Games load very slowly or not at all in Batocera 32 on a RPi 3 A+

norambna

Hi there! I own two Raspberries Pi 1B+ and a Raspberry Pi 4 B. I’ve tried various versions of Batocera without issues. Now I’m doing a fresh install of Batocera 32 on a new Raspberry Pi 3 A+. The image I’m using is batocera-rpi3-32-20210926 and it is running from a 128GB Sandisk Ultra SD card. The installation and basic setup went fine and my generic USB SNES gamepad (which I use on Batocera 32 on my RPis 1B+) works as intended. But when I try to load a game it takes ages (maybe 5 minutes) or they won’t load at all. These are games that run without issues on my RPis 1B+.

I tried to follow the answer in this thread, but I don’t see a “System Settings > Developer >Use OMX player (HW accelerated)” option on Batocera 32.

Other than that, I tried the latest Raspberry Pi OS (Bullseye) on this Raspberry Pi 3 A+ and it was fine.

Any hints? Thanks in advance!

Edit: my current workaround is a fresh install of Batocera 31 instead of 32. I’d still want to try Batocera 32, mainly for “libretro/Duckstation for PlayStation 1”.

neo2216

norambna Hello ! I’m having the same problem ! I HAVE A PI 3 A+ and I can’t get it to work well, I download the image for this board from the official page “batocera-rpi1-33-20220203.img.gz” but when I install it and open it, it’s VERY SLOW! IT LOCKS ! LAGE! two hours to open a game ! and I read that there are better images for this board but I CAN’T FIND THEM anywhere! DO YOU HAVE ANY BATOCERA IMAGE for this board (pi3a+) that works well with the interface, the games, and I don’t know what happens with the one I download from the official page? THANK YOU !

Atari

mainly for “libretro/Duckstation for PlayStation 1”.

You don’t, it runs worse than pcsx Rearmed on RPi3 Honestly v31 is like the “perfect” version of Batocera to run on RPi3 at the moment, maybe v33 will be better.

But if you’re dead set, what I would recommend is disconnecting your controller and try launching the game again. There have been reports of some controllers causing the emulator’s configgen to freak out and go into a repeating loop or something.

neo2216

Atari Hello ! I’m having the same problem ! I HAVE A PI 3A and I can’t get it to work well, I download the image for this board from the official page “batocera-rpi1-33-20220203.img.gz” but when I install it and open it, it’s VERY SLOW! IT LOCKS ! LAGE! two hours to open a game ! and I read that there are better images for this board but I CAN’T FIND THEM anywhere! DO YOU HAVE ANY BATOCERA IMAGE for this board (pi3a+) that works well with the interface, the games, and I don’t know what happens with the one I download from the official page? THANK YOU !

norambna

No luck disconnecting the controller, but if Duckstation is not quite ready yet, then I’m happy that I can run Batocera 31!

Thanks.