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Turn An Old Cheap PC Into An Emulation PowerHouse! Batocera Full Guide

In this video, I show you how to turn an old office PC or Laptop into an emulation powerhouse using Batocera! This can for very cheap and easily using an old office PC from Lenovo, Dell or HP but I recommend using at least a 3rd gen intel i5 or better.
This video covers it all from installing the Batocera to Adding Games, Setting up controllers, Changing themes, confining a controller for the DOlphin emulator, and More. So if you are interested in playing your favorite retro games like PS2, Dreamcast, Gamecube, SNES, Sega Saturn, Neogeo, Sega mega drive, and many many more then this tutorial is for you!

Download Batocera Here: https://batocera.org/
Download Etcher here: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Learn More and Get Help here: https://wiki.batocera.org/

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00:00-Intro
00:00-Overview
01:40-Items Needed
03:47-Batocera Installation
06:45-Transfer Games
07:54-PC Setup
08:38-Bios Setup
09:55-First Boot
10:25-Controller Set-Up
11:05-Adding Games
14:32-Adding Box Art / Scraping Art Work
16:35-Adding & Changing Batocera Theme
18:27-Configure Dolphin Emulator Controller
21:07-CHanging Default Emulators / Batocer Redream

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The GamePad Gamer is also know as Jonathan Russell. A gamer from the arcade and home console era who loves playing all games. Come on a journey of discovery through his YouTube channel!

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