Development

You'd like to help with the development of Batocera? Or maybe you're just curious as to how Batocera works under the hood.

For an introduction to developing code for Batocera:

• Batocera's file partitions
• Coding rules
• Make a PR to batocera.linux

A friendly GUI for managing Git commits, useful for newcomers who want to contribute:

• Github Desktop

For more advanced techniques like testing your changes in a live build instead of compiling from scratch every time:

• Overlays (modify the live system)
• Notable files/folders

How to compile Batocera!

• Compile batocera-linux
• Compiling individual packages

Package management (relatively new, report any bugs to the team)

• Redirect upgrades from any board to my own builds
• Create your own pacman package

Others

• Write themes for batocera-emulationstation
• Help with translation