Plug n play retrogaming OS for PCs, SBCs and handhelds like Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Anbernic, RockPro and many others. Use Discord for help and support, please 🕹
For support and technical help, please go to the Discord server🧑💻 Twitter isn’t the right tool for troubleshooting, no need to tag me, you’ll get much more useful answers, and faster, on Discord! 😁
Batocera 39 is released! As usual, it will be progressively available for all supported architectures. If your build isn't available yet, please go to the Batocera Discord server to get it sorted out (and yes, we need more testers/formal validations!).
Get ready to retro: Batocera 38 - the video trailer will be premiered on Friday Oct 13 at 🇪🇺 19:00 CET, 🇬🇧18:00 BST, 🗽 1:00pm EST, 🌉 10:00am PST and 🇦🇺Oct 14, 4:00am AEDT.
Batocera 35 is entering its beta phase! Please test it and report bugs before we can officially release. The more testers, the faster, as always 😄 Oh, and we have a few very cool features, like touch screen support to navigate your games library!
Batocera 30 is released!
✅Odroid Go Super, Orange Pi, RPi400
✅Solarus, EasyRPG, DOSBox Pure, MelonDS, Sharp X1 and others
✅On PC: Sega Model 3, Mugen, Redream, Adobe Flash and updated PS2 up to 8 players
✅Many enhancements for Retroachievements
✅Automatic save/load states
Batocera 31 is released!
✅ XBox emulation (PC)
✅ Future Pinball (PC)
✅ Video splash screens for Pi4 and PC
✅ Watara Supervision
✅ Shaders for Vulkan
✅ More auto-collections in ES
✅ Time zone and 12/24h selection
✅ Bezels for standalone MAME
✅ Many emulators updated…
(1/2) Today, we release Batocera 35 "Monarch Butterfly" with:
✅ support for all light guns out of the box
✅ automatic NVidia config
✅ touchscreen ES for handheld PC
✅ GamePark GP32, VTech Laser, Arduboy, Lowres-NX emulators
✅ New Joycon and Xbox bluetooth drivers
...
Batocera 29 is released!
✅Windows games, WiiU and PS3 (on PC)
✅Now runs on Raspberry Pi400, Anbernic RG315P, Odroid C4, Powkiddy RGB10, Khadas VIM2
✅Fantasy consoles like Pico-8 and TIC-80
✅Find similar games in your library
✅More animated themes
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Linux. Without Linux, no Batocera Linux… and the same is true for most other retrogaming distributions!
Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to Linux 🎂3️⃣0️⃣🎉
#30YearsofLinux
[1/2]🕹️Batocera 38 is released! As usual, some SBC images will be made available gradually (it takes 5+ days to rebuild them all)
... but that's not all ...
We’re in the final testing stages for Batocera 32. Many improvements, like each new release, but in particular a lot for CRT TV/monitor users. For those who want to push retrogaming to its extreme limits! Come to the Discord server if you want to test the latest betas 😋
Batocera 5.26 is released! First official release to support Raspberry Pi4 (on top of the usual other Raspberry Pi, Odroid Go Advance, N2, XU4, MiQi, Asus Tinkerboard, RockPro64, PC...)
Batocera Linux 5.27 is released!
✅scrape and display PDF game manuals
✅download free games through the Content Downloader
✅play some Sega Saturn games on Raspberry Pi4
✅support new Odroid N2+
✅many other enhancements and performance upgrade...
Oh well, I figured some of you guys might want to beta test the latest addition to the family (beta status, please report tests on our Discord server!)
Batocera 33 is being released!
⚠️Batocera now supports 30+ boards and our compilation server is too slow, it takes over a week to compile them all. So, we'll upload progressively. Thanks for your patience (yes, RPi3 is still being worked on😅)
Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test.
But as I explained then, it wasn't really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played back, not an interactive game.
Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom!
I know it’s a small number not worth bragging about, but it’s still a milestone to celebrate. All the more than you were only a handful followers a year ago. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT! The Batocera community is amazing.
#1K
Did you know that Batocera Linux 5.26 is compatible with Odroid Go Advance Black Edition? Wifi for RetroAchievements and Netplay on the go, anyone? Oh and, yes, this is a white Black Edition ▫️◾️◻️◼️⬜️⬛️
🌍Hey y'all from planet Earth! We're getting ready to release Batocera 38 soon. Do you want to help? Please review and complete the translation files in your own language, this will help a bunch (and we've added many new options in this release)!
This might fly under the radar, but
@DickWhitehouse
released a native Linux version of his awesome BigPEmu Atari Jaguar emulator. No more wine, thank you, Rich! It will be in included in Batocera 40. (And please support his Patreon if you can)
📢 Batocera Live in English 📢 Friday October 1st, 2021 🇬🇷 22:00 Athens / 🇫🇷 21:00 Paris / 🇬🇧 20:00 GMT London / 🇧🇷 4pm Rio de Janeiro / 🗽 3pm New York / 🇺🇸 noon Los Angeles / 🇳🇿 8am Aukland
The Odroid Go Super is supported with Batocera 30 beta, and it’s a totally awesome handheld device. Comparison with an Odroid Go Advance below - a very nice upgrade overall.
I heard you guys are excited about the upcoming
#SteamDeck
? How about launching Steam games from Batocera on a OneXPlayer today? Or from an Aya Neo? Stay tuned: coming with Batocera 32 (in a couple of months).
#handheldPC
#RetroGaming
Here is an updated and longer video of Xbox emulation on the next Batocera x86_64 release. Still a lot of work, but things are coming up together pretty nicely! Many thanks to Modhack on YouTube and Discord. ❎🅱️0️⃣❎
Batocera 35 revolutionizes the use of lightguns (and even more with the upcoming version 36). Do you now need to throw away your old Mayflash Dolphinbar and buy a new “dumb” IR bar? Not necessarily:
What will be coming in Batocera 36? Native Linux WiiU emulator (CEmu) with enhanced performance. Come to the Discord server to help us test the dev builds (it's at an early stage, we just released v35, but the more the merrier! 🥳)
📢34 is a Fibonacci number, a companion Pell number, a Markov number and a heptagonal number. It's also the version of the latest Batocera release, that has just hit the download servers! 3️⃣4️⃣ (some SBC will be updated later, stay tuned)
28 years ago, on Aug. 13 1993, Capcom released Street Fighter II Turbo for the SNES in the USA. In 1997 Electronic Gaming Monthly listed it as the best arcade game of all time and the SNES conversion as the 5th best console game of all time.
What is your favorite fighting game?
📢 Batocera v33 beta1 builds are out! Please come and test Batocera 33, and report bugs before we finalize it. The more testers, the faster we will release! 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
[2/2]👕By popular demand, and to celebrate the launch of Batocera 38, you can now buy official merchandising, including T-shirts and hoodies on
We kept the prices as low as possible, and we ship worldwide.
📢 Calling all SteamDeck users. There’s one bug preventing us from getting Batocera 36 to RC, and it seems to be impacting SteamDeck 64GB with the latest firmware. If you own a SteamDeck and want to help us troubleshoot this, please go to our Discord server. Thank you 🙏
This is not a prank: XBox emulation is coming up in the next Batocera version for PC x86_64. Performance is slow due to the video recording and encoding done on the same CPU as the XBox emulation.
#NotAprilFool
🕹
We are building Batocera 34 Release Candidate 1 (x86_64 and Pi4 available soon, through the “beta” upgrade channel).
So, now is the time to test and report last-minute bugs if you want the most stable release 😬 Please come and share your experience on
Hey pincab lovers, you might be very interested in this awesome interview about the latest VPX Standalone progress in Batocera 39 Butterfly (Major Frenchy with JSM174)
A couple of news for this week:
1️⃣ Our friends at
@RetroBat_Off
have released their version 5.1, check them out!
2️⃣ We are in beta phase for Batocera 36. It’s crunch time for bug crushing! Please test as much as you can, and report any regression to our Discord server.
I’m sure nearly everyone played Super Mario 64 at least once. On a Nintendo 64, DS, Switch… or on Batocera, maybe? Today, how about Super Mario 64 in your web browser?
Any pinball fan in there? Batocera 31 on x86_64 will bring Future Pinball to your emulation PC! Check out some of these famous tables in this video ✒️🎱🖋
Batocera 29 RC1 is out! It’s a Release Candidate, help us find out the last bugs before we release the new major version. or our Discord channel for help and bug reports.
Probably the most complete Anbernic Win600 review that you’ll find on Youtube: Windows, Batocera, SteamOS. Yet another awesome video from
@RetroGameCorps
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In a mere 150 days, the number of our Twitter followers doubled from 400 to 800. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR AMAZING SUPPORT (x2)😍😍
In other news, 5.25 stable is really around the corner now. Buckle up, it's going to be an awesome release!
📢 English-speaking Batocera Live 📢 Saturday 20 March 2021 - 🇫🇷 18:00 Paris / 🇬🇧 17:00 GMT London / 🇧🇷 14:00 Rio de Janeiro / 🗽 1pm New York / 🇺🇸 10am Los Angeles
Call Jack Bauer, we need all the CTU members to help us distribute our newest release:
#Batocera
5.24 is out! (and oh oh oh, look at that shiny new web site, with fresh paint still on 🎨🖌)
New with Batocera 5.24: you can now translate many video games on-the-fly. Fancy a nerdy French or Japanese game you’ve never played before? Hit [hotkey]+[R trigger] on libretro-powered emulators. 🇬🇧🇯🇵🇧🇷🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪🇨🇳
What’s new in the upcoming Batocera 34? I’m glad you asked: You still have time to test the Release Candidate and help us eliminate the last bugs before it’s too late!
@Ttisking89
It's great that
@LinusTech
could give Batocera some visibility (thank you!). Unfortunately, the message came through a bit distorted for many users who didn't understand that the Batocera project has nothing to do with these off-the-shelf emulation boxes.
New video! In this one I show you how to transform any PC into a retro gaming console, to seamlessly play your favorite retro classics and lightweight Steam games too, all thanks to
@batocera_linux
🆕Batocera Linux adds another single-board computer to its roster. Dear
#Odroid
#C4
owners, welcome to the party! Beta version available for download now
Batocera 33 preview: the new "Mega Bezel" option that adds real time screen reflections for a more immersive retrogaming experience 😍 Obviously this requires higher-end graphics capacities and will be available only on PC x86_64 with a decent GPU.