Batocera on the Steam Deck (boots from microSD!)

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At long last, we have a working beta test build of Batocera for the Steam Deck! This retro-game-focused Linux operating system boots from the microSD card slot, giving you an independent OS that you can pop into your Steam Deck when you want to play retro games. In this video I'll do a quick demo of the setup process and show off how it's working so far.
Note that this is a BETA BUILD and so you should expect bugs if you want to try it yourself. Because Batocera resides entirely on the microSD card, there is next to zero chance of damaging your Steam Deck or SteamOS build by testing Batocera, but it's always good to know what you're getting yourself into ahead of time.
Batocera beta for Steam Deck: batocera.org/download
Batocera wiki page: wiki.batocera.org/install_bat...
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00:00 introduction
01:23 installation and setup
03:32 game testing showcase
05:41 summary and conclusion
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@obvious_giraffe8386 Год назад

Big deck energy

@appieLol Год назад

🥵🥵

@Dunners2006 Год назад

Howled at that

@devmag52 Год назад

Allegedly

@Psxpirate1 Год назад

Long live Salty Cracker.

@DaBigBlud Год назад

Cringe comment

@WorldshakerX Год назад

Love these guides! I just got my Deck and can't wait to start setting it up this weekend.

@JamesTechJackin Год назад

Looking forward to your final guide on this! Looks great!!

@thoryan946 Год назад

Just got my SteamDeck. I'm really excited for the future of emulation on this thing. Probably the best handheld you can buy right now.

@jumpman1823 Год назад

Can't wait for your updated emu deck guide. Keep it up!!

@younited8959 Год назад

Samee!

@domenicodeluca4427 Год назад

Me too

@sarahrivera4050 Год назад

Does it run Xbox 360 and PS3

@Shishakhalifa Год назад

@@sarahrivera4050 yep ps3

@rockafella2664 Год назад

Hi Russ! Thanks for this video. I was hesitant to try this as I have an Anbernic RG351V for my retro fix BUT I have a spare SD card lying around so I did follow your instructions and... man oh man!! I didn't know retro gaming could be taken to the next level. I am enjoying games like Streets of Rage 2 without bezels, with pixel perfect settings. It is sooo beautiful. It doubled the fun factor compared to my Anbernic device. Retro Game Corps + Steam Deck, a match made in gaming heaven LOL

@gnmgnt Год назад

I've been waiting for this, really excited for the official release

@AdrenLnFueledScholar Год назад

This was cool! Looking forward to the updated EmuDeck video!! Thank you!!

@derekswitzer9624 Год назад

this is SOO AWESOME!! bato is definitely my emulation frontend of choice these days (non-WIndows)

@etharp1980 Год назад

Keep these videos coming, great help and better when its you doing them

@infin1ty850 Год назад

Awesome. I've been having some many problems with desktop mode on the Steam Deck that I basically gave up on going the route of your last video about the subject. This I can definitely do.

@morid0 Год назад

been waiting for this, I love batocera and was sure it was just matter of time to get a working image, I'll still wait up till they provide the stable version tough.

@gamedad1984 Год назад

Thanks for all your hard work bro. I just got my Steam Deck and ready to build a retro handheld powerhouse 😅👍🏼

@VenomBurger Год назад

Been using EmuDeck (through Emulation Station) for all my Retro Gaming thanks to your guide! Imo it makes my Steam Deck worth the price!

@BrianJones-wk8cx Год назад

Excellent heads-up, I will have to give this a go. Like you, my impulse is to keep my current Emu Deck setup within a unified Steam OS setup with my entire game collection, modern and retro, but I LOVE Batocera and want to see how this is coming along on the Deck. Thank you as always for your work on this! Would love to see a more in-depth look once the devs get this past testing!

@TFPMadcow Год назад

I think the advantage is you can keep a large rom collection without cluttering the nice steamos interface. Not sure it’s a plus for me, but other could be interested

@BrianJones-wk8cx Год назад

@@TFPMadcow oh yeah, I can totally see the merits of having a separate Batocera install on SD card. I find that I can balance my SteamOS interface and being able to have full ROM sets by adding additional folders of favorite ROMS per system (using symlinks of said ROMS so as not to duplicate my collection in the main system folder). This way, I only add shortcuts in Steam to my favorite games while maintaining fully, easily accessible ROM sets via Emulation Station, which of course has a shortcut in Steam as well. It’s much more work than the default EmuDeck process (or just using Batocera), but part of the allure for me is having all my games in one unified place, always accessible. I love Batocera though, and even use Retrobat on my Windows gaming rig to replicate the Batocera experience.

@alwaysardent1125 Месяц назад

I LOVE Batocera's customized music for the frontend menus

@ph5homer Год назад

Nice man!! Looking forward to test it myself!!

@MrLivewire1970 Год назад

I'm only interested in emulation up to PS2 at this point so I think I'll be going with Batocera. Thanks for all the great info!

@TheCoolDave Год назад

EmuDeck does that perfectly.... Crap, I have been playing Switch games on my deck...

@V8chump Год назад

@@TheCoolDave wouldn’t suppose you know of a Reddit or forum that’d point me in the direction of Roms or bios? I know linking directly is sketchy but I figure a Reddit would be cool

@TheCoolDave Год назад

@@V8chump I can't say exactly but, RetroArch for the Xbox Series X... I went to the discord channel for it and there was a whole set of BIOS that used as a starting point(this covered up to PS2). Switch games I used my own hackable Switch to get the keys, They are out there. I would look over other emulation sites or even Reddit. Posting here a direct link is not legal so I can't. Good luck !

@user-uo8cd6de8d Год назад

@@V8chump All you have to do is type in the system and Roms that you are looking for into google. That’s it.

@no_name9165 Год назад

SUPER HELPFUL! keep it up man.

@txtworld Год назад

Mate, awesome video! Keep up this sort of content

@mariuszfuchs2010 Год назад

This is awesome i been waiting for this. I'm going to try to instal on my Deck heheh

@nebulous962 Год назад

i kinda figured that something like this would happen after i heard that valve was putting drivers into linux kernel and i am happy they did that cus this is awesome! 🙂

@AlteredCarbons 11 месяцев назад

i got almost the model of that keyboard/mouse combo. man that thing works so good

@jasonshiers5771 Год назад

Batocera is quality, I use it on my Pi 400 and it it’s a joy to use.

@kenkwok83 Год назад

Can’t wait for a full tutorial video

@kyledunton1351 Год назад

Can't wait to get my steam deck soon

@RGGeek Год назад

This almost makes me want a Steam Deck. 😅 Good work!

@jakesmith5278 Год назад

Simply awesome.

@PC-ONE Месяц назад

I've got my Sream Deck and Baticera is just awesome.

@martincoborn 8 месяцев назад

How I love this channel! ❤️

@carlosrivera1184 Год назад

Damn what a beast the steam deck is

@im.totushi Год назад

I’ll wait on the emu deck guide! 🤩

@mastersofboarddom7570 Год назад

My Steam Deck is arriving TOMORROW (!!) and I'm really looking forward to your updated Emu Deck guide. But Batocera's a reasonable alternative. :)

@RealziesCuts Год назад

Keep the Big DecK EneRgy goin 🚀 Got the email from Steam last night and my pre-order was canceled, with all my financial setbacks I just wasn’t able to pay it off in time, it may be next year 💫 Regardless I will have a steam deck I think this is one hell of a brilliant device and they’re going to be many models to follow

@Evercade_Effect Год назад

Dude, this is awesome!

@Dracossaint Год назад

I am aware I'm basic for this reaction and atm I'm ok with this. LET'S FING GOOOOOOOOOO!

@datboitmic Год назад

I’m really liking the new Game Gear Pro Max. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for it

@gilavalos2400 Год назад

Been using emulation since 1997 and it's amazing how far emulation has gone.

@MrJonGx3 Год назад

definitely will need a good guide for emulating on steam deck. Finally got to complete the purchase on my steak deck on steam so hopefully ill be getting it in a week

@demonhighwayman9403 Год назад

I like the idea of having all my emulated stuff separated from steam os on its own sd card. Please come back with a video when they have a full release.

@nicolas.adenis-lamarre Год назад

this is already very good. except the name, a "full" release would be the same. it is batocera b35 stable (even if the internal name is 36-dev)

@demonhighwayman9403 Год назад

@@nicolas.adenis-lamarre I might give that a try on the weekend then, thanks for the info.

@zombee38 Год назад

After having some issues with Emudeck ....forget it .... i'm with going Batocera which I never have issues with. Thanks Russ !

@Nickbaldeagle02 Год назад

What issues?

@ninjason57 Год назад

I think once this gets optimized I would prefer batocera over emudeck in steam OS for a few reasons: it’s much cleaner in appearance and better than the confusing file system emudeck makes on the card, easier to make emulator setting adjustments vs steam desktop mode, and most of all being able to plug the microSD card into other computers for seamless gameplay with retention of saves. I will wait for some bugs to get ironed out and your official video guide.

@morid0 Год назад

Good call to wait for stable version, I gave it a try and currently emudeck desktop edition is vastly superior, for starters there is no mame core so if you drop roms on mame folder it wont show you will need a final burn neo rom set since its only core available (flycast is also there for naomi, atomis games), also volume seems to be on the low side for some reason and you cant modify the video output so by default you will be stuck with open gl, I am sure there must be a way to change this, I try to modify directly from the application (menu that pops up after pressing f1) and it always resets to open gl when I pop a game, I also tried to change the configuration text directly same results, so right now its funnctional but still needs improving and as of now emudeck works much better, once they iron it out I would rather use batocera much more clean and easy to configure.

@zZiL341yRj736 Год назад

But does is more compatible with the emulators like PCsx2 and Yuzu than Emudeck?

@Sarge92 Год назад

@@zZiL341yRj736 hard to tell but what I can say is updates will be few and far between unless batocera themselves update the emulator or you choose to mess about and do it yourself you wont see many updates to emus meanwhile on emudeck you can update all the emus yourself just via the appstore batocera is great and all but its extremely dumbed down for people who don't want to be able to customize stuff

@scottgilbert3286 Год назад

As someone with zero investment in the Steam ecosystem, this is a great option. I absolutely love Batocera on PC and RPi.

@kornishpasty 4 месяца назад

I'm curious about getting one sd card with it all installed. Is it literally plug and play or is there more to it ?

@vspud Год назад

This great as it can now read all my roms on my nas so less space

@OlivierGrasakaolo Год назад

I so need a steam deck...but could so not afford one at the moment 😅. Thx for the info !!

@DavidFilskov Год назад

Thanks! - I think I'm sold on Steam Deck for emulation only. After all it's the only Linux-based handheld with the D-pad above the joystick apart from PSVita! :)

@overoula Год назад

this is really amazing...in process of copying 1tb roms now :D

@AntonioRodriguezSilver Год назад

Booting Batocera into Steam Deck. Darn. That's my ideal scenario right there!

@MikeyD64 3 месяца назад

Man I wish this just worked as a program vs an entire OS.

@piplup10203854 Год назад

Woah 😮 this is cool!

@kaladinstormblessed9626 Год назад

i am looking forward to the emu deck guide. my steam deck just showed up today.

@bossedup957 Год назад

I wish I was tech savvy like you

@abrahamabdul1160 3 месяца назад

I'm here for the intro

@smaao Год назад

Very clean

@GregTheNomad Год назад

i love it but gonna wait untill its out of beta and stable release i love it cant wait

@cpaek72 Год назад

This channel should be called All the Same, but kidding aside, love the content.

@alwaysardent1125 Месяц назад

I love batocera for The customizable front end music- I like that you can set per system. I like that you can listen to that. Absolutely awesome! Synth80s retro soundtrack on the home screen. Overall I want the unified emulation station experience from inside the steam OS. But until emulation station allows me to do the customizable music while browsing the front end. That's The winning Edge for me on this OS

@Bozzyshy Год назад

I think this will be quite good for me if/when i eventually get a steam deck

@Chummy8 Год назад

I am using Emudeck now and I love it. However I feel that a more focused program like Batocera or RetroDeck might be the future for me.

@DontGiveUp_Skeleton Год назад

I'll keep the EmuDeck setup but can't deny that the much better theme support is tempting.

@morid0 Год назад

You can have both :P, but right now stick to EmuDeck, currently batocera is not that great, there are few things not working properly, once they realease a stable version it is worth considering since you got easier access to configure emulators, easy to install the bezzel project and plenty of homebrew stuff, different themes etc, not to mention everything is on the SD card so if you happen to have to reset your steam deck you won't have to worry loosing any emulator save data. Plenty of good stuff with batocera one of my favorite and to go software for emulation, sadly it's on beta test for the deck, can't wait till they polish it to a decent functional level.

@WickedGamerCollector Год назад

Botacera ... YES !

@fonzitheman Год назад

Batocera Not Botacera 😁😇

@dorbei Год назад

Batocera - the daredevil of retro handheld OS

@aplomBomb Год назад

HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING

@ninjason57 Год назад

I asked and you deliver!

@Decidetto Год назад

How does power draw compare to RetroArch in SteamOS? For example I have PS1 games (1x res) running at 5.1-5.3 watts at low brightness using the SwanStation core in SteamOS, using all the native performance tweaks, but no PowerTools. I'm curious if Batocera has the potential to take it even lower, with potential for native integration of lower-level performance tweaks like the PowerTools plugin offers.

@esmith13 Год назад

Great vid as always! I wonder if the same trick works on steam deck as emulation handhelds, where after it repartitions the SD card itself, you can reformat the linux SHARE partition on Windows as exfat or NTFS and pop it back into the steam deck and have batocera repopulate it? If it does work then it would probably be easier to fill the SD card with games directly inserted into a windows PC, just like with the emulation handhelds that can run batocera, tho the gap in convenience one way vs the other is probably a lot more narrow on steam deck than on a very low powered emulation handheld.

@kbhasi Год назад

(3:38) Sounds understandable for a test build. I'm sure someone would figure out how to map the exit action to the Steam button instead.

@masoncrosswell7780 Год назад

Could really use an updated emu deck guide. Hopefully comes soon 🙏

@grzegorz__ Год назад

Wow, this is absolutely amazing. I love AmberElec on my RG552 and Batocera on UM350 MiniPC :), and for the Steam Deck (got it like 2 weeks ago), I planned to install Emu Deck, but now, I guess I'll try this test build (official v36 release may take a while, I guess, since v35 was just released), because I love the concept of having retro stuff totally separated. On the other hand, power consumption wise, did you had a chance to compare ie. PS2 power consumption on SteamOS vs Batocera ? I wonder if batocera is similarly-power-consumption effective as Steam OS ?

@ninjason57 Год назад

Great question regarding power consumption. I’d like to know too

@AngryCalvin Год назад

Great question. I haven’t bought a Steam Deck yet. I’m looking at mini PCs also and trying to see how long a Steam Deck would last. I use Emuelec on an Android box and Batocera on my laptop. I mostly do retro gaming anyway. I built my own arcade kiosk with dual sticks, trackball, and a wheel and pedals extension. I use a 8bitdo Arcade Stick for travel. I wouldn’t be using my Steam Deck often anyway just for modern games which I don’t play often. So it’s probably ideal and will last longer anyway. I do use a fan under my Android box so it never raises temperature over about 78% or so.

@AngryCalvin Год назад

Not sure if I prefer Batocera or Emuelec. They are really close and I would be happy using either one. I like these Linux based frontends way over any android or windows based frontend. I use them all the time since I mostly do retro gaming.

@cloudcultdev Год назад

Would you prefer Botacera running on a Steam Deck or would you prefer something like the Analogue Pocket for retro gameplay (now that there are so many cores available)?

@theburntcrumpet8371 Год назад

I was just thinking "why on earth would I do that instead of using emudeck?" But actually if you can dual boot from the SD it makes a lot of sense

@djkcomputing Год назад

Hope this helps someone else... after etching my 400GB Sandisk MicroSd with Batocera... I could never get it to boot using the boot manager. It would not display the MicroSD as an option. After searching and searching online I had come to the conclusion that my particular card wouldn't work. But I had a USB-c Hub with a MicroSd reader in it... so I tried booting to it with it hanging off the back of the steam deck... well that worked... awesome.... but then BONUS I tried the microsSD back in the steamdeck directly and Low and Behold it worked! So now I can boot it Batocera without the external hub!

@KyleRuggles Год назад

C'mon! Make it available for the Odin! C'mon! Great vid Russ! These are sooo teasing me! lol.

@smaao Год назад

Ain't odin windows?

@KyleRuggles Год назад

@@smaao No it's primarily android, it "can" run windows but it's an emulation layer, it's not that fast.

@tattoodrdoke Год назад

I second this we need it on odin.

@fonzitheman Год назад

I believe the devs say its possible for the odin base and pro but not on the lite, but when I dont know.

@WardDallas Год назад

Take a drink every time you hear “batocera”

@tommy140173 Год назад

Hi! Thanks for your guide :) I need one more information. Must the SD card for Batocera be formatted in a special file format? Or does it also boot with an SD card formatted via Steam Deck and the format ext4? In other words: Can you use one and the same SD card (with the ROMS and BIOS) for both: EmuDeck and Batocera or do I need two SD cards? One formatted by SteamDeck (ext4) for EmuDeck and one formatted with rufus to boot Batocera? Which file format will rufus "create" on the sd card?? AFAIK will EmuDeck need ext4 ...

@MohammedIbrahim-lq7yt Год назад

Hey russ I have a question regarding emulating on the steam deck would the emulation experience be better on the regular steamos interface or through batocera on steam deck?

@chasonlapointe Год назад

Looks fantastic on the deck, have you heard any word on Batocera for the Ayn Odin?

@mike5mser Год назад

I have been looking at getting a retro game console and i just found out that they sell preloaded batocera sd cards for steam deck. I could make my own but I dont have the time, do you recommend getting a batocera sd card or a dedicated retro game console?

@TekxBe Год назад

🔥🔥🔥

@BinManSays87 Год назад

I'm looking into this just for the light gun mainly but I'm still waiting for a smoother arcade set up on deck mostly, it doesn't really matter what flavor emulation station you use at the end of the day but coming from playing with raspberry pi's for years to emudeck is so limiting

@hadouken2123 Год назад

Thanks for the video. When batocera is installed onto sd card in steamdeck: is it possible to access the userpartition (games and savestates) from SteamOS ?

@marmeladenschnitzel5648 Год назад

you can acces the filesystem with network shares.

@SCORP1ONF1RE Год назад

Bada Bing!

@nedronez Год назад

Anyone know how to open the Batocera file manager on the Deck?

@jeremyzeeky3024 Год назад

Is there going to be a updated emudeck guide soon? Trying to get it working without a dock and keyboard is cumbersome.

@retrojoe2842 Год назад

awesome

@InrDmons2011 Год назад

YESSS!!!!

@youzernejm Год назад

Seems that not too many people care about batocera, even among geeks. That said, this makes the deck even better in my book. I absolutely love it, as do most of RGC viewers it seems.

@hanspecans Год назад

You would be very incorrect about that statement. Batocera has a very large community and user base.

@youzernejm Год назад

@@hanspecans Define huge. Number of gamers and geeks I've shown Batocera to and got any kind of positive reaction is pretty much 0. Maybe it's my vs your surrounding, but in general I think batocera deserves far more recognition than it's getting. If you are talking about the billion gamers in the world, a single percent is 10 million - but that's 10 million scattered all over the world.

@AskUncleDavecom Год назад

are you saying high end games are better in steamOS and how bad is performance in comparison .please elaborate in your detail full video . also, say "yeah man I do"

@choboutube Год назад

It's fun. File transfers onto the microSD is sloooow. Also be careful about updating the Batocera.

@choboutube Год назад

I can't seem to find the setting to change resolution on all the games in one collection. I can do it for individual games.

@PharoahsKingdom Год назад

Sounds but i already put roms on the SD card and PC games on the deck SSD. So whatvwould be the actual benefit aside from that?

@samhuang683 Год назад

1. Supports touchscreen? 2. What tdp will it run low end systems and high end systems at? Battery life estimates? 3. Is performance for higher end systems like Wii, 3DS and PS2 same, better or worse than emudeck on steamos?

@TheSperoman Год назад

Would also like detailed guide for batocera

@clo8947 Год назад

Where did you buy the blue tooth adapter for you mouse, keyboard and drive?

@tchernobil Год назад

YESSSSS!

@matthewwolf5528 Год назад

What's the advantage of using Batocera over EmuDeck? I've been using EmuDeck and I like that it's integrated into Steam OS, and that the storage space is shared. I could buy one microSD card and have more storage for both Steam games and emulation games. I don't know a thing about Batocera so I'm wondering if there's performance, usability, or other advantages?

@GamerJ3ff Год назад

This vs steam os preformance of emulation ? also did u feel more bettery use on steam os use ? ( i waiting for my deck to arrive =D )

@RetroGameCorps Год назад

Performance should be similar, other than that you can install Switch and Xbox 360 emulators directly on SteamOS pretty easily. As far as battery life, SteamOS will likely be better since you can manipulate TDP on the fly within SteamOS, and that isn't a feature in Batocera.

@DavidFilskov Год назад

Can you set it up to boot directly into RetroArch and circumvent Emulation Station? - to avoid my carefully adjusted RA config to be overwritten every time I start a new game.

@GeordieGames Год назад

Great video, I wonder if someone can help me out? Does anyone know what steam deck buttons add a game to your favourites? Also in game, what button closes the game? Cheers!

@BlaneStroud Год назад

I'm testing this out. Seems to work super well. My only issue so far is saving in PS2. Memory cards don't seem to be configured and there's no way to open the emulator directly, as far as I can tell.

@RetroGameCorps Год назад

Press F1 when in the main menu and it'll bring up that file manager, and there should be a section for Applications where you can access PCSX2. I was able to save in-game no problem for me, but I only tested Ratchet and Clank. That game prompted me to format the card first and it worked fine. Maybe try a different PS2 game to see if it will prompt to format the memory card first?

@BlaneStroud Год назад

@@RetroGameCorps I eventually figured out how to open PCSX2, but the memory card thing didn't really fix. Seems like memory cards are set to eject when loading a save state, but they never reinsert. That's supposed to be automatic, but it doesn't seem to work right for whatever reason. At least not for slot one. I did no memory card in slot 1 and an 8mb in slot 2, and that seems to work fine as a workaround.