What's new in ES-DE v2.0

These are some of the new features in ES-DE Frontend (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) v2.0
Website:
es-de.org
Discord:
/ discord
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 - Modern by Sophia Hadash and Lilbud
These and more themes can be found on the official themes list:
gitlab.com/es-de/themes/theme...
ES-DE changelog:
gitlab.com/es-de/emulationsta...
Music: Shade On Me by Vincenzo (László Vincze)
/ @strayboom

[@Fancy2209Real]

nice of you to allow us to hear the whole track

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Yes it's really a badass track!

[@domovoi_0]

Incredible. Love and blessings.

[@CodeKokeshi]

I highly respect your work guys 💪

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Thanks, much appreciated :)

[@fyourhandlegoogle]

This is basically the only thing I use on Steam Deck and the ONLY reason I bought one, you guys rock!

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Wow that is very high praise, thanks for that!

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

The ONLY reason, really...? REALLY..? BS.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

@@TheUltimateBlooper if you already have a desktop the deck is a great potable gaming machine it this frontend supports steam & every system that can make a. desktop file

[@fyourhandlegoogle]

@@TheUltimateBlooper Is that the latest outrage? "someone I don't know is using his device differently than the way I use my device" did you crywank yourself to sleep horrified that I use my device mainly for one thing? if it bothers you so much comment hero, meet me and tell me the way I'm allowed to use my device in a way that suits yourself, you people are easy to spot, so no worries on how I'll know you, got yourself some blue hair champ? got more chins than the Wuhan Institute? doing the whole feminist thing in the pathetic hope it'll get you laid?

[@PPlankBeam]

Yeah I bought my Steam Deck mainly for emulation and my favourite front end is ES-DE.

[@gcomi1977]

great work! beautiful piece of software!

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Thanks!

[@vickveni]

Damn 🔥 Thank you soo much.

[@frostyarcade]

🤠Awesome work guys!!

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Thanks :)

[@oldnewpixel]

Great, thanks a lot!!

[@olivetree1023]

Gratidão 🙏

[@Joeee04]

Awesome :)

[@UglyWinnie]

I'll give it a try.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

people here needs to know that a big part of the theming engine rewrite is making the code less hacky because a lot of emulationstation themes use hacks to create there great visuals

[@PatoQuicksilver]

Hi guys! It works great! Excellent job. One question, how to add bezels? I was trying to do that to my arcade (mame) games but I was unable to.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Happy to hear that you enjoy using the application! As for bezels this has to be setup in the emulator as ES-DE is a frontend application and does not configure emulators.

[@omegamanxxx]

Need a killer theme designed with an arcade cabinet in mind. The current themes are not bad and I'm sure more will come but that one killer theme is missing. I made a theme called robospin for attract-mode years ago that found its way on a lot of raspberry Pi's. If I could find some motivation and time I would take shot at designing a theme for this frontend.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

I think a killer theme means different things for different people but more themes are in development and as I expand ES-DE with more theme engine functionality in future releases more advanced designs will become possible!

[@damientech88]

@@ES-DE_Frontend My favorite theme for ES (Retrobat Windows version) is "Platform". I took a look at the XML to consider porting it to ES-DE and it was terrifying. The problem I have with declarative languages is that you can't step through them to see what the heck is going on.

[@aliessa8515]

Great seeing this updated.. please tell me the forum situation isn’t as bad as it was years ago.. I remember it being spammed with viagra prescriptions ads

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

The ES-DE project does not have a forum, we have a subreddit and a Discord server, both are linked in the video description!

[@aliessa8515]

@@ES-DE_Frontend great and it has mods. It was just sad seeing what the old forums became

[@bundangkorea]

Yep, I remember well that website's forum being trashed with spam probably because it had been abandoned by its maintainers and mods. Fortunately, the project stayed alive and is going strong thanks to other amazing people who adopted the source code for EmulationStation

[@dentureadventure1490]

Easily my favorite frontend.

[@damientech88]

Is there any reason to use this over the Retrobat build of Emulation Station? It seems far more sophisticated as far as things like theme animations go. I realize this has a more newbie-friendly emulator set up and a sort of automatic media linking but those things seem fairly trivial in comparison.

[@hiii4805]

retrobat is windows only.. and for windows yea its better

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

one way that may help to think about it: - ES-DE is a pure frontend that you bring your emulators to (and their configurations) - Retrobat is self contained frontend and emulators combined. Both work well for different use cases so we recommend thinking about what preferences work best for you and then deciding from there.

[@damientech88]

@@ES-DE_Frontend That's why I said, "Retrobat build of Emulation Station" not the full Retrobat.

[@Grendal62]

how do i add cemu to this? or even retro arch? is it different on M1, i can't seem to figure out where to put the files. i've installed retro arch and cores, but they do not populate. also i can't set a hot key to exit back from a game to es-ds. how is that accomplished? thank you!

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Please ask support questions in our subreddit or Discord server and we'll try to help you.

[@Grendal62]

@@ES-DE_Frontend got it, will do. thanks!

[@malafob]

Best frontend out there! No more to say :)

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Hey, thanks man! :)

[@warrior8954]

At 1:30 i saw windows on the front end, how do you do that? And what version of windows can it run?

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

You can launch shortcuts or scripts from the windows system so it can be basically anything. On Windows it can be any .lnk shortcut for instance, on macOS you would probably run via CodeWeavers (although I've not tested that), and on Linux it could also be anything like Lutris games, Steam, Epic Games Store, source ports etc.

[@sam-alawami]

Absolutely beautiful. I was wondering where this frontend scraps artwork from? Is it a custom database? And how consistent is it regarding quality? I'm asking before diving in because this is my biggest concern.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

ES-DE scrapes from screenscraper.fr and thegamesdb.net

[@moonwalk6803]

hi ES-DE Frontend can you make a daphne tutorial thanks

[@xinsign3320]

Hi. There is some way to get the Fronted with DirectX (windows 10). OpenGL does not work on my old team. And according to the log file is the cause that there will be no program as it flashes and closes. I would appreciate it.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

if you can please come join our discord, someone may be able to help

[@xinsign3320]

@@ES-DE_Frontend the problem is OpenGL 1.0. emulator opengl solve error. Thanks

[@washingtonluissobreira-ow4ti]

good morning! How many sistems the android version support?! Thanks

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

good morning right back :) check out details here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md#supported-game-systems

[@gd6476]

Hello,is there a version for 32Bit Windows? i cannot seem to find any in gitlab,are there plans to make any?

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

As 32-bit operating systems have been obsolete for many years there are no plans to make such a release.

[@Partinaire]

Lemme go turn my Steam Deck back on real quick...

[@leedudgeon5861]

Hello I've added supermodel 3 roms to it's folder on 2.0 but it's saying can't find emulator? Can you help on steam deck cheers

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Please ask support questions in our subreddit or Discord server, but for Supermodel I know that the EmuDeck team is working on setting this up automatically. Otherwise there are instructions in the ES-DE user guide.

[@8752005]

Fingers crossed 🤞 I been tinkering weeks before I knew it was added to ES and I was getting close but still so far away but great seeing in on the list now

[@fifufpilot]

How do you setup emulation station rom directory?

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Please ask in our Discord server or subreddit if you need help with the setup.

[@saiverthehedgehog20]

Oye bro el emulador md.emu al momento de seleccionar un juego de la Sega génesis párese que va ingresar con normalidad pero luego me regresa al menú Tengo entendido q no es culpa del front end pero en caso de que lo allá podrías hacer un tutorial para solucionar este problema

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

we’ll consider it. md.emu on android right?

[@saiverthehedgehog20]

@@ES-DE_Frontend yes

[@salvacaonostemposfinais4555]

I bought the apk on Amazon, but they deleted it from my account, what is the procedure to recover the apk?

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

I'm sorry about that, Amazon decided to delist ES-DE from their appstore. You should ask them for a refund and then you can get ES-DE from Patreon instead. www.patreon.com/es_de

[@mark5150ty]

Man how do i download es desktop for Linux?? I've gone to the download link and cannot get anywhere. Please help.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Please join our Discord server if you need support.

[@mark5150ty]

@@ES-DE_Frontend why can't you just give me a link that works?

[@SP-vl1jh]

Is there a reason why it's suddenly running at a lower framerate when I'm scrolling through systems? It was smooth when I first installed it, but now looks like it's scrolling like at 20fps.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Can't say I've heard about that problem before and I'm not sure what could cause it. Maybe you've applied some sort of application-specific graphics settings to ES-DE in your operating system? If you need further support then please ask on our subreddit or join our Discord server.

[@SP-vl1jh]

@@ES-DE_Frontend I don't know. The only thing I have done is change the theme and replace the scraper screenshots with my own. I figured it would go back to normal if I restarted my pc, but it didn't. So, I did a full shutdown and it worked, only for it to return again.

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

@@SP-vl1jh Sorry I don't know what could cause this. You could try increasing the VRAM limit in the Other settings menu though, it may help if you have a very demanding theme. But like mentioned, please join our subreddit or Discord server if you want additional help, I prefer not to answer support questions on KZbin.

[@SP-vl1jh]

@@ES-DE_Frontend I'm using the Art Book Next theme and I did try raising the vram limit, but no go. I'm gonna try to reinstall it and hope it goes away. It's weird though, when going through the settings all the dialog boxes are smooth, but when scrolling through systems it's like the framerate drops to 30fps or something.

[@SP-vl1jh]

@@ES-DE_Frontend I think I fixed it. Before uninstalling it I decided to switch the processor from integrated to the nvidia processor in the nvidia control panel and it's smooth now.

[@laurafreeman5278]

Why Can't I Download Version 2.0 On My MacBook That Uses Mac OS High Sierra?

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Only Mojave and later is supported.

[@laurafreeman5278]

That Really Sucks. Is Their A Way You Can Make 2.0 Available For Mac OS High Sierra?

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

@@laurafreeman5278 Well ES-DE is open source so you could try to compile it yourself. There are detailed instructions at the ES-DE GitLab repository. You will need to modify some of the CMake configuration and there may be other issues too depending on which Clang compiler version is shipped with High Sierra. There may also be some difficulties building some of the dependencies for such an old operating system but possibly you could roll back to older releases of some libraries. Additional changes may be needed to the ES-DE C++ code too but I really don't know as I haven't compiled on a legacy macOS release in a very long time, and never for ES-DE 2.0.x

[@laurafreeman5278]

Yeah Nevermind. I'm Not That Smart At Stuff Like That. I Think I Will Stick With Version 1.2

[@AysoXD]

nice update but inb4 fan the deck and eta prime stretch this to 20 mins

[@colwyn78]

Superbe taf! J'adore! J'ai ajouté tous mes jeux par contre, j'ai un gros soucis, je voudrais ajouter mes émulateurs qui sont déjà tous configurés (retroarch, yuzu, pcsx2, rpcs3, redream etc...) mais je ne trouve aucune info de comment ajouter les émulateurs :( Où pourrais-je trouver un tuto ? Merci

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Sorry, I don't speak French, I only speak English and Swedish.

[@MotownBatman]

MacOS, cannot find an option to take out of Full Screen Mode

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

ES-DE always run in fullscreen mode by default, if you want windowed mode then you'll need to specify the window size using the --resolution command line option. Just remember that macOS has a very bizarre resolution logic of using points instead of pixels but you'll figure it out :)

[@MotownBatman]

@@ES-DE_Frontend I've Used ES on Linux mint for year as a DE, this is awesome, Just gotta figure it out . Thank You!

[@loraxjuice988]

Are ps3 games supported yet

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

Yes PS3 games have been supported since several releases back.

[@indysgill]

Will the Steamdeck version be updated?

[@ES-DE_Frontend]

All versions get updated at the same time, except RetroDECK as they build ES-DE themselves and do not use the official release.