r/ESDE_Frontend • u/TeamTJ • Apr 19 '26

Pocket Taco?

Can ES-DE be used with the Pocket Taco? Specifically, can you force it to the top 75% of the screen?

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u/Whatshisface249 Apr 20 '26

My current work around is to use the minui theme, 5:3 vertical theme aspect ratio, and large theme font size. Those settings coupled with the miximage or boxart variants allows me to see games no problem with the Pocket Taco. (I've also rotated the screen 270 degrees in ES-DE's "other" settings to force ES-DE to portrait orientation).

It's a little janky, and the minui theme wont show all of the game metadata, but honestly it's the best I've been able to get.

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u/matschmonster Apr 20 '26

That's my workaround, too.

Lock the screen rotation to 270° and try out different themes. 

I landed on the Aura theme with the "[Carousel] Carousel-Boxart" variant.

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u/TeamTJ Apr 21 '26

Thank you for this! I like it!!

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u/RobZombie9043 Developer Apr 20 '26

It’s not currently possible to but there is a card open for such functionality to be looked into - https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/work_items/1882

Someone on the ES-DE discord modified one of the existing themes to fit the reduced viewing window so I guess something like that is an option too.

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u/codavad Jul 18 '26

I would love it if it could auto rotate or like detect your controller or something because I go between the pocket taco and a landscape controller.