Nostlan Designed for UHD displays, Nostlan (formerly Bottlenose) is a high quality electron based front-end launcher that supports many popular video game emulators. It does, however, have some really good features such as picking a random game out of your library, background music, favorites, top ten most played and more. MGalaxy is a minimalistic front end aimed at arcade cabinets. Metropolis Launcher already ships with MobyGames based metadata, no web-scraping for this data is needed.
You can search-as-you-type, filter, group, and sort by any combination of them. Over 50 fields of metadata are supported by Metropolis Launcher's Main Screen.
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Metropolis Launcher has been created to be a great old-school launcher, emulation front-end and an extensive offline database of video game metadata thanks to MobyGames and their strong user base.
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It is widely-considered the easiest software for reliving classic games with emulators like MAME. Although best suited for use in computer-based arcade cabinets, it can be configured for use in a kiosk or simply running on a computer with a keyboard, trackball, or arcade joystick. Maximus Arcade is Windows-based software that allows you to relive thousands of classic games and creates seamless interaction with multiple arcade and console emulators while keeping the Windows environment hidden. There is one version free, but also has a premium version that gives you access to Big Box which is an HTPC version of Launch Box along with some other features. Has integrated support for launching from Kodi (XBMC). You can customize the interface to however you like and the metadata of each game and comes with a metadata scraper. Probably the most customizable emulator on here, alongside HyperSpin, if you buy a license. LaunchBox aims to be the one-stop shop for gaming on your computer, for both modern and historical games.
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LaunchBox was originally built as an attractive front-end to DOSBox but has since expanded to support both modern PC games and emulated console platforms.
It lets you add your ROMs as steam games basically. Ice isn't really a front end, but it's more of a way to add you're old retro and arcade games as executable files that steam can run as it would a regular steam game. Games is a GNOME application to browse your video games library and to easily pick and play a game from it. It has a free version and a registered version. It has a powerful in-program editor that allows you to customize the front-end's visuals to all lengths. It is also used for commercial applications. BizHawk Main article: BizHawk EmuConĮmuCon is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for many emulators systems: consoles, handhelds, and computers.ĮmulationStation Main article: EmulationStation GameEx Attract-Mode is open source and runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It hides the underlying operating system and is intended to be controlled with a joystick, gamepad or spin dial, making it ideal for use in arcade cabinets. Frontends (launcher) Attract-Mode A graphical frontend for command line emulators such as MAME, MESS, and Nestopia.