When I think of a front end, normally I think of a program I'll have to install alongside a base emulator. The best part: OpenEmu takes care of the core emulation engines behind each platform. What makes OpenEmu different is that it works a lot like a streamlined iTunes-that is, if iTunes were smooth and fast, and not sluggish and confusing. On its own, that's nothing new front ends have existed for a long time. Instead, it's a robust front end for other console emulators. OpenEmu to the RescueOriginally released in 2013, OpenEmu is not actually an emulator in and of itself. This time around, I wanted to touch on the Mac side, primarily because of a huge development that has changed the vintage console gaming scene for the better: OpenEmu. When researching that article, I ran into the aforementioned problem pretty often. Four years ago, I wrote a lengthy story for our sister site ExtremeTech about how to play retro video games on a modern PC. Then Windows or Mac OS updates render languishing emulators unstable or otherwise unusable.ĭon't despair, though.
Other emulators fall out of favor as developers move on to different projects. Dedicated volunteer programmers develop better emulators in an effort to improve accuracy and add features.
