This version of EmulationStation is targeted mostly for ease of access from the couch. List of added features are: -OSK (On Screen Keyboard) -Gamelist GridView. (puts games in a grid view) -Wifi connecting a scanning from ES. (needs wificonnect put in ~/.emulationstation/app/wifi) -Storage view -Several other smaller UI changes.
Original Project website: http://emulationstation.org
** from the original project **
EmulationStation uses some C++11 code, which means you'll need to use at least g++-4.7 on Linux, or VS2010 on Windows, to compile.
EmulationStation has a few dependencies. For building, you'll need CMake, SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, DateTime, Locale), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL. You also should probably install the fonts-droid package which contains fallback fonts for Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, but ES will still work fine without it (this package is only used at run-time).
On Debian/Ubuntu: All of this be easily installed with apt-get:
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-date-time-dev libboost-locale-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev libeigen3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libasound2-dev libgl1-mesa-dev build-essential cmake fonts-droidThen, generate and build the Makefile with CMake:
cd YourEmulationStationDirectory
cmake .
makeProject's original Creator:
-Alec "Aloshi" Lofquist http://www.aloshi.com http://www.emulationstation.org