VERSUS AMP

Design thinking

Late-90s skins weren’t web pages. They were tiny hand-painted bitmaps, 275 pixels wide, stacked into a main window, an equalizer and a playlist, with fan art running behind the controls. VERSUS AMP is built the same way. Every window is rendered at native size with real bevels, dithered panels, ghosted seven-segment LCD digits and pressed-state sprites, then scaled up crisp. The art is an original 90s fighting-game painting generated for this skin, with 1P and 2P portraits framed like a character select screen.

Everything works. The EQ is a real 10-band equalizer with a preamp and presets running on the video’s audio, the balance knob pans left and right, the visualizer reads the sound, and the playlist jumps between chapters of the video. Play, pause, stop, previous, next, loop and speed all behave like the classic transport. Every control is a real button or slider with a visible dotted focus box, and the marquee and visualizer calm down with reduced motion.

Controls

• Space Play or pause
• ← → Seek 10 seconds
• ↑ ↓ Volume
• 0–9 Jump to 0–90%
• M Mute
• F Fullscreen
• 2× tap Sides seek, center goes fullscreen