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RetroBat

RetroBat is a software distro for Windows dedicated for emulation and retrogaming


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RetroBat is designed to automatically configure EmulationStation’s frontend interface with RetroArch and other stand alone emulators.

With it you will be able to quickly run games from many compatible ROM collections. This saves hours of configuration and installation time, leaving you free to play your favourite retro games.

RetroBat automatically downloads and installs all the relevant software needed to have the best retro gaming experience on your Windows PC.

RetroBat can also run in Portable Mode. This means you can play games from an external hard drive or from any removable storage device, as long as the computer meets the minimum requirements.

Our project believe in the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to make a positive environment for everyone. Before using RetroBat or contributing you must read our standards and agree with it.

💻 System Requirements

OS supported: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1
Processor: Intel i3 5th gen CPU or AMD equivalent is a required minimum. Support of SSE2, SSE4, AVX instructions is highly recommended.
Graphics: Modern graphics card that supports Direct3D 11.1 / OpenGL 4.4 / Vulkan
Dependencies: Since RetroBat 6, required dependencies can be installed with the RetroBat's Setup program, their separate installation is not needed anymore.
Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Packages (32 bit)
Visual C++ 2015, 2017 and 2019 Redistributable Packages (32 bit)
Visual C++ 2015, 2017 and 2019 Redistributable Packages (64 bit)
DirectX
Controllers: Xinput controllers hightly recommended. Test your controller HERE

🦇 RetroBat Team

  • Adrien Chalard "Kayl" - co-founder, developer
  • Lorenzolamas - co-founder, community, graphics
  • Fabrice Caruso - lead developer, theme creation
  • GetUpOr - community, support
  • RetroBoy - community, support
  • Tartifless - developer, documentation

💟 Special Thanks

  • Hel Mic - for his wonderful themes.
  • Batocera - for their wonderful retrogaming dedicated Operating System.
  • Gitbook - for supporting our project.

⚖ Licence

RetroBat (c) Adrien Chalard and the RetroBat Team.

RetroBat is a free and open source project. It should not be used for commercial purposes. It is done by a team of enthusiasts in their free time mainly for fun.

All the code written by the RetroBat Team, unless covered by a licence from an upstream project, is given under the LGPL v3 licence.

It is not allowed to sell RetroBat on a pre-installed machine or on any storage devices. RetroBat includes softwares which cannot be associated with any commercial activities.

Shipping RetroBat with additional proprietary and copyrighted content is illegal, strictly forbidden and strongly discouraged by the RetroBat Team.

Otherwise, you can start a new project off RetroBat sources if you follow the same conditions.

Finally, the license which concerns the entire RetroBat project as a work, in particular the written or graphic content broadcast on its various media, is conditioned by the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

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© Credits

  • EmulationStation (C) 2014 Alec Lofquist, contributions from community (MIT Licence).
  • Carbon Theme (c) Fabrice Caruso (CC BY-NC-SA Licence). Originally based on the work of Eric Hettervik (Original Carbon Theme) and Nils Bonenberger (Simple Theme).
  • WiimoteGun (c) Fabrice Caruso (GPL3 Licence).
  • RetroArch by Libretro Team (GPL3 Licence).

💬 Community & Support

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  1. retrobat-setup retrobat-setup Public

    Configure and build the RetroBat Setup

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  2. emulatorlauncher emulatorlauncher Public

    Emulators and application launcher used with RetroBat/EmulationStation to provide integrated features

    C# 47 19

  3. emulationstation emulationstation Public

    Forked from batocera-linux/batocera-emulationstation

    Windows Build of batocera-emulationstation for Retrobat

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  4. retrobat-wiki retrobat-wiki Public

    RetroBat Wiki Github repository

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  • emulatorlauncher Public

    Emulators and application launcher used with RetroBat/EmulationStation to provide integrated features

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    C# 47 19 12 0 Updated Dec 28, 2024
  • emulationstation Public Forked from batocera-linux/batocera-emulationstation

    Windows Build of batocera-emulationstation for Retrobat

    RetroBat-Official/emulationstation’s past year of commit activity
    C++ 13 254 0 0 Updated Dec 27, 2024
  • retrobat-setup Public

    Configure and build the RetroBat Setup

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    Batchfile 150 19 12 1 Updated Dec 25, 2024
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    Lua 11 3 0 0 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • retrobat-wiki Public

    RetroBat Wiki Github repository

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  • .github Public

    RetroBat is the best way to enjoy retrogaming emulation on Windows !

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  • AppleWin Public Forked from AppleWin/AppleWin

    Apple II emulator for Windows

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    C 3 GPL-2.0 172 0 0 Updated Mar 25, 2024

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