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About

Origin​

The idea of Onion was conceived on the RGH discord server on December 16, 2021, where user Mevsi joked that shauninman should do an april fools and release a green version of his custom frontend, Union, and call it Onion. At the time, jimgray was tinkering with a cleaner stock setup, and decided to name it Onion.

Totofaki joined the project soon after, and started developing the GameSwitcher and Activity Tracker. Within a short period of time he had shaped Onion into what we know it as today.

Core team​

The core Onion team is in charge of managing the GitHub repository, developing features, maintenance and bug fixing, general support, and more.

Contact us

The current core members are:

Aemiii91

Lead Developer

Has done tremendous work reorganizing the github, automations and workflow. Actively working to improve the binaries, build structure and implement amazing new features such as Tweaks, Search/Filter and a simplified installation process.

Schmurtz

Lead R&D Specialist

Contributes greatly to Onion, including epic features like the new network services, built-in artwork scraper, the ports collection. He also contributes with external add-ons like the Collection Switcher, Easy Logotweak, and the Onion Desktop Tools. He is also constantly finding ways to improve the RetroArch experience and enhance the available cores.

Totofaki

Senior Developer

Previous Lead Developer - Responsible for the Onion binaries and the general Onion structure build up until V3. Because of a lack of free time, he had to step back from the project, with great peace in mind considering the amazing and talented people working on it.

XK

Network Services Developer

An expert when it comes to developing network features, such as Samba, SSH, FTP services, as well as Easy Netplay and Pokemon trading. He's also a huge support in the community and always helps other members on their way, be it users or up-and-coming developers. XK has also contributed with a bunch of community apps.

tGecko

QE & RE Developer

Has taken the lead as the main tester of everything that's going into Onion, ensuring a mostly bug free release. Incredibly skillful in RE, and has taken our MainUI hacks to a whole other level. Also a very active member of the discord community, and always gives great advice wherever it's needed.

Credits and acknowledgements​

Onion has and always will be a community effort, and we want to give credit where credit's due. The list below contains many of the noteworthy contributers to the Onion project. But, a list like this is almost impossible to maintain, and is in no way fully exhaustive of the entire community.

  • Olywa123 - Amazing help to hundreds of Onion users, he made a lot of contributions like various documents/wiki/tutorials that eased the user experience tremendously.
  • DiMo - A lot of contributions, he made the default Onion theme and helped to improve theme capabilities, charging animations.
  • eggs - His retroarch port and tools are incredible. We are so gifted to have him working on this handheld. He also made the background onion process (keymon) that we still use in a modified form.
  • Introkun - Improving apps (Clock, infoPanel/Screenshot Viewer), various optimisations, debugging & code reviews
  • marchiore - Created the random game app for V4.1
  • jimgray - the original creator of Onion, without him the Onion community wouldn't have existed!
  • Shaun Inman - Inspiration, miyoo mini and mainUI hacks, commander port
  • StupidHoroscope - For his excellent build of ScummVM and ports/engines such as NBlood, Rednukem & PCExhumed
  • Jeltron - Amazing theme work and organization of overlays, video filters, and color palettes (Gambatte)
  • tenlevels - For creating an amazing theme collection and giving outstanding support on Reddit
  • DJM - For his awesome work and insights on the emulators settings and cores
  • PixelShift - Endless aesthetic and invaluable input (and wiki teamwork)
  • StubbornPixel - Lightbox photos and shoutouts: https://brbgaming.simplecast.com/
  • e1000 - Newly compiled cores for most systems
  • TheDewd - For his awesome HTML Onion theme viewer
  • Jdewitz - Created some awesome overlays
  • MirruTatep - For his amazing onion pixel art used in the v3 installer
  • TechDevangelist - For the excellent 'GMU' Music Player port
  • Gaspacho - High Noon RTC App
  • Triforce Team - Translated instructions and english update (link to guide)
  • Boiler - Port of Powder (Licensed under a deprecated CC license)
  • Team Ruka - Various July 2021 cores compiled for RK3128 (link)
  • Simple30 team - for their PSX core: link
  • Lucario - Expert mode icons (link)
  • Christian Haitian - for letting us steal a bunch of his wiki
  • Razole - for his awesome work managing themes
  • Our incredible theme creators!
  • All our amazing testers: Andrez, cardsaysmoops, Deletable_Man, diimdeep, kalamer, TadMSTER, TheDewd, HYJINX187, Jutleys, jmaroeder, Tshroom, Sezuko, therecanonlybeoneandrew, NexLevel and so many more!