Rom Loading Suggestion

[jeffkontak]

Hello! Mesen has become far and away my favorite NES emulator and I wanted to share one piece of feedback that I believe could improve it.

The only thing I dislike about Mesen is the UI / functionality where I load the emulator and am given images of the 9 most recently accessed games, which essentially perform a load state if I am to click on the images. It's impressive from a tech perspective that the emulator does a hidden save state just as it shuts down or as a rom is closed, but as a user, I like to avoid save states / save loads in general for a variety of reasons. I dislike skipping the title sequence via your method of loading the game, as it takes something significant away from the traditional feeling of loading up a game. In the end most of us ultimately emulate to satisfy our nostalgia. I can see your chosen functionality being preferable to a player who mostly plays action games or password dependent games in general. I happen to mostly play RPGs and adventure games with SRAM saving so the current function leaves me a little cold.

PPSSPP is an example of an emulator that does this perfectly IMO, where the main loading screen visually shows an image of the games you have saved, but clicking on the image takes you through the normal loading process and preserves the feeling of realism and nostalgia.

Thank you for hearing me out, and thank you for all that you do!

[jeffkontak]

Of course I just found the setting for "Start game from power-on instead of resuming previous..." I'll close the issue.