EmuLatte — I use RetroArch BTW

on the emulation side ☕

EmuLatte.

a ROM library, properly filed

version 1.0 · single AppImage · GPL-3.0

“I use RetroArch BTW”

what's in the cup

A ROM library manager that does the boring parts properly — and a whole second face for when you're done managing and want to actually play something.

56 systems, with opinions

Every preset arrives with a RetroArch core already chosen and the platform IDs the scrapers need. You point it at a folder; it does the rest. Your ROM files are never moved, copied or renamed.

It finds your emulators for you

The emulator scanner sweeps the machine for what's already installed — RetroArch native, Flatpak, standalone cores — and maps them to systems without you typing a single launch command.

Five scraping sources, one picker

ScreenScraper, SteamGridDB, TheGamesDB, IGDB and MobyGames. Take metadata from one and artwork from another. Everything lands on your disk and stays there.

Its own RetroArch, untouched by yours

EmuLatte drives a config of its own — your retroarch.cfg is never read and never written. Per-system and per-game overrides for the one game that needs a different core.

Achievements, trailers, and the actual manual

RetroAchievements progress per game. Trailers fetched with a bundled yt-dlp. And the scanned booklet that came in the box, pulled straight from ScreenScraper.

Couch Mode

Fullscreen, gamepad-first, play-only — with three real layouts including a genuine 640×480 CRT mode. Save states, a screenshot screensaver, ambient sound, and a return combo that brings you back mid-game.

92 themes, 10 families

Both faces carry all of them — including twenty retro operating systems, each with its own era typeface. MS-DOS, Workbench, NeXTSTEP, green phosphor. Fonts bundled; nothing phones home.

Local-only. Yours.

One folder next to the AppImage holds the lot. No account, no telemetry, no cloud. Copy the folder and your library comes with you.

a look inside

Click any shot to open it full size.

▸ The desktop face

The library view: a wide hero banner above a grid of game covers, with a search bar and system rail — the whole collection, one shelf

the game page, art and all

The Sega Dreamcast system filtered in the sidebar, with its own hero art and cover grid below — one system at a time, with its own hero

for when the scraper guesses wrong

▸ RetroArch & save states

The Express RetroArch settings pane in a light theme, with plain-language options for screen, ratio and shaders — RetroArch, explained in plain language

Per-game RetroArch settings for Altered Beast, overriding monitor, fullscreen, aspect ratio and shader — for the one game that needs something different

The save-state manager: a grid of save thumbnails across 125 games, styled like a console memory card — every save state you own, memory-card style

The save states for Altered Beast, showing one labelled save with its in-game screenshot — drop straight back into a save

▸ Playlists, themes & extras

The Add to Playlist dialog listing playlists such as Arcade Best, Fight, Multiplayer and Racing — playlists that cut across systems

The theme picker open on the Systems family, each swatch previewing a retro operating system in its own era typeface — twenty retro systems, each in its own typeface

A game trailer playing in the built-in video player — trailers downloaded, not streamed

The scanned Rush'n Attack instruction booklet for the NES, open in the game manual viewer — the booklet that came in the box

▸ Couch Mode — the TV face

Couch Mode's start carousel, showing systems as large cards with Atari 2600 selected — pick a system without getting up

Couch Mode's cover wall for Sega Mega Drive, with a hero banner above the grid — the cover wall, on the television

Couch Mode browsing the Atari 2600 as a list, with artwork and metadata for H.E.R.O. beside it — list and details, gamepad-first

The Couch Mode game page for Snatcher on Sega CD, with hero art, metadata and screenshots — the game page, built for a sofa

also on the menu

Separate apps, same roof. EmuLatte is complete on its own — these are here if you want them.

OPTIONAL

Cafe Neurotico

“more caffeine is more good”

The rest of the library — Steam, GOG, Epic, Flatpak, itch.io and PICO-8 — in one Electron binary with three faces: the Manager, GRINDER and CREMA. Your ROM collection stays here in EmuLatte; you pick which games cross over by exporting them to Cafe Neurotico from inside EmuLatte, and those arrive as ordinary entries under an Emulation category.

Get Cafe Neurotico ▸

OPTIONAL

CafeNeurotico Clock

“a desk clock with taste”

A standalone clock that runs a slow slideshow of your library's artwork — Ken Burns pans, configurable faces. Point it at your collection and let it sit on a second screen.

Get the Clock ▸

tip the barista

If EmuLatte sorted out your ROM collection, consider buying me a coffee — it keeps the pot warm.

If you do, let me know so I can thank you personally! :)

☕ Ko-fi (Intl) ★ GitHub

Built by J.R.A. · Contact: shampooisalie@gmail.com
Cafe Neurotico · support page · source on GitHub · GPL-3.0-or-later