Lemuroid Overlay for RetroArch

Lemuroid is a Libretro front end for Android. Its main goal is ease of use, so it comes with a nice UI and pleasant UX. As much as I love it, there are several deal breaker features for me that missing from Lemuroid:

• No cheat support.
• No 7-zip support.
• No custom shader.

Thanks to those issues, I come back to RetroArch. However, I really like the overlay that used by Lemuroid, so I decided to clone it for RetroArch.

This overlay is designed for 20:9 screen, which is what my phone use, and apparently is the most popular aspect ratio right now.

Available Platforms

This overlay is available for several platforms, each has both landscape and portrait mode:

• PSX (with and without analog)
• SNES
• GBA
• NES (which can also used for GB and GBC)

Project Structure

retroarch-lemuroid-overlay
├── dist ...... the final result that can be used directly in RetroArch
├── doc ....... files that used for this readme
└── src
    ├── ods ... spreadsheet that I use to generate the cfg file
    └── svg ... svg images that I use to design the overlay

Installation

Download the overlay from dist/ directory or from the release page, then use it in RetroArch.

Recommended Configuration

Set "Overlay Opacity" to 1.0, since it's already a bit transparent.

Screenshots

PSX with analog

PSX without analog

SNES

GBA

GBC

All in portrait mode

Acknowledgements

• Swordfish90 for creating Lemuroid.
• Valent-in for creating RetroPad Editor.

License

Since Lemuroid use GPLv3, at first I think it just follows that we use GPLv3 as well here.

However, since this overlay is only recreated from Lemuroid's screenshot without ever accessing its code, I believe we can use a more permissible license. So, I decided to license it to CC BY 4.0 since it's what used by RetroArch's overlay repository.