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Baggio94 edited this page Nov 13, 2026
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slot. for Android shows your games as cartridges on a shelf. You pick one, insert it, play, and eject it when you're done. This guide explains each screen and each setting of the app, as of version 2.3.0.
- Getting Started: install slot., choose your games folder, update the app.
- Controls & Hotkeys: every button on the shelf and in game, and how to change them.
- Shelves: browsing cartridges, favorites, recents, GBA Video, deleting a game.
- Game Menu: what the menu you open while playing contains.
- Settings: every setting, menu by menu, with its values and default.
- Screen, Shaders & Effects: screen sizes, overlays, shaders, LCD Effect, Frame Blending.
- Cores & Saves: emulation cores, save files, RetroArch and Syncthing.
- Cart Studio: labels, shell colours, finishes and shapes.
- RomM: download games from your own RomM server.
- RetroAchievements: achievements online and offline.
- Multiplayer: Link Cable, Wireless Adapter and netplay.
- Cheats: RetroArch's cheat database, game by game.
- Special Games: Boktai's sun sensor and motion games.
- Apps & Home Launcher: open other apps, use slot. as your home screen.
| System | Cores |
|---|---|
| Game Boy Advance | mGBA, gpSP |
| Game Boy Color | mGBA, Gambatte |
| Game Boy | mGBA, Gambatte |
| NES | FCEUmm, Nestopia |
| Super Nintendo | Snes9x, bsnes |
| Mega Drive | Genesis Plus GX, PicoDrive |
Credits lists everyone whose work slot. for Android builds on.
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