@@Humeir24 yeah you can also do it. But you will have to look to set the games on the same drive. I don’t remember if you can make it normally or you need to partition the drive… you can see it on the batocera wiki
Omg I've been searching everywhere how to get botocera to work onto my old laptop thank you so much the way you showed the bios changed finally got it to work!
Thanks, I’m glad it helped you. I believe there is an option to turn off the device on the batocera options menu. From there you can remove the usb drive, and normally when you start the pc again it should go to windows. If not you will have to change on the bios as second drive the one where you have windows or as boot drive again
hey so im using a 32gb usb drive to run the batocera and trying to use the internal 256gb ssd for storage. I am having problem with switching the storage setting to it as i am seeing "NO-NAME - 222.8G" after i select this and restart the system. my rom storage is still only at 22gb.
Make sure you get a high transfer speed USB and use a high speed USB port. I've had issues with PS3 or higher games which require alot of data to run properly. You may get glitchy audio or even stuttering video with lower transfer speeds on more demanding consoles.
Thanks in the options menu there is an option to switch down batocera you make that and after you can turn off the pc if is still on and simply started again without the drive
@@EnriqueCal Thank you. I'm now following you tutorial. However after flashing Batocera onto a 128gb Samsung memory stick, restarting my Surface Pro and entering the boot menu (Windows 11), the drive only shows as USB storage and when I select that it just returns to the boot menu, nothing happens. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Hello I have a question: Is it possible to install the batocera on an existing disk but so that the batocera installation does not delete anything from the disk, or if anyone has a portable version and would like to share the batocera itself, I can handle the configuration and adding things. I have an 8tb drive filled with games + Hyperspin (under construction) and would hate to lose it. Batocera has what Hs can't give me that's why I'm asking??
You can use a usb stick to install batocera portable and try it out before you make a choice. I haven’t try hyperspin but for what I have read. It seams that batoreca is more customisable and have more options to make it work on any system. No you can’t have batocera and another thing on a drive because when you etch it onto a disk is going to format that drive and create 2 partitions on it. I don’t know if there is a way to partition the drive and to have one part batocera and another one with hyperskin. My best advice is to make a backup anyway of your games. Do not format the drive you have and get a cheap usb stick and install batocera and try it out with some of the games that you use the most just so you can yourself choose witch one is best for you.
@@EnriqueCal Hello, I know, but how many photos, videos, etc. will fit on a pendrive, I'm not talking about games, nothing, unless it is possible to change the paths of photos, videos, games so that they are launched from another disk? I have 8tb in Hs and lack of space, so it's a pity that you can't install it, make portabla batocera like e.g. Hs and other frontends, I wouldn't like to lose these 8tb of data ;( Batocera looks really great, it has what I miss in Hs, unfortunately, as with everything, there are pluses and minuses: I suspect you can't make the so-called wheel in a wheel as with the addition to Hs nested wheels So, for example: next to consoles you enter and you have wheels ps1 ps2 etc and only then you enter a given wheel with games. I like to be organized ;) This is another big minus for me that on the disk, for example: external 12+ tb, there can only be batocera Of course, it's not a problem to fill such discs with games because there will be little anyway, but still :P I'll try with a Pendrive for a test and see what comes of it, but I'm not counting on fireworks or mayby 🤔🤔🤔
@@KRIS__B you don’t need to loose all that data. You can copy all the games to your pc and after transfer them to batocera. Yea it doesn’t have an option like that. But I think is good organised in consoles. Maybe later with an update. Another option that you can do if you have an old pc somewhere is to install there batocera and use it as a exclusive machine for retro games. Yeah a pen drive is not going to hold too many. You can install batocera on that 8tb drive but you will have to format it that is the sad part because of all the work involved
You need to unplug the drive of batocera, some pc will automatically use their disc to start to windows if not you have to go to your bios and change the boot order once more
Ok cheers , great video's. Just one thing if you haven't mentioned yet on starting batocera on sony vaio , to get to the ios quickly on startup press and hold the assistant button. But thanks your videos are top notch.
No, for this you need a pc to use it. Because the usb drive doesn’t have any processor to run it. Or to make it low cost you can use a raspberry pi and connect it to your pc with batocera installed on it
When it comes to importing ROMS/BIOS to Batocera, can it read the C:// drive of the PC? I just bought a cheap Dell Optiplex 3050, has its own SSD drive, and i bought a 1TB flashdrive i play on installing Batocera into (it's USB 2.0, wish I had watched this video earlier lol)
Yea you can wiki.batocera.org/store_games_on_a_second_usb_sata_drive but you could also set a bigger disk on that Dell and install batocera there plus all your games. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ukAOi3w2p4M.html
@@EnriqueCal man, I'm having so many issues, all these videos make it looks super easy lol. Not sure if maybe the PC I'm using is too weak? (Dell Optiplex 3050 with the i5 6500, 16GB RAM), or maybe the flashdrive I'm using isn't adequate. It's a 2TB flashdrive from Amazon, but it's not a USB 3.0 it's 2.0. I flashed Batocera into it, booted it using BIOS, it started no problem. I then downloaded BIOS and ROMS, windows format the E: partition of the flashdrive, put the files from my PC C drive into the E drive, opened Batocera, press F1, moved the files from that partition to the Batocera BIOS and ROM folder, let it do it overnight since it took so long. (BIOS took like 10 min, N64 ROMS i got this mega pack with over 1000 of them) This morning it moved most, gave me error message pretty much all games from P to Z didn't copy over. I exited the file explorer, and then just a black screen. Restarted the PC, BIOS boot to Batocera, i get the load screen, and then black screen. I'm about to give up lol
@@PrinceofPwnage a couple of options that you can try is first to copy the games slowly don’t do all of them together make 1 or 2 and try them then maybe more. Maybe because of the speed of the drive this started to create errors. The second option is to try another flash drive. If you want to use a pc for that why you don’t install batocera directly into it? Or you use it for something else? Install BATOCERA on any PC! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ukAOi3w2p4M.html
@@EnriqueCal i would just like to also have the option of using windows if needed. I will go to the electronics store later today and I'll get a USB 3.0 external SSD and give that a try, I'll let you know if it works!
I know that you can install batocera on an android box, but I haven’t test it and I don’t know if you can dial boot. I believe you can use a smartbox as dedicated batocera install but then you will loose the functionality of it and only do batocera
I don’t have one so I can’t try it but I have found this that you can try: support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/boot-surface-from-a-usb-device-fe7a7323-8d1d-823d-be17-9aec89c4f9f5
No, you download it one time then flash it to the usb and change the bios on the pc where you want to use it so it starts on batocera and not on the operating system that you have on that pc
For that you will need to have something like a raspberry pi and install it there: BETTER than Retropie? Batocera Retro Gaming ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dSzRjHhqsOQ.html
I can think of 2 things that could happen, or the installation was not correct, so you would need to use etcher again on your usb stick, or you have secure boot on the bios of the pc that you are trying to boot it, then you will have to disable secure boot
@@sangeeta5512 have you download the batocera file again and try with a new one? The first time you started it can take a little longer. Have you try it on a different pc?
@@EnriqueCal I'm trying to boot my Windows 7 Optiplex GX520 Desktop from Windows 7 to Batocera, but it keeps giving me a floppy diskette seek failure. Can you help me?
why is it so hard to copy this damned drive? If I pay fior access to download resources, what good is it if I can't make a backup image out of it anyway?