ngosang/win10_emulation_station

Emulation Station for Windows 10

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:

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.

Special Thanks

• jrassa for his up to date compiled version of Emulation Station - https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation
• Nesworld for their open-source NES roms - http://www.nesworld.com/
• Liberto for their retroarch version - https://www.libretro.com/
• dtgm for maintaining the Emulation Station chocolatey package https://chocolatey.org/packages/emulationstation
• OpenEmu for their Open-Source rom collection work https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu-Update
• recalbox for their themes https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-themes
• sselph for his awesome scraper https://github.com/sselph/scraper