Arcade Punk hipp0 releases another awesome 256gb Pi4 Batocera image, its actually a version 2 of his original Retro Pirate Box, aptly named “RETRO PIRATE BOX v2”, he has an official support thread over on our forums.

I listened to all the feedback from the first one and made a lot of changes to the second release. This time I wanted to focus on all the systems your more likely going to play vs the complicated older systems that didn’t work that well (primarily Commodore/X81/).
Removed clutter & games that weren’t working, and organized the games better. Also I pishrunk the image from 238 gigs down to 222 gigs so that every 256 gig card should work now!

Total games = 14,506
Atari 2600 / 362
Atari 800 / 348
Atari 5200 / 72
Atari ST / 408
Atari 7800 / 57
Atari Lynx / 75
Sufami / 13
WonderSwan / 127
WonderSwan Color /126
ColecoVision / 140
Amiga CDTV / 51
Amiga 1200 / 167
Amiga CD32 / 114
Odyssey 2 / 87
Intellivision / 140
Vectrex / 23
MS-DOS / 35
MSX / 755
TurboGrafx 16 / 264
TurboGrafx CD / 23
SuperGrafx / 5
Game & Watch / 59
NES / 789
Family Disk System / 275
Gameboy / 527
Super Nintendo / 1008
Satellaview / 41
VirtualBoy / 24
Nintendo 64 / 299
Gameboy Color / 517
Gameboy Advance / 1004
Pokemon Mini / 44
Nintendo DS / 290
3DO / 51
Beats of Rage / 4
Ports / 7
Solarus / 6
Sega SG-1000 / 80
Sega Master System / 264
Sega Genesis / 812
Game Gear / 257
Sega CD / 52
Sega Saturn / 29
Megadrive 32x / 36
Dreamcast / 29
NEO-GEO / 327
NEO-GEO CD / 87
NEO-GEO Pocket / 40
Playstation / 194
PSP / 21
GX 4000 / 24
AMSTRAD CPC / 3852 (although many of the games are glitchy or don’t work. I decided to leave the CPC in because it makes a good screensaver, also a lot of the games make weird sound FX that are good for sampling.)

Total systems= 53

Changes 4/16/2021

-Updated Batocera v29 > v30
-Added working NEO GEO CD (87 games)
-Added working Turbografx CD (23 games)
-Added Nintendo DS (290 games)
-Added Solarus (An ARPG game engine modded *Zelda games*)
-Added Beats of Rage (some custom beat em up games)
-Added Ports (Cave Story, Bomberman, Doom, Prince of Persia)
-Added Super Nintendo Hacked games
-Added Custom music
-Added Amiga CDTV (51 games)
-Fixed Amiga CD32 (114 games)
-Fixed Amiga 1200 (167 games)
-Fixed Neo Geo CD
-Fixed Turbografx CD
-Fixed Sega CD
-Removed Commodore C128, C20, C64
-Removed Naomi
-Removed X6800
-Removed X81
-Removed Thomson

**You can scrape game manuals now!

Improvements:

*This version no longer shows a error message each time you start a game.
*HDMI is much improved, so you can restart and the game menu comes up.
*Extra space on the microSD so that more cards will work with this image.
*Updated BIOS for different systems if you wanted to add your own system.
*PDF support added (you can scrape your favorite game manuals)
*Batocera manual, and game manuals. Press the option button to view game manuals!

Help:

*If Wifi isn’t working try plugging directly into your router to help wake up the wifi and it should work.

* To change your time follow this guide: https://wiki.batocera.org/timezone#:~:text=Starting%20with%20Batocera%2031%2C%20you,hour%20format%20if%20you%20want.

*If your having trouble getting a bluetooth controller working: https://wiki.batocera.org/bluetooth_controllers_-_manual_setup

Bonus:

* There is a comics folder if you SSH into the PI (default login/pass root/linux *I recommend changing the default password so you don’t get hacked) Recommend FILEZILLA for SSH https://filezilla-project.org/

official forum for support HERE

EXTRACT THE RAR ARCHIVE

This image is downloaded in multiple rar parts, you will need WINRAR installed to extract them (yes other programs such as 7zip may work – but this was created with the new RAR4 format which really should be handled by winrar!) – You will need to extract them by simply RIGHT clicking on the first file and EXTRACTING ALL

Download WINRAR HERE (2nd one down x64 bit 6.0)

RELEASE NAME:

[256gb]-Batocera.Pi4.4gb.Retro.Pirate.Box.version.2-hipp0

DOWNLOAD

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