This section gathers the procedures. Where basic usage presents the features and advanced usage explains the mechanisms, here you will find courses of action: a precise goal, numbered steps, a verifiable result.
¶ Installing and administering
- 🎛️ System — reaching your Recalbox (SSH, WinSCP, network share), installing it in special cases, editing the boot configuration and backing up its content.
- 🌐 Network — finding your IP address, setting up Wi-Fi, hosting your roms on a NAS and troubleshooting network share access.
- 🧰 Utilities — writing an image to an SD card, managing and converting your roms.
¶ Connecting and configuring hardware
- 🎮 Controllers — configuring and pairing controllers, wiring an arcade panel, a USB encoder or GPIO buttons.
- 📺 Video — resolutions and display modes, cathode-ray screens, small screens.
- 🔊 Audio — choosing your sound output, connecting a Bluetooth headset, fixing crackling sound.
- 🕹 Arcade — building a bartop, wiring a JAMMA or JVS cabinet, playing on a real CRT.
¶ Feeding and customising your library
- 🎲 Games — understanding roms and romsets, preparing them, and the per-system guides.
- 🛠️ Frontend customization — installing themes, adding your own music, tuning the image scaling.
- 🎨 Themes — the reference documentation for building an EmulationStation theme.
- 🎬 Kodi — configuring the add-ons of the built-in media centre.
- 🩺 Advanced troubleshooting — debug mode, support archive and diagnostic commands, to give the team what it needs to help you.
- 📌 Others — the unclassifiable ones: power button, keyboard and mouse, slang shaders, T2-chip Macs.
A common problem often has an immediate answer: start with the Troubleshooting page and the FAQ.
These pages are written by the team and by the community. A procedure you needed was missing, a step has changed, a tutorial deserves to exist? Suggest it on the Recalbox Discord — see contributing to Recalbox.