Retro Creator

Live overlay studio for retro-gaming streams - powered by real gameplay data.

Beat a boss, lose your rings, break a record - Retro Creator turns what actually happens in your retro games into polished stream overlays, room lighting and live automations, without writing a single line of code.

The game drives your stream

Under the hood

Retro Creator is built on top of RetroBat APIExpose and its open Data/Event SDK. APIExpose watches the live memory of the running game through a signed emulator wrapper and normalizes every gameplay moment into a stable event vocabulary (actions and families like scoring.points or flow.lifecycle). More than 14,000 games across 57 systems ship pre-mapped, and each event definition can be inspected - or extended - in plain text.

Live view

What it does

Visual designer - compose overlays with ready-made widgets (score, timer, now playing, boxart, achievement popups, input viewer…), themes and animations.
Works with your streaming setup - overlays are served locally as standard browser sources, compatible with OBS Studio, Streamlabs Desktop, Meld Studio and any software that renders web pages.
Live automations - gameplay events can trigger your existing tools: Streamer.bot, Stream Deck, Touch Portal, webhooks, Discord, MQTT / Home Assistant and more.
Local first - no account, no cloud required. Your data stays on your machine.
English & French interface, more languages to come.

Documentation

Getting started - from zero to a live overlay.
Designer guide - views, popups, components, layers, styles.
Flows & Event - automations and the live dashboard.
Twitch integration - plug your chat (no key needed) and run contests.

Status

Retro Creator is released - download the latest installer. This site hosts the official documentation and the issue tracker.

Get it now

Download Retro Creator and run the installer - your first live overlay is five minutes away.