Retrobat : One Click Retro Emulation on Windows - Install on a USB drive!

[@markalot]

I installed it a month ago using my little ITX build with a half height 4060 inside so I could play some XBOX 360 games. I love it.

[@PoeLemic]

Thanks for showing us this. In my opinion, that RetroBat has really solved so many of the problems of retro-gaming. Especially the save setting feature, man, that is incredible.

[@666jamie666]

I have been using Retrobat for years. In my opinion it's the best all in one solution out there with the best fronted. Love it and highly recommend 👍

[@RGT85]

Retrobat is awesome for sure!

[@LonSeidman]

Thanks for stopping by RGT! I enjoy your work!

[@Mario-tm6uv]

Love this video. I've been using Retrobat for 2yrs now and due to its ease of use and extensive options list it has become my primary gaming front end

[@skowron_1978]

Oh my God! It's basically Batocera but for Windows! I was looking for something like this for a very long time! Thank you very much! ♥

[@greekmanx]

Nice tip Lon if you see this. If you click on say decorations for example with A in your case it will give you a list with previews of all Bezel options so you don't have to guess the one you want to use also on save states you can press Y in your case on the main menu when the game is highlighted to choose a save state and jump right in without launching game and doing button combo. and if you notice it puts a little floppy disc icon next to games that have save states it is next to the game manual icon

[@derekswitzer9624]

Yay, awesome that you showed off Retrobat 😎👍 one of my GoTo’s for emulating

[@allisterfiend_2112]

Played with Retrobat a few months ago, I really liked it!

[@IamMarkSmith]

Thank you, Lon! This was great. This review is very useful to me

[@garynagle3093]

Wow. What gem. Seems like it solves the multitude of configuration issues

[@javybeaz3236]

Ive been using since last year it is the best. Blows away Launchbox, Retroarch and the others

[@lbenegas]

Sorry for my basic questions. I am exploring options… what about batocera? How do they compare?

[@IsmaelLa]

@@lbenegas Batocera is a whole Linux operating system with basically the same kind of setup. If you don’t need windows, use Batocera. If you already run windows, use Retrobat.

[@rsorry]

You realize retrobat uses RetroArch 😂

[@lexlopez15]

@@rsorry it doesn't really. Retroarch is a frontend like retrobat. Retrobat uses Emulation Station as a backend which is also found in batocera and a few others. Retrobat is a lot simpler to navigate than retroarch and unlike retroarch, it isn't a memory hog either.

[@EddieInzauto]

100% I was using Launchbox with RetroArch underneath (because the RetroArch interface is trash) and even with the LaunchBox UI being better than RetroArch, it was still AGONIZING to get my controller set up for everything. RetroBat not only looks way better and functions more smoothly, but it also automatically makes my Xinput controller work perfectly for everything…INCLUDING the menu interface! Unbeatable.

[@martyfenwick5339]

Great for portable builds. Have a 500gb build with 2400 games + vids. Currently using SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 (130 mbps) which works great. The newer (400 mbps) usb drives for some reason run the games incredibly slow??? Haven't figured that one out yet.

[@AngryGibberish]

This seems to basically be a flavor of batocera for windows. Pretty cool

[@RETROBAT]

Hi, yes and no, even if the projects are similar and our 2 teams are quite close, they are 2 different projects.

[@mavfan1]

Very cool Lon. The easy install makes it more accessible to friends and family who I know are interested in retro gaming, but like most “normies” need as few hoops as possible to get going.

[@SomsaiArts]

Switching over to Retrobat from Launchbox as we speak. Launchbox is great but a bit too laggy. Even with a beefy PC. Love the simplicity and ease of use this is.

[@ShoelessJP]

Retro gaming content, hell yeah I love this stuff Lon!

[@FlintG]

Yeah I am so setting up a usb hard drive for this front end lol looks so awesome.

[@mettakindness5999]

That looks amazing!

[@flowder8]

ive actually had issues with PS2 emulation on "portable" installs so ill be interested in trying this to see how it compares to plain old pcsx2

[@YoshiIsCool1]

Awesome I Always Love Your Videos.

[@Zoyx]

I've been using RetroPie on a Linux mini PC. I may give this a shot.

[@Ravenprose]

This is awesome. 👍

[@RahulkumarMak]

20:33 oh boi, I wasted days to setup this thing specially the configuration file of emulationstation setup which for me didn't work out of the box.

[@Cyko..]

Where did you have problems because their official help forums literally tell users to not mess with any configuration files and to simply make any of your changes within the program itself.

[@RahulkumarMak]

@@Cyko.. Yeah their forum helped me out with the issue. I had a home variable in my system that was causing the error.

[@onlyzach1]

That's really cool. You had me till it was Windows support only haha. Imagine this on the Switch!

[@saysbadman]

I've been using batocera, and this looks just like it except you can launch it in Windows instead of boot to it from startup.

[@collectibles4u]

I'm using the GMtec K2 with the 7735HS and honestly it's seriously of playing most games

[@RETROBAT]

Hi ! Good video. Thank you 😉

[@Woot007]

A little Tip move the drive Letter to Z so if you have another USB memstick or drive connected it dosnt move the drive letter some Emulators are set with fixed path to to harddisk.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks Lon.

[@my-yt-inputs2580]

I kinda attempted to get into Retro gaming several years ago using older Dell systems. However that was the time when the game manufacturers decided to monetize their ROMs making it harder to find them to actually use...for free at least. Has anything changed with that?

[@laszloszorady5031]

Thank you. Great video!

[@RedCGaming]

Now to set it up in my arcade, and have it run at start up..

[@edwinperez2813]

Maybe you can do a Video on setting up the XBOX controller for the different systems including setting up turbo.

[@J_lil_Bat]

great video !

[@brianellis5164]

This looks great and what I'm looking for. Is there a way to set it so it loads retrobat automatically when I turn on the PC? I want to buy a small PC to put under my TV to play retro SNES and SEGA games with a controller and not a mouse or keyboard to have to start retrobat.

[@PureBloodedwolf]

@@brianellis5164 Use batocera instead

[@kumarp3074]

Great tutorial!

[@bigstv15]

Will this allow me to launch my pc games? Like steam etc?

[@bobblair2682]

Installed great on an old windows machine I have but it doesn’t seem to recognize the directional buttons on my old Microsoft sidewinder controller. Guess I’ll have to upgrade.

[@LonSeidman]

I've heard from a few people having similar issues - I think you might need an x-input compatible controller.

[@kevinjudson]

Can this be used fir touchscreen mostly quiz type games like megatouch 🤷🏻

[@digitalhighway76]

what size is your portable hard drive? What would be a good hard drive/ssd size for this installation?

[@jimjams20001]

Screenscraper does take a long time to download data. I have around 75000 roms for various emulators and it too well over 36 hours to get all the data.

[@ahtashamqureshi2022]

Where i can download the rom?

[@Fklv1988]

Get a vpn..... poke around the internet

[@tonyrosario1940]

Has anyone tried both this and Batocera? Any pros and cons to either? Thanks! 🍻

[@lolorenzolamas]

Retrobat work on windows, Batocera is a full OS distribution working with linux.

[@denzelwashingmachine1950]

Thanks for this video! I've been setting this up but no matter what controller I'm using it doesn't work right. When I scroll through the retrobat menu it acts as if I'm pressing the buttons multiple times and jumps around making it unusable. I've tried wired and Bluetooth controllers. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[@kimifan8746]

I had the same issue, with a wireless Xbox controller. In my case closing the Steam app that was running in the background, solved the problem.

[@HUSSMODE]

Would this be able to run off a Nvidia shield

[@Ockv74]

❤❤❤

[@Kiyoshi_9606]

I really love NOT using bezels and using WIDESCREEN cores; realized not all cores have widescreen (Genesis and SNES do, though)

[@Kiyoshi_9606]

One day, 120hz via frame generation could be a thing ...!

[@Scivish]

Windows Port of RetroPie?

[@filevans]

Can you not keep banging your hard drive down

[@JR-sb6mj]

Thanks 👍🙂

[@ciebriel79]

My question is where did u find and download the bios files ?

[@JR-sb6mj]

Facebook groups are an option

[@stevephipps9305]

Show my age, last playing video games controllers were hard wired. Can I assume the controller connects to PC via Bluetooth? Thanks for video 73

[@LonSeidman]

Yes the Xbox controller demoed is connected via Bluetooth. You can use hardwired USB controllers too.

[@stevephipps9305]

@@LonSeidman Thanks. I remember when Pong was a big thing. LOL

[@OsX86H3AvY]

so....if it can be installed to your USB drive then CAN it be installed to your NAS and then just played by any deice on your LAN? How about through a VPN?

[@LonSeidman]

that should work - just need to be careful about multiple people using it at once.

[@OsX86H3AvY]

@@LonSeidman Yup - I just installed it and it's working fine! Now I just have to stop feeling bad about giving away my XB1 controller and go get a new one :( but yea its working great! playing Pilotwings as we speak. I DID have to keep hitting Run on the "We can't verify..." screens but it still works just fine - a bit rough on a spinning hard disk but i just switched over to my flash NAS and its MUCH better :)

[@Kiyoshi_9606]

​@@LonSeidmansave states on NAS are great for doing 4k PS2/GameCube/WiiU on home PC, then using other computers with different abilities, elsewhere, but with same save states (and memory cards)..... *I think* (been awhile)

[@miguelgarcia-bq9ge]

Is there a way to remove the music from the interface?

[@LonSeidman]

Yes there's a setting I think if you hit the back button on the controller to turn that off.

[@haken7016]

Yes its all adjustable. Also i made a fresh folder called 'music' in the root of Retrobat. Any music i add to that folder will then play at random whilst browsing in Retrobat.

[@Bigzhyper]

Where is the link to the program😢

[@peach4hubby69]

Lmao just search on Google and it should be the first result. Type retrobat.

[@jecobian]

I wonder if this could be installed on a NAS

[@RQuinton79]

Yes, you can.

[@f3rns]

Retroachievements next please.

[@RETROBAT]

RA work fine with Retrobat.

[@Kirby5588]

This is actually emulation station with a skin over it. It is nice that it has QoL features for newer users though.

[@RETROBAT]

Hello, this is a version of EmulationStation VERY pimped by us.

[@TheFrugalAudiophile]

Is this on macOS? That would be awesome!

[@LonSeidman]

Just on Windows at the moment. Emudeck will be available on the Mac soon I think there's a beta now too.

[@rocketeric6516]

OpenEmu

[@ericB3444]

Emulate windows 95 on your iPhone for Clippy.

[@dragonball3166]

Sucks can’t do same with steam deck version

[@royk164]

Good thing that mini pc is free, I have 3 of them , and 2 of the ssd drives failed in 14 months.SSDs were made by NETAC , and in Acemagican , w/intel N5105. Real junk.

[@JR-sb6mj]

Does it work with playstation controllers? I find the xbox ones so weird 😂😂

[@Renzo_Benzo]

yes it works out the box

[@Woot007]

Yes PS4 and PS5 controllers works as said but PS3 controllers dont but there are 3 party programs or drivers to make it work as well just alittle more tricky.

[@kamildouglas]

i hav launchbox its the samething and its soo great i lov mines

[@shaolin95]

Is NOT the same thing man

[@kamildouglas]

@@shaolin95 it is the same thing how I gonna tell me

[@radiofan2454]

I assume the only way to get games is to find a site that has pirated copies (ROMS)?

[@OsX86H3AvY]

sounds like a cop...

[@mavfan1]

Of course you already know that you only download ROMs of games you’ve purchased.

[@RETROBAT]

In Retrobat we offer a store that will allow you to download legal ROMs, as well as demos.

[@OsX86H3AvY]

@@RETROBAT thats pretty awesome :)

[@retrovideobuzz]

Games keep freezing for me...

[@Cyrus_Nagisa]

emulation station Batocera This.... Its all the same thing at least use something more user friendly like LaunchBox, yes it might be easier to install this, but over all LaunchBox is easier to edit things.

[@Tartifless]

Not really, in launchbox you need to setup all emulators individually one by one...

[@Cyrus_Nagisa]

@@Tartifless its still very user friends all the way and much easier to edit and add things as well

[@Tartifless]

Not really, tried both and found ES-based frontends to be better than launchbox, especially for full gamepad driven interface

[@Cyrus_Nagisa]

@@Tartifless can go into "big box" mode for full controller interface and it works just fine, Launchbox gives you the extra freedom to work in a desktop mode for editing and again, is much easier to work with.

[@Tartifless]

Bigbox is paid software, and launchbox lacks autoconfiguration of emulators, everytime you change controller you need to redo the emulator settings, real PITA