How to Quickly Copy Your Games into Batocera

[@sethawarren]

I really appreciate your videos. I’m building a Batocera arcade to hang on my wall and couldn’t do it without your help. Now this is a strange random thing to comment on, but I have to say you really have a great voice. You should consider public speaking, story telling, audio book recording, etc. you have a nice tone and intonation in the way you speak. Or just carry on with KZbin lol. Thanks again bro.

[@nathanpearce7169]

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[@BlindMaphisto]

Finding this video after spending an hour trying to get my steamdeck to connect to my windows share was such a huge relief. Amazing that batocera does this better than microsoft. Thank you!

[@ST-vt3pj]

You got options: "Just thought I'd share what worked for me. So you have your USB flashed with Batocera, right. For me, I had to go with 31 for my out-of-date PC. Now how do I add ROMs to my USB? I suppose I could add ROMs via SSH but that would require me to have 2 different devices. That's out. Here's a quicker way. You have your Batocera USB flashed. Grab a second USB. The larger the capacity, the less time you'll be spending transferring ROMS. On that 2nd USB, flash it with Linux Mint. Once it's flashed with Linux Mint, open that drive and you'll see a bunch of folders. Create a NEW folder and name it whatever would be easily recognizable by you. In that folder, put your ROMS that you are going to transfer. I suggest keeping things simple and keep everything grouped by systems/emulators. Once you have these ROMS saved in the folder that is easily recognizable to the 2nd drive just leave it plugged it there plugged in. Set it and forget it as Ron Popeil would say. Now if you aren't already familiar with how to get to your PC's BIOS menu, be sure you find out before moving on. When you're ready, restart your PC and perform the steps to get to BIOS menu. For my Dell, I pressed F2 once my PC turned back on. Once you're in the BIOS menu, go to the tab at the top labeled "BOOT". 2 settings need to be changed: "secure boot" needs to be disabled and "boot order #1" needs to be changed to "USB". * When you're ready to go back to Windows, just revert to what it was originally. Once you made sure you have the correct settings, go to the "Exit/Quit" tab at the far right and select "SAVE AND RESTART". If you did everything correctly, when your PC starts back up, it should be booting Batocera. Once Batocera is loaded and you're on the main screen, hit "F1" which should take you into Batocera's "file manager". In the column on the left, you SHOULD see your "Mint" drive listed under it's easily recognizable name. Open that up and you should see your ROMS in its easily recognized folder. "Select all" and either cut or copy. Then look again at the column on the left and there should be an actual "ROMS" folder. Clicking on that will open all the different emulator folder. Now since you were wise and grouped your ROMS according to systems, you can just open the appropriate folder and paste everything into each one. Once you are finished transferring, go to the settings at the top left and click on "close window". That will take you back to Batocera's main menu. Click on "start" to bring up the "settings". Go to "quit" at the very bottom and select "restart systen". When Batocera has reloaded, your ROMS are now listed under each emulator. And if you REALLY want to save yourself A LOT of time and headache searching for ROMS that actually work, head straight to "the vault" at vimm's lair. 100% success rate with EVERY SINGLE ROM. Tell em Large Marge sent cha!"

[@KaraokeDuov2]

Here' an idea. EmuElec has a built in feature in there ES menu, you select to copy roms from a flash drive or external HD and just let it go.

[@BatoceraNation]

Yes, this might be useful when you don't have access to the file manager.

[@dustinrossi9384]

You do the best batocera videos ever man !! May not be the " best " front end but I'm loving it. You've helped make my system enjoyable for me and the kids making memories ! Thanks can't put a price on that. Ya doing God's work

[@noentry1736]

My pc cant pick up batocera in any ftp ethernet laptop to desktop network am i doing something wrong?

[@RetroRick1990]

Awesome, the speed got 10X faster here, thank you sir 👏

[@BatoceraNation]

Great! Glad that it helped! 👍

[@smackm]

Thx for this video. Realy easy to acsess the shared folder now. You are the best !

[@ericlanglois2501]

Cannot get a single file to transfer from steam deck or external hard drive onto brand new 1tb micro sd. Any ideas? I thought it was a windows compatibility error but steam deck files don’t transfer either.

[@ErandNatsa]

Please Help, how to insert game into MaMe folder?

[@chansolkim3609]

are u connect the lan cable trough router or u just go from a laptop or a pc n then goes to the batocera computer ??, in my case i still got 2-3 MB eventhough i using my ethernet cable from my first laptop to my second laptop that have batocera in it

[@X8010j]

On my Steam Deck this bricks it. I restart, get the splash screen and the jingle and that's it. All I can do from here is reflash my SD. Any ideas why? I'm on v40.

[@Aesop87]

Works perfectly from a Linux PC as well (typed the same text in KDE's Dolphin file manager - worked perfectly!)

[@ahmedl920]

help me please when i enter the ip adress in windows it told me the folder is empty

[@benjammin7663]

I have both batocera and my computer connected to the same wifi, but if i put in \\batocera into windows it says it cannot access that

[@mrko88]

same here

[@benjammin7663]

@@mrko88 yea I never got this issue fixed, i would recommend getting a flash drive to put them on instead if this still isnt working, thats what i did.

[@hectorg5809]

If you were getting the error that your credentials were missing, the username is root and the password is linux

[@doom1281995]

If you have your windows drive and batocera drive in the same pc, can you share your file using this method?

[@johnhanes3450]

I down loaded a few ROMs and now the Dolphin emulator will not launch any games, the Libereto Version works though. Also the new ROMs downloaded did work and now will not load. What could be the issue?

[@benoscar5708]

When I type “//batocera/ it just opens up a new tab and gives me an error

[@chrisrgutierrez]

How do I do it through USB? I don't have multiple PCs.

[@armwrestlinginthe6ix]

Did what you said batocera never showed up in my desktop when I search \\batocera

[@DoeRecompense]

Can anybody show me to put PS1 and PS2 game saves in? Actually I need to know what format I can use.

[@foxxxdie2648]

Can I create and share a folder in a second hard drive to acces via local network?

[@saibot293]

How can I change the Game load screen? currently mine is loading an image for any game.

[@FORTNITEPoradnikiNaleśnika]

hello man where can i find game rom files?

[@HusnainJutt-tp7tj]

Where do I get the roms from plzz tell me😢

[@khaledmatar8104]

Please help me my batocera stuck when i copy games then i restart the computer after that batocera back to original boot with no games how i can fix it this

[@bbains8195]

Same problem

[@mrko88]

didn't work on batocera 35, even it doesn't appear the local disk

[@osmanmshahaj3253]

Is it possible to access a share drive on Batocera? I have a drive with just roms on it I want to access from my windows PC.

[@ShinTheGoat367]

Can you just use a external hard drive

[@Musha-Fyre]

What would happen if the console device like the RG35XX has no wifi built-in? How do I transfer files to the sd card inside the unit?

[@J.Deseth]

use a wifi dongle? or remove the sd card from inside the unit and plug it directly into the batocera machine and transfer your information directly.

[@chansolkim3609]

I try to connect it via WiFi it's working, but when i try from the Ethernet it's doesn't work, my laptop cannot detect the difference, n always go to wifi share

[@francescogioia1654]

Please 🙏🏼 please I desperately need help with Batocera and how to properly installed.. and working with a decent amount of consoles and games .🙏🏼

[@AnPc2046]

I have my batocera machine on ethernet and Wi-Fi but I don't have my laptop that has most my ROMs on ethernet.😅 I'm assuming I have to put that on ethernet also for this method to work if not I would greatly appreciate let me know please cuz it's a hassle to connect another ethernet to my laptop but I would do it because this is definitely faster.

[@fonzitheman]

Quicker and easier is to transfer your roms to a portable drive from your main PC,then connect it to your PC Batocera build by usb port (presuming you are using diff PC's) Press F1 on keyboard to bring up the inbuilt file manager, locate your attacherd portable drive and transfer roms across to the appropriate rom folders. After closing window dont forget to update gameslists so it rescans your system for added roms.

[@nerdzzbob6961]

every time i search for batocera it says diagnose problem, no way at al to add more games

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

I've tried doing this method, but my main desktop computer can't pick up Batocera. Maybe it's to do with the my computers settings getting in the way or maybe it's because I don't have a strong enough connection. To be fair, I am using Wi-Fi, but that's only because I can't use LAN cables, as there is no LAN connectors anywhere in the house.

[@rjanjasund5998]

You could try a USB to LAN adapter, I haven't tried it myself but it might work.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

@@rjanjasund5998 I just said I have no LAN connections anywhere in the house. Plus the modem is all the way upstairs.

[@rjanjasund5998]

@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 Powerline adaptor then, no need for lan connector just 2 bog standard electrical outlets

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

@@rjanjasund5998 Wouldn't it still need to be connected to the modem somehow?

[@rjanjasund5998]

@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 Adaptor in wall socket, cable into modem, then the other adapter in wall socket by pc and cable into pc, with usb adaptor if necesarry. I do assume there is atleast one port on the modem, if not I would highly suggest upgrading.

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

I have a scenario. I have one Batocera which i have installed on a thumbdrive and another Batocera installed to an SSD inside my main PC. The question is i want to copy share ROM files between these two setup. But both of them are identified as \\batocera on the network, hence only one can be active any one time. Is there a way to rename the batocera id on the network to say \\batocera01 ?

[@fonzitheman]

Why dont you plug the flash drive in the PC instead, you can then transfer roms from share roms folder to the other easy and quicker that way.

[@BatoceraNation]

I agree with Fonzi. I've done that before.

[@brandonevans2415]

how do i pull my games from the hard drive i have batocera installed on if i can not get it to boot again i don't want to wipe and reinstall if i can save my games i have

[@BatoceraNation]

Try one of these two methods. 1. Pull it out and try to see if Windows will see it and allow you to copy your games from there. 2. Create another Batocera image using a thumb drive. Once that has successfully installed, put your first Batocera drive into the new the Batocera system and see if it can read the partition where your games are stored. If it can, copy them to a third drive.

[@retronostalgia5104]

Thanks for that. So am I connecting my Batocera machine to my Windows laptop with an Ethernet cable physically connecting them?

[@hemisphere903]

No you connect an ethernet cable from each of them to your home wifi router which should hopefully have some ethernet ports on it. If not, you’ll need a network hub, if that makes no sense then leave this.

[@retronostalgia5104]

@@hemisphere903 Ok cheers buddy.

[@BatoceraNation]

Yes to Mr. Salty's original question.

[@BatoceraNation]

No to the LastNinja. I didn't connect it to my wifi router. I connected my laptop to my Batocera NUC computer via the Ethernet cable.

[@hemisphere903]

@@BatoceraNation ok that’s interesting and surprising that it actually works without any additional configuration, given that batocera runs on linux.

[@FarizCahyo]

Great! May I ask something, for windows user to open the batocera linux-system using another application something like DiskGenius etc. just to copy files while operating windows into batocera system. would it be works? I've done it before, but none my copied roms files didn't shows up on batocera

[@fonzitheman]

I run a small portable hdd with a batocera test build on and have transferred games over that way too with Disk Genious and found sometimes they didnt show up either, when I checked it later with disk genious to see what was going on I found the games were not even on there. Sometimes I had to do it multiple times before it actually worked. A bug in the program maybe? Not sure. I suggest also after you finished transferring files with disk genius eject the flash drive or whatever you are using with the program. So go to tools tab, scroll down to safely eject disk and wait for it to close. This may stop any errors or corruption and could help that problem.

[@janpaulklomp2937]

For current version this doesn't work. I used SSH to upload roms. If you want to write directly to SD, you need to modify file rights as all files belongs to root. With SSH you can connect as root.

[@BatoceraNation]

It might be an SD issue since I'm still using this trick to copy games and files over my network to my Batocera systems.

[@EaZypLayZ24]

the Macintosh ROMs don't appears

[@Adalwolf17]

I turned that setting on in Batocera but i still cant see it on my pc..... do i have to change something on my pc?

[@BatoceraNation]

Make sure your Network Settings is turned on your PC. Worst case scenario, you can always copy everything using an external drive. Pressing F1 on your Batocera system will open up the File Manager which will allow you to copy stuff in your Batocera system.

[@dustinrossi9384]

Enter network credentials?

[@gamerlivelookgaming3380]

I have a question and I figured since you are the pro I would ask you I checked the wiki page and could not find tha answer. What is the file name for the sega genesis as it has both the master system and sega genesis in the systems but I don’t know what the file name is for sega genesis? So I can add Roms to the correct folder.

[@fonzitheman]

The wiki does state what file extensions for systems are acceptable for Batocera. And if you look inside the Genesis rom folder in your share partition there is a txt doc which also has this information. Incase you missed it, extensions for Genesis can be: bin, gen, md, sg,smd and those can be zipped to zip or 7z extensions. I would guess most common used are bin or smd. And zipped or not. Zipped will ofcourse save some storage space.

[@gamerlivelookgaming3380]

@@fonzitheman that’s the thing there is no genesis file it’s actually called something else I found it on accident lol.

[@japexican007]

How do I get my desktop to look like windows desktop???

[@Sanjigenn]

does the speed of the ssd also matter?

[@BatoceraNation]

After the speed of the SSD reaches 1,000MB, it don't matter. In this case, your internet speed matters.

[@Afura33]

What is the maximal size an external hard drive is allowed to have that you only use for rom storage? Would 5TB be too big for getting recognized by batocera? I did read something from a 2tb limitation somewhere.

[@BatoceraNation]

I have several 5TB external drives that Batocera recognizes without any trouble. The largest internal drive that I've tried was a 4TB SSD drive. It works really well. However, I don't know the limit.

[@Afura33]

​@@BatoceraNation Thanks for your reply man, into what did you format them? NTFS? If yes do I also need to format the internal disk into NTFS? I did read that batocera has his own kinda format thingy, I forgot the name of it.

[@absabs129]

@@Afura33I think that the operating system part of Batocera is Linux. So EXT3 formatting ??, but the other 90% has to be compatible with rom transfers, and all other supporting files, so it’s in NTFS ( or maybe FAT32 ) . I hope I’m correct in saying this. This is what I remember from setting up my system - but it was a while ago.

[@Afura33]

@@absabs129 I found the error, can't remember anymore what I did it's already a year ago, but thanks for your help man.

[@armwrestlinginthe6ix]

I'm so sorry but got so confused watching this video. When you said to enable the public web access because you didn't mention that you need the cable or not if the web access is NOT turned on. So now I have to check both ways, but also when you connected internet cable, where did you connect it to? You just said connect it to the batocera system. I'm confused because my batocera "system" is the 2TB HDD that I have batocera on. My PC is NOT my "batocera system" so I have no idea where to connect the cable, you cannot connect the internet cable to the batocera system because there is no cable outlet on my 2TB HDD that has batocera on it. - lastly, the part where you're talking about the batocera system I don't know if you have 2 PCs while you're doing the internet sharing. Am I not understanding something? I have 1 PC , with the roms on it, and I have my 2TB HDD with batocera on it. How do I transfer the ROMs to batocera???

[@moltenpros]

Can you make a tutorial on how to get Logitech g29 racing wheel to work in Batocera? thank you in advance.

[@BatoceraNation]

You might want to post that question in Batocera's forums since someone might have done it already.

[@elekkarnai]

Very Confused I thought Windows can't write to a linux drive??

[@thatjournalguy7306]

Great work on ALL your videos. I have successfully set up my own Batocera system on a portable HD that my gaming PC can boot off. However, does this trick work with this configuration? I mean, trying to access the same portable HD on the same PC but it's booted up to Windows? I can't seem to get it work. Or are you assuming that my Batocera system is on a DIFFERENT computer on the same network? Please confirm because I think I'll save so much time doing things this way.

[@ST-vt3pj]

here's a way to use ONE pc with windows 10 OS and 2 usb drives: So you have your USB flashed with Batocera, right. For me, I had to go with 31 for my out-of-date PC. Now how do I add ROMs to my USB? I suppose I could add ROMs via SSH but that would require me to have 2 different devices. That's out. Here's a quicker way. You have your Batocera USB flashed. Grab a second USB. The larger the capacity, the less time you'll be spending transferring ROMS. On that 2nd USB, flash it with Linux Mint. Once it's flashed with Linux Mint, open that drive and you'll see a bunch of folders. Create a NEW folder and name it whatever would be easily recognizable by you. In that folder, put your ROMS that you are going to transfer. I suggest keeping things simple and keep everything grouped by systems/emulators. Once you have these ROMS saved in the folder that is easily recognizable to the 2nd drive just leave it plugged it there plugged in. Set it and forget it as Ron Popeil would say. Now if you aren't already familiar with how to get to your PC's BIOS menu, be sure you find out before moving on. When you're ready, restart your PC and perform the steps to get to BIOS menu. For my Dell, I pressed F2 once my PC turned back on. Once you're in the BIOS menu, go to the tab at the top labeled "BOOT". 2 settings need to be changed: "secure boot" needs to be disabled and "boot order #1" needs to be changed to "USB". * When you're ready to go back to Windows, just revert to what it was originally. Once you made sure you have the correct settings, go to the "Exit/Quit" tab at the far right and select "SAVE AND RESTART". If you did everything correctly, when your PC starts back up, it should be booting Batocera. Once Batocera is loaded and you're on the main screen, hit "F1" which should take you into Batocera's "file manager". In the column on the left, you SHOULD see your "Mint" drive listed under it's easily recognizable name. Open that up and you should see your ROMS in its easily recognized folder. "Select all" and either cut or copy. Then look again at the column on the left and there should be an actual "ROMS" folder. Clicking on that will open all the different emulator folder. Now since you were wise and grouped your ROMS according to systems, you can just open the appropriate folder and paste everything into each one. Once you are finished transferring, go to the settings at the top left and click on "close window". That will take you back to Batocera's main menu. Click on "start" to bring up the "settings". Go to "quit" at the very bottom and select "restart systen". When Batocera has reloaded, your ROMS are now listed under each emulator. And if you REALLY want to save yourself A LOT of time and headache searching for ROMS that actually work, head straight to "the vault" at vimm's lair. 100% success rate with EVERY SINGLE ROM. Tell em Large Marge sent cha!

[@hirotosensei3808]

Great video again. May I request a video on how to set up gamepad or keyboard / mouse for channel f, zx spectrum and commodore 64 with batocera on PC ? These systems controls do not work by default and tricky to set up.

[@BatoceraNation]

I will look into those systems.

[@hirotosensei3808]

@@BatoceraNation Thanks man !! Appreciate it. I believe it will be helpful to loads of people also. Not much definite resources on the internet for control set up of these systems.

[@toejamandearl8110]

Yes, Commodore 64 is a pain.

[@SomeFocker]

@@toejamandearl8110 just seen your name....I fucking loved toe jam and earl!

[@dustinrossi9384]

Wish i knew what the heck your clicking into you just jump right into files and stuff. Idk my computer isnt displaying how yours is...

[@youcabv]

cant find Batocera in my network :(. have it plugged to a switch that is connected to my router where my main PC is connected. any suggestion. tks for all your work. great video as always

[@hemisphere903]

According to the video uploader, you can just connect an ethernet cable from the batocera machine to the pc, thats what they say they did. Check other comment

[@BatoceraNation]

@Butcher I connected my Batocera system directly to my Windows PC with an Ethernet cable. I didn't connect it to my router. Let me know if it works.

[@0ldSkoolgenx]

if your running zonealarm you need to add it to trusted zone, the ip address.

[@CodyDaCoyote]

@@BatoceraNation did you access it the same way? Through the web acess feature //batocera?

[@LuciaNanamiKanjo]

Why didn't they just implement a terminal window? 😢

[@kepalakardus2278]

Don't work on latest Batocera :( or i missing something here...

[@TheObserver85]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! This video really helped me out. Putting Batocera on my Pi Boy DMG :D

[@BatoceraNation]

👍 Great!

[@autistic.drones]

It keeps saying windows cannot access \\batocera

[@BatoceraNation]

Both have to share the same wifi and same GHz as well. Make sure you turn on that setting within Batocera as mentioned in the video. Or plug an ethernet cable between both systems for faster access. Sometimes too if you close out Windows Explorer and try again, it works.

[@CodyDaCoyote]

This has always worked great for me since I first saw this video so thank you. I had a question, I recently tried doing ps3 games and its so slow. Like 10 mbps max. Am i doing something wrong? Maybe i need to do something to the files before transfer? Thanks for any help and keep on doing these great videos!👍

[@CodyDaCoyote]

Well apparently i did do something wrong cuz game isnt showing up. Headed to watch your videos on ps3 in batocera right now lol

[@BatoceraNation]

Sometimes the file transfer method fails. I then have to transfer the file using a hard drive. This seems to be the case when there are a bunch of files and folders.

[@paulruffy8389]

Sounds stupid but I know nothing about networks - I thought this was possible just being connected to the same router - didn't realise you could just connect computer>computer that simply

[@BatoceraNation]

Yes, it's much faster.

[@paulruffy8389]

@@BatoceraNation I am looking to do this now from my Linux Zorin desktop to my Batocera device - any chance you could explain how to find the Batocera folder from Linux? Ta

[@andyforshaw8489]

Does this copy from a mac ?

[@BatoceraNation]

That's a good question. I really don't know since I don't own a Mac. But I would try it. I don't see why not. Someone told me there is a Batocera folder in your Network. From there you can copy and move stuff. Anyways, try it and let me know for others who might post the same question.

[@andyforshaw8489]

@@BatoceraNation Okay Thanks BN will try it . Keep up your good work. Great channel 👍

[@jedijoe1089]

You can change your file path in emulation station system config as in your rom path copy the rom path paste into emulation station system config.cause my roms are stored on another HDD.alot more faster.

[@BatoceraNation]

I will need to try this.

[@jedijoe1089]

It's alot more quicker than transferring all your roms specially if you have well over 10000 games for at least 60 systems but I use RetroBat which is similar to batocera.i hope it works out for you I use windows to do this.good luck.

[@jart122]

If you have a Wi-Fi card and WiFi router that can output more than 1gbits per second upload then you will get 100 megabytes per 1giga bit.

[@AfroLife001]

How to speed up game play on ps2

[@BatoceraNation]

I plan to do a PS2 tutorial in August with detailed configuration settings.

[@geekinforties6412]

If have wifi 6 ax or wifi 5 ac you can get 100 mbits/s

[@BatoceraNation]

Need to get me one.

[@geekinforties6412]

Using isp shitty wifi router is mistake always use good ax wifi routers

[@GreenFox1505]

normalize your intro vs voiceover volume!

[@zorro727]

Cool

[@uncollared4]

You sound exzactly like the actor from the Show Eli stone. Why do you sound exzactly like the guy from eli stone. Are you that actor?

[@mrko88]

\\batocera and Windows cannot access \\batocera. And this is the day 2 of asking

[@BatoceraNation]

Sometimes you have to type \\batocera several times before it works. Or plug an ethernet cable from your PC system to your Batocera system and try again.

[@mrko88]

@@BatoceraNation you mean... I need to have 2 pc to do that? 1 for windows and 1 for batocera? I only have 1 pc with 1 batocera ssd external drive.