Talk:Frontends

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Missing frontends

These should perhaps be added somewhere:

Might be others on the Comparison of Emulator Frontends page

Old stuff:

Layout

I'm trying to make the frontends page more easy to navigate. If you have any suggestions on how we should categorize the frontends or what information should be provided, please let me know -Jpx (talk)

I'm thinking about adding a column to show if they are made for mouse or keyboard navigation. Perhaps also a column to show if they are FOSS, freeware or payware. Don't want to make it to cluttered, there's always the Comparison of Emulator Frontends page for more information. -Jpx (talk) 09:01, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
So I'm thinking the column should be called Interface. There's about three different types: Windows mouse-GUI (WIMP), Touch GUI for phones and a HTPC/TV/Arcade cabinet type GUI made for gamepads (RetroArch, LaunchBox Big Box). I'm thinking to call the first two: WIMP (or Mouse) and Touch. What about the third, seems to be called a lot of different things like: Bigscreen, HTPC, ten-foot, TV, gamepad gui, etc -Jpx (talk) 07:44, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Recommended frontends

So most people seem to think that LaunchBox / Big Box is the best WIMP and HTPC frontend.

  • What's the best multi-platform HTPC frontend? Seems to be one of: Attract-Mode, RetroFE or EmulationStation (RetroPie's fork).
  • What's the best multi-platform WIMP frontend? Nostlan seems to be the only option here.

-Jpx (talk) 20:38, 24 February 2020 (UTC)