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Emulators & Ports

All systems
Arcade guide
Advanced arcade info
Unsupported emulators FAQ

Supported Devices

Choose a PC/Benchmarks
Supported PC GPU cards
Choose a single board computer
Choose a handheld
Handheld PC
USFF/NUC/Mini PC
Compatible Wi-Fi/BT dongle list
Capcom Home Arcade
Radxa Zero
GT King/King Pro
LCD/LED marquees (Pixelcade)

Controllers

Supported controllers
Map a controller
Manual Bluetooth controller setup
Arcade controls
Light gun controls
Steering wheel controllers
Mayflash Dolphinbar

EmulationStation

Main Menu/EmulationStation overview
Kodi Media Center
Scraping boxart/screenshots
RetroAchievements
Savestates
Shader sets and their customization
Content downloader
Decorations (and The Bezel Project)
AI game translation
Themes for EmulationStation
Music for EmulationStation
Netplay
Web Server
Kiosk and kid UI mode

File Management

PCman built-in file manager (for Xorg-powered devices)
OD-Commander (file manager for SBCs)
WinSCP network file transfer
Disc image formats/multi-disc
Disc image/folder compression
Use external storage
Use a NAS
Sync files across multiple devices (Syncthing)

Help/Support & Releases

Current/previous/beta releases
Manually upgrade/downgrade Batocera
Troubleshooting
Network issues
Display issues and resolution changes
Audio issues
Diagnose joystick issues
Report an issue
Ban appeal process

Advanced Users

Raspberry Pi specific

Raspberry Pi: Add power buttons/switches
Raspberry Pi: Boot from USB
Raspberry Pi: Add a TFT screen
Raspberry Pi: Audio output via GPIO

CRT on SBC/RPi and x86_64

Batocera & CRT on x86_64
CRT on RPi/SBC

Editing the boot partition
SSH/Xterm and commands
Secure boot
Dual booting with Batocera
Run Batocera in a VM
Security
Splash image/video customization
Advanced "batocera.conf" syntax
Advanced RetroArch settings
Remapping controls per emulator
Timezone
VPN client
Anti-aliasing
udev rules
Wake on LAN (WoL)
Home automation
rsync backup to a Synology NAS
rclone backup to Cloud Storage

Advanced EmulationStation

EmulationStation Menu Trees
Game Collection Settings
ES systems customization
ES command line arguments
Latency reduction and optimizing performance
Pacman (package manager)

Scripting

Batocera scripts
Usage of batocera-settings
Scripting function keys
Batocera Services
Scripts for pcmanFM

Development

Batocera's file partitions
Coding rules
Make a PR to batocera.linux
Github Desktop
TortoiseGit (Windows 7/10/11 x86/x64/ARM)
Overlays (modify the live system)
Notable files/folders
Compile batocera-linux
Compiling individual packages
Redirect upgrades from any board to my own builds
Create your own pacman package
Write themes for batocera-emulationstation
Help with translation
Evmapy (keyboard shortcuts)
Evsieve (input manipulator)
Debug Batocera

Documentation Contribution

Good wiki editing practices
System page template
DokuWiki syntax
Batocera-specific wiki code snippets
Pending approvals
Batocera blog writing guide
Benchmarking for Batocera guide

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