Mesen 2.0

[Leon]

Honestly until the desktop experience matches the mobile one in quality and ease, I can't recommend Retroarch in good conscience to anyone.

Honestly the problem with retroarch could all be fixed if they just gave the desktop frontend all of the options in a drop down menu, i can use retroarch but its such a pain in the ass.

 

[Jeanfranc]

Honestly until the desktop experience matches the mobile one in quality and ease, I can't recommend Retroarch in good conscience to anyone.

You mean Retroarch on phones? it's the same as the desktop but with a different default menu driver

 

[RageBurner]

You mean Retroarch on phones? it's the same as the desktop but with a different default menu driver

What I mean is that the overall construction of the GUI that drives the UX is clearly mobile driven. Works well in this environment, but terribly in a desktop environment, IMO.

 

[Jeanfranc]

You mean Retroarch on phones? it's the same as the desktop but with a different default menu driver

I recommend using rgui as a menu driver, It's actually quite comfortable to use compared to the others (especially the ps3-like xmb)

Also, if you like the mobile interface you can you use it on desktop if you want, you just need to go to drivers<menu<glui

 

[Leon]

What I mean is that the overall construction of the GUI that drives the UX is clearly mobile driven. Works well in this environment, but terribly in a desktop environment, IMO.

It's actually more designed around HTPC's and stuff like the steam deck aka 100% controller controlled aka the "console experience", but i get your point.

 

[RageBurner]

I recommend using rgui as a menu driver, It's actually quite comfortable to use compared to the others (especially the ps3-like xmb)

Also, if you like the mobile interface you can you use it on desktop if you want, you just need to go to drivers<menu<glui

Yeah I suppose RGUI is closer to a menu experience of something like ZSNES and such, which is preferable to the default. Still, core settings management and control remapping has always been needlessly painful. The fact Retroarch abides by some sort of meta controller map is just a needless complication.