MinUIt (means midnight in french) is the continuiation of MinUI : a focused, custom launcher and libretro frontend for a variety of retro handhelds. The goal for the first release is to implement QOL improvements to the frontend while keeping the original vision for simplicity, notably :
- [] Simple Menus for standalone emulators and utility paks (wrapper so anyone can use it to implement what they want and maintain design coherence)
- [] Auto-save and auto-resume for standalone emulators, with same behaviour than in minarch (savestates screenshots, resume from frontend, autosave on shutdown...)
- [] Better use of the show-version screen (Global options for brightness/volume/simple mode/wifi ?)
- A Onion OS-like game switcher based on Recents list you could access from ingame (MENU + SELECT shorctut / new option in menu) and from the game list (SELECT)
- [] A purpose for the Y button ("Add to collection" ? Sort ? Search ?)
I only own a RGB30, so I will mostly use this for testing, but I'll try my best to have platform agnostic code.
If you want to help test for other devices (listed below), please do and report on my Discord or ping me on the RertroHandheld Discord.
- Simple launcher, simple SD card
- No settings or configuration{({#
- No boxart, themes, or distractions
- Automatically hides hidden files and extension and region/version cruft in display names
- Consistent in-emulator menu with quick access to save states, disc changing, and emulator options
- Automatically sleeps after 30 seconds or press POWER to sleep (and wake)
- Automatically powers off while asleep after two minutes or hold POWER for one second
- Automatically resumes right where you left off if powered off while in-game, manually or while asleep
- Resume from manually created, last used save state by pressing X in the launcher instead of A
- Streamlined emulator frontend (minarch + libretro cores)
- Single SD card compatible with multiple devices from different manufacturers
Devices with a physical power switch use MENU to sleep and wake instead of POWER. Once asleep the device can safely be powered off manually with the switch.
Base:
- Game Boy
- Game Boy Color
- Game Boy Advance
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Sega Genesis
- PlayStation
Extras:
- Neo Geo Pocket (and Color)
- Pico-8
- Pokémon mini
- Sega Game Gear
- Sega Master System
- Super Game Boy
- TurboGrafx-16 (and TurboGrafx-CD)
- Virtual Boy
- N64 // in development
- PSP // in development
- NDS // will be in first release
| Device | Added | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anbernic RG28xx | MinUI-20240429b-2 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG34xx | MinUI-20241227-0 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG35xx | MinUI-20230922b-2 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG35xx Plus | MinUI-20240106b-0 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG35xxH | MinUI-20240120b-1 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG35xxSP | MinUI-20240525-0 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG40xxH | MinUI-20240717-1 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG40xxV | MinUI-20240831-0 | Maintained |
| Anbernic RG CubeXX | MinUI-202401028-0 | Maintained |
| GKD Pixel | MinUI-20240120b-1 | Maintained |
| M17 | MinUI-20231126b-2 | Maintained |
| MagicX XU Mini M | MinUI-20240831-0 | Maintained |
| MagicX Mini Zero 28 | MinUI-20250111-0 | Maintained |
| Miyoo A30 | MinUI-20240705-0 | Maintained |
| Miyoo Flip | MinUI-20250111-0 | Maintained |
| Miyoo Mini | MinUI-20230922b-2 | Maintained |
| Miyoo Mini Plus | MinUI-20230922b-2 | Maintained |
| Powkiddy RGB30 | MinUI-20231014b-1 | Maintained |
| Trimui Brick | MinUI-20241028-0 | Maintained |
| Trimui Smart | MinUI-20230922b-2 | Maintained |
| Trimui Smart Pro | MinUI-20231111b-2 | Maintained |
Note
Active actively working on compatibility and improvements specific to this device
Maintained inheriting improvements to common functionality
Deprecated will be retired in a future update
Retired removed from repo, no longer updated or packaged with new releases