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The new retroarch on Play store requires SAF meaning launching no longer works in ES-DE. Also now every game system directory needs to be added manually to RetroArch which is very tedious. We will add a new option to enable this support for retroarch but dont recommend it.

25/8/26, 3:05 pm0 reposts9 likes

SuperMarkus

@supermarkus.bsky.social

25 Aug

Any chance of implementing direct libretro API support and get rid of this madness? gitlab.com/es-de/emulat...

gitlab.comPlans on Making EmulationStation a Libretro Frontend (#1901) · Issues · ES-DE / ES-DE Frontend · GitLabHello everyone! I was wondering if there are or were ever some plans to make EmulationStation a real Libretro frontend instead of just a launcher for...

ES-DE Frontend

@es-de.org

26 Aug

That would be a very big change to what ES-DE is though and not something that is realistic to add in short term at least, but it's for sure an interesting idea.

SuperMarkus

@supermarkus.bsky.social

1 Sept

From what I understand the complexities arise from supporting many configurations. I would actually prefer built-in support with only very limited options exposed to the user and rather curate used cores and exposed options. For example: start with NES and only support libretro-fceumm.