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# How to: Manage your Games
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# Supported file extensions for each emulator
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For a detalied list of which file extensions are supported and where to put the roms check this page:
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[ES-DE: Folders and Files](/esde-folders-files/esde-folders-files.md)
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# Multidisk/file games: Directory interpreted as files
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You can put all the game files inside a sub-folder in order to keep you game list clean, these folder will be seen as the game itself from RetroDECK and not as an actual folder, more info [here](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#directories-interpreted-as-files) on the official ES-DE Documentation. The folder needs to have the corresponding .m3u file and the folder needs to be renamed to the exact filename of the .m3u
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Example on how a structure could be:
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```
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─── Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u
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├── Dragon Fantasy VII - Disk1.chd
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├── Dragon Fantasy VII - Disk2.chd
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├── Dragon Fantasy VII - Disk3.chd
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└── Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u
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```
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In this case the folder will be viewed as a single game and it will launch `Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u` so you can easly swap the disks from RetroArch menu.
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## How do I create a Multidisk Directory?
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Let's use the Dragon Fantasy VII example as written above.
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### Step 1: Make a .m3u sub-folder
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Make a new sub-folder inside the PSX roms directory where you move and store the Dragon Fantasy VII files with a .m3u file extension in the end.
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The name of the folder will be Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u and the full file path will be:
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`~/retrodeck/roms/psx/Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u`
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### Step 2: Make a .m3u file inside the folder.m3u
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Following the example above, make an empty file inside the Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u folder called the exact same thing as the folder name in this case: `Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u`. Now the full file path to the newly created .m3u file should be like this:
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`~/retrodeck/roms/psx/Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u/Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u`
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### Step 3: Populate the .m3u file
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Open the `Dragon Fantasy VII.m3u` file with an text editor and write the filenames of all files contained in the folder, one per line.
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When you are done, the structure of the file should look something like this:
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`Dragon Fantasy VII - Disk1.chd`<br>
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`Dragon Fantasy VII - Disk2.chd`<br>
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`Dragon Fantasy VII - Disk3.chd`
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Note this also works with other files types like `.bin` `.iso` `.cue` `.bin` etc.. You just need to make sure that all the files in the folders are written inside the .m3u file.
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### Step 4: Launch RetroDECK
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The ES-DE interface that RetroDECK uses should now pick up on the game as one file and you can change disks inside RetroArch.
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# Emulators compatibility lists
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Here is a collection of games that were tested on Steam Deck, not on RetroDECK specifically.
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If you find some inconsistences please report them on our `#support` channel on Discord.
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* [Citra](https://citra-emu.org/game/)
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* [Dolphin](https://dolphin-emu.org/compat/?nocr=true)
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* [PCSX2](https://pcsx2.net/compat/)
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* [RPCS3](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EzTcNoKiBaMS4orZrGEOKwMpFOZEFKVSOZjLRJqzEkA/)
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* [Vita3K](https://vita3k.org/compatibility.html?lang=en)
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* [Yuzu](https://yuzu-emu.org/game/)
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* [Xemu](https://xemu.app/#compatibility)
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# Scraping
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Scraping allows you to make the games look "pretty" with coverarts, icons, discimages and more.
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Read up on the ES-DE userguide on scraping here:
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[ES-DE Scraper guide](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md#scraping)
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## Quick tips
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* Register an account on https://www.screenscraper.fr/ (support them on Patreon for faster downloads, more scrapes per day and priority scraping).
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* Login to your Screenscraper.fr account inside of the ES-DE interface in RetroDECK
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* Choose what content you want to scrape (remember that each content you choose could take up several mb of data per game).
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* Do an initial scrape of all the games you want to scrape.
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* If some games are missed do a more narrow scraping by enabling `Scraper -> Other Settings -> Interactive Mode -> On`& Scraper -> `Other Settings -> Auto-Accept Single Game Matches -> On` and choose to scrape by games missing metadata. This will allow you to select each game from a list and also tweak the searches of the missing games. In some cases you need to remove certain aspects of the name like if a rom comes both with a Japanese name and English name, you could try to remove one of the names to find a better result.
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