Here’s an interesting little story about the unexpected perils of downloading EmuELEC themes. It started, as many great retro-gaming projects do, with a boring Tuesday evening. Alex had just finished tweaking his EmuELEC box—a beaten-up Amlogic S905X stuffed into a transparent case—to absolute perfection. Every emulator ran at a solid 60fps. Every bezel was aligned. Even the obscure Atari Jaguar ROMs he’d never actually play were scraped and ready.
The screen flashed white, then resolved into a perfect, high-fidelity image of… the EmuELEC boot logo. But wrong. The colors were inverted. The text underneath read: emuelec themes download
Alex now uses the default Carbon theme. And he has never, ever complained about it being gray again. Here’s an interesting little story about the unexpected