s&box does have dedicated servers but I'll have to pay upkeep for that and there's no Linux binaries (yet). I can always just use an externally hosted web server with WebSockets though since there's already a good API for it, probably makes a lot more sense too
wait, i thought this worked similar to roblox in terms of hosting, so if we go multiplayer we still have to pay for/rent server space?
man i really need to do more research on this platform.
s&box does have dedicated servers but I'll have to pay upkeep for that and there's no Linux binaries (yet). I can always just use an externally hosted web server with WebSockets though since there's already a good API for it, probably makes a lot more sense too
wait, i thought this worked similar to roblox in terms of hosting, so if we go multiplayer we still have to pay for/rent server space?
man i really need to do more research on this platform.
Well it's not Roblox, I don't know what gave you the impression. You either have peer-to-peer or dedicated servers as hosting solutions in the current system.
Well it's not Roblox, I don't know what gave you the impression. You either have peer-to-peer or dedicated servers as hosting solutions in the current system.
yeah i get that its different, i just assumed with how it's being set up that it'd be similar to roblox or epic games nonsense in terms of logistics and have things on it to reduce the scale of what we could do to minimize like server use a bit.
guess my dumb little brain assumed while on S&boxs platform it'd do some weird instancing or something for lobbies like roblox does or like Core then when we want to export it we'd have to do a bit of technical wizardry to re-route it a bit for an actual dedi.
Okay I'm gonna go off-topic for a bit in this post, bear with me..
Someone (I don't know who) repackaged my emulator's frontend for both of their emulators very sloppily, made it worse in terms of the UI along with zero gamepad support, didn't even include any copyright notices or license text and also never made either open source. I'm pretty sad honestly :/
If you had the decency to do this, at least make your projects public on GitHub so it doesn't like look like you have anything to hide. I'm not gonna blame you for using AI, but it hurts a little to see this type of shit.
Giving the frontend a proper touch up!
(sorry I was working on other stuff :P)sbox.2026.05.19.16.52.28.mp4 20.44 MB
I see we had a similar idea concerning the "cards scrolling UI", I like the way you've added a preview of a game thumbnail in the background a lot, definitely stunning! Mine still need some works (I've added proper controller support but I need to add the control hints in the bottom corner, some navigation sounds etc...)
Make me think I need to remove the PS Logo in the top left corner, that was old design stuff!
I see we had a similar idea concerning the "cards scrolling UI", I like the way you've added a preview of a game thumbnail in the background a lot, definitely stunning! Mine still need some works (I've added proper controller support but I need to add the control hints in the bottom corner, some navigation sounds etc...)
Make me think I need to remove the PS Logo in the top left corner, that was old design stuff!
20260521-1736-24.0729383.mp4 38.11 MB
I mostly just took inspo from the Switch 2 OS, it's pretty good design even if it's a tad bit boring compared to being completely stylised.
Pro tip: you should probably design your frontend in Figma first since Claude is really bland at UI design and makes everything look the same.
Anyways here's some more progress, I'll show the View More page later:
I mostly just took inspo from the Switch 2 OS, it's pretty good design even if it's a tad bit boring compared to being completely stylised.
Pro tip: you should probably design your frontend in Figma first since Claude is really bland at UI design and makes everything look the same.
Anyways here's some more progress, I'll show the View More page later:
sbox.2026.05.22.13.37.55.mp4 16.55 MB
Nah that's fine, I'm gonna tweak it later, its just a prototype template right now, I'm gonna re-edit the SCSS later on anyway! But yeah personally my inspiration was taken from the Xbox 360 (one of the old dashboard around ~2010)Nice UI progress btw
Just an initial prototype so you can see all your games in a neat form. Might add categories, search and filters for later
edited:
Okay here's what I came up with, I'll probably improve this later but this will be shipped to sGBA very soon. I'm reworking Netplay after I push this since the UX was pretty meh and not many people used it.
BTW I'm looking for contributors, you can see the new issues I put up at the GitHub repository if anyone is willing to help!
I think I got Link Cable working seamlessly, needs more polish and improvements but hopefully I can ship it when it's ready 😊
2026-06-01 21-13-04.mp4 44.31 MB
For multiplayer one day maybe give us place to hang out like a retro childhood room with a crt to play on...
