OpenEmu is an excellent emulation program for MacOS, easily the best solution out there in terms of ease of use and simple design. Tweak the image files to meet the RG350 requirements
Move the OpenEmu images to your media folders Table of Contents:ĭrag your ROM files into OpenEmu to scrape their box art Okay, now that we have that out of the way, let’s dive in. If you would rather do that, this page is your best source.
Note: if you don’t want to fiddle with all of the automated tasks below, another option would be to individually download the box art files and resize them to your needs. There are several workarounds we have to do to get it all to work, and it’s not perfect - but trust me, this process is much easier than trying to google box arts on your own.
RETRO GAMES EMULATOR MAC HOW TO
If you want to stick your Mac, I’ll walk you through how to download and organize all of your box art so that you can make SimpleMenu look pretty on your RG350 (like in the picture above). You could also run a Windows 10 virtual machine on your Mac – it’s surprisingly easy to set up, and free. There are some command-line solutions out there, modeled after Linux, but they require a deep understanding of Terminal (and can really mess up your Mac if you do it wrong). A Mac version of Skraper is in the works, but it’s not ready yet. If you’re using SimpleMenu on an RG350, or any other emulation platform that can display retro game box art, you probably know that there is no Mac app that can find and download your box art automatically.