JTOP's Emu Station

A console-style home screen for Windows that puts 11 consoles behind one controller-driven interface, with real startups and menus.

C++WindowsEmulation

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JTOP's Emu Station home screen with the Dreamcast selected and GameCube next in line — The home screen. Each console tile shows how many games it has.

What it does

Pick a console from the home screen and it “switches on”: its real startup plays (from the BIOS where there is one), then a menu made to look like that console’s own, and games run inside the shell’s window in the right emulator.

Features

Real startups: the PS2 towers, GameCube cube, Dreamcast swirl, and PlayStation and Saturn logos, played from the BIOS.
Menu sounds and music recorded from the real console menus.
Box art downloaded once from the libretro thumbnails collection and cached.
In-game menu with Resume, Save State, Load State, Next Disc, Settings and Quit Game.
Picture settings for each console, including screen shape and resolution.
Multi-disc games are found automatically and listed once.

Consoles

Console	Emulator	Menu
PlayStation	DuckStation	The PlayStation’s BIOS menu
PlayStation 2	PCSX2	The PS2’s browser and system configuration
PlayStation 3	RPCS3	The XMB
GameCube	Dolphin	The GameCube’s cube menu
Wii	Dolphin	The Wii Menu’s channel grid
Dreamcast	Flycast	The Dreamcast’s menu, with VMU saves
Genesis	RetroArch	Styled after its game boxes
Super Nintendo	RetroArch	Styled after the console
Nintendo 64	RetroArch	Styled after the console
Saturn	RetroArch	Styled after the console
Xbox 360	Xenia	Xenia’s own interface, embedded