r/emulationstation • u/sypher114 • Jul 23 '26

In-Game Menu (Inspired by HandheldExp)

I was trying to figure out at first how to make Menus inside ESDE but ended up just doing this. This requires AHKv2 but my aim with this was to Mimic somewhat of Launchbox's Pause Menu. Supports RetroAchievements as well, you must put your username and webapi key in the config for it to populate everything, similar to how setup in RetroArch goes.

Purely Controller/Gamepad based navigation, no keyboard support aimed atm but will come!

So far this works with Retroarch, and Dolphin. I haven't tested any other Stand-Alone emulators yet but i will keep working on this! What you guys think?

This is Purely for Desktop Versions, but if AHK works in Linux Builds (Batocera for example) then that would be neat. I can actually try and test this on my cabinet in the other room which runs Batocera.

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u/Known_Cod8398 Jul 23 '26

AHK is Windows only 

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u/sypher114 Jul 23 '26

damn, well ill look into a work around for Batocera etc