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Plans on porting to other systems?

No plans. We're focusing on OS X but there is a great multi-platform emulator called RetroArch: http://www.libretro.com

Congratulations on what looks like a really nice effort - I'm looking forward to trying it out. Out of curiosity, what are your main reasons for not making it a joint effort with RetroArch? I'm a modularity and reusability freak, but I know often there can be quite compelling reasons for not doing it.

OpenEmu has been in development for a really long time, first around 2009 which is before RetroArch came around. Our focus has always been a native OS X application while theirs has been cross-platform. Also, cross-platform UI's are a pain!

So why should we use your app instead of RetroArch? :)

That's really personal preference isn't it?

One has a polished cocoa UI, the other is a cross-platform app. There's no animosity between the two projects here in case anyone is curious.

Ah, a very diplomatic answer. I'm just teasing you with the cliche "why are you better?" pitch test.

OSS with polished UI's are rare and desperately needed. Nice work.

The hard part is that once you go cross-platform, there's no such thing as a "native UI". If you target just one single environment, it'll be so much easier to make something that feels like it belongs there.

Yes! http://toadking.com/retroarch/index.html

Snes one runs fairly well.

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