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|developer = Alec Lofquist<br/>Nils Bonenberger
 
|developer = Alec Lofquist<br/>Nils Bonenberger
|website = [http://www.emulationstation.org/ emulationstation.org]
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|website = [http://emulationstation.org/#home emulationstation.org]
|source = [https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation GitHub]
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|source = [https://github.com/Retropie/EmulationStation RetroPie Fork]
 
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'''EmulationStation''' is a graphical launcher for various emulators. While commonly referred to as a frontend to emulators, it is not designed for this purpose, instead to simply launch a particular game on a particular emulator. A frontend handles the audio and video of the backend. It is no longer being developed.
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'''EmulationStation''' is a graphical and themeable launcher for various emulators. It can import custom themes to use, but it doesn't have a large community so there is not an abundance of these. While commonly referred to as a frontend to emulators, it is not designed for this purpose, instead to simply launch a particular game on a particular emulator. A frontend handles the audio and video of the backend. It is no longer being developed. Comes with a metadata scraper. It is a great front end, and thanks to some users on the RetroPie Forum, development has been picked up. Some new additions include support for video playback as well as custom carousels.
 
 
==Fork==
 
* https://github.com/Herdinger/EmulationStation
 
  
 
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Revision as of 13:20, 19 October 2018

EmulationStation
Developer(s) Alec Lofquist
Nils Bonenberger
Latest version 3/8/15
Active Yes
Platform(s) Windows, Linux
Type Launcher
Website emulationstation.org
Source code RetroPie Fork

EmulationStation is a graphical and themeable launcher for various emulators. It can import custom themes to use, but it doesn't have a large community so there is not an abundance of these. While commonly referred to as a frontend to emulators, it is not designed for this purpose, instead to simply launch a particular game on a particular emulator. A frontend handles the audio and video of the backend. It is no longer being developed. Comes with a metadata scraper. It is a great front end, and thanks to some users on the RetroPie Forum, development has been picked up. Some new additions include support for video playback as well as custom carousels.