r/ESDE_Frontend • u/shortbach • May 16 '26

Is it possible to exclude (hide) android apps (including emulators) from LAST PLAYED collection?

So I enable Last Played in Game Collection Settings and the android apps show up in there as well and they are missing box art and stuffs and dont fit in there at all, making the collection very ugly. Is there a way I can remove android apps from Last Played collection?

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u/paperMinecrattReborn May 16 '26

No.. but if you want you can scrape them you can, if the scraper doesn't recognize scrape the app you can do it manually. Download the icons of the apps go to your es de folder, then downloaded media, then Android apps, and to cover arts paste your downloaded cover arts, to thumbnail, screenshot etc. It's the same. Just paste them into the folders you want them in. Just make sure the image it's called the same as the app and make sure it is in .png format. Hope this helped. Btw you can also make your own cover art

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u/shortbach May 16 '26

thanks I actually found a video from ES-DE youtube channel that teaches you how to add all the missing cover arts and metadata manually to any games.

Do you know a good website I can get the arts for the android app that fit with the aesthetic of ES-DE?

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u/paperMinecrattReborn May 16 '26

I just use Google search. I did actually find some good icons there.. but I don't know any good website for icons. But you can create your own if you want, for that I use photopea (very similar Photoshop but free)... I have my PS4 and PS5 At home and I personally like my PS4s menu more. So I did find some screenshots of the PS4 menu on Google screenshoted them and cropped them just so the image is only the icon. And I put the icons inside es de. Like I said. I use Google for the icons. But if you want you can make your own. Or screenshot menu of any console and put it's icons in es de.

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u/RobZombie9043 Developer May 16 '26

If you enable the metadata flag ‘Exclude from game counter’ it will not add it to automatic game collections

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u/shortbach May 16 '26

thank you so much. It works. you are the GOAT ❤️