MinUI is a minimal launcher
Source: TODO
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Features
- No settings or configuration
- Simple launcher, simple SD card
- Automatically hides extension
and region/version cruft in
display names
- Consistent in-emulator menu with
quick access to save states, disc
changing, and emulator options
- Automatically sleeps after 30 seconds
or press POWER to sleep (and wake)
- Automatically powers off while asleep
after two minutes or hold POWER for
one second
- Automatically resumes right where
you left off if powered off while
in-game, manually or while asleep
- Resume from manually created, last
used save state by pressing X in
the launcher instead of A
- Streamlined emulator frontend
(minarch + libretro cores)
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Install
TODO
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Update
TODO
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Shortcuts
Reduce/increase brightness:
MENU + VOLUME UP or VOLUME DOWN
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Roms
Included in this zip is a Roms folder containing folders for each console MinUI currently supports. You can rename these folders but you must keep the uppercase tag name in parentheses in order to retain the mapping to the correct emulator (eg. "Nintendo Entertainment System (FC)" could be renamed to "Nintendo (FC)", "NES (FC)", or "Famicom (FC)").
You should probably preload these folders with roms and copy each one to the Roms folder on your SD card before installing. Or not, I'm not the boss of you.
When one or more folder share the same display name (eg. "Game Boy Advance (GBA)" and "Game Boy Advance (MGBA)") they will be combined into a single menu item containing the roms from both folders (continuing the previous example, "Game Boy Advance"). This allows opening specific roms with an alternate pak.
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Bios
Some emulators require or perform much better with official bios. MinUI is strictly BYOB. Place the bios for each system in a folder that matches the tag in the corresponding Roms folder name (eg. bios for "Sony PlayStation (PS)" roms goes in "/Bios/PS/"),
Bios file names are case-sensitive:
FC: disksys.rom
GB: gb_bios.bin
GBA: gba_bios.bin
GBC: gbc_bios.bin
PS: psxonpsp660.bin
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Disc-based games
To streamline launching multi-file disc-based games with MinUI place your bin/cue (and/or iso/wav files) in a folder with the same name as the cue file. MinUI will automatically launch the cue file instead of navigating into the folder when selected, eg.
Harmful Park (English v1.0)/
Harmful Park (English v1.0).bin
Harmful Park (English v1.0).cue
For multi-disc games, put all the files for all the discs in a single folder and create an m3u file (just a text file containing the relative path to each disc's cue file on a separate line) with the same name as the folder. Instead of showing the entire messy contents of the folder, MinUI will launch the appropriate cue file, eg. For a Policenauts folder structured like this:
Policenauts (English v1.0)/
Policenauts (English v1.0).m3u
Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 1).bin
Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 1).cue
Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 2).bin
Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 2).cue
the m3u file would contain just:
Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 1).cue
Policenauts (Japan) (Disc 2).cue
MinUI also reportedly supports chd files and official pbp files (multi-disc pbp files larger than 2GB are not supported).
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Collections
A collection is just a text file containing an ordered list of full paths to rom, cue, or m3u files. These text files live in the Collections folder at the root of your SD card, eg. "/Collections/Metroid series.txt" might look like this:
/Roms/GBA/Metroid Zero Mission.gba
/Roms/GB/Metroid II.gb
/Roms/SNES (SFC)/Super Metroid.sfc
/Roms/GBA/Metroid Fusion.gba
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Advanced
MinUI can automatically run a user-authored shell script on boot. Just place a file named "auto.sh" to "/.userdata/".
TODO
