Note: I was wrong, Vita3K does work. Here are the steps for it: joeysretrohandhelds.com/guides/emulationstation-on-android-setup-guide/#Adding_Vita_games
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds yes of course. Probably you didn’t understand my question. Let me clear this. I managed to list my psvita games but when I tap on a game, it doesn’t load or even opening vita3k. Also when I go to the alternative emulators section, there is no psvita available to select.
Thanks for the vid very helpful for the setup on my new 556. I had no issues getting everything set up following the vid. I'm now on day 3 of scraping all my games, that 20k request limit on screen scraper comes up quick lol. Have a good one.
FYI, Do not click "Orphaned data cleanup" if you're on Android 10, learned the hard way and lost all my boxart etc. It's a bug in Android 10 which the dev will release a fix with next release. Great tutorial, buddy!
Thank you for your guide! I had a problem with ES DS on Steam Deck and thanks to you I was able to solve the problems ;> At the end of the week I am taking to install ES DS on Odin2. Probably many of us have several consoles - I have SD Oled + Myioo Mini+ and Odin2 Pro - maybe you could do a material on how to play the same games on these different consoles? And how best to configure them - which emulators to choose for such gaming?
In addition to Joey's written guide; if it helps anyone to have a visual walkthrough of how to setup Vita3k we added a video tutorial for that on our channel here: czcams.com/video/4U8yAUJ9-Tk/video.html. Thank you!
@ES-DE_Frontend I’m having trouble adding Yuzu back to ES-DE. I added both .xml files to the ES-DE/custom_systems folder and made sure they have the .xml file extension, but when I launch ES-DE, it gives me an error about not being able to read the es_systems.xml file because it has improper syntax, and then ES-DE crashes out without loading its front end menu.
if you already have ES from your SteamDeck, and already have things scraped in the right "format"/locations for ES-DE, would we just copy/paste those folders etc into the ES-DE folder you created in this tutorial? This is a GREAT walkthrough too! Can't wait to get this installed on my devices soon!
Hi I'm not sure what I did wrong but for m3u's, ES-DE would just see it as a folder instead of considering it as a game, anyways I ended up just having the m3u and CDs in the rom folders directly and hid the CD entries in the game lists. Another thing I noticed is that for many systems (Not psx) the m3u file is not appearing in the game lists (3DO for example) so I just kept CD1 and hid the other CDs. I think what is really missing for me (although I think it is the best Android Front-End I've tested so far!): - Retroachievements integration - Automatic sorting of titles starting with "A" or "The" - Splitting rom sys folders in different locations for very heavy games to allow for external storage options - Scraping is a bit weird especially for MAME roms where for some reason the Japanese name is added next to the English name or other special characters are added to the name in ES-DE and the scraper is then not able to recognise it due to that, so you have to go through them manually which can be tedious for large ROM collections. - Option to scrape only games missing a certain image type. - A pause screen like on the desktop version of Launchbox offering with various customisable menu options (A "quit game" option that fully closes the emulator without having to close the emulators manually as they consume android resource) - Option to have a platform categories top level menu with Consoles / HandHelds / Arcade etc categories to select before reaching the systems list (Same as Launchbox).
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks for your reply, it's the first thing i tried today after the update, and unfortunately it doesn't work, i suppose Redream team has to work on something too....
Great video, I accidentally installed es-de onto the internal storage and my roms on SD card. Scraped all boxart for hours. Is there safe and easy way to transfer es-de to the sd card without losing data / having to setup everything again?
Should be able to move your ES-DE folder and ROMs folder to wherever you want, then delete storage/cache on the ES app, and when going through setup again, choose the moved directories.
Hello sir, thank you for the video. II have Odin 2 Pro (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Octa-core CPU, Adreno 740 GPU, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, 6" 1080p screen, Wi-Fi 7, Android 13), is this the best suitable Yuzu build and GPU drivers for this handheld, newie to switch emulation, thanks for the help.
Hey! Thanks for the guide. If I have a ROMs folder that is already correctly named and organised, do you still need to hit the 'create folders' button, to get ES-DS to install all of the folders? EG at 6:45 in the video, you create a folder called ROMs and get ES to create the files. Will it still work if you just tell ES to use your correctly named ROMS folder?
Yep it will! IIRC when I do that on other devices, I think I still select the create option, it doesn't overwrite from what I remember, but either way it'll know.
Whenever I open a movie/video in emulation station, it swaps from the desktop profile to another profile. I can't figure out how to disable this. Can you help? I am using vlc with my controller on desktop mode just fine. But when I open it in emulation station, it works for a half a second then it doesnt.
Managed to get Emulation Station up and running, but every time I power my Odin 2 off then back on, it goes back to the initial setup screen. Do you know if there is any fix for that?
Can someone please tell me, is there any way to set rom directories freely? I have some roms on sd card and some on internal memory. All located separately like gba roms located on myboy directory. DS roms located on drastic directory. Can i just set my rom paths separately in emulation station or all should be in one directory? Also is there any way to use touch screen like tap or swipe in menus? Or the only way to navigate in menus is using on screen virtual gamepad? It feels this frontend is so restricted or maybe i am missing something
Ho w can I use both internal storage and sd card for the ROMs in ES-DE, it seems it all has to be in one single folder. which is dissapointing. Daijisho can do it.
Hey man, don’t know if you’re still responding to comments but I can’t get Wii games to open through ES. They open just fine through Dolphin, but when trying to open through ES, they flash white and then return to the ES screen. I can’t seem to find any fix online. Any help here would be greatly appreciated
hey man Thank you for the video and the time you put into it. I was hoping you could help me. For some reason emulation station does not pick up PS2 games after I copied them to the allocated rom folder. I don't have this problem for other systems. Do you perhaps know what I'm doing wrong and how to fix this? Please assume i'm an idiot. this is the first time I'm installing things like this haha Any help would be much appreciated
I’m having trouble adding Yuzu back to ES-DE. I added both .xml files to the ES-DE/custom_systems folder and made sure they have the .xml file extension, but when I launch ES-DE, it gives me an error about not being able to read the es_systems.xml file because it has improper syntax, and then ES-DE crashes out without loading its front end menu. Right-clicked both xml files in the GitHub page and selected “copy link as” and then they automatically saved as xml files I followed joeys instructions exactly, unless I’m missing something about downloading the proper xml files?
There is literally nothing in my ES-DE folder and I'm confused. None of the folder structure you have in yours. ES-DE is working well other than switch but yeah...any thoughts of what's going on?
Could someone please help me out, I’m a little lost. Ive been trying to play all the Pokémon games I can and was wondering if any of these could play all of them up to the 3ds and the best one for that. As well as the best on for Pokémon games up to the ds. Also does it work since the ds has 2 screens
Tbh the 3ds and switch emulators have been met with a lawsuit from Nintendo rn. Best way to play any 3ds game is to get a used 3ds XL and get custom firmware. You can also do 2ds bang for your buck same thing. And you can play gbc all the way to 3ds. But anything Pokémon before 3ds you can play on any android based handheld
I can't get DS games to launch from it. I can open the emulator and it launches but when I try to launch from ESDE. I've tried standalone melonDS and Drastic. It says the rom doesnt exist. Does anyone have any ideas?
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds 🤷♂ I followed yours and Russ' guide and I can't seem to get it to work. Daijisho and the standalone emulators work fine, so maybe I'll just have to wait for it to get updated.
Daijisho has Android apps support and can be set as a launcher, where ES has better emulator support for launching games properly, but neither of those two things. On a few devices, I have daijisho set as home, and use ES as a launcher, best of both worlds currently.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds appreciate the reply. I go by the 'if it ain't broken, don't fix it' approach so I think I'll stick with daijisho for now. Same way as on my steam deck I'm not updating emudeck coz the recent updates have broken everything
Highlight the game in the list, push Select, Edit This Game's Metadata, scroll down to Alternative Emulator, then choose a new one for that specific game :)
Note: I was wrong, Vita3K does work. Here are the steps for it: joeysretrohandhelds.com/guides/emulationstation-on-android-setup-guide/#Adding_Vita_games
please help of how we can load the psvita games through emulation station, as it doesn’t load any emulator
Did you read those instructions?
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds yes of course. Probably you didn’t understand my question. Let me clear this. I managed to list my psvita games but when I tap on a game, it doesn’t load or even opening vita3k. Also when I go to the alternative emulators section, there is no psvita available to select.
@@antoniospoulis5285 Are you on the current version of Vita3K? (11) I'm not sure why you're not seeing it in the list if so.
Hi what is the best option for GC and Wii as I hate remapping my controller whenever I switch to my 8bitdo ultimate. Also thank you for this video
Thanks for putting this together.
You bet!
Thanks for the vid very helpful for the setup on my new 556. I had no issues getting everything set up following the vid. I'm now on day 3 of scraping all my games, that 20k request limit on screen scraper comes up quick lol. Have a good one.
Great to hear!
I just started scraping without an account and so far it works fine (only did a few systems so far)
Thanks Joey for keeping us updated with the latest for the Emulation Station! :) it is by far my favorite launcher to “hide” Android.
My pleasure!
FYI, Do not click "Orphaned data cleanup" if you're on Android 10, learned the hard way and lost all my boxart etc. It's a bug in Android 10 which the dev will release a fix with next release.
Great tutorial, buddy!
Thanks for the tip!
Thank you for your guide! I had a problem with ES DS on Steam Deck and thanks to you I was able to solve the problems ;> At the end of the week I am taking to install ES DS on Odin2.
Probably many of us have several consoles - I have SD Oled + Myioo Mini+ and Odin2 Pro - maybe you could do a material on how to play the same games on these different consoles? And how best to configure them - which emulators to choose for such gaming?
mom I'm in a joey video!
Thanks Jade!
In addition to Joey's written guide; if it helps anyone to have a visual walkthrough of how to setup Vita3k we added a video tutorial for that on our channel here: czcams.com/video/4U8yAUJ9-Tk/video.html. Thank you!
Thanks!
Thank you!!!!
@ES-DE_Frontend I’m having trouble adding Yuzu back to ES-DE. I added both .xml files to the ES-DE/custom_systems folder and made sure they have the .xml file extension, but when I launch ES-DE, it gives me an error about not being able to read the es_systems.xml file because it has improper syntax, and then ES-DE crashes out without loading its front end menu.
if you already have ES from your SteamDeck, and already have things scraped in the right "format"/locations for ES-DE, would we just copy/paste those folders etc into the ES-DE folder you created in this tutorial? This is a GREAT walkthrough too! Can't wait to get this installed on my devices soon!
That's a very good question that I'm not sure of. Gut feeling is yes?
If you have trouble downloading the themes list just keep trying and eventually it will work. It took many tries for me.
Awesome! Is there a way to compile the other multi disc games from other systems? Like ps2 and gamecube. Or is that a limitation of the frontend atm?
Hi I'm not sure what I did wrong but for m3u's, ES-DE would just see it as a folder instead of considering it as a game, anyways I ended up just having the m3u and CDs in the rom folders directly and hid the CD entries in the game lists. Another thing I noticed is that for many systems (Not psx) the m3u file is not appearing in the game lists (3DO for example) so I just kept CD1 and hid the other CDs.
I think what is really missing for me (although I think it is the best Android Front-End I've tested so far!):
- Retroachievements integration
- Automatic sorting of titles starting with "A" or "The"
- Splitting rom sys folders in different locations for very heavy games to allow for external storage options
- Scraping is a bit weird especially for MAME roms where for some reason the Japanese name is added next to the English name or other special characters are added to the name in ES-DE and the scraper is then not able to recognise it due to that, so you have to go through them manually which can be tedious for large ROM collections.
- Option to scrape only games missing a certain image type.
- A pause screen like on the desktop version of Launchbox offering with various customisable menu options (A "quit game" option that fully closes the emulator without having to close the emulators manually as they consume android resource)
- Option to have a platform categories top level menu with Consoles / HandHelds / Arcade etc categories to select before reaching the systems list (Same as Launchbox).
Thank you!!
Anybody have any idea how to change ROM locations? Just got an SD card and can't find any setting to change the ROM directory
too bad you don't speak about Redream, as it won't load from Es-De... maybe there is a fix like you did with Dolphin...?
Odin 2? Try after doing the OTA today. Apparently the ES team needs AYN to fix something for that to work.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks for your reply, it's the first thing i tried today after the update, and unfortunately it doesn't work, i suppose Redream team has to work on something too....
According to the ES-DE team, they need AYN to fix something, so have to continue waiting.
Great video, I accidentally installed es-de onto the internal storage and my roms on SD card. Scraped all boxart for hours. Is there safe and easy way to transfer es-de to the sd card without losing data / having to setup everything again?
Should be able to move your ES-DE folder and ROMs folder to wherever you want, then delete storage/cache on the ES app, and when going through setup again, choose the moved directories.
Thanks, very much appreciated 👍🏻
I'm trying to do Turbografx 16 and Arcade games, which folder should I put them in? They have a few different folders on ESDE.
Hello sir, thank you for the video. II have Odin 2 Pro (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Octa-core CPU, Adreno 740 GPU, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, 6" 1080p screen, Wi-Fi 7, Android 13), is this the best suitable Yuzu build and GPU drivers for this handheld, newie to switch emulation, thanks for the help.
Thank you very much ! Any tips on citra ? I've lost my citra during Emu-deck's update and can't make it work anymore :/
Hey! Thanks for the guide. If I have a ROMs folder that is already correctly named and organised, do you still need to hit the 'create folders' button, to get ES-DS to install all of the folders? EG at 6:45 in the video, you create a folder called ROMs and get ES to create the files. Will it still work if you just tell ES to use your correctly named ROMS folder?
Yep it will! IIRC when I do that on other devices, I think I still select the create option, it doesn't overwrite from what I remember, but either way it'll know.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks so much for replying! Keep up the top content 😌
Whenever I open a movie/video in emulation station, it swaps from the desktop profile to another profile. I can't figure out how to disable this. Can you help?
I am using vlc with my controller on desktop mode just fine. But when I open it in emulation station, it works for a half a second then it doesnt.
Managed to get Emulation Station up and running, but every time I power my Odin 2 off then back on, it goes back to the initial setup screen. Do you know if there is any fix for that?
I moved the SNES files over to the ROMs folder I see the save states on there but they wont load on ES why is that ?
Can someone please tell me, is there any way to set rom directories freely? I have some roms on sd card and some on internal memory. All located separately like gba roms located on myboy directory. DS roms located on drastic directory. Can i just set my rom paths separately in emulation station or all should be in one directory? Also is there any way to use touch screen like tap or swipe in menus? Or the only way to navigate in menus is using on screen virtual gamepad? It feels this frontend is so restricted or maybe i am missing something
Ho w can I use both internal storage and sd card for the ROMs in ES-DE, it seems it all has to be in one single folder. which is dissapointing. Daijisho can do it.
Thanks for the video.
Can you set this up from a PC or do it directly on my ANBERNIC 405V?
It can all be done on any Android device.
@@JoeysRetroHandheldsCool. Thanks mate
Does scraping work for Nintendo switch games? It can't seem to scrape anything 🤔
Hey man, don’t know if you’re still responding to comments but I can’t get Wii games to open through ES. They open just fine through Dolphin, but when trying to open through ES, they flash white and then return to the ES screen. I can’t seem to find any fix online. Any help here would be greatly appreciated
hey man
Thank you for the video and the time you put into it.
I was hoping you could help me. For some reason emulation station does not pick up PS2 games after I copied them to the allocated rom folder. I don't have this problem for other systems.
Do you perhaps know what I'm doing wrong and how to fix this?
Please assume i'm an idiot. this is the first time I'm installing things like this haha
Any help would be much appreciated
I’m having trouble adding Yuzu back to ES-DE. I added both .xml files to the ES-DE/custom_systems folder and made sure they have the .xml file extension, but when I launch ES-DE, it gives me an error about not being able to read the es_systems.xml file because it has improper syntax, and then ES-DE crashes out without loading its front end menu.
Right-clicked both xml files in the GitHub page and selected “copy link as” and then they automatically saved as xml files
I followed joeys instructions exactly, unless I’m missing something about downloading the proper xml files?
I'm betting it's saving as a different file type. Try saving it the same way I do in the video.
Thanks, but will it work with Retroid Pocket 2 Plus?
There is literally nothing in my ES-DE folder and I'm confused. None of the folder structure you have in yours. ES-DE is working well other than switch but yeah...any thoughts of what's going on?
Fixed by uninstalling from internal storage and installing to the SD card instead.
What about Drastic? How Sync?
Instead of making ES-DE the home app. Is there a way to make an app launch automatically after booting up the device?
You can use Tasker to do that, a bit convoluted, but yeah.
Great thanks 🙂@@JoeysRetroHandhelds
Can you help, how to connect to retroachivment
It's just a frontend, there's no retroachievements connection, that's done in each emulator.
Could someone please help me out, I’m a little lost. Ive been trying to play all the Pokémon games I can and was wondering if any of these could play all of them up to the 3ds and the best one for that. As well as the best on for Pokémon games up to the ds. Also does it work since the ds has 2 screens
Tbh the 3ds and switch emulators have been met with a lawsuit from Nintendo rn. Best way to play any 3ds game is to get a used 3ds XL and get custom firmware. You can also do 2ds bang for your buck same thing. And you can play gbc all the way to 3ds. But anything Pokémon before 3ds you can play on any android based handheld
Is there a way to rotate the box art, so the the SNES boxes are horizontal and not vertical?
Confirmed. Scraper, Miximage settings, there's a setting that says Rotate Horizontally Oriented Boxes. It's checked by default.
Can you split ROMs from SD card and internal storage? Or it's just 1 storage location for all
One location currently.
❤
I can't get DS games to launch from it. I can open the emulator and it launches but when I try to launch from ESDE. I've tried standalone melonDS and Drastic. It says the rom doesnt exist. Does anyone have any ideas?
I'm using MelonDS standalone just fine, should work following the video.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds 🤷♂ I followed yours and Russ' guide and I can't seem to get it to work. Daijisho and the standalone emulators work fine, so maybe I'll just have to wait for it to get updated.
What's the benefit of this over daijisho for a long term user
Daijisho has Android apps support and can be set as a launcher, where ES has better emulator support for launching games properly, but neither of those two things. On a few devices, I have daijisho set as home, and use ES as a launcher, best of both worlds currently.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds appreciate the reply. I go by the 'if it ain't broken, don't fix it' approach so I think I'll stick with daijisho for now. Same way as on my steam deck I'm not updating emudeck coz the recent updates have broken everything
I put both XML files in the folder but it’s not working… why? 😢
Hm, in the right folder? Should work after adding them in. Might want to jump into the Discord in my description to troubleshoot.
@@JoeysRetroHandheldsI discovered that they saved as .txt files so I just changed them to .xml and it worked just fine 🎉
When I downloaded the file it saved as a .txt file so I had to just rename the extension to .xml inside the ES-DE folder
Is there a way to change emulator depending on the game (not system)
Highlight the game in the list, push Select, Edit This Game's Metadata, scroll down to Alternative Emulator, then choose a new one for that specific game :)
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds brilliance
emulation station for my new rg556 or daijisho?
I use EmulationStation, but Daijisho is easier for most people.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks m8!
can you give the gitlab link for the apk? (for us brokies)
No, sorry.
Just install the right dolphin emulator
Hey how do I copy the ES-DE APK from my laptop to send to my android device?
You can connect your device to your laptop through USB.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Thanks
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds do I need to pay first to transfer the APK from my laptop to my android device?
@@TheAerialAssassin Yep! You have to pay for the apk, then it's yours to move anywhere you'd like.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds ok