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+EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) - Portable installation on Windows
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+
+ES-DE release:
+1.2.3
+
+Instructions:
+
+1) The ROMs_ALL directory contains all the systems that ES-DE supports, but to decrease application startup time, only copy the systems you need to the ROMs directory.
+2) Copy your games into the respective folders in the ROMs directory.
+3) Place your emulators inside the Emulators directory.
+4) Optionally copy your existing gamelists, scraped/downloaded media, custom collections, custom systems and themes to the .emulationstation directory.
+5) Start ES-DE using EmulationStation.exe and enjoy some retrogaming!
+
+In case of issues, check .emulationstation\es_log.txt for clues as to what went wrong.
+Starting EmulationStation.exe with the --debug flag will provide even more details.
+
+This portable release contains a specific es_find_rules.xml file that will only look for emulators inside the portable directory tree.
+If you would like to use the default configuration file instead which will also look for emulators elsewhere on your system then go to resources\systems\windows\
+and delete the es_find_rules.xml file and rename es_find_rules_default.xml to es_find_rules.xml
+
+Preconfigured emulator locations:
+
+Emulators\RetroArch-Win64\retroarch.exe
+Emulators\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
+Emulators\cemu\Cemu.exe
+Emulators\Citra\canary-mingw\citra.exe
+Emulators\Citra\nightly-mingw\citra.exe
+Emulators\Dolphin-x64\Dolphin.exe
+Emulators\dosbox-staging\dosbox.exe
+Emulators\duckstation\duckstation-nogui-x64-ReleaseLTCG.exe
+Emulators\duckstation\duckstation-qt-x64-ReleaseLTCG.exe
+Emulators\flycast\flycast.exe
+Emulators\mame\mame.exe
+Emulators\melonDS\melonDS.exe
+Emulators\mGBA\mGBA.exe
+Emulators\mupen64plus\mupen64plus-ui-console.exe
+Emulators\PCSX2\pcsx2.exe
+Emulators\PPSSPP\PPSSPPWindows64.exe
+Emulators\redream\redream.exe
+Emulators\RPCS3\rpcs3.exe
+Emulators\ryujinx\Ryujinx.exe
+Emulators\VBA-M\visualboyadvance-m.exe
+Emulators\xemu\xemu.exe
+Emulators\xenia\xenia.exe
+Emulators\yuzu\yuzu-windows-msvc\yuzu.exe