It’s no secret that launchers are a dime-a-dozen nowadays, especially after seeing a massive influx of new options over the past year. However, every once in a while, one of the “ole’ reliable” launchers gets a massive upgrade, bringing us to RESET Collection.
For a variety of reasons, the latest update kind of flew under our radar, but with things settling down a bit, we’re able to catch our breath. RESET Collection v2.0 was released a little over a week ago, arriving as the launchers biggest update since the initial launch back in 2020.
With this update, there are an abundance of new features, which include the following:
- Dual screen support (AYN Thor, Retroid Pocket Duo + more)
- Themes: new skins and layouts (Showcase, Shelf, Retro Channel Surfing, RetroGrain)
- A brand new Settings screen
- The RESET Genie walks you through your first setup
- Quick Select Menu, navigation sounds and haptics
- Screensaver and background music for every system
- Six new systems: DOS, ScummVM, PS3, PS4, Xbox, Xbox 360
- Redesigned dialogs and a ton of fixes
- So much more!
The developer also reached out to provide a bit more insight, as they’ve already started working on RESET Collection 3.0. Here’s some of what the developer had to say:
I want to make it a frontend for people who are in this for some deep nostalgia, I’m talking 16bit, 32bit, CD-ROM and early aughts era. The menus are inspired by classic console designs (Atari’s wood panel, cartridge slot shapes, the classic mini consoles’ menus…), and I’m also trying to keep the focus on the game and a library you actually play, care for, curate, etc. All of this while trying to make navigation easy, delightful, intuitive, etc.
I’m also setting the stage, the foundation, planting a seed if you will to get users prepared for RESET Collection 3.0, which will be an update meant for solving the problem of users throwing their entire ROM collection (lots of time complete collections of every game ever), and then having analysis paralysis, never actually playing games. This has been something I’ve been thinking about for a very very long time, I’ve just never had time to actually design it and implement it.
RESET is special to us as it’s not only been an excellent launcher, but it’s also one of the developer collaboration partnerships with Retro Handhelds. In case you didn’t know, if you sign up for the $5/month tier, you’ll get a copy of RESET Collection for free, which is pretty darn sweet.
As mentioned above, RESET Collection v2.0 is available to download now from the Google Play Store.
- Category
- Launcher
- Description
- RESET Collection is a sleek, customizable frontend for your retro game ROMs. Automatically fetch art, screenshots, and game info from online databases, then curate your collection your way. All in one beautiful UI!
- Download
- Download
