Adding ROMs🔗

NextUI creates a Roms folder at the SD Card Root containing folders for each console currently supported.

You can rename these folders as you like; however, you must keep the uppercase tag name in parentheses in order to retain the mapping to the correct emulator.

Example: Nintendo Entertainment System (FC) can be renamed to Nintendo (FC) or NES (FC) or Famicom (FC)

If multiple folders share the same name, eg. Game Boy Advance (GBA) and Game Boy Advance (MGBA), they will be combined into a single menu item containing the ROMs from both folders.

A ROM selected from this combined menu item will launch using the emulator in the tag of the folder is lives in.

Disc-based games🔗

To streamline launching multi-file disc-based games, place your BIN / CUE files in a folder with the same name as the CUE file.

NextUI will automatically launch the CUE file instead of navigating into the folder when selected.

  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (USA)/
      Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (USA).bin
      Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (USA).cue

For multi-disc games, follow these steps.

Create a folder for your disc files.
Put all the disc files into this folder.
Then create a .m3u file that matches the name of the folder created in step one.
Edit the .m3u file by adding the relative path to each disc's cue file, one file per line.

NextUI will automatically launch the CUE file instead of navigating into the folder when selected.

For example, Final Fantasy VII has three discs:

  Final Fantasy VII (USA)/
    Final Fantasy VII (USA).m3u
    Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 1).bin
    Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 1).cue
    Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 2).bin
    Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 2).cue
    Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 3).bin
    Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 3).cue

The .m3u file for FF7 would contain:

  Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 1).cue
  Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 2).cue
  Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 3).cue

When you are playing a multi-disc game the NextUI In Game Menu will display the current disc.

Use left or right on the D-Pad to change discs.

NextUI also supports .chd files and .pbp files under 2GB.

Multi-disc games share the same memory card and save state slots across all discs.

Collections🔗

A collection is just a text file containing an ordered list of full paths to rom, cue, or m3u files. These text files live in the "Collections" folder at the root of your SD card, eg. SDCARD_ROOT/Collections/Metroid series.txt might look like this:

  /Roms/GBA/Metroid Zero Mission.gba
  /Roms/GB/Metroid II.gb
  /Roms/SNES (SFC)/Super Metroid.sfc
  /Roms/GBA/Metroid Fusion.gba

If you disable all visible folders under 'Roms', the 'Collections' folders contents will populate the main menu instead of being nested in the 'Collections' folder in the UI.

Display names🔗

Certain (unsupported arcade) cores require roms to use arcane file names. You can override the display name used throughout NextUI by creating a map.txt in the same folder as the files you want to rename. One line per file, rom.ext followed by a single tab followed by Display Name. You can hide a file by adding a . at the beginning of the display name. eg. The 'Collections' folder needs its own map.txt file as well.

  neogeo.zip    .Neo Geo Bios
  mslug.zip Metal Slug
  sf2.zip   Street Fighter II