Spawning things

Everything in the room got there because you spawned it. The spawn menu is where that happens.

In VR — press the Menu button on your left controller.
On desktop — press Tab.

The panel appears in front of you, facing the way you were looking. Point at it and pull the trigger to click.

The tabs

Across the top are the sections of the menu:

Tab	What it is for
`SPAWN`	Bringing objects into the room
`CORES`	Downloading emulators, picking defaults, checking BIOS
`CONTROLS`	Input bindings
`OPTIONS`	App settings, including the web file manager
`GRAPHICS`	Quality, resolution, refresh rate, performance HUD
`SCENE`	Rooms, and saving or restoring a layout
`NET`	Netplay
`ABOUT`	Credits, licenses and the donate link

The SPAWN tab’s Systems grid: one tile per console, each showing how many items it has, with a filter box and a compact toggle.

What you can spawn

Under SPAWN there are ten tabs — Systems, Cartridges, TVs, Books, Videos, DVDs, CDs, Tapes, Objects and Controllers:

Cartridges — your ROMs. Clicking one spawns a cartridge carrying that game, straight into the hand that clicked. If a game has been scraped, its row also has a 📖 button that spawns the scanned manual as a book.

Books — your PDFs and CBZs, as physical books.

Videos — your video files, as VHS tapes.

DVDs — your disc images, as DVDs.

Objects — the hardware itself: the VCR, the DVD player, the CD player and cassette deck, speakers, the TV remote, every kind of A/V cable, the RF switch, the Wii sensor bar, and the room’s own props like the bin.

The Objects tab, listing spawnable hardware: trash can, VCR, DVD player, CD player, cassette player and more.

Controllers — pads, peripherals and the receivers they plug into.

The Controllers tab, listing a primitive controller, ray gun, mouse and keyboard.

Picking things up and putting them down

Grip grabs whatever your hand is near.
Let go and it falls. Objects have weight and will knock each other over.
Set something on a shelf, a desk or the floor and it stays there.

You can also grab at a distance by pointing at an object and using the trigger, which is easier for something across the room.

Keeping a layout

A room you have wired up is worth keeping. The SCENE tab saves the whole arrangement — every object, where it sits, and what is plugged into what — and restores it later.

See rooms and saving.