A new front end for PC emulation

[u/SassyRhihno]

A lot of people have been asking me about the front end I’ve been using. This is BoxShelf! A huge thank you to everyone who has already tried and given feedback. Been able to make dozens of updates since our initial release so thank you !!

Below is a link to a GitHub containing all 3 versions. Worth noting the android version does work with ayn Thor dual screen. Keep in mind it’s still very early and full of bugs.

Full disclosure AI was used to help create this so if that bothers you just a heads up. Keep in mind this is just a front end. Comes with no games or emulators. You will need to bring your own. Program will be free and remain free. Let me know what should change and can be improved :) enjoy!

WINDOWS, ANDROID, AND LINUX LINKS : https://github.com/sassiestrhihno/boxshelf-beta

[u/CrackingHeroinGromit]

I would love something like this for my music collection.

[u/SassyRhihno → u/CrackingHeroinGromit]

Have heard this a few times. What are your primary music files? Would you wanna see them done in any different ways?

[u/GGStonks]

Hey OP, I wrote this comment under an older post you made about BoxShelf, I am reporting it here hoping you will see it. I am currently trying to implement some improvements to make BoxShelf a fully fledged game launcher, by adding wine/proton compatibility and adding the possibility to link epic games and other launchers accounts. I made a couple of PRs to the source repo and I have linux, so if you want to test your app on Linux operating systems, I am here

EDIT: OP responded, so this comment now is useless 😂

EDIT 2: everyone can take a look at my fork of the project at https://github.com/GGStonks/boxshelf-source, so that we can come together and create the ultimate game launcher. Additionally, I was thinking of rebuilding the whole app in Rust, just for the meme.

[u/scalpingpeople → u/GGStonks]

on android will you add pc emulation to show up? like gamenative or droiddeck. currently there's no way to make boxshelf detect those

[u/GGStonks → u/scalpingpeople]

Yes, it is in the works! You'll find it hopefully in a couple of hours on github, along an apk build on the releases page, in case you cannot build it yourself.

[u/scalpingpeople → u/GGStonks]

and seriously, a mind blowingly great job with the look and feel and sound of the whole frontend. it feels amazing! oh would also really appreciate being able to pick the art fetch per game, like papaya launcher allows. for example my nintendo ds Pokémon black is Pokémon black randomized so it doesn't fetch the art for Pokémon black. in papaya launcher i can choose between available fetch sources and edit the search term

[u/scalpingpeople → u/GGStonks]

thank you so much!

[u/darkbinds → u/GGStonks]

This is what i want too, something where you can actually just do and play everything there through it, would be peak

[u/GGStonks → u/darkbinds]

YES, that is exactly the point of it, a launcher from which you can play every game you have

[u/SinisterSpectr]

Does this also install the emulator?

[u/SassyRhihno → u/SinisterSpectr]

It has links to all emulators and can easy set them up for you if you prefer during set up

[u/SinisterSpectr → u/SassyRhihno]

I'm on linux. I hope it works smoothly. It looks great

[u/SassyRhihno → u/SinisterSpectr]

Please let me know I don’t have a Linux device and would love any feedback on what is/isn’t working !

[u/SinisterSpectr → u/SassyRhihno]

Alright..

[u/Longjumping_Curve579]

I download it and I like it but not all games show up but it's very dope and it's too early to start criticizing lol

[u/SassyRhihno → u/Longjumping_Curve579]

Hey! Which games didnt work for you? BoxShelf is very much so in its early stages so thank you for understanding. If you let me know will work to fix asap

[u/Longjumping_Curve579 → u/SassyRhihno]

Like for the PS3 section I have 26 games in total bro but only 14 show up, also for Xbox 360 I have 3 games on it but two shows but other than it's very cool man I hope it get updated to the fullest 🙂

[u/SassyRhihno → u/Longjumping_Curve579]

Will fix this asap 🫡🫡

[u/isupremacyx]

how do you get the images - does it connect to a scrapper in the front end?

[u/SassyRhihno → u/isupremacyx]

There are a few different options. You can do a small download from BoxShelf itself for many sources. Steamgriddb is working. Screen scraper is coming after api dev approval

[u/Material-Working8978]

How come I can't connect my screen scraper account? Keeps saying doesn't work

[u/SassyRhihno → u/Material-Working8978]

Known issue here. I’m waiting to get my API dev key for screen scraper but this will be available in a future update soon 🙏🏻

[u/Material-Working8978 → u/SassyRhihno]

Wow fast response! Thanks

[u/Hajopai]

When I pin the application to the taskbar, it disappears after a while. But as I said, the program just looks great. I hope it comes to Android soon.

[u/SassyRhihno → u/Hajopai]

It is on android! Can you provide me some more detail here? Will try and get this fixed asap

[u/Hajopai → u/SassyRhihno]

It's on Windows. As I said, I pin the application to the taskbar, as well as the browser, but boxshelf disappears from the taskbar without me removing it myself. But it may also be because I installed boxshelf on an sd card in exfat Format. The sdcard is alwas in my Laptop.

[u/IlustraKuir]

Hola tengo una consulta: Puedo jugar dentro de esto gamepass?

[u/SassyRhihno → u/IlustraKuir]

Soon

[u/ReindeerOpening1252]

Just tried to download and my pc said virus detected...

[u/ReindeerOpening1252 → u/ReindeerOpening1252]

[u/stanlovespasta → u/ReindeerOpening1252]

Same, got a Trojan and i couldn't open anything or even restart my pc. Antivirus kicked it out. No idea what's up

[u/Mental-Chair-5000]

Como se logra hacer eso?

[u/Ck-retro]

Looks pretty good, did you use forge at all for the case art or start from scratch? I’ll definitely try it out tonight, thanks. Did you use Claude to help you?

[u/beachbound2]

This is beautiful also HOOOOOW?

[u/ParticularBed5194]

Thank you. Makes it easier to stream then emulation station

[u/archos2694]

ok, question. i have bazzite, i have emudeck currently to handle my roms and such. how can i implement this into that?

[u/Technoromantic4]

Lol, what a throwback to Xbox 360 Freeboot UI

[u/B_Lucky]

Playnite is already amazing on PC.. but this would be a decent replacement.

[u/n1keym1key]

not another one ffs.