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Pygame - RetroBIOS

Type launcher
Classification Launchers
Source https://github.com/pygame/pygame
Version 2.6.1
Profiled 2026-10-04
Cores pygame, python-pygame2
Checked by existence
Technical notes

Pygame is not an emulator or game engine with its own BIOS. It is the SDL2 bindings for Python, used by batocera as a launcher that runs user-supplied Python scripts (file.py) as the "ROM". Batocera's package batocera/emulators/python-pygame2 pins the standard pygame/pygame 2.6.1 wheel; nothing about pygame itself ships game data.

The content executed by this launcher is the user's own Python file, which plays the role of the cartridge. No file in the pack belongs here.

No BIOS or firmware files required. Generated on 2026-10-10T11:26:02Z