

Simple Launcher (Emu front-end)
Simple Launcher is a powerful and flexible open-source frontend for emulators.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
Features
- Launcher
- Emulation
Tags
- emulator-frontend
- emulators-frontend
- frontend
- emulator-launcher
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Simple Launcher (Emu front-end) information
What is Simple Launcher (Emu front-end)?
? Key Features 🎨 Intuitive User Interface: Modern WPF interface with light and dark themes, and customizable accent colors. 🎯 System Selection Screen: A visual way to choose your gaming platform. 🧭 Navigation Panel: Quick access to common actions like Global Search, Favorites, Play History, and UI adjustments (view mode, aspect ratio, zoom). 👁? Dual View Modes: Grid View: Displays game covers as interactive buttons with optional overlay buttons for quick actions. List View: Shows game details in a sortable table, including file size, play count, and playtime, with a preview image. 👶 Easy Mode: Simplifies adding new systems by automatically downloading and configuring common emulators and cores. 🎓 Expert Mode: Allows manual and detailed configuration of systems, emulators, paths, and launch parameters, including multiple ROM folders per system. 🔍 Global Search: Quickly find games across all your configured systems, supporting AND/OR logical operators. ? Favorites Management: Mark games as favorites for easy access. ?? Play History Tracking: See which games you've played, how many times, and for how long. 📊 Global Stats: Get an overview of your game library, including total systems, games, and image counts. 🖼? Fuzzy Image Matching: Helps find cover images even if filenames don't perfectly match (configurable threshold). 📦 Image Pack Downloader: Download pre-made image packs for various systems. 🖱? Context Menus: Rich right-click menus for games to launch, manage favorites, open external links (video/info), view local media (covers, snapshots, manuals), take screenshots, delete game files, and view RetroAchievements. 🎮 Gamepad Support: Navigate the UI using Xbox and PlayStation controllers (configurable deadzone). ?? Customizable UI: Adjust thumbnail sizes, button aspect ratios, and games per page. 🔊 Sound Configuration: Customize notification sounds and enable/disable sound effects. 🏆 RetroAchievements Integration: View game achievements, user profiles, game rankings, and unlock history directly in the launcher. 🔄 Automatic Updates: Keeps Simple Launcher up-to-date with the latest features and fixes. 🌐 Multilingual: Translated into 17 languages. 🔒 Single Instance Enforcement: Prevents multiple copies of the application from running simultaneously. 💾 On-the-Fly File Mounting: Allows users to launch games directly from compressed or disk image files without needing to manually extract them first (requires Dokan). This includes support for RPCS3 (.iso, .zip), Cxbx-Reloaded (.xiso), ScummVM (.zip), and XBLA (.zip). 📁 Group Files by Folder: Organizes multi-file MAME games into single entries, simplifying your game list. (Requires MAME emulator configuration. See Wiki for details.)






