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Getting Started

• Navigation page
• Install Batocera
• Add games/BIOS files
• Hotkey shortcuts
• Connecting via Wi-Fi
• Updates & downloads

Emulators & Ports

• All systems
• Arcade guide
• Unsupported emulators FAQ

Supported Devices

• Choose a PC/Benchmarks
• Supported PC GPU cards
• Choose a single board computer
• Choose a handheld
• Handheld PC
• USFF/NUC/Mini PC
• Compatible Wi-Fi/BT dongle list
• Capcom Home Arcade
• Radxa Zero
• GT King/King Pro
• LCD/LED marquees (Pixelcade)

Controllers

• Supported controllers
• Map a controller
• Manual Bluetooth controller setup
• Arcade controls
• Light gun controls

EmulationStation

• Main Menu/EmulationStation overview
• Kodi Media Center
• Scraping boxart/screenshots
• RetroAchievements
• Shader sets and their customization
• Content downloader
• Decorations (and The Bezel Project)
• AI game translation
• Themes for EmulationStation
• Music for EmulationStation
• Netplay
• Web Server
• Kiosk and kid UI mode

File Management

• PCman built-in file manager (for Xorg-powered devices)
• OD-Commander (file manager for SBCs)
• WinSCP network file transfer
• Disc image formats/multi-disc
• Disc image/folder compression
• Use external storage
• Use a NAS
• Sync files across multiple devices (Syncthing)

Help/Support & Releases

• Current/previous/beta releases
• Manually upgrade/downgrade Batocera
• Troubleshooting
• Network issues
• Display issues and resolution changes
• Audio issues
• Diagnose joystick issues
• Report an issue
• Ban appeal process

Advanced Users

• Editing the boot partition
• SSH/Xterm and commands
• Dual booting with Batocera
• Run Batocera in a VM
• Raspberry Pi: Add power buttons/switches
• Raspberry Pi: Boot from USB
• Raspberry Pi: Add a TFT screen
• Raspberry Pi: Audio output via GPIO
• Batocera & CRT
• Security
• Splash image/video customization
• Advanced "batocera.conf" syntax
• Advanced RetroArch settings
• Remapping controls per emulator
• Timezone
• VPN client
• Anti-aliasing
• udev rules
• Wake on LAN (WoL)
• Home automation
• rsync backup

Advanced EmulationStation

• EmulationStation Menu Trees
• Game Collection Settings
• ES systems customization
• ES command line arguments
• Latency reduction and optimizing performance
• Pacman (package manager)

Scripting

• Batocera scripts
• Usage of batocera-settings
• Scripting function keys

Development

• Batocera's file partitions
• Coding rules
• Make a PR to batocera.linux
• Github Desktop
• Overlays (modify the live system)
• Notable files/folders
• Compile batocera-linux
• Compiling individual packages
• Redirect upgrades from any board to my own builds
• Create your own pacman package
• Write themes for batocera-emulationstation
• Help with translation
• Evmapy (keyboard shortcuts)

Documentation Contribution

• Good wiki editing practices
• System page template
• DokuWiki syntax
• Batocera-specific wiki code snippets
• Batocera blog writing guide
• Benchmarking for Batocera guide

About

• Wiki homepage
• Batocera main website
• License/artwork