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Batocera 40 for PS4 | Installation & Setup tutorial

noob404

Here is the latest Batocera 40 for PS4!

Batocera 40 for PS4 Download

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Batocera for PS4: Installation & Setup

Manual method (requires Linux)

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Easier method with special initram

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Batocera for PS4: Troubleshooting

Find fixes for common issues here. For anything else, or to report new issues, post in this thread.

Batocera Vulkan Fix

A new package has been released with update instructions on 31st July, 2024 for fixing Vulkan on Batocera 40 for PS4.

triki1

Hello, no particular problems, it works well, after configuration. Well done. One service deserves another. I share with you my up-to-date nand wii, with my 32G sd card.
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noob404

triki1 Kindly do not use any PS4Linux.com related platform to share copyrighted content including games, ROMs, NAND backups, or anything piracy-related.
Happy gaming!

triki1

you have to put everything in games/saves/dolphin-emu/wii (key,nad, sd raw)

RVL-WiiSystemmenu-514.wad in games/batocera/roms/wii

read the txt file please

didix16

Hi, I'm not sure if this goes here but here we go:

I've just installed Batocera 40 for PS4 but bluetooth seems not work. The linux kernel itself seems to recognize the hardware, however the bluetooth service (if it is any since batocera don't use systemd) seems to be missing/not working?

I've a PS4 11.00 firmware, with southbrigde Aeolia A2.
I've downloaded the latest linux kernel for Aeolia => https://ps4linux.com/s/d8a1w
Also I've downloaded the initramfs.cpio.gz for batocera => https://ps4linux.com/s/57lgt
And of course, I've downloaded the batocera distro files => https://ps4linux.com/s/msuxx

All the installation went ok. Its just the bluetooth... The DualSense 4 controller works fine via USB but not via bluetooth. Any device isn't recognizing PS4 bluetooth.

This is what I get after executing bluetoothctl command:

[root@BATOCERA /userdata/system]# bluetoothctl Waiting to connect to bluetoothd...

Stuck there into the infinity...

Then there is another command I've tried, batocera-bluetooth-agent:

`[root@BATOCERA /userdata/system]# batocera-bluetooth-agent
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 177, in activate_name_owner
return self.get_name_owner(bus_name)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 361, in get_name_owner
return self.call_blocking(BUS_DAEMON_NAME, BUS_DAEMON_PATH,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 652, in call_blocking
reply_message = self.send_message_with_reply_and_block(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.bluez': no such name

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/batocera-bluetooth-agent", line 491, in <module>
obj = bus.get_object("org.bluez", "/org/bluez")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object
return self.ProxyObjectClass(self, bus_name, object_path,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 250, in init
self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 182, in activate_name_owner
self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 277, in start_service_by_name
return (True, self.call_blocking(BUS_DAEMON_NAME, BUS_DAEMON_PATH,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 652, in call_blocking
reply_message = self.send_message_with_reply_and_block(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files`

Also I've tried dmesg, filtering all bluetooth messages:

[root@BATOCERA /userdata/system]# dmesg | grep luetooth [ 0.208982] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 [ 0.209004] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 0.209012] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 0.209018] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 0.209025] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 0.350274] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3 [ 0.350281] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered [ 0.350286] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol BCSP registered [ 0.354367] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 0.354376] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 0.354380] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 0.354385] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 0.354390] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 0.354396] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 0.354400] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2 [ 0.354406] Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized [ 0.431294] Bluetooth: vendor=0x2df, device=0x912a, class=255, fn=2

So it seems that there are no bluetooth errors when kernel loads but the bluetooth itself does not work.

Is there any way to check the bluetooth service?

Some help is aprecitated, I don't know what to do.

thanks

noob404

didix16 Thanks for these logs. I currently don't have a Bluetooth controller to test. Trying to get my hands on one. Then, maybe, I will look into this issue.

ColdBreeZ

didix16

I also report the same issue in my PS4 Fat Belize
Everything is working great, performance is awesome. Only caviat for now is the fact that I do not have neither WiFi neither Bluetooth. I tried several different kernel images but none works, even older ones.

I have a Sinden Lightgun and I see that Batocera recognizes it, but since I don't have yet an USB Hub I couldn't test it properly to see if it works or not, but at least it is recognized as soon as I connect it

didix16

Thanks for you fast reply noob404 . Okay, no problem. I'll wait till you get something. I wish you luck.

taladro

Hi, I have a 9.0 PS Pro (Belize A2) with golden hen via esp32.
I had no luck in booting my SSD with the files you suggested. Tried different payloads and different triggers (from Kameleon that I have on my esp to jb.ps4linux always using the 1vram pro payload. It gives me a black screen but the leds light in the color of the bzImage so I suspect that perhaps the problem is the monitor/tv thing that I´ve read here, as I only have a monitor where I use the PS4.
Have tried ps4-linux-5.15.15-aeolia-belize_Full-LTO-LED-rose-fushia 5.15.15_codedwrench_BELIZE_overclock_2.1ghz_leds_bleu_lavande_saya 5.15.15_codedwrench_BELIZE_non_overclock_leds_bleu_lavande_saya_config_2.4 5.15.15_codedwrench_AEOLIA_belize_non_overclock_1594mhz_led_violette_saya all with no luck. Anyway, thanks for your time and effort.

taladro

taladro I answer myself in case someone else has the same problem. Finally what fixed the blackscreen problem was including on the root of the USB disk a file named bootargs.txt that just contains: "drm.edid_firmware=edid/1920x1080.bin" (thanks to https://github.com/whitehax0r/ArchLinux-PS4?tab=readme-ov-file)
, then before booting into batocera for the first time adjust the resolution on the ps4 pro to 1080p and disable HDR, then used the payload 5.15.15 (BETA - Vulkan support - HDD Support - by codedwrench) from https://github.com/Hakkuraifu/PS4Linux-Documentation?tab=readme-ov-file and that is how I got to boot Linux for the first time in my ps4pro 9.0

taladro

unfortunately, after booting nothing happened and I could not get to the step of running Batocera. After reboot everything was like nothing happened and if I try to install it again now it doesn´t start in console mode.

ColdBreeZ

USB Hub arrived and I tested the Sinden Lightgun
In case someone is wondering, Batocera recognizes the Gun but it does not work. After reading the logs I see the error: "Invalid strSerialPortWrite in config", i.e., not a single input from the gun is working

I guess it's Kernel related so unless someone in the scene is curious about it this should never work in the PS4

santaclaus00037

ColdBreeZ Run 'udevadm info /sys/bus/sdio/devices/* | grep "MediaTek"' and if there is any output at all go here to fix if you know how to build a bzImage

noob404

ColdBreeZ Add drivers to kernel using this tutorial, if they are available.

tekasius

how long should it be taking to download the 1GB VRAM PSXITA payload ... I cannot tell if anything is ever happening or not. thanks

xfortknoxX

@noob404
I didn't find a compatible bzImage / initram combination for my config, yet:
PS4 Pro, 7016B, Belize B0, FW 5.05

I'm stuck at this screen. Haven't even entered the install process via batocera initram...

It's there a way to receive a compatible image combination for FW 5.05? Boot process doesn't work for me.

Thank you

noob404

xfortknoxX Have you tried the kernels in the Downloads section.

xfortknoxX

noob404 Thank you for your answer. Recently I managed to get batocera 40 running 🙂. It booted, and obviously executed the initramfs, after I installed batocera 40 on my USB-Stick manually via a linux machine (Before I was always trying the easy install method with progressbar). It's very strange, cause I didn't exchange bzImage or initramfs. Still using the same initramfs (special one for batocera in Downloads section).

But I have another issue.
The performance seems to be very poor. EspeciallyAll Gamecube games on dolphin have stuttering, run slow and have low fps and so on.

I guess it has to do with much too old and poorly optimised Linux payloads for this FW and the Pro console (I use 2GB or 3GB VRAM).
Problem is, I want to stay on FW 5.05. But I can't find optimised payloads for this FW (I need performance optimised ones, since its a Pro console). Instead for FW 9.00 and above you easily find those here and in the Downloads Section:
[https://ps4linux.com/ps4-pro-linux-payloads-double-fps-gaming-performance/]

Another big issue probably everyone has since 2022:
https://ps4linux.com/forums/d/110-batocera-scrapper-not-working
https://ps4linux.com/forums/d/35-batocera-for-ps4-v1-installation-tutorial/31
So you cannot scrape artwork for any game (maybe except games known at ARCADEDB).
But I'm definately connected to the Internet because Content downloader etc. work flawlessly.
It has to do with this batocera build. I found out, it has to do with missing API keys for the different scraper services (Screenscraper, theGameDB etc.) in this build.

I found out, that maybe Lbrpdx (member of the batocera.linux developer community) might share the keys with you, to get this issue solved.

I would appreciate it.

noob404

xfortknoxX How do I get in touch with him? But, please understand that I have been extremely busy with job hunting and such. I won't be able to put time into this anytime soon.

xfortknoxX

noob404 No problem, no hurry. He is available on the official Batocera.linux discord server:
https://discord.com/invite/ndyUKA5
Just send him a private message there. He answered me there, too.
Bye