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Although there are multiple forks of EmulationStation in existence, the goal of this edition is to make the software as easy as possible to install and use as a standalone application, and to support the major desktop operating systems, i.e. Unix/Linux, macOS and Windows. Since it's intended to be used as a desktop application rather than as the primary interface for the computer, there are no plans to provide system administration utilities or control over emulator settings from within ES-DE.
The software comes preconfigured for use primarily with [RetroArch](https://www.retroarch.com), although this can be changed as all emulator settings are fully configurable, even on a per-game basis.
A comprehensive theme set, **rbsimple-DE** which is based on Recalbox Multi from the [Recalbox](https://www.recalbox.com) community is bundled with the application. (Only assets created by them prior to their change to a more restrictive license in 2018 are included).
The following operating systems have been tested with ES-DE (all for the x86 architecture unless otherwise stated):
* Ubuntu 20.04 to 21.04
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**Note:** If using a Mac with an ARM CPU (e.g. M1) you need to install the x86 version of RetroArch and any other emulators, or you won't be able to launch any games. This will be fixed whenever a native macOS ARM build of ES-DE is released.
At the moment Raspberry Pi is not supported, but this is planned for future releases. It may still be possible to compile and run ES-DE on this type of device, but as of v1.0 it's not actively used during development and therefore not tested.
The software comes preconfigured for use primarily with [RetroArch](https://www.retroarch.com), although this can be changed as all emulator settings are fully configurable, even on a per-game basis.
A comprehensive theme set, **rbsimple-DE** which is based on Recalbox Multi from the [Recalbox](https://www.recalbox.com) community is bundled with the application. (Only assets created by them prior to their change to a more restrictive license in 2018 are included).
At the moment Raspberry Pi is not supported, but this is planned for version 1.2. It may still be possible to compile and run ES-DE on this type of device, but as of v1.1 it's not actively used during development and therefore not tested.
### Download
The latest available release is v1.0.1 from 2021-05-01.
The latest stable version is 1.0.1 (released 2021-05-01)
| Package | Operating systems | Architecture | Download link |
| :------------------ | :------------------------------------------------------ | :----------- | :------------- |
| Debian DEB package | Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10, Linux Mint 20, possibly others | x64 (x86) | [emulationstation-de-1.0.1-x64.deb](https://es-de.org/releases/stable/Linux/emulationstation-de-1.0.1-x64.deb)|
| Debian DEB package | Ubuntu 20.04 to 21.04, Linux Mint 20, possibly others | x64 (x86) | [emulationstation-de-1.0.1-x64.deb](https://es-de.org/releases/stable/Linux/emulationstation-de-1.0.1-x64.deb)|
| Fedora RPM package | Fedora Workstation 33, possibly others | x64 (x86) | [emulationstation-de-1.0.1-x64.rpm](https://es-de.org/releases/stable/Linux/emulationstation-de-1.0.1-x64.rpm)|
| macOS DMG installer | macOS 10.14 "Mojave" to 11 "Big Sur" | x64 (x86) | [EmulationStation-DE-1.0.1-x64.dmg](https://es-de.org/releases/stable/macOS/EmulationStation-DE-1.0.1-x64.dmg)|
| macOS DMG installer | Legacy macOS 10.11 "El Capitan" to 10.13 "High Sierra" | x64 (x86) | [EmulationStation-DE-1.0.1-x64_legacy.dmg](https://es-de.org/releases/stable/macOS/EmulationStation-DE-1.0.1-x64_legacy.dmg)|
| Windows installer | Windows 10 and 8.1 | x64 (x86) | [EmulationStation-DE-1.0.1-x64.exe](https://es-de.org/releases/stable/Windows/EmulationStation-DE-1.0.1-x64.exe)|
Please refer to [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for more information about this release, including known issues.
The latest pre-release version is 1.1.0-beta1 (released 2021-06-27)
| Package | Operating systems | Architecture | Download link |
| :------------------ | :------------------------------------------------------ | :----------- | :------------- |
| Debian DEB package | Ubuntu 20.04 to 21.04, Linux Mint 20, possibly others | x64 (x86) | [emulationstation-de-1.1.0-beta1-x64.deb](https://es-de.org/releases/beta/Linux/emulationstation-de-1.1.0-beta1-x64.deb)|
| Fedora RPM package | Fedora Workstation 33, possibly others | x64 (x86) | [emulationstation-de-1.1.0-beta1-x64.rpm](https://es-de.org/releases/beta/Linux/emulationstation-de-1.1.0-beta1-x64.rpm)|
| macOS DMG installer | macOS 10.14 "Mojave" to 11 "Big Sur" | x64 (x86) | [EmulationStation-DE-1.1.0-beta1-x64.dmg](https://es-de.org/releases/beta/macOS/EmulationStation-DE-1.1.0-beta1-x64.dmg)|
| Windows installer | Windows 10 and 8.1 | x64 (x86) | [EmulationStation-DE-1.1.0-beta1-x64.exe](https://es-de.org/releases/beta/Windows/EmulationStation-DE-1.1.0-beta1-x64.exe)|
Unfortunately due to technical reasons, v1.0.1 will be the last release for legacy macOS versions.
For some of the rarer operating systems listed at the top you need to build ES-DE from source. The plan is to have ES-DE available in the software repositories of all supported operating systems (where this is applicable), so in the long term building from source should not be required.
**Note:** The software is currently in beta status which means it's also beta quality and may contain bugs. The application should still hopefully be good enough for everyday use and bugs are fixed continuously. Speaking of bugs, please report these on the project [Kanban board](https://gitlab.com/leonstyhre/emulationstation-de/-/boards), where you can also track the overall ES-DE development.
Please refer to [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for more information about the releases, including known issues.
### Contributing
@ -83,7 +92,7 @@ _The **Gamelist view**, it's here that you browse the games for a specific syste
_Another example of the gamelist view, displaying advanced folder support. You can scrape folders for game info and game media, sort folders as you would files, mark them as favorites etc. In this example ES-DE has been configured to sort favorite games above non-favorites._
![alt text](images/current/es-de_custom_collections.png "ES-DE Custom Collections")
_Games can be grouped into your own custom collections, in this example they're defined as game genres but you can name them anything you like. All gamelist views including the custom collections support both game images or game videos. By default the rbsimple-DE theme will display the game image for a short moment before starting to play the game video._
_Games can be grouped into your own custom collections, in this example they're defined as game genres but you can name them anything you like. All gamelist views including the custom collections support both game images or game videos. By default the rbsimple-DE theme will display the game image for a short moment before starting to play the video._
![alt text](images/current/es-de_scraper_running.png "ES-DE Scraper Running")
_This is a view of the built-in scraper which downloads game info and game media from either [screenscraper.fr](https://screenscraper.fr) or [thegamesdb.net](https://thegamesdb.net). It's possible to scrape a single game, or to run the multi-scraper which can scrape a complete game system or even your entire collection._
@ -95,10 +104,10 @@ _There are many settings for the scraper including options to define which type
_In addition to the scraper there is a fully-featured metadata editor that can be used to modify information on a per-game basis. Here you can also toggle some additional flags which the scraper does not set, such as if the game is a favorite or if you have completed it. Some of these flags can then be filtered in the gamelist view, letting you for instance only display games that you have not played through._
![alt text](images/current/es-de_screensaver.png "ES-DE Screensaver")
_There are four types of built-in screensavers available, including a slideshow and the video screensaver showed in action above. These screensavers start after a configurable number of minutes of inactivity, and randomly display game media that you have previously scraped. If the corresponding option has been enabled, you can jump to the game from the screensaver, or even start it directly. There is shader support in ES-DE to render scanlines and screen blur on top of the videos (for the slideshow screensaver, scanline rendering is provided)._
_There are four types of built-in screensavers available, including a slideshow and the video screensaver shown in action above. These screensavers start after a configurable number of minutes of inactivity, and randomly display game media that you have previously scraped. If the corresponding option has been enabled, you can jump to the game from the screensaver, or even start it directly. There is shader support in ES-DE to render scanlines and screen blur on top of the videos (for the slideshow screensaver, scanline rendering is provided)._
![alt text](images/current/es-de_ui_theme_support.png "ES-DE Theme Support")
_ES-DE is fully themeable, so if you prefer another look than what the default theme rbsimple-DE gives you, it's possible to apply another theme set. In the example above a modified version of the [Fundamental](https://github.com/G-rila/es-theme-fundamental) theme is used. Be aware though that although ES-DE is backwards compatible with older EmulationStation themes, some newer features which are specific to ES-DE will not work, at least not until the theme authors update their themes._
![alt text](images/current/es-de_ui_easy_setup.png "ES-DE Easy Setup")
_A lot of effort has been spent on trying to make ES-DE easy to setup and use. The above screenshot shows the dialog if starting the application without any game files present in the default ROM directory. Also, ES-DE ships with a very comprehensive game systems configuration file that is automatically installed upon first startup._
_A lot of effort has been spent on trying to make ES-DE easy to setup and use. The above screenshot shows the dialog if starting the application without any game files present in the default ROM directory. ES-DE also ships with a very comprehensive game systems configuration file, so unless you really want to customize your setup, you should not need to tinker with the configuration._