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Why no GUI or menu system?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:58 pm
by SegaLover2020
Just curious why supermodel3 has never had an official graphics user interface in all these years.
Basically every emulator under the sun, even in alpha or beta, has at least a window environment for settings, launching games etc. The way I see it, the devs wanted to go the "experts only" route making the emu more complicated to weed out less experienced users. But it makes it ugly to see and a pain to use, unless of course you download one of the unofficial gui's. Quite strange, anyway...

Re: Why no GUI or menu system?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:59 am
by Ian
I think the answer is probably time. I'd rather spend time working on actual emulation than working on GUI stuff.
And I don't have any experience in writing cross platforms GUI stuff.
I think an official GUI loader tool would have gone a long way. That said people are now writing some great alternative ones.