MiSTer FPGA Forum

I would also love for this to be an option. Either straight black and white or the ability to define hex (or rgb or whatever) values for menu colors in the mister.ini

I agree, certain colours can be easier on aging eyes

I would love to be able to define this on a core to core basis. Like red fir Nintendo cores, blue for Sega etc.

I think being able to "color code" cores could be great for usability (wait, what core did I just load?) and the overall experience.

I think this would be extremely helpful for people who need (or prefer) higher-contrast colors in their UI. I'm not sure what the best way to implement it would be (maybe an ini option to avoid adding more to the menus) but it would be a worthwhile addition.

Sounds like a great idea to me.

Just chiming in here to say alternate OSD color options would be a great addition.

It's certainly not an impossible task, but it would be a fair amount of work! The code that draws the OSD is part of the framework on the FPGA side, so even if the ability to read a custom colour from the INI and send it to the core was added to Main, you'd still have to update the framework in every single core to take advantage of it - and it would have to be done carefully to ensure it didn't break anything in a core that hadn't yet been updated.

I really like this idea, I added a ticket in for a feature request so maybe someone will pick it up.
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/issues/386