I spent waaay too much time configuring Daijisho and it works perfectly and looks exactly like this..I think I'm good but I would give it a shot if I was starting from scratch..
This is so tempting, but I’ve spent hours getting my Odin 2 set up JUST right with Reset Collection, which seems to offer a very similar experience and presentation. A good front end is absolutely game-changing, though, whichever way you end up going. Glad this is here for people who have been waiting patiently for a port!
As much as I LOVE Reset Collection (and I did spend a while getting that to look how I want it), you just can't beat Emulation Station and all of its themes, this is so amazing 😭😭
EmulationStation beats circles around any other Android Front end. I own Launchbox for Android (about 25 bucks for lifetime) I will never use that from now on ES is THAT good.
@@Servaas I'll agree with that as well. LaunchBox is in a league of its own on Windows PC and it's the top of them all. However, this fork of EmulationStation for Android is the best I've tried among the several frontends for the Android OS
Wonder if there is a way to add a section for android games/apps? Would be great to easily go through android games, game pass, ps streaming, steam link etc.
The community needs to build an entire android operating system for emulation!! It’d be so nice to be able to completely make it a full dedicated emulation device
I was going to get another Retro device, but had to replace my phone first. So I decided to use Retroarch and ES-DE on my new S24 Ultra and a new 8bitDo SN30 Pro. I bought a dock to use sometimes it with my TV via Samsung Dex. Honestly, i'm impressed with emulation with this setup With the Phone + Controller + clip setup, it's pretty great; although i haven't tested above PSX. Using the Tv, I definitely need the dock because casting wirelessly has noticeable to severe lag even on NES. I'm happy with this setup with ES-DE; if it wasn't on Andoid I probably would have picked up an Odin. Thanks to your videos I was pretty familiar with using Retroarch and translating that usability to Android was much smoother than it would have been otherwise.
I’m realizing patience and planning is everything when it comes to set up on these devices. Having to re-set up everything is much harder than setting up from scratch. Waiting for these front ends to drop before really fine tuning everything seems like the best bet for now.
I've always been more of a Launchbox user, but this looks fun to mess with too, so I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the video! Very informative and useful! I'll try this on my Retroid Pocket 3+ It'd be cool to see you make a similar video for Launchbox, setting everything up and stuff.
As I mentioned in a previous post, LaunchBox/BigBox is in a league of its own and is absolutely the best choice for Windows PC. However, its Android version is decent but far from the best. This fork of EmulationStation for Android is a much better choice
Hi Russ, great video as always, and very helpful. I wanted to give some feedback. I recently purchased the RG556 and went through your written guide and videos in the order you have it on your website. That means I set up all the emulators one by one, and then the frontend (Emulation Station) at the end. This caused me to redo a bunch of work, because I had my ROM folders set up with custom names, but Emulation Station creates its own folders and expects you to use their naming convention. I would recommend folks start with the front end, so that the ROM folders are created. Then have folks copy their games to the proper Emulation Station folders, set up their emulators for each game system, and then finalize their front end at the end. This way, they won't have to go and fix the emulators they previously set up by having to re-point each emulator to the new ROM folders. It also means folks won't have to move their games from one folder to another, system by system. Not sure if Daijisho also works like this, as I decided I wanted to use Emulation Station instead. Thank you for your amazing channel and videos!
Hey I appreciate your full walkthrough on how to do this, I just set this up with the Odin 2, next I'm doing the RP4 Pro. I understood everthing very well, now just scraping my box art for all the games I have on the device. That's about to take a long time.....
Great video. After all the setup and configuration, it seems finally possible to have on Android an experience similar to having a PC running Batocera Linux. For me personally, the only thing left would be to completely stop/block Android system updates (and checking) after I have everything working how I want. To avoid anything breaking, or new notifications popping up. (Sorry if that is covered in the video, I did not watch all parts 100% yet)
Tks Russ for all the great clips. I brought myself a RP4P to recall my childhood memories 😎. On ES-DE it gives rom folders cps1, cps2 etc but my mame roms are all stored in a single folder, is there a tool to tell the rom’s system and put them in to different folders?
Great video as always. I did this with my Alldocube iPlay Mini Pro tablet with a modded Game Sir Galileo controller and it's awesome as a dedicated gaming setup.
As a launcher setup I would suggest the one that already exists (I don't really remember the name of it but it's pretty much designed for these handhelds) and launching ES-DE from there You can access your other stuff while being able to also use ES-DE as a frontend
Thanks Russ! Can you share your Android config files for Retroarch? The guides videos are great, but I think a lot of people just want the config files so it's easier/faster, thanks!
Not sure how many people this will help but just in case, I wanted to confirm you can get this on the RP2+ as well. It involves going out of your way to update to Android 11 (which can't be done OTA as far as I know, but isn't overly complicated) as well as making sure your Retroarch/AArch64 is updated to a recent version!
Thanks so much for this video. I don't think this is for me but such a thorough video gave me a great view on it as an option and why I don't think it's quite the right pick for me.
Same for me. I like ES on my smaller RG351 handhelds, but I'm REALLY liking Daijishou as my home on the Odin 2 now that I've gotten used to how it works.
i'm not really seeing anything to different from daijisho tbh. your start-up guide for daijisho along with others in the community made it seamless for me to dive into daijisho and i don't really feel there's anything wrong with it but nonetheless, ES still has me thinking "yeah man, i wanna do it" on some other device someday :3
Daijisho can filter by game genre - example, you wanna play a platforming game but no specific one in mind. Just filter all platforming games and choose from there. Can ES-DE do that too?
This front end is amazing! Absolutely blown away with it. Screescraper is giving me fits, though. Scraping just 200 games shows as 20000 scrapes on their site. I can't believe each game is averaging 100 scrapes(!). So strange...
What's the benefit to setting up My Drawer? Why not just hit the Home button on the Odin 2? Android newbie here, so truly don't know. I'm watching this waiting for my Odin 2 to arrive.
This is great news, because it means that the handheld industry can move to more powerful ARM-hardware offering great performance, battery life and sleep functionality while still offering a great user experience! Not to mention that you aren't limited to emulation. Being able to play modern indie/native games like Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Streets of Rage 4 definitely adds value and makes it more into a gaming machine, rather than just an emulation machine.
This looks like a good start for ES, but Daijisho doesn't require all this fussing--- even down to making it the default launcher. For my money Daijisho just needs a portrait mode to make it just about perfect.
After testing for a while, there's a couple of things that makes me nervous about using it as my default app. My number 1 concern is that the screen stays lit as long as you're in the app... As if being in the app itself, even if you do nothing, counts as activity. Starting it up right when the device starts risks forgetting to close it (as it is intuitive in android) and drain your battery completely. Scraping also doesn't seem to work when screen is closed, so you have to wait for it to complete while screen stays on. Since the scraping is SLLLLOOOW (350 games requires 2 hours... Imagine a full set of 2-3k roms!), it's a continuous battery drain unless you keep it plugged in If there's any way to solve the always on screen when inactive issue and the processes stopping when device is sleeping issue, perhaps I'd consider using it as a homeapp. Otherwise, using it as a home app right now is a rather hasty suggestion. Too risky to forget to close the device manually 😅
Russ, your the man! Love the content. Thank you for all your hard work.
Phenomenal guide as always Russ. Seems like a lot of work for setup and wouldn't work for my phone, but the video is just outstanding.
Brilliant, as always, Russ! I’m going to run (not walk) to setup my Pocket Flip accordingly!
I spent waaay too much time configuring Daijisho and it works perfectly and looks exactly like this..I think I'm good but I would give it a shot if I was starting from scratch..
This is so tempting, but I’ve spent hours getting my Odin 2 set up JUST right with Reset Collection, which seems to offer a very similar experience and presentation. A good front end is absolutely game-changing, though, whichever way you end up going. Glad this is here for people who have been waiting patiently for a port!
Did you try Beacon?
As much as I LOVE Reset Collection (and I did spend a while getting that to look how I want it), you just can't beat Emulation Station and all of its themes, this is so amazing 😭😭
@@soroceanuloredana635: I haven’t. Once I got on the Reset train, it was hard to justify getting off to look at alts. That’s a good one, though?
EmulationStation beats circles around any other Android Front end. I own Launchbox for Android (about 25 bucks for lifetime) I will never use that from now on ES is THAT good.
@@Servaas I'll agree with that as well. LaunchBox is in a league of its own on Windows PC and it's the top of them all. However, this fork of EmulationStation for Android is the best I've tried among the several frontends for the Android OS
running pretty smooth. Great that runs on Samsung Dex without the home screen problems that Daijisho and other launcher have after Android 13
Thank you for this great guide, like always your contents are fun, useful, and most importantly helpful.
Wonder if there is a way to add a section for android games/apps? Would be great to easily go through android games, game pass, ps streaming, steam link etc.
This is the one thing that would put me over the edge.
As far as I've seen it doesn't. That's why I would still prefer daijisho, it's even free and this is not
I loved emulation station on my raspberry pi console. I'm actually excited.
The community needs to build an entire android operating system for emulation!! It’d be so nice to be able to completely make it a full dedicated emulation device
Awesome Video! I preferred Linux Devices over android because I just was not a fan of Daijisho This is amazing!
I was going to get another Retro device, but had to replace my phone first. So I decided to use Retroarch and ES-DE on my new S24 Ultra and a new 8bitDo SN30 Pro. I bought a dock to use sometimes it with my TV via Samsung Dex. Honestly, i'm impressed with emulation with this setup With the Phone + Controller + clip setup, it's pretty great; although i haven't tested above PSX. Using the Tv, I definitely need the dock because casting wirelessly has noticeable to severe lag even on NES. I'm happy with this setup with ES-DE; if it wasn't on Andoid I probably would have picked up an Odin. Thanks to your videos I was pretty familiar with using Retroarch and translating that usability to Android was much smoother than it would have been otherwise.
I’m realizing patience and planning is everything when it comes to set up on these devices. Having to re-set up everything is much harder than setting up from scratch. Waiting for these front ends to drop before really fine tuning everything seems like the best bet for now.
Soo, PSP games don't play at all using this. PPSSPP opens up to a black screen and then nothing. Does anyone know a fix for this?
I've always been more of a Launchbox user, but this looks fun to mess with too, so I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the video! Very informative and useful! I'll try this on my Retroid Pocket 3+
It'd be cool to see you make a similar video for Launchbox, setting everything up and stuff.
As I mentioned in a previous post, LaunchBox/BigBox is in a league of its own and is absolutely the best choice for Windows PC. However, its Android version is decent but far from the best. This fork of EmulationStation for Android is a much better choice
@@bundangkorea why is it better than launchbox on android?
Hi Russ, great video as always, and very helpful. I wanted to give some feedback. I recently purchased the RG556 and went through your written guide and videos in the order you have it on your website. That means I set up all the emulators one by one, and then the frontend (Emulation Station) at the end. This caused me to redo a bunch of work, because I had my ROM folders set up with custom names, but Emulation Station creates its own folders and expects you to use their naming convention. I would recommend folks start with the front end, so that the ROM folders are created. Then have folks copy their games to the proper Emulation Station folders, set up their emulators for each game system, and then finalize their front end at the end. This way, they won't have to go and fix the emulators they previously set up by having to re-point each emulator to the new ROM folders. It also means folks won't have to move their games from one folder to another, system by system. Not sure if Daijisho also works like this, as I decided I wanted to use Emulation Station instead.
Thank you for your amazing channel and videos!
Hey I appreciate your full walkthrough on how to do this, I just set this up with the Odin 2, next I'm doing the RP4 Pro. I understood everthing very well, now just scraping my box art for all the games I have on the device. That's about to take a long time.....
Great video. After all the setup and configuration, it seems finally possible to have on Android an experience similar to having a PC running Batocera Linux. For me personally, the only thing left would be to completely stop/block Android system updates (and checking) after I have everything working how I want. To avoid anything breaking, or new notifications popping up. (Sorry if that is covered in the video, I did not watch all parts 100% yet)
Tks Russ for all the great clips. I brought myself a RP4P to recall my childhood memories 😎.
On ES-DE it gives rom folders cps1, cps2 etc but my mame roms are all stored in a single folder, is there a tool to tell the rom’s system and put them in to different folders?
Great video as always. I did this with my Alldocube iPlay Mini Pro tablet with a modded Game Sir Galileo controller and it's awesome as a dedicated gaming setup.
Hey Russ! AnyHome is not available for newer version of Android. What should we do?
As a launcher setup I would suggest the one that already exists (I don't really remember the name of it but it's pretty much designed for these handhelds) and launching ES-DE from there
You can access your other stuff while being able to also use ES-DE as a frontend
Your videos are very relaxing ❤
Thanks Russ! Can you share your Android config files for Retroarch? The guides videos are great, but I think a lot of people just want the config files so it's easier/faster, thanks!
Not sure how many people this will help but just in case, I wanted to confirm you can get this on the RP2+ as well. It involves going out of your way to update to Android 11 (which can't be done OTA as far as I know, but isn't overly complicated) as well as making sure your Retroarch/AArch64 is updated to a recent version!
Still waiting for a Retro Game Corps t-shirt that says “yea man I wanna do it”
Thanks so much for this video. I don't think this is for me but such a thorough video gave me a great view on it as an option and why I don't think it's quite the right pick for me.
Same for me.
I like ES on my smaller RG351 handhelds, but I'm REALLY liking Daijishou as my home on the Odin 2 now that I've gotten used to how it works.
@@chriswilliams8039 yeah, exactly. pretty sure I'm good with Daijisho
i'm not really seeing anything to different from daijisho tbh. your start-up guide for daijisho along with others in the community made it seamless for me to dive into daijisho and i don't really feel there's anything wrong with it
but nonetheless, ES still has me thinking "yeah man, i wanna do it" on some other device someday :3
I agree… daijisho works just fine barring redream
@@eazyste100 i haven't checked out redream; will do now tho!
I think im ready for the odin2!! thanks for this video!
What did you end up doing for Saturn emulation? Yaba Sanshiro 2 Pro isn’t available as an alternative emulator on the frontend.
Thankyou Russ, great video (as usual) but the Android app suggestions have been a game changer for me 😊
Finally, something as good as the Linux based systems. I'm setting this up on my Odin this weekend. Thanks!
Ditch everything else, ES-DE (AKA the King) is here! Thank you ES-DE team, thank you for a great video Russ!
Another banger Russ! Keep em coing!
I used daijisho fir android until now... But that looks promising... Would like to see a performance vs video between those 2
Tbh for most, daijisho is fine. Now once emudeck gets fully up and running on android, this makes the ES-DE purchase more valid.
Wow I just got Daijisho setup, and I'm switching 😂 thanks Russ! Awesome vid
Why Daijisho is free
@@mackw919 I like the way this looks
I cant get any of my roms to launch straight in, its taking me to the emulator games menus
Maybe this will bring my interest back around to my RP3 that's currently collecting dust on my desk.
This is a game-changer.
RIP Daijisho
Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
I just set ES on my Retroid Pocket 2s and it looks great!
Daijisho can filter by game genre - example, you wanna play a platforming game but no specific one in mind. Just filter all platforming games and choose from there. Can ES-DE do that too?
This front end is amazing! Absolutely blown away with it. Screescraper is giving me fits, though. Scraping just 200 games shows as 20000 scrapes on their site. I can't believe each game is averaging 100 scrapes(!). So strange...
What's the benefit to setting up My Drawer? Why not just hit the Home button on the Odin 2? Android newbie here, so truly don't know. I'm watching this waiting for my Odin 2 to arrive.
That set of cascading apps to access other Android games is really smart.
This is great news, because it means that the handheld industry can move to more powerful ARM-hardware offering great performance, battery life and sleep functionality while still offering a great user experience! Not to mention that you aren't limited to emulation. Being able to play modern indie/native games like Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Streets of Rage 4 definitely adds value and makes it more into a gaming machine, rather than just an emulation machine.
What a great new !!!Emulation on android will be so cool :-)
This looks like a good start for ES, but Daijisho doesn't require all this fussing--- even down to making it the default launcher. For my money Daijisho just needs a portrait mode to make it just about perfect.
After testing for a while, there's a couple of things that makes me nervous about using it as my default app.
My number 1 concern is that the screen stays lit as long as you're in the app... As if being in the app itself, even if you do nothing, counts as activity. Starting it up right when the device starts risks forgetting to close it (as it is intuitive in android) and drain your battery completely. Scraping also doesn't seem to work when screen is closed, so you have to wait for it to complete while screen stays on. Since the scraping is SLLLLOOOW (350 games requires 2 hours... Imagine a full set of 2-3k roms!), it's a continuous battery drain unless you keep it plugged in
If there's any way to solve the always on screen when inactive issue and the processes stopping when device is sleeping issue, perhaps I'd consider using it as a homeapp. Otherwise, using it as a home app right now is a rather hasty suggestion. Too risky to forget to close the device manually 😅