My Ultimate ARC Browser Configuration with 3D Covers, 25 Consoles and Full Rom Collections

Описание

Hello guys!

I just made a showcase video to illustrate you my personal configuration of the ARC Browser frontend for Android devices (I used my Mad Catz M.O.J.O. console).

I fiddled around for about two weeks with ARC Browser dynamics/assets to achieve the result you are watching in this video. I launched those games pretty much randomly because my goal was only to give you a general idea of how well RetroArch and ARC Browser ecosystems can co-operate togheter. The main focus was to recreate the most accurate old-school retrogaming feeling thanks to LCD/CTR shaders and other visual effects/filters available in RetroArch, followed by some great console-themed overlays partially customized by me in order to perfectly fit the 1080p TV screen resolution. The majority of scraped games have been taken from No-Intro Rom sets, except for PlayStation, PSP, DS and Dreamcast titles.

Main features:

• 25 consoles covered (Atari Jaguar emulation is still horrible on RetroArch, so I decided to only scrape the games just for completion)
• Fully loaded (almost every console has its own Rom-Set, except obviously for PlayStation, Dreamcast, DS and PSP)
• 3D Box Artwork style for each game of the collection (I disabled the automatic artwork downloading and I directly used the HyperSpin 3D cover packs)
• Customized overlays and grid-icons for all the consoles
• Old-school visual fidelity (filters, shaders and overlays have been combined togheter to recreate the definitive nostalgic gaming experience)
• In answer to some of you who were worried about the general performance of the UI with so many games to load, in the last part of my video I decided to test a bit the general smoothness and reactivity of ARC Browser by scrolling and moving randomly between the systems... other than some minor cover-rendering stutter during the scrolling of a few game collections, no problem at all! | *STRESS TEST* [37:02] |

Hope you like it!

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Device: Mad Catz M.O.J.O. (NVIDIA Tegra 4 CPU clocked at 1.8 GHz)
OS: CyanogenMod 12.1 (Android Lollipop 5.1)
Software: ARC Browser 1.16.4
Controller: Dualshock 4 v2
Total games: 21.533 (All Regions)
Memory used: 114,7 GB (external 128 GB Micro SD Card)
Console Icons: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m5VwG0KPFzurun9tBoplLoS40_WSfpYk/view?usp=drivesdk
Console-themed overlays: http://www.mediafire.com/file/362fubzaciywdh6/OrionsangelOverlays.zip

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Emulated consoles with associated RetroArch cores/emulators:

- Arcade (Final Burn Alpha) [0:49]

- Atari 2600 (Stella) [2:30]

- Atari 7800 (ProSystem) [4:19]

- Atari Jaguar (Virtual Jaguar)
|Not shown because it's too laggy and almost unplayable|

- Atari Lynx (Handy) [5:17]

- Dreamcast (Reicast R7) [6:18]

- Game Boy (Gambatte) [7:58]

- Game Boy Advance (mGBA) [9:18]

- Game Boy Color (Gambatte) [10:46]

- Game Gear (Genesis Plus GX) [12:27]

- Genesis / Mega Drive (Genesis Plus GX) [13:51]

- Neo Geo AES (Final Burn Alpha) [15:59]

- Neo Geo Pocket Color (Beetle NGP) [17:43]

- Nintendo Entertainment System (Nestopia) [18:37]

- Nintendo 64 (Mupen64Plus) [20:16]
|Gex 64: Enter the Gecko failed to load its preview-cover this
time because It has been linked to the European version of
the game, while I opted to show you the USA version which
performs slightly better|

- Nintendo DS (Drastic) [21:42]

- PlayStation (PCSX-ReARMed) [23:23]

- PSP (PPSSPP) [25:59]

- 32X (PicoDrive) [27:46]

- Master System (Genesis Plus GX) [29:26]

- SG-1000 (Genesis Plus GX) [30:17]

- Super Nintendo Entartainment System (Snes9x) [31:32]

- TurboGrafx-16 (Beetle PCE Fast) [32:53]

- Virtual Boy (Beetle VB) [33:57]

- WonderSwan (Beetle WSWAN) [35:44]