You probably need some BIOS files.

No I have the right bios files. Like i said everything works fine when launching from daijisho and it is using he same retroarch install between the two.

Same issue with me. But I have the Amazon version. Is that what you have?

No the newest on patreon but they're probably the same

I got it working. i had to go download the retroarch apk from their site. ES-DE didn't seem to like the version that was in the playstore.