For those having USB issues setting up ES, I went through 4 USB sticks before finding one that worked. SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 64GB works fine :-)

thank you for making this tutorial, none of this is very complicated but putting all the steps together would have left me very confused without this guide. (:

Much appreciate the clear and concise details here man. Project lunar documentation and instructions, especially on youtube, is generally very poor. Good job!

Thanks got mostly there last night, you filled in the blanks! Can't get SegaCD to run though. Got master system, genesis and 32x all going strong! Looking forward to 1.1.

The only things missing for me are: - USB OTG on back port just like Playstation Mini - Sega CD and 32X Support in the main UI Once those are done then I'll be in heaven.

Your videos are so helpful and easy to follow. Thank you so much for these.

To get sega cd to work do this.. Rename the bios to these put them on your usb in RA system folder, put your converted CHD or bin/cue files in the roms/segacd folder, boot up RA go to settings tell it where the bios is, and your good to go.. Bios_CD_E.bin Bios_CD_J.bin Bios_CD_U.bin

A video showing how to customize settings on the RetroArch installed by Project Lunar would be welcomed ! Especially, video shaders and filters, they seem pretty difficult to change.

To exit back to the menu without seeing RA do this.... After you have configured your game pad go out of ES and go into the boot menu and select the left RA go into settings/input/hotkey binds and scroll down to Quit RA and select which button you want to use, then exit RA it will save on exit ive also set to press the hotkey twice to exit in case i accidently tap it.. all done.. hope this helps.

Thank you for the guide! I am loving Battletoads Double Dragon on my mini :D

Great tutorial. Quick question, how do you save/load game when you are playing in emulation station?

Thanks to Alan D. comment about BIOS files below, everything works well! Still 2 small issues for me: - The image of menus and games are slightly bigger than my TV screen, is there a way to resize the video output for it to fit my screen? - I'd love to activate FM sound for Sega Mark III games, is it possible to do that?

how do i setup mega cd and 32x bios and games

When the FAQ doesn't go into detail why things like EmulationStation might not load and you cruise right passed the initial setup without a hiccup leaves people like me wondering why things like the OTG cable isn't working or why the setup formatted the USB but not actually load or read from it. I appreciate all your help otherwise but for anyone else that might be having issues what issues have you had and what did you do to fix it? I have a USB that got formatted properly but when running ES does nothing, also doesn't load from OTG.

can you use the external USB and have 2 players?

@ Restalgia Can you do one just for installing Retroarch?

It seems I can’t get games to load. I’ve copied all the cores. I have tried to load ATARI 7800 games, but they won’t. Press A only to go back to the same screen...

Is anyone else having a problem where emulation station will reset back to the main menu or just freeze up?

I have it working easily with Nes and Snes, but like others have said with no one answering, with the stick plugged in it shows the stock menu always asking to select language everytime. When removing and rebooting it has all the games I added before doing it, wish I could leave it plugged in and have my current games list be present. Seems to be some lag on games too, just using a stock controller on Nes.

SNES ROMs won't play they show up but none will start

I've had some awful luck with this project lunar. I did the install and had about 5mb of available space. My system crashed and I get an error 004 (I believe it was). So I went back to my pc, took off some ROMs, leaving 25MB on the Genesis mini. However now when I turn on the console I get nothing, a black screen. When I turn it off the red LED on the classic remains on. I need to disconnect the power. I'm at a complete loss here .

UGHJ My Hakchi screwed up my sega mini, I tried recovering it with Lunar but it says > Downloading payload from the Internet: Project_Lunar_Mod-1.0.5-342f0a7.tar.gz Waiting for FEL mode... (unplug system, power switch on, hold reset, plug system) **Remember the stock SEGA USB cable will NOT work!** FEL mode detected. Device: AWUSBFEX Transferring FES Executing FES Transferring uImage Transferring uInitrd Transferring custom uBoot Transferring env.bin Executing custom uBoot Waiting for reboot... ERROR: This device is not a Mega Drive or Genesis Mini. ABORTING INSTALLATION Installation did not complete successfully. Not sure what to do here.

So you absolutely, positive MUST have a flash drive in order to run the RetroArch emulators, even if you're only using a few of them? I was kind of hoping to keep add-ons out of the picture if at all possible.

Anyone that wants to disable kiosk mode in ES go into boot settings scroll down to the setting toggle kiosk mode via M2e or ES ..

what cores do we need? all of them? does it have to be in *.SO or *.zip or is it the same? is there drivers to recognize xbox gamepad wired? thanks you for everything!!!!

How do you get Sega Cd games run on Emulation station? Do you need the bios? Besides that it all runs well, the Genesis and 32x games.

anyone could do the original genesis mini rempa of buttons on ES? i could, but no button works like a HOTKEY. so i need turn off and turn on genesis mini to change the game...

Does anyone know how to get a xbox 360 controller to work in EmulationStation got motherfucker plugged in it wont detect it lol can anyone help

hi there.tks for the great tutorial and tks for all the team that make this possible.i am trying to add Sega Cd games....they all appear on the list..but when i Launch the game they return to Emulation game list.i have all the cores.can you or anyone please help me.tks

I thought I was missing a step but it turns out the USB drive I was using just wouldn't work. I could see it in Windows just fine and clean/format/partition it, but it just would not mount. Switched with another one and it worked right away.

great tutorial ...... thank you amigo

Where do I place the psx bios for emulation station? I can load games but get a message that no bios found so it uses the emulated bios instead

Hi, first of all thanks for these videos, that first about Project Lunar and this one about ES in the mini. Very good tutorial Still I have one question: when using ES in the MD mini, did you notice any controller lag? Specially while pressing buttons for jump, shoot etc.

Please i need help i accidentally deleted the folder project lunar with backup... please anyone can send me the download the folder Backup please...

Another question: If I understood, one of the Mini front USB ports will be used for the mounted USB storage To use 2 controllers is it possible to use an USB hub in the remaining front USB port?

Too bad there's no audio in TMNT hyperstone heist

Ok so I have emulation station working but my GBA. GB, and SNES just seems to go back to the main menu of emulation station and I have the cores in place and when I go into Retroarch they work. Any idea how I can fix this?

i have a "Retro-Bit Official SEGA Mega Drive USB Controller 8-Button Arcade Pad for PC, Mac, Steam, RetroPie, Raspberry Pi - USB Port", and after i reconfigure as you on ES told the D-pad works the on menus but on games won't work, i just can´t move, on retro-arch menu i lose the D-pad too, any idea here?

My games won't load on ES I have the correct cores it just wont launch

Thanks for a useful and friendly tutorial. No thanks for the super annoying looping music though.

isn't there just an entire compressed file for all the cores. cos looking at the list, it's a bit confusing as to which ones are which, or what ones i need to download or do i just download every core that is listed under the megadrive Mini

The nes core is not working at all for me. I'd tried with all nes cores on the link.

Awesome job man!

How do you get the Genesis Mini to recognize an Xbox One or PS4 controller? You said during the video it just recognizes it but it won't recognize anything but the controllers that came with it for me.

Need Help!!! Emulation Station is not responding when I try to download it to my PC. All I get is a screen full of weird writing.

Can we get just a brief tutorial where to place bios? I have seen this question multiple times in the thread with no answer.

Is it not possible to get ES to display the button names for the Sega controller - even on a SEGA MINI? Seems pretty stupid that it says A on the screen and you need to press C, and IMO it does not fit well with the Sega theme. I get that it's the same in retropie, but that's not a SEGA product.

They need to add sega saturn pleaseee!

How play games on Sega Mini from USB Storage on Lunar Project ? How use usb storage to sega mini with Lunar Project ? Where find instructions ? Modmyclassic site no give answer on this question.

I have done this to my mini and it seems to work well. I am still trying to over clock it for some PSX and SNES stuff. I did uninstall and reset my machine back to factory because I wanted to test Hackchi. The installer for Hackchi failed said my machine had already been hacked and would not let me proceed. I thought this was interesting as the uninstall for Project Lunar doesn't truly appear completely reset to factory. This is unfortunate but I guess it is what it is.

i have tested 64 emulation and is very slow...the same for GBA

Hello. Can Emulation station run snes rom? I tryed but the rom won't launch.

When adding games for the SEGA cd into the roms folder, do they need to be in the bin/cue format? And do all the necessary bios need to also be placed in there as well?

Funny the link didnt work to the mod. Dld the ES app, wont work. Gotta dl the mod from Lunar 😊

Steve.. Curious if you can help getting a video on how to get 3DO, CDI, Sega Saturn, and Atari 5200, and other systems going.. like maybe where bios or whatever must be installed where to get the emulation going? Thanks for great videos!!

Doesn't work for me never shows up as an installed mod and when I go to the console it boots up like stock no boot menu, when i remove the USB stick it then loads the boot menu with retroacrch, luna an emustation options.

After installing Emulation Station, Is it possible to use othe wired USB d-pads / joysticks controller's besides the mini? For example other consoles pads such as Playstation 3,4 or 3rd party like 8bitdo & Hori

Why not make A A B B and C C? Why change the mapping so A is mapped to the C Button on the controller ? Why make it al wrong and confusing when playing games?

So since one of the usb ports are taken you cannot play 2 players with emulation station?

Is it possible to use other USB controllers when having Emulationstation installed? such as PS3,4, Hori,Xbox360 etc..?

it works fine, thanks for the great tutorial! Every Sega game runs fine on emulation station, however i can't get other systems to work (i've got all the cores). Any idea's?

Great work, thank you - I have a question if I may. The PS1 Mini also used a hack that required a USB stick inserting into port 2, many USB devices wouldn't work, something to do with power. Do all USB sticks work or do you have any certain ones you recommend for this?

where to put CPS rom like cadillacs and dinosaurs (which folder) . does it work with MAME cores. if yes then which folder for roms

Games added easily. I added all that I desired (about 110) and have about 40mb of space left. Games are all playable but upon exiting a game to main menu I am getting E4 error codes and it freezes for a bit before reboot.....Hopefully a fix is in the next update

I have problem whit n64 roms. When trying to launch i got black screen and back to main menu bad Core or rom

Finally got the mod working but I can't seem to get the lock on technology Roms games to work! I got 3 Sonic 3 and knuckles files and none of them load the game. They only load Sonic and Knuckles! Does anyone know how to fix this?

Around 3:30 you mentioned it transfer the mod. Just need clarification. If I perform this ES installation, will it remove PL from the internal system itself (restoring it to default 42 games and nothing more)? UPDATE 12/31/19: Installed ES, works great. Some things to point out. 1.) Like Alan D. mentioned in the reply to this initial comment, make sure you sync with the flash drive plugged in. I forgot to do this at first and Project Lunar was acting wonky with the flash drive plugged in (always asking for the language when exiting a game and the Boot Menu and Retroarch did not appear on the game selection screen). After doing the sync, all is good. 2.) Project Lunar (stock UI) works completely fine when the flash drive is NOT plugged in (when not wanting to use ES at all). 3.) The retro-bit 8-button genesis controllers work seamlessly in ES as well as Project Lunar (stock UI). 4.) The Insignia 4-port USB travel hub (purchased from Best Buy for $14.99) works perfectly for connecting 2 controllers for 2-player play (since the 2nd controller port is not available due to the flash drive for ES). 5.) Here's something interesting: Project Lunar without the flash drive has its own save data (internally) whereas Project Lunar WITH the flash drive plugged in has save data of its own on the flash drive. For example, when using the stock UI's save feature when NOT having the flash drive has its own saves kept internally. So if you use PL with the flash drive plugged in, you won't see your save data if a game was saved when the flash drive was NOT plugged in. And vice versa - if you save a game in PL with the flash drive plugged in and then boot up PL without the flash drive, you won't see the save data. I really hope they'll be away to upload scraped info and boxart for the roms without using a wifi adapter on the console since I don't intend on buying one. Unless there is a way to do this that I'm not aware of. Thoughts???

Awesome video thanks! Should I use the same folder for games for emu station and Retroarch?

Hi, is there a way to scrape for box art like on project Eris? Also, can we bulk add Sega genesis games to project lunar without having to tweak each game manually? Trying to add the full Sega genesis set but it’s take forever to do one by one. Thanks!

none of the games I added are working except for one PS1 game, the nes, snes, n64, gba etc. won't load and it just goes back to the game selection screen, also how do you configure a ps3 controller?

I have a question.... for playstation one games... retroarch says to place BIOS files for improved performance... but on what folder in my thumbdrive do I place said BIOS files?

Great video thanks was wondering on how to get this working. Now can you also have boxart for this as well?

Just a quick question....whats the most say powerful game the MD mini is good for??? I know the SNES mini and NES mini play some arcade games, just curious on the power, thanks m8.

Pretty cool now can I use any size USB drive?

trying to play a 32x game I launched retro arch but how do I access the folder to be able to put a rom in the retroarch folder?

I cant get mini to detect my Realtek 8188EU, I've tried plugging it into both the OTG and the second controller port.

Is there a way to add Meta Data or box art to Emulation Station yet or is that coming down the road?

@Restalgia Can you help me out please. Tried uninstalling lunar but it just hangs and wont go any further. Hangs on the message "attempting to connect via SSH". Any help would be good. Cheers mate.

How do I add games to run on RetroArch? I'm wanting to play the Rockman X3 bootleg, but Lunar won't run it. I'm too dumb to figure out how to get it running in RetroArch...

I thought emulation station would be like Big Box Mode on Launchbox is there something similar

Why doesn't the mame folder appear? Where to put mame roms?

No Mame yet :( I want Mame for my Sega Arcade games 😞😞

Probably a dumb question but is there a sega saturn core for this? I'm not sure if I'm seeing it on the listing when clicking on the link. unless i'm just missing it. Thanks in advance

I'm gonna try mine.

Anyone having problem with Super Mario RPG? Playing other FX games without problems but this one is going slow. Does anyone have some tips? New on this. Thx!

stupid question, how did you get back to EmulationStation from the game?

I don’t have a 6 button option in retro arch? Am I missing a setting? Also I believe I accidentally disabled both ports in retro arch as my 3 button controller won’t even work in the menu now. Any suggestions?

Most of my emulators wont work (minus PSX/Gba, ..etc) - they just restart back into the rom selection menu. is it cause im missing the bios for other emulators like NDS/DREAMCAST?

my roms do not load from emulation station im using zipped files is that the problem for neo geo and 32x

Great video God bless!

So then Project Lunar then runs off the USB after this?

Why emulate Genesis games under Emulation Station? Once you have the USB Formatted and recognized, wouldn't it make sense to just add them under Project Lunar menu? Then you have cover art and game info screen for each. Seems redundant. Can you please do a separate video explaining Retro Arch? Thank you for the great videos!!

I did the second part first, I can just do the first part (installing emu station) with no problems on the usb that already has roms that play through retro arch?

Maybe a no brainer, but how do I exit emulation station and go back to the boot menu without shutting the system off?

I ran into an out of memory error when trying to use the scraper. It worked fine at first, then that issue pops up. Any way around it? This is the exact error: error saving resized image. out of memory disk full

I'm trying to play sega cd because I have the files but the games appear in the list but not run can you tell me what kind of files i need? 😢😢

Need a tutorial for 32X and sega CD. Genesis works but cant get 32x working.

How do I update the covers and game information on the mega drive mini emulation station?

It keeps saying I need to update my .NET to run app I've dont that and it still not working

trying to install and it keeps saying mod as corrupted please try again