Big Blue (2014/05/28)

Big Blue (2014/05/28) is released. Big Blue is a frontend for any command line program (MAME or any game) that works on any setup. You can use it with an arcade cabinet with a 15khz arcade monitor or a desktop computer with a 3840x2160 monitor.

What's unique about this frontend is that the frontend itself is a video game. Player 1 and 2 can fight each other to determine who gets to select the game.

See Big Blue in action here:


Big Blue's night theme:


Features:
* FREE! Source code available on request; let me know if you find problems or want to make improvements
* Fully playable mini-game built into the frontend; George and R9-A fight each other for control over the game selection
* Supports any program that you can run from the command line; if you can run it from the command line, you can launch it from Big Blue
* Easy and simple game list configuration that won't have to be changed continually with each new version of an emulator
* Runs at any resolution or aspect ratio (320x240 all the way up to 3840x2160 have been tested)
* Theme that changes depending on the time of day
* Pixel shader effects
* Full sound and music
* Built-in screensaver with a configurable timer
* Ability to shutdown or restart computer when exiting the frontend
* Configurable frontend controls

Big Blue Changelog：:
- Snapshots are now 4:3 so that the images won't be distorted; new dimensions are 562x422
- Added a new config option that lets you select the game list Big Blue uses; this allows you to have multiple game lists for horizontal and vertical games, for example
- Removed the baked-in shadow from the snapshot border graphics
- Major optimizations to the pixel shaders; sunset/night performance should be almost indistinguishable from day performance now
- Various optimizations and caching added to improve performance
- Snapshots are now loaded up front, so Big Blue uses more memory on startup, but if you scrolled through the whole game list before, you'd use the same amount of memory anyway
- Pixel shader was applied to "FIGHT!" graphics on accident
- Big Blue is no longer "always on top" of the Windows desktop
- Big Blue now automatically refocuses the window after exiting the program it launched
- Added more error handling and defaults so that Big Blue will still function even if config.xml is completely missing
- New rotation options: 0 degrees (off), 90 degrees, 180 degrees, and 270 degrees
- Broke up program and snapshots into two separate archives because I was hitting the Google Sites file size limit

Download: Big Blue (2014/05/28)
Source: Here