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As a weekend project, I'm going to install a fourth Linux distro on my desktop PC to get some gaming going! Batocera is a Linux distro that supports over 220 gaming platforms and consoles, including MS-DOS, PS1-PS4, and various controllers directly.

I've built a couple of custom handheld consoles for retro gaming using RetroArch and EmulationStation, and we have an arcade machine with a JAMMA circuit board at the office, but I haven't tried Batocera before. Let the games begin!
https://batocera.org

#Linux #Batocera #RetroGaming #RetroGames #Gaming #Games #MSDOS #DOS #Consoles #OpenSource

GIF

Wiredfire

@wiredfire@mstdn.social replied · 2 hours ago

@rolle Batocera has been great when I’ve played with it in the past. It’s perhaps a tiny bit fiddly to get set up (a few nuances really need you to SSH in or get command line up) but a lot really just does work “out of the box”.

Roni Rolle Laukkarinen

@rolle@mementomori.social replied · 2 hours ago

@wiredfire Since I'll have Batocera as another bootable distro on my PC, I can actually mount the Batocera drives on my Arch system and configure everything there directly, then just boot into it and play. Of course, I can always use my laptop or phone via SSH too. None of this is tricky for me as a sysop. ✌️

Wiredfire

@wiredfire@mstdn.social replied · 1 hour ago

@rolle in which case good times lay ahead 😃

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