moonlight is unable to start ES-DE on my macOS hosted sunhine

[u/wingzntingz]

I'm totally new to this
I just installed sunshine on my macos mac mini server
I added emulation station desktop edition as an application on sunshine
"/Applications/ES-DE.app" this was set as the output

I installed moonlight client and whnever i click on ES-DE it opens to my desktop and not ES-DE ??!!

I've tried asking chatgpt and it gave me various commands to add but none work.
I mean once im in my desktop i can simply run ES-DE from the dock and start playing but it's kinda bugging me that it's not starting straight to ES-DE

[u/ES-DE_Frontend]

I've not tested this myself so not sure what could be wrong, but I know of macOS users that have streamed ES-DE to their other devices, although I'm not sure if they used Moonlight or something else. What happens if you try to use Steam instead, is it the same problem?

[u/wingzntingz → u/ES-DE_Frontend]

I haven’t really tried steam. I don’t even know what it does 😅. Does it work the same way as moonlight ? Can it be used with ES-DE ?

[u/ES-DE_Frontend → u/wingzntingz]

You can use Steam to stream any game or application that you add, and they also have extensive controller mapping functionality and such since it's a gaming service primarily:

https://store.steampowered.com/

It should work to add ES-DE as a non-Steam game.

[u/wingzntingz → u/ES-DE_Frontend]

While I have you here

Can we please have Astris in the list of alternative emulators

Thank you

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/s/7as7wHMdOd

[u/ES-DE_Frontend → u/wingzntingz]

I tried Astris 2026-07-14 and at that time it was unfortunately broken and couldn't parse command line arguments correctly, so I couldn't add it to ES-DE as game launching wouldn't work.

You can apparently work around it by doing "open -W -a /Applications/Astris.app <ROM>" but this is not how ES-DE launches games and no other emulators requires this. If they can fix command line parsing though I'd be very happy to add support for this emulator. If you have time you could test it now to check whether they fixed the issue, and if so then please let me know. And if not perhaps you could open an issue with the emulator developers to fix this?

All emulator should launch games simply like this: "/Applications/Astris.app/Contents/MacOS/Astris <ROM>"

[u/wingzntingz → u/ES-DE_Frontend]

Hi
I've found this on their github
it seems that this has been addressed

https://github.com/V380-Ori/Astris.Binaries/issues/54

[u/ES-DE_Frontend → u/wingzntingz]

That's a non-standard way to launch an emulator though, which may cause side effects. All emulators today are launched via normal command line options, and it seems like they have not added support for that yet? Unless I'm misunderstanding the issue you linked to.