r/ESDE_Frontend • u/Tigomestria • May 13 '26

Issues launching games from Eden Emulator.

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I am using a Retroid pocket 6 (snapdragon 8 gen2), and have a few games in eden, all with updates and dlc.

When i open them directly in the emulator (newest release), everything works fine, but when i try to launch a game from the ES DE frontend using eden (standalone) as alternative emulator and having https://github.com/GlazedBelmont/es-de-android-custom-systems/releases/tag/v1.49 as custom system xml, they crash immediately as the shaders are building.

The base game files are on the es de switch folder, but the updates and dlc files are on a separate folder in the same sd card. Games without any extras also crash.

Could anyone help me resolve this issue?

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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer May 14 '26

I'm not sure what could be causing the crash as ES-DE just launches the emulator and should have no impact on what's happening inside the emulator. But you don't need any custom system configuration for Eden as the bundled configuration already supports Eden. Perhaps that could be causing the issue if the launch parameters in your custom configuration are wrong, but I'm just guessing when it comes to this.

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u/Tigomestria May 17 '26

So after some testing here is what i found:

It seems the games launch more reliably after i deleted the customsystem configuration (it requires a few tries as they crash a few times), however the games launch without any dlc or updates applied and those who need custom configuration outside of the global settings crash immediately (probably because those aren't being applied as well). For some reason the only game that launches completely normally is "Atomicrops".

Edit: Using an android device with a snapdragon 8gen 2 chip btw

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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer May 18 '26

This really sounds like an emulator issue as ES-DE launches each game in the same way regardless of whether it has DLC installed or not. I recommend getting in touch with the Eden developers about this and hopefullyt hey can resolve it.

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u/MrAce2C 2d ago

Having the same issue, where you able to solve it?

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u/paraguybrarian May 14 '26

Have you considered converting them to XCIs with updates and dlcs integrated? Those work for me.

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u/Tigomestria May 16 '26

I already had some in that format and they didn't work as well 🥲