We're happy to announce that ES-DE 3.3.0-50 for Android is now available for download!
Note that 3.3.0-50 is simply a hotfix for the 3.3.0-48 release to address two issues found in the game importer. As such the previous 3.3.0 release notes are still applicable. The issues fixed were that ES-DE would crash if the Amazon Music app was installed and the setting "Import banners or logos if available" was enabled, and that imports failed for some apps which had special characters in their names such as colons or pipe characters.
This release brings a built-in game importer tool that makes it possible to import native android apps and games into the androidapps, androidgames and emulators systems and launch them from inside ES-DE. This tool is accessible from the Utilities menu.
The Sega Model 3 (model3) system has also been enabled by using MAME, but be aware that emulator support for this system is not mature yet so it may be a while before all these games run well. Also note that the MAME4droid 2024 emulator entries have been removed since the emulator has been renamed to MAME4droid Current by its developer. Replacement entries with the new name were added already in ES-DE 3.2.0-45. This means that you may see a warning message when starting ES-DE stating you have invalid emulator entries for some systems. You can easily resolve this by going into the "Alternative emulators" entry in the Other settings menu and change the affected systems to use MAME4droid Current.
Another change in 3.3.0 is that the "Gamelist on startup" setting has been removed and replaced with the two new options "System on startup" and "Startup view". To retain the old functionality of going directly into the gamelist view, the "Startup view" setting has to be set to "Gamelist".
In addition to the above there is support for four new languages, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Portuguese (Portugal), as well as a lot of updates under the hood to modernize the application to keep it running on future Android releases.
There are many additional improvements, see the Changelog for all details.
Download link: ES-DE_3.3.0-50.apk
MD5 hash: bf3b7297590936658e2fffe1e15db856If you need support then please join our Discord server:
Enjoy the release!