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      • Game Consoles
        • 3DO
        • Actionmax
        • Adventure Vision
        • Amstrad GX4000
        • APF MP-1000
        • Arcadia 2001
        • Atari (consoles)
          • Atari 2600
          • Atari 5200
          • Atari 7800
          • Atari XEGS
          • Jaguar
          • Jaguar CD
        • Bally Astrocade
        • Casio Loopy
        • Channel F
        • ColecoVision
        • Commodore (game consoles)
          • Amiga CDTV
          • Amiga CD32
        • Intellivision
        • Lowres NX
        • Microsoft (consoles)
          • Xbox
          • Xbox 360
        • NEC (consoles)
          • PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16
          • PC Engine CD-ROM/TurboGrafx-CD
          • SuperGrafx
          • PC-FX
        • Nintendo (game consoles)
          • Nintendo Entertainment System - Family Computer
          • Family Computer Disk System
          • NES 3D
          • Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Super Famicom
          • Satellaview
          • SuFami Turbo
          • Super NES MSU-1
          • Super Game Boy
          • Nintendo 64
          • Nintendo 64 Disk Drive
          • GameCube
          • Wii
          • WiiU
          • Switch
        • Philips CD-i
        • Odyssey²
        • Othello Multivision
        • PV-1000
        • Sega (game consoles)
          • SG-1000
          • Master System - Mark III
          • Megadrive - Genesis
          • Megadrive - Genesis (MSU)
          • Mega-CD - Sega-CD
          • Sega 32X
          • Saturn
          • Dreamcast
        • SNK (game consoles)
          • Neo Geo
          • Neo Geo CD
        • Sony (game consoles)
          • PlayStation
          • PlayStation 2
          • Playstation 3
          • Playstation 4
        • Super Cassette Vision
        • Super A'Can
        • Uzebox
        • VC4000
        • Vectrex
        • Vircon32
        • VTech
          • CreatiVision
          • V.Smile
      • Portable Game Consoles
        • Arduboy
        • Atari (portable game consoles)
          • Lynx
        • Gamate
        • Game.com
        • Game Pocket Computer
        • Game Master
        • Game & Watch
        • GP 32
        • LCD Games
        • Mega Duck
        • Nintendo (portable game consoles)
          • Game Boy
          • Game Boy MSU
          • Game Boy 2 players
          • Virtual Boy
          • Game Boy Color
          • Game Boy Color 2 players
          • Game Boy Advance
          • Game Boy Advance 2 players
          • Nintendo DS
          • Pokémon Mini
          • Nintendo 3DS
        • Nokia
          • N-Gage & Symbian
        • Sega (portable game consoles)
          • Game Gear
        • SNK (portable game consoles)
          • Neo Geo Pocket
          • Neo Geo Pocket Color
        • Sony (portable game consoles)
          • PlayStation Portable
          • PlayStation Vita
        • Supervision
        • Wonderswan
          • WonderSwan
          • WonderSwan Color
      • Home Computer
        • Acorn Computers
          • Archimedes
          • ATOM
          • BBC Micro
          • Electron
        • Amstrad CPC
        • Apple
          • Apple II
          • Apple IIGS
        • Atari (computers)
          • Atari 800
          • Atari ST
        • Camputers Lynx
        • Coleco Adam
        • Pegasus
        • Commodore (computers)
          • Commodore PET
          • Commodore VIC-20
          • Commodore 64
          • Commodore Plus/4
          • Commodore 128
          • Amiga 500
          • Amiga 1200
          • Amiga 4000
        • Dragon 32/64
        • Fujitsu
          • FM-7
          • FM-TOWNS
        • Mattel
          • Aquarius
        • Microsoft (computers)
          • MSX
          • MSX2
          • MSX2+
          • MSX turbo R
        • NEC (computers)
          • NEC PC-8800
          • NEC PC-9800
        • Oric Atmos
        • Philips
          • P2000t
          • VG5000µ
        • Sam Coupé
        • Sharp
          • Sharp X1
          • Sharp X68000
        • Sinclair Research
          • ZX 81
          • ZX Spectrum
        • SpectraVideo (SV-318)
        • Thomson - MO/TO
        • TI-99/4A
        • Tomy Tutor
        • TRS-80 Color Computer
      • Arcade
        • Atomiswave
        • Capcom Play Systems
          • CPS I
          • CPS II
          • CPS III
        • Cave CV1000
        • Final Burn Neo
        • Gaelco
        • HomeBrew MAME
        • Hyper Neo Geo 64
        • LaserDisc
        • MAME
        • Namco 246/256
        • SEGA
          • Sega Model 2
          • Sega Titan-Video
          • Sega Model 3
          • Sega NAOMI
          • Sega NAOMI 2
          • Sega Hikaru
          • Triforce
          • Sega Chihiro
        • TeknoParrot
        • Zinc
      • Game Engines
        • EasyRPG
        • GemRB
        • IKEMEN
        • Löve
        • Lutro
        • MUGEN
        • Open Beats Of Rage
        • Singe
        • Solarus
      • Pinball
        • Future Pinball
        • Pinball FX
        • Pinball FX2
        • Pinball FX3
        • Pinball M
        • Visual Pinball
        • Zaccaria Pinball
      • Others
        • Cannonball
        • Cave Story
        • CDogs
        • Commander Genius
        • DevilutionX
        • Dinothawr
        • Doom III
        • DOS
        • Duke Nukem 3D
        • Flash
        • GzDoom
        • Java ME
        • Karaoke
        • OpenGOAL
        • OpenJazz
        • Perfect Dark
        • Pico-8
        • Ports
        • PrBoom
        • Quake
        • Quake 2
        • Raze
        • REminiscence
        • Ship Of Harkinian
        • Starship
        • Sonic 3 AIR
        • Sonic Mania
        • Sonic Retro
        • Super Mario War
        • ScummVM
        • The Force Engine
        • Theme Hospital
        • TIC-80
        • Tomb Raider
        • TV Games
        • WASM-4
        • Windows
        • Wolfenstein 3D
  • Controllers
    • Supported Controllers
      • 🎮Gamepads
        • Special controllers
      • 🕹️Arcade Sticks
      • 🔫Lightguns
        • WiimoteGun
      • 🛞Wheels
      • ⌨️Keyboard
    • Controllers Configuration
    • Gun controls
    • Emulator specific controls mapping
      • Dolphin controller mapping
      • MAME64 controller mapping
      • Model2 controller mapping
      • RetroArch controller mapping
    • Pad2Key
  • Advanced Features
    • Decorations (bezels)
    • Updates & Content Download
    • Kiosk and Kid mode
    • Save States
    • Retroachievements
    • Netplay
    • AI Translation Service
    • Batgui
    • retrobat.ini
    • Latency and blur reduction
    • Softpatching
  • TUTORIALS
    • Know issues & fixes
    • Symbolic links
    • Adding RetroArch Shader Sets to Retrobat
    • Customize Mega-Bezels
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  • Quick Search
  • Navigation bar
  • Quick Access
  • Grouped systems
  • Game View

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  1. NAVIGATION

System View and Game View

Retrobat navigation basics

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Last updated 9 months ago

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All screenshots in this section are done with the default Retrobat theme ES-THEME-CARBON.

System View

The first screen displayed when launching Retrobat is the System View, from here you can navigate through systems and enter the Game View.

System View with ES-THEME-CARBON

Only the systems for which ROMs have been placed in the roms folder will appear.

From the System View, different screens can be accessed.

Quick Search

Navigation bar

This menu allows quick access to a system or a collection, it is by default sorted by Manufacturer.

Quick Access

Quick access menu is displayed by pressing SELECT.

From this menu you have access to features such as USER MANUAL, SCREENSAVER, skipping songs and QUIT options.

Grouped systems

By default, some systems will not appear individually but in a group.

List of grouped systems
AMIGA
* AMIGA 4000
* AMIGA 1200
* AMIGA 500

GAME & WATCH
* LCD Games

MESS
* Adventure Vision
* TV Games
* Mega Duck
* PV-1000
* CreatiVision
* Game.com
* Game Pocket Computer
* Super Cassette Vision
* FM-7
* APF M-1000
* BBC Micro
* Arcadia 2001
* Game Master
* Astrocade
* Tutor
* TRS-80 Color Computer
* Camputers Lynx
* Super A'Can
* Gamate

MSX
* MSX
* MSX2
* MSX2+

PORTS
* Ports
* Cave Story
* Easy-RPG
* PrBoom
* Quake

Navigate to GROUPED SYSTEMS:

Untick systems that you want to ungroup:

Now these systems appear individually in the System View.

Game View

The Game View is where you browse your games and launch them.

Navigate your games using the Directional PAD.

Press START

Each Theme might have different Gamelist View Styles, just choose the one you like most.

Some systems are grouped, read the section for more information.

The quick search menu is displayed by pressing . It allows you to search for games.

The Quick Search allows you to easily find your games

The navigation bar is displayed by pressing .

You can ungroup systems in > GAME COLLECTION SETTINGS

To enter Game View, select a System or a Collection in the System View by using left and right buttons, and press .

The Gamelist view is where you browse the games for a specific system.

Press to run the game (long-press to display ).

Press to navigate back to the System View.

The Gamelist can be displayed in multiple ways, this can be configured from the (press SELECT):

The value AUTOMATIC refers to the view style defined in the > USER INTERFACE SETTINGS > THEME CONFIGURATION.

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