18afb1 No.15688699
What is your favourite video console menu?
Mine is either the Gamecube or the PS2.
d91970 No.15688707
>>15688705
Also came here to post the blades.
Fuck MS for ruining it with their NXE bullshit.
c728fa No.15688728
XMB Menu especially on the PSP
Vita menu is a bit gay with the bubble icons although not as bad as "muh social" PS4 menu
4ea6da No.15688779
The Playstation 2 homescreen was perfection, nothing will ever come close to it.
887ded No.15688786
>>15688705
>dated mid-2000s blob GUI
>>15688728
didn't the XMB win design awards? Why the fuck did Sony do a 180 on it?
b4f23b No.15688806
>>15688699
Gamecube is nice, one of my favorites
PS2's is great too.
As for current consoles, Switch's is extremely boring, but at least isn't cluttered with crap. It's way too barebones though, could use more features.
>>15688786
XMB only really work for simple menus and controlled with a controller. Vita has a touchscreen and PS4 needs to show more info onscreen at once.
887ded No.15688810
>>15688806
>PS4 needs to show more info onscreen at once.
The PS4 didn't need to. Sony was just taking pointers from Microsofts Metro Design language because it was efficient at seamlessly showing shit like ads on-screen
10f036 No.15688819
>>15688699
XMB for easy utility in systems that don't simply start up with a game in them, Gamecube and PS2 for older ones that had effort in for it despite being something one probably wouldn't spend much time on short of editing memory cards.
72c695 No.15688827
The Wii. I wish i was kidding.
544d54 No.15688837
>>15688699
I love the PS2's. It's so eerie and alien.
d83e52 No.15688838
d83e52 No.15688851
>>15688810
The ads on the xmb always looked really out of place. I haven't seen any on the ps4 i can recall.
901537 No.15688867
>>15688699
>favourite
>u
cringe
3749ef No.15688937
>>15688699
the opposite of the nintendo DS
883120 No.15689220
>>15688838
>Saturn Bios
My nigger.
>>15688705
I never used an XBox-360, but everyone said blades was so good and "you had everything you wanted where it should be." or something on those lines. Can anyone explain why Blades was so good?
When I saw metro on YouTube, it was a huge mess and fucking laggy as shit. Also the "big blocks menu" is fucking annoying.
313ed5 No.15689223
>>15689220
>Can anyone explain why Blades was so good?
you had everything you wanted where it should be. :^)
883120 No.15689224
>>15689223
[spoiler]pls[/spoiler
313ed5 No.15689225
>>15689224
GO THE FUCK BACK
883120 No.15689231
1ed42f No.15689250
>>15688699
XMB is simply the best multimedia interface there ever was and ever will be. It should honestly be the standard for every system out there.
313ed5 No.15689253
>>15689250
>sonyggers actually have stockholm syndrome for the worst and ugliest UI in existence
d83e52 No.15689259
>>15689253
You just blow in from cuckchan?
845561 No.15689263
>>15689253
Xbone really took the crown and ran away with it. Every game I have has to be manually pinned and takes up an entire screen of real estate on the Xbone.
d83e52 No.15689264
>>15689263
It's also increeibly slow. Never seen a UI that unresponsive.
845561 No.15689284
>>15689264
I only just got mine so I haven't noticed that, but the store is really slow on the uptake.
766ca0 No.15689295
>not the og xbox
Microsoft was full jew with the xbox even then (gotta pull out a cheap capacitor they used or it will leak and fuck the console on earlier models, on later models they put epoxy and shit everywhere to make hardmodding harder, and upgrading/replacing the hardware takes some dicking around) but it sure had a god tier aesthetic. It's kind of a pain to load the stock firmware again after softmodding it, but it's worth it to take a look every now and then.
>>15689259
Do you have to ask?
>>15689263
why would you buy a current gen console?
>>15688838
how bad is saturn emulation, is it enough to buy one? is piracy on it as easy as the dreamcast?
845561 No.15689300
>>15689295
>why would you buy a current gen console?
I wanted the Forza series.
313ed5 No.15689310
>>15689295
>Do you have to ask?
You're probably as bland and boring as the XMB to actually like it.
>>15689300
It went downhill imo after 4 which was the last release on 360. 5 was terrible, never played 6, and 7 is available on PC but they couldn't renew their license with Toyota for it so there aren't any in the game.
d5452a No.15689319
>>15688699
The PS2 sucked. Gamecube is cool as hell, but I like the Wii one. It was pretty nice for the time and the format was also pretty cool, if a bit clunky and not exactly a multimedia interface, just a console interface.
I also have vague memories on licking the Dreamcast UI.
05f194 No.15689324
>>15689295
emulation on it is still spotty, though it has improved last year.
2bdeae No.15689327
d5452a No.15689328
>>15689319
Oh, yeah, I did liked the DC menu.
05924d No.15689340
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05f194 No.15689361
>>15689319
>licking the dreamcast UI
that's going a bit far anon, you'd better not be violating consoles.
4de0a4 No.15689376
I was a big fan of the towers on the ps2 splash screen representing how many save files you had on your card and how long those files had been played
a0fce9 No.15689392
Remember this shit?
good times
2881d1 No.15689394
>obsessing over menus
well shit and here i thought /v/ couldn't fall any lower
8784f2 No.15689396
>>15689394
Not even the start screens
Fucking garbage GUIs on toys that made way for modern PC lite cancer.
d83e52 No.15689405
>>15689295
Saturn emulation seems okay with mednafen but i only tried a fairly simple 2d game. Can't vouch for more complex ones. I just use the real console.
3eef62 No.15689407
>>15688699
>What is your favourite video console menu?
The one that only shows when requested, and otherwise the console boots straight into the game.
>>15689319
>The PS2 sucked. Gamecube is cool as hell, but I like the Wii one. It was pretty nice for the time and the format was also pretty cool, if a bit clunky and not exactly a multimedia interface, just a console interface.
The Wii interface was like every modern smartphone interface, but it came out before even the first iPhone. Channels were just apps, you had apps for playing off the disc, for reading news, getting the weather forecast, browsing photos, and individual apps for downloaded games. You could move apps around, delete and re-install them.
It was way ahead of its time. If only they could have gotten rid of all the warning screens and if the console could be set up to boot into the game by default, it would have been perfect.
5e72bb No.15689429
>>15689392
That rainbow colored shit makes it look like the console is fucking dying and glitching as a result.
d5452a No.15689471
>>15689392
This one is way better and does fit PS1 image.
>>15689394
>Discussing something is obsessing
>>15689407
>if the console could be set up to boot into the game by default
Pretty sure that option was there. Also, yes, the Wii menu is pretty much smartphone-tier, but it was way too clunky too.
4eb4c4 No.15689544
I will always have a soft spot for the xbox huge menu
It just felt so futuristic and everything else seems boring
The little whispers taken from nasa are a fun little detail
486bd4 No.15689629
>>15689319
>>15689328
Sega Saturn was the best
7238ea No.15689659
>>15689295
>It's kind of a pain to load the stock firmware again after softmodding it
Softmod I used makes it super easy to boot to the original menu, I think I even set it up to do so when I hit eject instead of power. I just think you have to set it up while softmodding or it will be a pain.
7238ea No.15689660
>>15689629
I see you are also a man of high taste.
050e85 No.15689899
>>15689629
The menu was cool, but a mess to get through. Can't expect much better from the early nineties, though, because at the time, even the Windows UI was still kinda' new. In before macfag kvetching. The PS2 menu was a lot faster to flit through, in my opinion, even though I appreciate the Saturn a bit more.
486bd4 No.15690095
>>15689405
Speaking of Saturn emulation, MESS' driver for that system performs rather well on my toaster APU (A6-5400k, usually at almost full speed) but VDP2 glitches are very common and it segfaults a lot.
>>15689899
Unlike PS2, memory management was a breeze on Saturn since it didn't lock down while scrolling (which PS2 does in order to load 3d icons for save games; Saturn just lists filenames found in internal or external RAM.)
38556c No.15691316
I always found the Satellaview menu interesting since it was a game in of itself.
1c1f83 No.15691355
3DS home menu with homebrew. Having all your downloaded games displayed in nice neat tiles with no bullshit is nice. The folders are great for organizing things like virtual console games, or whatever else you might have, and the touchscreen is a perfect compliment for management. Also, knowing how to make 3DS themes certainly doesnt hurt either. Custom music and SFX are great. Pic related, but not mine. Also not necessarily homebrew, but it gets the point across
845561 No.15691656
>>15691355
>not adding a space before and after your folder names so that the letter doesn't appear, yet the text is also centered when highlighted
41f1ae No.15693463
Fond of XMB and Blades.
Microsoft are fags for retiring the blades for that ugly ass Rectangle shit And sony is worse for retiring xmb for the shit on PS4
Also the dreamcast had a nice UI
d91970 No.15693549
>>15689220
>Can anyone explain why Blades was so good?
You didn't really have to do much digging to get to something you wanted. Everything was a flick away and it felt good to thumb through the menu. Also it looked unique and cool. XMB made everything look like images floating in a featureless void.
But mostly I just miss it because my blades had cute Puzzle Fighter HD girls and I used to be able to just enjoy all the artwork by flicking through the blades. When the XMB came out I never had any reason to go into the system tab so I never saw Morrigan. Fuck the XMB, seriously.
d91970 No.15693551
>>15693549
Fuck, I meant to write NXE, not XMB. I'm tired and sick.
9197ea No.15693566
>>15688806
>PS4 needs to show more info onscreen at once
Funny how it still has a terrible way to organise your content, and you can't put files on it anyway.
PS3 is superior.
>>15688851
>The ads on the xmb always looked really out of place
Don't recall seeing ads in the EU.
>>15689319
>>15689328
>>15689629
I miss SEGA consoles
c48d07 No.15693656
>>15693549
>>15689223
>>15689220
Of course, nobody mentions that it was horribly tempermental and would freeze up for ten, fifteen seconds at a time regularly leaving you stranded.
Aesthetically it was as close to perfect as anything and still better than the replacement.