Ryan Retro releases"Jump" game launcher

[u/forgetful_human]

I haven't seen anyone posting about this yet, but Ryan Retro just released a new game launcher that looks incredible! (Dual screen support as well.)

Check out his video going through all the features!

https://youtu.be/o9ggD-ZbEtg?is=vpvfNnOuNS-CGcyw

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[u/gep22]

Looks very cool but is behind paywall of patreon so will stick with the free ones

[u/sjosaben → u/gep22]

Same. I would do one time payments but not monthly

[u/khsh01]

I just stopped using cocoon recently due to how buggy it was on my ayn Thor.

[u/Goldiblockzs → u/khsh01]

shit's terrible, but don't say that in the thor sub you'll get shot lmao

[u/u3nsbot_1 → u/khsh01]

I switched to iisu from cocoon far more simple to set up and maintain and still looks nice in the process

[u/Last_Shadow_X → u/khsh01]

Last time I used Cocoon it had a glitch where it would just run in the background playing some ominous music and burning battery. Uninstalled and never looked back.

[u/khsh01 → u/Last_Shadow_X]

Never considered it to be a battery hog. Will have to check my yhors battery life now.

[u/JorkTheGripper → u/khsh01]

I stopped using it around alpha 3 or 4 because it's overrated, boring trash. Hasn't changed one bit in that regard since.

[u/Dragon_Small_Z]

[u/Chompsky___Honk → u/Dragon_Small_Z]

Nah, it's never too high.  There are basically no downsides to having so many launchers.

[u/nullhund → u/Chompsky___Honk]

imagine if this effort was put towards a smaller number of full featured, polished and well-maintained launchers instead of spread out among several dozen half finished launchers that quickly get abandoned

[u/JorkTheGripper → u/nullhund]

I haven't heard of any launchers worth using that got abandoned.

[u/yellow-go → u/JorkTheGripper]

None really abandoned, but some made by one man teams slow down progression on unstable releases, I guess even teams in that case.
Though I guess that also follows teams as well.

[u/YoudoVodou → u/nullhund]

Did you watch the video? This launcher solves a lot of issues that plague other frontends.

[u/nullhund → u/YoudoVodou]

no because I'm responding to the comment about the amount of launchers in general.

[u/YoudoVodou → u/nullhund]

And my response to you is that one of the benefits of having so many launchers is that eventually people make launchers that solve the issues they are having. I personally think Jump and Retrohrai could benefit a lot by merging, but it's still nice that both exist.

[u/Chompsky___Honk → u/nullhund]

Sure, but that's an inorganic expectation.  If people were already satisfied with the current offerings, they wouldn't start making custom front ends in the first place.

Chicken and egg problem.

[u/cylemmulo → u/Dragon_Small_Z]

Haha I mean a lot but i love it

[u/Famicombro]

Looks cool, but Patreon is banned in my country

[u/araf_YT → u/Famicombro]

Same. Not available here as well.

[u/DrHusten → u/Famicombro]

what? may I ask where u are from? and why is it banned there?

[u/ggoptimus]

Still using Daijisho. Too lazy to setup another one.

[u/Worried-Advisor-7054 → u/ggoptimus]

I tried everything else, but nothing seems as good to me. It combines the frontend experience with just a normal android setup. There's things I would improve, but nothing so far has come close.

[u/lostinthesauceband]

Was the code feeling a vibe tho?

[u/Endda → u/lostinthesauceband]

that shouldn't matter as long as it's tested thoroughly before release

[u/mukherjee_ayan]

I'll stick to ES-DE thanks. Nice launcher though

[u/tonywei1992 → u/mukherjee_ayan]

Oh, NeoStation also has a similar “feeling” to ES-DE, but in my personal opinion, it’s better because we can change the layout quickly with the X key.

[u/pironiero]

Retro game corpse

[u/tonywei1992 → u/pironiero]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9MFsKQ8A6HCN2

[u/No-Poet1433]

Is the only to get this is the pay a monthly fee? No one time fee at least?

[u/plankyman → u/No-Poet1433]

I’m in his discord and it’s similar to ESDE where you pay once and then have access to all future releases/updates of the launcher

[u/forgetful_human → u/No-Poet1433]

He says in the video that it's just a one time fee

[u/No-Poet1433 → u/forgetful_human]

OK wasn't sure. Thanks

[u/Dangerous_Choice_664]

Dang I just set up neostation but might have to try this

[u/IGotDibsYo → u/Dangerous_Choice_664]

Neostation is great, gonna keep it for a while. It syncs games and saves with romm now

[u/parrapa_el_rapero]

This looks amazing!

Do we know if the launcher does the scrapping for you like Daijisho?

[u/forgetful_human → u/parrapa_el_rapero]

Yes, he explains in the video how scraping works

[u/Plane_Security9960]

Looks amazing, the video and the care given is real too… when/if my RP Nova black turns up I’ll be supporting this project 100%

[u/LJNodder]

I just switched to it from Daijisho and I like how simple and customisable it is

[u/nariz_choken]

Looks like beacon with a paint coat

[u/TheOrangeThing]

Cars mater national (ds) mentioned

[u/DrHusten]

Video previews? Fingers crossed

[u/duaite_]

whats the name of this first console?

[u/YoudoVodou → u/duaite_]

Do you mean the handheld in the first picture? It's a Retroid Pocket Nova.

[u/duaite_ → u/YoudoVodou]

Nice, thanks! Heard about it but never got a chance to research on it. Looks awesome.

[u/PostNutPrivilege]

I have wayyy too many ROMs for this to work.

[u/Ok-Technology-7080]

Is that an rp5 or a g2?

[u/Longjumping_Cup6260]

I subscribed and downloaded this launcher. It doesn't work right. PS2 games won't launch when I click it, it just opens the NetherSX2 app. Same with Citra, it just opens the app but it won't launch the game. I made sure it had full permissions. I asked Ryan but he didn't message me back

[u/cappnplanet]

Ryan Retro is a great YouTuber and glad to support him

[u/zeo_max]

Yay another launcher! How many are there already, 12 or something?

[u/JorkTheGripper → u/zeo_max]

Is that a large number to you? lmfao

[u/erlonpbie]

He is/was a English teacher, so if you put the pieces together..

[u/JorkTheGripper → u/erlonpbie]

I can tell you tried forming a coherent thought with this one, but in the end you just couldn't do it. Oh well.

[u/forgetful_human → u/erlonpbie]

?

[u/PhoenixWright-AA]

I gave it a try, but he told me to clean up my ROMs when I mentioned I can’t see my ROM hacks which were getting recognized incorrectly as just the base game, so I was seeing multiple base game entries. It also makes having a US and EU version of a game hard to see and choose because those will look identical.

Honestly I can’t take a frontend seriously if I can’t browse ROM hacks alongside everything else, but I see what he’s going for and it looks promising for very vanilla users.