Open smorsked opened 1 year ago
Probably worth breaking these down into separate requests honestly.
Thanks for the input @emukidid. I will make separate issues of those that seemed relevant. I will skip the ones regarding ambiance audio. The picoboot screen seems cool :) I will skip the "Theme" system as well, it is perhaps a bit too big of an issue for me to write I must have forgotten 7 :p
Game launcher UI
PSA this might be against the design philosophy of the Swiss army knife of GameCube home brew.
I really love Swiss, it is amazing with all of its features. y primary use case for Swiss is launching PAL games in progressive scan and launching GBI. I frequently use some of the features but i have felt that most of the UI elements shown are left unused by me when just launching a game.
What i would love is an alternate more tailored UI specifically for launching a games and browsing the game library. Perhaps it could be possible to toggle menu style in the settings. Perhaps this is not in line with the design philosophy of Swiss sense this is a UI with just one specific use case and quite the opposite of Swiss army knife UI.
These are some features ( in no particular order ) that I think would be nice in such a front end:
Why? I feel that most of the settings in there are rarely used when i use Swiss, less items in the list by default would increase readability of the page.
Why? When specifically launching games those are the only ones that are useful for the user and if we only show dol files we do not need to specify the file type in that case
Why? it gives an impression to the user much like browsing physical game collection witch in my opinion would be nice :)
Why? for aesthetic reasons,
Why? it gives audio input for the user what occurs for each button press. example: a "swoosh" effect when moving the cursor, a sound for accepting/selecting/proceeding actions, a sound for reverting/canceling/redoing actions etc.
Why? Hiding the rest of the UI with a loading screen makes sense here because at this point in the user experience the user only waits for the game to load so a fitting loading screen( with a progress bar and perhaps with an animated Swiss army knife flipping about? ) would focus the user experience. a more fitting menu for games with multiple DOL files when forcing video modes ( Zelda collectors edition for example ) would be needed here as well. perhaps a similar browsing menu as the main menu but only for the browsing
Why? cozy feelings
Why? Most people use only one media type so we could eliminate one step in the UI by storing the preferred media type
I hope this is somewhat useful for someone, perhaps more ideas or input on my ideas could be discussed in the comments. I hope this did not come out as negative in any way, I really love Swiss and all the work everyone does here <3
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