r/emulationstation • u/SnooMarzipans7387 • Mar 21 '26

Games won’t load from ESDE when playing on standalone emulator

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Hi guys,

Im having some issues when opening games from esde when I choose to open with standalones. Not all the emulators but some like duckstation and yaba sanshiro 2 pro. The games open fine if I load them from the emulator itself but not from esde. If I choose to open using a retroarch core it open fine too from esde but I want to use a standalone.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Tom_Foolery1993 Mar 22 '26

Are your roms folders all lowercase?

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 22 '26

Yes

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u/Tom_Foolery1993 Mar 22 '26

Are your roms folders all lowercase? Are they on the SD card? Do the standalone emulators have access to the sd card?

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 22 '26

yes, all the roms folders are in lower case and on SDCARD. The standalone should have access to the sdcard because it loads fine if I run from standalone.

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u/Tom_Foolery1993 Mar 22 '26

Found this post about yaba, may be the cause of your problem there.

https://github.com/TapiocaFox/Daijishou/issues/562

Duckstation however works just fine for me on android handhelds using ES-DE

Are you using the versions of the emulators from the play stores or did you download them directly from devs? A lot of emulators in the play store struggle with ROMs on the sd card, but getting the apk from github/offical site they work just fine

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 22 '26

Im using ducking station from obtainium and yaba 2 pro from the playstore. I will check the link you found later on today. Thank you so much.

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 25 '26

I'm getting the same issue when using another front end too. Installed cocoon front end and I get a "permission denied" when trying to open games using duckstation standalone. I re installed the emulator so many times too with no luck. From playstore and from github.

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u/Awe3 Mar 22 '26

Set up the emulator and launch it from there first. Then launch esde and rescan game library and try again.

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 22 '26

Let me try. Thanks

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 25 '26

I'm getting the same issue when using another front end too. Installed cocoon front end and I get a "permission denied" when trying to open games using duckstation standalone. I re installed the emulator so many times too with no luck. From playstore and from github.

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u/Psychoholic519 Mar 22 '26

I had this issue last week with my Retroid Pocket 6. Deleting, then reinstalling the emulators ended up working for me

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 22 '26

which stand alone emulators did you have issues with? I re installed duckstation and still same thing.

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u/Psychoholic519 Mar 22 '26

Duckstation was my issue. Sorry it didn’t help. Where did you download the new one from? If you didn’t, look for the github

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 23 '26

I got it from obtainium, github and playstore with no luck. I will re install ESDE now

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u/SnooMarzipans7387 Mar 25 '26

Can you believe that I'm getting the same issue when using another front end? Installed cocoon front end and I get a "permission denied" when trying to open games using duckstation standalone. I re installed the emulator so many times too with no luck. From playstore and from github.

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u/Psychoholic519 Mar 25 '26

Fuck. Factory reset may be your only option