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best to check screenscraper.fr to see if they have metadata for the game you are trying to scrape. if the game exists there you can try to search for the it by name using the “refine” button if it doesn’t come up automatically

@@ES-DE_Frontend Thanks so much. Didn't expect the dev to be so good about responding even on youtube. <3 You are the best

yes check out the user guide here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#multiple-game-files-installation

we’ll consider that

@@ES-DE_Frontend Thanks for the answer!!

check out details in our user guide here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md?ref_type=heads#advanced-display-configuration

@@ES-DE_Frontend Where can I find the resolution command line option? Have you made a video about this?

yes using the delete action in the game edit menu will permanently delete the game from your filesystem.

@@ES-DE_Frontend Thanks this is super helpful. On a side note could I request adding .LYX file extension to the Atari Lynx? RetroArch's Beetle Lynx does not accept .zip and as ES-DE doesn't have the extension listed in the systeminfo.txt my roms currently won't display.

@@ES-DE_Frontend Great, thank you! Hope to see more videos from you guys.

was checking out the beetle lynx documentation just now and it lists the extensions of .lnx and .o as supported (and good news us both of those extensions are handled by es-de). i didn’t see an extension in their documentation for .lyx though. was looking here: docs.libretro.com/library/beetle_lynx/

@@ES-DE_Frontend Hi thanks for the reply. No-Intro Lynx is in .lyx format for retail games, (the no intro .lnx is an entirely different set). Handy's latest version on their official website is 0.90 but there's actually a 0.97 (that mainly fixed an audio issue) from 2016 which Retroarch also updated to. I'm not sure when .lyx support was added but I just double checked now and Handy on Retroarch plays .lyx with no issue. Alternatively, (which I ended up doing) was converting .lyx to .lnx but if we have .lyx added to ES-DE this step wouldn't be needed to view our games in ES-DE. I think this is an undocumented change from the original authors since it's from so long ago now, but who knows. Ultimately it's a relatively minor thing for an obscure handheld these days.

ES-DE can display triforce games on devices where a triforce emulator is available. You would need to make sure an emulator is set up to play the games separately from ES-DE.

@@ES-DE_Frontend it's Dolphin DX ( it run on Retrobat, but i have tried some times not successfully)

That one is "Retro Mega (Revisited)". It's available in the theme downloader

thank you for the assist @bundangkorea!

@@bundangkorea Great, thanks for the fast reply!

@@ES-DE_Frontend No problem! By the way, the "es-dwee" theme isn't working. I've tried all of them, and this is the only one that shows nothing, just black screens with no artwork

@@ES-DE_Frontend Another follow-up on that previous note. The "es-dwee" theme isn't working in both the windows and android versions. When applied, it just gives the blank empty/default theme with no graphics

we may do some emulator specific videos in the future - thinking through the scope as a given emulator may have different set up needs depending on the platform. so not sure yet but we’ll consider it. and regarding accessibility features we will look into text-to-speech as a first option. research is being done here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/issues/1344

You should also check out the ForAll theme in the downloader which was designed with visual impairment in mind

@@ES-DE_Frontend thank you.

the details in our android documentation may help: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#supported-game-systems Also please join our discord - we can try to help more there.

there are no plans to increase the amount of threads in app

its on our roadmap to consider!

its a theme called “colorful (simplified)” using the “list: metadata & boxart” variant

Fantastic, thanks, just found it

thank you! playtime is on our roadmap and something we’ll explore adding - gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

@@ES-DE_Frontend Good to know, thanks for the amazing work.

I am using AetherSX2 version 3668 and I am able to boot directly into games from ES-DE on my Retroid Pocket 4 Pro (my games are in chd format). The main thing that comes to mind to check is to make sure your ps2 directory is (1) set up in AetherSX2 and (2) is all lowercase e.g. `ps2`. Those are the 2 things we have seen that can prevent games from booting as expected. But please join our discord if you can for further help.

Sorry I don't have a 353v to compare. The device in the video is a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro with the following specs: www.goretroid.com/cdn/shop/files/1_e1658dfb-4505-4926-8d98-8d978d3ad4c5_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1702977514

it doesn’t support background music yet, however it is in our roadmap to add - gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

@@ES-DE_Frontend it's good, hope it will be supported soon

Great question, I was running this demo on PC where Model 2 and Model 3 are supported emulators which is why they displayed. On Android I am not aware of an emulator that supports Model 2 and Model 3 so those systems will not show up on android due to that. the full list of supported emulators on android can be found here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#supported-game-systems

And rather importantly, cross platform!

Appreciate your feedback! I can hope its understandable that creating a consistent and shared metadata format across all the available frontends would be fairly complex (and coordinating changes on that shared structure would also add complexity that I am not sure all frontends would want to adopt). That said, we would be glad to contribute to that conversation for sure. For now though, it is possible to use existing artwork and metadata that has been scraped for a different frontend. You just need to move it into a directory structure ES-DE expects. For gamelist.xml files (which store metadata for games): - as long as they utilize the EmulationStation format that was defined by the original ES they will work with ES-DE - I know offhand that Retropie and Batocera use the gamelist.xml format and have tested using those files as is in ES-DE - to get gamelist.xml files to show up in ES-DE simply move them into the ES-DE/gamelists/{system} folder that they relate to - for example for genesis you would move the gamelist.xml into ES-DE/gamelists/genesis For media files (i.e. the artwork for each game) - You would just need to move those into into the ES-DE/downloaded_media/{system} folder that they relate to - And in that folder follow the instructions laid out here: gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#manually-copying-game-media-files In short, it is possible to reuse your existing files using the notes above. And if you have questions on that process we'll be glad to help. You may ask "why does ES-DE place the gamelists and downloaded_media separately from games"? - First reason is portability of the files between different platforms that ES-DE is supported on (i.e. you can easily use/sync the same gamelists and downloaded media across PC, MacOS, Linux and Android) - Second reason is we believe in a separation of concerns when it comes to your games and metadata/media files. The prime example of this is if you wanted to use another frontend in the future, we do not want to pollute your games directory with files that ES-DE looks for (we feel thats not a good practice) Hope that helps at least explain our perspective and thank you for checking this out.

yes its possible but there is a quirk with it. In Main Menu > UI Settings turn off "Enable Virtual Keyboard" This will enable the native android keyboard to display and allows copy/paste through androids native UI The quirk... with android's keyboard open, as soon as you press a gamepad button a green border will show around the edge of the screen. Sadly there is no way for us to fix this directly. So my recommendation... If you have something to copy/paste then turn off virtual keyboard Open the field you want to paste into Use googles keyboard to paste Save Turn Virtual Keyboard back on and restart ES-DE (that will remove the green border) Alternatively if you have the ability to plugin a USB or bluetooth keyboard - copy/paste will work from that without any issue. Hope that helps!

@@ES-DE_Frontend Thank you for these tips. I ended opening the gamelist.xml on a file explorer and pasted the description there. It was quick.

there a few users in our discord discussing options for winlator so I would recommend to join to keep up with their findings (in the android channel specifically). currently there is no direct way to open intents from what i have seen so no way for us to have native support until that changes.

possible to double check the format of your .psvtia files? there should no spaces or linebreaks - just the id of the game on the first line of the file (no spaces and no line break after). thats typically what causes a psvita game to not open.

I used the same file editing tool in the video to create a file. After that, the Android side can open the game normally and no longer flashback. However, the flashback phenomenon has not changed after I imported the written file into the computer of Win11 system.​@@ES-DE_Frontend

hmm i’m not sure if i’ve run into that before. are you saying that when you put your device to sleep that RA closes? if yes, then try looking at android’s battery management settings for RA. android be shutting it down on you because its either trying to save battery or free up memory.

sadly not that i have found - would be a good suggestion for the skraper team though. we're hoping they are interested in helping create a more direct configuration.

@@ES-DE_Frontend It is possible by using specific configuration for each system. Tedious but doable. The fastest way is to edit manually the skraper.config.json file I think. Each overriden system is contained between an {"Overriden" } tag so it relatively easy to do one system then copy/paste it and mass replacing the folder path (just take care of the file extensions tag which diffear from system to system). Not saying that it is painless but it is a one time job so worth it imho. In fact only the "Medias:" and "OutputFile:" tags need to be replaced.

thank you!

its an Ayn Odin 2

thank you, we have a helpful community on discord that may be able to help with emulator questions. please feel free to join here: discord.gg/EVVX4DqWAP

its called solid file explorer

for clarification ES-DE on Android is a one time purchase and the other versions (Windows, MacOS and Linux) are all free. For the android version you can choose to stay a long time subscriber if you want but its not required, just a one time purchase is all thats asked - you will get updates for life from that one time purchase. Hope that helps.

i believe they have a channel screenscraper discord

@@ES-DE_Frontend screenscraper not skyscraper

Sorry I am not that familiar with Retrobat but I do at least think it uses a variant of EmulationStation. So with that in mind it is possible that the Recalbox option in the wizard will work for your case as well. But best to try to find the discord or forum for Retrobat and try to ask there. Sorry i'm not able to be of more help than that (ES-DE is a separate project so this video focuses purely on ES-DE specifics).

retrobat is going to be closer to recalbox out of the box than ES-DE is, as I believe retrobat still looks for the images and .xml files in the console folders the same as recalbox.

​@@ES-DE_Frontend I'm so sorry.. I asked because retrobat seems to be connected in some way. I've also been thinking just switching to es de. . seems less complicated and more friendly user for a beginner like me. thanks for answering my questions❤ and will look forward to your videos in the future👍

​@@DonaldWymanthan you so much for replying. it was really confusing since there is no option for es de or retrobat. I still have a lot to learn. thank you so much for your answer👍

@@esteban_dido_1 No problem. The reason the Recalbox option works for these 2 is that recalbox, es-de, and retrobat is that they are all forms of emulation station. Recalbox is a whole operating system That uses emulationstation as the main interface, whereas the other 2 are just forks of emulation station to be used in whatever OSs they support(I think retrobat is windows only).

Sorry I wasn't around back then =) but i'm also glad this looks like it will help others based on your experience.

@@ES-DE_Frontend It should definitely help, especially with what to name the image folders, and where to save the .xml files and image folders after everything is done. These were things I kinda had to figure out my self after scraping a few games using the built-in scraper and then digging through the ES-DE files.

ES-DE's built in scraper is solid (and I like that its native and can be used while using the app). That said we have seen a few use cases where it may make sense to use an external program like Skraper. For example; lets say you want to prepare your media ahead of getting your device. A program like Skraper could allow you to get all your metadata/media prepared ahead of time. Another common one is ES-DE's built-in scraper must stay open while you are scraping; so if you have a large library then Skraper could be a nice alternative to scraping outside of ES-DE so you can play games while Skraper is doing its job =)

@@ES-DE_Frontendah oke

sorry i’m not able to help with that. best to try our discord or retro game communities on reddit.

We have a lot of work to do in simply documenting ES-DE; so emulator configuration is sadly out of scope for us right now (The amount of devices that would need to be covered is quite large and we are a small team). That said, we do have an awesome community on discord though and you may be able to find answers to your questions by talking with us there.