Adding a game

Building your library

Adding games is a straight-forward process.

Adding a ROM

Game ROMs need to be placed in the \roms\<system>\ folder, they will be detected and added to the Game Llibrary when starting Retrobat or when updating the Game List.

Adding a snes rom

The System will be visible upon restart or upon refreshing the gamelist.

System View - Super Nintendo system appeared

The game will be visible in the Game View.

Game View

Scraping Game Information

The next step is to scrape game information, your game library will look better with media and information.

Scraping can be done globally, per system or per game.

Global Scraping

Press START (ENTER on keyboard) to display the MAIN MENU and choose SCRAPER.

SCRAPER

Configure SCRAPER SETTINGS and select SCRAPE NOW.

Choose settings and scrape

The following message appears on the top right of the screen, the scraping is in progress.

Scraping in progress

Once the scraping finalized, refresh the gamelist.

Press START (ENTER on keyboard) to display the Main menu and select GAME SETTINGS.

Choose UPDATE GAMELIST.

Game information is now available in the Game View

Per game scraping

Select SCRAPE.

CONGRATULATIONS : you have added your first games to Retrobat !

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