diff --git a/es-app/assets/Windows_Portable_README.txt b/es-app/assets/Windows_Portable_README.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bbefcd568 --- /dev/null +++ b/es-app/assets/Windows_Portable_README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) - Portable installation on Windows +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +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