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NextUI Paks🔗

NextUI allows you to add functionality to the system in the form of Paks.

These Paks can range from tools to additional emulators.

Community Favorite Paks🔗

This is a non-exhaustive list of Paks beloved by our community.

The Must Haves🔗

Pak Store install, update and manage paks, all on your device!

OTA Updater a Pak for updating NextUI on-device (aka OTA), Wi-Fi connection is required

Game Management🔗

Artwork Scraper—scrape artwork for your ROMs

Collections Manager—make collections of your ROMs to keep them organized

Favorites—a Pak to manage favorites collections

Gallery—a simple gallery for your screenshots

Game Manager—a one-stop pak for all your game management needs

Mortar—a download client that supports RomM, SMB, Megathread, and more with built-in Libretro Artwork support

Random Game—loads a random game in your game library

Screenshot Monitor—allows you to take screenshots using the function keys

File Management🔗

Cloud Backups—a Pak to back up saves, screenshots and other folders to cloud storage providers like Google Drive and Dropbox

Filebrowser—HTTP Server via Filebrowser, what OnionOS uses

FTP Server—via ftpserver, a lighter-weight FTP server implementation

FTP Server with Web UI—via SFTPGo, with both FTP and a Web UI

HTTP Server—via dufs, what Allium uses

Syncthing—runs Syncthing on your device, for syncing against a remote Syncthing server

Theming🔗

NextUI-Themes—for all theming needs, with import/export functionality and predefined themes

Miscellaneous🔗

Simple Mode—a Pak for managing simple mode

Developer Tools🔗

Developer—keeps the device on while accessing via ADB/SSH

Remote Terminal—for remote terminal access over a browser

Report—generates a development report for debugging the device

SSH Server—for SSH access to the device via dropbear

Terminal—for terminal access on the device itself via TermSP

Standalone Emulator Paks🔗

A quick note about standalone emulators!

Standalone emulators do not support overlays and are not as tightly integrated into NextUI.

Installing Standalone Emulators🔗

  1. Download the zip file from the releases section of the above GitHub repositories.
  2. Unzip the release.
  3. Create a folder named Emu at the root of your SD card if it does not already exist.
  4. Copy the unzipped Pak to this Emu directory.
  5. Follow any additional steps outlined in the respective repository.

Making a Pak🔗