Batocera on the Steam Deck (boots from microSD!)
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- At long last, we have a working beta test build of Batocera for the Steam Deck! This retro-game-focused Linux operating system boots from the microSD card slot, giving you an independent OS that you can pop into your Steam Deck when you want to play retro games. In this video I'll do a quick demo of the setup process and show off how it's working so far.
Note that this is a BETA BUILD and so you should expect bugs if you want to try it yourself. Because Batocera resides entirely on the microSD card, there is next to zero chance of damaging your Steam Deck or SteamOS build by testing Batocera, but it's always good to know what you're getting yourself into ahead of time.
Batocera beta for Steam Deck: batocera.org/download
Batocera wiki page: wiki.batocera.org/install_bat...
Timestamps:
00:00 introduction
01:23 installation and setup
03:32 game testing showcase
05:41 summary and conclusion
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#Batocera #SteamDeck #RetroGaming - Hry
Big deck energy
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Howled at that
Allegedly
Long live Salty Cracker.
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Can't wait for your updated emu deck guide. Keep it up!!
Samee!
Me too
Does it run Xbox 360 and PS3
@@sarahrivera4050 yep ps3
Love these guides! I just got my Deck and can't wait to start setting it up this weekend.
Hi Russ! Thanks for this video. I was hesitant to try this as I have an Anbernic RG351V for my retro fix BUT I have a spare SD card lying around so I did follow your instructions and... man oh man!! I didn't know retro gaming could be taken to the next level. I am enjoying games like Streets of Rage 2 without bezels, with pixel perfect settings. It is sooo beautiful. It doubled the fun factor compared to my Anbernic device. Retro Game Corps + Steam Deck, a match made in gaming heaven LOL
Looking forward to your final guide on this! Looks great!!
Just got my SteamDeck. I'm really excited for the future of emulation on this thing. Probably the best handheld you can buy right now.
Excellent heads-up, I will have to give this a go. Like you, my impulse is to keep my current Emu Deck setup within a unified Steam OS setup with my entire game collection, modern and retro, but I LOVE Batocera and want to see how this is coming along on the Deck. Thank you as always for your work on this! Would love to see a more in-depth look once the devs get this past testing!
I think the advantage is you can keep a large rom collection without cluttering the nice steamos interface. Not sure it’s a plus for me, but other could be interested
@@TFPMadcow oh yeah, I can totally see the merits of having a separate Batocera install on SD card. I find that I can balance my SteamOS interface and being able to have full ROM sets by adding additional folders of favorite ROMS per system (using symlinks of said ROMS so as not to duplicate my collection in the main system folder). This way, I only add shortcuts in Steam to my favorite games while maintaining fully, easily accessible ROM sets via Emulation Station, which of course has a shortcut in Steam as well. It’s much more work than the default EmuDeck process (or just using Batocera), but part of the allure for me is having all my games in one unified place, always accessible. I love Batocera though, and even use Retrobat on my Windows gaming rig to replicate the Batocera experience.
I LOVE Batocera's customized music for the frontend menus
Keep these videos coming, great help and better when its you doing them
I've been waiting for this, really excited for the official release
This was cool! Looking forward to the updated EmuDeck video!! Thank you!!
Thanks for all your hard work bro. I just got my Steam Deck and ready to build a retro handheld powerhouse 😅👍🏼
been waiting for this, I love batocera and was sure it was just matter of time to get a working image, I'll still wait up till they provide the stable version tough.
Awesome. I've been having some many problems with desktop mode on the Steam Deck that I basically gave up on going the route of your last video about the subject. This I can definitely do.
Nice man!! Looking forward to test it myself!!
this is SOO AWESOME!! bato is definitely my emulation frontend of choice these days (non-WIndows)
Mate, awesome video! Keep up this sort of content
This is awesome i been waiting for this. I'm going to try to instal on my Deck heheh
I'm only interested in emulation up to PS2 at this point so I think I'll be going with Batocera. Thanks for all the great info!
EmuDeck does that perfectly.... Crap, I have been playing Switch games on my deck...
@@TheCoolDave wouldn’t suppose you know of a Reddit or forum that’d point me in the direction of Roms or bios? I know linking directly is sketchy but I figure a Reddit would be cool
@@V8chump I can't say exactly but, RetroArch for the Xbox Series X... I went to the discord channel for it and there was a whole set of BIOS that used as a starting point(this covered up to PS2). Switch games I used my own hackable Switch to get the keys, They are out there. I would look over other emulation sites or even Reddit. Posting here a direct link is not legal so I can't. Good luck !
@@V8chump All you have to do is type in the system and Roms that you are looking for into google. That’s it.
Been using EmuDeck (through Emulation Station) for all my Retro Gaming thanks to your guide!
Imo it makes my Steam Deck worth the price!
SUPER HELPFUL! keep it up man.
My Steam Deck is arriving TOMORROW (!!) and I'm really looking forward to your updated Emu Deck guide. But Batocera's a reasonable alternative. :)
This almost makes me want a Steam Deck. 😅 Good work!
Keep the Big DecK EneRgy goin 🚀
Got the email from Steam last night and my pre-order was canceled, with all my financial setbacks I just wasn’t able to pay it off in time, it may be next year 💫
Regardless I will have a steam deck I think this is one hell of a brilliant device and they’re going to be many models to follow
Dude, this is awesome!
I like the idea of having all my emulated stuff separated from steam os on its own sd card. Please come back with a video when they have a full release.
this is already very good. except the name, a "full" release would be the same. it is batocera b35 stable (even if the internal name is 36-dev)
@@nicolas.adenis-lamarre I might give that a try on the weekend then, thanks for the info.
i kinda figured that something like this would happen after i heard that valve was putting drivers into linux kernel and i am happy they did that cus this is awesome! 🙂
How I love this channel! ❤️
i got almost the model of that keyboard/mouse combo. man that thing works so good
Can’t wait for a full tutorial video
I’m really liking the new Game Gear Pro Max. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for it
I’ll wait on the emu deck guide! 🤩
As someone with zero investment in the Steam ecosystem, this is a great option. I absolutely love Batocera on PC and RPi.
I'm curious about getting one sd card with it all installed. Is it literally plug and play or is there more to it ?
Man I wish this just worked as a program vs an entire OS.
Can't wait to get my steam deck soon
Simply awesome.
definitely will need a good guide for emulating on steam deck. Finally got to complete the purchase on my steak deck on steam so hopefully ill be getting it in a week
I am aware I'm basic for this reaction and atm I'm ok with this.
LET'S FING GOOOOOOOOOO!
I think once this gets optimized I would prefer batocera over emudeck in steam OS for a few reasons: it’s much cleaner in appearance and better than the confusing file system emudeck makes on the card, easier to make emulator setting adjustments vs steam desktop mode, and most of all being able to plug the microSD card into other computers for seamless gameplay with retention of saves. I will wait for some bugs to get ironed out and your official video guide.
Good call to wait for stable version, I gave it a try and currently emudeck desktop edition is vastly superior, for starters there is no mame core so if you drop roms on mame folder it wont show you will need a final burn neo rom set since its only core available (flycast is also there for naomi, atomis games), also volume seems to be on the low side for some reason and you cant modify the video output so by default you will be stuck with open gl, I am sure there must be a way to change this, I try to modify directly from the application (menu that pops up after pressing f1) and it always resets to open gl when I pop a game, I also tried to change the configuration text directly same results, so right now its funnctional but still needs improving and as of now emudeck works much better, once they iron it out I would rather use batocera much more clean and easy to configure.
But does is more compatible with the emulators like PCsx2 and Yuzu than Emudeck?
@@zZiL341yRj736 hard to tell but what I can say is updates will be few and far between unless batocera themselves update the emulator or you choose to mess about and do it yourself you wont see many updates to emus
meanwhile on emudeck you can update all the emus yourself just via the appstore
batocera is great and all but its extremely dumbed down for people who don't want to be able to customize stuff
After having some issues with Emudeck ....forget it .... i'm with going Batocera which I never have issues with. Thanks Russ !
What issues?
i am looking forward to the emu deck guide. my steam deck just showed up today.
I so need a steam deck...but could so not afford one at the moment 😅. Thx for the info !!
Batocera is quality, I use it on my Pi 400 and it it’s a joy to use.
Been using emulation since 1997 and it's amazing how far emulation has gone.
Damn what a beast the steam deck is
How does power draw compare to RetroArch in SteamOS? For example I have PS1 games (1x res) running at 5.1-5.3 watts at low brightness using the SwanStation core in SteamOS, using all the native performance tweaks, but no PowerTools. I'm curious if Batocera has the potential to take it even lower, with potential for native integration of lower-level performance tweaks like the PowerTools plugin offers.
I am using Emudeck now and I love it. However I feel that a more focused program like Batocera or RetroDeck might be the future for me.
Great vid as always! I wonder if the same trick works on steam deck as emulation handhelds, where after it repartitions the SD card itself, you can reformat the linux SHARE partition on Windows as exfat or NTFS and pop it back into the steam deck and have batocera repopulate it? If it does work then it would probably be easier to fill the SD card with games directly inserted into a windows PC, just like with the emulation handhelds that can run batocera, tho the gap in convenience one way vs the other is probably a lot more narrow on steam deck than on a very low powered emulation handheld.
Woah 😮 this is cool!
I've got my Sream Deck and Baticera is just awesome.
Wow, this is absolutely amazing. I love AmberElec on my RG552 and Batocera on UM350 MiniPC :), and for the Steam Deck (got it like 2 weeks ago), I planned to install Emu Deck, but now, I guess I'll try this test build (official v36 release may take a while, I guess, since v35 was just released), because I love the concept of having retro stuff totally separated.
On the other hand, power consumption wise, did you had a chance to compare ie. PS2 power consumption on SteamOS vs Batocera ? I wonder if batocera is similarly-power-consumption effective as Steam OS ?
Great question regarding power consumption. I’d like to know too
Great question. I haven’t bought a Steam Deck yet. I’m looking at mini PCs also and trying to see how long a Steam Deck would last. I use Emuelec on an Android box and Batocera on my laptop. I mostly do retro gaming anyway. I built my own arcade kiosk with dual sticks, trackball, and a wheel and pedals extension. I use a 8bitdo Arcade Stick for travel. I wouldn’t be using my Steam Deck often anyway just for modern games which I don’t play often. So it’s probably ideal and will last longer anyway. I do use a fan under my Android box so it never raises temperature over about 78% or so.
Would you prefer Botacera running on a Steam Deck or would you prefer something like the Analogue Pocket for retro gameplay (now that there are so many cores available)?
Thanks! - I think I'm sold on Steam Deck for emulation only. After all it's the only Linux-based handheld with the D-pad above the joystick apart from PSVita! :)
Very clean
Booting Batocera into Steam Deck. Darn. That's my ideal scenario right there!
Hi! Thanks for your guide :) I need one more information. Must the SD card for Batocera be formatted in a special file format? Or does it also boot with an SD card formatted via Steam Deck and the format ext4?
In other words: Can you use one and the same SD card (with the ROMS and BIOS) for both: EmuDeck and Batocera or do I need two SD cards? One formatted by SteamDeck (ext4) for EmuDeck and one formatted with rufus to boot Batocera?
Which file format will rufus "create" on the sd card?? AFAIK will EmuDeck need ext4 ...
this is really amazing...in process of copying 1tb roms now :D
This great as it can now read all my roms on my nas so less space
Could really use an updated emu deck guide. Hopefully comes soon 🙏
I think this will be quite good for me if/when i eventually get a steam deck
I'm here for the intro
Not sure if I prefer Batocera or Emuelec. They are really close and I would be happy using either one. I like these Linux based frontends way over any android or windows based frontend. I use them all the time since I mostly do retro gaming.
This channel should be called All the Same, but kidding aside, love the content.
I love batocera for The customizable front end music- I like that you can set per system. I like that you can listen to that. Absolutely awesome! Synth80s retro soundtrack on the home screen. Overall I want the unified emulation station experience from inside the steam OS. But until emulation station allows me to do the customizable music while browsing the front end. That's The winning Edge for me on this OS
HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING
I'll keep the EmuDeck setup but can't deny that the much better theme support is tempting.
You can have both :P, but right now stick to EmuDeck, currently batocera is not that great, there are few things not working properly, once they realease a stable version it is worth considering since you got easier access to configure emulators, easy to install the bezzel project and plenty of homebrew stuff, different themes etc, not to mention everything is on the SD card so if you happen to have to reset your steam deck you won't have to worry loosing any emulator save data.
Plenty of good stuff with batocera one of my favorite and to go software for emulation, sadly it's on beta test for the deck, can't wait till they polish it to a decent functional level.
I'm looking into this just for the light gun mainly but I'm still waiting for a smoother arcade set up on deck mostly, it doesn't really matter what flavor emulation station you use at the end of the day but coming from playing with raspberry pi's for years to emudeck is so limiting
Hey russ I have a question regarding emulating on the steam deck would the emulation experience be better on the regular steamos interface or through batocera on steam deck?
I wish I was tech savvy like you
(3:38) Sounds understandable for a test build. I'm sure someone would figure out how to map the exit action to the Steam button instead.
1. Supports touchscreen?
2. What tdp will it run low end systems and high end systems at? Battery life estimates?
3. Is performance for higher end systems like Wii, 3DS and PS2 same, better or worse than emudeck on steamos?
What's the advantage of using Batocera over EmuDeck? I've been using EmuDeck and I like that it's integrated into Steam OS, and that the storage space is shared. I could buy one microSD card and have more storage for both Steam games and emulation games. I don't know a thing about Batocera so I'm wondering if there's performance, usability, or other advantages?
Sounds but i already put roms on the SD card and PC games on the deck SSD. So whatvwould be the actual benefit aside from that?
I was just thinking "why on earth would I do that instead of using emudeck?" But actually if you can dual boot from the SD it makes a lot of sense
Batocera - the daredevil of retro handheld OS
I asked and you deliver!
Is there going to be a updated emudeck guide soon? Trying to get it working without a dock and keyboard is cumbersome.
Thanks for the video. When batocera is installed onto sd card in steamdeck: is it possible to access the userpartition (games and savestates) from SteamOS ?
are you saying high end games are better in steamOS and how bad is performance in comparison .please elaborate in your detail full video . also, say "yeah man I do"
i love it but gonna wait untill its out of beta and stable release i love it cant wait
I have been looking at getting a retro game console and i just found out that they sell preloaded batocera sd cards for steam deck. I could make my own but I dont have the time, do you recommend getting a batocera sd card or a dedicated retro game console?
Great video, I wonder if someone can help me out? Does anyone know what steam deck buttons add a game to your favourites? Also in game, what button closes the game? Cheers!
C'mon! Make it available for the Odin! C'mon!
Great vid Russ! These are sooo teasing me! lol.
Ain't odin windows?
@@smaao No it's primarily android, it "can" run windows but it's an emulation layer, it's not that fast.
I second this we need it on odin.
I believe the devs say its possible for the odin base and pro but not on the lite, but when I dont know.
Looks fantastic on the deck, have you heard any word on Batocera for the Ayn Odin?
Botacera ... YES !
Batocera
Not Botacera 😁😇
Great info 👍🏾...I'm have problems getting games on my steam deck I'm not good with computers so I need dummy guide lol...can you help me on this?
Looks like asides rom yuzu, ps3 isn’t supported? I saw you run it on emu deck on a different video . Debating to pick up my steam deck or jus wait for next gen, would you say its worth the price tag vs say an aya neo pro or something
This vs steam os preformance of emulation ? also did u feel more bettery use on steam os use ? ( i waiting for my deck to arrive =D )
Performance should be similar, other than that you can install Switch and Xbox 360 emulators directly on SteamOS pretty easily. As far as battery life, SteamOS will likely be better since you can manipulate TDP on the fly within SteamOS, and that isn't a feature in Batocera.
I'm testing this out. Seems to work super well. My only issue so far is saving in PS2. Memory cards don't seem to be configured and there's no way to open the emulator directly, as far as I can tell.
Press F1 when in the main menu and it'll bring up that file manager, and there should be a section for Applications where you can access PCSX2. I was able to save in-game no problem for me, but I only tested Ratchet and Clank. That game prompted me to format the card first and it worked fine. Maybe try a different PS2 game to see if it will prompt to format the memory card first?
@@RetroGameCorps I eventually figured out how to open PCSX2, but the memory card thing didn't really fix. Seems like memory cards are set to eject when loading a save state, but they never reinsert. That's supposed to be automatic, but it doesn't seem to work right for whatever reason. At least not for slot one. I did no memory card in slot 1 and an 8mb in slot 2, and that seems to work fine as a workaround.
so what about you Russ? would you rather swap SD cards for batocera, or just setup ES through SteamOS and not have to swap cards? Is there any benefit to using bato ES opposed to SteamOS ES?
I was thinking this. I find it much more intuitive/seamless to just setup ES on steamOS and have everything in one environment. No need to power down/swap back and forth. I’d understand if there were benefits such as performance to have batocera on a separate SD card so I’d be interested in Russ doing a test comparing the different environments. But to me, there’s just no point.
Another thing someone noted was that we wont have access to the feature rich steam input for emulation. Another reason I wouldn’t do this and just stick with ES on steamOS
A solution might be to use RetroDeck.
can some one tell me how long it takes normally from reservation to turning the steam deck on to actually play?
Can you set it up to boot directly into RetroArch and circumvent Emulation Station? - to avoid my carefully adjusted RA config to be overwritten every time I start a new game.
Bada Bing!
Does it handle docking well? And controller mapping etc? Would be interested in using this for when I bring steam deck to partys
yes. and via bluetooth or the usb port you can add other pads if youve not a dock. output on tv works but the change is not yet automatic.
@@nicolas.adenis-lamarre dope, incredible work on the batocera team, super excited!
@@nicolas.adenis-lamarreI can't get ANY external controller to work.
I had no idea that booting a separate OS would be that easy! I don’t really care for emulating on Steam Deck, but since I have a microSD lying around. Does the boot loader use the SSD by default or does it boot into the last used drive?
the boot menu selects the steam deck internal ssd by default. so you have to manually select the alternative drive/ssd of whatever os you want to boot every time. i do wish there was a way to change the default boot drive.
Been testing this.
And for me it boots into the last OS used.
So if you've been using Batocera from a micro sd card, next time you boot, it will boot into that. Provided you still have the Batocera micro sd card slotted in ofcourse.
And vice versa.
🔥🔥🔥
Can I put the games on the rim from a regular windows computer? I noticed he did it straight from the deck, but I don't have all that equipment (USB hub, keyboard etc.)
Take a drink every time you hear “batocera”
YESSS!!!!
Where did you buy the blue tooth adapter for you mouse, keyboard and drive?
Does the SD card need to be formatted for Linux ext4 or can it be exFat?