ericlewis/deltaui

SwiftUI + CoreData user interface for DeltaCore & Friends.

DeltaUI

SwiftUI + CoreData user interface for DeltaCore & Friends. Styled after Apple Music.

⚠️ Before you go any further

This app is fairly useless without the All.json file, which contains the references to games. At some point, there might be a built in browser and local / iCloud file management. I don't really plan to distribute this, in any way. It is up to you to build it.

It is also up to you to figure out how / where to get that information, I do not condone piracy- so don't ask..

The models are there, so that is how the All.json looks.

Requirements

• Xcode 11
• iOS 13, iPadOS 13, tvOS 13, macOS Catalina or higher
• git (duh)

Directions

May not build without All.json, but it is optional in code. If you do make an All.json, you will need to manually hookup the sync method in AppDelegate.

1. recursively install all the submodules
2. open Xcode
3. cmd + r
4. play games!

Other Stuff

It probably won't build for tvOS, I haven't tried. It won't build for macOS without signifigant changes to DeltaCore. The work there is to switch from using GLKViews to MTKViews because Catalyst doesn't bring over the deprecated GLKit.

deltaui's Issues

Background download

Switching library & for you is slow

What asshole made this shit

New target for emulator version

In accordance with creating a shippable app, we should provide useful scenarios to those not using the emulator version.

I probs should expand elsewhere. But basically, this app can serve as a game library manager without being an emulator tool and we should totally gun for that.

web view

to download things with.

Convert all.json

Remove the reliance on the sketchy data in favor of OpenVGDB.

This will make the app less illegal.

Importer

Need some way to import ROMs & match against a DB. Basically, use OVGDB or whatever it is called.

Cheats

I don’t really like to cheat, but people seem to enjoy it.

Save / load SaveStates

Backed by CoreData, in some sort of syncable zone. Problems with this is it likes to crash.

iCloud Drive

Allows importing of things / cross platform syncs. Sync all the things.

For You

Should include favorites. But more like the mosaic tiles in Apple Music. Goes above recently played.

Rename ROMs

As it says

Real download manager

Backed by CoreData. Should have progress, resume, background, etc.

Local notifications

For successful downloads and what not

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

GameListView can be simplified. Context menus too. Try to despecialize playlist views. Use the open source versions of activity indicator.

Controller Skin

Since we like look like Apple Music, we should make a controller skin that is minimalist, just a fat blur over top of blown up cover art is fine.

Change rom picture