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RetroAchievements
What is it?
This allows you to earn achievements on old retro games like Mario, Sonic, etc. on several home gaming systems, as well as some arcade games (like Neo Geo or some MAME games). This is very similar to Xbox 360 or PS3/PS4 achievements or successes and you’re able to keep track of what you’ve unlocked from RetroAchievements. The best in this: it’s a free service.
Settings
Configuration is through GAMES SETTINGS → RETROACHIEVEMENTS SETTINGS:
- UNLOCK SOUND if you want to play a sound, like the classic PS3 or Xbox360 success unlock sound. You have a selection of retrogaming-oriented sounds, but you can also add your own unlock sounds in
/userdata/sounds/retroachievements/
as long as they are in the .ogg format. - USERNAME and PASSWORD are the ones you have set up on the RetroAchievements website.
- FIND ALL/NEW GAMES in order to show a little icon in the Batocera menu for the games that have RetroAchievements, you have to use this option to calculate the MD5 checksums of your ROM files and make sure they match what the RetroAchievements database is expecting. You can do that for all games in your library, or games that haven't been indexed yet.
Batocera v30 introduced an updated look and feel for the RetroAchievements screen. You can select each game to have more details, including each RetroAchivement for each game, and you can even launch the game from this screen.
System-specific information
RetroAchievements are only available on certain Libretro cores (and from v31 DuckStation). If you play a system that has both standalone and Libretro cores, make sure you selected a Libretro core. Not all Libretro cores are compatible with RetroAchievements. To see whether or not you can use RetroAchievements for a particular game, hold (in v30 and prior, press ) and look at the top of the per-game settings. Batocera tells you what core is currently configured, and which one is compatible with achievements (if there is one).
Also, achievements can depend on the ROM format you are using. For example, for Playstation 1, make sure you are using CUE+BIN or CHD format as they're the only formats supported with RetroAchievements, and not the PBP format (may change in the future).
Wanna play with us?
Finally, if you want to compete with fellow Batocera users, you can find a list of Batocera RetroAchievements players on this page from the web site.
Go to the Discord channel and ask moderators to be added to the list!
Add RetroAchievements support for custom systems
If you add a custom system, for example MSU1, and you know that some games support RetroAchievements, by default the RetroAchievements will NOT be unlockable. This is because your custom system is not referenced by Batocera as available for RetroAchievements. If you have Batocera v32 or later, you can add a manual *.cheevos_force
option to batocera.conf
.
For example, setting msu1.cheevos_force=true
in batocera.conf
enables that custom system to have RetroAchievements.
- retroachievements_settings.1631705754.txt.gz
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