EmulationStation on Android Ultimate Setup Guide! Plus, add Yuzu back!

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

Did you read those instructions?

[@antoniospoulis5285]

@@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]

@@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.

[@JTown15]

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

[@RobertJohnson3344]

I just wanna say I appreciate your guides. Very simple and they actually work! Unlike some other channels that are way bigger. Keep up the excellent work.

[@AdamRBlue]

Thanks for putting this together.

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

You bet!

[@angelquesito8364]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

My pleasure!

[@glazedbelmont]

mom I'm in a joey video!

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

Thanks Jade!

[@moll47u]

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?

[@whochinko]

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 ?

[@KyleRuggles]

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]

Thanks for the tip!

[@amsterdam7240]

you are amazing everything is working perfectly for me thank you so much

[@zwenkwiel816]

I just started scraping without an account and so far it works fine (only did a few systems so far)

[@possiblydoomed6252]

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]

Great to hear!

[@MrLukebroad]

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]

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]

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

[@mmh-1453]

Hi Joey, please do a Video about es-de vs daijisho vs beacon. That would be super nice, I can't decide and would like to know if they have any differences other than appearance. Thanks a lot!

[@DrNZodd]

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?

[@-Airwalk1616-]

Hey @JoeysRetroHandhelds can tou explain how to choose what metadata image scraped, that you want displayed next to the games in each system list? It just shows a screenshot of the gane and I'd like it to be the 5 mix image that shows the box, physical cartridge/disk, title and screenshot.

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

Hey, scraper setting of the video is where all those settings are found if they have what you want.

[@-Airwalk1616-]

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds th Ey don't. Had to just delete everything Except miximages

[@-Airwalk1616-]

@JoeysRetroHandhelds I do have one more question. Is there a way to ADD more systems? Or is that impossible because the themes are set to cooperate with the pre configured folders that ES-DE creates? Like with daijisho, you can just add one. Say Vertical Arcade. You can just make it, assign emulators, scrape art, and everything. I'm starting to think Daijisho really might be better.

[@buster5661]

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.

[@Sigma-0289]

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

[@ndijkstra2]

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]

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]

Thanks, very much appreciated 👍🏻

[@amsterdam7240]

bro could you make a video how to add Nintendo Wii u maybe

[@KJLambo]

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

[@Kefka2b]

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).

[@DontPaniku]

If you have trouble downloading the themes list just keep trying and eventually it will work. It took many tries for me.

[@strikegodzias4805]

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?

[@bokubaka]

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.

[@rudidekok]

Im busy trying to find out if this is possible aswell jist busy setting up my Odin did you find any info on this?

[@antonioslifeinretrospective]

How can I use both storage (Internal & external) on Metroid Pocket 4 pro on ES-DE launcher? Is it possible?

[@derekduran9086]

OMG how do you add a favorite game to the favorites list on ES-DE!!?!!! Something so simple made very vague by ES-DE and no one seems to explain this. Am I missing something? Does it depend on what UI main theme you choose where favorites is not an option?

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

Should say the hotkey at the bottom of the screen otherwise push select on the game.

[@b4g4b3l]

is there a way to put this on an usb stick or micro sd card and just plug and play when you need a console ?

[@timothycho954]

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]

I'm betting it's saving as a different file type. Try saving it the same way I do in the video.

[@jamestacular]

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

[@derekswitzer9624]

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]

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

[@WheeledHamster]

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.

[@Mosestylez]

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

[@christopherhicks1719]

did they ever get android games to work in the app?

[@TheViandeSechee]

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 :/

[@frafra224]

So it's possible to put all your games on external storage instead of only internal? I just read maybe outdated info that you must copy all your ROMs to internal folder.

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

Yes your games can be on an SD card.

[@frafra224]

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Im using the Shield Pro and it cant access my external drive. Money wasted:(

[@monkeker]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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

[@Micah-yj6vz]

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]

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

[@Zaphori]

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

[@Zaphori]

@@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.

[@echo.embrace5304]

Can't add yuzu back! Tried downloading and placing the files like in the video, but nothing works... Installed the frontend on internal Memory and games on SD and everything works, but not yuzu... I did everything right, i'm going mad here...someone help? Retroid pocket mini (Android 10)

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

Doesn't seem like they added support for it within the code of those files.

[@echo.embrace5304]

Solved! Uninstalled and reinstalled frontend and placed the data folder in the SD, all ok now thanks!

[@gregsaiidifar]

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]

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

[@NotYourTypicalTechChannel]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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

[@NotYourTypicalTechChannel]

Great thanks 🙂@@JoeysRetroHandhelds

[@evilmerguez]

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]

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

[@evilmerguez]

@@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]

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

[@seanpower4858]

Rpcs3? Any ideas how to get that working on andriod and showing on emulation station?

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

Rpcs3 doesn't exist on Android.

[@shenggege]

thx for sharing~

[@basfinnis]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

It can all be done on any Android device.

[@basfinnis]

​@@JoeysRetroHandheldsCool. Thanks mate

[@emmanuelmiranda8201]

What about Drastic? How Sync?

[@pietersteenkamp5188]

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

[@hudinamo2451]

Can you help, how to connect to retroachivment

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

It's just a frontend, there's no retroachievements connection, that's done in each emulator.

[@BoyReklamo163]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

One location currently.

[@keithmonaghan4930]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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

[@keithmonaghan4930]

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

[@f2theab661]

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

[@TheUndertaker19]

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.

[@ElementalTJ]

Thank you!!

[@gladel]

Thanks, but will it work with Retroid Pocket 2 Plus?

[@KatieMcCormick-x6p]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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 :)

[@KatieMcCormick-x6p]

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds brilliance

[@EliasPfaiffer]

emulation station for my new rg556 or daijisho?

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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

[@EliasPfaiffer]

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks m8!

[@Pac925]

Does this work on the rp3+? 🤔

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

It does.

[@ov293]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

No, sorry.

[@senorsombrero]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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]

@@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

[@RazorRazorsEdge]

Yer the man!

[@KevinnOwens]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

You can connect your device to your laptop through USB.

[@KevinnOwens]

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Thanks

[@KevinnOwens]

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

[@JoeysRetroHandhelds]

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

[@KevinnOwens]

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds ok

[@lee99bay]

❤

[@Loknath009]

Just install the right dolphin emulator

[@jzl8959]

Z Archiver Slander 😡

[@mmh-1453]

Hi Joey, please do a Video about es-de vs daijisho vs beacon. That would be super nice, I can't decide and would like to know if they have any differences other than appearance. Thanks a lot!