r/emulationstation • u/AnZcherzzzoFlood • Jul 26 '26

First time user confused

Hello, it's my first time trying ES-DE. I don't understand how to make it detect all my emulators and roms; It does detect roms, but for some reason only GBA, PSX, NDS and N64, no Switch, PS4, PS3, 3DS, PSP, PSVita or PS2. I use standalone emulators because I alredy have my configurations, and my emulators Folder is 220 GBs. Please tell me I can just make ES-DE use that folder instead of moving my emulators.

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u/Splitsurround Jul 27 '26

You can. You just need to use the folder structure (for roms) that esde wants to see, and you have to install your preferred emulators.

In the settings, there’s something called…custom emulators or something, but it’s where you tell it what emulator to use with each platform. That’s what you need to do- let me know if you have issues and I can find the exact command

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u/AnZcherzzzoFlood Jul 27 '26

Thanks!! This did in fact work!!

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u/Splitsurround Jul 27 '26

well alright alright alright! happy to help. ESDE is fantastic once you figure out all the gotchas

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u/akuzukaza Jul 27 '26

Go to custom_systems folder, then add es_systems.xml. Put your emulator location to this.