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ES-DE is a gaming frontend for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.
It allows you to browse and launch games from your library and it comes preconfigured for over 150 different game systems.
It's also highly customizable and has a lot of features such as a built-in scraper, full theming support and screensavers which display images and videos from your game library.
It allows you to browse and launch games from your library and it comes preconfigured for over 150 different game systems.
It's also highly customizable and has a lot of features such as a built-in scraper, full theming support and screensavers which display images and videos from your game library.
ES-DE: How to display games as single entries ("Choose your own adventure")
This video was created in a "choose your own adventure" style to help you walk through the options for displaying games as single entries in ES-DE.
This first video will help you get a base understanding of the options and then choose a path at the end which is most appropriate for your specific use case. Please be sure to make a choice at the end to progress through the adventure =). And if you get lost along the way you can always come back to this video to reset.
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Here is a full list of all videos in this set in case your player does not support endcards:
Options for single disc games
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chd: czcams.com/video/HxBdbeD98mM/video.html
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Options for multi-disc games
overview: czcams.com/video/3Bn3rVf6y_0/video.html
m3u: czcams.com/video/BrIMcP0Q540/video.html
folder: czcams.com/video/lH5Ht4jGnhE/video.html
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
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For additional help:
If you have questions on this video or require support please join our discord here:
discord.gg/EVVX4DqWAP
And for more details on ES-DE please check out our user guide here:
gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md
This first video will help you get a base understanding of the options and then choose a path at the end which is most appropriate for your specific use case. Please be sure to make a choice at the end to progress through the adventure =). And if you get lost along the way you can always come back to this video to reset.
--
Here is a full list of all videos in this set in case your player does not support endcards:
Options for single disc games
overview: czcams.com/video/HVx3nOtEyDA/video.html
chd: czcams.com/video/HxBdbeD98mM/video.html
folder: czcams.com/video/oFDY_z-lZpk/video.html
Options for multi-disc games
overview: czcams.com/video/3Bn3rVf6y_0/video.html
m3u: czcams.com/video/BrIMcP0Q540/video.html
folder: czcams.com/video/lH5Ht4jGnhE/video.html
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
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For additional help:
If you have questions on this video or require support please join our discord here:
discord.gg/EVVX4DqWAP
And for more details on ES-DE please check out our user guide here:
gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md
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ES-DE: Built-in utilities to set up & clean up your game library
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ES-DE has a set of built-in tools that enable you to both set up and clean up your game library and these tools work across all platforms that ES-DE is available on (i.e. Android, Windows, Linux and MacOS). In this video we'll walk through each tool and how they work. Full written details are available in the user guide here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#utili...
ES-DE: Options for sorting your systems
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ES-DE has a simple a set of built-in options for sorting your systems as well as a way for you to define your own custom sort order. In this video we'll walk through all of those options. These options (including defining your own custom sort) work the same way across all platforms that ES-DE is available on. Full written details are available in the user guide here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulations...
ES-DE: How to use the Screensaver
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In this video we walk through ES-DE's built-in screensaver feature. Full written details are available in the user guide here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#screensaver Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:16 Universal Settings 01:05 Video Settings 02:15 Controls 03:09 Slideshow Settings 04:17 Custom Image Setting For additional help: If you have questions on this video or...
ES-DE: How to use Skraper to scrape your games outside of ES-DE
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This video will walk through how to use a program called Skraper to scrape game media & metadata outside of ES-DE . Using an external scraper can be helpful for many use cases such as preparing your games before you get your device or scraping a larger library overnight. So if you are interested in scraping using an external program, hopefully this video will help you learn what that process lo...
ES-DE: How to edit and manage game metadata
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This video will walk through how to edit and manage metadata for a given game. This is helpful to make quick changes like updating the name of a game or adding a sortname. Its also super helpful if a game doesn't yet have metadata & images on screenscraper or thegamesdb - and the steps in the video will show you how to add metadata and artwork for that exact use case. The game referenced in thi...
ES-DE: How to add artwork and metadata to your games
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In this video we walk through how to add artwork and metadata to your games by using ES-DE's built in scraper. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:20 Scraper Menu - Overview 1:55 Scraper Menu - System Selection 2:50 Scraper Menu - Account Settings 3:20 Scraper Menu - Content Settings 5:26 Scraper Menu - Other Settings 7:08 Example Scrape 8:55 How to use "Scrape These Games" 12:15 How to use "Content Setting...
ES-DE: How to set up PSVita with Vita3k
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In this video we walk through how to set up your psvita games folder in ES-DE so that you can launch games directly in Vita3k. The guide shows this set up on Android, however the same steps can also be used on all other devices where ES-DE and Vita3k are supported. Make sure you have installed your games in Vita3k before starting this. This guide will not go through those details. Written detai...
ES-DE: How to download and view game manuals
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How to download game manuals: Set up your scraper settings by opening the main menu and selecting "Scraper" - "Scrape from": set to Screenscraper - Make sure your account credentials are added under "Account Settings" - "Content Settings": make sure "Game Manuals" is checked With these settings if you scrape a game and it has a manual on ScreenScraper, it will be downloaded to your device so it...
ES-DE on Android: How to configure RetroArch to close when exiting a game
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Option 1 (Recommended): "Quit on Close Content" 1) In RA go to Settings / User Interface and then set "Quit on Close Content" to "CLI" 2) In RA go to Settings / Input / Hotkeys and set your "Close Content" Hotkey to the button you prefer With those 2 settings, when you press the close content hotkey you set in step 2, RA will quit correctly and return back to ES-DE if you had started your game ...
What's new in ES-DE v2.0
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These are some of the new features in ES-DE Frontend (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) v2.0 Website: es-de.org Discord: discord.gg/42jqqNcHf9 Themes shown: 00:15 - NSO Menu (Interpreted) by antfortytwo and rog 00:23 - Art Book Next by antfortytwo 00:33 - CarAlt by Weestuarty 00:44 - Immersive (Revisited) by antfortytwo 00:54 - MiSTer Menu by antfortytwo 01:03 - Elegance by Weestuarty 01:20 - M...
What's new in ES-DE v1.2
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These are the new features implemented in ES-DE (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) v1.2 ES-DE is an emulator frontend for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android. It allows you to browse and launch games from your library and it comes preconfigured for over a 100 different game systems. Website: es-de.org Discord: discord.gg/EVVX4DqWAP Music: Smooth and Wonders by Vincenzo (László Vincze) (Yes this i...
What's new in ES-DE v1.1
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These are the new features implemented in ES-DE (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) v1.1 ES-DE is an emulator frontend for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android. It allows you to browse and launch games from your library and it comes preconfigured for over a 100 different game systems. Website: es-de.org Discord: discord.gg/EVVX4DqWAP Music: X Ray Vision by Slynk
How to install ES-DE v1.0 on macOS
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This video shows how to install ES-DE (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) v1.0 on macOS. ES-DE is an emulator frontend for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android. It allows you to browse and launch games from your library and it comes preconfigured for over a 130 different game systems. Website: es-de.org Discord: discord.gg/EVVX4DqWAP And there is a comprehensive user guide available that explains m...
How to install ES-DE v1.0 on Windows
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This video shows how to install ES-DE (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) v1.0 on Windows. Note: As of ES-DE v1.1 you no longer need to manually set the path to RetroArch. ES-DE is an emulator frontend for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android. It allows you to browse and launch games from your library and it comes preconfigured for over a 130 different game systems. Website: es-de.org Discord: disc...
How to install ES-DE v1.0 on Linux (Kubuntu)
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How to install ES-DE v1.0 on Linux (Kubuntu)
Games did not show up in ES even though they are downloaded into vita3k. Your method in the video resolved that issue as they are now visible; however, now I’m getting the flashback problem from ES. How can I resolve this and get the games to load from ES? Thanks for your help!
sorry i have not heard of the flashback problem
hello, im hoping someone might be able to offer some guidance. i am having trouble getting ES-DE to scrape using either source, whether im signed in to screenscraper or not. it stays "working" for upwards of 10 minutes, then it has a network timeout. for the record, it does the same thing when trying to download themes. ive done everything i can think of from moving files, to scraping games individually, and trying it on different networks.
hmm that sounds like you have an overall network issue on the device. if both theme download and scraper are not working
Hi! Does it work on a tv box with Android tv 11? Thanks
we have not found an android tv box that supports 64bit applications. so at this time we dont think it will work on android tv
How to configure retroarch to work with ES-DE Frontend? Black screen when i tried to launch a game
please try the details outlined here gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/FAQ-ANDROID.md#when-i-launch-a-game-using-retroarch-i-just-see-a-black-screen-what-is-wrong
which device did you make this video with?
nm 30 second search on google found this: AYN Odin 2 Pro
its an odin 2 pro
How can I add games on es-ds to my steam library so I dont have to go into es-ds every time I want to play a game I have? I've been trying to figure it out or word it correctly, but so far, nothing. Thanks again
sorry that is not something we handle from es-de
Please add the capability to add showed games to favorite list and/or delete them (without press Y, then select, then edit meta, etc...) It would be a really quick way for removing unwanted games (or adding to favorite those you want to try)
do you mean directly as part of screensaver controls?
@@ES-DE_Frontend yes, like we can do for launching them. It would be nice to press a button (I.e. Select) and let us to favourite/delete them.
Great video !! Congrats !
FANTASTIC tutorial THANK YOU!
How did you get psvita to show up ES-DE? When I scroll through my systems I don't see it. I followed the tutorial for a few games and the system still hasn't popped up.
make sure the files you create with this tutorial are named with a .psvita extension
@@ES-DE_Frontend did that but still doesn’t show up. I accidentally deleted the psvita system info txt file. Do you think that’s the issue?
How can I open Pico-8 games from ES DE?
please check out the user guide here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#pico-8
@@ES-DE_Frontend Thank you
Very helpful.
i only want the fanarts (from screenscraper) as my screensaver. how can i do that
details in this video: ES-DE: How to add artwork and metadata to your games czcams.com/video/js_m_jVnX2s/video.html
Hello! How can I add artworks to the games skipped by es de?
check out this video ES-DE: How to edit and manage game metadata czcams.com/video/RWA4wK7pEko/video.html
@@ES-DE_Frontend Thank you!
Is there a way to jump from … for exemple… 1 manufactor to another? or a dropdown list of all and select to go strait to the one that we want? if we have a big collections of systems its annoying to go through every single one
sorry no, not at this time
How to close the game?
would need to check vita3k instructions
skraper is much faster than the built in scraper with es-de. quick note - you can run the built in es-de scraper first to create the downloaded_media and gamelists folders then just point each media type to those folders using the skraper UI instead of manually inputting a wrong folder then moving afterward.
great tip, thank you
What file browser did you use
i use Solid Explorer File Manager
do you know how also to get the meta data text as well? everything worked but that
hmm odd that didnt work it should download based on the steps and set up i walked through in the video
@ES-DE_Frontend for some reason... my dataset folder to put the metal data files are in a different local then in your video....hmm... maybe an update to ESDE?
Do it also work for example on PS2? My ES-DE Folder is on the root of the internal storage and in the ES-DE Folder i got my Games Folder. I want to have my Switch Games on the Internal Storage and PS2,PSP, SNES,... on my SD-Kart. Do I need to create a file in the device folder in games for example internal storage/es-de/games/ps2/gta_sa.ps2?
ps2 is much simpler. just add the isos for the games you are interested in playing yo the /ps2 folder
@@ES-DE_Frontend the Problem is on the internal storage I have switch and sd card rest
good video friend, how do you do it with the vita3k emulator since I put a game in ps vita ROMs in .psvita and enter Es-de but the vita3k emulator does not appear, how can I do it?
make sure to first install the game in the vita3k emulator. that should do it
@@ES-DE_Frontend Now it worked for me, thank you very much friend, I also wanted to ask you, is it possible to launch games directly from ES-DE J2ME JAVA emulation station?
followed everything here... but i am not getting the media folder. I get the other file in my roms folder after scraping, but no media folder... I even tried to MAKE the "media" folder first, and it is always empty after scraping... any ideas? the path is correct, as per what you had in the video. EDIT: Imispoke. there is no Gamelist file. What i did, was jsut selected the "ROMS" folder in ES DE which has many of the rom foldersinside filled with games. it found all the folders (even the empty ones) but when I started to scrape, everything looked normal as to the video. sop I am not sure why nothing will write for me... I went thru the whole library already, so will it ping the server again? or are the files cached somewhere? EDIT 2. I restarted the program in ADMIN priv and selected only one folder as a test and it is working so selecting the "roms" folder, or not running as admin goofed it up... EDIT 3: It has to be the ADMIN PRIV. its working normal now.
What avbout metadata? The Descriptions do not seem to be in this.
Hoping you can help. I'm using the Logitech G Cloud to emulate. I have to quit RetroArch to use Daijisho and select another game. If I don't quit or close out of the app completely the next game won't load. Any thoughts?
yes, the settings described in this video should fix that
One thing i would find useful (but couldn't find) - would be a way to log games that it searched for during scraping but came back with nothing. I have a lot of roms which are not technically games e.g ."Acorn Electron" (mame rom "electron") and it keeps attempting to re-scrape these, using up my scraping request count. If i could get a list of these failures i could write a little python script to fake the meta data for them and therefore let the scraper skip them on the next scraping run
for those types of file i wonder if it would be ok to use the hide option? if you dont need those files to display in your gamelists they can be hidden and then scraper will ignore them (they will still be in the directory so they can be used by emulators). what do you think?
@@ES-DE_Frontend its more a problem with scraping - lets say that the quota is 1000scrapes per day and i have 100,000 roms to scrape. Scrape Run 1 (No meta data filter option): 1000 games scraped, 800 successfully, 200 not found - quota reached Scrape Run 2 (No meta data filter option): 1000 games scraped, 600 successfully, 200 not found from scrape run 1 (still no meta data), 200 newly not found games - quota reached Scrape Run 3 (No meta data filter option): 1000 games scraped, 400 successfully, 200 failed from day1, 200 failed from day 2, 200 failed from day 3 Because the failures don't update the meta data (as they shouldn't) - it means, you eventually only scrape roms that have no meta data available and you constantly run out of quota by scrape run 5 i will have scraped about 5000 roms but will be fail on 1000 roms - these failures will constantly hit the quota limit and i will never be able to scrape past these initial 5000 and roms 5000-100,000 will never be scraped I can't tell, easily which roms are going to fail. The Acorn Electron was an example i could easily identify - but there were lots of others that are not so obvious
This video is actually more thorough, detailed and better explained than anything I found directly related to Skraper itself.
wow, thank your kind words. very happy to hear that 😊
Ths doesnt seem to work for games that are in folders. (For example) I have Titan A.E demo disc, thats a bin an cue in a folder. No matter what i do i cant get my own cover art or video to work for the meta data 😭😭😭😭
try adding a .cue to the name of the folder so it matches the name of the cue file inside of it
Im using Retrobat, Batocera, Recallbox, Retropie, ArkOS, R-Cade, Emuelec.... Theyre all the same, and works fine. Why ES-DE needs to be different? Feels really bad.
different use cases and different approach - good there are different options at least. thanks for checking it out.
@@ES-DE_Frontend Different approach? Different use cases? Its the same old emulationstation. I cant just copy and paste my library from other emulationstation, so theres no point in use ES-DE over Daijisho, and Daijisho is free. Feels really bad and stupid, because Its the same emulationstation modified to be worse. And on Windows we have Retrobat, witch is great.
sounds great. good to have options. enjoy and thank you again.
That is very strange, retroarch doesn't have a adicional command to open a fresh game? I relly need to config. a 'close' or 'quit' button?
yes, at least from my knowledge of retroarch
Multilingual menu are a must
thank you we agree too, localization support will be the big feature in our next release.
In ES-DE PC, what file format need to choose when create a new file? Notepad?
notepad will work fine. just make sure to save it with a .psvita extension when done
It scraps the wrong games and data and skips most of my games. How do I manually add information or at least point the scrapper to the game myself?
Thank you! Oh man this video saved me. Lol.
glad it helped!
How to change rom directory?
you can select your root rom directory during installation. the user guide has details about to change that afterwards gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md
@@ES-DE_Frontend it's fine now, i figured it out. I changed my rom's folder name, so it asked to re-choose rom's folder when i open ES-DE app.
How do I create a file? I’m using the Google Files app and the Oden files app and I can only create folders.
can i create a video intro for ES DE like Batocera, retrobat...?
sorry no the functionality to add an intro video is not available in ES-DE
im trying to setup es-de on a nothing phone but when i sideload retroarch it just says the app is meant for an older android version. any idea if there is a version or retroarch that works for nothing phone or at least the latest ver of android?
the version that has worked well from our testing is always the latest 64bit android release direct from retroarch website
@@ES-DE_Frontend I've tried all three version of retroarch from their site but all seems to have the same issue. currently running on android v14 edit* i downloaded f-droid version and it works, all is good now just need to do some testing
I'm using ES-DE on steam deck and I've got everything working and launching into the games just fine but how do i exit out of a game back to ES-DE once I'm done?
that will vary depending on the emulator being launched. you’ll need to research the options for exiting in each emulator as ES-DE does not configure emulator settings
I've just seen in another video that you press start/select (the two small top buttons) at the same time, I've not tested this yet mind. I've been trying to figure out how to add vita games to esde on the deck. Hopefully this video will help me when I go to try it
would I be able to use this same method on a separate frontend like Beacon Launcher? Or is this exclusive to ES-DE? Beacon allows for custom launch commands, but I'm not too familiar with that
sorry i am not sure. all i know is that we support this method in ES-DE.
es-de can not read the game of a micro SD card??? So all my vita games need to be in the internal storage in order to launch it from Es-De???
vita3k emulator requires games to be installed directly to its folder so that emulator cannot read games from the sd card. please check the vita3k discord or website for more info. its not something we can change from es-de. vita3k would need to support that.
@ES-DE_Frontend Thank you so much for your reply. Really appreciate. I am nee to this and learning everyday. Thank you again.
Oh my God, This is what I was looking for!! Video was so needed!! Thank you! ❤
What launcher are you using?
i use console launcher
good morning! How many sistems the android version support?! Thanks
good morning right back :) check out details here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md#supported-game-systems
Hi! Thanks for the useful guides. Do you know if there's a way to make .cia files be recognized (for 3DS) and added to the library. Citra supports and launches the games without issues
sorry not that I know of
Hi, is there a guide about how to add custom systems?
there are good details in our documentation located here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/INSTALL.md#es_find_rulesxml
@@ES-DE_Frontend thank you so much. I am trying to also get the flash game Abobo's Big Adventure running as well! Haha it's tough
Thank you so much for this! This has been driving me nuts on my retroid pocket 4, it’s so much nicer now
Can you make a video on how to add new emulators? I tried to add Lime3ds instead of citra but just couldn't get it to work. Pretty sure I had all the code correct in notepad++ just something I'm missing. I really love the frontend but it's too complicated to do simple things. Thinking about switching to Launchbox.
its something we are considering but please keep in mind that adding an emulator is not always a simple thing - especially on android (have to consider things like “does the emulator support launching from a frontend”, “how does it handle intents”). this is why we currently don’t have a tutorial on this. our discord community is very helpful for specific emulator questions as well so that could be an option if you are interested.
Hey. I just finished doing this and it looks amazing! Now my problem is, my vita games won’t launch. Tried to go to “other settings>alternative emulators” but I can’t find for ps vita. Usually when I’m having a problem launching a system, this is my remedy. Any idea what did I miss? PS: games perfectly working on my vita3K app.
the reason you don’t see psvita in alternative emulators is because vita3k is the only emulator available. 2 things to try… make sure the folder name for psvita is all lowercase and make sure there are no line breaks in your .psvita files (everything should be on one single line in those files). also double check that the extension for the file is .psvita sometimes that can get changes without seeing it.
@@ES-DE_Frontend heyy thank you for the reply but I was able to figure out what I did wrong last night. I did put the title ID on second line that's what happen. haha. after editing the line, it's now working. Looks remarkable I say. thank you again, ES-DE!😁
Can someone help ! when i launch a game that uses retroarch it goes in black screen and thats it ! When i dont use ES DE it works fine just from retroarch
yes, please read the details and steps here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/FAQ-ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#when-i-launch-a-game-using-retroarch-i-just-see-a-black-screen-what-is-wrong
@@ES-DE_Frontend merci beaucoup, le lien a régler mon problème d'écran noir 😊
Superb video! Ive only been using ES-DE for a week but I’m having a great time and learning a lot! Can I suggest a new sorting option of HW TYPE, MANFACTURER, REL YEAR. I’m going to do this via the custom way of sorting, but it’d be great to have this option built in. Best wishes.
thank you for your suggestion! if we add it we’ll post back here.
This is why ES-DE is my goto front-end. It so adds to the nostalgia of gaming in the 80s and 90s.
Is it possibly to use stand alone emulator in es-de and retroarch for system that does not have stand alone emulator. I have an odin 2 pro and my es-de is set up with all stand alone emulator but for atari jaguar system i would like to use retroarch. Can this be done use to different way for different systems.
yes it can, on a per game or per system basis you can change with emulator is used
@@ES-DE_Frontend do u have a video on how to do that.