RetroArch vs No Frontend

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  • libretro-mkscumm

    Discontinued Creates libretro scummvm playlists from the scummvm.ini file.

  • libretrofuzz

    Fuzzy Retroarch thumbnail downloader

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • skyscraper

    Powerful and versatile game scraper written in c++

  • I've been trying to find an alternative (preferably open-source and customizable) frontend for emulation after the whole RetroArch dev controversies. Right now I'm scraping games with Skyscraper and cleaning up No-Intro ROM-sets with a 1G1R ROM-set generator.

  • 1g1r-romset-generator

    A small utility that uses No-Intro DATs to generate 1G1R ROM sets

  • I've been trying to find an alternative (preferably open-source and customizable) frontend for emulation after the whole RetroArch dev controversies. Right now I'm scraping games with Skyscraper and cleaning up No-Intro ROM-sets with a 1G1R ROM-set generator.

  • pegasus-frontend

    A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.

  • I'm astonished no one mentioned Pegasus. It's open-source and it supports Linux and Android. With a little bit of setting up, it works with every emulator I throw at it just as long as it supports being launched from the command-line.

  • gamescope

    Discontinued SteamOS session compositing window manager [Moved to: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope] (by Plagman)

  • For CRT shaders on Linux, I'd imagine that Gamescope + vkBasalt (with these shaders) could work. I just discovered it today, but the results have been hit and miss (I've used it for MAME because I don't like its built-in shaders. Regular games like Minetest and Garry's Mod also work, but Minecraft and Freedom Planet don't)

  • vkBasalt

    a vulkan post processing layer for linux

  • For CRT shaders on Linux, I'd imagine that Gamescope + vkBasalt (with these shaders) could work. I just discovered it today, but the results have been hit and miss (I've used it for MAME because I don't like its built-in shaders. Regular games like Minetest and Garry's Mod also work, but Minecraft and Freedom Planet don't)

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  • RSRetroArch

    (Curated) Repository of RetroArch and related ports for ReShade

  • For CRT shaders on Linux, I'd imagine that Gamescope + vkBasalt (with these shaders) could work. I just discovered it today, but the results have been hit and miss (I've used it for MAME because I don't like its built-in shaders. Regular games like Minetest and Garry's Mod also work, but Minecraft and Freedom Planet don't)

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