So I’m waaay out of touch with the whole emulation scene. I’m just coming back to it after not touching it since the late 2000’s
I’ve been messing around with Dolphin, Yuzu, RCSP3 mainly, but seen screenshots of a few others.
Relevant information: I’m a Windows user, and I’m using the stand alone emulators.
I’ve noticed that they all have the same, or very similar user interfaces. I’m all for standardization, but I’m curious if this is coincidence, or is there a specific front-end system that they’re all using?
You’re probably seeing either retroarch or launchbox (or its full screen mode, bigbox)
Retroarch is an emulation suite that supports many systems, it has generally superseded many of the original emulators the various cores are based on
Launchbox is a front end that is pretty well polished, and so very popular
They’re all independent. There are other front ends that will add shine to the emulators like Launchbox or Emulation Station (desktop edition) if you find a list or just plain box art boring. Both have big picture mode for full screen.