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

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

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.

Thanks for putting this together.

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

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?

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?

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!

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!

Thank you!!

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!

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.

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

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

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 ?

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

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

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! 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?

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4U8yAUJ9-Tk.html. Thank you!

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

What about Drastic? How Sync?

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?

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

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

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...?

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?

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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?

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

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

emulation station for my new rg556 or daijisho?

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

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

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

Just install the right dolphin emulator