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Home and navigation
Layouts, buttons, the Start menu, search and the phone launcher.
Buttons
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| D-pad or left stick | Move |
| A | Play a game, or open a folder |
| B | Back |
| X | Options for the selected game, app or folder |
| Y | Search |
| Start | The Start menu |
| Select | Your Android apps. In the RomM folder, Select adds a game to the download queue |
| L1 / R1 | Jump between letters in a folder. Hold to scroll through them |
| L2 / R2 | Zoom the Grid layout in and out |
On a two-screen device, the stick buttons choose where games open. See Two screens.
If A and B are the wrong way round
Open Settings › Controls:
- Controller layout matches the letters printed on your buttons. Automatic detects them.
- Confirm button picks which button confirms. The other one goes back.
- Check button letters (Nintendo layout only) is for when A and B do the opposite of what they
say.
Layouts
Choose one in Settings › Home › Layout:
- Console: one row of big tiles, with the selected game shown above.
- Grid: a grid you can zoom, rearrange and sort into folders.
- XMB: categories run across the screen and games run down.
- Minimal: a plain list in large type.
Settings › Home only shows the options for the layout you're using. For example, Console has Row style and Dock, Grid has Grid scroll and starting zoom levels, and Minimal has Beside the list. System icons switches between console logos and controller pictures.
The Start menu
Press Start on Home. Along the top:
- Settings
- Search
- Apps (or Home, if your apps are already open)
- Folder: make a new folder
- Random: pick a random game from the folder you're in
Below those are settings for what's on screen, so you can change them without opening Settings.
Game and folder options
Select something and press X.
For a game: Play, Add to folder…, Choose emulator…, Open emulator, Game details, Re-download art, Move and Remove. On two screens there is also Launch on….
For a folder you made: Sort contents… (A–Z, Recently played, Most played, Date added, Platform or Manual), Letter rail…, Rename, Change color… and Delete folder.
Search
Press Y on Home and start typing. Results come from every system. Press A to play the highlighted game, or X for its options.
On a phone, or held upright
Clamshell can switch to a phone-style launcher in portrait. Choose how in Settings › Home › Portrait mode:
- Auto: the phone launcher on tall screens, and the console layout on square or 4:3 screens.
- Always phone: the phone launcher whenever the screen is upright.
- Off: always your chosen layout.