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EmulationStation Menu Trees

This is a “tree” of the menus in EmulationStation, with a short sentence or two explaining the option
(sometimes with a link to the relevant page). Think of it as a glossary of sorts. [Ctrl]+[F] through
here to instantly find the option you're after!

Still needs a bit of work adding in all the possible menu entries. Sit tight!

The MAIN MENU in Batocera can be opened from any list in EmulationStation by pressing [START].

KODI MEDIA CENTER

Launch Kodi Media Center (Kodi is disabled on some weaker devices).

This can be disabled in the SYSTEM SETTINGS → KODI SETTINGS menu.

RETROACHIEVEMENTS

Shows all the RetroAchievements you have for the games which you've played.

Greyed out ones are currently not present on your system. The appearance of this menu can be
toggled in the GAME SETINGS menu.

GAME SETTINGS

The global settings that apply if there are no per-system, per-folder or per-game settings.

UPDATE GAMELISTS

Choosing this option will perform a scan of your game folders and refresh the list of available games
accordingly.

DEFAULT GLOBAL SETTINGS

VIDEO MODE

Force the emulator to run at this resolution.

This is the final output resolution sent to your display, as Batocera runs all emulators in full-screen.

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This is independent of the rendering resolution, which is an emulator-specific setting which changes
the resolution of the game itself. Emulators will (usually) provide the ability to run with integer scaling
or alternative aspect ratios so altering this setting for adjusting the geometry purposes is not
required.

GAME ASPECT RATIO

Force the game to render in this aspect ratio. This setting does not change the final output resolution.

If not using the AUTO setting, CORE PROVIDED is recommended. SQUARE PIXEL will render pixels with
the same geometry as the pixels on your screen, but is not recommended as most systems did not
have perfectly square pixels with their displays.

GAME RENDERING & SHADERS

SHADER SET

This is used to select a preset shader set for games.

See the shader sets page for more info.

SMOOTH GAMES (BILINEAR FILTERING)

Enables bilinear filtering or the equivalent of that in the emulator.

Not available on all emulators. Automatically disabled if the rendering resolution is set to the video
mode resolution, or if a shader set is being used.

INTEGER SCALING (PIXEL PERFECT)

Only increase the image size in integer multiples.

Retro games ran at a low resolution (typically 640×480 or 320×240), these are ordinarily expanded
to fit a bigger screen. During this process, the pixel geometry may be warped if the image is scaled
by a value that is not an integer. This forces the games to be scaled only by an integer multiple, using
the largest integer multiple that does not cut off content of the screen. This may result in a black
border around the image (unless the display is exactly a multiple of the original resolution of the
game). See Anti-aliasing for more.

DECORATIONS

Select which decoration set to use and alter the objects drawn on top of it.

Decorations fill up the blank space resulting from using a thinner aspect ratio on a wider display. See

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Decorations (and The Bezel Project) for more information.

DECORATION SET

Choose which decoration set you'd like to use, with a little preview to go with it.

AUTO will use the CONSOLE set, which has a unique decoration per system.

STRETCH BEZELS (4K & ULTRAWIDE)

Stretch the decoration to the display's exact dimensions, potentially distorting the decoration.

Overlays are typically designed for 16:9 1920×1080 monitors. If the display uses a higher resolution
or a different aspect ratio, this option can be used to make the bezel correctly fit the screen. See the
relevant section on the display issues page for more info.

HEADS UP DISPLAY

Show context-sensitive info over the game.

This utilizes MangoHUD to display in-game statistics of your machine or more information about the
current game. See the MangoHUD section on the benchmarking guide for more info.

HEADS UP DISPLAY CORNER

Choose which corner to display the HUD in.

SHOW TATTOO OVER BEZEL

Show an image overlaid on top of the bezel.

This is what's used for the controller overlays. Unlike the HUD, this is a static image and is less
resource-intensive. See the tattoo section on the decorations page for more info.

TATTOO CORNER

Choose which corner to display the tattoo in.

CUSTOM .PNG IMAGE PATH

When using the CUSTOM IMAGE option as the current tattoo, use this image.

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RESIZE TATTOO

Shrink/expand tattoo to fit within the bezel's border.

AI GAME TRANSLATION

Connects to the internet to automatically translate the content of the current frame when activated.

See AI game translation for more info.

ENABLE AI TRANSLATION SERVICE

During gameplay, press [HOTKEY] + [R1] to translate on-screen text. Only on libretro cores.

TARGET LANGUAGE

The language to translate into.

AI TRANSLATION SERVICE URL

Type in the preferred translation service.

If none are specified, will use ZTranslate by default.

PAUSE ON TRANSLATED SCREEN

Halt the gameplay while translation is being shown.

Useful for faster-paced games where text may only temporarily be shown on-screen.

REWIND

Store past states to rewind to in realtime, if the core supports it.

Lets you use the [HOTKEY]+ D-pad left shortcut to rewind time during a game (sorry, no time-travel
magic is involved, just memory states). See other commands at the hotkey shortcuts page.

LATENCY REDUCTION

Various options to help reduce input latency. See the latency reduction page.

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RUN-AHEAD FRAMES

Enables run-ahead. High numbers can result in visible jitter.

This usually doubles the CPU requirements for any given system, see its section for more info.

USE SECOND INSTANCE FOR RUN-AHEAD

Emulates a second system to jump to when utilizing run-ahead.

Can prevent audio skips on button presses. See its section for more info.

AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY

Automatically decrease frame delay temporarily to prevent frame drops.

This usually results in a reduction in input delay, but can also result in there not being enough time to
render audio frames, which can introduce audible stuttering. See its section for more info.

VARIABLE REFRESH RATE

Adjusts the display's refresh rate to match that of the content.

Don't deviate from the core's requested timing. This requires the monitor to support a VRR standard
such as G-Sync, Freesync or HDMI 2.1 VRR. See its section for more info.

THREADED VIDEO

Runs the CPU logic and display logic on different dedicated cores.

Improves performance at the cost of latency and more video stuttering. See its section for more info.

RUMBLE LEVEL

For emulators and controllers supporting force feedback.

SAVESTATES

AUTO SAVE/LOAD

Automatically load the latest savestate on game launch and automatically save the state when
exiting the game.

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Only for emulators which support save states in the first place.

INCREMENTAL SAVESTATES

Choose how the current save slot increments when launching games or saving states.

SHOW SAVESTATE MANAGER

Display the savestate manager before launching a game.

SYSTEM SETTINGS

PER SYSTEM ADVANCED CONFIGURATION

This will let you set up most system specific configurations.

Refer to the system's page in systems for info on each particular system's settings. Game-specific
settings will take priority over settings made here.

RETROACHIEVEMENT SETTINGS

This submenu is used to set up RetroAchievements.

See RetroAchievements for more information.

RETROACHIEVEMENTS

Enable the infamous RetroAchievements.

Make sure to provide your sign-in details first! See the RetroAchievements page for more info.

HARDCORE MODE

Disable certain emulator convenience features for more points.

With this mode on, special features such as rewind, fast-forward and cheat codes are disabled,
creating a similar environment to the original experience. For hardcore fans.

LEADERBOARDS

Compete in high-score and best time leaderboards.

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Supported only by certain games. This setting requires HARDCORE MODE to be enabled.

VERBOSE MODE

Show achievement progression on game launch and other notifications.

When you unlock an achievement, get details about the achievement you have unlocked, with a cute
little badge in the upper left corner of your screen.

RICH PRESENCE

ENCORE MODE

Unlocked achievements can be earned again.

This is only in regards to the notification. The actual achievements themselves won't become locked
again on your account.

AUTOMATIC SCREENSHOT

Automatically take a screenshot when an achievement is earned.

Do you want to keep a screenshot of the moment you unlocked a RetroAchievement? They are stored
in the Batocera screenshot directory.

CHALLENGE INDICATORS

Shows icons in the bottom right corner when eligible achievements can be earned.

Useful for seeing if you have failed the condition for earning a particular achievement or not.

UNLOCK SOUND

Choose which sound will play when an achievement is unlocked.

A few sounds to choose from are included, some you may already be familiar with. Custom sounds
can also be selected, simply add the .ogg sound file to
/userdata/sounds/retroachievements/ (other formats are not compatible).

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USERNAME

The username for the RetroAchievements account.

PASSWORD

The password for the RetroAchievements account.

SHOW RETROACHIEVEMENTS ENTRY IN MAIN MENU

Shows a menu entry for your RetroAchievements right in the main menu.

GAME INDEXES

INDEX NEW GAMES AT STARTUP

Checks newly added games to see if they are compatible with RetroAchievements.

This only affects the frontend, the actual achievements themselves are always earnable once the
game is launched.

INDEX GAMES

A tool to index the availability of achievements for games.

In order to show a little icon in the Batocera menu for the games that have RetroAchievements. This
tool calculates the MD5 checksums of your ROM files and checks them against the
RetroAchievements database. This only affects the frontend, the actual achievements themselves are
always earnable once the game is launched.

GAMES TO INDEX

Filter to only scan achievements for games that haven't been scanned before.

Useful to run this tool with the option set to ALL to ensure that games with achievements added
recently are indexed.

SYSTEMS INCLUDED

Filter to scan games of only particular systems.

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NETPLAY SETTINGS

This submenu is used to set up netplay.

See Netplay for more information.

SETTINGS

ENABLE NETPLAY

Allow for the launching and joining of netplay games from the menu.

Once activated, pressing the button now launches you into the netplay lobby menu.

NICKNAME

Instead of appearing as player #42957, customize your nickname!

This is how you will be presented in the netplay game rooms (useful for the other players to find you
and make sure they join the right room).

PORT

If you need to define a specific port to use.

This is dependent on the current network's configuration. If the router has UPNP enabled, leaving this
field empty will use the correct port automatically. Otherwise, the default port to use is 55435.

USE RELAY SERVER

Enables use of a man-in-the-middle to assist in connecting to game lobbies.

In case the network does not support UPNP. It does introduce a little more latency though, so use this
option only if your network can't open UPNP ports automatically.

SHOW UNAVAILABLE GAMES

Show rooms for games not present on this machine.

GAME INDEXES

INDEX NEW GAMES AT STARTUP

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Checks newly added games to see if they are netplay-compatible.

INDEX GAMES

GAMES TO INDEX

Filter to only scan for games compatible with netplay that haven't been scanned before.

Useful to run this tool with the option set to ALL to ensure that netplay-compatible games on systems
added to the netplay servers recently are indexed.

SYSTEMS INCLUDED

Filter to scan games of only particular systems.

MISSING BIOS CHECK

Checks the bios folder for currently missing or untested BIOS files.

If no flaws are detected, nothing is shown. Congratulations! Keep in mind that not all BIOS files are
required to run the emulators, just some. It's recommended to read the wiki for each particular
system you intend to run to find proper explanations on what exactly is needed.

==== CHECK BIOS FILES BEFORE RUNNING A GAME Pre-emptively display a warning if no BIOS is
found when attempting to run a game for the first time.

CONTROLLER AND BLUETOOTH SETTINGS

Configure your supported_controllers and player order here.

CONTROLLER MAPPING

Remap a controller.

This process will automatically go through all buttons on the controller. The mapping can be altered
after D-pad down and D-pad up have been assigned, by navigating to that button and pressing .
No two mappings can share the same button, and the D-pad buttons must be assigned. This limitation
may be removed in the future.

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PAIR A BLUETOOTH DEVICE

Pair and connect to the first Bluetooth device seen in its pairing mode.

If having difficulties, refer to the manual Bluetooth setup page. If your Batocera is connecting to
unwanted devices, that's too bad.

FORGET A BLUETOOTH DEVICE

Choosing this will list the currently paired Bluetooth devices, and let you unpair any of them.

SHOW CONTROLLER ACTIVITY

Show the number of controllers connected as icons in EmulationStation.

Requires the theme to support the icon. Themes without an icon will use a placeholder square.

SHOW CONTROLLER BATTERY LEVEL

Show the battery level of the controllers alongside the icons.

There will then be a list of up to 8(?) available controllers and what player order they are in.

USER INTERFACE SETTINGS

Settings to adjust the various aspects of the menu and theme.

APPEARANCE

THEME SET

Choose the theme to use.

Additional themes can be downloaded from the Updates & Download category in the main menu. See
Theme Set for more info.

THEME CONFIGURATION

These options are specific to the theme currently being used.

Options edited here will be saved per theme, so don't be afraid of trying out new themes as the
settings for the previous theme will be remembered. Select RESET CUSTOMIZATIONS to revert
back to the theme's default settings.

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DISPLAY OPTIONS

SCREENSAVER SETTINGS

START SCREENSAVER AFTER

How long the system must stay unused before triggering the screensaver.

SCREENSAVER TYPE

Choose what kind of screensaver to use.

DIM/BLACK: Darkens the screen either a bit or a lot. There are no settings for these types of
screensavers.
RANDOM VIDEO/SLIDESHOW: Play videos/show screenshots from scraped games.
SUSPEND: Puts the machine into a low-power state.

This selection will affect the options available in the screensaver settings menu.

STOP MUSIC ON SCREENSAVER

Stops the background music playing when the screensaver starts.

Useful if you'd prefer to hear the video's audio instead for the video screensaver.

RANDOM VIDEO/SLIDESHOW SCREENSAVER SETTINGS

VIDEO/IMAGE DURATION (SECS)

How long to display the video/image for before automatically switching to the next one.

SHOW GAME INFO

Adds an overlay of the game's title or its marquee.

USE MARQUEE AS GAME INFO

If the game has been scraped and has a marquee, use that instead of plain text for its info.

DECORATION SET USED

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Adds the system bezel or a random one for that system to the screensaver.

The marquee is shown over the bezel, while the screenshot/video is shown inside the bezel.

STRETCH VIDEOS/IMAGES

Distort videos/images to fill the space.

MUTE VIDEO AUDIO

Keep the video silent.

Useful if you'd prefer to keep listening to the background music. Only available for the video
screensaver.

SCREENSAVER CONTROLS

Change the controls during the screensaver:

[START] launches the game currently being shown.

D-pad right moves onto the next game.
D-pad left moves back to the previous game.

If disabled, then any button press instead just closes the screensaver.

USE CUSTOM VIDEOS/IMAGES

Use a custom folder to grab videos/images from for the screensaver.

By default, the folder is /userdata/screenshots/. Drop a few videos for old video game
commercials in there, and sit back for some nostalgia.

CUSTOM VIDEO/IMAGE DIRECTORY

Define a custom path where videos/images should be retrieved from.

If none is specified, will use /userdata/screenshots/.

USE VIDEOS/IMAGES IN SUBFOLDERS OF CUSTOM DIRECTORY

Scan for and use videos/images in subfolders of the specified directory too.

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CUSTOM VIDEO/IMAGE FILE EXTENSIONS

Manually edit the acceptable file extensions.

Be careful of adding extensions for formats that cannot be played by EmulationStation.

USER INTERFACE SETTINGS

UI Mode : You can select different modes for batocera, Kiosk mode and Kid mode will reduce
the amount of possibilities, see also UI mode.

Startup Settings

Start on System : Select which system is selected as default

Start on Gamelist : Start ES on gamelist view of selected system
Overscan : Option only relevant for SBC supporting overscan settings, can be used in case
the image is cropped improperly on the screen.
Systems displayed : This is used to choose which systems to display, and which ones to
hide.

Display Options

Transition Style : This is used to decide if the menu should have a fade-in transition effect, a
moving effect, or change instantly when starting a game.
Carousel Transitions Instantly show next/previous system
Game Launch Transition : auto, fade, slide or instant
Show Clock : Displays the hour on EmulationStation
On-Screen Help : Displays the buttons' actions in EmulationStation
Quick System Select : This feature allows you to scroll right or left when you've already
entered a game folder. If this were to be turned off, you would have to back out to the main
menu and then scroll left or right to find your system of choice.
Show Battery Status : for battery-powered devices, chose between Nothing, icon or icon and
text (percentage)

Gamelist Options

Show Favorites on top : When active, the favorites games will be put on top of the list.
Show hidden files : When enabled, the files described as hidden by the [Link] file ill
be displayed.
Show folder : This option makes it possible to show the folder hierarchy inside a system, or
to display all games as if they were directly put inside the folder.
Show '..' parent folders : When subfolders are shown, enabling this will show a .. entry
to go back one folder, this entry can be hidden.
Show Filenames in Lists : Shows the filename instead of scrapped game name.

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GAME COLLECTION SETTINGS

More information about custom collections at its respective page.

Several options are available in this menu:

AUTOMATIC GAME COLLECTIONS: Batocera can create automatically some collections,

based on the information scraped in your [Link] files. You can create automatically
collections for 2 and 4 players games, all games (on all systems), favorites (across all
systems) and the never played or last played games. For arcade systems, you can also have
automatically created collections by editor or arcade system, like sega, snk, namco and so on.
CUSTOM GAME COLLECTIONS: to manage the personal collections you have created.
CREATE NEW CUSTOM COLLECTION: in order to create your personal collections. Once you
have given a name to your new collection, you can add games from the menu by pressing the Y
button on your controller. When you are done with adding games in your collection, a new item
FINISH EDITING COLLECTION will appear in this menu to let you close it.
GROUP UNTHEMED CUSTOM COLLECTIONS: toggle on if you want your collections to all
appeared in a dedicated COLLECTIONS item at the top level on the menu, otherwise each of
your custom collection will appear at the top level.
SORT CUSTOM COLLECTIONS AND SYSTEMS: in case you have set to “off” the previous
option, do you want your collections to appear amongst the other systems, ordered from their
alphabetical names among the other systems (toggled on), or would you prefer to see all your
collections grouped together at the end of your systems list (off)?
SHOW SYSTEM NAME IN COLLECTIONS: toggle on if you want to see the [SYSTEM] added
after the game names in your custom collections. Otherwise only the game name will appear.
Useful if you have the same game name across multiple gaming consoles.

Game Collection Settings

Collections to display

Game Collection Settings

Automatic Game Collections Add some predefined collections in the menu (2-player, 4-
player games…)
Custom Game Collection Select between your custom game collection

Create Custom Collection

Create New Game Collection Game Collections are stored in

$HOME/configs/emulationstation/collections
Create New Dynamic Collection

Options

Sort Systems: Alphabetically, by manufacturer, by hardware type, by release year

Start on System: Restore last selected, or choose your favorite system to start with
Start on Gamelist
Group Unthemed Custom Collections
Short Custom Collections and Systems

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Show System Name in Collections Add a system description to a ROM file e.g. Sonic
[Megadrive]

SOUND SETTINGS

Frontend Music : Is used to enable or disable the music in EmulationStation.

Display Song Titles : Used to show the name of the music file in EmulationStation when it
starts playing.
How many seconds for song titles : How long new song pop-up badge is displayed.
Only Play System-Specific Music Folder : Can be used to play only specific musics when
going inside a given system folder, see also EmulationStation music.
Play theme musics : Can be enabled to let the currently used theme use its own musics.
Lower Music when playing video : When a video preview is playing, reduce the music
played in ES.
Sounds
Enable Navigation Sounds : Some themes use navigation sounds, enabling this let's you
hear them when moving in the menu.
Enable Video Audio : When you have a video played back in the EmulationStation menu –
either through a video thumbmail of a game that you scraped or when you use the video
screensaver option – you can toggle on/off this option so that it does not interfere with the
FRONTEND MUSIC option that might have been set up above.

NETWORK SETTINGS

Informations
IP Address This displays your IP address which can be useful if you want to access your device
over the network (you should be able to access your device in Windows through the file
explorer. Type \\(IP address of Batocera) in the address bar to gain access to the
share.)
Status This menu option will show you information about your network and if you're connected
to the internet (not your local network). This can be useful for troubleshooting issues with online
gaming or game scraping. Batocera checks its status by trying to reach out to the Batocera
public website. If you see “NOT CONNECTED” it indicates that the website cannot be contacted
by your Batocera box: there might be a temporary network issue that is not necessary on your
personal network.
Show Network Indicator : Will display a small icon in EmulationStation when connected to
the network if this is enabled.
Settings
Hostname The hostname will be a name to distinguish your device from others on the network.
Your router may append .local or .lan to it, check its settings.
Enable WiFi Enables or disables the Wi-Fi, useful for handhelds to save power. When using a
wired connection, this will be turned off automatically.
WiFi SSID Set up your Wi-Fi SSID.
<List of Wi-Fi networks scanned> You may need to use “Refresh” if you had just
turned it on.
Refresh Scan for networks again.
Manual Input Manually type out your network's SSID. Special characters may need to be
escaped with a preceding \.

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WIFI Key This is the password to your wireless network that you're attempting to connect to.
Special characters may need to be escaped with a preceding \.

SCRAPE

Allows you to scrape boxart/marquees for your game collection from an online database.

Scrape From Choose your database source. Remaining options will appear/disappear based on
this. Read Scrape From for more info.
Image Source
Box Source Prefer 2D boxart or an automatically generated 3D render of the boxart. This will
apply to both the boxart thumbnail image and the “Mix” image outputs.
Logo Source Choose whether to use the marquee (with its own background) or the wheel (with
a transparent background) for the logo.
Scrape Ratings This option will scrape the user ratings of each game and will be displayed
with the artwork you downloaded. This can be helpful when wanting to try new games you have
never played before.
Scrape Videos Downloads a short, low-resolution video to play when the game is selected.
This option takes up a lot of bandwidth and will dramatically increase your scraping time for
large collections! Weaker SBCs may also struggle with this.
Scrape Fanart Downloads a HD fanart of the game to display in the
background/screensaver. Depends on how the theme has implemented it.
Scrape Manual Batocera 5.27+ offers you the ability to show game manuals (by hitting
[Select] on a game) if you scraped the manuals.
Scrape Pad2key settings For Batocera v29+, you can automatically download a pad2key
profile to use the joypad to emulate a keyboard.
Username if you use screenscraper as a source, and you have an account with multiple
threads, using your screenscraper username and password here will leverage scraping with as
many parallel threads as you have access to. It's a lot faster.
Password
Scrape Now Begin scraping. Your system may become unresponsive for a moment, but
scraping will begin in the background. When done, be sure to Update Games Lists to see your
boxart!

UPDATES & DOWNLOADS

Download freely distributed content for Batocera! See Content downloader/updates for more info.

Downloads
Content Downloader Lets you download additional content for Batocera, such as games,
bezels, cheats, graphics packs and homebrew.
Themes Customize the way Batocera looks!
The Bezel Project Download additional bezels for (nearly) all your games!
Software Updates
Check for Updates Shows a pop-up window when a new update is available.
Update Type Select between stable and beta updates.
Start Updates Start the update! You'll be asked for confirmation.

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SYSTEM SETTINGS

System
Information
Your System Version ✔
Disk Usage ✔
Temperature ✔
Architecture ✔
System ✔
CPU Model ✔
CPU Number ✔
CPU Max Frequency
Language
Power Saver Modes: Reduce CPU consumption during idle time by reducing frequency of menu
animation frames.
Default: Menu rendering is paused once Game Description animation completes.
Enhanced: Menu rendering is paused once Game Name animation completes. Use when
you don't need/read Description or Video previews.
Instant: Menu rendering is paused immediately (few or no animations)
Disabled: Menu is re-rendered for every frame, even when static.
Kodi Settings
Enable Kodi
Kodi at Start Directly start Kodi on boot
Start Kodi with X Start Kodi by pressing the X button on your controller
Hardware
Brightness
Video Output
Audio Output
Multimedia keys: if you have an Odroid Go Advance or its clone, do you want to enable the
lower system keys?
Overclock Only relevant for some SBC, not for PC
Storage
Storage Device
Backup User Data
Install Batocera on a new disk
Advanced
Security
Enforce Security To protect samba/ssh with a custom password, must be used along
with the instructions in Changing the default root (ssh) password.
Root Password Set your custom root password for SSH Login
Developer
VRAM Limit Setup max usage of Video RAM (Theme dependent!), the defaults are
usually fine. To quote the original EmulationStation FAQ: “A good rule of thumb for how
much memory you should allocate to the GPU on a 1080p setup using the default themes
is 8 MB + 25 MB + 10 MB * (number of systems with games). The framebuffer, fonts and
high quality system art can have a dramatic affect on this.”
Show Framerate show how many FPS you can get on each emulator
VSYNC
Overscan Use Overscan feature for SBCs that support it (not PC)
Preload UI Pre-load UI elements like images, use it if you have 4GB or more on your

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system
Threaded Loading Use several CPU cores to accelerate loading. Use this option if
you have a “high-end”ish CPU.
ASync Images Loading Can load several images in parallel, for a better user
experience if you have no RAM/network constraints.

Optimize Images VRAM use

Optimize Video VRAM use

Enable Filters
Save Metdata on exit
Parse Gamelists only

Reset File Extension

Redetect Games Language/Region

Use Retroarch RGUI Menu Lets you switch between the new ozone GUI and the
classic one
Switch A/B buttons in EmulationStation - this option might be useful, if you are
coming to Batocera from other distributions with a different default mapping
Log Level
Create a support file Needed for error detection mostly related to developers
Format disk Lets you format disks (exfat, ext4, btrfs)
Use OMX Player (HW accelerated)

QUIT

to do

Quick Access

Pressing [SELECT] at the system list (top level) will give you access to the following shortcuts:

Quick Access
Launch screensaver that you configured, for video or picture display
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Quit
Restart System Reboot the machine. The #1 troubleshooting procedure. If Batocera isn't the
default boot drive, this will return you to your main operating system.
Shutdown System Powers down the device. By default, will send the halt signal to your
device, so that you can power it back on again using a button.

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Fast Shutdown System Shuts down the system without first saving modifications made to
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during the session.

Options menu

Pressing the select button at the game level menu will give you access to the following shortcuts:

Navigation
Filter games by text
Jump to : a letter
Sort games
Other filters
Find similar games: On Batocera 29+, you can find games that are similar to the one you are
selecting. When you want to play all the games in a series, for instance.
View Options
Gamelist view style
View customization
Game Options
Advanced System Options
Advanced Game Options
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