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Emulation Station configured for Windows 10

An auto-installer to set up Emulation Station correctly on a 64 bit version of Windows 10.

As Retropie's increase in popularity, the setup of Emulationstation on the Windows platform hasn't recieved much love. I spent several nights trying to figure out how to configure everything correctly for a Windows machine to finally get it just right. Given the pain I went through and how now several of my friends have requested the same setup I decided to throw together a quick little powershell script for others to use.

Features

  • Uses an up to date version of Emulation Station from the Raspberry Pi branch
  • Auto populates emulators with public domain roms
  • Auto installs a popular theme with support for adding 'Favorites'
  • Initial installer is less than 20KB in size, it's a script
  • Adds in a quick game content scraper which lives in the rom folder (run %UserProfile%.emulationstation\roms\scraper.exe)

Steps

  1. Ensure chocolatey is installed https://chocolatey.org/install
  2. Ensure Powershell is set to "Set-executionpolicy Bypass"
  3. Run prepare.ps1 in an admin session of Powershell
  4. Launch Emulation Station and Enjoy
  5. Access your ROMS here %UserProfile%.emulationstation\roms

Installation GIF: alt text

Troubleshooting

  • PSX Homebrew Games won't load unless you acquire the bios's and add them to the bios folder.
  • If the script fails for whatever reason delete the contents of %UserProfile%.emulationstation and try again.
  • Emulation Station may crash when you return to it from a external progam, ensure your graphics drivers are up to date.
  • Launching a Retroarch rom may return you to ES, you're probably on a 32-bit verison of Windows and need to acquire seperate cores.
  • Powershell commands may fail, ensure your Powershell session is in Admin mode.
  • If Powershell complains about syntax you're probably somehow running a Powershell version lower than 5. Run 'choco install powershell -y' to update.

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