Note: I was wrong, Vita3K does work. Here are the steps for it: joeysretrohandhelds.com/guides/emulationstation-on-android-setup-guide/#Adding_Vita_games

@antoniospoulis5285

3 ай бұрын

please help of how we can load the psvita games through emulation station, as it doesn’t load any emulator

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Did you read those instructions?

@antoniospoulis5285

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@jstownend

Ай бұрын

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.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

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.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

Thanks Joey for keeping us updated with the latest for the Emulation Station! :) it is by far my favorite launcher to “hide” Android.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

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?

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?

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!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Thank you!!

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!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

2 ай бұрын

That's a very good question that I'm not sure of. Gut feeling is yes?

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 :/

mom I'm in a joey video!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Jade!

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).

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.

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

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?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Ай бұрын

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.

@MrLukebroad

Ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks so much for replying! Keep up the top content 😌

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zols26OOepyThM4.html. Thank you!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@dclassof84

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!!

@timothycho954

3 ай бұрын

@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.

Thanks for the video. Can you set this up from a PC or do it directly on my ANBERNIC 405V?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

It can all be done on any Android device.

@basfinnis

3 ай бұрын

​@@JoeysRetroHandheldsCool. Thanks mate

Is there a way to rotate the box art, so the the SNES boxes are horizontal and not vertical?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Confirmed. Scraper, Miximage settings, there's a setting that says Rotate Horizontally Oriented Boxes. It's checked by default.

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.

Does scraping work for Nintendo switch games? It can't seem to scrape anything 🤔

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?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

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.

@ndijkstra2

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, very much appreciated 👍🏻

Instead of making ES-DE the home app. Is there a way to make an app launch automatically after booting up the device?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

You can use Tasker to do that, a bit convoluted, but yeah.

@HumainsModernes

3 ай бұрын

Great thanks 🙂@@JoeysRetroHandhelds

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.

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?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

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?

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

What about Drastic? How Sync?

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

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

@julie45428

2 ай бұрын

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

Can you split ROMs from SD card and internal storage? Or it's just 1 storage location for all

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

2 ай бұрын

One location currently.

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?

@gregsaiidifar

3 ай бұрын

Fixed by uninstalling from internal storage and installing to the SD card instead.

❤

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...?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Odin 2? Try after doing the OTA today. Apparently the ES team needs AYN to fix something for that to work.

@evilmerguez

3 ай бұрын

@@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....

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

According to the ES-DE team, they need AYN to fix something, so have to continue waiting.

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

3 ай бұрын

I'm using MelonDS standalone just fine, should work following the video.

@Zaphori

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

Is there a way to change emulator depending on the game (not system)

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

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 :)

@user-xf3cn3sz5b

3 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds brilliance

emulation station for my new rg556 or daijisho?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

I use EmulationStation, but Daijisho is easier for most people.

@EliasPfaiffer

3 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks m8!

Hey how do I copy the ES-DE APK from my laptop to send to my android device?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

2 ай бұрын

You can connect your device to your laptop through USB.

@LivMorganGuy

2 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Thanks

@LivMorganGuy

2 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds do I need to pay first to transfer the APK from my laptop to my android device?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

2 ай бұрын

@@LivMorganGuy Yep! You have to pay for the apk, then it's yours to move anywhere you'd like.

@LivMorganGuy

2 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds ok

What's the benefit of this over daijisho for a long term user

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

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.

@senorsombrero

3 ай бұрын

@@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

can you give the gitlab link for the apk? (for us brokies)

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

No, sorry.

I put both XML files in the folder but it’s not working… why? 😢

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

3 ай бұрын

Hm, in the right folder? Should work after adding them in. Might want to jump into the Discord in my description to troubleshoot.

@keithmonaghan4930

3 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandheldsI discovered that they saved as .txt files so I just changed them to .xml and it worked just fine 🎉

@f2theab661

3 ай бұрын

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

Just install the right dolphin emulator