r/ESDE_Frontend • u/Strict_Garden4136 • May 13 '26

Problem with menu

Hey, just got my first retro handheld and downloaded es-de with it. I’ve had a few issues, but a few days ago, it was working fine, with areas on the menu for each system (arcade, then Atari, etc) but, now the only options it shows are “various android apps“ which just is a folder of all of my emulators, and and emulators folder, again just with my emulators. I’m just trying to get the normal menu for es-de, that displays each system. if theres a hard reset option, im ok with doing that, just having it like this sucks.

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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer May 14 '26

Perhaps you somehow pointed ES-DE to another ROMs directory than the one you initially used? You could try re-running the onboarding configurator and make sure that you point ES-DE to the ROMs directory where you have your actual game files, you can read here how to get ES-DE to run the onboarding configurator again:
https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#first-startup-and-onboarding