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Thanks for downloading Pixelbox!

Pixelbox is a front end program that uses other Emulators to give the user a friendly and easy to understand experience.
PixelBox is also of course non profit, this product is free and opensource and doesn't endorse piracy,

i aimed to use Freeware and Opensource Emulation, Should the devolper of any of These Emulators be unhappy with his Emulator being used in this frontend, they can contact me on Itch.io

I do not endorse Piracy in any way or form, should you use an illegally acquired Rom, the responsibility is yours.
this goes for roms as well as Bios files and programs.

Now, to use Pixelbox; Simply Put your legally acquired roms in their respective Folder, i.e "super_cool_gba_game.gba" would go in root./roms/gba.
You can Change the Backgrounds as you like, just Keep in mind they Need to be 800x600 in order to fit, and they also require their Name to be exact.
Again, as an example; if you make a cool drawing of a gba, the filename would Need to be temporary_gba_bg.png

#The config file
There is a configuration file (Config.txt) which you can use to assign your own emulators to Pixelbox.
If you aren't the most techsavyy then i recommend you dont touch it, but it is simple to work with so you shouldn't really have trouble with that.
simply copy the relative or absolute path to the binary of your emulator, and paste it in the correct line
The lines are:

1nes
2snes
3n64
4gbc+gba (we used mgba, which supports both gbc and gba,)
5nds
6ps1
7psp

All of the art for this program has been made using GIMP.

in case his wasnt clear enough:
move through Systems with the arrow keys, klick with your mouse to choose a rom
if you have a lot of roms you may need to move with the  up/down arrows to see all of them
you can move the mouse using the wasd buttons and also press with the x button

Big thanks to the creators of the Emulators used in this version (in no particular order):

mGBA - endrift (https://mgba.io)
duckstation - stenzek (https://duckstation.org)
bsnes - Byuu (https://bsnes.org)
melonDS - Arisotura (its the person behind the update logs on their official website, i dont know if its also the dev) (melonds.kuribo64)
nestopia - Kevin Harmon (https://nestopia.sourceforge.net)
ppsspp - Henrik Rydgård (https://www.ppsspp.org)
project64 - Zilmar, Shygoo, and Azimer (https://www.pj64-emu.com)

beta / 0.7