 So maybe this has happened to you before you just installed retro arch probably from f droid And when you start it up, you're missing icons down at the bottom and if you click load cores There's no option to load any cores. What you want to do is click back to the main menu go down to online Updater scroll down to the bottom and we want to update all these bottom options So click on each one and wait for each one to finish It will just take a moment And once those are complete what you want to do is close out of retro arch and Then restart it give it a moment to extract the base APK and There you go You have your icons down at the bottom and when you click on load cores You can now download the core that you want to use for whatever emulator you choose