AYN Odin 2 Starter Guide

[Music] hey everybody this is R Metro gamecore today we're going to do a starter guide for the Ayn Odin now this is going to be a long video I'm going to basically take you all the way through the entire process so from the very beginning of when you first turn it on all the way to the point of having all of your emulators completely configured and then also a front end to make it all nice and pretty now I'm going to go through the material as quickly as possible number one I don't want it to be 5 hours long but then also I have a full written guide on my website and so you can actually just go to the guide on your ownin it'll have all the links that I'll be discussing throughout the video now honestly this guide is very similar to other Android based guides I've done before after all it's all kind of the same thing however the Odin 2 is so powerful that we're going to kind of focus on that and so instead of having to do things like tips and tricks as what app's going to work better for what performance we don't have to deal with that stuff we can go directly to the best app available for the the Odin 2 so that's what we'll focus on here and so I imagine going forward if you're watching this later on if you have a high-powered Android device or a phone this guide is going to work just fine as well we've got a lot of ground to cover here but I hope it's going to be super helpful without any further delay let's go ahead and dive [Applause] [Music] in okay to start let's talk about the road map we're going to use here in this guide and we're going to do each of these steps in a particular order just to maximize our efficiency number one we're going to set up the Android side of things so basically what we're going to do here is configure a couple different settings tweaks which will make the device behave more like a gaming console and less like a tablet and then after that we'll start installing our most important apps that'll be mostly emulators and some streaming apps and there's a good amount of these available directly in the Google Play Store however for some of these emulators there actually are more updated versions available on the internet than what they have on Google so the step after that is that we're going to find and sideload those optimized apps once we have all those installed installed we're ready to load up a Micro SD card with all of our games and system files and then after that we will combine those two so we will configure all of our emulators to know where to find the games and then we'll also do some settings configurations as well as button mapping and this by far is going to be the longest part of the entire guide but I will have it timestamped by each individual system down below after that's configured we're going to set up a front end this will be our user interface to allow us to navigate through our systems and then launch our games and really that's about it once we have our front end set up everything is it's going to be good to go so let's go ahead and move into the first part of our process which is to set up Android on the Odin itself and when you initially turn it on you'll be greeted with this screen right here and this is a simple process you're going to press the R1 shoulder button to tab through the different options and so here you're going to choose your language and then connect it to your home internet and same thing with your time zone now on the next tab it's going to ask you what type of launcher you want there is the AOSP one which is basically just a very general Android front end and then they have what they call the Odin launcher now for our part we're going to use use the regular Android interface and then add our own front end but if you want to use the Odin launcher that's always an option as well personally I found that it just doesn't have as many features as what we can do ourselves and finally on the last tab it's going to ask you what type of navigation you want to use I would recommend using the gesture navigation the three button navigation is going to put a bunch of buttons on your screen but the thing with the Odin 2 is that it already has back and home physical buttons on it so you're not going to need to see those buttons on the screen instead I think the gestures are going to work better anyway once that's done we'll get our Oden home screen which you can tell is exactly like an Android tablet so let's go into these settings and start making some adjustments here just to improve our overall experience number one first thing you want to do is scroll all the way down to the bottom find the system section and then within there find the updator option this will bring you into the Ayn update menu and from here you can click on check update and it is likely that there will be an update for your device so just go ahead and follow the prompts and do the update it'll take just a little bit to download it and quite a bit longer to actually install it it and of note once it's done it's going to ask you to reboot but even then go back into the system section and then check the update again because chances are you may have to update more than one time and you know you're going to be good when it says that there are no more updates for the device now that we're fully updated let's go back into the settings options and we'll run down some of my most favorite tweaks number one I would like to go into notifications and then turn on do not disturb this is helpful because some of these emulators will want to give you a notification and it's really annoying when you're trying to use it as a gaming console from there I like to scroll down into the display section and you can see under screen timeout that after 1 minute of activity it's going to put your device to sleep and that might be great for a phone but I don't think that's great for a gaming handheld and so i' like to turn this to the longest possible which is going to be 30 minutes next we're going to go down to the security section and then under screen lock you can see that by default it is set to swipe that means that if your device is in sleep if you tap the power button you have to swipe the screen again to actually get into the menu and personally I think that's just an extra step I don't want to do so I'm going to set it to none however if you are more security-minded you could set up a pin it even has a fingerprint sensor on this device and so if you'd like you can actually set it up to unlock with your fingerprint instead I'm going to keep things simple but that's where you would go if you want after that we're going to scroll near to the bottom and find the Oden setting section and here there's going to be a bunch of tweaks specific for this device for example we can adjust the strength of the vibration Motors or we can also adjust the LED lights around the analog sticks and the sides of the device additionally this is where you're going to go if you want to change your video output settings you can see here I have mine set to 1080p at 60 HZ another really important one is going to be your controller style this is where you can set it between an Xbox ab and XY pattern or what they call Odin which is going to be more similar to a Nintendo switch where the a button is on the right personally I think that most games are going to work best with the Xbox style so we're going to go with that also bear in mind there's an option to disconnect the onboard controls this will be handy if you're connecting it to a Bluetooth controller that way you don't have a conflict another thing worth noting is the L2 and R2 mode by default it's going to be set up for an analog input but you could set it to a digital or to have a combination of the two and I found for the best compatibility it's better to set it to both after that we can map the M1 and M2 back buttons just bear in mind that the only options you have here are going to be function buttons within Android and I've never really found these helpful so I've never set this up myself okay a couple other things under the joystick calibration and Gamepad Test Section you have a bunch of different options here you can test your controls then and calibrate them if something's wrong and then finally at the very bottom of the Odin settings we have the ability to go back into the setup Wizard and then you can also reset the device to factory settings okay so that's it for the settings menu but we have one other place that we can actually make adjustments and that's going to be the top menu we can slide down with our finger from the top and you have a bunch of different quick options here let's start with the performance modes now we have three different options let me show you how this works so say we're playing a game that is taxing the system a lot for example we're playing Super Mario Galaxy on the Nintendo nint a wiii but at a 3X or a 1080p resolution and you can see that under the regular performance mode it's not really getting full speed the FPS is hovering around 40 frames per second so this is 2/3 speed so an easy way to fix this is to swipe down from the top while you're in the game and then we can choose one of our three different performance mode options and I'm going to set it all the way to the high performance for our example now going back to the game it is now running at 60 frames per second so we've just solved this issue of course bear in mind that a high performance mode will require more battery than the standard one but even then the battery life is so good on this that you can expect about 6 to 8 hours in high performance mode when playing something like Wii or PS2 also up top are a couple options that are already available for example the ability to adjust our LED lights but then there's another unique one to adjust the fan personally I like to set it to Smart that means the device will ramp up the fan speed when it needs it another option is this one on the bottom left called charging separation and if you turn this on and then plug it in what that means is it's not going to charge the battery instead it's just going to power the the device and this will extend the overall life of your battery because it's not going to be charging and discharging all the time anyway other than that most of these are just going to be standard Android options so I'm not going to go through each and every one of these but there is one more I want to talk about called floating icon so say we start up a game and on the right side you can see that there's a white line kind of parallel with the side of the screen this is what they're talking about when it comes to floating icon and if we swipe from the right it's going to bring up a bunch of quick menu options and to be honest many of these are tailored for Android gaming and so they may not really apply for example this is where you would set up the touchscreen key adapter for games that don't have onboard controls now when it comes to emulation there's probably only one option that I ever use and it's this one called speed up and this will close down all the background processes and free up some Ram but yeah other than that I don't really use a lot of these other options but they are here if you do want to experiment with them now if you click on the FPS button it's actually going to do what they call floating FPS and it's going to move the frames per second indicator over onto the screen itself and you can move it wherever you wouldd like however bear in mind that this is not as accurate as the actual FPS indicator in most of the emulators so again this is one that I don't really use and so I will often just turn this off anyway if you don't want to use the floating icon at all you can just swipe down from the top and then tap it and it'll go away now one other thing I want to talk about with the top menu is that if we press this little pencil button on the bottom right it'll give you the option to customize all of these tiles so if there are any options you know you're never going to use you can drag them away in addition there's a couple that are hidden that you might want for example the ability to screen record or you can also set it to an extra dim setting or make a couple color correction changes as well anyway that's about it when it comes to setting up Android and just our general orientation with the interface so now let's go ahead and start installing some apps we're going to start with those that are available already on the Google Play Store and this part is very similar to how it' be like setting up a new phone or a tablet so we're going to go into the Play Store you're going to sign in with your Google account and then you'll use the Play Store interface to download new apps so here are the ones that I recommend we're going to start in alphabetical order here and work our way across to start we're going to talk about emulators and the ones I recommend from the Google Play Store are those that are basically stable that means they work really well and they don't get a ton of upgrades all the time and so we don't have to worry about getting the latest and greatest so we'll start with the DraStic emulator this one is a Nintendo DS emulator and is easily the best one available however bear in mind it's not a free app and actually cost $5 in fact many of the apps I'm going to be recommending in this section are probably going to be paid there are free versions of some of these and so I'll make a note of that as well anyway that's the first one I recommend next up is going to be duck station this is a PS1 emulator and this one works great and it's totally free so no issue there up next we have the mopin 64 plus FZ emulator and this one plays Nintendo 64 games and there's a free and pro version and the free one does work fine but it has ads if you want to get rid of those ads and get a couple extra features it'll cost you $3.99 up next in our alphabetical list is going to be the PSP emulator called PPSSPP and this one has a free and paid PA version the paid one is called gold now there is no feature difference between the two the gold one is literally there just to help support the developer and if you want to throw a few do his way it's going to be five bucks also one thing of note is that once you buy any of these apps it's going to be associated with your Google account and so any other future device that you use with that Google account will be able to download these for free so these are all going to be a one-time purchase across Android RIT large okay up next we have redream this is a Dreamcast emulator now this one is also free but it does have inapp purchases if if you want to unlock some features and this upgrade I do recommend because it will allow you to upscale your resolution anyway the price to upgrade is going to be $5.99 within the app okay up next we have the yasan chiro 2 emulator this is going to be for Sega Saturn there's a free and pro version and the free version has ads and the pro one doesn't and the pro version will cost you $5.60 I know it looks like a weird number but you have to remember this developer is in Japan and so they probably have it set to a specific Yen amount okay and finally our last emulator I recommend getting from the Play Store is going to be Yuzu there are actually two versions of this there's a free version and then another one called Early Access and the Early Access one is $4.99 I think it's well worth it this one will have a lot more updates more frequently and this is the one that I prefer using now chances are you're not going to use the Odin just for emulation you're probably going to use it for game streaming too so let me go over a couple of my recommendations here we'll start with Xbox number one you can just use the Xbox app this will allow you to use Remote Play to be able to play on your Xbox series or Xbox one directly on your Odin and this one of is made by Microsoft and it's completely free however there is a third party one called xbx playay this one is not free it costs $5.99 however I found the connection to be a lot better than on the Microsoft app and it also allows you to use the full 1080p resolution unlike the other one which does 720p and then finally on the official app you cannot remote play Xbox 360 games but you can on this one so if all those features appeal to you it might be worth the $5.99 for this app now if you don't have an Xbox but you still want to play Xbox games then I would recommend getting Xbox game pass now Game Pass is a paid subscription but it will allow you to stream games directly from the cloud so this is a great way to play Xbox and PC games without having to own an Xbox or a PC next we're going to talk about PlayStation Remote Play now you cannot use the official app because it doesn't work with the controls on the Odin but there are two different thirdparty apps available the first one is called shiak this one's a little bit clunky but totally free however the setup process for this is not very intuitive and so it can be a pain meanwhile there's another third party app that I like using called PS play this is from the same maker of the xbx play app that we were just looking at now this one is also paid it's $5.99 but the setup process is super simple and it'll use the controls on the Odin so this is the one that I actually use myself okay next let's talk about streaming games from your PC and you've got a couple options here the first is going to be steam link so if you have any computer that's running steam you'll be able to log into it and then stream from that one another option that's pretty good is called parseek this will install an app on your computer and then you can basically basically remote into your computer to play games or do other things another PC streaming app is going to be Moonlight this one works great as well and then finally we have nvidia's GeForce now cloud gaming app and this one's unique it doesn't require you to have an actual PC it will stream it from the cloud not only that if you link it up with your steam profile you'll be able to stream your own Steam games and this one has a free tier and then also other paid ones if you want to have like more time or faster head- ofline privileges okay and the last set of apps that we're going to talk about here in the Play Store are going to be our frontend apps the one we're mainly going to use in this video is called dig show this is a free front end and I'll show you how to configure this one at the end of this video but of course there are other options I'm actually going to highlight one other one later in the video which is called Beacon game launcher this is a relatively new front-end app but it's not free it's $2.99 which I still think is pretty reasonable and another front end I think is really great is called the reset collection this one is also not free it's $4.99 but this one is constantly being updated okay and before we move on I have one other app I do recommend picking up it's going to be the Google files app now there are many different file manager apps Within the play store but we're just going to use this one specifically because we need to unzip some files if you have something you prefer over this one then grab that one instead okay that's it when it comes to the Play store apps now we're going to talk about apps that we need to load up ourselves and we're going to do this by a process called side loading that sounds scary but it literally just means to download the app and then install it yourself so to start we're going to open up the Chrome browser and to make things simple if you just go to retrogame core.com and click on my Odin guide if you go into the table of contents there's a recommended emulator section and then if you scroll down a bit there's going to be a list of apps that are not available on the Play Store and so these will be direct links to the emulator apps to download them and bear in mind you can go directly on your Odin to this website and then pick them up there so let's go ahead and go down the line here we're going to start with retroarc for this one you want to go to the download section and then scroll all the way down until we find the section that is called nightly builds from there it'll take us to this page and under the nightly section we want to click on Android and then we want to scroll down to the second to last option it's going to be called retroarch Arch 64. APK once you find that go ahead and tap on it and it'll start the download process once the downloads done you can go into your downloads folder and then tap on it to start the installation now the first time you tap on it it's going to give you a warning go ahead and tap on settings and then under install unknown apps go ahead and toggle this on it's going to ask do you really want to do this and you're going to press yeah man I want to install it and that's it we've installed retroarc you can tap on done let's do the next one this is going to be dolphin for GameCube and Wii on this one we're going to go to the download page and then there's the beta versions but we want to scroll a little bit more down to the development versions and these ones are updated multiple times a day from here just tap on that Android button and then let it download and you can imagine we're just going to now install it so that's super simple as well next up we're going to do Citra for Nintendo 3DS again we'll go to the download section and then under the Google Play Store option there's a manual download from here scroll down until you get to the canary build section and this is usually updated at least once a day now tap on the little Android guide and it'll start to download your file now if you remember I recommended that you download the Google files app in order to unzip certain files and just so happens that the 3DS file is one of those zipped ones so we're going to open up the Google file app then go into downloads and then we're going to tap on this Citra zip file it's going to ask you want to extract it and then once it's done it's going to ask if you want to delete that zip file we're going to click yes now when we try to install it from the Google files app it's going to give those same permission requirements so just go ahead and go through here and click yeah man I want to do it okay next up we're going to install Aether sx2 which is the Playstation 2 emulator now if we go to the Aether sx2 website you can see the app is no longer in development but they do maintain an archive of their app so we're going to click on that archive link then go down to Android and then Alpha and we're going to download this file version 1.5 4248 now there's another version of this app called version 1.5 3668 and a lot of people think this one works better on honestly I've never really found a difference between the two but I will have this one linked if you do want to check it out and this one you can find on archive.org and another emulator you can find on archive.org is called Skyline and this is a Nintendo switch emulator that stopped its development about 6 months ago however it's still works pretty good with certain games so we are going to download it just in case and same thing here we're going to go down to the show all section and then click on the all versions and then you can see all the different versions of skyline Edge the very last release was called Skyline Edge 69 so that's what we're going to download all right so the last emulator we're going to grab is vaita 3K this is for the PlayStation vaita once you navigate to the website you can go to the download section and then choose the Android releases either way just download and install the latest APK okay and the last thing we need to grab is something called the adreno tools drivers these are going to be special drivers that work great with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which is in the Odin 2 and you can find this at a GitHub page and from there go into the most recent releases and then you'll download it as a zip file you do not need to unzip this one okay so that's it when it comes to side loing our apps now we're going to add our games in system or bios files and the first thing you're going to need here is going to be a Micro SD card now you can basically use any size for this but because the Oden do can play so many different systems and many of those systems have large file sizes like PS2 and Nintendo switch I'm going to use a huge 512 GB card but you could use anything else 128 256 all that stuff but I would recommend getting any size that fits according to your play style and your budget now another tool I recommend is going to be a USB card reader and I recently just upgraded this one from anchor I think it cost maybe 20 bucks this one has the ability to use both SD and micro SD cards but what I like about this one is that it has both USBC and usba connections and so no matter what I'm plugging into a computer or the Odin itself I'm going to have the connector right there anyway all these accessories will be linked in the written guide down below now the first thing I recommend doing is actually putting the micro SD card directly into the Odin now if we swipe down from the top and then scroll up just a little bit you'll see there's a notification for the SD card it may ask you to reformat the card and if you do then do it in portable storage for me it didn't ask it just asked how I want to open it so I'm just going to open it up with the regular files app and now when we look at the card you can see there's a bunch of different folders alarms Android audiobooks and so on and these folders just get autop populated when you plug it into an Android device either way once we plugged it in and we're not getting any sort of errors with the card let's go ahead and open up the side menu and then eject it now we're ready to plug it into our computer now looking at the folder system you can see all the different folders that we just saw on the device next we're going to make one additional folder and we're going to call it games and as you've probably guessed this is where we're going to put our bios and games files So within that games folder go ahead and make a folder for all the different gaming systems that you want to play on the Odin 2 I know it's a little bit tedious to set all this up but you only have to do it one time anyway here's a look at all the systems that I'm going to add to mine and I'm sure I probably forgot one or two here and there now if you're brand new to emulation you might be wondering where do I get these game files to actually put in here and the thing is the game and bios files are all copyrighted so I'm not going to show you at all where to find them so you're going to be on your own to populate these folders that's just kind of how it goes however I will say that I did make a section within my written guide that will kind of help guide the way for example the BIOS files are usually one of the hardest things to figure out and so in my guide I've listed out the most common bios files you're going to need and I've also put the names of them here so a little bit of searching will help you find these files but I'm not going to link them directly anyway this section is going to be pretty short you just want to drag over all your game files from wherever you have them stored onto that micr SD card so as an example here on the right side is going to be my computer files and I'm going to go into the 3DS section and I have a list of my ROM library and I'm going to pick out my favorite 3DS games and then drag them over into the 3DS folder on my micro SD card and that's really about it it's just kind of a rinse and repeat section even though this section is kind of short in the video it's probably going to be the longest one in your actual setup set up process anyway once you've moved over all of those files and you're good to go then it's time to eject the SD card and put it back into our device and now we're ready for the fifth step in our process which is going to be to configure the emulators and like I mentioned this is going to be the longest part of the video but I will have each system Tim stamp down below and so if you kind of want to take this one bite at a time you can pick a certain system set that one up and then move on to the next one and so on if this is your first time setting up Android emulators then it might take some time but the more you practice the easier it'll get anyway let's go ahead and start with the most fundamental of all the different apps and that one is retroarc this one's important because it has many different systems within one all of your classic systems Nintendo Super Nintendo all that will be played within retroarc so let's go ahead and open it up it's going to ask a couple different permissions things go ahead and allow all of it and then it'll take a moment to extract the base APK once that's done we're going to change out the look and feel of the emulator and to do that we're going to go into the settings options and then user interface and then menu and from here we're going to change it from the the default glui to xmb and now to switch the interface over we just need to close out of the app and then open it back up and this interface is very similar to what you remember probably from a PSP or Playstation 3 and I think it just works a lot better when it comes to tutorials okay so first thing we want to do on the left main menu is we want to go down to online updator and the first option will be core downloader and within here we want to download and install all the different cores or emulators for each of the systems we want to play and as you can imagine in my written guide I have a full list of each of the ones that I recommend for most of the major systems so I'm not going to bore you through actually downloading each of these but I'll have that listed in my written guide anyway once that's done let's go down the line and download some other options here within the online updator for example I recommend updating everything starting with update core info files and below so just go through each of these and click on them and it'll download and then extract it and you'll be good to go next we're going to go over one tab to the settings tab and here we're going to make a bunch of changes we're going to start with the input section under retropad binds you'll find the port One controls and even though they're already automatically mapped I recommend going in and manually mapping each one of these this is going to ensure that every single game is going to work properly so for each of these go ahead and tap on them and then press the corresponding button and again it's a little bit tedious but you only have to do this one time after that we're going to back out to the main inputs menu and then there's a section called hotkeys this is one of the most important now in my written guide I'm going to have a bunch of different diagrams with my recommended controller configurations for certain systems and and what you're seeing right now is the listing for retroarch and these specifically are going to be for all the different hot keys and if you're not familiar with this option essentially what you do is you set a hotkey enable button which for us is going to be the select button and then you can set up all the other hotkeys and they're only going to work if you also press the hotkey enable button so for example to quit out of a game you're going to hold on to select and then press the start button and if you ever get confused about the retroarch process which honestly is pretty easy because it's very complex I've actually made a full retroarc starter guide so I would recommend checking that out if you do have further questions anyway back to the hotkeys let's go ahead and set up a couple so you know what I'm talking about number one under hotkey enable we're going to press the select button and then for the others we're going to go and press the corresponding button from the diagram so for menu toggle it's going to be the x button and for quit it's going to be the start button and then so on and so forth fast forward toggle is going to be R2 and you're probably getting the hang of it right now either way just consult the website and the diagram and you should be good to go okay and finally once you've set up the hotkeys while we're still in the input menu I recommend going down to the confirm quit option and by default you'll have to press select and start two times in order to quit I personally don't like that I like to press it just once so I'm going to turn this option off okay next we're going to go up to the user interface options and within here under onscreen display we're going to choose onscreen overlay and by default on Android retroarch is going to show you a bunch of controls on your screen and what I recommend doing is just turning this off or you can also use this option which says hide overlay when controller is connected personally I don't use use that one I just turn the overlay off okay next in the settings menu we're going to go down to the saving section and within here there are two options I like to turn on auto saave State and autoload State that means when you close out of retroarch it's going to save your game and then when you start that game back up it's going to go exactly where you were before after that we'll go into the achievement settings section here you can add your username and password for retro achievements if you have that set up but I do recommend turning off hardcore mode which is going to be on by default if you leave this on it's going to disable cheats and Rewind and save states and then finally under directory we have one other change to make we're going to go into the system Bio Section and then we're going to tap on the Parent Directory option a couple times until we see our SD card you'll know it's the SD card by a combination of letters and numbers after you tap on that you'll find your games folder then go into your bios folder now select use this directory so retroarch knows where to look for your bios files and that's a real quick down and dirty way of configuring retroarch for the Odin 2 we'll go into the main menu configuration file save current configuration and and then quit out of retroarch all right after retroarch it's all downhill from here everything else is a lot more intuitive however there are a lot of apps that we need to configure and so we're going to do these one by one and like I mentioned these are all going to be timestamps so if you need to come back to these later it's going to be pretty easy so let's go ahead and start with the duck station PS1 emulator and the setup for this one is probably one of the easiest when you first start it up it'll give you a couple tabs to go through and under the settings tab I recommend changing the resolution scale to a 5x resolution additionally if you want to try out widescreen hacks with PS1 games you can do that personally I don't really like that but if you are going to use upscaling then I recommend turning on the pgxp geometry correction okay after that we need to point the app to our bios files so we're going to tap on the import bios option which will take us to our file explorer and next we'll go into our SD card and into the games folder and then into our bios folder and these right here are the PS1 bios files that I'm using so I'm going to select those and again the names of each of these bios files will be found in my written guide anyway once we select it it's going to going to say that it's been imported and so I'm going to pick my region which is going to be the United States and then I'm going to choose my BIOS file after that we need to select our game directory so we'll tap on the plus button then go into our games folder then our PS1 folder and then select use this folder and if all goes well you should now have all of your games and your bios files loaded up the last thing we need to do is set up our controller profile so we're going to go into the side menu in controller settings and then under Port one we're going to select perform automatic mapping from there you can find our Odin controller it's going to say Xbox wireless controller if you set it up for an Xbox button layout so that's what I'm going to select here and that's it it'll map all the main buttons already for you however there are also some hot Keys you can set up within duck station and just like with retroarch I've set up a diagram for this and thankfully the PS1 and PS2 emulators we use the same kind of format so we have the exact same diagram and it's very similar to retroarch we're going to have our hotkey enable button is Select and then all the other hotkey combinations so let me give you an example under toggle fast forward I'm going to tap on it and then I'm going to press select and R2 and it's as simple as that you can just go through the other hot keys and set them as you wish for example with the open pause menu I like to do select and the x button but also bear in mind that the back button will do the same thing okay and finally the last thing within the controller settings is to go into the touchscreen tab within here you'll find an option that says autohide touchscreen controller go ahead and turn that one on and then you won't see those onscreen controls when you start up a game and that's really about it for duck station so if we go back to the games list I can tap on a game it's going to start up I can press select and fast forward it'll go into fast forward and yeah we are now good to go okay next up we're going to do the mopin 64 plus emulator for Nintendo 64 same thing here when you start it up it's going to ask for a couple permissions and then first thing we want to press that plus button on the bottom right and then choose select folder and then navigate through our games card in order to find our games folder Nintendo 64 folder and then our games and this is going to be the same process for each of these emulators which is why I'm kind of breezing through it anyway for this one it's going to scan and scrape all of your games and and there we go now there are a couple settings I do recommend changing so we'll go into the side menu and then settings and then under display we're going to change the rendered resolution and this we're going to upscale to a 1080P and then also if you prefer to see your frames per second you can go into frame rate and then choose which corner you wanted to show now thankfully this app is pretty well preconfigured so we don't have to do a lot of other changes but I do recommend setting up the controller so for this we're going to go into profiles then controller and then tap on the new button up top here we need to name it whatever we want I'm going to call mine Odin 2 and then you'll see a list of all the buttons so that you can map them now just like with the others I do have a diagram for the Nintendo 64 and I think some of this is going to be intuitive if you look at the Nintendo 64 controller on the top right compared to the Odin 2 and the buttons I've chosen of note is going to be the Z button I actually have that mapped to three different sections I like to use this with L2 R2 and one of the face buttons as well and that's because the Z button did a lot of different functions depending on the games you were playing on the Nintendo 64 and this just gives gives you a lot of room to work with so depending on what's most comfortable you can use that other than that the other thing worth noting is that the C buttons are going to be mapped to the right analog stick okay and so you can go through here and map all those buttons like I mentioned with the Z button you can map it three different times and that's really about it now once you're done you will see that the Odin 2 is a controller profile and now we need to set this as our default profile and so we're going to go back to the profile section within the sidebar and then tap on select profile from there find the controller one profile and then change it to Odin 2 you can also change out your emulation profile but I found that the default one called Glide 64 accurate actually works really well but if you do run into any game that doesn't run perfectly this is what I would recommend changing up and so yeah there we go we have now set up Nintendo 64 let's move on to the next one and we're going to move over to Sega Saturn with the yason Shiro 2 emulator when you first start it up it's going to ask if you want to sign into an online profile I always choose no and then we'll go into the settings and tap on select game directory here I like to delete the ones that are already there and then add our own phone and as you can imagine we're going to navigate to our micro SD card in the games folder and then Sega Saturn next while we're in the settings there's a couple other things I recommend changing for example you can turn on frames per second if you'd like additionally there's a rendering resolution option and by default it's going to be native which is going to be 1080p with this screen but if you'd like to have something a little bit more chunky you can go to original or 2x finally under Player 1 input device we're going to select choose and then we're going to select our Xbox wireless controller then after that we need to map the button and just as a quick refresher here is the diagram now this one's unique if you think about the six button layout of the Sega Saturn controller on the top right we're going to map it as close as we can to that experience so for the ABC buttons we're going to map them in a row as you can see on the Odin 2 and then for XYZ we're going to map them to the top so X is going to be L1 then Y is going to be the top button and then Z will be R1 I know it's a little bit odd to kind of have a button layout like this but it's the way that I'm able to make my brain work and then of course you can see the menu Buton button is going to be mapped to the select button for me anyway from here you can select edit key map and then plug in all these controls and that's it once you back out of the settings you should see a listing of all of your games that you have loaded up and then you can select them to run and so here's a look at Virtual Fighter 2 with that upscale 1080p resolution personally I think it looks a little bit weird to have them so sharp and crisp and so I generally will just play this at the original kind of chunky resolution okay next let's move over to Sega Dreamcast with the redream emulator now like I mentioned before before this is a free app but you can upgrade it in app and because I've already paid for that many years ago I can just tap on the upgrade to premium and then it's going to check my Google account and verify that I've purchased it already and now we're good to go I've unlocked it yet again okay first thing we want to go into the library section and select ad directory and then we'll navigate to our Dreamcast folder and then select use this folder now if we go into the games tab you can see that all of my Dreamcast games are now showing up next let's go ahead and map our controls and this is super easy we're going to go into input and then under port a we're going to change the input device to the Xbox wireless controller now for the most part all these buttons will be mapped correctly right then and there however I do like to make a couple changes to the shortcuts for example the turbo or fast forward button I like to map this one to the R3 button and so I'm just going to go in and change that in addition for the exit emulator button I like to use L3 just note that when you map that it'll often exit the emulator at the same time if you go back into redream you can see that it's all mapped correctly next we'll go into the video Tab and here we can upscale the resol ution now there isn't a great resolution that's going to fill out a full 1080p instead you'll see options for both 960p and then 1440p and because the Odin 2 is so powerful we're just going to go with 1440p even though it is more pixels than we actually need also while we're here you can also turn on the frame rate counter if you'd like and really that's about it when it comes to the settings let's go ahead and start up a game now first thing you may see is that the game is going to run in a 4x3 aspect ratio but many of these games have widescreen cheats so let's press the back button to get into the quick menu and then under edit cheats you can see there's a widescreen option let's turn that on and then select restart game and now when we go back into the game you can see it's filling out the full screen now here within the menus it's actually kind of blowing it out and making it stretched but when we get into the actual game you can see that everything is working correctly we're getting a full widescreen perspective and Sonic is not being squished in any way so we're good to go with Sega Dreamcast let's move on now to PSP and this one's also pretty easy as well when you first start it up it's going to ask you to choose a PSP folder this is where it's going to store your settings and other configurations so here we're actually just going to go into the PSP folder and create it there next we're going to go into the main menu we're going to tap on the SD card icon and then navigate to our PSP folder under games and PSP once you're there click on the plus button so that it turns into a minus that means that anytime you open up PSP in the future it's going to go directly to this folder next let's go into these settings and there's only a couple things we need to change number one is rendering resolution by default it's going to be 2x but this thing is so powerful we can do a 4X X or 1080p resolution with no problem after that we can scroll all the way down to the bottom and if you want to see your frames per second and speed you can choose them here after that there's only one other settings to change we're going to go into controls and then we want to uncheck the option that says onscreen touch controls and that's it we are good to go we have now set up PSP correctly let's stick with the theme of handhelds and also Sony so let's do the Sony vaita emulator and this one is definitely a little bit wonky to start we need to pick our language then it's going to ask us to install the PS VA firmware thankfully you can just grab these off the internet and they've made it very easy so if we tap on the download firmware option it'll actually take us directly to the Sony firmware page scroll down until you find the Download update option and then long press on it until you get the submenu here you want to select download link it's going to give you a warning about not being able to download it securely but just go ahead and press keep and you're good to go next press the back button to go back to the emulator and we're going to do the same thing with the download font package and this one will start the download process automatically once these are both downloaded now we want to select in install firmware file in the emulator I usually start with the PSA firmware file which will be the bottom one and when it's done it's going to say that you don't have the font installed yet so after that's done we're going to go back and select install firmware file and now we're going to pick our font package and you'll know you're good to go when it has a v next to the installed option here within the screen next we can tap through the different options we don't really have to change anything here and when you first start it up it's going to give you a welcome screen and we can close that out and it'll give us an option to create a user once you've gone through and created whatever user you would like you'll now be greeted with a psva front page if we tap on this we'll now see a listing of the apps that we can enter now before we start installing games let's make one configuration change and that'll be under the configuration tab here at the top and there's not a lot you can actually change here but I would go into the GPU settings and then under add custom driver this is where we're going to choose those custom turnup drivers that we downloaded previously so just go ahead and navigate to your downloads folder and then find the turnup drivers and once you've selected them go into to the menu and then select them again from here you can press save and then close and then I recommend exiting out of the app and then opening it again now back in the main menu we can start to install our files now my vaita files are within a zip file format so I'm going to select install zip and then I'm going to go to my vaita folder and then I'm going to choose one of these games we're going to pick Adventure Time because it's a small file size and so the installation won't take a long time and then after you're done you'll see the game within your apps list and that's it you can go ahead and click on it and then press start and you can jump into the game just bear in mind you'll have to do this for every single PS F game that you want to install and this is a very experimental emulator and so many games are not going to run very well okay sticking with the theme of handhelds we're now going to move over to Nintendo we'll start with drastic the Nintendo DS emulator when you first set it up it's going to give you a couple prompts I will usually just confirm all of these except for installing a desktop app now we're going to go to change Options under the video settings I like to go into frame Skip and turn this off and then also I like to scroll down a little bit to high resolution 3D rendering and turn this off on this will double the resolution of the games next we're going to go into external controller and then select key mapping and select no mapping from there you can go into map control and then it'll ask you to map all your buttons I'm not going to make a diagram for this because it completely corresponds to the buttons on the Odin itself so this is going to be a very intuitive setup after that we want to go into map special and there are a couple ones that I do like to map here for example screen swap I like to set to L1 and then fast forward to R3 for all the other ones if you don't want to use them then you can just select skip but I do like for half screen swap to set this to R1 and really that's about it for drastic other than disable map keys and overlay you want to turn this on we're good to go we can now go back to the main menu select load new game and then navigate to our Nintendo DS folder once you click on it you should now see all of your games and you can boot them right up okay next we're going to do Citra which is the Nintendo 3DS emulator when you first start it up you're going to get a bunch of prompts just go ahead and agree to all of these and then it's going to ask you to select your user folder and this is like the PSP emulator where it's going to ask you where you want to put your user data and we're going to do the same thing here we're going to go into our 3DS folder and then make it that one after that it's going to ask where are all of your games and so next you just want to navigate back to that 3DS folder and there you are you should be good to go with all of your 3DS games so now let's go into the options and make a couple different changes the first is going to be the game pad you need to map all these different buttons and these correspond directly to the Odin Gamepad so it's very simple setup next we'll go into the graphics section and Citra is capable of using either openg GL or Vulcan but I found that openg will usually give me the best graphics so I usually will stick with that so within here all I usually will change is the asynchronous Shader compilation turning that on and then I like to adjust my internal resolution you can go all the way up to a 10x resolution but I found somewhere between three and four will usually be the best okay after that we want to scroll down until we find the GPU driver manager and this one will allow us to install those same turnup drivers so click on that and then on the bottom bottom right there's an option to install from there navigate to your downloads folder in the turnup zip file and then you will see it as the option under GPU driver manager so that's it for the settings let's go ahead and start up a game and first thing you're going to notice is that we have onscreen controls now this you have to actually turn off within the submenu so we're going to press the back button and then under overlay options we're going to uncheck the box that says show overlay also if you want to see the frames per second you can turn that one on also within here you can change out your screen layout I personally like the default one but if you want two of equal size you can do side by side and that's really about it now when it comes to Nintendo 3DS the longer you play a game the more shaders will compile which will make it a lot smoother of a process so if you first start up a game and it's a little bit laggy I would just recommend playing it for a few more minutes okay I think we are now ready for the big guns we're going to start with Dolphin for GameCube and Nintendo Wii so once you open that up you're going to have a couple things to confirm and now we want to add our games same process here we're going to navigate to our SD card then the GameCube folder and then select like to use this folder and we're going to take this one bite at a time so we'll fully set up GameCube and then we will set up Wii after that so first thing we want to do is go into the settings option and then under config and general there are a couple things I change here number one I turn on Enable cheats and then I change my fallback region to ntscu and then finally at the bottom I also enable save states next under configuration we want to go into the interface option and under use Panic handlers we want to turn this off if you leave this on it's going to crash with certain games like Paper Mario and that's it for the config section so we're going to go back to the main settings and now we'll go into graphic settings under here we can choose between open and Vulcan I found that most games run the best with openg so we're going to leave that as our default now under Shader compilation mode I like to change this to hybrid and then I also like to compile my shaders before starting the game next on the bottom we have a bunch of different other options we'll start with enhancements and under internal resolution I like to change this to a 3X and then finally at the bottom here there's the option to turn on WI screen hack now in general I like to leave this one off by default we'll talk more about this in a moment so let's go back into the graphic settings and go into hacks and there's one option here that I do like to turn on and it's this one here called vbi skip essentially what this means is if you have any slowdown it's not going to slow down the audio and depending on the game it might get a little bit weird but it also won't give you any audio crackling which I always hate next under graphic settings we can go into statistics and then if you'd like you can turn on some onscreen notifications like frames per second and finally at the bottom there's a GPU driver option and this is just like the other ones where we can install those turnup drivers so we're going to click on it select install driver and then choose our turnup driver and that's it we're good to go let's go back into the main settings section and go into GameCube input and this is where we're going to map our controls and it can get pretty complicated right here to start we'll go into GameCube controller 1 and press the Cog wheel and then under device make sure that it's set for the Xbox wireless controller now you can scroll down and you'll see all the different buttons that you need to map so let's let's take a look at my diagram and see what buttons I chose and why and the most important thing is to look at the ab and XY layout on the original GameCube controller now obviously we can't make a setup where the a button is in the center like that but I have found that putting the a button on the bottom and then the B button on the left seems to make the most sense on top of that I like to use the analog triggers with L2 and R2 and then the Z button is going to be R1 now things will get tricky when you get to the trigger section because there's multiple options but essentially all you want to do is just press L2 and R2 for each of these so for both L and L analog you want to press L2 and of course same thing with the R2 button okay so really that's it when it comes to the default settings for Nintendo GameCube however one thing to note is you can do per game configurations with this app to do that you want to pick a game and then long press on it and now you have specific settings that you can set for that game alone for example if there's a game that runs better with Vulcan than opengl this is where you would change it now let's go ahead and start up a game and you can see there are onboard controls so let's turn those off we're going to press press the back button to get into the side menu and then we'll scroll down to Overlay controls here choose toggle controls and then on the bottom choose toggle all that's going to turn all of them off and there we are we are now good to go however as you're playing the game you might be thinking to yourself I wonder if this can be played in widescreen it just so happens that Mario Kart Double Dash can and this is where we're going to set up a per game configuration with the widescreen hack so back in the main menu we're going to long press on Mario Kart and then select edit game settings now we'll go into graphic settings and then scroll down to enhancements and then scroll down there until we get to widescreen hack we're going to turn that one on and then go back into the graphic settings section and then at the top you will see aspect ratio for this we need to set it to 46x 9 and that's it we can now back out we've made a perame configuration change for Mario Kart Double Dash and now when we open up that game yes we have a widescreen hack that works perfectly now not every single game is going to work with widescreen hacks on GameCube in fact for the most part I prefer to play them in 4x3 and then every once in a while there will be a good one like this but there are also some games that natively supported 16x9 and FZ GX is a great example for this one we don't have to do anything within dolphin we do it within the game settings so we'll go into options then screen mode and then change it to WID screen from there we can save our changes and now natively it's going to run in 16x9 and there's not a lot of games that will do this but this one does and same thing with Soul giper 2 okay so that's it for Nintendo GameCube let's now move over to Nintendo Wii and thankfully a lot of these configurations are going to be the same other than the inputs let's start by adding our Wii game so we're going to go into the Wii Tab and then same process here we're going to navigate to our Wii folder and then select it and there we go we are now seeing our four Wii games now let's go into settings and then Wii input and then under Wii remote one we'll click on the Cog tile now this we'll have a couple different options starting with the Wii Remote and now is a good time to bring up our diagram now this one is kind of tricky and unintuitive so I'll walk you through it number one most important thing is to think about the wi remote and the nunchuck themselves and how each of those buttons were laid out so if we look at the A and B on the Wii mode the a is going to be that top confirm button and then the B is our trigger button underneath so for these I like to set the a as the face button bottom and then b as the one to the left then also remember that we have the one and two buttons further down the Wii mode for these I like to use them as the top and the rightmost buttons on top of that we will configure the IR sensor within the movement to be the right analog stick now on the left side we need to think about the nunchuck because that's what you usually would hold with your left hand and so for this I made the C button the L1 then the Z button the L2 and then our nunchuck movement will be the left analog stick however depending on how you're playing you may prefer to have the C and Z buttons be on the right side instead so you can always swap them over if you'd like the final thing that I always like to set up is going to be a motion of shake and this will be under the X Y and Z axises for both the Wii mode and the nunchuk and these I usually will map to the R1 button so what this means if I press R1 while playing a Wii game it's going to simulate that I'm shaking the Wii Remote and and the nunchuck at the same time and this is important in certain games like new Super Mario Brothers U as well as Donkey Kong Country Returns so first thing you want to do Under the wi remote section is you want to set all of those buttons that we just talked about and then also under motion simulation this is where you're going to set the analog stick as well as those Shake buttons with R1 after that we'll go into the extension section which is already going to be set up for nunchuck and here we want to set all of our left controls so C and Z buttons and same thing with the left analog stick also within here you can map all the shapes functions to the R1 button again and that's really it when it comes to setting up the weote and nunchuk it's all about looking at the diagram and configuring the buttons to correspond to it now once we're done we want to set up a profile specifically for this one setup so under the main control section we're going to go into profiles and then tap on the dis icon it's going to ask us to name that new profile and I'm going to call it weote with nunchuk now after that we can set up a couple other profiles and the easiest one is going to be just the wi mode itself without a unchu so we'll click on extension and then select none now we'll go back up to that profile section and then press the save icon again and we're going to set it to weote only and finally one other configuration I recommend setting up is going back to the extension and now selecting the Classic Controller now this one had a very standard layout so I don't have a diagram for it but the buttons here are going to correspond to the Odin 2 so it's pretty simple and again we want to save this as its own profile we're going to click on the save icon and then name it classic controller and there we go we now have all of our inputs set up and so depending on the game that we're using we can choose the controller profile that matches it so for example with Super Paper Mario this one only used the Wiimote so we're going to long press on the game select edit game settings and then go under wi input Wii Remote and then we can choose our profile and we're going to do wi remote only and that's it you just kind of rinse and repeat for each of the Wii games and that's how you set up those controls all right next up we're going to go into Aether sx2 for PlayStation 2 emulation and the settings is going to be very similar to how it was when we set up Duck station on that front page we want to keep it at op optimal or safe defaults and then under GPU renderer I prefer to keep this under openg next under upscale multiplier I like to set this to 2.5 which is going to be just a little bit more than 1080p on the next page it's going to ask you to import the BIOS file again we're going to click on that go and navigate to our bios folder and then choose our PS2 bios it's going to be the largest file among the ones that I recommend it's going to have a bin file extension so you can click on that it's going to find it and then you can choose that as your bios next we'll select our game directory again navigate to the card in the PS2 folder and that's it the setup is complete it's going to scan the folder and then pick all of your games and like I mentioned it's going to be very similar to duck station so first we'll go into the app settings and make a couple changes number one is the fast boot option if you'd like to see the PS2 boot logo you can turn that off however just bear in mind if you try to play a game that isn't from the same region as your bios it's not going to work so I recommend keeping this one on for fast boot now further down you can see the onscreen display options so if you want want to see the frames per second this is where you will enable it and now let's move over to the system tab if you ever have to do any sort of underclocking because of performance issues this is where you would do it but I honestly think you're probably never going to need this because the Odin 2 is so powerful however at the bottom of the system option there's a turbo speed and I prefer to change this from 200% to 300% this means our fast forward is going to work even faster now under Graphics options scroll down until you find the widescreen patches and then same thing with the interlacing patches I like to turn both of these two on on and that's really about it under these settings we can go all the way over to the achievement section and here we can enable retro achievements and then also sign in next we're going to set up our controls so we'll go back into the side menu and then select controller settings and then under controller Port one we'll do automatic mapping and then Xbox wireless controller and then also go over to the touchscreen Tab and make sure you turn on the one that says hide with external controller finally on the far right you will have our hotkeys option and this is going to be very similar to how we just explained it with duck station here's here's the diagram so we'll use select as our hotkey enable and then we'll press all the other corresponding buttons depending on what we're trying to do and that's about it we can now start it up and as you can see we're playing Burnout Revenge in a widescreen 2.5x resolution and it's also using no interlacing patches which makes everything look nice and sharp so it's a really great gaming experience here on PS2 now one thing of note about ather sx2 is that it's an older version of the app and what happened is the newer version on the Play Store option is owned by a different developer and that one has ads and a bunch of other regressions within the emulator so what we want to do is prevent it from updating let me show you how to do that we're going to click on Google Play front page and then our account icon and then scroll down until you find the section that says settings within here go into Network preferences and then auto update apps and for this I recommend changing it to don't auto update apps now if you go into your manage app section Within the play store if you look at our details we can see that ather sx2 update is there but it won't update unless we choose to update now this does mean you'll have to manually update all of your other apps Within the play store but at the very least it'll keep the Aether sx2 without being touched and there are also other options like nether sx2 which is an alternative version of this and I'll have links to that in my written guide that's a bit of a more advanced feature okay we're almost done we are at the Finish Line one more emulator to finish that's going to be Yuzu this is going to be our Nintendo switch emulator when you open this up you're going to have a bunch of notifications things that you need to accept and to be honest this is very similar to the Citra emulator setup process so it's kind of intuitive when you get to the key section it's going to ask you for your prod. keys file again this is copyrighted but I have mine within my BIOS folder so I'm going to navigate to there and then choose it next it's going to ask where your games are stored so you're going to go to add games and then navigate to your switch folder and there we go we now have all of our games loaded up let's go into the settings and make a couple key changes first we'll go into advanced settings and then under system you have the option of changing between docked or handheld mode by default it's going to be handheld mode which will perform perform the best but there will be some games that'll work in dock mode if you want to try it and really that's about it within the advanced settings there's not a lot you want to change here however under GPU driver manager here we can load up our custom turnup drivers so we'll click on install and then find that zip file and so now that will be our default GPU driver and once we have that loaded up we can go back into advanced settings and go into graphics and here there are a couple things we want to changed now that we have the driver loaded if we scroll down there are two options the first is to force maximum clocks and the other is to use asynchronous shaders for both of these I like to turn them on it's going to maximize the performance when playing some of those harder switch games another section worth noting is the manage user data section and here you can do all sorts of things you can install specific firmware and you can also install game updates in DLC or you can import save games if you have them from like a desktop version of Yuzu anyway those are more advanced topics so let's actually get into the game and when we start up a game you're going to see that there are onscreen controls so this is easy to get rid of we're we're going to press the back button on the Odin and then under overlay options we can turn on our frames per second and then also we can choose toggle controls here we're going to select toggle all and then press okay and now all the onscreen controls are off however one thing to note is the button mapping is automatic with this app and if you use the Xbox controller profile like me the ab and XY buttons are going to be swapped and unfortunately there is no easy way to swap between the two so here's what I do I swipe up with my finger from the bottom which is going to put the Yuzu emulator into picture and picture mode from there I navigate over to my settings and then I navigate to Odin settings and then scroll down until I find the controller style and here I change it from Xbox to Odin now when I jump back into the game everything is going to work properly so as long as you keep playing Nintendo switch games they will all work fine but you'll have to swap it back to Xbox when you're ready to play something else I'm really hoping that Ayn will make this a quick toggle within the top menu at some point anyway the last note I want to make about Yuzu is that this one is like Citra by that I mean mean that as you play a game you're going to get some stutters in the beginning but the longer you play the better it'll get so for example with Super Mario Wonder in the beginning of this stage I was getting maybe 30 40 frames per second it was definitely getting some stutters however after playing it for a couple minutes I was getting a pretty solid 60 frames per second so that's just something to bear in mind that as you're playing Nintendo switch you will have some of that Shader compilation okay congratulations we have now made it through the longest and hardest part of this whole setup guide in fact when I was recording this I thought it was so long that I had considered making a second video to kind of break it off however I thought that would be a little bit too confusing so we're just going to have one really long video anyway let's move on to the last step of the process which is to set up a front end this is going to be the user experience that's going to bring it all together and like I mentioned previously we're going to use the D Show app not only does it work well but it's completely free once you open it up it's going to ask you to download platforms essentially here you're just going to identify all the different systems you want to play Within Dell so obviously this will be a matter of choice to pick whatever system you want to play play just bear in mind that for each system you choose it needs to either have an emulator or it needs to have the emulator core downloaded within retu AR anyway once that's all set up you can now tab through by pressing L1 and R1 and you should be able to see all the different systems now nothing's loaded up just yet but let's go ahead and make it a little bit prettier so we're going to go over to the settings section and you can see up top we have access to our Android settings everything underneath that is going to be daish show settings so let's go into the appearance section and then under download platform wallpapers pack you can choose different themes to download and play with daisho one of my favorites is called pop that's the one that I showed in the intro of this video so we're going to choose that and select download pack and then confirm once that's done if we go back to the platforms tab you can now see we have this really nice design right here but it's not quite perfect I think it's just a little bit too bright so let's go back into appearance and then under Dark theme we're going to change it from follow system to dark and yeah I think this looks a lot better on the platforms tab everything looks a little bit sharper and clearer next let's go down to the navigation section to start I want to change our homepage by default it's going to go to the widgets tab but because we're using this mostly for emulation I prefer to make the homepage platforms now also we want to set up our hotkeys this is going to allow us to tab between the different tabs and the systems so Under tabs hotkeys I like to use L2 and R2 and then by pressing those it'll go through the different tabs up top now under the switching hotkeys I Chang those to L1 and R1 this means that when you get to a specific tab like platforms when you press L1 and R1 is going to tab through the different platforms so that's a very quick way of setting up daisho in terms of navigation and appearance now I'm going to show you how to add our emulators we'll start with Game Boy Advance because this one has a couple hiccups I want to walk you through now first things first we need to point it to our games folder so we're going to click on paths and then add more and then you guessed it we're going to navigate through to the games folder and then Game Boy Advance and then select use this folder once that's done I'm going to press the sync button that's going to scrub through all the different games and then also download all their box art this will take a couple minutes depending on the size of your library once it's done we can go into the library and you can see here that we have a listing of all of our games so let's go ahead and start one up and the first thing you'll see when starting up any retroarch game is this killing package processes popup so I'm going to show you how to get rid of this we're going to go back to the settings tab and then under Library we're going to scroll down until we find the disabled players warnings after you turn this on you won't see that warning anymore so now let's go back to that game and start it up and chances are you're probably just going to see a black screen and that's because by default daisho is trying to start a certain retro art core but it's not the one I downloaded if you look at my written guide I recommend the mgba emulator core so just go ahead and press the back button a couple times it's going to ask you to kill the app and now we'll go back to the front Game Boy Advance page and then click on the pencil icon on the bottom right now scroll down until you find the player settings and you can see here the default core that they chose is VBA next we're going to click on the arrow and then scroll down to around the 62 number that's going to be where all the Game Boy advanced games are and if you look number 61 is retroarc 64bit and the mgba core that's the one we need so we're going to change it to that one and then select save on the bottom right now if we go back into the library and choose our game yeah the game pops right up so that's all you have to do and you only have to do it that one time for Game Boy Advance let's try another system that's going to be a little bit easier we'll start with Nintendo GameCube same process here we're going to click on paths and then navigate to our SD card and the GameCube folder then use this folder after that we press the sync button it's going to scrub and then scrape all of our box art and once that's done we can go into the library and then choose a game and then when we click on it by default it's going to use the Dolphin Emulator that we already set up and just like that we're now playing Mario Golf so no extra configuration needed there let's try another one with Nintendo 64 we're going to go on paths then add more then games and then Nintendo 64 and then use this folder after we're done syncing it so that all of the games are scrubbed and scraped we can go into library and then choose our game and thankfully by by default this one will also choose the mopin 64 emulator by default so all that previous configuration that we did is now working with IND digal and that's it you basically just want to go through and do that for all of your different systems now some of these are not going to work perfectly we'll start with Nintendo 3DS if we set this up just like how we did with all the other ones when we click on a game it's going to give us an error message and I suspect this is because we're not using the regular Play Store version of Citra but instead the one from their website and so it's kind of a give or take in the fact that we have the post updated version of the app but then also it's not going to work in digio so we'll have to go into the Citra emulator to actually start it up and that is kind of a bummer and it'll also be a similar story with Sega Saturn by default it's going to try to use the Standalone yasan shirro emulator and unfortunately that is currently not working with daisho however if we go into these settings within Saturn and then we change the default player from the Standalone emulator to something else for example the retroarch core of yasan Shiro now when we try to start up a game it will actually run so it'll be up to you which emulator you want to use in this kind of situation anyway that's really about it when it comes to setting up digio it's just kind of a tedious process in that you have to do it for every single system one at a time but once you have it all synced up it's a pretty nice user interface now the next thing you may be wanting this to be your home screen so that when you start up the device it goes right into digal so let me show you how to do that we're going to go into the settings tab and then open up the Android settings now we'll select search settings and type in the word home you'll see an option for def home app we're going to change that to daisho and that's it from now on anytime you start up the game it's going to default to going to D show as your homepage and there's a lot of great things with d show that I'm not going to talk about in this video but I have a whole dedicated video about it and of course it'll be linked in my written guide down below and finally I did want to show off one other frontend option if you want to try something else and for this we're going to use the beacon game launcher this is a relatively new app but I think it shows a lot of promise just bear in mind this one is not free it is $3 anyway once it's in installed this is what the front screen is going to look like and here you're going to configure these platforms one at a time and this is actually pretty intuitive so you pick your platform first we're going to do 3DS then you want to choose your app for this one we're going to use Citra and then it's going to ask for our ROMs folder so again we'll navigate to our games card find 3DS and there next it's going to ask what kind of aspect ratio you want for the box art and it's pretty good at choosing the right one by default and that's it you can now press add platform it's going to look in that folder and then find your games and then load them up and you just just want to rinse and repeat that for all the other systems now there are a couple nice things about this for example you can set up a dark mode but then also you can change the order of your platforms this is something you cannot do in dig show and it's a simple drag and drop to move these around now I'm not going to bore you with the entire setup all over again but this is what it looks like after about 5 or 6 minutes of tinkering to set up all my systems so it is very easy to set up the first time around and you've also got a couple different Navigation interfaces in addition to this Gallery style view you can also use a list one which will show them kind of like d show and there's also a grid display as well so depending on what you like to see this might be pretty nice and one thing of note is that some of these emulators work better in Beacon than they do in digio and vice versa so for example with 3DS previously we couldn't open it at all within daisho however within Beacon it will at least take you to the front Citra page so that is a little bit more intuitive but not perfect however on the flip side if we try to open up a GameCube or a Wii game it's not going to open up the actual game instead it'll just take you to the dolphin interface so it's kind of a mix and match where some will play better on one than the other and I think it's a good example of the fact that none of these are perfect but some are very good anyway that's about it for this video I'm going to keep updating the written guide As Time Marches On so if any new apps or different settings come out then be sure to check out that written guide link down below I hope this was really helpful because it was a ton of work to put together and if you have any questions let me know in the comments Down Below in fact I think this might be the longest retro game core video of all time as always thank you for watching and be sure to like And subscribe if you found this helpful and we will see you next time happy [Music] gaming

Channel: Retro Game Corps

Views: 119,075

Keywords:

Id: M8HhMNbJBc0

Length: 65min 16sec (3916 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2023