Openemu Cover Art Maker
Openemu Cover Art Not Downloading

OpenEmu 2.1: OpenEmu 2.1 requires macOS 10.14 or above ️ Donate to support OpenEmu 🕹; Initial macOS 10.15 Catalina support. Added new Metal renderer and display architecture, significantly improving frame pacing, performance and battery life — no more video latency at increased window sizes or fullscreen. The art of album covers of past decades hasn't been lost even in this digital music streaming world. We have created a free album cover maker that makes it incredibly easy for artists to create album covers with a wow factor. Best of all our tool is absolutely free so you can spend hours playing around with different designs until you create.

In other entries, we have shown you how your Mac can be a very capable gaming machine that allows you to enjoy your older catalogue of both handheld and console Nintendo games via emulation apps.

As it turns out, OpenEmu for Mac, a new application, was released sometime back that takes an entirely new approach to how you can play your old game library, allowing for a more convenient and cohesive experience overall.

Here’s a look at how this new application for old-school gamers works.

As several other free apps out there, OpenEmu is an open source project exclusive to the Mac that actually builds upon other existing collaborations to serve as a sort of hub for all your ROM (game backups) files.

The first time you open it after installation, OpenEmu asks you to choose all the ‘cores’ that you would like to install along it. Each ‘core’ is an additional platform that OpenEmu is able to support.

In addition to this, the app can scan your Mac for any existing ROMs, so if you have quite a few of them scattered around, OpenEmu does a pretty good job of gathering them all and presenting them neatly organized by platform.

While it is still in its version 1.0, OpenEmu for Mac already supports up to 12 different consoles and handhelds, including the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, the Game Gear, NeoGeo Pocket, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the popular Sega Genesis, the Super Nintendo and even the old Virtual Boy, among others.

Here’s where the main benefit of OpenEmu becomes obvious: It pretty much behaves as the iTunes equivalent of old school games. You can add games to your library by simply dragging them into the app without worrying what platform they are for.

You can also sort your existing games in different views, search among them, download games’ covers and even add new ‘collections’, which serve just as playlists would on iTunes.

Once you start playing games, you will find that OpenEmu is more than just a hub for other emulators. In fact, it integrates some of the features of the formers that are usually not too intuitive and makes them very easy to use. Examples of this are the app’s support for full save states, OpenGL scaling and most importantly, gamepad support, which allows you to simply plug your favorite controller to your Mac and start playing games.

Starting a game with the app is as simple as double clicking on it, then the OpenEmu window just fades and becomes the game window.

Also, regardless of which game you play, the app provides the same set of basic controls, which provides much needed consistency to the gaming experience.

Of course, you can also tweak each particular emulator’s settings if you need to.

All in all, OpenEmu turned out to be an excellent app for anyone who had hoped to dig into their old game library but was intimidated by all the technicalities involved. This app makes things much easier and, while not providing support for the more advanced consoles yet, it still brings a bunch of old ones under one roof and makes it as easy as it ever was to enjoy them.

The above article may contain affiliate links which help support Guiding Tech. However, it does not affect our editorial integrity. The content remains unbiased and authentic.Also See#Software

Did You Know

You can get a report of recent earthquakes by typing 'Earthquake' in the search field.

A Guide on Fixing Apple Music on Mac Not Syncing With iPhone

Dolphin

Dolphin is a Wii and Gamecube emulator. It has been ported to libretro and an alpha version of the core is available now for Windows and Linux! Version for macOS will be released at a later date.

For more information on Dolphin, visit the author's website here.

Citra

Citra is a 'work in progress' Nintendo 3DS emulator.

Core available now for Windows and Linux. Version for macOS will be released at a later date.

For more information on Citra, visit the author's website here.

OpenLara

OpenLara is an early Tomb Raider game engine recreation.

Core available now for Windows/Linux.

For more information, read our article on this release here.

It uses the original data files in order to work. What is nice about this one is that it has some very fancy graphics effects that it adds on top of the old game engine without it resulting in any stylistic clashes.

melonDS

melonDS is a 'work in progress' Nintendo DS emulator.

Core available now for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

For more information on melonDS, visit the author's website here.

SameBoy

SameBoy is a highly accurate Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulator.

Core available now for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

For more information on SameBoy, visit the author's website here.

PX68K

Openemu Cover Art Maker

PX-68K is a Sharp X68000 emulator. This is a Japanese home computer from the late '80s/early '90s that was used by Capcom as devkits for their arcade games. It played host to many popular games from the likes of Namco, Konami and Capcom.

Openemu Cover Art Not Downloading

Core available now for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

For more information, read our article on this release here.

Did You Know

More in Mac

A Guide on Fixing Apple Music on Mac Not Syncing With iPhone

Dolphin

Citra

OpenLara

melonDS

SameBoy

PX68K

Openemu Cover Art Maker

Openemu Cover Art Not Downloading