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

emuze is an emulation frontend designed to simplify your retro gaming experience. It automates the configuration of each emulator, including seamless gamepad integration and automatic import of games along with their metadata. With its console-like interface and intuitive controls, emuze lets you focus on enjoying your retro games, just like you would on a gaming console.

It is not there yet for every system and emulator, please have a look at 🕹️ Supported Systems for more details.

• ⚡️ Intuitive console-like interface
• 🚂 Import all your roms with a click of a button
• 🪄 Provides Metadata from igdb based on the filenames of your roms
• 🎮️ Seamless gamepad integration for most emulators
• 📦️ Bundles most emulators
• 💻️ Windows, Linux and Steam Deck support
• 💫 Updates itself

The following systems are supported:

If a System is pre configured, all connected gamepads will be configured for the specific Emulator. If there are no gamepads connected, the keyboard will be configured instead.

The following Hotkeys are set as well:

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

You can close a game via

• Xbox: back + a
• PlayStation: select + x
• Nintendo: select + a

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.

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

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.

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

emulators
|-> mame
|---> ...
|---> mame.exe
|---> ...
|-> mednafen-1.32.1-win64
|---> ...
|---> mednafen.exe
|---> ...

For now emuze is only released as an AppImage. All emulators, not bundled, need to be installed via flatpak.

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

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. Switch to Game Mode

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

• L4: Save State
• L5: Load State
• R4: Open Emulator Menu (if supported from emulator) or Fullscreen
• R5: Left Mouse Click
• Right Trackpad: Mouse

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

If you use your Steam Deck on an external Monitor or TV I recommend switching to the native resolution via Properties -> Shortcut -> Game Resolution to Native.

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
|---> ...

Usage: emuze [options]

Options:
  --help             Show help
  --fullscreen       Start the app in fullscreen mode
  --debug-emuze      Activates verbose logging to /home/.local/share/emuze/emuze.log
  --rmg              Activates the less accurate Rosalies Mupen GUI (RMG) emulator to play N64
  --mgba             Activates the mgba emulator to play Game Boy
  --lime3ds          Activates the lime3DS emulator to play 3DS

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