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## What's the correct name? EmulationStation, ES-DE, Emulation Station, EmuStation etc?
The correct name is EmulationStation Desktop Edition, which is for practical reasons often shortened to EmulationStation-DE or more commonly ES-DE. It's not spelled Emulation Station in the same manner as you don't write Sony Play Station or Nintendo Game Cube.
The correct name is EmulationStation Desktop Edition, which is for practical reasons often shortened to EmulationStation-DE or more commonly ES-DE. It's not spelled Emulation Station (i.e. two separate words) in the same manner as you don't write Sony Play Station or Nintendo Game Cube.
## Is this software available for free, and is it open source?
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On Windows ES-DE is shipped as a portable installation and as a regular installer. If you're using the portable installation you need to drop your emulators inside the Emulators directory. Make sure to read the README.txt file directly in the EmulationStation-DE folder for more details. For the regular installer many emulators do not provide a method to inform ES-DE where they are installed, so you will need to add their installation directories to the Path environment variable in Windows. It's strongly recommended to read the _Specific notes for Windows_ section of the [User guide](USERGUIDE.md#specific-notes-for-windows) before attempting to setup and use ES-DE on Windows.
## The emulator configuration is all wrong, what's going on?
## The emulators don't seem to be properly configured?
ES-DE acts strictly as a frontend, it does not interfere at all with the emulator configuration. So you need to configure your emulators separately. This includes your controllers as the controller configuration inside ES-DE will have no effect on the emulators. You could of course also use an automated tool to setup your emulator environment, such as using EmuDeck on the Steam Deck.
ES-DE acts strictly as a frontend, it does not interfere at all with the emulator configuration. So you need to configure your emulators separately. This includes your controllers as well since the controller configuration inside ES-DE will have no effect on the emulators. You could of course also use an automated tool to setup your emulator environment, such as using EmuDeck on the Steam Deck.
## On game launch the screen just flashes black and the game won't start, how do I solve this?
This is almost always caused by missing emulator BIOS files which have to be installed separately from ES-DE. See the previous question.
## How do I exit back from the emulators to ES-DE?
This is related to the previous question, ES-DE does not perform any emulator configuration or general system configuration. So you would either need to configure an exit button combination inside your emulator, or use a third party tool to map for instance Alt + F4 or Command + Q to a certain button combination on your controller. If you use RetroArch then it's easy to setup a button combination to exit back to ES-DE, which will apply to all cores. Refer to the RetroArch documentation or their support channels on how to accomplish this.
This is related to the two questions above, ES-DE does not perform any emulator configuration or general system configuration. So you would either need to configure an exit button combination inside your emulator, or use a third party tool to map for instance Alt + F4 or Command + Q to a certain button combination on your controller. If you use RetroArch then it's easy to setup a button combination to exit back to ES-DE, which will apply to all cores. Refer to the RetroArch documentation or their support channels on how to accomplish this.
## I have many games with multiple files, is there a way to show these as single entries?