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!
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.