreamcast though. However, on the go, all my games accessible, besides those, would be pretty awesome.
I'm still trying to get it to work! I have to disable secure boot, but it's still not loading the linux usb drive. I think it has something to do with a 32-bit EFI while it's actually a 64-bit capable chip. I tried the 32-bit distro, no progress. So far, I'm hitting the wall....
@@danmanx2 Unlike Windows, you can boot 64-bit Linux on 32-bit EFI. I have 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04 running on an Asus T100TA with kernel 4.19. It's a pretty nice little machine, not fast but good enough for basic stuff.
I amazed that this cheap thing can run gcn games. I mean I have problems running super mario sunshine even on 720p at full speed. Native 480p no problem at all though...
ppsspp optimization is so awesome...I had my go to low end test game, sdgundam g generation overworld, running perfectly fine on my raspberry pi. With some speed up hacks, the battle videos run perfectly fine at 2x resolution
I did this after watching your original desktop tutorial because I had an omen laptop just hanging around. My question is is there any way to use an external monitor with this setup? I’ve tried and the computer just doesn’t even send an output signal to the external monitors however if I put in the old hdd with windows in it it recognizes the monitors fine.
Nice little system. It isn't fast but it does have hardware video decoding and will work well for basic browsing, media playback and office work. Or as in your case, as a nice retro emulation system. For internal Bluetooth, the Batocera Linux distro you likely lacks the drivers and/or firmware to work with it. Those low-end laptops and laptop/tablet hybrids powered by Atom-ish CPUs (that includes your N4000) often contain oddball hardware (SDIO WiFi/Bluetooth, Atom ISP camera controller, etc) which may require additional configuration to work and some hardware has no Linux support at all. P.S.: Why do you never test Wii emulation on Dolphin ? Not retro enough for you ?
@ETAPrime. Thanks for the video. You say you would spend a little bit more money and get something slightly more powerful. So... what would would you buy?
which ASUS Vivo Book is it? video says E203MA, but video description says N4000. edit: i see the processor is the N4000. maybe the description should be a little clearer.
Icaruga used to slow down quite majorly on the Dreamcast. The game has been ported to PC so it might be worth just buying the PC version instead of emulating it.
Is that 2GB single channel? That could seriously hold back the GPU. With 4gb of 2400mt/s memory in dual channel you would get 38.4 GB/s. Make that single channel and dreamcast will give you trouble in games that are constantly streaming full speed, like that shooter.
What the heck? N64 in LaunchBox with Retroarch or in Retroarch by itself runs slow as heck with mupen64plus on my computer. My computer specs are; i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz OC to 4.5GHz, 16 GB DDR3 ram, ASUS VS239 (1920x1080@60Hz), 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, Windows 7 Ultimate. Also runs PlayStation slow. BTW Retroarch sees my monitor at less that 60HZ, forcing me to run it in threaded video. Maybe I should use my old Laptop in the garage, lol.
ETA, in this video you used PS4 and XBOX1S controllers via bluetooth right? The both are "plug"&play? Dependes if you are on Windows or Lakka/Batocera? X86 vs RaspBerry vs Android? Which of the controllers is more suported?
Yes, a Black Friday open box special sounds about right, 2 gigs of RAM isn't enough to run windows 10 smoothly, and you want at least 64GB of storage if not 128 - 500 GB. This version of Linux may run smoothly on 2GB of RAM and 32GB storage, but windows 10 is a hog for memory and storage.
Love your channel! I just built from scratch a bar-top arcade from GRS with a Pi3b+.with 256gb image with lots of emu. It's great love it. Question I have is would I get greater performance with a Odroid XU4 (future purchase) , or I also have a Brix BXIi5-5200 with 16gb ram and 256 ssd. I want best possible experience. Pi3b+ vs. Odroid XU4 vs. my Gigabyte Brix BXi5-5200 ?? All advice is greatly appreciated.
Actually it hasn't. Latops from 6 years ago aren't much better than today. I bought one for $300 that's just about as powerful (minus the graphics card) as my sister's $600 one. CPU performance has been crawling for the past decade. GPUs are what's gone up rapidly. Probably because that's where all the money is--PC gamers.
@eta prime I was wondering if possible that you could test games like dawn of war 1 and say one of the newer command and conquer games ? or to any one else, what laptop do you recommend for playing older games ? such as the ones Iv mentioned above? An actual gaming laptop I think would be a waste on me ..been looking at some window 10 laptops with 4gb of ram .
I have a Asus K55A with a I7-3630QM that is more powerful, but similar without UEFI BIOS. Anyway, I have Linux Mint with Retropie installed on a Samsung Fit 256GB flash drive. It works like that except that everything is installed on one drive. You need USB 3 to do what I did to have it respond in a decent manner. If you try to do this with USB 2 it may not boot or it will be very slow. My Samsung Fit flash drive can read @ 330MBPS That is fast for a dongle sized flash drive that is the size of my thumb nail and is excellent for a laptop. I installed Linux Mint to the flash drive using a computer with no drives connected to it other than the installation drive and the Samsung fit that was fresh from the package. It wouldn't boot on the PC that I installed the OS on to the flahdrive with. When I plugged the Samsung Fit into the Laptop and tried booting to it, it booted fine because I had it connected through a USB 3.0 port. The Samsung Fit is fast and boots in under a minute. Retropie installation was normal in Linux Mint. Do note that the PC will need to be rebooted in Linux Mint in order for Retropie to show up in the Menu. The best bet is to use a SATA SSD or a fast USB 3.0 or 3.1 Flash Drive. Mine is a USB3.1 plugged in to a USB 3.0 port because the laptop is over 7 years old. Awesome for emulation. It's like a Raspberry pi with a I7 3630QM when emulating. Much more power. Much faster. That's with a USB 3.1 flash drive. It should run Dolphin, but the drive is limited on room.
How did you get your bluetooth to pair with wireless PS4 controller? Mine keep searching and failing to connect. Only got it working via wired PS4 controller. Also when I use wired PS4 controller, running GameCube games doesn't seems to work with the controller. Wired controller works running SEGA Genesis, SNES and GBA tho. Any advise? I'm pretty sure both my bluetooth adaptors works as it was able to scan. Will be great if you could make a video on how you got your controllers to pair and how you configure your controllers?
I've been a long time fan and always love your tutorials,and I need help with an old EliteBook 8730w workstation that uses an old Nvidia Quadro 2700m for some reason I can't get it to read the video card it just won't come up and because of that it won't read the HDMI output either and I've looked all over the internet but no solid answers or how ...I really hope you could point me on the right direction
Would love to see all steam games running without windows and not strings tie or attach to the middle man platform. Outdependant a new word I made up meaning freedom from the system that bind or conform humanity into one straight direction serving the agenda of the controller.
It's cool every time you do this on an old pc, but I'm holding out hope for another optiplex video. My half height GT 1030 finally showed up, but it's heatsink was too big to install... I'm gonna have to do some internal case modding to make it fit... 😓
Somehow I missed the Batocera video so I will go back and look at it. I have a few older laptops in the house that are just holding down the furniture in the anti-gravity rooms. I will give this a run through and see if it makes them worth using again! :)
@@joub8800 it was fine for things like word and excel but the only game I ever bothered putting on it was minecraft, which ran at about 30-50 fps. However, the build quality of this thing was awful, the body and hinges are very cheap plastics that broke in different ways over only a few months, id go for a slightly outdated thinkpad or similar for the same price
That is more of a notebook than a laptop and for those who doesn't know a notebook system is mainly 8" to 12" on the display size anything past that is considered a laptop.
Few weeks ago I installed batocera on older HP laptop, 2GB ram, only 32GB flash disk drive (not real drive) on board. Batocera installation did not work, I had to use Ubuntu live CD to format drives and copy it, but overall everytthing works fine except Nintendo 64 emulation. Games just do not start. BTW, suggestion - create instruction video how to use ARRM. Lots of people don't know it exists and it works with RPi, Batocera and RecalBox. jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager
I know it’s kind of a dumb question but I’ve got a PS3 I’ve been trying to mod for a while but can you boot batocera from a PS3, after downgrading the current software I’m sure
i like batocera a lot. but i have 2 problems. the first was the sound via hdmi. system outputs sound only from onboard sound card . i tried auto sound setting , custom setting , hdmi0 setting.... nothing. and the second was the retroarch button layout config. every time i reboot the system retroarch button layout settings were back to default.
Have you done a video showing your backup method? Would like to know your strategy. I currently have mine on 2 internal hard drives and then sync to an external hard drive.
What are the advantages of using Batocera instead of Recalbox? On my system does Recalbox boot time take longer, is this normal or maybe am I having a problem with my system? Thanks!
You just add the games to their own folder by pressing F1 and placing a flash drive with the games on them. For example, if you wanted a Gamecube game, you would press F1, then find toms on the left side of the screen end find gamecube. Then you just copy and paste the game to the folder
tried batocera on my intel dual core old laptop.. great perfomance. the only problem is the core button remapping. when the game is been restarted the buttons are reset again to default.
the dell Wyse 5070 non-extended used the same Intel® UHD Graphics 600 but uses the Intel Celeron J4105 which is about 5 to 10% faster in most cases and you can get them for around 40$ on eBay
How well does it run the gamecube Rouge Squadron games? Or what kind of build would it take to do so? My Nvidia Shield TV doesn't cut it on the Dolphin Emulator. Thanks!
Thanks for your great videos but I have a question that google searches haven't helped me with. I've got batocera booting up fine unless I have my second usb hard drive plugged in. It's this drive that has my roms. Each time, batocera starts to load but turns to a black screen seconds after the logo screen appears. Do you know what needs to be done? Thanks
Dude i just wanted to say how much i love your videos. You dont curse, You dont talk excessively, you're very informative, you answer most questions, and you're bringing gaming to the masses. Literally anyone can afford most of what you do. You deserve more money for this. Thank you so much, dont ever change.
this channel is literally the very thing that got my emulation setup for our local videogames club up and running
Inspiring thanks, I just found out about Batocera on your channel, so I just got a cheap 4th gen dual-core i3 3.5GHz desktop (with space for a GFX card later), and i'm using it for WiiWare, PS2, GameCube and Dreamcast emulation right now!
Yeah old pcs are emulation power houses. I pulled an old i5 thinkpad out of the ewaste at work. Upgraded it to 16 gb of ram for laughs. The thing is a beast in terms of emulation.
@Ordinary GP you need a decent gpu for cemU.
I own an old ThinkPad T410 with an i5, 8GB RAM (originally 4GB), crappy Nvidia 3100M (256MB) GPU, and installed Linux Mint 17.3. Thing runs Kega Fusion, ZSNES, and a crapload of Neo Geo games flawlessly. Also runs Killing Floor (Steam) on max graphics settings!
hello guys i have an old system with pentium e2200 gt210 4gb ram can i play any ps2 games
@@mrb00ce2 no
@@mrb00ce2 same energy as saying "can I play cyberpunk ray tracing on gt 210 intel pentium 4?"
Thanks Prime! I'm still loving that Black Friday Vivobook! It's a dream come true for portable Dreamcast emulation. It actually makes a decent laptop too. I ended up getting the 4gb version for $140. Runs everything I want.
I might give this a go on my laptop. The ability to load an emu based OS simply by plugging in an en external USB device makes this a no-brainer if you're into retro gaming.
Your GameCube emulation is almost good as my WiiU running these games. Very good review and setup I’m impressed on how you did it
"Requires more oomph" We're looking at you, F-Zero.
Great vid. I've been waiting for details on laptops. Would love to see a vid on specs needed for great emulation on a laptop without breaking the bank. Assuming 1050ti is needed.
A gt 1030 or a gtx 1050 will do good
Love your emulation vids
Great video. I was honestly surprised it ran as well as it did after i looked at the specs.
The cpu has a score of 1000 (single thread). That's probably twice what you need for most of the older emulators.
yeah but the gamecube is what caught my attention.
You are my kindred spirit, ETA Prime ... You always manage to release the exact videos i want to see! Keep up the good work! 👏
Setup a laptop last week with RetroPie, Batocera would not boot (maybe my system was too new or because it was AMD). Ubuntu installed just fine and then I ran the RetroPie setup. Its nice to have a retro setup you can put on the coffee table and play games while watching TV with the Fam
Was Batocera on a USB or Internal HDD, RecalBox will do the same as Batocera, you could try that instead
@@MrJaz8088 USB, I will take a look at that distro
Recently I've had issues with recalbox. I had been flashing it to my hdd's for my projects but since it updated I lost sound on all of them except my pi3.
There is one good reason to test SNES/Genesis games on various hardware: fast forward. For JRPGs, the difference between a max of 110% speed on 700% speed really changes whether I'm willing to sit and tolerate such a game now days. It's also somewhat useful because on plenty of hardware I've seen wonky behavior (marginal frame rate differences with jerky display) which seems to relate to the distro--retropie, recalbox, retroarch in Linux, etc. So, just throwing out an idea but it'd be sort of interesting to compare sbc, snes mini, and low end laptops for that purpose. It's not, by far, a perfect guide on latency, but it can give you some idea of it.
On a related issue, it took me a lot of time on an old Core 2 Duo with a GM965 (GMA X3100 integrated CPU) in Retroarch trying to figure out what was causing the obvious frame lags or screen tearing. Shaders, bilinear filter, video filter, and threaded video all would have slightly different results. I ended up actually turning of vsync and enabling thread video because that seemed to produce the best results--and certain combinations of the above would crash retroarch. Never really toyed around much with PS1 on it as I have a PSTV and really it feels more authentic going that route.
As much as that's true, it's unclear why it's the issue. vsync should prevent video tearing regardless and it didn't. With fast-forward could run games at ~350% so each frame at 100% should only take ~1/3rd to render leaving another ~2/3rd to process with video filter or shader (obviously gross approximations). IIRC, the shader actually reduced video tearing but introduced a noticeable frame or two delay/stutter. For some reason video filter or bilinear filter worked okay (with some tearing) but both together made tearing worse. My point is, it doesn't really much added up since in most of these examples I don't really see how the GPU pushing pixels should be causing inconsistent and as much as the X3100 isn't powerful, it does support Shader Model 3.0/Open GL 2.1 on Linux.
None of this is complaints, btw. My personal guess is there's just been virtually no focus on such older hardware and how it behaves. It's the case, though, that the hardware should be able to do something as simple as not having video tearing. It's precisely the fact that in practice this is not the case which interests me on what hardware actually works well, what doesn't, and why. Is it the mini-distro used for these versions of retroarch? Do full versions of Linux have the same problem? If you used a really old version of Linux would it work better (presuming you can get Retroarch working)? Obviously, more my own personal pet interest I should investigate.
Just tested out batocera on an old 3rd generation Intel Core i5 desktop I have laying around, and it works great with everything so far with the integrated GPU, even with Wii games! Just wanted to tell you this trick: you can show the fps counter of the Dolphin emulator. If you connect through SSH to the computer running batocera (by default user: root, pass: linux), edit the file "/recalbox/share/system/configs/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini" and change the ShowFPS option from False to True. And now I have a question: How can I exit the dolphin emulator with the hotkey on the controller? For me it simply does not work.
You can upgrade RAM (and HDD/SSD) in most laptops, and RAM saturation might be the reason for batocera running slowly. Admittedly you may have to replace the RAM sticks if there are no upgrade slots, but most laptops support up to atleast 32gb in dual channel. In some laptops accessing the RAM is a pain but it's absolutely doable and going from 2 to 4gb might make that laptop run batocera much smoother.
99.9% of laptops sold in 2023 all on the board, they are stopping ram upgrading, same as onboard ram and ssd. They making it hard to right to repair laws, they doing it to stop people from doing upgrades them selves. that's Democrats and Liberal for you, like Apple and Microsoft.
Wow! you can emulate Dreamcast and Gamecube on this little thing?
Even my Android phone can't...
ETA Prime...the man...the myth...the legend!
Thanks for another great video. Its so nice to have your vids as a emulation resource.
If you like big screen play, I assume if these have a decent video out port like HDMI, you could connect to a flat screen tv and play on a big screen as well.
I played around with batocera for a few weeks but realized you can't update emus. You have to wait for a new build. It's pretty much a live CD with no root privilege. So I went the Ubuntu 16.04 / retropie route. It's more tinker friendly.
Hey ETA PRIME, first of all thank you very much for the tutorials and the work you put in there. Its awesome. I installed my Retro Gaming Station right after I saw the tutorial on youtube on how to set it up on an old Tower.
However, since then I have a problem with Batocera on my Acer Switch 5 (i5, 8GB Ram, Intel HD 620) and the internal speakers. I first installed Batocera on a 16gb USB drive. Everything worked out fine including internal speakers (AnalogACHblabla). Sound in menu and in games was fine. I was happy. Until i found out that i want more storage and used a 64GB drive. I installed everything once again from scratch and did everything the same as the first time. Copyed some roms on it and configured everything. But, and now the problem, the time i bootet on the 64gb stick I did not get any sounds at all and I cant find out whats wrong. I can still see the same AnalogBlaBla device in the menu and it is the one in use, but it somehow does not give out anything. Booting Windows 10 on the internal drive tells me that the speakers are working properly and its somehow a Batocera problem but nothing more. Did you ever experience this and if yes how did you solve it? Im not very used to linux so i would really apreciate any help.
Thanks dude!
PS: Sry for my bad english, Im from Germany. ;)
Have you ever heard of Dolphin ishiiruka? You should try it out, you'll get a pretty big boost in fps, I can play Mario galaxy 1 and 2 at 60-55fps with an Intel HD 4000
It's that good? My old computer struggled with Galaxy as well. It would have been great to know there was a better option.
@@flameshana9 yup, it's pretty amazing to be honest
@Eyecat15 it ain't made for it but it works pretty well for it.
Thx ETA prime you provide the best emulation guides😘
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A heads up before anybody buys this laptop. It only has 30 GB of hard drive space. Windows already eats up 15 GB of space right out the box. Only thing bad about it.
Exactly. After upgrading from Win 10S to Win 10 Home, I allowed Windows Update to do its thing and when it was finished, disabled Windows Update, and poked around and cleaned up the system. Free space on the C: is now 16GB.
@@sracer watch Carey Holzman RUclips channel to learn how to build a m.2 USB external hard drive. It's super cheap.
Space isn't an issue. You can and should store games on external drives.
The 4GB RAM model has 64GB of storage.
This would be how I'd set up emulation games. I was thinking of pc or mini pc, but they have been known for work projects.
A laptop with usb devices(tablet,cellphone,ecigarrette) plugged into it ,with dvd player is a multi tasker. Thanks again for seeing cool devices.
I really like Lakka but Botucera looks so much cleaner I otta check it out soon. Also your so close to 200k
Thanks a Tonne for sharing ur gaming knowledge especially in emulators topic. recently, i tried running my Dinasour Caveman cpu with Batocera 5.2 and it ended up with blackscreen. Im just seeing batocera linux words in a few seconds and walla.. wait for almost half an hour still black screen. Lastly, my pc only can accept recalbox. Luv all ur tutorials. Keep it up 👍👍👍
I'm thinking that most of these games are available online, at game sites from Google search. The rest of the stuff you do is so smooth, Looks fantastic. Especially with older hardware. Which are compatible with the older games. Back when pcs where over powering gaming console programs.
I did this with an old dell E6400. I doesn't allow my to play the latest and greatest ROMs, such as 3DS, but most other games do work. I installed Batocera Linux onto an 32GB SSD, and swapped the DVD RW Drive for a 9.5mm HDD caddy, and put in a 500GB SATA HDD. I do put 3DS games onto it, but i can use the HDD as ROM storage as well as being the default ROM storage for Batocera Linux.
The pronunciation of Asus isn't really a preference thing. They did a marketing campaign about it a couple of years ago because so many Americans say it incorrectly. It rhymes with Dr. Seuess, and does not rhyme with Christmas.
That Asus 203MA is the "little laptop that could". Pretty impressive performance and capabilities for the (sale) price.
I'm planning on doing this with my old Asus Transformer tablet. I don't think it'll run gamecube/dreamcast though. However, on the go, all my games accessible, besides those, would be pretty awesome.
I just had a co-worker drop a T100 in my lap which works fine but is slooooooooooooooow in Windows. I may have to try this. I didn't think of it. :)
Oh keep us updated on how it runs please?
I also have an old T100 that I didn't use anymore, please keep us updated!
I'm still trying to get it to work! I have to disable secure boot, but it's still not loading the linux usb drive. I think it has something to do with a 32-bit EFI while it's actually a 64-bit capable chip. I tried the 32-bit distro, no progress. So far, I'm hitting the wall....
@@danmanx2 Unlike Windows, you can boot 64-bit Linux on 32-bit EFI. I have 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04 running on an Asus T100TA with kernel 4.19.
It's a pretty nice little machine, not fast but good enough for basic stuff.
I amazed that this cheap thing can run gcn games. I mean I have problems running super mario sunshine even on 720p at full speed.
Native 480p no problem at all though...
ppsspp optimization is so awesome...I had my go to low end test game, sdgundam g generation overworld, running perfectly fine on my raspberry pi. With some speed up hacks, the battle videos run perfectly fine at 2x resolution
I did this after watching your original desktop tutorial because I had an omen laptop just hanging around. My question is is there any way to use an external monitor with this setup? I’ve tried and the computer just doesn’t even send an output signal to the external monitors however if I put in the old hdd with windows in it it recognizes the monitors fine.
Great vid!
Would you recommend running the Linux or Windows version? I will only be using my laptop for emulation and nothing else.
Tare pan nu I found this kind of video thnkuuuuuuuuu😚😚
Thanks for taking my suggestion
I have a core 2 duo laptop laying around doing nothing so this would be great to breath new life into the machine.
Nice little system. It isn't fast but it does have hardware video decoding and will work well for basic browsing, media playback and office work. Or as in your case, as a nice retro emulation system.
For internal Bluetooth, the Batocera Linux distro you likely lacks the drivers and/or firmware to work with it.
Those low-end laptops and laptop/tablet hybrids powered by Atom-ish CPUs (that includes your N4000) often contain oddball hardware (SDIO WiFi/Bluetooth, Atom ISP camera controller, etc) which may require additional configuration to work and some hardware has no Linux support at all.
P.S.: Why do you never test Wii emulation on Dolphin ? Not retro enough for you ?
He once mentioned controller issues with Wii. Also wii and GameCube are very similar in terms of horsepower requirements.
I think that a Desktop running an AMD A10-7800K (Kaveri) should run very smoothly.
@ETAPrime. Thanks for the video. You say you would spend a little bit more money and get something slightly more powerful. So... what would would you buy?
You have a nice voice mate
I love Batocera 😍😍😍😍😍
They should really make a gaming operating system that works well with all games.
I recommend SoulCalibur 4 on PSP Emulation as a go to for high quality tests 😉
Do you think it's possible to somehow integrate native Linux Programms into this frontend?
Cause i wanted to run GZ Doom, Blood GDX and eduke32...
Another great video. I need to give Batocera a try.
which ASUS Vivo Book is it? video says E203MA, but video description says N4000.
edit: i see the processor is the N4000. maybe the description should be a little clearer.
Cool vid
Question.. What you gonna do caus article 13?
Icaruga used to slow down quite majorly on the Dreamcast.
The game has been ported to PC so it might be worth just buying the PC version instead of emulating it.
Could you do a tutorial on how to install new themes for batocera?
nice for a low end laptop like this one :) What about amiga games ? And what about recalbox?
This is the laptop I use, except with 4GB. I use Arch Linux, because I have for years, and the built in Bluetooth works perfectly fine.
Is that 2GB single channel? That could seriously hold back the GPU. With 4gb of 2400mt/s memory in dual channel you would get 38.4 GB/s. Make that single channel and dreamcast will give you trouble in games that are constantly streaming full speed, like that shooter.
The truth is finding and downloading Batocera compatible game roms is a challenge is that there are unknown ones with viruses or popups.
What the heck? N64 in LaunchBox with Retroarch or in Retroarch by itself runs slow as heck with mupen64plus on my computer. My computer specs are; i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz OC to 4.5GHz, 16 GB DDR3 ram, ASUS VS239 (1920x1080@60Hz), 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, Windows 7 Ultimate. Also runs PlayStation slow. BTW Retroarch sees my monitor at less that 60HZ, forcing me to run it in threaded video. Maybe I should use my old Laptop in the garage, lol.
ETA, in this video you used PS4 and XBOX1S controllers via bluetooth right? The both are "plug"&play? Dependes if you are on Windows or Lakka/Batocera? X86 vs RaspBerry vs Android? Which of the controllers is more suported?
Hi, I have Chromebook with celeron processor, and I wonder, If You can try Batocera Linux on one of them. Thank You. Keep a good job.
Yes, a Black Friday open box special sounds about right, 2 gigs of RAM isn't enough to run windows 10 smoothly, and you want at least 64GB of storage if not 128 - 500 GB. This version of Linux may run smoothly on 2GB of RAM and 32GB storage, but windows 10 is a hog for memory and storage.
Love your channel! I just built from scratch a bar-top arcade from GRS with a Pi3b+.with 256gb image with lots of emu. It's great love it. Question I have is would I get greater performance with a Odroid XU4 (future purchase) , or I also have a Brix BXIi5-5200 with 16gb ram and 256 ssd. I want best possible experience. Pi3b+ vs. Odroid XU4 vs. my Gigabyte Brix BXi5-5200 ?? All advice is greatly appreciated.
Just think what a budget laptop in the next 5 to ten years will do tech is marching forward at blinding speed
Actually it hasn't. Latops from 6 years ago aren't much better than today. I bought one for $300 that's just about as powerful (minus the graphics card) as my sister's $600 one.
CPU performance has been crawling for the past decade. GPUs are what's gone up rapidly. Probably because that's where all the money is--PC gamers.
Can It hook up to a monitor?
great video, how do you display the frame rate, is there a fuction key ?
@eta prime I was wondering if possible that you could test games like dawn of war 1 and say one of the newer command and conquer games ?
or to any one else, what laptop do you recommend for playing older games ? such as the ones Iv mentioned above? An actual gaming laptop I think would be a waste on me ..been looking at some window 10 laptops with 4gb of ram .
I have a Asus K55A with a I7-3630QM that is more powerful, but similar without UEFI BIOS. Anyway, I have Linux Mint with Retropie installed on a Samsung Fit 256GB flash drive. It works like that except that everything is installed on one drive. You need USB 3 to do what I did to have it respond in a decent manner. If you try to do this with USB 2 it may not boot or it will be very slow. My Samsung Fit flash drive can read @ 330MBPS That is fast for a dongle sized flash drive that is the size of my thumb nail and is excellent for a laptop. I installed Linux Mint to the flash drive using a computer with no drives connected to it other than the installation drive and the Samsung fit that was fresh from the package. It wouldn't boot on the PC that I installed the OS on to the flahdrive with. When I plugged the Samsung Fit into the Laptop and tried booting to it, it booted fine because I had it connected through a USB 3.0 port.
The Samsung Fit is fast and boots in under a minute. Retropie installation was normal in Linux Mint. Do note that the PC will need to be rebooted in Linux Mint in order for Retropie to show up in the Menu.
The best bet is to use a SATA SSD or a fast USB 3.0 or 3.1 Flash Drive. Mine is a USB3.1 plugged in to a USB 3.0 port because the laptop is over 7 years old. Awesome for emulation. It's like a Raspberry pi with a I7 3630QM when emulating. Much more power. Much faster. That's with a USB 3.1 flash drive. It should run Dolphin, but the drive is limited on room.
You are the king of emus
I've got an old PC, i'll try to give him a second life with Batocera
Would be a great way to breathe new life into an old laptop. You can pickup an old i7 laptop for not a lot of cash.
SIQU you can never be overpowered. Lol
An older i7 might have what it takes to get cemu running fine. Definitely overkill for most anything else, though.
@@siqu7071 I tested saturn with batocera through mednafen on an i7-6700HQ laptop and it dropped frames in many games
Unless you're docking it somewhere just to boot it up and play retro games... Playing in an emulator is still much more convinient
There's tons of i7s. There's a 9th gen i7 that came out recently. Be more specific man.
Batocera is very slick. Have to give it a try.
How did you get your bluetooth to pair with wireless PS4 controller? Mine keep searching and failing to connect. Only got it working via wired PS4 controller. Also when I use wired PS4 controller, running GameCube games doesn't seems to work with the controller. Wired controller works running SEGA Genesis, SNES and GBA tho. Any advise?
I'm pretty sure both my bluetooth adaptors works as it was able to scan. Will be great if you could make a video on how you got your controllers to pair and how you configure your controllers?
I have a question are the laptops in the description more powerful or as powerful as the laptop in the video
I've been a long time fan and always love your tutorials,and I need help with an old EliteBook 8730w workstation that uses an old Nvidia Quadro 2700m for some reason I can't get it to read the video card it just won't come up and because of that it won't read the HDMI output either and I've looked all over the internet but no solid answers or how ...I really hope you could point me on the right direction
Would love to see all steam games running without windows and not strings tie or attach to the middle man platform. Outdependant a new word I made up meaning freedom from the system that bind or conform humanity into one straight direction serving the agenda of the controller.
It's cool every time you do this on an old pc, but I'm holding out hope for another optiplex video. My half height GT 1030 finally showed up, but it's heatsink was too big to install... I'm gonna have to do some internal case modding to make it fit... 😓
Did you pick up the fan less model?
@@ETAPRIME yeah, the heat sink ended up colliding both with the harddrive bracket, and the plastic bits that hold the CPU heat sink down...
Dude, can I PM you? There are some questions I have to ask you about Batocera
what type of joypad do you use..... type and brand please..?
I think its a xBox controller
Somehow I missed the Batocera video so I will go back and look at it. I have a few older laptops in the house that are just holding down the furniture in the anti-gravity rooms. I will give this a run through and see if it makes them worth using again! :)
Plus, it sounds like you get a room full of floating couches in the bargain. Worth it!!
Bruh your so underated
If you use a system with similar specs and you run windows use Readyboost on a good usb stick (usb 3.0 preferably).
Just got one. 64gb 3.0 gonna test this out then. Also, Batocera is pretty cool, but isn't perfect. My games run better on Windows tbh
You should compare how it performs on windows vs batocera since you could boot from usb
Yes!!!!
In the video it looks like a pretty good screen for a cheap laptop. I'm assuming it looks even better in real life. How does it look?
to be sponsored by stag3d lol, can you do a video on installing batocera on an ssd???
I used to have this laptop, should have done this with it
Do you think it will go well for me for college works, and play indie games like stardew valley?
@@joub8800 it was fine for things like word and excel but the only game I ever bothered putting on it was minecraft, which ran at about 30-50 fps. However, the build quality of this thing was awful, the body and hinges are very cheap plastics that broke in different ways over only a few months, id go for a slightly outdated thinkpad or similar for the same price
For anyone using something old, replace that thermal paste and over clock just a little
There is a comment in the 5.20 release notes about internal Bluetooth support and the need for an external Bluetooth dongle.
Where is the link to the tutorial that he mentioned at the end? I don't see it in the description
Info (I) button in the video.
That is more of a notebook than a laptop and for those who doesn't know a notebook system is mainly 8" to 12" on the display size anything past that is considered a laptop.
Few weeks ago I installed batocera on older HP laptop, 2GB ram, only 32GB flash disk drive (not real drive) on board. Batocera installation did not work, I had to use Ubuntu live CD to format drives and copy it, but overall everytthing works fine except Nintendo 64 emulation. Games just do not start.
BTW, suggestion - create instruction video how to use ARRM. Lots of people don't know it exists and it works with RPi, Batocera and RecalBox. jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager
I know it’s kind of a dumb question but I’ve got a PS3 I’ve been trying to mod for a while but can you boot batocera from a PS3, after downgrading the current software I’m sure
i like batocera a lot. but i have 2 problems. the first was the sound via hdmi. system outputs sound only from onboard sound card . i tried auto sound setting , custom setting , hdmi0 setting.... nothing. and the second was the retroarch button layout config. every time i reboot the system retroarch button layout settings were back to default.
Have you done a video showing your backup method? Would like to know your strategy.
I currently have mine on 2 internal hard drives and then sync to an external hard drive.
Could you test on the cube “skies of Arcadia” it freezes every time I try to play it.
I love that game!!
Last I checked no one has gotten it working, period, in emulation.
@@mistwolf bullshit use dolphin
Yeah, it works on Dolphin.
What are the advantages of using Batocera instead of Recalbox? On my system does Recalbox boot time take longer, is this normal or maybe am I having a problem with my system? Thanks!
Can you do how to add up console (ps1, gc, n64, psp) menus on batocera?
You just add the games to their own folder by pressing F1 and placing a flash drive with the games on them. For example, if you wanted a Gamecube game, you would press F1, then find toms on the left side of the screen end find gamecube. Then you just copy and paste the game to the folder
@@josephjoestar6337 thanks :)
tried batocera on my intel dual core old laptop.. great perfomance. the only problem is the core button remapping. when the game is been restarted the buttons are reset again to default.
the dell Wyse 5070 non-extended used the same Intel® UHD Graphics 600 but uses the Intel Celeron J4105 which is about 5 to 10% faster in most cases and you can get them for around 40$ on eBay
How well does it run the gamecube Rouge Squadron games? Or what kind of build would it take to do so? My Nvidia Shield TV doesn't cut it on the Dolphin Emulator. Thanks!
Hi great tutorial, how do you play NDS and 3DS roms? Thanks!
Thanks for your great videos but I have a question that google searches haven't helped me with. I've got batocera booting up fine unless I have my second usb hard drive plugged in. It's this drive that has my roms. Each time, batocera starts to load but turns to a black screen seconds after the logo screen appears. Do you know what needs to be done? Thanks
So you can download this OS to a USB stick, put it in a macbook or your pc and boot up without deleting the computer or the HDD right? :)
Would it manage ps1 games at a higher resolution or only native.
With the cpu power it has it should be fine running at higher resolutions. Ps1 emulation is quite old at this point.