02Emulationstation

EmulationStation is popular emulator front-end. IMHO It's not as simple to configure as Attract Mode, but is simple to use. There are many ports such as original one, retropie fork, batocera port or ES-DE

Compile it yourself

We're compiling ES-DE. Install compilation dependencies.

apt install git build-essential cmake gettext libgl1-mesa-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libfreeimage-dev libsdl2-dev libavcodec-dev libavfilter-dev libharfbuzz-dev libgit2-dev libpugixml-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-cpp-dev

Clone their gitlab repo.

git clone https://gitlab.com/es-de

Change dir, compile and install.

cd es-de
cmake -DAPPLICATION_UPDATER=off -DDEINIT_ON_LAUNCH=on -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local .
make
make install