Main Menu

Accessed by pressing the Start button in EmulationStation

Quick Access

Accessed by pressing the Select button on the top level of the EmulationStation menu

Quick Access

  • Launch Screensaver

Quit

  • Restart EmulationStation
  • Restart System
  • Shutdown System

View Options

Accessed by pressing the Select button while in a System menu in EmulationStation

Navigation

  • Filter Games By Text
  • Jump To Letter
  • Select Random Game
  • Sort Games By
  • Other Filters

View Options

  • Gamelist View Style
  • View Customization

Options

Game Options

Accessed by pressing the X button while highlighting a game

Game Medias

  • View Game Manual
  • View Fullscreen Video
  • View Game Achievements

Game

  • Save Snapshots
  • Netplay Hosting/Options
  • Delete Game

Collections

  • Add to Favorites
  • Add to Custom Collection..

Options

Emulator Options

For Individual Systems: Accessed from View Options > Advanced System Options

For Individual Games: Accessed from Game Options > Advanced Game Options

  • Emulator
  • Game Aspect Ratio
  • Bilinear Filtering
  • Rewind - Enable rewind for compatible systems. This can cause serious performance problems, and should be enabled as needed on a per system or game basis
  • Auto Save/Load On Game Launch
  • Shader Set
  • Filter Set
  • Integer Scale (Pixel Perfect)
  • RGA Scale
  • Enable Max Performance - Forces the system to always run at full clockspeed. This can drain the battery very quickly, and should be set on individual games only when needed
  • Decoration Set
  • Decoration Options
  • Latency Reduction
  • Colorization

System Settings

Accessed through Main Menu > System Settings

System

  • Information - General information about the system
  • Timezone - Set the system’s timezone
  • Show Clock in 12-Hour Format

Hardware

  • Brightness - Adjust the system brightness
  • Enable Overclock - Enable or disable overclock on the system. Overclocking can give a slight performance boost, but can cause errors on some systems

Advanced

  • Developer
  • Danger Zone! - A number of advanced options including backups and config resets

Danger Zone!

Accessed through Main Menu > System Settings > Danger Zone!

  • Backup Configurations
  • Backup Identity
  • Restore From Backup
  • Reset Retroarch Config to Default
  • Factory Reset

Games Settings

Accessed through Main Menu > Games Settings

Tools

  • Update Gamelists - Refresh the list of roms and scraped data

Default Global Settings - Change the emulation defaults for the entire system. It’s usually better to change these settings on a per-system basis

  • Game Aspect Ratio -
  • Bilinear Filtering
  • Enable Max Performance - Forces the system to always run at full clockspeed. This can drain the battery very quickly, and should never be set globally
  • Rewind - Enable rewind for compatible systems. This can cause serious performance problems, and should be enabled as needed on a per system or game basis
  • Integer Scaling (Pixel Perfect)
  • RGA Scale
  • Auto Save/Load On Game Launch
  • Incremental Savestates
  • Shader Set
  • Filter Set
  • Decoration Set
  • Latency Reduction
  • AI Game Translation

Settings

System Settings

Retroachievements Settings

Accessed through the Main Menu > Games Settings > Retroachievements Settings

Settings

  • Retroachievements - Toggle Retroachievements on or off
  • Hardcore Mode - Toggle hardcore mode on or off
  • Leaderboards
  • Challenge Indicators
  • Rich Presence
  • Badges
  • Test Unofficial Achievements
  • Unlock Sound
  • Verbose Mode
  • Automatic Screenshot
  • Username - Your username on retroachievements.org
  • Password - Your password for retroachievements.org. Special characters can cause login issues
  • Show Retroachievements Entry In Main Menu

Game Indexes

  • Index New Games At Startup
  • Index Games

Netplay Settings

Accessed through the Main Menu > Games Settings > Netplay Settings

Settings

  • Enable Netplay
  • Nickname
  • Port
  • Use Relay Server

Game Indexes

  • Index New Games At Startup
  • Index Games

UI Settings

Accessed through the Main Menu > UI Settings

Appearance

  • Theme Set
  • Theme Configuration
  • Language
  • UI Mode - Allows you to enter Kiosk or Kid mode to lock off some UI options
  • Retroarch Menu Driver - Change the menu style for RetroArch
  • Show Retroarch FPS

Display Options

  • Screensaver Settings
  • List Transition Style
  • Game Launch Transition
  • Show Clock
  • On-Screen Help
  • Show Battery Status

Gamelist Options

  • Show Favorites on Top
  • Show Hidden Files
  • Show Folders
  • Show ‘..’ Parent Folder
  • Show Region Flag
  • Show Savestate Icon
  • Show Manual Icon
  • Show Filenames Instead
  • Ignore Leading Articles When Sorting

Game Collection Settings

Accessed through the Main Menu > Game Collection Settings

Collections To Display

  • Systems Displayed
  • Automatic Game Collections
  • Custom Game Collections

Create Custom Collection

  • Create New Editable Collection
  • Create New Dynamic Collection

Options

  • Sort Systems
  • Start on System
  • Start on Gamelist
  • Group Unthemed Custom Collections
  • Show System Name In Collections
  • Show Games of Hidden Systems in Collections

Sound Settings

Accessed through the Main Menu > Sound Settings

Volume

  • System Volume
  • Music Volume
  • Show Overlay When Volume Changes

Music

  • Frontend Music
  • Display Song Titles
  • Song Title Display Duration
  • Only Play System-Specific Music Folder
  • Play System Specific Music
  • Lower Music When Playing Video

Sounds

  • Enable Navigation Sounds
  • Enable Video Preview Audio

Network Settings

Accessed through the Main Menu > Network Settings

Informations

  • IP Address
  • Internet Status
  • Show Network Indicator

Settings

  • Hostname
  • Enable SSH
  • Enable Samba
  • Enable Wifi
  • Wifi SSID
  • Wifi Key

Scraper

Accessed through the Main Menu > Scrape

  • Scraping Database
  • Image Source
  • Box Source
  • Logo Source
  • Scrape Ratings
  • Scrape Videos
  • Scrape Fanart
  • Scrape Box Backside
  • Scrape Map
  • Scrape Titleshot
  • Scrape Cartridge
  • Scrape Manual
  • Username
  • Password

Updates & Downloads

Accessed through the Main Menu > Updates & Downloads

Downloads

  • Themes
  • Packages

Software Updates

  • Check for Updates - Whether to automatically check for updates
  • Update Channel - Whether to update to stable builds or pre-release builds
  • Start Update

Quit

Accessed through the Main Menu > Quit

  • Restart EmulationStation
  • Restart System
  • Shutdown System