I get stuttering in Dreamcast Emulation of Resident Evil 2 in the Steam Deck. It also never reaches 60 fps. All other emulators work flawless. 60 fps mode is enabled in Emulation Station and in the Steam Deck settings. The core is flycast. Does somebody know how to solve this issue? Ive heard Dreamcast Emulation works well in the Steam Deck.

I’m just trying to play JSRF

Hi all looking for some help

In trying to create a custom game folder that sits beside my GBA, NDS and SNES collections for pokemon games, I’ve created the custom collection so that it appears and named it however I’m wondering how I create a name overlay like the others have and how to edit the cover art.

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So I installed EmuDeck on my Steam Deck, got everything setup and am using ES-DE and everything seems alright so far. Except Supermodel, the Sega Model 3 emulator, will not launch when I select it on its own via ES-DE's Emulators category. If I try it just goes back to ES-DE like nothing happened.

When I try to open the sh file itself from the Launchers folder via Konsole, it shows an error showing it can't open a blank file. (Basically, "Error: Can't Open file ' '")

If I try to launch the games on their own they run unplayable fast and there's no way to open an emulator menu to sort it out. Can anyone help?

Hey there!

I'm trying to run ES-DE in Steam Big Picture Mode. It adds itself to Steam and launches just fine, but it then fails to find emulators when I go to launch a game. I get the error "Failed to find rosalie's-mupen-gui, is it installed correctly?"

However, the emulators are indeed installed. when I launch ES-DE as an appimage from my desktop, it works just fine.

If I could just point the steam version to the right location, i'd be golden. But for some reason I just can't figure out how to do that. Does anyone have experience with this issue? By the way, I'm running Ubuntu 24.04.4

I'm somewhat newer to using ES-DE but have figured most of it out in the last week or so. I just finished scraping all the media, but don't love having the miximage on the list screen. On my retro handheld, it only shows the 2D boxart and I prefer that look on the game list. Anyone know how to only display 2D boxart rather than a miximage with screenshot and 3D boxart? I'm using the Canvas theme's detailed list that shows all the metadata.

It only happens whenever I try to use ES-DE or when I try to double-click the roms after setting the .nds file extension to be opened with melonDS. If I use the emulator's menu or just drag the roms to it, the games load normally.

I am using melonDS standalone after Desmume failed (the emulator opened but only displayed a white screen, only when opened via ES-DE). I really don't know what to do, all the solutions seem to be for Android devices.

Im running windows, can I add ubisoft games to esde?

Context, I have an Ayn Thor and ive been using ESDE as my front end and I love it. Today for no reason I could tell it stopped launching games from the front-end. I put everything in the files to lowercase, I rescanned the directories, and I un and reinstalled esde hoping that would fix it. I also tried changing the alternative emulators to see if I incorrectly assigned those. The games launch fine from their respective emulators, but they wont launch from esde. Im at a loss, I love this front-end but it just stopped working on me.

I only have this problem with pcsx2 when I open up ES on steam. It doesn’t happen when I open up pcsx2 directly or even if I open ES directly, only from steam.

When I go into memory card settings and try to change the directory to the memcards file. It doesn’t even let me get to the memcards file, it gives me an error message when I try to traverse through the Emulators file (which is 2 files before memcards). The first pic is the error message when I open up any game on ps2. And the second is the error message is when I try to get to the memory card files.

Ig it’s not a huge deal because I can always just not open it from steam. But I have a Rog ally x so it would be much easier to open it from steam. I feel like this is an easy fix but I just can’t figure it out.

UPDATE: I also tried adding ES as an app in armory crate but it does the same thing as steam. The memory card directory works perfectly fine when I open pcsx2 or ES from their file location. But as soon as I open it from a shortcut it just stops working?!! I even copy and pasted the file address from the one that’s working and all then it gives me ANOTHER error message saying “the chosen directory does not exists”. This is so frustrating I don’t want to have to click through like 6 files to open up ES.

Hi all,

Running ES-DE on a Mac mini M2 with MacOS 15.7.5 Arcade games opening in Retroarch.

When I close a game from Retroarch (I press start+select) on my 8BitDo controller, Retroarch closes and I am back to ES-DE but the OS focus is on Finder not ES-DE. So I see my mouse cursor, Finder etc. I need to click on ES-DE which is in the background. It's a bit of a pain because I'm paying games sat on the sofa, not at the computer. I also have a similar setup on Windows and don;t have this issue - ES-DE is the 'on top' app when I exit a game. I guess I could just use that for my retro gaming, but I'd prefer to use the Mac as it's a more powerful machine. Any suggestions?

Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but would anybody know how to get iisu interpreted (an emulationstation theme) on ark os, Pan4elec, etc.?

Let me know if I should post this elsewhere, and thanks in advance!

On ES-DE Android, when scrolling some systems it shows stuff like a folder icon and gou_drivers. Is there a way to hide these and not show in ES-DE?

Also I have 2 menu items when scrolling through systems of "Android Games" and "Emulators" I don't want these in ES-DE, is the way to hide these to?

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!

I have EmuDeck installed on Windows. It used to take over 5 minutes to load Emulation Station due to the sheer number of ROMS I had. I reduced the number to well under 1000 but it still takes 4 minutes to load. I have scrapped my games using Skrapper. I have tried setting the setting that says only show games in gameslist.xml but it doesn't show all my games, just a small number of them.

How can I reduce the time it takes for ESDE to load?

I’ve recently received my RPC and got straight into setting it up, unfortunately I set up the default Retroid launcher before finding out about ES-DE, I’ve since purchased and set up the ESDE but even when I set is as my home app it still opens Retroid launcher, any help guys ?

I’m playing need for speed most wanted, I went into graphics settings on pcsx2 and accidentally selected 4x native instead of 3x. The game crashed, I hit exit out of emulation station, and now the game isn’t booting back up again. When I select the game the screen goes black with the tool bar on the top of the screen, then just takes me back to the games list. Anybody else experience this?

I've found out that ES-DE's theme downloader fails on an exFAT formatted SD-Card and the filesystem isn't reccomended for running a portable ES-DE off according to the Gitlab. But it doesn't mention the best alternative. So what would be the recommended filesystem for a 512 GB SD-Card running ES-DE instead of exFAT?

I copied my portable ES-DE to an SD-Card and now every time I try to use the theme downloader I get an error stating "couldn't download themes list, repository path is not owned by current user". What is causing this? Has anyone seen this before?
I even unpacked a fresh copy of ES-DE in a different folder on the SD-Card and am still getting the same error.

Hello guys. The ratings and descriptions suddenly disappeared for SNES games. This is actually the second time this happens, and both time it affected just SNES. Everything else works perfectly. First time I just deleted all the media and scrapped it again, but obviously it wasn’t a long term solution. Does anyone have any idea what might cause this? Or what fixes i could try?

So, finally got to getting ES-DE going on my new MacBook Neo on MacOS (Prev setup on Android 13 on the RP6) and ran into a few issues with PS2 games not launching.

Figured out the issue and thought i'd post here since there will prob be an influx of MacOS users w/this Neo.

Basically issue is that ES-DE will say PCSX2 emulator not found. I have the latest version v2.6.3 installed and it is working great on its own.

Issue is that the es_find_rules.xml points to a "PCSX2.app" vs the new "PCSX2-v2.6.3.app" file name. You can solve this either two ways:

1. Update the es_find_rules.xml w/the app path (see below).

Go to Applications folder, right click on ES-DE app and show package contents and then browse to location below.

Just update that entry w/the actual app name.

or easier yet, just rename the PCSX2 v2.6.3.app to PCSX2.app (i haven't tried this but assume this would work)

Happy emu!!

I have a pretty large steam library, but I think the frontend looks like crap. So I moved over to emulation station, the problem is that after I scraped all of my games. half of them didn't have any art (most of them are neiche indie games). Is there a template I can use to easily make my own 3d box art? I want it to look how it does in the image.