💥 Features | 🕹️ Supported Systems | 🚀 Getting Started | 🪄 Metadata | 🚑️ Support

My main goal for emuze is to have a emulation launcher that is as fast and simple as possible. With this you don't have to configure every emulator and fine tune metadata of your roms. If your roms are named correctly, a click on the import button should import your emulators and roms altogether and therefore no configuration is necessary.

💥 Features

• ⚡️ Fast and responsive UI
• 🚂 Import all your emulators and roms with a click of a button
• 🪄 Fetches Metadata from igdb based on the filenames of your roms
• 🎮️ Gamepad support
• 💻️ Windows, Linux and Steam Deck support
• 🔧 Can install missing emulators (Linux only)
• 💫 Updates itself

🕹️ Supported Systems

The following systems are supported:

System	Emulator	Pre Configured	Bundled	BIOS needed
Sega Master System	ares	Yes	Yes	No
Sega Game Gear	ares	Yes	Yes	No
Sega Mega Drive	ares	Yes	Yes	No
Sega 32X	ares	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sega CD	ares	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sega Saturn	Mednafen	Yes	No	Yes
Sega Dreamcast	Flycast	No	No	No
Nintendo Entertainment System	ares	Yes	Yes	No
Super Nintendo Entertainment System	ares	Yes	Yes	No
Nintendo Game Boy	mgba	No	No	No
Nintendo Game Boy Color	mgba	No	No	No
Nintendo Game Boy Advance	mgba	No	No	No
Nintendo DS	MelonDS	No	No	No
Nintendo 3DS	Lime3DS	No	No	No
Nintendo 64	ares	Yes	Yes	No
Nintendo Gamecube	Dolphin	Yes	Yes	No
Nintendo Wii	Dolphin	Yes	Yes	No
Nintendo Wii U	Cemu	No	No	Yes
Nintendo Switch	Ryujinx	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sony PlayStation	DuckStation (Legacy)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sony PlayStation 2	PCSX2	Yes	No	Yes
Sony PlayStation 3	RPCS3	No	No	Yes
Sony PlayStation Portable	PPSSPP	No	No	No
PC Engine	ares	Yes	Yes	No
PC Engine CD	Mednafen	Yes	No	Yes
PC Engine SuperGrafx	Mednafen	Yes	No	Yes
Arcade	Mame	No	No	No
Neo Geo	Mame	No	No	No
Neo Geo CD	Mame	No	No	No
Neo Geo Pocket	ares	Yes	Yes	Yes
Neo Geo Pocket Color	ares	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scumm	ScummVM	Yes	No	No
Dos (Supported Games)	DOSBox-Staging	No	No	No

Important

❤️ Many thanks to all emulator developers. Without you and your awesome work this wouldn't be possible.

Pre Configured

If a System is pre configured, all connected gamepads will be configured for the specific Emulator.

The following Hotkeys are set:

• Open Emulator Menu (if supported from emulator): F2
• Save State: F1
• Load State: F3
• Fullscreen: F11

Bundled

If a system is bundled, the respective emulator is provided with emuze in a specific version. Therefore you do not need to provide the emulator on your own.

BIOS needed

Some emulators need a BIOS or firmware to run. Please check the documentation of an emulator for more information.

🚀 Getting started

Windows

Download the latest Version of emuze and install it.

If you start emuze for the first time, it asks for the following folders to work:

• Emulators folder (Windows only)
• Roms folder

You can change the folders in the settings.

Emulators Folder (Windows only)

This is the folder where your emulators are installed. It is only necessary on Windows and only for emulators not bundled by emuze.

emulators
|-> ppsspp_win
|---> ...
|---> PPSSPPWindows64.exe
|---> ...
|-> mednafen-1.32.1-win64
|---> ...
|---> mednafen.exe
|---> ...

Linux

For now emuze is only released as an AppImage. Your Linux distribution needs to support Flatpaks. All emulators, not bundled, need to be installed via flatpak but emuze can do this for you.

1. Download the latest Version of emuze

2. Mark the AppImage as executable and start emuze

3. Choose the folder where your Roms are located

Steam Deck in Game mode

For now emuze is only released as an AppImage.

1. Switch to Desktop

2. Download the latest Version of emuze

3. Mark the AppImage as executable and start emuze

4. Choose the folder where your Roms are located

5. Add it via Add a Non-Steam Game to Steam and rename it to emuze

6. Add --no-sandbox as a launch option to the added Shortcut in Steam via Properties -> Shortcut -> LAUNCH OPTIONS.

7. Switch to Game Mode

Steam Input Profile

There is a Steam Input Profile with the name emuze, which has some Hotkeys pre configured on the back pedals of the Steam Deck.

Important

Steam Input can result in gamepads not being able to be used correctly in some emulators. Therefore, I recommend disabling Steam Input for all gamepads except the Steam Deck controller.

SteamGridDB

There are several assets for emuze on SteamGridDB which you can use via the SteamGridDB Plugin in Decky Loader.

Roms Folder

The Roms need to be grouped by their System. E.g. Final Fantasy VII.chd needs to be stored in a folder Playstation.

roms
|-> Playstation
|---> Tekken 2.chd
|---> Crash Bandicoot.chd
|---> Final Fantasy VII.chd
|---> ...
|-> Super Nintendo
|---> Super Metroid.sfc
|---> Terranigma.sfc
|---> ...

🪄 Metadata

Metadata provides additional information about your games, e.g.

• Cover art
• Description
• Genre
• ...

Note

Right now, emuze only fetches Cover art for your games.

Metadata will be fetched from igdb. emuze crawls the name and alternative name of a game filtered by the specific system. The Search is case-insensitive.

Tip

igdb is a community driven open source database for game information. If there is something missing or wrong, please help and correct it there.

Games with a Subtitle

If a game has a subtitle, the subtitle needs to be in the file name.
For the title Max Payne 2 emuze wouldn't find metadata. Correct would be Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.chd.

On Windows special characters like : can't be part of a file name, therefore you have to write it the following: Max Payne 2 - The Fall of Max Payne.chd

Games with multiple Discs

If you have a game with multiple discs, like Final Fantasy VII, the file name for the first disc would be Final Fantasy VII (Disc 1).chd.

Games with multiple Versions (e.g. Regions)

If you have multiple versions of a game you can specify them in brackets, e.g. the file name for the japanese version of Castlevania would be Castlevania (J).nes.

🔧 Commandline Options

Usage: emuze [options]

Options:
  --help             Show help
  --fullscreen       Start the app in fullscreen mode
  --debugEmuze       Activates verbose logging to .emuze/emuze.log
  --rmgN64           Activates the less accurate Rosalies Mupen GUI (RMG) emulator to play N64
  --no-sandbox       Necessary if emuze is used as a non steam game (Steam Deck Game Mode)

🚑️ Support

If you have questions, found a bug or have a feature request, feel free to create an issue or join the Discord.