Batocera linux linux EmulationStation Menu Trees User Manual

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!

Main Menu Tree
This is the one you access by pressing [START] in any list.

Kodi Media Center
Start Kodi from the menu if supported by your system.

Retroachievements
Show your RetroAchievements progress if you have enabled it from the Games Settings menu.

Games Settings

The global settings that apply by default to all games.

Tools

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

Default Settings
Game Ratio Set the aspect ratio used by the games. If not using Auto, Core Provided is recommended. Square Pixel will render pixels aligned to your screen, but is not recommended as most systems did not have perfectly square pixels with their displays.

Video Mode: The output resolution sent to your display. This is (usually) independent of the emulated system’s rendering resolution. Smooth Games 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. Rewind lets you use the [HOTKEY]+[D-pad Left] shortcut to rewind time during a game. See other commands at Hotkey shortcuts. Auto Save/Load When enabled, will do a save state when quitting a game, and load it when starting it back, letting anyone quit and start a game without losing progress.

Shaders Set: This is used to select a preset shader set for games. See Shader Sets for more info. Integer Scale (Pixel Perfect) Older games are ordinarily expanded to ﬁt a bigger screen, however, 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 factor; it will appear smaller on the display as a result (unless the display is exactly a multiple of the original resolution of the game). See Anti-aliasing for more. (change to relevant header when added in the future)
Decoration: You can choose which bezel collections to use with this setting. Auto will use a per-system bezel. See Decorations (and The Bezel Project) for more information.

Stretch Bezels: (4K & Ultrawide) Overlays are typically designed for 16/9 1080p monitors. If your screen uses a higher resolution or a diﬀerent aspect ratio, this option can be used to make the bezel correctly ﬁt the screen. See Display Issues for more info.
Latency Reduction: Enables run-ahead in libretro cores. See Run-ahead input-lag reduction for more info.

AI Game Translation: A menu used to set up the AI Translation. See AI game translation for more info.
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. If you have games settings and system speciﬁc settings conﬂicting, the(conﬁrm this) system speciﬁc one will take priority.

System Settings

RoetroAchievements Settings: This submenu is used to set up RetroAchievements. See RetroAchievements for more information.
Netplay: This submenu is used to set up netplay. See Netplay for more information. Missing BIOS Will list every missing BIOS. See BIOS ﬁles and how to add them.

Check BIOSes before running a game: When launching a game on a system requiring BIOSes, you can either tell batocera to warn you about missing ones, or not.

Controllers Settings

Conﬁgure your supported_controllers and player order here.

Conﬁgure: A Controller. Clicking this option will show a window asking to hold a button on the gamepad to conﬁgure, it will then ask for a list of inputs. See Conﬁgure A Controller for more info.

Pair A Bluetooth Controller: Pressing this will make you to pair a Bluetooth controller, for some, you might need to pair it manually using the command-line.
Forget Bluetooth Controllers: Choosing this will list your paired Bluetooth controllers and let you unpair them.

Gamepad order: The list here can be used to aﬀect speciﬁc gamepads to speciﬁc players.
Show Controller Activity: Checking this option shows the number of controllers connected with icons inside EmulationStation, and they will blink when used.

UI Settings

Tweak your UI! Check out EmulationStation UI Settings.

EmulationStation UI Settings

Appearance

Theme Set: This is used to choose the theme you are using, additional themes can be downloaded from the Updates & Download category in the main menu, see Theme Set for reference.
Theme Conﬁguration: This opens a submenu to customize your currently used theme, customization options are speciﬁc to the used theme.

UI Mode : You can select diﬀerent modes for Batocera, Kiosk mode and Kid mode will reduce the amount of possibilities, see also UI mode.
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
Screen Saver Settings
- Screen Saver After: This is used to decide how long the system must stay unused before triggerring the screensaver.
- Screen Saver Behavior: This is used to choose what the screensaver will do, see ScreenSaver Behavior.
- Stop Music on Screensaver: Enabling this will stop the main menu music from playing when the screensaver is used, if video ﬁles are used as a screensaver, their audio will be then used instead.
- Random Video Screensaver Settings: see Random Video Screensaver settings Slideshow Screensaver Settings : see Slideshow Screensaver settings
- Screen Saver Controls: Enable the use of the buttons to perform diﬀerent actions during the screensaver.
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 option let’s you use change the currently selected system using the left and right buttons when using a basic list of games.
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 favorite games will be put on top of the list.
Show hidden ﬁles: When enabled, the ﬁles described as hidden by the gamelist.xml 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 KK entry to go back one folder; this entry can be hidden.
Show Filenames in Lists: Shows the ﬁlename instead of the scraped game name.

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 from your custom game collection

Create Custom Collection

Create New Game Collection Game Collections are stored in
AeljbLconfigs/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
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 music : Can be enabled to let the currently used theme use its own music.
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 : For video previews, enables their own audio.

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 \.
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.

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.

System Settings

System
Information
Your System Version ✔
- Disk Usage ✔
- Temperature ✔
- Architecture ✔
- System ✔
- CPU Model ✔
- CPU Number ✔
- CPU Max Frequency

Language
Power Saver Modes
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, it 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!)
- Show Framerate show how many FPS you can get on each emulator
- VSYNC
  Overscan Use the 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 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 metadata 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)

Quick Access

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

Quick Access

Launch the screensaver that you configured, for videos or pictures display

Skip to next song when you play a background music in EmulationStation
View Batocera Manual, your next best friend when you don’t have access to this fantastic wiki. Quit
Restart Syste:m 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,it will send the halt signal to your device, so that you can power it back on again using a button.
Fast Shutdown System shuts down the system without first saving modifications made to gamelist.xml. Only use this for troubleshooting purposes, as it can undo changes made 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
Edit this game metadata

From:

https://wiki.batocera.org/-Batocera.linux-Wiki

Permanent link

https://wiki.batocera.org/menu_tree?rev=1633561240
Last update: 2021/10/07 01:00

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I configure controllers?

Go to Controllers Settings to configure supported controllers and player order.

What is the purpose of UI Settings?

UI Settings allow you to tweak the appearance and themes of EmulationStation. You can choose themes, customize theme configurations, and select different UI modes like Kiosk mode or Kid mode.

Documents / Resources

Batocera linux linux EmulationStation Menu Trees [pdf] User Manual
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References

User Manual

Batocera Linux Linux EmulationStation Menu Trees

Product Specifications

Product Usage Instructions