It’s just me or RetroArch developed the best FLOSS alternative to proprietary UI? You have a nice overlay, CRT shaders, bezels, some netplay function, customizable interface. All of this completely free and super fast.
Wouldn’t be nice to also launch non-emulated games from here?
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A lot of what you list is built into the emulation cores and are not just UI features.
For games that don’t use their emulation cores:
- They would need to come up with a steam-like injected overlay approach
- CRT shaders are probably a no go without engine injection (similar to reshade)
- Bezels could maybe work with stacked borderless windows, but again it would be an entirely new approach compared to what they have now
- Netplay would also need something new and Hamachi-like and would only work with games that already have LAN support, patching support for online service based multiplayer would likely need per-game implementations
- The customisable interface would probably not need any changes at least
Basically they would be building all the tough bits from scratch to do everything you’re suggesting
