Daijishō is a retro launcher that lets you manage your retro games libraries. Daijishō cares about integrated experience, expansibility, aesthetic, and pragmatic usabilities, which let you focus on the games themselves. It will be updated continuously in the future based on user feedback and my own retro gaming experience during my free time. Beware, it does not come with emulators.
"Wat? What does 'Daijishō' even mean?", you ask? "Daijishō" (aka "だいじしょう") actually stands for "台字章" in kanji, which was a pattern widely used in Taiwan during the Japanese period. Anyway, happy gaming.
Daijishō is currently closed-source. Nonetheless, I do have some prerequisites for open-sourcing it. You can still report issues or submit suggestions here. And Daijishō will always be free!
- Install preferred emulators, apps first, then Daijishō will take care of the rest
- Setup hotkeys for better and intuitive navigation
- Download and import the platforms you want
- Set game files, path, and sync for each platform
- Download wallpaper packs and select your preferred theme color on the settings page
- Add widgets on the widget page
Well done. You have now made the most of it. Here are some additional tips for you.
- Take a look of wiki from Jetup13, or video from RetroGameCorps might help.
- You can view the wallpaper gallery.
- You can long click items to see further details.
- You can inspect your RetroAchievements records if you log in.
- Switching hotkeys have different abilities in different sections.
- Be sure to make use of widgets as they are very useful, like RSS, Activity, Pining games, etc.
- You can update your platforms by re-downloading and re-importing them from the list without losing records
- Clicking the Daijishō icon 7 times on the About page will enable NSFW mode.
- See "Main features" in Quick Look to make sure you don't miss any features!
Nope. But you can import some config for emulators from pegasus.
(Widgets)
(Detailed View)
(Genres)
(RetroAchievements)
(Search)
And much more...
Player is a set of arguments that can be configured to execute playable files filtered by regular expressions from your library with launching arguments. Player is usually associated with emulators or RetroArch.
Platform contains players added in Daijishō that accept various files from selected sync paths. Platform can also be configured to scrape correct boxarts and other preview media and can be set up to match its appearance and aesthetics.
You can download this from this GitHub page, which is available in the Daijishō's settings page. Or you can import from Pegasus frontend or other's shared and configured platform JSON files. Also, you can manually add players then create platforms from those players.
English, Portuguese (Português), Taiwanese mandarin (台灣國語), Japanese (日本語), French (Français), Italian (Italiana), Spanish (Español), Korean (한국인), German (Deutsche), Hindi (हिंदी)
Here is my widgets setup :3
This is a side project. The project is solely developed on my Retroid Pocket 2+ and Android emulators. I will continue work on it whenever I feel motivated to (in my free time; usually on the weekend).
You can star this GitHub page, donate, promote Daijishō in the communities or update the platform list in this GitHub page.
Daijishō evolved a lot in 2022. Including UI improvements, retro achievements, wallpaper packs, the new widgets page, genres, backup, merge items and various other small details. I know that there is still room for Daijishō to grow and things to be improved. And I am thankfully aware of people's ideas and suggestions. However, In the meantime, I also have important things to be done awaiting me. And it's time for me to leave for a while from this repetitive routine for 12 continuous months. Thus, I decided to take a break from the Daijishō project, probably for quarters. With the relatively low attention and activities focusing on Daijishō. Nevertheless, if you are familiar with Android Kotlin development and you wish to contribute or intergrate features for Daijishō, you can still DM me for the possibilities.
I am taking a break from the project
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