The Pi 4 has been out for a minute now, and while we’re still waiting on things like updated Vulkan drivers, I felt like the time was right to jump in with a new SUPER CLEAN BoredGameDad image!

This 256GB image is running Batocera. I made the change from RetroPie because Batocera is a great fit for my build mentality. I want things to work for the end user with no muss and no fuss, and that’s exactly what Batocera is built for! Plus, you can do all of your tweaks and changes (including changing shaders and overlays) right within EmulationStation. In addition, since Batocera is itself the operating system you great crazy fast boot times and some great themes unavailable on any other platform, like the CKAU Book theme running on my image.

This theme has a TON of customization options in the menu, and I encourage everyone to take a look. It’s essentially multiple themes in one! If you have any EmulationStation freezing issues, raising your vRAM to 328mb should resolve your issue.

I’ve done all of the tricky stuff for you guys with this one, like forcing 1080p on EmulationStation so you don’t get screen blanking on non-4k TVs, and setting up the Argon One case in the settings. (The power button is finicky, so I recommend shutting down within Batocera and then using the power button on the case to cut power after shutdown.) If you have a different case with a built in power button, you can find info on setting it up here: https://wiki.batocera.org/add_powerdevices_rpi_only

 

This is by no means meant to be the ultimate does-it-all build. This is intended to be a stable base for those looking for it, that you can add to or subtract from to your heart’s content. That being said, it’s got a pretty comprehensive list of console games as well as MAME, NEO GEO, DAPHNE, and ScummVM! I also left about 20GB unused so if you want to expand the Dreamcast collection, or add OpenBOR or NAOMI you have some room for that.

This was built on a Microcenter 256GB micro SD. It may require using GParted in Linux to trim if it doesn’t fit on your card. This can be done in a Virtual Machine or via Linux on USB.

Here’s what you get!

• Atari 2600 – 667 games
• Atari 5200 – 81 games (1080p)
• Atari 7800 – 58 games (1080p)
• Daphne – 14 games (1080p)
• Famicom Disk System – 208 games (1080p)
• Gameboy – 861 games (1080p)
• Gameboy Advance – 1068 games (1080p
• )Gameboy Color – 535 games (1080p)
• MAME – 2126 games (1080p)
• NEO-GEO – 141 games (1080p)
• Nintendo 64 – 477 games (480p)
• NES – 1272 games (1080p)
• PC Engine – 414 games (1080p)
• PC Enigine CD – 33 games (1080p)
• PORTS – 3 games (1080p)
• ScummVM – 19 games (1080p)
• Sega 32x – 34 games (1080p)
• Sega CD – 67 games (1080p)
• Sega Dreamcast – 35 games (720p)
• Sega Game Gear – 362 games (1080p)
• Sega Master System – 334 games (1080p)
• Sega Megadrive/Genesis – 940 games (1080p)
• Sega SG-1000 – 75 games (1080p)
• Playstation – 151 games (1080p)
• SNES – 787 games (1080p)
• WonderSwan – 110 games (1080p)
• WonderSwan Color – 91 games (1080p)

TOTAL : 10,927 GAMES!!!

-BoredGameDad

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)

Available on TORRENT or NZB (Usenet) – Highly advise using USENET to download this, it’ll come SCREAMING down your line if you use one of our approved UseNet suppliers – see this page for more information. Note if your usenet (nzb) client is claiming there is a password then you need to use a different client – we DO NOT share password protected archives unless otherwise informed.

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