Retro gaming distributions
Batocera
- Website
- Docs/wiki
- Not based on any distribution, but build from scratch with buildroot
- Better out-of-the-box user experience than RetroPie
- Uses Sway/Wayland !
Sync roms:
rsync -av /home/varac/Software/batocera/roms/ batocera:/media/SHARE/roms
Updates
Start upgrade:
batocera-upgrade https://batocera.org/upgrades/x86_64/stable/last
Controller
Keyboard
Bluetooth pairing
HDMI Audio
- Settings / Sound / HDMI
Terminal
Switch to TTY with ctrl+alt+f3 and back with ctrl+alt+f1
Keyboard layout
Switching the Keyboard layout is not working
Edit ~/userdata/systemsettings/batocera.conf and set:
system.kblayout
system.kbvariant
(Note: Using de/nodeadkeys doesn't fix the layout...)
Retropie
- Retropie docs
- Builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch
Logs:
./configs/all/emulationstation/es_log.txt
Config: /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
Sync roms:
rsync -av /home/varac/Software/RetroPie/roms/ retropie:RetroPie/roms