Attract Mode VS EmulationStation

Which is better? Let's weigh the pros and cons of each... The competition has become stiff!

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[Ghost_Lightyear]

Attract Mode: enjoy menus
EmulationStation: enjoy games

Attract Mode: you need a lot space on hdd
EmulationStation: you dont need that much space as dont load videos and videos

Attract Mode: flashy
EmulationStation: minimalism

[theadmiral]

Nice vid Drew. Agree with your comments- have Hyperpie on boot for my cabinet and Emulationstation on boot in the family room. Props to all the artists, developers & reviewers like you, MLP, ETA Prime who contribute to this amazing community! My childhood dreams are a freakin reality!

[homoludens]

Tbh I find the classic ES UI really, REALLY good. It's minimalistic, it fits what in my opinion should be the looks of a retro, multi-system console, and for me, when you use it with the pixel theme, it just works.

[givmeeanamefagots]

Lags come from large sized assets from your folders. Example: marquees with a Resolution over 4k pixels wide (only needet if you build a real cabinet and print some) and HD shortplay snaps videos and so on. I reduced my Marquee Assets to 20-30KB png's (no joke) because its just a scaled down preview artwork inside the menus.... Also lags can be in ANY frontend because of low system performance ( using large assets on a PI and then switching through games) . People dont think nowadays^^

[GEARMOAUTO]

Straight to the point and informative. Thanks a bunch man, helped a new comer for sure.

[Luchoo]

1:48 Can you pls send me the link of that image?

[drewtalks]

This is one of those videos that took a little longer to make, so share it on the forums, friends, and family! Hope you enjoy.

[JohnEricBooth]

I love Attract Mode. I'm using it in 4:3 config in my Star Wars themed cabinet and finishing up my vertical screened cabinet which will use Raspberry Pi 3 (my Star Wars cab uses a PC). Does Attract Mode feature a vertical theme?

Emulation Station is appealing! I have no intention of incorporating console games in my build, strictly old school arcade vertical configs.

[DarkAshes]

so i bought my kiddo this about a year ago and am just finding out about these upgrades. I think it will help them so much when it comes to finding the games they want, since they dont know how to read yet.
Which one do you think would be easiest to navigate for a toddler? One of these two or Adam image? i can only find recent vids of adam image so i am assuming that one is more up to date.

[uneCENT]

Thanks as always Drew. Very informative and easy to follow. I think that hand drawn ES theme is the way to go. It may just be me, but I hate that wheel look of attractive mode.

[eddiedominguez]

Great video I just bought a bartop with ES can’t wait to get it.. love your videos

[KristoffelLoos]

I love Attrace Mode, but I don't use a Pi anylonger, I'm installing reptropie on Lubuntu with attrace Mode, and now I"m importing all the scripts an nice stuff of an HyperPie image to my installation, then I''ll finish to bootup directly into AM.

This is for a full blown Arcade build ;-) I wouldn't use AM on a pi at all, its meant for greater hardware and video support with all the animation going on.

[Bumpershovel]

I agree that attract is best for cabs and bartops. Emulation station is super pimp now with all the beautiful themes by these great artists. Makes it hard to pick just one theme and leave it alone! Cool video by the way

[phillip]

comic book theme is brilliant. it kind of gives you the whole 70s 80s era experience

[PhillsDoodles]

Emulationstation! one cool thing that i like ES is that the coders are updating it a lot and always implementing different features. I don't know if attract mode is receiving updates, but i hope that they make it perform well on PI. The videos on the system select screen is awesome!

[garysmith]

I built an arcade cabinet a few years ago, with Windows XP and the GamEx front end. I'm now thinking about converting the cab to a Pi3 . What I like about GamEx is its attract mode, if you let it idle it randomly loads roms into MAME, which will change after a minute to another . I love watching it in the background of my pool room when its not getting played. Is there any of the Pi front ends that will do this ?

[Ricoscurrentworld]

Thanks for your hard-work and dedication to gaming!

[kymontiberry]

How can play a hyperspin portable at home on the TV I really want one

[ApexArtistX]

how to enable all console in emulation station ? its only showing nes games . my games are in zip format

[MBen]

Why when I switch to attract mode my buttons get messed up, how can I fix it ?