The original xenia window, almost unchanged since 2015 It wasn't until 2015 that the main window was even shown on launch. Users were expected to either run the executable from the command line or drag an xbox 360 game onto it from the file explorer.

That has, for the most part, stayed the same. The one area that has barely changed however is Xenia's user interface. Over the last few years progress has been made in every department, from a new D3D12 renderer being created to an ever increasing kernel implementation. Xenia is an experimental Xbox 360 emulator that has been in development for quite a few years now. Nothing in this blog post is final and any part of it is likely to change in the future. Because of that, this blog is quite long so I apologise for that. I decided to start this blog post detailing the development of the new GUI after about 9 months of working on it so most of the post is me recollecting decisions I made earlier rather than writing what I've been doing as it happens.

Menu Creating a new GUI for the Xenia Emulator 16 September 2019 on xenia, qt, ui, emulator, xbox 360 Contents

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