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Batocera.linux


Last Update: 2024-02-02 02:44 UTC


Batocera.linux is a minimal distribution dedicated to running retrogaming software. The distribution is able to run on most desktop computers, laptops and several single-board computers, including the Raspberry Pi. batocera.linux can be run from a USB thumb drive or SD card, allowing it to be transferred between computers. batocera.linux is based on RecalboxOS.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 184 (45), 6 months: 175 (49), 3 months: 149 (57), 4 weeks: 135 (61), 1 week: 139 (56)

Average visitor rating: 9.83/10 from 6 review(s).


batocera.linux Summary
Distribution batocera.linux
Home Page https://batocera.org/
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Feature 38 34 32 29 5.24 5.18
Release Date 2023-10-16 2022-05-28 2021-09-20 2020-12-16 2019-11-09 2018-10-02
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Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 1100-2200 1100-2200 1000-1900 500-1200 500-1200 500-600
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Processor Architecture arm64, armhf, i686, x86_64 arm64, armhf, i686, x86_64 armhf, i686, x86_64 armhf, i686, x86_64 armhf, i686, x86_64 armhf, i686, x86_64
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Multilingual No No No No No No
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-31
Votes: 0


This is a very user-friendly distro for gaming. It makes use of proven emulators and is very easy to navigate. It has a good suite of tools to customize your experience and broad system support for retro games. The online manual is useful, and was able to help me troubleshoot the few hiccups I had. Highly recommended.

I have tried my hand at Linux-based operating systems many times, hoping to get one that I can use easily with out of the box functionality. For general computing I never found one. I was amazed when I tried this on a whim; it does everything it claims to do and worked flawlessly once I got it set up. Setting it up the way I wanted took me all of an hour. I'm not counting the content scraper, because that doesn't have anything to do with function. The scraper works great but takes more time.


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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-14
Votes: 18


as others have commented - this a childhood dream come true. I’ve been playing on an Atari and working on the command line since i was 8, got an NES at 12, and dumped back on the command line when I hit college in 1991 on a DECstation and then Redhat (and SNES :) shortly after - absolutely love UN*X and Linux.

to be able to organize and manipulate my library and extend the system so easily is amazing. everything just works and it’s incredibly stable as you would expect Linux to bring. (I’ve used the same emulators on Android, iPadOS, macOS, Ubuntu and absolutely nothing compares and it’s easier to maintain! props up to the devs for keeping admins in mind!)

There is so much to evaluate - you can change skins via Emulation Station, I’ve contributed on GitHub, I just got all my titles and saves being served over the network working - amazing considering I was already happy with the size of a 128GB micro SD card - now it only has to be 16GB - crazy!

I have my server backed up hourly for peace of mind and I haven’t even dived into syncthing yet.

As I have an Emby server, I’m really excited to dive back into Kodi and access the same network shares and see what might be possible with this full blown Entertainment distro!

With Retroachievements, I can play all the games I’ve mastered in whole new ways and fetch the trophies they deserve!

Having emulators run on a barebone Linux distro has everything running without all the overhead of other OSes.

Give it a short - you won’t be disappointed and you might be a lil addicted like me! lol 👾


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Version: 34
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-07
Votes: 20


Batocera is now at its release 38, at the time of writing. And this Linux distribution is a godsend for retro gamers.
I’ve tested them all (Retropie, Lakka, Emuelec, Recalbox) and Batocera is **by far** the easiest, the most complete and the most stable of all the gaming distributions. It runs everything, from the Atari 2600 to the PS3, PSVita and Nintendo Wii and WiiU on my 5-year old PC.
I have it also running on a Raspberry Pi and I even bought a $60 Odroid Go Super to play on the go. Of course fewer consoles can be emulated compared to the PC (maximum is PS1 or PSP, no PS2/PS3 or GameCube/Wii). I wish I could afford a SteamDeck, but I’m still happy with what I have today. I love that they offer an integrated tool for downloading many themes and free games. Default theme is meh, but some of the new ones are gorgeous. And some of the free games on download are really good. They added a bunch of new ones with Batocera Linux Release 38.
Kudos to the team behind Batocera, you are absolute rockstars.


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