A few weeks ago I reached out to Lbrpdx, who is the developer of Batocera, asking him if he’s okay with the idea of an interview.

Batocera itself is a free, plug-and-play operating system that turns a PC, handheld, or single-board computer into a retro gaming console with built-in emulators. I’ve used it on my PC’s, and I’ve used it on my Steam Deck - everything from the ROMs to bios, emulators and files all stored on a SD card without any performance issues. It’s pure magic to me.

Anyway, Lbrpdx said he’s very much okay with chatting to me, so I got the chance to ask him a bunch of questions!

If you’re interested in reading what he and I talked about (how Batocera began, how it is developing, the community and the future of things!), then you can follow this link to read all about it

    • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      That’s very kind of you!

      I haven’t been sharing so much of these articles or interviews I’ve been doing here lately, mostly I think because it makes me look like I’m inundating the place.

      But that’s so kind of you to say, glad you enjoyed it!

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    5 days ago

    Very cool. I’ve got an old Dell mini PC running batocera and I very much like it. My only gripe is that scraping the art for a large library takes an obscene amount of time.