Batocera

Batocera

About

Batocera.linux project is a dedicated gaming OS focused on retrogaming. It can support remote mounted storage and as such has been added to RetroNAS

Generic ROMs folder

Please see the notes about the Generic ROMs folder in RetroNAS.

Install RetroNAS Services

Run RetroNAS, navigate to "Install things" -> "Batocera CIFS config". This will install Samba automatically as a prerequisite.

See the Samba wiki page for more information on Samba, including how to set your Samba username and password.

Take note of your RetroNAS/RPi IP address, as you'll need to use that later.

File paths on RetroNAS

RetroNAS creates a directory called batocera (all lower case) under the top level directory. Below it are numerous directories defined by the Batocera project. Currently RetroNAS supports ROMS, SAVES and BIOS directories.

Documentation how to setup Batocera to support game storage on a NAS is available at the Batocera wiki

Quick Setup

Refer to the official documentation for Batocera, a summary of the basic setup requirement on the Batocera side follows

• Edit the config file /boot/batocera-boot.conf

• Switch the system NETWORK mode sharedevice=NETWORK

• Under the shareddevice line add mount directives in Batocera syntax

  Share	Directive
  ROMS	sharenetwork_smb1=ROMS@<retronas ip>:batocera/ROMS:username=<retronas username>,password=<retronas password>
  BIOS	sharenetwork_smb2=BIOS@<retronas ip>:batocera/BIOS:username=<retronas username>,password=<retronas password>
  SAVES	sharenetwork_smb3=SAVES@<retronas ip>:batocera/SAVES:username=<retronas username>,password=<retronas password>

• Save the config file and reboot