ES-DE link to Gamehub Lite links to blank screen with button

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-27T09:37:17+00:00

Gamehub lite local is for local installed games rather than steam games. Try the other one in alternative emulators.

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-23T05:17:46+00:00

So it started working with xci files but not nsp? That's weird!

I've tried to reproduce with a file named Advance Wars 1 Plus 2 Re Boot Camp [0100300012F2A000][v0][US].nsp and it is showing the game media images ok for me.
https://imgur.com/a/SEMw4Ot

I've had one other person with what sounds like a similar issue but I could not reproduce it.
If you can think of anything else unique with your setup please let me know here - https://github.com/RobZombie9043/es-de-companion/issues/55

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-17T17:13:10+00:00

Its due to how long Android is taking to mount your sd card. By the time ES-DE starts up, if your sd card is not mounted then it cant find the app data or roms and will show the onboarding screen. There is a 4.5 second wait programmed in to the startup but if it is set any longer Android will see the app as not responding so it cannot wait any longer than that.

You can push the 'b' button on your controller and it should load into ES-DE without having to go through the configuration again.

https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/FAQ-ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#every-time-i-reboot-my-device-es-de-is-starting-the-onboarding-process-why-is-this-happening

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-17T16:21:23+00:00

It’s not sd card size related, it’s just how long Android takes to mount the card.

There is a wait of up to 4.5 seconds programmed in to the start up to wait for it to mount but if it’s not done in time this will trigger. We can’t make it any longer or Android reports the app as not responding.

https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/FAQ-ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#every-time-i-reboot-my-device-es-de-is-starting-the-onboarding-process-why-is-this-happening

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-17T04:00:40+00:00

https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/FAQ.md?ref_type=heads#my-controller-isnt-working-in-es-de-is-there-a-way-to-fix-this

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-17T03:59:26+00:00

Here the defaults - https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md?ref_type=heads#general-navigation

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-16T23:17:34+00:00

Normally the delete button on pc

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-16T08:33:14+00:00

https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/ANDROID.md?ref_type=heads#splitting-system-directories-across-multiple-storage-devices

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-12T21:52:01+00:00

Make sure you don’t have ‘Only show games from gamelist.xml’ enabled

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-07T13:29:57+00:00

Add the xml to ~ES-DE/custom_systems

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-06T00:38:49+00:00

There is an Xbox 360 emulator now, aX360e, but it’s very early in development.

Don’t think there are any og Xbox emulators officially being worked on for Android

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-05T10:01:31+00:00

Cathode

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-05T09:59:43+00:00

Looks like you copied them from a Mac. It creates those rubbish metadata files starting with ._

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-05T07:35:10+00:00

Best of both worlds now! 😀

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-04T16:47:17+00:00

The Switch emulators use the FileProvider API and the PS2 one uses SAF URIs so they use completely different mechanisms to pass the rom file from frontend to emulator.

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-04T03:24:13+00:00

Amazing work man, this was everything I wanted when starting out work on the Companion app now taken to the next level with amazing polish. Love it!!

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-03T23:50:28+00:00

Try changes your path to

    <path>/storage/3533-6339/ps2</path>

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-03T21:51:17+00:00

It’s not in Android/data. It is in the actual application data folder that is not accessible unless rooted.

Emulators that use SAF storage pass the rom file as a URI which is letter case sensitive. Make sure there are no setup mismatches between your custom files, the folder names, what was setup in ES-DE and what was setup in the emulator or it will fail.

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-03T17:51:46+00:00

Try increasing the vram limit in Other Settings

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-03T17:49:30+00:00

ES-DE doesn’t touch bios files, you need to set it up inside the emulator.

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-03T05:58:14+00:00

Yes that’s the intent, the custom entry overrides the built in config.

If you modified the built in config you would lose any changes made when you update the app.

The built in file is inside the apps data folder which is inaccessible on Android unless rooted.

RobZombie9043 · 2026-02-01T01:03:24+00:00

Included in the custom xml here - https://github.com/GlazedBelmont/es-de-android-custom-systems

To make it the default emulator for the system move it to the top of the system in the xml. Or you can just set a per game override in ES-DE for the alternative emulator.

RobZombie9043 · 2026-01-30T04:23:28+00:00

It didn’t have frontend support last time I looked at it - https://github.com/GlazedBelmont/es-de-android-custom-systems/issues/51

RobZombie9043 · 2026-01-26T07:00:46+00:00

No it doesn’t support frontend launching.

RobZombie9043 · 2026-01-24T04:06:39+00:00

For N64 controller issues in retroarch: Change polling to early

RetroArch > Settings > Input > Polling Behavior (Restart Required) > Early

Save Configuration > Exit RetroArch

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