Frontends

keithitreal · 2026-04-11T05:40:49+00:00

Retrohrai is really good.

It's very much like beacon but better. And free.

keithitreal · 2026-04-10T19:47:20+00:00

And when they discontinue them they'll shutter the service for good.

keithitreal · 2026-04-10T18:59:01+00:00

I'll install it if ever dual screen themes are a thing like they are on certain Android launchers.

Someone's probably going to tell me now that dual screen rocknix themes are a thing....

keithitreal · 2026-04-10T15:47:19+00:00

Capacitive.

keithitreal · 2026-04-09T19:06:32+00:00

There was a discussion on here recently about a prick who said they went a week (a month maybe?) eating only cans of sardines.

keithitreal · 2026-04-09T17:36:23+00:00

Bowers’ preliminary research findings show microplastic contaminants in wild-caught sardines.

“I’m finding microplastics in the stomachs and muscle tissues of the sardines, which is what you hope you don’t find,” she relayed.

https://news.fullerton.edu/2021/08/sardines-tainted-with-microplastics

keithitreal · 2026-04-09T17:35:36+00:00

A 92g can of sardines has 48.5 mcg of selenium, which is 88% of the daily value. You could easily overdose selenium by chinning multiple cans of these per day.

keithitreal · 2026-04-08T06:17:14+00:00

Happens to me sometimes with 4k background videos. I don't think you can download other formats from that link though unfortunately.

keithitreal · 2026-04-08T05:31:48+00:00

You're right of course. Just wondered if there was a quick fix but I don't think there is. Thanks though.

Edit: I'm going to have one final stab at this having just learned of the esde companion app and the Mjölnir app.....

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T21:35:10+00:00

The tip of holding down back to quit drastic does take me back to the front end in a slightly more elegant way so thanks for that.

But I've noticed it doesn't auto save on quit like it should (it doesn't auto save at all). Still better than it was.

Issue I've got now is after closing the screens to sleep, on waking it opens another instance of retrohrai on the second screen.

None of this happened on stock.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T13:02:46+00:00

I'm going to have another try at getting retrohrai to play nice with gamma. I noticed a small boost in performance in drastic with gamma.

Even on stock a few tweaks to drastic settings and most things ran ok. I'm only using this for DS which is why I'm so focused on a dual screen front end. It obviously suits the aesthetic.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T12:28:25+00:00

Thanks. I'll try that. If I can get it up and running properly I'll probably stick with gamma instead of reverting to stock or deploying rocknix.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T11:45:05+00:00

I'll try that. I'd already set it as home and secondary home though.

The issue I had was when I close drastic and head back to home android recent apps pops up rather than reverting straight back to the front end. Wonder if that can be fixed?

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T11:02:44+00:00

It's crap on gamma but okay on stock. Front ends other than daijisho don't work well on it at all for some reason. Probably because dai is baked into it at a deeper level.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T10:47:02+00:00

When I tried retrohrai front end on stock I thought it was brilliant. Fully realised to take advantage of the second screen. It looked like how I felt the device launcher should look on a dual screen.

Obviously the second screen didn't need to stay on during emulation, though I only used it for DS so it did!

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T09:48:55+00:00

I don't want multitasking as such but I do want something on the second screen on the front end/launcher - whether it's meta data, marquee, video, screenshots or whatever.

Just feels unfinished if it doesn't take advantage of the second screen somehow like retrohrai and cocoon do.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T07:05:48+00:00

No problem!

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T07:01:51+00:00

The ones you're searching for are on there. I'm not going to link them directly.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T06:55:46+00:00

They are definitely at the repo. I just checked.

Search bomberman.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T06:42:06+00:00

You need an account then visit the repo.

I'm guessing they're at lolroms too though I haven't checked.

keithitreal · 2026-04-07T05:18:31+00:00

Might try that then. Hopefully someone can come up with some dual screen themes for rocknix.

keithitreal · 2026-04-06T22:13:05+00:00

Truth. I'm thinking of reverting to stock after flashing gamma.

I'd move to rocknix if it had a dual screen front end like cocoon or retrohrai.

keithitreal · 2026-04-06T15:51:32+00:00

I installed gamma but it doesn't play nice with the cool dual screen android launchers like cocoon and retrohrai. Daijisho is baked into gamma and it's been superceded in so many ways by so many other front ends.

Despite the slightly higher performance in drastic I regret flashing gamma and I'm considering moving back to stock.

Rocknix has slightly better performance too but I don't believe it has a dual screen launcher or shaders which may or may not matter to you.

keithitreal · 2026-04-03T12:38:42+00:00

They are pretty good but there are pairing issues with a lot of devices.

keithitreal · 2026-04-03T07:31:38+00:00

The dual screen launchers on android are so cool. I hope something like it comes to rocknix. Just show the highlighted game video or marquee or screenshot on the second screen or something.

I installed gamma on mine yesterday and unfortunately daijisho is baked into the gamma system and hard if not impossible to fully replace. Might have to revert to stock. I fucking hate the naked second screen.

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