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07. Frontends

SupervisedThinking edited this page Mar 30, 2021 · 1 revision

Emulationstation

Systems:

Once I've added new cores to my build you have to update your es_systems.cfg! The easiest way to do this is to delete the old file in \\your-device\Configfiles\emulationstation and apply the new update (again). Then the latest version of the systems file will be installed.

Themes:

You can download your favorite emulationstation themes and extract them to \\your-device\Configfiles\emulationstation\themes\ check out the RetroPie wiki for further details.

Background Music:

I've added the mp3/ogg Background Music Player patch to emulationstation which allows the user to play .mp3 & .ogg music while browsing the gamelists, place your music in either of one of those folders:

  • \\your-device\Configfiles\emulationstation\\music
  • \\your-device\music\emulationstation\

And ES will start to randomly play music once started, you can disable the bgm in ES settings menu.

ROMS:

Out of the box Emulationstation will look for roms in /storage/roms so place your roms according to the emulator in the subfolders.

Pegasus-Frontend

Themes:

Pegasus-Frontend also supports themes for example gameOS so extreact them to \\your-device\Configfiles\pegasus-frontend\themes\ to be able to use them afterwards. Check out the https://pegasus-frontend.org/tools/themes/ for further details.

Retroarch

Check out the Libretro Docs how to use it.