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- #MAME BIOS FILES EXTENSIONS INSTALL#
- #MAME BIOS FILES EXTENSIONS PORTABLE#
- #MAME BIOS FILES EXTENSIONS SOFTWARE#
If you're handy with formatting partitions, you can always format the partitions yourself and manually install Batocera. So, backup your userdata (ROMs, saves, etc.) before doing this! Of course, when you format a partition, you lose everything that was on it. Go to SYSTEM SETTINGS → DEVELOPER → FORMAT A DISK. You can reformat an external drive to ext4, BTRFS or exFAT using Batocera's built-in formatting tools. Not recommended under any circumstances, exFAT is superior in every way. Is however the best for USB flash storage, as it uses the least amount of writes (increasing longevity of the drive).
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Many (really, only 4th gen and below systems are guaranteed to still be functional) Minimal protection against file corruption.
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Some (any that rely on symlinks, special character/case-sensitive filenames or certain permission bits) More protection against file corruption, but slightly slower than ext4. Using an alternative filesystem for userdata
#MAME BIOS FILES EXTENSIONS PORTABLE#
This is designed to be portable between all versions of Batocera, even Batocera builds running on different platforms (granted, weaker platforms like SBCs won't magically gain the ability to play ROMs for emulators they don't have). This is referred to as either userdata or share interchangeably (in reference to it being the default path the network share points to), they both mean one and the same thing. The userdata partition contains “the rest”, all the ROMs, BIOS files, saves, configuration (including nf), etc. It is not usually necessary to edit this partition (except for editing a few settings in the nf file if required). While Batocera is running, it is mounted to the /boot/ folder, but its original location is simply / on the FAT32 partition. This is where Batocera contains all the files necessary to boot Batocera on your device. The boot partition is what appears as the FAT32 partition when you plug the drive into another system (this will be the only visible partition to Windows by default). It's helpful to become familiar with how Batocera has its partitions laid out first to better understand what you're accessing and where they are located.īatocera uses two main partitions: the boot partition and the userdata partition.
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#MAME BIOS FILES EXTENSIONS SOFTWARE#
The software part of the equation was typically stored in ROM chips. Unlike gaming consoles, arcade games usually had dedicated hardware and software that differed from game to game. In MAME, though, they are only part of the game because MAME primarily emulates arcade machines. In the case of console emulators, CHD files usually contain the whole game, so you can “open them” in the emulator and start playing. If they are backups of games for the original PlayStation or some other console that used optical discs, they should, in most cases, be placed directly in the emulator’s ROM subdirectory. If your CHDs are MAME ROMs, they should (usually) be stored in folders with the same name under MAME’s main ROM folder.Īlso read: Are Game Emulators Legal? Everything you Need to Know