Editing EmulationStation

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{{Infobox software
|title         = EmulationStation
|logo          = EmulationStation.png
|logowidth     = 
|developer     = Alec Lofquist,<br />Nils Bonenberger,<br />[https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/graphs/contributors contributors]
|version       = {{Version|EmulationStation}}
|active        = Yes <small>(RetroPie fork)</small>
|platform      = Windows, Linux
|architecture  = x86, ARM
|type          = Launcher
|website       = [http://emulationstation.org/ emulationstation.org]
|prog-lang     = C++
|support       = 
|license       = MIT-like
|source        = [https://github.com/Retropie/EmulationStation GitHub <small>(RetroPie fork)</small>]<br />[https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/ GitHub <small>(original source)</small>]
}}

'''EmulationStation''' is a graphical and themeable [[Frontends|launcher]] for various emulators. It can import custom themes to use, but it doesn't have a large community so there is not an abundance of these. Comes with a metadata scraper. It is a great front end, and thanks to some users on the RetroPie Forum, development has been picked up after the original developers left. Some new additions include support for video playback as well as custom carousels.

==Download==
{| cellpadding="4"
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big|Lin-big|macOS-big}}
|[https://www.es-de.org/#Download '''EmulationStation Desktop Edition''']<br /><small>An active fork of EmulationStation made for desktop use.</small>
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big|Lin-big|LinuxARM-big}}
|[https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/releases '''RetroPie fork Git''']<br /><small>Another active fork of EmulationStation</small>
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big}}
|[https://github.com/jrassa/EmulationStation/releases '''RetroPie fork Git Continuous Integration Builds''']<br><small>Windows Builds from the RetroPie EmulationStation fork.
|-
|colspan="3"|<hr/>
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|LinuxARM|Lin}}
|[https://retropie.org.uk/download/ RetroPie package]<br /><small>RetroPie for x86 Linux is only available Ubuntu (16.04 LTS or later) and Debian based distros.</small>
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win}}
|[https://github.com/fabricecaruso/batocera-emulationstation/releases Batocera fork]<br /><small>Another active fork, from [https://batocera.org/ Batocera.linux]</small>
|-
|align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|LinuxARM}}
|[https://emulationstation.org/#download Original version]<br /><small>Last updated 2015.</small>
|}

==List of forks==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s) 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
!colspan="8"|PC / x86
|-
|[https://www.es-de.org/ EmulationStation Desktop Edition]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://www.es-de.org/#Download 2.2.1]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|[https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation RetroPie fork]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|LinuxARM}}
|[https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation 2.11.2]
|{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=ARM>These are mostly recommended for Linux ARM based devices such as RetroPie. For desktop EmulationStation Desktop Edition is the recommended solution.</ref>
|-
|[https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera-emulationstation Batocera fork]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|LinuxARM}}
|[https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera-emulationstation Git]
|{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=ARM></ref>
|-
|[https://github.com/AmberELEC/emulationstation AmberELEC fork]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|LinuxARM}}
|[https://github.com/AmberELEC/emulationstation Git]
|{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=ARM></ref>
|-
!colspan="8"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[https://www.es-de.org/ EmulationStation Desktop Edition]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://www.es-de.org/#Download {{EmulationStation Desktop EditionVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|}

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[[Category:Frontends]]