Sometimes it’s because the emulator doesn’t provide a way to launch games directly from a front-end, and sometimes it’s just because I don’t know about it. If your favorite emulator isn’t supported contact me and I’ll add it if it is compatible with Dig.
Emulators not currently supported because they are not front-end friendly include the John emulators.
Damon PS2 is also frequently asked to be supported but I'm having trouble with it. If you know what Intent parameters to use to launch a game I will add it.
These emulators don't support launching games from a front-end but I included them anyway due to popular demand or because there wasn't a suitable alternative for it's system.
Go to the game or system screen of what you want to hide, open its menu at the top right corner, select “Manage [game or system]” then select “Ignore this [file or system]”.
Ignoring systems is disabled when "All systems" in the Systems menu is checked.
Some Android games don't identify themselves as such. You can enable them by going to the Android screen, selecting "Manage system" in the menu, then "Unignore files" and selecting the apps to display.
Likely because you don't currently have a Wi-Fi connection. Image downloads are currently limited to Wi-Fi to avoid excessive moble data usage.
If a file has been assigned to the wrong system it means the folder it belongs to has been misidentified. If the folder should be assigned to another system go to “SYSTEMS” from the main page. If you don’t see the correct system select “All systems” from the menu. Select the correct system the folder belongs to. In the menu select “Manage system” , then select “ROM paths...”, then add the folder.
If the folder doesn’t belong to any system then delete the folder from the assigned system’s ROM paths.
If a file is in the right system but identified as the wrong game, go to its game page, select “Manage game” in the menu, then select “Rematch file”. Dig will present a list of the closest matches in the database to choose from. If the correct game isn’t in the list try editing the title to something closer to the correct title and rematching again.
Go to “ROM paths...” for the system as described above and add the missing folder(s).
If a set of files belongs to the same game, such as regional variants of a game or multi-disc games, they will be treated as a single game in lists and counts in “merged games sets” mode.
Files are considered part of the same game if they are assigned exactly the same title, either automatically by Dig or manually by rematching and/or editing the titles.
Long-touching a game image will provide options for looking for an appropriate cover image.
If you have a folder of images from another source you can import them into Dig from the “Manage system” menu.
That’s not a question. But you can replace them with your own by long-touching them.
First create or edit a custom theme from the “Edit custom themes” option. For background images and videos select “File” to show or play a single file, or “Folder” to show or play a folder of files in random order. The folder may contain images or videos or both.
Setting sound files is similar.
The background is actually two layers: the images/video layer with the background color layer on top. So to see the media you need to set the backround color to be at least partially transparent. To do this adjust the horizontal slider control in the background color picker. All the way to left the background color will be totally opaque, to the right totally transparent, and in between the background will be a mixture of the two layers.
If you have a system game collection categorized into folders and you would like Dig to present them that way instead of as a single system then cloned systems are for you. Some possible examples of splitting systems into categories:
- Arcade into MAME and FB Alpha
- NES into NES and and Famicom Disk System
- MSX into MSX and MSX 2
- Neo Geo Pocket into NGP and NGP color
- any system into hacks and official releases
To create a clone go to the systems page, long-touch the system you want to clone, and select “Create clone.” A new system will be created called “Clone of
A clone can have its own icon, its own emulator, and is just like a “real” system except its games can’t be automatically scanned for; their folders must be manually added as described above.
When you delete a clone the folders assigned to it go back to the original system.
Digger can search your database for games by systems, system types, genres, release dates, publishers, or any combination of the above with simple voice commands. These are some examples of the kinds of things you can tell it:
"Atari 2600"
"Show me Game Boy fighting games"
"Star Wars on handheld devices released between 92 and 2002 sorted by date"
"Computer games by Ocean"
You can incrementally refine searches with successive requests, for example:
"Consoles"
"Racing"
"Before 2000"
"Sort by rating"
If you are in a game list when you do a Digger search, the search parameters will replace or be added to those of the current list - the above incremental search is an example of this. To do a fresh search add "All" to your search, or search from a non-game-list page. For example saying "All racing" in the above example will show all your racing games, not just the ones on consoles.
The following are the text patterns Digger recognizes. Items in square brackets are optional. Items separated by '|' means one of the items may optionally be present if in square brackets, or should be present if in round brackets.
[Show [me]] [all|go to] [GENERATION] (GENRE|SEARCHTEXT) [games] on [the] (SYSTEM|TYPE) [PUBLISHER] [DATE] [SORT]
[Show [me]] [all|go to] [GENERATION] (SYSTEM|TYPE) (GENRE|SEARCHTEXT) [games] [PUBLISHER] [DATE] [SORT]
[Show [me]] [all|go to] [GENERATION] (SYSTEM|TYPE|GENRE|SEARCHTEXT) [games] [PUBLISHER] [DATE] [SORT]
Where:
GENERATION = (second...eighth) generation
SYSTEM = <system name>
GENRE = <genre name>
TYPE = (console[s]|handheld[s]|computer[s]|arcade)
SEARCHTEXT = <arbitrary title search text>
PUBLISHER = [released|published|developed|made] (by|from) <publisher name>
DATE = [released|published] (after [YY]YY | before [YY]YY | (in|from) ]YY]YY | (between|from) [YY]YY (and|to) [YY]YY] )
SORT = (sort[ed]|order[ed]) by (title|date|last played|my most played|my time played|my rating|most played|time played|rating|played)
In addition Digger recognizes these commands:
(home|systems|genres|favorite[s] [games]|played games|all games|options|settings|help|frequently asked questions|edit theme)
"Edit theme" edits the current theme if it is a custom one.
Yes. For each system you want to use it for select "Use RetroArch64" in the "Manage system" menu.
Dig uses its own copy of the RetroArch config file, so if you change settings outside of Dig, Dig won't know about them (and vice versa). You can update Dig's copy by selecting "Reset RetroArch config" in App options.
First, Magic DosBox's settings location must be public - you can do this in the Welcome settings. Then for games to be recognized by Dig they must first be loaded into MDB. Finally you must manually add the folder ".MagicBox"
You will likely end up with duplicate games entries - one entry for the file location and one for the MDB entry. You can ignore or delete the paths of the file entries.