Beacon Game Launcher

4.3
323 reviews
5K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Does not contain games or emulators.

⭐️ Beacon is an Android launcher designed to enhance your classic gaming experience.

⚙️ Add your preferred emulators, curate your retro game collection, and launch games directly from the app.

🎮 Your retro game library is enriched by automatically scraping cover art and metadata.
Updated on
Sep 12, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 3 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
313 reviews
kristian ramirez
September 3, 2024
So I want to say that I really want to like this front end.I've been told how simple, minimal, and light weight it is, and it was true... mostly. I ran into trouble launching a few platforms, and after some research, I found I had to make a custom path to correctly launch, which i'm personally not too savvy in. So, if you're an advanced user, this could be decent, but for me, not so much. This app has a lot of potential, so I guess I'll keep it around.
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NERDS TAKE OVER
September 5, 2024
Launching games should work 99% of the time. Making custom launch commands is an advanced feature only required when things don't work by default. Can you share with me on the Discord what emulators did not work for you by default and what commands fixed it? I want to make them work out of the box if it's not something specific to your device only
Nunya Biznassa
August 15, 2024
Very clean and sleek. Organizes everything neatly into a museum-esque set-up without giving me a whole bunch of info/metadata I don't need. My only complaint is that I can't use separate view modes for different platforms. Want to use Bubbles for Android apps and List for everything else, but that is unfortunately not an option. Lacking in an option to add music to the frontend but that was easily solved with Tasker. Fully intend to keep using this because it is relatively simple to customize.
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Michael F
June 4, 2024
UPDATE: Devs fixed the below issue with the most recent update. I did notice one other minor issue, but it is running great on my RP4P now! Original: I like this app, but the behavior where it jumps to the top of the games list (grid view) any time I make a change to a game's info (I.e. cover, description, etc.) is driving me crazy. It should remember where I am at in games list and keep me there unless I navigate to a different part of the collection. Will change rating if this gets fixed.
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NERDS TAKE OVER
June 2, 2024
This has been fixed in the latest update

What's new

Added search for games
Added custom platform backgrounds (set background image in "Edit Platform" screen then set "Background Style = Platform Background" in Preferences)
All images (backgrounds, covers, screenshots) also support animated GIFs/WebP formats
Added background music support (Settings > Preferences > Audio)
Added Vita3K support (use a folder with .psvita or .txt files that contain the game "Title ID")
Added French translation (credit to Discord member)
Blacklist .rtc files
Bug fixes