My Rcps3 apparently cannot boot create links folders inside /roms/ps3, BUT it can boot create link folders from /roms/rcps3 and the target is from /dev_hdd0/game weird Ive tried copying everything from /dev_hdd0/game to /rom/ps3 but it boots blackscreen after compilation
Can I have two harddrives in my pc with batocera on one and Windows on second? Will pc give me any trouble? I want to have a emulator machine that isnt slowed down by Windows that steals resources in background but I also would like to keep my documents and mails and stuff.
I have a 1tb hard drive that contains my BATOCERA but I’m trying to clone it to a 1tb mini ssd but since it does it read as a full 1tb it saying it’s too small. Any remedies you can think of?
Note: Drives should be manually named to prevent automatic naming issues. The system names drives in the order it encounters them, so if you have multiple drives, the links might stop working randomly when your drives are detected in a different order because the system has renamed them. E.g. You have 2 drives plugged in. one is drive 01, the other is drive 02. You restart. The system detects drive 02 before 01 this time. SO now none of your links will work. I didn't realise until I restarted a couple of times and noticed it. To name a drive(in linux) use gnome-disk-utility. If you don't have it installed, it's in the repos. The GDU lets you rename drives without reformatting them or anything. While you might try altering it in your file browser (thunar, dolphin etc) you might not get the response from other system. Best to use the utility so the boot record knows what to tell the system when it asks for the name of a drive.
Thank you for this information. I wasn't aware of this. I have a question regarding this. If you rename the drive in Windows, will that work? Or does it have to be renamed in Linux?
@@BatoceraNation I would assume that using windows to rename a drive (right-click > properties > change the name in that menu) would work. I would suggest testing this with a thumb drive and see if it's detected under the name you assigned with this method. I don't use windows, so I can't speak from experience. I switched from windows several months ago. A check with a small thumb drive would take 5 minutes, and that would be a good test to do before migrating everything over and discovering linux has a different naming registry reliance.
Please Help ASAP, ido install Batocera to HDD Transcend 1TB, then i cant run boot Batocera from my laptop, after that i can run on my pc, but i need run it from my laptop, i need solutions please? can someone help me?!?!
Quick and easy tutorial on creating links to games on an alternate drive and placing them in the main Boot/Roms folder. All the roms on my second internal HDD are now detected and play fine.
Okay so batocera even sees regular internal drives as an external. So if I do a nvme to store boot and batocera and use hdds to store my roms I would have to link everything with this method?
I have all my roms and everything set up. But no room to update on my hard drive. So I added a new hard drive and was wondering how to get it to link to my original hard drive
Thanks for this great tutorial. I finally got it to work. The links didn't work if I added the game folders however I had to click into the folder and add the individual roms then it worked.
not working for me on version 34, can see both my external drives. i have a 320gb with most games on but want to link some from a 2tb followed the guide but the links dont appear on my 320gb folders
Can you make a tutorial on partitioning your internal ssd for dual boot windows/batocera? I have a wth ssd and only need 256gb for windows and would like to use the rest of the storage for batocera
Wishing I came across this video at the start of the weekend and not the end haha. Not great support on Batocera sites but this is perfect. Simple to bloody understand for someone not so savvy with codings and shit haha. Thank you!!
Hi, I have a NucIntel with batocera installed on an internal 1to SSD sata. I have not enough space, and would like to put my Ps2 roms on my internal Nvme M2 500 go, but when I go on the F1 file manager, I can't see the Nvme...Do you have any idea ? thanks per advance.
I assume that you don't have Windows installed at all in your internal drives? If you don't, try taking out the second NVME drive and run "Error checking" in Tools (found in Properties of the Drive within Windows). Sometimes that helps Batocera see the second drive. In my experimenting, I know that it also fails to see it when the drive is a Windows "C Drive"
Mandatory TIP!: The drive has to be in NTFS to be auto mounted by Batocera. I had the drive in BTRFS and I spend a lot of time trying to figureout what was going on.
What I don't understand is why you aren't making symbolic links (symlinks) of the folders that contain the metadata, such as boxart, image, media, snap, videos, etc? In fact, why not just create a symlink of the "colecovision" folder for example? Wouldn't that work? I am asking because I am investigating how to best expand the storage space to accomodate more roms. I am just curious as to why the folders might not work. Have you tried this approach? Did you not mention it because you haven't tried it or you have but found that it doesn't work and as such didn't cover it in your video?
You read my mind, Bro… now that I started adding PC and Higher end systems, I ran out of space. Now I’m hoping you can help me out with that question about cheats for newer windows games. 😉
That’s Awesome, so basically you can use this when your main batocera drive is running low on space, the other roms that might not fit there you can “link it” with out it affecting your main batocera drive. Pretty much right?
I have a hdd divided into two partitions of 500Gb. (1 fat32 and 1 ntfs) but when I look at my batocera partition it only gives me 6 Gb, what's wrong here and how do I fix this...
The 6GB partition is the Boot partition thats in Fat32. The other partition which Batocera creates when you boot for the first time in the share partition which holds your games, themes etc. This is auto formatted to ext4 by Batocera. Windows cannot see the ext4 partition. You would need special sofware like Disk Genius. Otherwise boot into Batocera, press F1 on keyboard and you can see the share partition with the built in file manager. Not sure though then why you have 2 at 500GB in fat32 and ntfs.
@@BatoceraNation So I have batocera on an internal ssd, I have an nvme installed with windows where I get my roms. Sometimes I can access the nvme drive directly in batocera other times I cant, is there a way to keep the drive accessible permanently. The only way I seem to be able to access the nvme from batocera is to repeatedly restart my system and hope it connects
I keep loading batocera on a 2 tb internal ssd drive on an old gaming pc. When I go to add roms to it via the network, it says I don't even have room for one 4 gig game? Same thing when I try to add roms with a connected drive. When I look at the drive on a windows machine, it looks like it only partisians off like 6 gig for OS and the rest is partisianed Off. So basically I can't load roms, says not enough space?!? Any ideas? Wanted everything, os and roms one one internal hardrive...
When you boot up your Batocera PC, go into System Settings, then click on Information. How much space is your hard drive reporting? It should be close to 2TB. Try not to stick the portable SSD drive into a Windows PC because it will mess up the Batocera drive. To add ROMs into the SSD drive, press F1 on your keyboard and there you should see the ROMs folder. Plug another portable drive that contains your ROMs into the Batocera system and from there you can copy and paste your ROMs into your Batocera SSD from within Batocera. If you try to do it within Windows, it won't work.
You might also want to repeat the process of reinstalling Batocera unto the 2TB SSD. Then when it loads up for the first time, press F1, plug a portable drive with your ROMs, then copy and paste.
hi i got portable 2TB batocera hard drive, but when i choose to start up thrue bioa it not starting up. note : when i plug in the hard drive to see it through the windows it not show any files, and when i go through disk management it show it to me but unknown files. How to fix this problem and start gaming
Did you flash Batocera to the portable hdd yourself ? So you want it to boot from that hdd as well? So the whole OS on the portable hdd? Or are you booting from a flash drive and using the portable hdd as storage for roms only?
After you flash Batocera to the portable hard drive you need to let it boot once. This expands the storage and creates the file structure. Then when you connect it to your PC yes, you wont be able to read the share partition as its in ext4 fornat which windows cant read by default without special software like disk genious. However boot Batocera and press F1 on your keyboard and you can use the inbuilt file manager to access the share parition and moves files across. You said though it wont boot at all? You need to go into your PC bios setting and allow booting from the usb port as primary.
I had a similar issue in EmuELEC and I made a script that made a symbollic link between the external drive console folder and the internal emuelec console folder. Now I can have SNES and MegaDrive on my Internal Storage, and N64, NDS, PS1 etc on my external drive.
Thank you again for you're great videos which have been a great help. I've already managed to add an extra drive for which I store my roms on, but can't seem to see a CD-ROM drive.
Thank you so much for this video, but I do have a question needed help please, How do you unlink the files from the hard drive beside deleting the linked files one by one. Thank you advance.
Select All (Ctrl and then A) and then delete. Or delete the linked folder. But if you have a combination of linked and unlinked files within a folder, you might sort the files in the folder by type and then delete all the linked files.
Good Evening I recorded the image of the batocera 38 for PC on a 128 memory card... I was wondering if there is a way to show not only the internal disk but also two other disks where there are roms, In a Batocera Nation video I saw that it could be done via F1, copying the Gamelist file and creating links to the ROMs but it doesn't work for me... Where am I wrong? Does it work even without Batocera installation?
I tried to do this with my PS3 and Xbox 360 games on Batocera 38 and while the games list correctly in the menu, when I try to play them I just get a black screen. This doesn't happen when I launch them from my main drive.
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.
@@BatoceraNation I appreciate every single video you have, if anything, they are very informative 👍. Please keep them coming and thanks for your hard work 👍.
hi, is it compatible with dolphin GC/Wii emulator ? I see all my roms in batocera but when i launch them. Dolphin doesn't find them ? and i can't find my drive in dolphin gui windows.
What can be if my portable hdd KinHank sometime start with the correct number of roms and emulator and other times charge only a very little rom number and other emulator? I do not understand how to fix and ever charge all my roms Thank you for your videos
Another scenario, I have everything on one drive and it's filling up fast so I add another drive (drive D). It has to be formatted first on another PC. Then I created new folder for each system on the new drive. Then I copied roms from Drive C into the appropriate folder in Drive D. Then erased the roms from Drive A. Back to Drive D and created a link like you showed. I'm not sure if this is the best way but it worked so far. Keep up the great videos!!!! Some need to be updated too
So I'm basically linking a folder. I have two SSD's in my PC. One has windows the other is Batocera with a ton of roms. Can I Use this method if I ran out out of space on my Batocera Drive and make a rom folder on the windows disk and link that folder?
Is it possible to copy paste Roms from main storage to external and then linking those files to batocera so that I can have more space on my main storage. And if so what exactly do I need to do before so that the ext hd is accessible to be used for extra storage.
Awesome tutorial you have! That's great! I Am using Batocera now with multiple hard drives using symlinks. But i can only see the main drive on the share folder over the network, is there a way to see the other ones? Thanks
So I just watched your video on how to add GOG games. Can I make a "GOG" folder in my larger drive and create a link for the entire folder? Also want to do the same with steam games. Or change the path for a folder maybe?
You can't. When you install Batocera on a hard drive, it wipes everything off from that drive. It's like trying to install Windows on that same hard drive.
@@BatoceraNation I think he can. He can get a separate linux distro on his USB and boot it up off the USB. Then do a partition ==> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ocDbPt4eRbk.html after that he could then install batocera onto the new partition using the other linux distro. I did it myself, but I need to find the instructions.
@@BatoceraNation I couldn't find anything, but I think when you partition enough space (10GB I recommend for updates), then you can install Batocera onto the empty partition. I think he will have to rename his folders to share, and move around the games into folders Batocera will recognize. I would probably test it on a small drive for kicks.
I'm a Windows emulator, is it possible to partition my external hard drive which has all of my roms on it and install batocera on an 8gb partition? That way all of my save data is accessable across all platforms (want batocera to make my emulation portable and connect to other pc's)
Is it a mechanical drive or an SSD drive? It should work. I've tried it on a 4TB SSD drive and it works extremely well. If you have a 8TB SSD drive, make sure that it is genuine. Some sold on Amazon are fakes. If you got a great low price on it, then it might be fake and that's why it is slow.
I have linked my roms on my Batocera flash drive to a folder on my internal HD and it works a treat However every time I reset batocera they vanish, do I need to save it somewhere?
It seems batocera gives a new name to drives everytime they are conected, it can be solved by manually naming the drives/partitions in windows or some gnome tool in linux.
i have a asrock 4800 with a 2tb internal ssd as my main and i want to use my m.2 as storage it doesn't recognize it. it's been formatted to the correct format. any suggestions?
Got the same problem I guess. I got 2x internal m2. Ssd's. 1 ssd contains win10, the other contains batocera userdata (roms etc.) I boot up batocera from an external usb stick. I would like to connect some games from my "win10 ssd" to the "roms ssd" but I can't connect my "win10 ssd". Any suggestion guys?
@@BatoceraNation Im not sure running Batocera or even just for rom storage on an SSD will be of any benefit I mean you are connecting the SSD via usb 3.0 cable right? (Or even 2.0 i think is fine for retro emulation). So its only going to allow max data speed as what the cable allows right? So running a normal portable HDD using USB 3.0 or a portable SSD using usb 3.0 for Batocera I think would give the same performance. Right? If you have an internal HDD or SSD using its sata connection well ofcourse thats gonna be faster. But again, for retro emulation.. Im not sure its of any benefit either. Maybe if you have modern games on there as well, via Steam or whatever then yeah, I can see then having an SSD internally would be beneficial. My lenovo m73 only has 1 usb3.0 port. I run batocera OS from a usb3.0 flash drive from that port. I have a 2TB portable HDD plugged into one of the USB2 ports. Seems to run just fine. Sometimes, on higher end system emulation Id get those slight pauses or stutters for certain games, like say a Bloody Roar game on gamecube or PS2. I tried swapping them around, putting the flash drive into the usb2 port and the HDD thats has the roms on into the usb3 port. I even tried flashing Batocera on an internal HDD and running the whole thing off that. So its using the sata connection that way. All 3 methods didnt seem to give me any noticeable diff results. I thought defo having it all on the internal HDD would perhaps eliminate any pauses or stutters as it would be the fastest data access method but no, I didnt see any noticeable improvement. I upped the RAM from 4GB to 8GB, cant say for sure if that made much if or if any difference either. Anyway… you get my point I think 😁
Sometimes this happens for some reason. Try rebooting Batocera,if it's still not showing try again. If it doesn't show after a few reboots then I don't know
Is there a way to acess my roms folder from another computer via smb share ? that would be way easier for me as I have Rpi3 with batocera, and also an older computer with Batocera, so if I could access my roms from my main computer instead of carrying an external hard drive from the living room to another place itd be way easier. A detailed video about this would be much appreciated.
Are his Rom drives formatted as ext4? Or is it just that his batocera system is grabbing the transfers? I am really struggling to get my roms on an NTFS drive )Win 10) transferred to my bootable Batocera thumb drive.
Not sure what you are asking. When you flash Batocera the share partition is formatted to ext4 which windows cannot read by default. When Batocera is booted, you can press F1 on keyboard which brings up the inbuilt file manager, that way you can locate your roms and transfer them over that way. Or, if you want to transfer files over using windows explorer you can actually format the share partition to a diff file system other than ext4..You can format it to exfat for eg. But doing that may have some negatives. If you check the Batocera wiki it will have all this information on using diff file formats other than the default ext4. Or, do you mean using a sep sep flash drive or portable hdd for roms only? I used to do that. I used to boot Batocera from flash drive but run the games from a portable hdd. I had that formatted to ntfs but again, doing that may have issues with certain systems.
Hey Batocera Nation. I am curious is it possible to use a second drive but keep scraped files on the install drive? I'd like to store my roms on a larger slower drive but would like to keep the videos and images on the fast loading 128gb nvme that batocera is installed to. Is this doable? I currently am using a 500gb ssd for my storage drive with all the user data files through the typical batocera setting. Works great but the 500gb is running thin. I'd like to put my 2 tb mechanical drive in.. would be awesome if I could just somehow utilize that drive for the room files only while keeping the scraped stuff on the fast nvme.
He seems to be using a keyboard so you just need to hold shift and move around, anything from start to finish will be selected, if you hold down ctrl, you can select individual files pressing space.
You the man! No one else mentioned links. All the Linux guys are super techhi all we want is a laymen way rather than typing IP address and stirnfs for passwords
Is it possible to link all rom folders as one step ? This means : not linking the contents of the folder , each one after another but linking all folders of the romfolder from the external drive to the boot drive . Great Video and thx
@@BatoceraNation so what you're doing here is linking *single* rom files from a given directory (pcengine or collecovision) - I was asking if it wouldn't be more simple to link the whole directory (pcengine for collecovision from the example movie) into the "roms" directory..anyway, I'll try this by myself when I will finally install Batocera on my machine ;-)
@@BatoceraNation thanks for help another question so I set up switch on my system works well problem I'm having is controller issues I have an Xbox One elite controller I'm using do you have any videos or can you make a video on best or recommended controller settings for switch games much appreciated love you vids thanks
I agree. It is annoying to have to plug it in after it is turned off. In my little ASRock NUC, the two internal drives operate well together. I have no trouble there.
@@BatoceraNation I tried adding sharewait and incresing the value in the boot config. That never worked. I have 2 options I think. Put Batocera on the 5TB and copy the roms to that, or use one of those usb hubs with an on/off switch so I don't have to plug it in or out, I just press the button. Not ideal really.
@@micra6641 Both options stink. Have you tried asking for a solution at the Batocera.org forums? If there is a solution someone over there would know. If you do find one, please let me know because it has really bugged me too and I could share it with everyone else.