batocera , retropie, recalbox which's the best ?

macress

hi i just installed batocera , i saw is based on recalbox it looks the same , what's the difference ?
in my opinion retropie has many settings and maybe is the best front end what u think and what u advice ?

thanks

joinski

macress

It's hard to tell, what is the best, as every OS has it's own pros and cons.
It depends on your own claims and expectations.

In short, because i do not have time (and desire) right now, to explain/list in detail the differences:

Batocera/Recalbox vs. RetroPie
- Batocera/Recalbox are more user friendly, because many things are pre-configured and work right out-of-the-box
- RetroPie has more freedom in terms of configuration and adding other things (but this also makes it complicated and time-consuming for people who are not so much into it or do not want to take time to get into it)
- ...

Batocera vs. Recalbox
- everyone has to decide for themselves, which she/he prefers
- Batocera x86_64 has 3DS and PS2, which Recalbox does not (yet) have (and Sega Saturn also? I do not know, if Recalbox has Sega Saturn emulator already integrated)
- Recalbox has netplay feature
- ....
- ... (there are more differences, but as said in the beginning, i do not have time/desire at the moment to list all. best is to test both systems for yourself and see what you prefer. Maybe i'll list a few more differences later, when i have more time and the desire to do it).

If you want more details regarding the differences between Recalbox and Batocera, then you can have a look at all the changelogs from the different versions:
http://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/#news (you should also see older news with beginning in 2016)
https://www.recalbox.com/blog/ (i do not know, if there are other sites with more infos of changelogs from all different Recalbox versions, so you have to look in the recalbox homepage and forum or just use google).

In short:
If you want user-friendliness and do not need many or special configurations, then go with Batocera/Recalbox
If you want/need many and special configurations and you don't mind spending time for doing this configurations, then go with RetroPie

macress

thanks so much for the answer ! i use raspberry as console on tv for retro so i was asking for raspberry what was the best solution , i tried all 3 of them (other people say that lakka is very good too but i never tried it ) , it looks on batocera and recalbox some emulation is faster but maybe is my sensation , i always used retropie before but i have to say that batocera looks lighter and fast on recalbox 6 tjhe scraper doesnt work so i was trying an iso batocera set already with roms but many dont work so is better i build one alone with batocera to test 100% , i dont see difference from recalbox and batocera now i try to look !

BZZ

macress there are slight differences between Recalbox and Batocera. I switched from Recalbox to Batocera on my old laptop cause I wanted to play some Amiga that Recalbox didnt have. Both have their pros and cons, but at this point I stick with Batocera on x64 at least. For My Raspberry I still have RetroPi, but to be fair I did not fire it up in ages! Due to this I cannot really tell if it is still as good as it used to be ;-)

Try Batocera and let people know what you think ;-) Community here is definitely very open 😉

Greg

Salut
batocera sans esitation pour moi

lbrpdx

You are asking this question on the Batocera forum, obviously you're likely to get responses of Batocera users... who usually love it 🙂
Batocera offers most probably the best breadth and depth of systems emulated, that keeps expanding (up to PS2 and 3DS on x86_64!) . It is easy to customize and supports a huge catalog of Retropie themes. It also provides bezels for most emulators out of the box, http://www.retroachievements.org integration from the main menu. Besides, Batocera is available on more hardware platforms that the other distributions. And the best feature of all: its great community, dispatched all over the world! 🕹

joinski

i agree to lbrpdx
and i want to add:
the batocera community is smaller but more open and friendly and mostly english speaking, so that people from different countries can better communicate and understand each other. that helps a lot to find bugs and to help each other resolving problems and issues.
in the recalbox community (forum and discord chat) there are a lot more people (at least it seems like that), but there are many posts in french only and the majority of the devs also speak french almost all the time. sometimes i'm tired of always having to use google translator to understand something (and even with translator some things are hard to understand, because the google translator is not perfect).

and what i also like more about batocera since from the beginning:
there are more and more frequently updates and progressing/development (bugfixes and new features) is faster (about every two month, there is a new version).
and you can always update/downgrade to whatever version (newer or older ones) and always have access to all older versions at any time (which is not the case with recalbox, where you have to reinstall everything from scratch, when there is a jump to another version, from 4.1 to 6.0 for example and they delete older versions, so that you can not go back to them, if you have problems with a newer version).
Ok, the only exception with Batocera was the jump from 5.19 to 5.20 (or was it 5.20 to 5.21?) Where the partition size had to be changed because due to the more and more features the original partition size was no longer sufficient, so that you had to manually update.

Dragu

joinski
And before all, point 12 is not existing in the Recalbox World. I was mostly stopping with Recalbox when they go PC.
A lot of problems, keyboard not working anymore and so 18.07.13 was my last version, that I always use on the Freeplay CM3 Gameboy. What allows me to run games like Quake under dosbox and most older games with good speed. No reason to upgrade a handheld with 320x240 screen resolution to dreamcast or Wii. At this moment the wheel themes were already present. On x86, Batocera was running from the beginning much better as the Recalbox
version from this time and with much less errors.