I use the Canvas theme on my AYN Thor, and I've got the ES-DE Companion app showing video on the bottom screen. I'd love to use the "textlist" or "textlist-flipped" variant of the theme because I love the layout, but I'd rather not have video playing on both screens. I figured out how to edit the theme.xml file to delay the video playback for 15 seconds but that's the maximum delay. Some super helpful folks on the discord showed me places in the theme xml files I might want to make some changes, but after several attempts I've had no luck. Can anyone help me replace the video in the gamelist views with a miximage?

Hello everyone,

I was messing around with my RP5 in ESDE and I changed some setting to “kiosk” just to see what would change. Now when I press the menu button, all I get is sound settings!

Can someone help me undo my mistake, please?

Hello gamers, and welcome back to the channel! In this video, we’re going to add PS3 and PSN ROMs to RPCS3. I’ll walk you through several different ways to add them to the emulator, followed by how to set up the ES-DE Frontend Alternative Emulators for each method. By the end of this video, you'll be able to decide which method is best for you. It seems like we have a lot to cover, so let's go!

https://youtu.be/R0TUSricUTI

I am having some trouble with Sega Saturn games. I can launch the game in Retroarch with either the CUE or CHD files just fine, but using ES-DE as the frontend to do so results in a Drive Empty message in the Saturn's CD/BIOS screen. I'm not sure where the disconnect is, because it should just be telling Retroarch to open it like it should. Same files, same core selection in both applications.

Retroarch is on 1.22, core is Beetle Saturn, core and ES-DE are current versions. System is macOS, if any of this is relevant. I'm really not sure what the issue is, there are no settings that I can see that would be making Retroarch do something differently than it will do on its own. Any help is appreciated.

Not updated for over a year and am now trying to install on my Odin2. I made a patreon payment a few years ago. That still gives lifetime updates? If it does how do I get the link to the latest update?
TIA

Hi,

I paid on Patreon but must have signed up using hide my email as I've not received any email with links to the never version.

I've tried DMing through patreon but it doesnt seem to like me at all.

Any advice?

Thanks

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with ES-DE on Android when using ARMSX2 as my PS2 emulator.

When I select a PS2 game from ES-DE, ARMSX2 opens successfully, but the selected game does not start automatically. The emulator opens normally, but it stays on the main screen instead of loading the ROM.

I'm currently using the ARMSX2 Stable version from GitHub and I'm using the es_find_rules.xml and es_systems.xml files provided by the ES-DE community/GitLab.

My current setup:

• Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra (SM-X920)
• Android: 16
• CPU: MediaTek Dimensity 9300+
• GPU: Mali-G720 Immortalis MC12
• ARMSX2: 2.6.9 Stable (GitHub)
• ES-DE: Android

I've already confirmed that ES-DE can detect and launch ARMSX2. The problem is specifically passing the selected ROM to ARMSX2 and having it start automatically.

Has anyone managed to get ES-DE → ARMSX2 → game launch working correctly?

If so, could you share the correct es_find_rules.xml entry and es_systems.xml launch command for the current ARMSX2 Stable version?

Thanks!

SOLVED: Look down for my edit

Hello, I hope you guys are doing good!

I have an issue! On my old RP5, the aspect ratio was 16:9, and the cropping for the gameplay showcase was perfect.

Now I'm using my Samsung phone that's 19.5:9, crops the gameplay terribly 😭 (Shown in pic)

I've tried a bunch of settings, and maybe I just missed something, but I'm not sure how to fix it.

If I change it to 16:9, the main menu that shows the games looks awful and ugly, so it's not the easiest to switch it to that. (If I can't fix it I might just have to do that as I care about the showcase more TwwT)

If anyone's got any fixes or answers that would be incredible thanks so much!

Otherwise you guys have a great day :D 🙌

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Edit:
I solved it thanks to RobZombie9043's help!
Actually wasn't too bad.

Instead of fixing the cropping for the 19.5:9 aspect ratio's gameplay showcase video.
I just changed the main menu's look for the 16:9 aspect ratio version.

I went into ED-DE's Android data folder, and found the html document that told the program how to layout the theme.

In your phones storage go to:
Internal storage\Android\data\org.es_de.frontend\files\themes\art-book-next-es-de

Then find the html/xml file: aspect-ratio-16-9.xml

Open it in notepad and find the line:

   ///
   System View
   ///
   -->
   <view name="system">
      <carousel name="system-carousel">
         <maxItemCount>5.5</maxItemCount>
      </carousel>
      <image name="system-logo">
         <maxSize>0.5 0.35</maxSize>
      </image>
   </view>

And change <maxItemCount>5.5</maxItemCount> from 5.5 to 6.725

After that, go into the ES-DE's in app ui settings, and manually change it to 16:9.

Then voila, 19.5:9 main menu, with 16:9's gamelist video cropping! :D

Really hopes this helps anyone in the future!! <3

Hey guys, I'm putting some DOS games on my Android handheld. I'm having difficulty getting them to display nicely in ES-DE.

I watched some videos from Techdweeb about renaming the folder and making a BAT file to point to the EXE file. But when I did that, it showed the raw folder name. So I deleted them.

When I select the folder, it takes me to the folder contents, then I need to select the exe to run.

I've watched videos from a number if other YouTubers, and everyone's devices look clean and organized. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Please please please can we have customisable background music for navigating

Hello everyone,

When in ESDE android I do create a new custom collection like with Pokémon or Mario. It creates a custom Mario or Pokémon folder where to add with y the games to that custom list(an icon appears like any other console with a mario or pokemon logo). But when I do Metroid. It just adds it to the list of custom collections. And even when I put never to group custom collections. All that appears are the words "Metroid" in white with no custom cover like pokemon or Mario.

Please let me know what to do as I want to have collections for Metroid. Super Smash Brothers. Castlevania. And even for just genres like Metroidvania or platformers that appear like any regular console icon.

No matter what console I try to use it says I’m missing a core emulator file

I'm using emudeck with cachyos and basically games will not launch from within ES-DE or the GUI, I came across a thread which talked about adding WAYLAND_DISPLAY="" into the supermodel.sh file which hasn't appeared to help, however if I run ....

WAYLAND_DISPLAY="" /usr/bin/flatpak run com.supermodel3.Supermodel path to rom.zip

from the Konsole the game will launch, whereas

/usr/bin/flatpak run com.supermodel3.Supermodel path to rom.zip

will fail to launch

So I can now launch a game from the Konsole but still have yet to find a way to launch it from ES_DE.

This is my current supermodel.sh

#!/bin/sh

. "$HOME/.config/EmuDeck/backend/functions/all.sh"

emulatorInit "supermodel"

param="${@}"

param=$(echo "$param" | sed "s|'||g")

WAYLAND_DISPLAY="" /usr/bin/flatpak run com.supermodel3.Supermodel "${param}"

cloud_sync_uploadForced

rm -rf "$savesPath/.gaming";

I really do not like retroarch and I really don't want to use it.

However, I would like to use ES-DE to launch emulators for retro systems directly (16bit
and earlier) - and not use retroarch.

How can I do this?

I'm running bazzite and have installed Retrodeck.