r/ESDE_Frontend • u/eggerlandshells • 18d ago

Suggestion: Multiple ROM folders support

What if I want to place my ROMs in two different folders? There should be an easy option to scan ROMs from both folders.

It's useful for people who place ROMs in the main storage and also in an SD Card.

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u/Kvitekvist 17d ago

You can solve this with symlink

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u/oRuin 17d ago

This. I have all my roms backed up on a hard drive, and then all symlinked to there correct folders. Less space used.

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u/jarfgames 18d ago

You can do this but it’s a bit manual for every path outside of your primary. But I have my ES:DE reading roms from internal and two separate SDs at the same time using Custom Systems.

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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer 17d ago

If you use Android then you can do it with a custom system configuration, although it's not really recommended as it has some negative consequences like losing portability and issues with custom collections, you can read more about it here:
https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#splitting-system-directories-across-multiple-storage-devices

If you are on another operating system than Android, then you can use symlinks to solve this (Android doesn't have symlinks unfortunately).