RetroArch (PSP)

PSP RetroArch (PSP) 1.19.1

RetroArch 1.19.1 is out!

Changelog 1.19.1:
  • (WASAPI) Only write when running and fix deadlock
Changelog 1.19.0:
  • AI: Revert AI translation to previous version (fix for translation not working with HW rendered cores)
  • APPLE: Try to use system preferred language
  • APPLE: Correctly register for filetypes uniquely
  • APPLE/MFI: improved Switch Online controller support through MFi
  • AUDIO: Bring back audio toggling on menu toggle
  • CHEEVOS: Build a default RetroAchievements memory map when no RetroAchievements game is loaded
  • CHEEVOS: Update to rcheevos 11.3
  • CHEEVOS: fix hardcore acting as if it's enabled when it isn't
  • CLANG: Fix clang error incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers
  • CLOUDSYNC/LINUX: Enable Cloud Sync by default on Linux builds with network (#16456)
  • CLOUDSYNC/WEBOS: Enable Cloud Sync by default on Linux builds with network (#16456)
  • CORE: Set compute fps stats logging to debug level
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Added M2000 to core selection dropdown
  • FFMPEG: Add compatibility with FFMPEG 7.0
  • GLSLANG: Remove unneeded ENABLE_HLSL code from glslang
  • GENERAL: Memory leak: Dynamic allocation from msg_hash_get_help_us_enum was not freed.
  • INPUT/KEYBOARD: Add support for multimedia keys – Extended RETROK_ values with 18 new items, commonly found on
    "multimedia" keyboards. Mapping added for SDL, X11, Wayland, dinput, winraw keymaps.
  • INPUT/MFI: Pressure sensitive left/right triggers
  • INPUT/MFI: Fix Start + L1/L2/R2 combinations
  • INPUT/MFI: Support strong and weak rumble
  • INTL: Fetch translations from Crowdin
  • INTL: Add Galician and Norwegian to list of languages
  • LAKKA: Display reboot/shutdown message also when not saving config on exit
  • LAKKA: Provide update URL and target name at buildtime
  • LIBRETRO: Add a debug message for the SET_ROTATION callback
  • macOS: Default Accessibility on if VoiceOver is on
  • iOS: default audio sync on again, also more mfi logging
  • iOS: Fix Import Content
  • iOS: Fix ios-arm64 nightly build crash
  • iOS: Import content from iCloud
  • iOS: Fix #16485 crash on startup
  • iOS: Display app icon in app icon picker in materialui
  • iOS/tvOS: Various QoL improvements
  • iOS/tvOS: Fix a couple more path name mangling bugs
  • iOS/tvOS: Better way of packaging Frameworks
  • iOS/tvOS: define PACKAGE_VERSION to be App Store MARKETING_VERSION
  • iOS/tvOS: Fix keyboard handling for app store builds
  • iOS/tvOS: Fix escaping the sandbox for jailbroken devices
  • iOS/tvOS: default accessibility on if voice over is enabled
  • iOS/tvOS: better way of reporting available memory
  • macOS/iOS/tvOS: enable text-to-speech using AVSpeechSynthesizer.
  • tvOS: Fix scaling for 720p
  • MENU: New function in Quick Menu: Add to Playlist
  • MENU/XMB: New theme: FlatUX, designed to merge FlatUI and Retroactive themes into a single, unified design
  • NETWORKING/RETROPAD CORE: Fix socket close method
  • PIXMAN: Update pixman-private.h – patch to fix build issue with musl
  • PLAYLIST: Cleanup 'Add to Playlist' (#16495)
  • SCANNING: Fix for scanning PSP ISOs (and probably few others)
  • SAVES: Fix core config saving
  • SAVES: Fix save new config name when core loaded
  • SAVESTATES: Increase save state chunk size for all platforms – Even a class 6 or class 10 SD card can handle reads and writes on the order of MB/s, which means a 4KB chunk size is just wasting time in syscalls. This could maybe be fixed with a buffering reader but I don't feel comfortable tweaking libretro-common's VFS to handle that. Instead, I thought it would be good to both remove an ifdef and increase the chunk size to 128KB. For cores with small states this will should make state saving virtually instantaneous, and for cores with large states it should be a 32x speedup.
  • VIDEO: Fix crash when using threaded video – for Mesa 23.2 and later
  • VIDEO/GL: Fix reinitialization of the threaded gl drivers
  • VIDEO/VULKAN: Add support for A2R10G10B10 HDR format
  • VIDEO/VULKAN: Implement HDR readback – screenshot support
  • WAYLAND: Ignore configure events during splash (fix not remembering window size)
  • WAYLAND: Use frontend signal handler to quit (fix quit by window close)
  • WAYLAND: Commit viewport resizes (window resize is more responsive)
  • UWP: Align MESA to alpha-2-resfix – Remove wrong resolution special handling for OPENGL
  • UWP: 4K fix: align MESA reading of ClientRect to retroarch procedure, this fixes max resolution being set to 1080p. As reading must be done inside an UI thread and is in fact an async operation which might delay frame generation, the reading itself is doen once and cached, give that changing resolution while the app is running is an unlikely corner-case use
  • WINDOWS: Windows mouse ungrab must release the mouse instead of confine it to the current desktop (#16488)
  • WINDOWS: Fix numlock/pause key release events
Source:
https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/blog/.
1.10.0
  • 3DS: Add Jaxe, A5200 and WASM4 cores
  • 3DS: Fix rotation
  • ARCHIVE: Allow loading files from archive subdirectory
  • AUDIO: Remove frame limit from audio batch callback. Before, if a core used the audio batch callback, there would be a hidden cap of 1024 on the number of audio frames that could be sent. If a core exceeded this value, any excess samples were silently discarded. While this is sufficient for 'normal' samplerates/framerates, it means that e.g. a core using the batch callback to send 44100 Hz audio at 30 fps with would have entirely broken sound. This has been fixed by removing the audio batch frame limit.
  • AUDIO/RESAMPLER/NEON: Implement sinc kaiser NEON function
  • CHEEVOS: Reset hardcore default to enabled; show message when trying to load state in hardcore
  • CHEEVOS: Fix memory map conversion
  • CHEEVOS: Check netplay status when unlocking achievements
  • CHEEVOS: Support for hashing buffered NDS ROMs
  • CHEEVOS: Fix hung task whe badge doesn't exist
  • CLI: Load save states from command-line or playlist
  • CORE INFO CACHE/SETTINGS: Restore missing 'Cache Core Info Files' menu entry
  • DATABASE: Serial scanning for Gamecube/MegaCD/SegaCD/Saturn/PSX/PSP/Dreamcast/Wii
  • D3D10/D3D11: Add Vsync swap interval
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Add Jaxe, WASM4 cores
  • FILE IO: Fix incorrect file names for remap files when the content path doesn't have a preceding slash
  • INPUT/OVERLAY: Added support for showing the overlay behind the menu instead of in front. This is currently only supported on the GL, Vulkan, D3D 9/10/11/12 and 3DS drivers.
  • INPUT/UDEV: Convert abs mouse from screen to viewport coordinates; fix relative mouse coords
  • INPUT/WAYLAND: Ignore mouse clicks on window decoration
  • INPUT/WAYLAND: Add scroll wheel support
  • LINUX: Added support for Linux GameMode (https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode), which can be toggled on/off in the Power Management or Latency settings menus.
  • LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
  • LOCALIZATION: Add Indonesian, Swedish and Ukrainian language options
  • LOCALIZATION/MENU/RGUI: Enable Indonesian and Swedish localisations for RGUI
  • LOGGING: Logging cleanups
  • LOGGING: Stop logging FPS statistics twice on quit
  • LOGGING: Log font rendering backend only once
  • HOTKEYS: Added a hotkey toggle for the on-screen technical statistics.
  • HOTKEYS: Add delay + acceleration to volume hotkeys
  • MENU: Add option for showing notifications only in menu
  • MENU/RGUI: Add Finnish to supported languages
  • MENU/XMB: Optional vertical list item fade
  • MENU/XMB/OZONE: Category + History/Favorites icons
  • NETWORK: Fix dummy notification – no longer shows a netplay initialization failed notification when netplay is not enabled
  • NETWORK: LAN addresses only for UPnP – Some router devices might accept non-LAN addresses without raising an error.
  • NETWORK: Filter out non-connectable rooms. Add an option for filtering out non-connectable netplay rooms.
  • NETWORK: Netplay spectator notification fix. Fix double notification when the host switches to spectator.
  • NETWORK: Prevents long-term pausing from clients dishonoring allow pausing
  • NETWORK/LOBBY: Lobby Viewer: Filter out rooms that are not running RetroArch
  • NETWORK/LOBBY: Lobby Viewer: Display a non-connectable tag to non-connectable rooms
  • NETWORK/LOBBY: Host: Display warning if we are announcing to the internet but our room isn't connectable from there
  • NETWORK/RELAY: Custom relay server support – Add support for custom user-ran relay servers
  • NETWORK/RELAY: Replace Canadian relay server with Singapore relay server. Current relays: New York/USA, Madrid/Spain, Sao Paulo/Brazil, Singapore
  • NETWORK/UPNP: Various refactors/improvements, no more dependent on miniupnpc
  • NETWORK/UPNP: Various UPnP binding fixes for specific routers
  • NETWORK/UPNP: Accept IGD v2 service types
  • NETWORK/UPNP: Delay lobby server announcing – delay the announcing in order to give UPnP's port forwarding more time. Fix the remaining truncation warnings.
  • NETWORK/UPNP: Smart interface selection – Find the most suitable address for UPnP by scoring interfaces on how close their address is to the device's address
  • OPENGL1: Fix buffer overflow – RetroArch would sometimes crashes at startup when loading asset textures with GL1 driver
  • PS3: PSL1GHT port added to Gitlab CI
  • VULKAN: Double combined image sampler descriptor pool size – fix segfaults with AMD GPUs using RADV
  • VULKAN: Emulate mailbox only with Vsync enabled – otherwise have it disabled – useful for VRR/G-Sync/FreeSync
  • VULKAN/SWAPCHAIN: Vulkan max swapchain images option adjustments: removed value 1, since it won't be used – Video reinit on change, so that there is no need to restart or toggle fullscreen
  • VULKAN/HDR: HDR support – tested on Windows
  • WAYLAND: Add libdecor for client side decoration
  • WAYLAND: Use any display for initial metrics
  • WAYLAND: Fix the window closing, if RetroArch is build without libdecor
  • WAYLAND: Use checked sizes in EGL resize
  • WAYLAND: Fix window title update
  • WEBOS: Fix webOS build and run
  • WIIU: Fix rotation
  • UWP/XBOX: Fix content over 4GB (approx) failing to load, improve/speed up copy/load times
  • UWP/XBOX: Fix scanning for playlists
  • UWP/XBOX: Move content copied to LocalState to a dedicated dir and clear on startup
  • UWP/XBOX: Make content copy to a specific cache directory in the LocalState folder when it's copied
  • UWP/XBOX: Auto delete VFS cache dir on startup
  • UWP/XBOX: Make resolution switching automatic and fix angle output issues
  • UWP/XBOX: Force ANGLE to render at 1080p regardless of screensize as the output is 1080p regardless of screensize. This fixes an issue where at 4k any angle output would be zoomed into a corner.
  • UWP/XBOX: Set resolution based on display resolution (auto 4k)
  • UWP/XBOX: Set driver to D3D11 if booting with opengl
  • UWP/XBOX: Reset width and height of output on boot to match display
  • UWP/XBOX: Mitigate need for VFS cores on NTFS drives
  • UWP/XBOX: Make check for standard I/O by access rather than the just assuming based on path string
  • UWP/XBOX: Add code to auto permissions so files can be accessed by non VFS cores (no exFAT or FAT32 support yet)
1.9.9

  • 3DS: Add bottom touchscreen menu
  • 3DS/SAVESTATES: Save and load save states to and from RAM
  • AUDIO/MIXER: Ensure than menu sounds are re-enabled when calling CMD_EVENT_AUDIO_REINIT
  • AUDIO/RESAMPLER/MIXER: Fix menu sounds (audio mixing) when using the 'sinc' resampler with quality lower than 'normal'
  • AUDIO/CONVERSION/ARM NEON: Add intrinsic NEON versions for float_to_s16/s16_to_float - should lead to optimized codepaths for AArch64/ARMv7 architectures without being dependent on ASM codepaths.
  • AUDIO/RESAMPLER/ARM NEON: Add intrinsic NEON version for lanczos sinc function - should lead to optimized codepaths for AArch64/ARMv7 architectures without being dependent on ASM codepaths.
  • CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.2
  • CHEATS: Add enhanced search functionality to the 'Cheats' menu
  • CHEATS/RUNAHEAD: Fix cheats when using second instance runahead
  • CONFIG: Add option to (force-)write current core options to disk (Quick Menu)
  • CORE INFO CACHE: Remove core path from core info cache. Should make core info caches portable now (for example: you can move RetroArch to a separate dir and they would still work).
  • D3D11: Use Shader Model 5.0 for frontend shaders if D3D11 Feature level is at least 11.0 or higher. Should fix some new shaders that require SM 5.0 (like AMD FSR)
  • D3D11: Add HDR support (disabled for UWP for now)
  • D3D12: Add HDR support (disabled for UWP for now)
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Fixed web player bug with filesystem and runtime
  • INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix overlay input when analog to digital mapping is enabled
  • INPUT/UDEV: Look for "ID_INPUT_KEY", not "ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD"
  • INPUT/WINRAW: Fix crash when overlay is enabled
  • MAC/METAL: Add Discord RPC support
  • MENU: Allow 'Custom Aspect Ratio (X Position)/(Y Position)/(Width)/(Height)' to be entered manually via keyboard
  • MENU: Allow 'Vertical Refresh Rate' to be entered manually via keyboard
  • MENU/SHADERS: Highlight currently selected value in Shader Parameter drop-down lists
  • STABILITY: Safer way of avoiding the race condition in audio_driver_sample/audio_driver_sample_batch - we can check audio-suspended to see if we're doing a fs/windowed toggle - enhances stability when fullscreen toggling/tearing down context
  • STABILITY: When audio driver write callback function fails, don't turn audio off completely - look if audio_driver_output_samples_conv_buf is non-NULL first before we attempt to write audio - enhances stability when fullscreen toggling/tearing down context
  • STABILITY: Input robustness for cores that use internal threading (full teardown/setup), no audio should be processed at this point in time
  • VIDEO: Screen resolution list sanitizing
  • VULKAN: Fix some Vulkan validation layer errors
  • UWP: Updated icons courtesy of Danp142
  • UWP/XBOX: Disable CPU model check on Xbox as it doesn't work and can even crash
  • UWP/VFS/XBOX: Code cleanup and simplification of UWP VFS driver
1.9.8

  • AUDIO/WINDOWS/WASAPI: Stop deactivating audio on fast forward
  • CHEEVOS: Hide challenge indicators when resetting
  • CHEEVOS: Support for more than 64 memory regions
  • CHEEVOS: Automatically retry 'http error code -1'
  • CONTENT INFORMATION: Show content info label+path rows always
  • CORE OPTIONS: Core option categories implemented
  • CORE OPTIONS: Add option to disable core option categories
  • D3D10/11/12: Fix gfx_display_draw_texture - fixes OSK (On-Screen Keyboard) issues
  • DATABASE: Fix heap-buffer-overflow when fetching CRC values
  • DATABASE/EXPLORE: Fix CRC32 reading in explore menu
  • DATABASE/LIBRETRODB: Fix writing of numerical values
  • DATABASE/LIBRETRODB: Fix libretro-db loading on big endian platforms
  • DUMMY CORE: Skip state_manager_event_{deinit/init} when core type is dummy, should skip warning spam 'Implementation uses threaded audio. Cannot use rewind..' when using rewind
  • INPUT/UDEV: Limit udev device scan to subsystem 'input'
  • INPUT/SDL2/WINDOWS: Fix keyboard event keycodes
  • INPUT/WAYLAND: Fixes a bug where the first player's mouse, pointer, and lightgun are echoed to the other ports. Now, those other ports correctly report zero. In the future support for multiple mouselike devices will need to be added, which is a bigger project
  • INPUT/WAYLAND: The driver now respects keyboard_mapping_blocked
  • INPUT/WAYLAND: When possible, deprecated lightgun defines are replaced with the new ones. The coordinates are still using the old relative callbacks
  • INPUT/WINRAW: Trigger joypad driver reinit on DEVICECHANGE - avoids fullscreen toggle
  • INPUT/WINRAW: Alt sticky fix
  • INPUT/WINRAW: Prevent Alt getting stuck when Alt-Tabbing
  • INPUT/WINRAW: Add pointer status
  • INPUT/WINRAW: Add missing analog keybinds
  • LIBNX/SWITCH: Fix poll missing for controller 2-8
  • LIBNX/SWITCH: Fix layout not applied correctly and hangs when splitting joycons
  • LIBRETRO: Core options category API implemented
  • LIBRETRO: Fix RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_FASTFORWARDING_OVERRIDE callback when runahead is enabled
  • LIBRETRO: Add environment callback for enabling core option menu visibility updates without toggling Quick Menu
  • LOGGING: Starting logging and verbose mode before first config load
  • LINUX: In some Linux Desktop Environments, like Budgie, task bar feature is unable to pin applications. With StartupWMClass= present in .desktop file, it is possible to pin the application
  • LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
  • MENU: Relocate 'Manage Playlists' to top
  • MENU: Fullscreen resolution width/height settings no longer require 'advanced settings'
  • MENU/REFRESH RATE: Fix double notifications with refresh rate settings
  • MENU/OZONE: Ensure the existence of values used in selection calculation
  • MENU/OZONE/VULKAN: Casting to unsigned caused an integer overflow and after float promotion would lead to 'x' being a garbage value, leading to problems when this value was passed to vkCmdSetViewport. This stops Vulkan validation layers from complaining about it
  • METAL: Fixed font driver memory leaks
  • MOUSE: Change default mouse index to port index
  • MOUSE: Friendly names for mice where available
  • OSX: Fix some memory leaks
  • OSX: Fix controller duplication bug
  • PS2: Implement alpha for the video driver
  • PS2: Aspect ratio handling
  • RETROFW: Initial port
  • UWP/XBOX: Enable Explore tab by default - seems to work fine
  • UWP/XBOX: Fix startup issues with latest Xbox Dashboard updates - ANGLE cores still show up wrong
  • UWP/XBOX: fix issue where files where opened as OPENALWAYS instead of OPENEXISTING this fixes beetle cores
  • UWP/XBOX: fix issue where filesizes where not returned properly, this fixes loading arcade dat files
  • UWP/TRANSLATION: Enabled translation services for both UWP MSVC2017 and 2019. No TTS speech yet.
  • VIDEO: Fix refresh rate 59Hz rounding
  • WINDOWS: Remember original refresh rate
  • WINDOWS/VULKAN: Refresh rate fixes + cleanups
  • WIIU: Fix L3/R3 buttons
  • WIIU: Compress RPX libretro cores
  • WIIU: Add ICInvalidateRange (necessary for JITs)
  • WIIU: Slight filesystem optimisation
  • WIIU: Add option for running without core info (emscripten-style)
1.9.7

  • 3DS: Add unique ID's
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed some Monitor index bugs ad updated to the latest SR2
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed monitor index corruption on Windows and added correct fractal scaling. Only used when required
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Updated log defines to match SR upstream.
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Added new SR_CONFIG_PATHS for non Windows and Linux systems. Not that SR works on them but to fix RA compile issues
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Updated SR2 code base to latest. Added supprt for windows monitor indexing. Fixed monitor index bug where index 1 was not being used correctly and "auto" was not being sent.
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Updated swithres for x86 windows fix
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: fixed SR2 auto issue
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed auto monitor bug
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed monitor index corruption on Windows
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed buffer size bug
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Added correct fractal scalling. only used when required.
  • CORE INFO: Automatically disable core info cache when core info directory is read-only
  • EMSCRIPTEN: add MAME2003 / MAME2003-plus to web.libretro
  • INPUT/UDEV: udev fixes add pointer pressed to pointer device to allow udev users to access this device
  • LIBNX/SWITCH: Enable 7zip support
  • LINUX/XDG: Prevent xdg-screensaver's "Protocol error" messages
  • LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
  • LOCALIZATION: Add missing languages for the first startup
  • MENU/XMB/WIDGETS: Add workaround for FPU bug that breaks scale factor comparisons on certain platforms (fixes XMB thumbnails on 32bit Linux/Windows)
  • MENU/RGUI: Enable fullscreen thumbnail toggle using RetroPad 'start' button
  • MENU/RGUI: Fix sublabel length when menu clock is disabled
  • NETWORK/HTTP: Fix HTTP progress indication for large files on 32-bit systems
  • NETWORK/NATT: implement natt fix from void()
  • OPENDINGUX: Fix display when cores 'drop' frames
  • OPENDINGUX BETA: Use ALSA audio driver by default
  • OPENDINGUX BETA: Fix IPU scaling when running 256x224 (SNES/Genesis) content
  • PATHS: Fix garbled path string
  • PS2: Implement proper ps2_font driver instead of using the font driver from gskit
  • PS2: Use BDM for increasing up USB stability
  • PS3: First basic RSX driver for PSL1GHT
  • RS90: Initial port
  • RS90: Fix offset of OSD text
  • RS90: Disable menu clock by default
  • RS90: Hide 'Bilinear Filtering' video option
  • RS90: Move appdata (retroarch) base directory to external microsd card
  • RS90: Add optional approximate 'semi-linear' scaling filter
  • SHADERS: Max Shader Parameters increased to 1024
  • VIDEO: Add 'Integer Scale Overlay' - Force integer scaling to round up to the next larger integer instead of rounding down
  • VIDEO: New 'Full' aspect ratio added. This aspect ratio is useful when used with a shader which has a border in it. The aspect ratio is set to the full window area, so that the viewport spans the whole viewport. When using a border type shader like the Mega Bezel this allows the graphics to span the whole window regardless of the user's monitor aspect ratio
  • VITA: Wrong flags for not piglet version
  • UNIX: Correct backlight max_brightness path
  • UWP/XBOX: Default to Direct3D11 driver on UWP builds
  • UWP/XBOX: Do not use windowed mode on UWP/Xbox by default, set default resolution to 1920x1080 by default. Should fix display issues with Dolphin/PCSX2 on Xbox
  • WIIU: Fix inputs breaking when connecting/disconnecting remotes
  • WIIU: Input - ignore some bogus KPAD results
  • WIIU: Font rendering fixes - render font lines with correct spacing, and only sample alpha channel when rendering fonts
  • WIIU/NETWORK: Network speed optimisations - WINSCALE, TCP sACK, large buffers
  • WIIU/LIBFAT: Increase cache size on WiiU
  • WIIU/FILE IO: Filesystem optimisations - add fast path for already aligned buffers
  • WIIU/FILE IO: Use 128K vbufs for WiiU - we have loads of RAM and large vbufs are very beneficial
  • WIIU/MENU/OZONE: Fix Ozone rendering error (scissor fix)
  • WIIU/MENU/OZONE: Use Ozone icons instead of XMB Monochrome
1.9.6

  • ARCHIVE: Fix archive delimiter detection when file path contains no slashes
  • ANDROID: Do not duplicate port 0 mouse and gun inputs to other ports
  • AUDIO/XAUDIO2: Fail instead of crashing when disconnecting an audio device
  • CHEEVOS: Reset cached progress each time menu is opened
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Add support for switchres.ini core and directory overrides
  • D3D11: Don't use allow tearing flag with blit swap chains. Also disables the flip model if the allow tearing flag is not supported.
  • D3D11: Disable DXGI's ALT+ENTER handling
  • D3D11: Don't pass ALLOW_TEARING when unsupported
  • D3D11: Fix non-vsynced output without flip, black screens in fullscreen
  • D3D12: Relocated 'd3d12_gfx_sync'
  • D3D12: Fixed swap interval option
  • GFX: Fix uninitialized variables in gfx_display_draw_cursor
  • HISTORY: Hide 'Add to Favorites' when viewing an entry of the favorites playlist
  • INPUT: 'Analog to Digital Type' usability improvements
  • INPUT: Add support for mapping multiple controllers to a single input device
  • INPUT/REMAPPING: Add support for mapping multiple controllers to a single input device
  • INPUT/LIGHTGUN: Bind lightgun trigger to first mouse button by default
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Mouse access violation fix
  • INPUT/UDEV: Only add mouse if it has buttons and add vebose device friendly names
  • INPUT/UDEV: Skip mouse with no button errors and keep the rest
  • INPUT/UDEV: Fix Game Focus mode
  • INPUT/UDEV/X11: Change udev driver for dual lightgun support in X11
  • LIBNX/SWITCH: Update to libnx 4.0.0
  • LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
  • LOCALIZATION: Fix Switchres menu texts
  • MENU/OZONE: Ensure sidebar display status is updated correctly when performing rapid menu navigation
  • MENU/XMB: Dynamic wallpaper fix
  • MENU/XMB: Icon opacity fix
  • MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix default core detection when playlist file name does not match 'db_name'
  • PLAYLISTS: Optimise scanning of large rom sets
  • SECURITY: Plug so-called high-risk vulnerability related to Powershell - avoid injection - don't send speech input as commandline argument
  • UWP/XBOX: Add expanded resources Rescap to increase performance of UWP version in app mode on Xbox
  • WINDOWS/INSTALLER: Add smarter isEmptyDir reference implementation that looks for subdirectories from NSIS documentation
  • WINDOWS/INSTALLER: Register new function DirectorySet that is called when pressing the "Next" button on the MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY, aka the install folder selection GUI. DirectorySet contains the criteria for an acceptable folder, which are:
    • IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\retroarch.exe" returns 1
    • IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\*.* returns 0, there is no existing folder
    • IfFileExists "$INSTDIR\*.*" returns 1, there is a folder, and isEmptyDir returns 1, therefore the folder is empty, including of subdirectories
  • X11: Fix threaded video segfault
1.9.5

  • ALSATHREAD: Make alsathread default for all ALSA devices with threads
  • ARCHIVE: Fix loading of archived content with file names containing '#' characters
  • CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.1
  • CHEEVOS: Challenge indicators
  • CHEEVOS: Group achievements by category in quick menu
  • CHEEVOS: Relabel 'Start Active' with 'Encore Mode'
  • D3D10: Window title should now update
  • D3D11: Window title should now update
  • D3D11: Allow fastforward in fullscreen
  • D3D12: Window title should now update
  • D3D12: Allow fastforward in fullscreen
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: New implementation
  • FONTS: Improve message wrapping with CJK languages
  • FONTS: Fix garbled characters when converting encodings
  • INPUT: Allow the 8 analog stick directions to be used as keys for core keyboard mappings
  • LIBRETRO: Add API extension for setting 'need_fullpath' based on content file extension and to request persistent frontend content data buffers
  • MENU/SEARCH: Add enhanced search functionality to the 'Manage Cores' menu
  • OPENDINGUX: Fix black screens when triggering gfx driver initialisation via menu actions
  • UNIX: Get better battery stats on sysfs nodes
  • VIDEO: Extend Frame Delay range to 19 to accommodate PAL land too
  • WIFI/LAKKA: Add nmcli to wifi drivers
  • WIFI/LAKKA: Add wifi configuration menu
  • X11: fix fullscreen when swapping monitors/resolution
1.9.4

  • CHEEVOS: update rcheevos to v10.0.0
  • CONTENT LOADING/FILE IO: Prevent unnecessary extraction (to disk) of compressed content files when need_fullpath is false
  • CORE INFO/FILE IO: Enable core info cache by default now for all platforms
  • CORE INFO/REGRESSION FIX: Fix regression caused by core info file caching - Downloads was no longer showing up in Load Content
  • FILE IO/COMPRESSED: Ability to load content inside ZIP files directly into RAM
  • INPUT/OVERLAYS: Add option to select between 'touched' elements and physical controller inputs when showing inputs on overlays
  • INPUT REMAPPING/OVERLAYS: Prevent duplicate inputs when using remaps with input overlays
  • LAKKA: Add brightness restore hook
  • LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
  • MENU/OZONE: Added simple playlist entry enumeration
  • MENU/XMB: Fix display of 'Maximum Users' menu entry dropdown list
  • PS3/PSL1GHT: Joypad driver works again
  • PSTV: Fix Vita input driver for PSTV
  • PSTV: Support for 720p on PSTV when using 'Unlock framebuffer' in Sharpscale plugin
  • PSTV: Fix scaling on PSTV when not using 720p
  • RPNG: Fix some memory corruption if processing broken input PNG file
  • SECURITY: Fix CVE-2021-28927
1.9.3

  • 3DS: Disable menu screensaver animations in XMB/GLUI
  • COMMAND: Initialize netcmd->cmd_source_len before recvfrom()
  • CONTENT LOADING/STATICALLY LINKED: Ensure 'Always Reload Core on Run Content' setting is applied when loading content via the file browser
  • CONTENT LOADING/EMSCRIPTEN: Fix content loading via file browser on platforms with 'broken' core handling (i.e. emscripten)
  • CORE INFO: Skip whitespace when writing compressed core info cache files
  • CORE INFO/FILE IO: Core Info cache; significant file I/O performance improvements on systems with slow disk file I/O
  • CORE INFO/FILE IO: Enable core info cache by default on all 'console' platforms
  • FREEBSD: FreeBSD build fix
  • LAKKA: Support for tweaking CPU governors/scaling policies
  • LAKKA: This adds managed policies and settings to store them and reload them at startup
  • LIBRETRO API: Add API extension for cores to override frontend fast-forward state
  • MENU/RGUI: Fix saving of config files/overrides when 'Lock Menu Aspect Ratio' is enabled
  • SHADERS: Fix 'Auto-Shader Delay' functionality
  • UWP/D3D11: Disable mipmap generation
  • UWP/XBOX: Add 'Force 4K resolution' option (Force the resolution to the fullscreen size on Xbox, if set to 0, a fixed value of 3840 x 2160 will be used)
1.9.2

  • 3DS: Enable graphics widgets / overlays
  • 3DS: Load texture images as BGR colors
  • 3DS: Change default asset directory
  • CHEEVOS: Allow rcheevos_patch_address to be called on game without achievements
  • CHEEVOS: Update achievement memory maps (add Supervision)
  • CONFIG/FILE: Use hash map to optimise key/value lookups
  • CORE INFO: Performance optimisations + code clean-ups/refactors
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixed CRTSwitchRes framebuffer bug
  • DISCORD/RP: Fix regression
  • DRM: set the correct video mode
  • FASTFORWARD: Enforce minimum fastforward_ratio of 1.0
  • FONTS/FREETYPE/STB_UNICODE/BITMAPFONT: Prevent texture bleed when rendering text at non-integer scales
  • INPUT: Ensure that 'retro_set_controller_port_device' is called when updating 'Max Users'
  • INPUT/XEGL/MOUSE: Fix xegl_ctx.c mouse activation
  • INPUT/SDL: Fix crash in SDL input driver when analogs are bound.
  • INPUT/POINTER: Add scaling to pointer input.
  • INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression on loading file
  • INPUT REMAPPING: Fix regression where disabling input remapping would disable input
  • IOS: Disable system button gestures on iOS 14
  • IOS: Prevent potential crash on controller connect - randomly would get a crash when connecting a game controller while RA was running
  • LAKKA: Add menu for time zone setting
  • LOGGING: RARCH_LOG_V checking for verbosity level is not necessary and can cause issues; removed said check.
  • LOGGING: Silence inappropriate cheatfile logging
  • IOS/MAC: Add CPU VFP unit detection for Darwin
  • MAC: Swallow 'escape' key being pressed - would previously make the game toggle between fullscreen and windowed
  • MAC: Intel and ARM64 timer change proposal.
  • MAC/ARM64: run_fast_mode disabled for 64 bits invalid instructions.
  • MAC/OPENGL: Fix codesigning issue
  • MAC/UNIVERSAL: Add TTS translation service support.
  • MENU: Add optional menu screensaver
  • MENU: Add search filter support to cheats and overlays file browser menus
  • MENU/FILEBROWSER: Enhanced 'Load Content' file browser search functionality
  • MENU/INPUT: Block accidental diagonals in menu navigation
  • MENU/RGUI: Add option to disable menu transparency
  • MENU/RGUI: Fix display of 'Video > Scaling' menu when 'Lock Menu Aspect Ratio' is enabled
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon to 'Turbo Fire' menu entry
  • MENU/OZONE: Ozone Dracula theme
  • OPENDINGUX/BETA: Fix IPU scaling when running GBA-resolution content
  • OPENDINGUX/BETA: Add 50Hz support
  • OPENDINGUX: Enable 'SaveRAM Autosave Interval' by default
  • PATCHES: Added multi-softpatching support + OSD messages for patches
  • RHMAP: Track the complete string in rhmap
  • VITA: Align VM block size to 1MB - should fix one of the issues with gpSP
  • WINDOWS/GDI: Fix non-ASCII text rendering
  • XEGL: Fix mouse not working when using OpenGLES with X11
1.9.1

  • 3DS: Graphics widgets support
  • 3DS: On error, only init gfx on salamander build. This prevents graphical issues if the gfx is already initialized. Which should always be the case if called from a running core
  • 3DS: Update error applet
  • 3DS: Enable online Core Updater
  • 3DS: Guard threading
  • 3DS: Allow sideways screen rotation
  • 3DS: Enable threading and add a threaded audio driver
  • ANDROID: Implementation of fullscreen over notch function (for Android 9.0 and up)
  • ANDROID: Add Play Store module support.
  • ANDROID: Add option to switch all installed cores to Play Store versions
  • AUDIO: Memalign audio buffers to 64 bytes. This is the most common cache line size, helps with performance. Also fixes issues with platforms like PSP that wrongly assume that malloc returns aligned buffers (to 16bytes). This recently broke the PSP builds
  • AUDIO/ALSA: Fix float format detection
  • AUDIO/JACK: Deinterleave in the process callback. This allows us to avoid the extra copy to the deinterleave buffer and lets us use only a single jack ringbuffer.
  • AUDIO/JACK: (Audio/JACK) Fix non-blocking write. Previously we would wait on the condition variable even in the non-blocking case. This improves fast-forward performance massively and brings JACK in line with other backends in that regard.
  • AUDIO/XAUDIO2: Fix threaded audio bugs with cores like Dinothawr
  • CONFIG: Add support for saving per-directory core options and deleting core option overrides
  • CONFIG: Enable saving of changed parameters when '#include' directives are used
  • CONFIG/DIRS: Enable configuration of the directories used for Favorites, History, Images, Music and Video playlists
  • CONFIG/REMAPS: Allow loading core remaps without content
  • CONFIG/OVERRIDES: Fix empty override paths when launching without content
  • CHEATS: Maximum search value corrections
  • CHEEVOS: Generic memory mapping using rcheevos
  • CHEEVOS: Ensure badge textures are released before video driver is deinitialized. Should fix crashes with slang shaders.
  • CHEEVOS: Include achievement runtime state in save states
  • CHEEVOS: Prevent hardcore toggle when emu-handled cheats are active
  • CHEEVOS: Add confirmation submenu to achievements hardcore toggle
  • CHEEVOS: Calculate leaderboard widget spacing based on video resolution
  • CHEEVOS: Show unsupported core message when viewing achievement list for unsupported core
  • CHEEVOS: Allow disabling leaderboard notifications and trackers separately
  • CHEEVOS: Add display widget for active leaderboards
  • CHEEVOS/CORE OPTIONS: Core options blacklist. Disables hardcore mode when certain core options are set.
  • CLI: Add option for quitting on close content
  • CONTEXT/DRIVER SWITCHING: Allow context switching from gl to glcore
  • CORE OPTIONS: Add option to reset all core options for current core/content
  • CORE OPTIONS: Add per-folder core options
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Improvements
  • CRT/SWITCHRES: Low resolution switch bug fix - This allows resolutions lower that 32x224 like 256x224 to work
  • CORE DOWNLOADER: Enhanced core downloader search functionality
  • D3D10: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
  • D3D11: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
  • D3D11: Skip shader/stock blend when we don't have a texture. This happens if the core calls video_cb with the frame set to null on the first frame, and was causing black screens/driver resets. The ffmpeg core seems to do this.
  • D3D11: Fix shaders with scaled framebuffers
  • D3D11: Add flip model support - fallback to blit model for OSes where flip model is not supported (windows 7 and earlier). Will add a menu option later allowing the user to switch inbetween the two
  • D3D12: Should now be able to use shaders with hardware-accelerated libretro cores
  • D3D10/11/12: Increase sprite capacity, we need this so that the hardware rendered menu drivers doesn't glitch out
  • DRM: Fix race condition in drm_surface_set_aspect
  • DRM/KMS: add support for custom hdmi_timings / modes
  • DATABASE: Fix crash that could happen when selecting cursor
  • DATABASE/EXPLORE: Fix - Prevent segfault when accessing 'Explore' menu
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Only report back one screen pointer for rwebinput, fixes lockup when clicking on an overlay
  • FILEIO/PERFORMANCE: Only attempt to call dir_check_defaults once per runtime session
  • FILEIO/PERFORMANCE/3DS: Increase file buffer size and savestate chunk size. This seems to help with saving large savestates.
  • FONTS: Improve handling of Arabic and Persian text
  • FONTS/FREETYPE: Use fontconfig to select fonts if available
  • INPUT: Add hold mode for turbo fire 'Single Button'
  • INPUT MAPPING: Refresh bind list on device type change
  • INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Minor bugfix - Remap file browsing starts navigation at input_remapping_directory even if the core-subdir (where saved files go) exists Having remaps for many different cores makes finding the active core files cumbersome, especially because remaps are not compatible between different cores (but maybe for cores emulating the same hardware)
  • IOS: Take out 'Core Downloader' from iOS 9/iOS 11 builds
  • IOS: IOSApp doesn't crash anymore when a file is shared to it
  • INPUT: Keyboard device mapper rework
  • INPUT: New input bind order scan/clear fix
  • INPUT: Duplicate key event blocking additions
  • INPUT: Prevent duplicate key events with hotkeys + keyboard device type
  • INPUT: Keyboard LED driver
  • INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Allow controllers with no/empty names to work.
  • INPUT/GAME FOCUS: Add option to automatically enable 'game focus' mode when running/resuming content
  • INPUT/HOTKEYS: Hotkey for Close Content / Unload Core
  • INPUT/LIBCEC: Map libcec-daemon keys to RETROK
  • INPUT/X11: Enable keyboard input when mouse cursor is not inside the RetroArch window but window still has focus
  • INPUT/X11: Fix mouse input when mouse is grabbed
  • INPUT/UDEV/RUMBLE: Fix rumble.
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Simultaneous shift sticky fix
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Prevent Win-key from opening Start Menu
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Option for disabling Windows hotkeys
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Mouse grabbing/clipping with Alt-Tab
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/DINPUT: Mouse grab fixes
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Key position fixes
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Mouse grab fixes
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Prevent outside window mouse clicks when grabbed
  • INPUT/WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Option for disabling Windows hotkeys
  • INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Major bugfix - Remap file having a different device type requires manual intervention after loading for the core to register the type properly
  • JSON: New faster json parser/writer library rjson
  • JSON/RJSON: Replace rapidjson parser/writer in discord-rpc with rjson
  • LIBRETRO: Add API extension for cores to query the number of active inputs provided by the frontend
  • LIBRETRO: Ensure RARCH_CTL_CORE_OPTIONS_LIST_GET returns false if no core options are available
  • LIBRETRO: Add API extension for overriding frontend audio latency
  • LIBRETRO: Add API extension for cores to monitor frontend audio buffer occupancy
  • LINUX: Also show /run/media or /run/media/$USER in drives list
  • LINUX: Adjust brightness according to the limit. Seems like some platforms feature non-standard maximums, but the variable is correclty exported for us to use
  • LOCALIZATION: Add Finnish language
  • LOGS/SHADER: Shader log spam reduction
  • LOGS/CONFIG: Config logging cleanup
  • LOGS/SAVESTATE: Config logging cleanup
  • MAC: Apple Silicon/Mac M1 support
  • MAC: Code signing/notarization
  • MAC: Fix a leak with NSTemporaryDirectory() on ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) code
  • MAC: Support bundle assets extraction on macOS
  • MAC: Universal Metal build for both ARM and Intel Macs
  • MAC/UNIVERSAL: Add CoreAudio3 audio driver for Metal Universal build
  • MAC/IOS: Only extract assets once on first install
  • MENU: Add 'L2 + R2' menu toggle gamepad combo
  • MENU: Menu text improvements; clarifications, consistency, text mistakes,
  • MENU: Tweak menu scroll initial hold delays
  • MENU: Restrict menu acceleration to navigation buttons
  • MENU: Add 'Menu Driver' setting to 'User Interface'
  • MENU: Relocate 'Menu Scroll' settings.
  • MENU: Separate 'Turbo Fire' menu.
  • MENU: Dropdown menu for 'Custom Aspect Ratio' setting.
  • MENU: Reorder Mouse Index next to Device Index
  • MENU: Submenu for Device Index/Mouse Index
  • MENU: Reorganize User Interface menu
  • MENU: Add 'Remove DSP Plugin' menu entry
  • MENU: Hide 'Auto-Shader Delay' menu setting when shaders are unavailable
  • MENU/ANIMATIONS: Fix non-smooth text ticker + reduce line ticker code duplication
  • MENU/ANIMATIONS/OZONE: Add cursor wiggle animation
  • MENU/ANIMATIONS/OZONE: Implement wiggling for main menu when wrap-around is disabled
  • MENU/NOTIFICATIONS: On-Screen Notifications' menu clean-ups
  • MENU/NOTIFICATIONS: Add option to show/hide Refresh Rate notification
  • MENU/FILEBROWSER: Start auto-selecting last used path for more file browser menu entries
  • MENU/INPUT: Input port label adjustments
  • MENU/INPUT/XMB: Proper control port icons
  • MENU/INPUT/OZONE: Proper control port icons
  • MENU/QUICK MENU: Add remap clearing ability under Quick Menu controls
  • MENU/QUICK MENU: Cap 'State Slot' drop-down list to a maximum of 1000 (+Auto) entries
  • MENU: Customizable menu scroll hold delay.
  • MENU/DESKTOP: Fix mouse cursor limited by window range on F5 press
  • MENU/DESKTOP: Add simple shader option
  • MENU/DESKTOP/WINDOWS: Remove broken 'Update RetroArch' functionality for Windows. We want this to not only be system agnostic if we bring it back, but also work outside of the Qt desktop interface
  • MENU/OZONE: New Theme - Twilight Zone
  • MENU/RGUI: Add 3:2, 5:3 and 3:2/5:3 (centered) aspects
  • MENU/RGUI/TEXT RENDERING: Add Russian language text support
  • MENU/RGUI/TEXT RENDERING: Add support for CJK punctuation glyphs
  • MIDI/WINMM: Recover from MIDI messages not handled by the device
  • MIDI/WINMM: Fix winmm midi driver hanging on content closing
  • NETWORK: Add READ/WRITE_CORE_MEMORY network commands
  • NETWORK: Fix backwards condition in socket blocking behavior
  • NETWORK/NETPLAY: Attempt IPv4 when IPv6 fails
  • OGA/VIDEO: support for OGS
  • OGA: This keeps the tradition DRM driver along with the OGA one. The probe function skips the driver if the screen is non rotated to fall back to the regular DRM driver.
  • OGA: Fix messages from not disappearing
  • OGA: Implement RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_GET_CURRENT_SOFTWARE_FRAMEBUFFER. This is a faster rendering codepath for software rendered libretro cores that some libretro cores use right now. Video drivers in RetroArch have to explicitly implement this for this codepath to work at runtime.
  • OPENDINGUX: Add/Optimise rumble interface
  • OPENDINGUX: Fix frozen video when enabling fast forward
  • OPENDINGUX/SDL: OSD font clean-up
  • OPENDINGUX/SDL: Enable selection of image interpolation method when using 'sdl_dingux' gfx driver
  • OPENDINGUX/SDL: Enable integer scaling when using the 'sdl_dingux' gfx driver
  • OVERLAYS: Add option to scale overlays automatically (with aspect ratio correction)
  • OVERLAYS: Hide Overlay When Gamepad is Connected. Overlays will be hidden automatically when a gamepad is connected in port 1, and shown again when the gamepad is disconnected.
  • OVERLAYS: New default overlays for mobile (neo-retropad)
  • OVERLAYS: In addition to overlay scale, the user can now set an Overlay Aspect Adjustment factor. Most overlays are designed for 16:9 displays, which means they become stretched/ugly on modern wide aspect phones and suchlike. By changing the Overlay Aspect Adjustment factor, a user can scale the overlay width/height to achieve a uniform appearance regardless of display resolution.
  • OVERLAYS: Since scaling a gamepad overlay can result in buttons being squished too close together (or being pulled too far apart), the user can now adjust the effective spacing of the different 'halves' of an overlay via Overlay Horizontal Separation and Overlay Vertical Separation factors. Overlay Horizontal Separation divides the overlay in two vertically (left/right, at the centre point), and applies a spacing offset (positive or negative) between the UI elements on each side; Overlay Vertical Separation does the same, but the split is horizontal (top/bottom)
  • OVERLAYS/FIX: The Overlay X Offset and Overlay Y Offset options have been fixed, and now work correctly
  • OVERLAYS/FIX: All of the above options (and Overlay Scale) are configured and saved independently for landscape and portrait display orientations - so adjusting everything for a nice landscape layout won't break the portrait display
  • OVERLAYS/FIX: When using the Vulkan gfx driver, memory is leaked every time an overlay is freed
  • OVERLAYS/FIX: When threaded video is enabled, loading overlays with no images (i.e. utility-type overlays, where everything is hidden until the screen is touched) can generate segfaults due to improper usage of realloc()
  • OVERLAYS/FIX: When Show Inputs on Overlay is enabled, ASAN reports bit shift errors due to an incorrect range check when handling turbo inputs - essentially, there is no upper limit to the considered input id range, which means overlay hotkeys (menu toggle, etc.) are incorrectly treated as having turbo support, causing bit shifts using wildly inappropriate id indices
  • PLAYLISTS/PORTABLE: Fixed first load initialization
  • PS2: Added Multitap support (up to 8 players)
  • PS2: Fix for not recognized digital and other non-standard controllers
  • PS2: Fix Quitting from RA
  • PS2: Add Audio mixer
  • REWIND: Prevent 'Rewind Frames' from being set to '1' incorrectly on load content
  • RUNAHEAD: Add Run-Ahead Toggle hotkey with notifications
  • RBUF/ANIMATIONS: Simplify gfx_animation by switching from dynarray to rbuf
  • RBUF/CORE UPDATER: Replace static entries array with dynamic array via RBUF library
  • RBUF/M3U: Replace static entries array with dynamic array via RBUF library
  • SENSORS: Android (crash-)fixes/improvements + add option to disable sensor input
  • SDL2/VIDEO: Get the SDL2 video driver to work in Wayland/KMS
  • SAVESTATES: Adding savestate garbage collector for autoincrement stavestates. As some issues indicate, there's an issue with the autoincrement save slot feature: slot index will increase and very old saves won't be deleted. This adds support to delete old save states with a user defined save state limit (global). Instead of wrapping around the slot counter it will simply delete the oldest save, since it is simpler. For now there's a limit of one deletion per save, which ensures a user cannot delete many saves by accident if they set the limit too low.
  • SAVESTATES/SAVEFILES: Ensure save file and playlist compression is disabled by default
  • SHADERS: Add option to remember last selected shader preset/shader pass directories
  • SHADERS: Use last selected shader preset directory when changing shaders via previous/next hotkeys
  • SHADERS: Remove Parameters line
  • SHADERS: Shaders fix for duplicate parameters loading bug
  • SHADERS: Fix Crash change num shader passes in UI
  • SHADERS/SLANG: Fix slang shaders with rotation
  • STREAMING/FFMPEG: Add Facebook Game Stream option (for embedded ffmpeg core-enabled RetroArch builds)
  • SWITCH: Fix input bind icons being off by one line
  • SWITCH: Fix audio issues
  • TLS/SSL: Add BearSSL support, as alternative to mbedTLS
  • VIDEO: AddVariable BFI (Black Frame Insertion)
  • VIDEO/DRM GO2: Dynamic resolution support
  • VIDEO FILTERS: Video filter optimisations
  • VIDEO FILTERS: Add several LCD-effect video filters
  • VIDEO FILTERS: Gameboy/Dot_Matrix video filters: Add XRGB8888 support
  • VIDEO FILTERS: Add Normal4x video filter
  • VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Upscale_256x-320x240' video filter
  • VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Upscale1.5x' video filter
  • VITA: Disable temporarily VitaGL
  • VITA: Fix bubble name
  • VITA: proper handling of boot params
  • VITA: Default menu scale 1.5x to improve readability
  • WIFI/LAKKA: Add a proper WiFi menu, with Enable/Disable & Disconnect options. This also allows WiFi passwords to be remembered. The underlying tool (connman) allows to store passswords (that's why it auto connects whenever you boot a Lakka device), so we expose this so that the user does not have to re-input the pass when connecting to a saved wifi.
  • WII/HID: Added HID support for HORI mini wired ps4 gamepad
  • WINDOWS: Add support for accelerators to main win32 message loop
  • WINDOWS: Add accelerators for Open (Ctrl+O) and Fullscreen (Alt+Enter)
  • WINDOWS: Fixes some file I/O failures on Windows when paths are longer than 260 characters.
  • WINDOWS: Fix crashing on startup on Windows when using Chinese Simplified language.
  • WINDOWS/XP: The OpenGL 1 video driver is now the default for maximum backwards compatibility upon first startup. It's of course always possible for the user to change this.
  • WINDOWS/MENUBAR: Load accelerators, Localize Win32 menu items to current language, and display shortcut keys
  • WINDOWS/MENUBAR: Add 'Reinit' to Menubar
  • WINDOWS/MSVC: Fix rewind crash on MSVC build when using SSE2
  • UWP: Don't default to XMB menu by default, default to Ozone instead
  • UWP/VFS: Use Win32 file APIs when possible - better file I/O performance
  • WIIU/FILEIO/PERFORMANCE: Faster startup times - remove the path_is_valid() call when loading textures
  • WIIU: Fix touchscreen mouse emulation
1.9.0

  • 3DS: Fix sound crackling when paused
  • ANDROID/VIBRATION: Fixes "Vibrate on Key Press" having no effect on Android devices, which occurred because only the off time/strength was defined in what should have been a pair of off/on values
  • AUTOCONFIG: Ensure correct directory is used when saving autoconfig profiles
  • BLUETOOTH: Add a Bluetooth driver (Lakka-only for now)
  • CHEATS: Fix for wrong number of remaining cheat search matches on some machines
  • CHEEVOS: Option to play sound on achievement unlock.
  • CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 9.1
  • CHEEVOS: Restore display of unlocked achievements across hardcore modes
  • CHEEVOS: Hash buffered data when available
  • CHEEVOS: Fix 'Auto Save State freezes RetroArch while Cheevos is enabled'
  • CORE OPTIONS: Pressing OK (or clicking/tapping) on a 'boolean toggle' core option no longer opens a drop-down list. The value now toggles directly, just like boolean options everywhere else in the menu
  • CORE OPTIONS: Toggling an option that changes the number of core options being displayed (i.e. things like `Show Advanced Audio/Video Settings) no longer resets the navigation pointer to the start of the list
  • CORE OPTIONS: Before, RetroArch would identify core option values as being 'boolean' if they had labels matching the specific strings enabled or disabled. Most core devs would abide by this, but not always... As a result, we sometimes would end up with misidentified values, with all kinds of Enabled, Off, True, etc. strings littering the menu, in place of proper toggle switches. All boolean-type value labels are now detected, and replaced with standard ON/OFF strings.
  • CLI: A new command line option --load-menu-on-error has been added
  • CRT: On the fly CRT porch adjuments - these changes allow a user to adjust how the porch algorithm generates the 15khz/31khz output. Giving the ability to change over/under scan.
  • CONFIG FILE: Optimise parsing of configuration files
  • D3D9/D3D11: Fix core-initiated D3D9/D3D11 driver switches
  • DRIVERS: Implemented protection to avoid setting critical drivers to nothing thus preventing the user from locking him/herself out of the program
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Fix input code to ignore unknown keys
  • FFMPEG CORE: Prevent seeking past the end of files (hang fix)
  • FILE I/O: VFS and NBIO interfaces will now use 64-bit fseek/ftell where possible, should allow for reading/writing to files bigger than 2GB
  • INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Add input remap drop-down lists
  • IOS: Fixed iOS 6 version
  • IOS: Hide the home indicator as it obscures the content too frequently
  • IOS/METAL: Metal video driver now works on RetroArch iOS
  • IOS/METAL: Support getting video metrics to support proper touchscreen interactions
  • LOCALIZATION: Updates for several languages (synchronized from Crowdin)
  • MEMORY/LINUX/ANDROID: Fix reporting of free memory
  • MEMORY/WINDOWS: Fix reporting of free memory
  • MENU: Enlarged INT/UINT selection limit from 999 to 9999
  • MENU: Fix cursor forced to first entry after displaying lists
  • MENU: Make Notification Font option visible when Graphics Widgets are enabled
  • MENU/RGUI: Add optional 'toggle switch' icons
  • MENU/WIDGETS: Add optional widget-based 'load content' launch feedback animation
  • MENU/WIDGETS: Make notification font size option visible when graphics widgets are enabled
  • ODROID GO ADVANCE: Video driver - fix race condition with RGUI callback
  • PLAYLISTS: Change playlists to use dynamic arrays. Instead of a fixed initial 12MB memory allocation (99999 * 128 byte (on 64bit arch)), use a dynamically growing array
  • PLAYLISTS: Playlist base content directory paths - portable playlists
  • PLAYLISTS/SEARCH: Enhanced playlist search functionality
  • PLAYLISTS/DATABASE: Add 'Explore' view
  • PLAYLISTS/DATABASE/EXPLORE: Show system icons in explore view
  • PS2: Improve FPS Limiter
  • RUNAHEAD: Prevent runahead from being disabled permanently when an error occurs
  • SCANNER: Add more region codes for GameCube/Wii game detection
  • SHADERS/SLANG: Increased Slang max Parameters, Textures & Passes
  • VIDEO FILTERS/BLARGG: Make Blargg_snes filter customizable
  • WINDOWS/RAWINPUT: Fix invalid calls to dinput_handle_message when input driver is not set to dinput
  • X11: Add lightgun support
1.8.9

  • AUTO SAVESTATES: Ensure save states are correctly flushed to disk when quitting RetroArch (fixes broken save states when exiting RetroArch - without first closing content - with 'Auto Save State' enabled)
  • BUILTIN CORES: Builtin cores like ffmpeg and imageviewer would previously try to erroneously load a dynamic core named 'builtin' - this would fail and would just be a wasteful operation - this now skips dylib loading in libretro_get_system_info for builtin cores
  • CHEEVOS: Report API errors when unlocking achievements or submitting leaderboards
  • CHEEVOS: Support less common file extensions
  • CHEEVOS: Disable hardcore mode when playing BSV file
  • CHEEVOS: Correctly report unlocked non-hardcore achievements when hardcore is paused
  • CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - did not handle absolute/relative paths in M3U files correctly before
  • CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - it didn't handle comments/directives
  • CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - it doesn't handle trailing whitespace
  • CHEEVOS/M3U: Bugfix - failed when loading M3U files with certain line endings
  • CORE MANAGEMENT: Add 'core management' menu (Settings -> Core)
  • CORE MANAGEMENT: Add option to backup/restore installed cores
  • CORE MANAGEMENT: Improved core selection logic
  • CORE INFO: Search search optimisations
  • CORE DOWNLOADER: Rename 'Core Updater' to 'Core Downloader'
  • CORE DOWNLOADER: Add 'Show Experimental Cores' setting under Settings > Network > Updater
  • CORE DOWNLOADER: Core licenses are now shown for all entries in the Core Updater menu
  • CORE DOWNLOADER: Pressing RetroPad select on a Core Updater entry will now display any text in the description field of its info file
  • CORE DOWNLOADER: Installed cores are now highlighted via a [#] symbol
  • CORE DOWNLOADER: Pressing RetroPad start on a selected, installed entry opens the Core Information menu (when using Material UI, swiping left or right triggers the same action). This means we can now view bios info etc. - and more importantly delete cores - without jumping through all the hoops of loading a core first and navigating all over the place
  • CORE DOWNLOADER/UPDATER: Add option to automatically backup cores when updating
  • DISK CONTROL: Enable 'Load New Disc' while disk tray is open
  • INPUT: Added a hotkey delay option to allow hotkey input to work properly when it is assigned to another action
  • INPUT: Remove 'All Users Control Menu' setting, was buggy and will be properly reintroduced after input overhaul
  • LINUX: Set default saves/save states/system paths
  • LOCALIZATION: Add Persian language
  • LOCALIZATION: Add Hebrew language
  • LOCALIZATION: Add Asturian language
  • MENU: Proper line wrapping for message dialog boxes
  • MENU/HOTKEYS: Add sublabels to all hotkey bind entries
  • MENU/QUICK MENU: Suppress the display of 'empty' quick menu listings when closing content
  • MENU/OZONE: Performance improvements
  • MENU/SDL: Add mouse controls
  • OPENGL1/VITA: Initial changes for HW context without FBO
  • OVERLAYS: Add options for moving the on-screen overlay
  • PLAYLISTS/WINDOWS: Fix core path entries in image/video/music history playlists
  • PS2: Add back CDFS support
  • SDL/GL: Advertise GLSL support
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix heap-use-after-free errors, leading to memory corruption
  • VITA: Added custom bubbles support
  • VITA: VitaGL update
  • VULKAN/WSI: Better frame pacing
  • VULKAN/WSI: Fix Intel Mesa being broken when using Fences, we have to use Semaphores to acquire the swapchain or the entire GPU stalls
  • VULKAN/WSI: Add support for either using fences or semaphores when syncing
  • VULKAN/WSI: Prefer using semaphores for integrated GPUs as it promotes better throughput over fences
  • VULKAN/WSI/ANDROID: Do not use mailbox emulation on Android
  • UWP/XBOX: Potentially improve performance by enabling 'Game Mode'
1.8.8

  • AUDIO/JACK: Fix regression introduced after 1.8.4 - would hang at startup
  • CHEEVOS: Disable hardcore when cheats are enabled
  • CHD: Return false when special track cannot be found
  • DISCORD/MATCHMAKING: Fix Discord 'Ask To Join' functionality
  • FILE PATH: Various file path handling optimisations
  • FONT: Fix Arabic, Chinese and Korean font rendering
  • INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Restore broken 'reset to default' functionality with RetroPad 'start' button
  • INPUT MAPPING/REMAPPING: Fix 'reset to default' action for analog sticks and undefined core inputs
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Arabic translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Greek translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Vietnamese translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Add Slovak translation
  • MENU: Small buffer optimizations
  • MENU/THUMBNAILS/BUGFIX: Fix heap-use-after-free error
  • MENU/OZONE: Add option to sort playlists after name truncation
  • MENU/OZONE/ANDROIDTV: Default to Ozone menu driver
  • MENU/OZONE/ANDROID: Gamepad-like devices default to Ozone now (Shield Portable)
  • NETPLAY: Lower announcement rate
  • OVERLAYS: Fix memory leak when loading overlays
  • SHADER PRESETS: Improved shader preset dirs
  • TIME/DATE: Enable configuration of date seperator in clock and runtime 'last played' displays
  • VITA: Fix upside-down vertical games
  • UWP: Enable playlist and savefile compression by default (because of slow file I/O)
  • WIIU: Gamepad hotplugging support
  • WIIU: Theoretical multi-gamepad support
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix overlapping text when simultaneous pop-up notifications and core/shader messages are being displayed
  • X11: Fix crash in x11_display_server_get_screen_orientation
  • X11/XSHM: Allow X11/XHSM video driver to operate without SHM extension
  • X11/XSHM: Fix compatibility with X11 input driver
  • XVIDEO: Fix keyboard input initialization
  • XVIDEO/XWAYLAND: Fix XVideo support on xwayland (by supporting I420 and YZ12)


1.8.7


  • 3DS: Add IDs for Frodo
  • 3DS: Enable basic networking / cheevos
  • CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Opening achievements list would crash RetroArch with badges enabled (on new games)
  • CHEEVOS: Option to start a session with all achievements active
  • CHEEVOS: Don't perform unnecessary cheevos initialisation when cheevos are disabled. Should reduce startup times when loading content.
  • CORE OPTIONS: Disable 'Use Global Core Options File' by default
  • DOS/DJGPP: Add 32bit color support for cores
  • GLCORE: Switch to glcore video driver when requested by a core
  • LINUX/XDG: Use GenericName correctly in desktop entry
  • MAC/COCOA: Fix mouse cursor tracking
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Add desktop-style playlist view mode
  • MENU/MATERIALUI/DESKTOPVIEW: When scrolling playlists, show last selected thumbnails while waiting for next entry to load
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Limit tab switch rate when input repeat is active
  • MENU/OZONE: Fix sidebar playlist sort order when 'Truncate Playlist Names' is enabled
  • MENU/RGUI: Adjusted menu defaults, adjusted default scrolling speed
  • MENU/RGUI: Enable custom wallpaper when menu size is reduced at low resolutions
  • MENU/XMB: Limit tab switch rate when input repeat is active
  • NETPLAY: Fix regressions introduced in 1.8.5
  • RGUI: Add option to always stretch menu to fill the screen
  • WIIU: Enable graphics widgets
1.8.6

  • 3DS: Add IDs for UZEM, TGB Dual, and NeoCD
  • 3DS: Fix font driver horizontal text alignment
  • 3DS: Allow button presses up to INPUT_MAX_USERS - this enables the 3DS to bind and use buttons and axis for users up to the maximum set by 'Max Users' in the input settings menu.
  • 3DS: Disable video filter if upscaled resolution exceeds hardware limits. The 3DS has a maximum video buffer size of 2048x2048. This is sufficient for every core that it supports, but when using software video filters the core output resolution is doubled. This is made worse by the fact that the video filter upscaling buffer size is dependent upon the maximum output resolution of the core - which in some cases is very large indeed (e.g. pcsx-rearmed sets a maximum width of 1024, for enhanced resolution support). The 3DS has very limited 'linear memory' for graphics buffer purposes, and a large base core buffer + video filter buffer can easily exceed this - which may also disable video output, or cause a crash. This PR very simply adds a 3DS-specific check to the video filter initialisation: if the resultant upscaling buffer exceeds the hardware limitation, then the filter is automatically disabled.
  • 3DS/FONT/BUGFIX: Text colour was wrong: the RGBA channels were muddled, and R was always set to 255
  • 3DS/FONT/BUGFIX: When drawing multiline strings, the line spacing was completely incorrect
  • 3DS/FONT: Improves the appearance of the drop shadow effect on notification text.
  • 3DS/ARCHIVE/7Z: Re-enable 7zip support.
  • ARCHIVE/ZIP: Expand functionality of 'rzip_stream' interface. This PR expands the functionality of the new rzip_stream archived stream interface such that it now has almost complete feature parity with the standard file_stream interface, and can therefore be used as a drop-in replacement in most situations
  • AI SERVICE: Hide redundant entries when service is disabled
  • AI SERVICE: Added in auto-translate support
  • AI SERVICE: support for NVDA and SAPI narration
  • AUTOCONFIG: Use correct port index in input device configured/disconnected notifications
  • BUGFIX: Fix race condition where task could momentarily not be in the queue when reordering
  • CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Prevent null reference rendering achievement list while closing application
  • CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Report non-memorymap GBA cores as unsupported
  • COMMANDLINE: Advise against using -s and -S variables on the command line. …
  • CONFIG FILE: Only write config files to disk when parameters change
  • CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: RetroArch no longer crashes when attempting to save a config file after 'unsetting' a parameter (currently, this can be triggered quite easily by manipulating input remaps)
  • CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: When using Material UI, RetroArch no longer modifies the wrong setting (or segfaults...) when tapping entries in the Quick Menu > Controls input remapping submenu
  • CONFIG FILE/BUGFIX: Quite a few real and potential memory leaks have been fixed.
  • CHD: Fixes a crash caused by ignoring the return value from one of the CHD library functions
  • FASTFORWARDING: A new Mute When Fast-Forwarding option has been added under Settings > Audio. When enabled, users can fast forward without having to listen to distorted audio.
  • GLCORE/SLANG: Set filter and wrap mode correctly when intialising shader textures. Before, the glcore shader driver did not correctly initialise loaded textures. The texture filtering and wrap mode were forced on texture creation, but these settings were not recorded - subsequent updates would set garbage values, that would resolve to linear filtering OFF and wrap mode = CLAMP_TO_EDGE.
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
  • IOS: Set audio session category to ambient so sound does not get cut off on interruption (phone call/playing back audio)
  • MAC/IOHIDMANAGER/BUGFIX: Fix for Mayflash N64 adapter. In case last hatswitch does not match cookie. For the mayflash N64 adapter, I was getting a BAD EXC ADDRESS (in mac OS 10.13) for this line (tmp was NULL). Retroarch would crash in the gui if I pressed a button from the DPAD on controller 2. With this change, it no longer crashes in the gui and still registers the button push.
  • MAC/COCOA: Fix mouse input - this brings back two lines of code that have been removed over time but appear to be required in order for mouse input to work on macOS
  • METAL/BUGFIX: GPU capture on Metal/OSX/NVidia could crash
  • METAL/BUGFIX: Taking screenshots could capture black frames. Resulting PNG screenshots were black.
  • METAL/BUGFIX: Corrupted image due to incorrect viewport copy when taking screenshot
  • MENU: Prevent font-related segfaults when using extremely small scales/window sizes
  • MENU: Fix 'gfx_display_draw_texture_slice()'
  • MENU/FONT: Enable correct vertical alignment of text (+ font rendering fixes)
  • MENU/RGUI: Enable automatic menu size reduction when running at low resolutions (down to 256x192)
  • MENU/OZONE: Update timedate style options for Last Played sublabel metadata
  • MENU/OZONE: Hide 'Menu Color Theme' setting when 'Use preferred system color theme' is enabled
  • MENU/OZONE: Fix thumbnail switching via 'scan' button functionality
  • MENU/OZONE: Prevent glitches when rendering Ozone's selection cursor
  • MENU/OZONE: Enable proper vertical text alignment + thumbnail display improvements
  • MENU/OZONE: Enable second thumbnail/content metadata toggle using RetroPad 'select'
  • MENU/OZONE: Refactor footer display
  • MENU/OZONE: Hide thumbnail button hints when viewing file browser lists
  • MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: Fix undefined behaviour when using touch screen to change input remaps
  • MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: It turns out that Windows reports negative pointer coordinates when the mouse cursor goes beyond the left hand edge of the RetroArch window (this doesn't happen on Linux, so I never encountered this issue before!). As a result, if Ozone is currently not showing the sidebar (menu depth > 1), moving the cursor off the left edge of the window generates a false positive 'cursor in sidebar' event - which breaks menu navigation, as described in #10419. With this PR, we now handle 'cursor in sidebar' status correctly in all cases
  • MENU/OZONE/INPUT/BUGFIX: Pointer input is now correctly disabled when message boxes are displayed
  • MENU/XMB: Fix thumbnail switching via 'scan' button functionality
  • ODROID GO ADVANCE: Add DRM HW context driver
  • PSL1GHT: Initial port
  • PSL1GHT/KEYBOARD: Implement PSL1GHT keyboard
  • PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Improve handling of 'broken' playlists - RetroArch will no longer segfault when attempting to run content via a playlist entry with missing path or core path fields.
  • PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Improve handling of 'broken' playlists - when a playlist entry has either core path and/or core name set to NULL, DETECT or an empty string, attempting to load content will fallback to the normal 'core selection' code (currently this happens only if both core path and core name are DETECT - this is wholly inadequate!)
  • PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: RetroArch will no longer segfault when attempting to fetch content runtime information when core path is NULL
  • PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: Core name + runtime info will only be displayed on playlists and in the Information submenu if both the core path and core name fields are 'valid' (i.e. not NULL or DETECT)
  • PLAYLIST/BUGFIX: When handling entries with missing path fields, the menu sorting order now matches that of the playlist sorting order (at present, everything goes out of sync when paths are empty). Moreover, entries with missing path fields can now be 'selected', so users can remove them (currently, hitting A on such an entry immediately tries - and fails - to load the content, so the only way to remove the broken entry is via the Playlist Management > Clean Playlist feature)
  • PLAYLIST: Add optional per-playlist alphabetical sorting
  • PLAYLIST: Omit whitespace when writing compressed JSON format playlists
  • PLAYLIST: Add optional playlist compression
  • QNX: Support analog sticks
  • SAVESTATES: Add optional save state compression (enabled by default now)
  • SRAM: Add optional save (SRAM) file compression
  • SCANNER: Prevent redundant playlist entries when handling M3U content
  • SCANNER/ANDROID: Fix content scanner being unable to identify certain games from CHD images (raw data sector/subcode)
  • TASKS/BUGFIX: Fix task deadlocks
  • TASKS/SCREENSHOT/BUGFIX: Fix heap-use-after-free error when widgets are disabled
  • TVOS: Disable overlays for tvOS, fix app icon
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: The font ascender/descender metrics added in #10375 are now used to achieve 'pixel perfect' vertical text alignment
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Message queue text now uses its own dedicated font. Previously, a single (larger) font was used for all active widgets, and this was scaled down for message queue items. This 'squished' the text a little; more importantly, when using the stb font renderers (on Android. etc.) it caused ugly artefacts around the edges of glyphs due to pixel interpolation errors. Now that a correctly sized font is used, the message queue is always rendered cleanly.
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Previously, each widget font was 'flushed' (font_driver_flush()) at least once a frame. This is quite a slow operation. Now we only flush fonts if they have actually been used.
  • VULKAN/BUGFIX: Fix display of statistics text
  • UNIX/BUGFIX: Fix overflow when computing total memory on i386
  • WIIU/BUGFIX: Fix font driver horizontal text alignment
  • WIIU/BUGFIX: Fix non-vertex coordinates in draws using tex shader
  • WIIU/BUGFIX: Update and fix meta.xml file for the WiiU release. This change makes it so the information from the meta.xml file parsed for the WiiU's Homebrew Launcher is displayed properly.
1.8.5

  • 3DS: Keep the bottom screen hidden on sleep/wakeup. When the 3DS wakes back up after being closed, the bottom screen needs to be reinitialized. Adding the condition here will cause the screen to be turned on or off based on the state of ctr_bottom_screen_enabled, as you'd expect
  • ANDROID/CHROMEBOOK/CRASH: Fix Chromebook crashes (on x86 x64) when touching the screen
  • BUGFIX: Prevent double input when using 'return' key (hardware) to close on-screen keyboard
  • BUGFIX: Fix mouse capture hotkey not working
  • BUGFIX: Avoid overflow when calculating multiplying performance counter
  • BUGFIX: Retroarch overlay displaying "Game remap file loaded." on the overlay instead of "Core remap file loaded." when only a core remap file is present
  • CHEEVOS/BUGFIX: Achievement triggers could cause Retroarch to Crash
  • CHEEVOS: Don't block Sameboy core because it only exposes some memory
  • CHEEVOS: Support for extended Sega CD memory
  • CHEEVOS: Show RetroAchievements Hash in content information list
  • CHEEVOS: If the core says it's exposing SYSTEM_RAM, give it the benefit of the doubt
  • CHEEVOS: RetroAchievements rich presence for RA.org website/Discord
  • CHEEVOS: Reset token when username or password changes
  • CHEEVOS: Display measured progress on locked achievements
  • CHEEVOS: Queue multiple popups
  • CHEEVOS: Add delay retries to leaderboard submits
  • CHEEVOS: Prevent buffer overflow when encountering an unknown macro
  • CORE UPDATER: Prevent hang when fetching core list if HTTP transfer fails
  • DISK CONTROL: Add disk labels to 'disk inserted' notifications
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Recreate input event listeners properly
  • FFMPEG CORE: Fix crash on seeking when using HW decoding in some cases
  • LIBRETRO: Add disk control interface API extension
  • LINUX: Avoid possible crash when running retroarch at startup
  • LINUX/GLX: Fix threaded video crashes/instability because of GLX OML sync callbacks
  • LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Korean translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian translation
  • MENU: Add Menu Scroll Acceleration option
  • MENU: Automatically select currently checked item when opening drop-down lists
  • MENU: Fix smooth (vertical) line ticker scroll speed
  • MENU: Don't flush on override/remap messages
  • MENU/DATETIME: Adds some new timedate styles that follow the DD/MM/YYYY format, found in several European countries
  • MENU/DATETIME: Modifies the existing translation files in order to accommodate the new options that are now available
  • MENU/DATETIME: Reorders the timedate view options based on a decreasing order of the quantity of information displayed, so that they are more convenient to switch around and easily categorized
  • MENU/BUGFIX: Fix bug - if you were in XMB and you would set menu driver to RGUI, you could no longer go to the left or right tab
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Add option to remove navigation bar
  • MENU/OZONE: Add DPI-based scaling
  • MENU/OZONE: Add rudimentary pointer support
  • MENU/OZONE: Add 'Nord' and 'Gruvbox Dark' themes
  • MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Pointer can be used to switch between sidebar and entries list
  • MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Pointer can be used to select sidebar and entries list items
  • MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Both sidebar and entries list can be scrolled by dragging
  • MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Clicking/pressing the header or footer produces a 'cancel' action
  • MENU/OZONE/POINTER: Cursor focus follows mouse pointer from sidebar to entries list (and vice versa)
  • MENU/OZONE/POINTER: In entries list, item under cursor is automatically selected (with some fudging to ensure this doesn't break mouse wheel scrolling)
  • MENU/OZONE/POINTER: In sidebar, item under cursor is not automatically selected (this is too jarring)
  • MENU/RGUI: Add 'Flux' theme
  • MENU/XMB: New color themes 'Cube Purple', 'Family Red', etc
  • NETPLAY/MENU/BUGFIX: Fix Netplay Stateless Mode doesn't save. Affects other netplay settings which can be overridden by commandline option
  • ODROID GO ADVANCE: Rotation support
  • NETPLAY/ROOMS/BUGFIX: Prevent out-of-bounds array indexing when displaying/selecting netplay rooms in menus
  • SCANNER: Add 'Arcade DAT Filter' Option
  • SCANNER: Add scanning Korea and Asia PS1 discs
  • SCANNER: Add support for scanning PSP Korean
  • VIDEO: Set hardware 'Bilinear filtering' off by default
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS: Widgets are now menu-independent
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS: Allow notifications to use full screen width when not displaying menu
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS: DPI-based scaling
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS: Fix volume widget scaling
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS: Add independent widget scale override settings for fullscreen/windowed modes
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS/BUGFIX: Prevent improper display of (old style) OSD text when widgets are enabled
  • VIDEO/WIDGETS/THREADED/BUGFIX: Fix issue - corruption of menu widgets when running some cores (e.g. VICE) with threaded video enabled
  • WIFI/CONNMANCTL: Display more characters from SSID
1.8.4

  • ANDROID/BUGFIX: Prevent crash when Android device is minimized and you go back to the app
  • CAMERA/BUGFIX: Fix crash when a core requires the camera driver and the platform only has a null driver. This would crash mgba on Wii for example
  • DISK CONTROL: Cycle Disk Tray now becomes Eject Disk or Insert Disk depending upon current drive state
  • DISK CONTROL: Current Disk Index is only shown when the current disk has been ejected
  • DISK CONTROL: The old Insert Disk entry has been changed to Load New Disk, and is only shown when a disk is currently inserted (this is because loading a new disk from the filesystem - i.e. bypassing the m3u playlist disk index interface - automatically ejects and inserts disks, and so cannot be done while the virtual drive is empty)
  • DISK CONTROL: The Current Disk Index may now be set more easily via a drop-down list.
  • DISK CONTROL: Selecting Eject Disk automatically moves the menu selection to the Current Disk Index entry
  • DISK CONTROL: Selecting an index via the Current Disk Index drop-down list automatically moves the menu selection back to Insert Disk
  • DISK CONTROL: The Disk Control entry sublabels have been changed for greater clarity
  • DISK CONTROL: All of the horrendous notification spam has been removed. Notifications are now only shown in the event of an error, or when the menu itself does not provide sufficient visual feedback (note that using hotkeys to swap disks still produces the old style notifications, since this is typically only done while content is running - i.e. no menu). The duration of disk-related info notifications has also been reduced to a more sane level.
  • DISK CONTROL: A new Resume content after changing disks option has been added under Settings > User Interface. When enabled (default setting), content is resumed automatically after selecting either Insert Disk or Load New Disk (when disabled, the menu remains open, obviously...)
  • DISK CONTROL/BUGFIX: The Disk Control menu now has the correct title
  • DISK CONTROL/BUGFIX: Selecting a disk via the Load New Disk file browser no longer flushes the user back to the top level menu (it now correctly returns to the Disk Control menu)
  • LIBNX/SWITCH: Updated libnx integration to v3.0.0. This also cherry-picks libnx commit 583d6bb92dcbb33b6bb4a0fa1a9df6e3725d6ef6, which should fix the requirement having to turn rumble off and on in the system settings once per reboot
  • PLAYLISTS: Add 'Clean Playlist' option
1.8.3

  • ANDROID/BUGFIX: Fix 'Install or Restore Core' regression
  • BUGFIX: Ensure core info is always initialised when calling 'drivers_init()'. This bug could prevent cores from doing content runtime logging
  • BUGFIX/MENU: History size can only be set to 1 at a minimum
  • BUGFIX/MENU: (XMB/OZONE) Fix 'quick menu' detection. XMB would not display savestate thumbnails in the quick menu if it was accessed via the main menu
  • BUGFIX/CRASH/CORE UPDATER: Fix potential double free error
  • BUGFIX/CRASH/OPENGL/WINDOWS: Fix regression in 1.8.2 that would cause GL-based cores to fail because it would try to erroneously load libGLESv2.dll instead of OpenGL32.dll (cores affected: VitaQuake 2/3/Dhewm3, possibly more)
  • BUGFIX/MENU/DESKTOP UI: Show desktop menu on startup does not launch Qt UI on Linux
  • BUGFIX: Entries in the Playlist Thumbnails Updater list were displaying improper sublabels. I have no idea when this broke... The issue is now fixed
  • CHEEVOS: Don't disable achievement when AddAddress generates an out-of-range address
  • CHEEVOS: Don't reset triggers/leaderboards that failed to load
  • CHEEVOS: Don't count unsupported achievements as unlocked
  • CORE UPDATER: Display number of cores updated when updating installed cores
  • DINGUX: Initial port
  • D3D11: Block FL9_3 devices from D3D11 driver because they don't work anyway (current D3D11 driver uses SM4.0 which requires FL10_0 and up)
  • D3D11: Fallback to GL driver when D3D11 fails
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Fix assets
  • HISTORY/FAVORITES: Bump up default to 200 entries from 100
  • FFMPEG CORE: Implement packet buffer, fixes MP4 video playback for many files
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
  • MENU: Added 'Hosting' menu under Netplay menu
  • MENU: Added 'Subsystems' menu
  • MENU/FILEBROWSER: Fix file selection issues when starting from (or navigating to) the top level directory
  • MENU/WIDGETS: Prevent looping of task title text
  • RASPBERRY PI: Fix BGRA8888 color inversion issues in the menu and elsewhere with VideoCore GL drivers
  • NETPLAY/RELAY: Add Sao Paulo (Brazil) relay server
  • NETPLAY/RELAY: Fix the "spectator" bug when using the relay server – When a player switches into the spectator mode (pressing "i") while using the relay server, all players will disconnect.
  • NETPLAY/RELAY: Overall stability has improved. Fixed a memory leak that would cause the relay server to become unresponsive after some time.
  • NETPLAY/RELAY: Fixed critical bug that would cause all players to be disconnected from the relay server if one player was leaving the game. That bug had been open for one year and we were finally able to fix it.
  • SWITCH/LIBNX/BUGFIX: Fix onscreen keyboard input regression
  • THUMBNAIL UPDATER: When waiting for individual thumbnail file http transfers to complete, the task status checking is more accurate. This uses the same method as the new core updater - we now wait until the task is 'really' complete, instead of relying on the (slightly nebulous) 'task finished' state
  • UWP: Add ANGLE support
  • UWP: Wire up get_metrics to the fake context of D3D9/10/11/12 driver, enabling proper scaling and mouse/touch gestures
  • VITA: Re-add Online Updater
  • VULKAN: Fix font driver 'vulkan_get_message_width()' function
  • VIDEO FILTERS: Only use threads when the number exceeds 1. Fixes race conditions with some CPU filters on Vita
  • WINDOWS: Add ANGLE support for x64, separate binary (for now?)
1.8.2

  • BUG/CRASH/GLSLANG: Fix glslang crashing error - managed to reproduce an issue which has been plaguing users for a while, where glslang throws an assert after closing a game (and starting a new one). This would affect all video drivers that use Slang for shaders, such as D3D10/11/12/Vulkan/Metal
  • CHEEVOS: Display Unofficial and Unsupported achievement states
  • CHEEVOS: Pass RetroArch and core versions through User-Agent HTTP header
  • CHEEVOS: Use PSX.EXE if SYSTEM.CNF cannot be found
  • CHEEVOS: Prevent loading state while achievements are still being fetched from server
  • CHEEVOS: Pause hardcore if core doesn't support achievements
  • CHEEVOS/CRASH: Fix AddressSanitizer + CHD cause hard crash when Cheevos are enabled
  • CORE UPDATER: Only download when new core is available
  • CORE UPDATER: Add option to update all installed cores
  • DRM/KMS: Better detection for the current video mode
  • DYNAMIC RATE CONTROL: Support DRC even when using a vsync swap interval higher than 1
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Fix bug in Emscripten input code
  • EMSCRIPTEN: Changes to support upgraded emscripten SDK
  • FFMPEG CORE: Hardware accelerated video decoding
  • FFMPEG CORE: Implement send/receive encoding API, will allow for hardware accelerated AMD video encoding
  • FFMPEG CORE: The video FIFO can be removed, since we have a ring buffer in its place. This removes unneeded copy operations and as a positive side improves overall decoding speed. Makes 8k60p SW and 4k60p HW decoding feasible on many systems. For now the ring buffer is 32 images deep. This limitation will be removed, once audio and video decoder have their own packet handling.
  • INPUT: Fix 'Analog stick controls menu even if autoconfig disabled'
  • INPUT/TURBO: Added alternate Turbo-Mode 'Single Button' - For systems supporting only a single button, the turbo-button will toggle firing that button without the need to hold it. When holding the button turbo will be suspended and resumed when the button is released. Holding the button may have a different function to just tapping it.
  • IOS: Forcibly disable Threaded Video until UIWindow concurrency issues are fixed
  • INPUT/ANALOG: Fix radial analog deadzone scaling
  • INPUT/ANALOG: Implement proper analog button deadzone
  • INPUT/MENU: Analog stick controls menu even if autoconfig disabled
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Portuguese Brazilian Translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Turkish translation
  • LINUX/LOCALIZATION: Correct Droid Sans Fallback font path in Linux. This should fix Chinese/Korean font display issues on Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/openSUSE/SLE
  • MENU/BUGFIX: When using a keyboard/gamepad/mouse wheel to navigate, the menu scroll position is always maintained and updated in a consistent (and expected) fashion
  • MENU/BUGFIX: When resizing the window, or changing the orientation of a mobile device, the current scroll position is correctly preserved
  • MENU/BUGFIX: All 'normal' pointer input is now inhibited when showing message boxes
  • MENU/BUGFIX: The pointer actions 'select' and 'cancel' both now properly close a message box if it is currently being shown
  • MENU/BUGFIX: Pointer 'select' and 'cancel' actions are now inhibited when an input bind dialog is active
  • MENU/INPUT: Change 'User' terminology to 'Port' for input binding
  • MENU/LINUX: Add proper drives to Load Content
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Halt scrolling when pointer is pressed/stationary
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Dual thumbnail view
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Scroll rapidly by press and holding the scrollbar
  • MENU/RGUI: New theme 'Flux'
  • MENU/OZONE: Thumbnails now have a fade-in animation
  • MENU/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart and pictures
  • MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix dock titles getting cut off
  • MENU/XMB: Fullscreen thumbnail viewer for boxart and pictures
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide 'Disallow Non-Slave Mode Clients' if 'Allow Slave-Mode Clients' is disabled
  • MENU/USABILITY: Hide 'Show desktop menu on startup' if 'Desktop menu' setting itself is disabled
  • MENU/USABILITY: Reimplement Quick Menu - > Shaders -> Watch shader files for changes - can now be turned on/off through touch
  • MENU/USABILITY: Refactor Quick Menu - Controls - each port now has its own submenu
  • MENU/USABILITY: Quick Menu - Cheats - Delete All no longer requires five right button presses - this should fix this functionality for mobile touch users too
  • MENU/USABILITY: Hide Refresh Rate options when Threaded Video is enabled - these settings do nothing with Threaded Video
  • MENU/USABILITY: Hide Logging Verbosity levels behind Logging Verbosity
  • MENU/USABILITY: Get rid of 'Port Number' label for Port Binds screen
  • MENU/USABILITY/MOBILE: Should no longer crash when clicking on a cheat entry
  • MENU/USABILITY: Shader parameters now have a dropdown list
  • MENU/USABILITY: Shader passes now has a dropdown list
  • MENU/USABILITY: Video - Hide Windowed Mode settings selectively
  • MENU/USABILITY: Video - Hide Fullscreen Mode settings if windowed mode is not supported by context driver
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Network Command Port
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Relay Server Location
  • MENU/USABILITY: User Interface -> Appearance - Selectively hide XMB Horizontal Animation setting
  • MENU/USABILITY: Playlists - more selective hiding
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Rewind Settings
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Overlay Settings
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide FPS Update Interval based on Display Framerate being enabled
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selectively hide Onscreen Notifications BG Color Settings
  • MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Logging - Hide 'Log To File Timestamp' if 'Log To File' is disabled
  • MENU/USABILITY: Video -> Scaling - Hide Custom Viewport X/Y when Integer Scale is enabled as description indicates
  • MENU/USABILITY: Achievement submenu - selectively hide
  • MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Aspect ratio - selectively hide/show values based on whether you have Custom or Config selected
  • MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Selectively hide Hard Sync
  • MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Implement selective hiding for VSync and Hard Sync
  • MENU/USABILITY: Selective hiding of Runahead settings based on global setting
  • MENU/USABILITY: Add Input -> Haptic Feedback submenu
  • MENU/USABILITY: Add Input -> Menu Controls submenu
  • MENU/USABILITY: Settings -> Video -> Max Swapchain Images - Add OK action
  • MENU/USABILITY: Input - Implement OK action for Bind Hold, Turbo Period and Duty Cycle
  • MENU/USABILITY: Input - Hotkey Binds refactor
  • MENU/USABILITY: Move 'Press Quit Twice' and 'Menu Toggle Gamepad Combo' to Input -> Hotkey Binds
  • MENU/USABILITY: Video - Add sublabel for Video Output submenu
  • MENU/USABILITY: If 'Favorites Tab' is disabled, don't show 'Add To Favorites' option in Quick Menu/Playlist menu
  • MENU/USABILITY: If On-Demand Thumbnail Downloader is enabled, hide 'Download Thumbnails' from playlist menu screen
  • MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio Driver setting to Audio -> Output
  • MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio -> Resampler settings
  • MENU/USABILITY: Add Audio -> Output and Audio -> Synchronization
  • OPENGL: Shaders are now working properly (only in OpenGL) when rotating both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation. The fix is clearly visible with crt-royale for example
  • OPENGL: 1:1 PAR is now correct when rotating (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation, as you said, in the latter case you currently have to change Aspect Ratio after menu video rotation for it to work)
  • OPENGL: When using Custom Aspect Ratio and rotation (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation), Integer Scaling is now working properly (correct multiples of internal resolution). Even when Integer Scaling is not activated, the Custom AR width / height are now correctly labeled using (1x), (2x), ... suffixes. You also have to activate Integer Scaling after menu video rotation for it to work
  • OPENGL: For all other Aspect Ratio options, Integer Scaling and rotation (both from Core API rotation and from menu video rotation) are now working properly together (correct multiples of internal resolution). You also have to activate Integer Scaling after menu video rotation for it to work
  • OPENBSD/POWERPC: Should build now on OpenBSD PowerPC
  • PLAYLISTS: Pressing 'Start' or long touching a playlist will bring you to a Playlist submenu where you can set a default core, setup thumbnail view, delete the playlist, etc
  • OSX: Forcibly disable Threaded Video until NSWindow concurrency issues are fixed
  • PSP: Solving issue exiting RetroArch by HOME button
  • SCANNER: Manual scanner, not dependent on database files
  • SCANNER/MANUAL: Add option to scan inside archives
  • SCANNER/MANUAL: Enable automatic naming of arcade content via DAT files. This is compatible with DAT files in either Logiqx XML or MAME List XML format.
  • VIDEO: Do not reinit video driver on SET_SYSTEM_AV_INFO unless needed
  • VIDEO: Support DRC even when using a vsync swap interval higher than 1
  • VIDEO LAYOUT: Fixed XML parsing of attributes with spaces, should fix issues with several video layouts
  • VITA: GL1 driver support
  • VITA/VITA2D: Several improvements to Vita 2D driver - menu widgets implemented
  • VITA/VITA2D: Fix clipping and reduce number of calls
  • VULKAN/ANDROID: Workaround weird WSI return codes in landscape mode - Android WSI wants you to use preTransform, and if it is not used correctly, Android 10 will return VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR, and we would create a new swapchain every frame. This workaround just ignores this error, since it's not really an error. A more "proper" fix is to use prerotate and modify the MVP matrices, which might help certain devices with crummy display processors
  • VULKAN/ANDROID: Recreate swapchain on orientation change. ANativeWindow getWidth/Height does not detect any changes when using Vulkan, so use the old onContentRectChanged callback to get notified when size changed. Use those values instead when figuring out how large swapchain to create
  • WINDOWS/XINPUT: Get rid of 128 byte device name limit for XInput device discover - when device name was too long, it would not be picked up by the XInput driver and would instead fallback to DirectInput
  • WINDOWS: ANGLE OpenGL ES 2 support
  • UWP: Fix crashes on startup / prompt for folder permissions when trying to load custom.ini
  • UWP: Fix - Mouse input is offset on high DPI monitors
  • UWP: Fix - Keyboard input hangs sometimes
  • UWP: Fix - Multi-touch support
  • UWP: Fix - Enable menu touch input by default
  • UWP: Fix - Get user language
  • UWP: Fix - Get CPU model name
  • UWP: Fix - Use GLUI instead of XMB on Windows Mobile 10
  • UWP: ANGLE OpenGL ES 2 support
(1.8.1)

  • BUGFIX/MENU: Fix menu rendering with Mali GPUs after changing video dimensions
  • CDROM: Adds pregap support to cdfs helper methods
  • CHEEVOS: Provides the new PCEngine hashing algorithm for RetroAchievements
  • LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Initial thumbnail support
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Cutie / Virtual Boy theme added
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Under certain extreme circumstances, entries with very long sublabel strings could have their text prematurely 'clipped' as the entry is scrolled beyond the top of the screen
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Certain setting value strings were unnecessarily truncated (with a ...) when using smooth ticker text
  • MENU/XMB: Sunbeam theme added
  • SWITCH: Accelerometer, gyroscope and illuminance sensor support
  • VITA: Accelerometer and gyroscope sensor support
(1.8.0)

  • AI SERVICE: Added in fix for BMP returns to AI service. Added in label passing to AI service call
  • BSV: Fix BSV recording/playback
  • BUGFIX: Fix crash when setting Thumbnail Directory
  • BUGFIX/STABILITY: Set "Automatically Add Content to Playlist" to false by default, this was unstable on PS3 and Mac and other platforms potentially as well.
  • COMMON: Graceful driver switching for Windows and Linux
  • COMMON: Cache frame before converting 0RGB1555
  • LAKKA: Wi-Fi Access Point settings
  • MENU: Menu scaling improvements
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: There are no longer any animation glitches when 'wraparound' scrolling from the last entry in a list to the first, or when performing horizontal swipe navigation gestures on certain settings-type entries
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: List entries underneath the title and navigation bars are no longer highlighted when touching the title/navigation bars (this was only a cosmetic issue, but it was annoying...)
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: The current menu list is no longer reloaded when pressing the currently active tab on the navigation bar
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: The ticker text spacer has been set to a 'bullet' character (same as Ozone)
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: The default colour theme has been set to 'Ozone Dark'
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Three new colour themes have been added.
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Menu Transition Animation option has been added under User Interface > Appearance. When this is enabled, menu transition events are animated
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: The navigation bar is now shown at all times - i.e. it is an actual navigation tool, rather than a 'top-level-menu' curiosity
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Two new context-sensitive buttons have been added to the navigation bar - back button and resume button
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Auto-Rotate Navigation Bar option has been added under User Interface > Appearance. When enabled (this is the default setting), the navigation bar is moved to the right hand side of the screen when using landscape screen orientations.
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: The playlists tab is now correctly hidden when User Interface > Views > Show Playlist Tabs is disabled
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now correctly readjusts its layout when screen orientation changes on mobile devices
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI now resizes in real-time when the user manually sets the Menu Scale Factor (this never worked properly with the old DPI override)
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Material UI no longer leaks memory on 'context reset' (fonts were previously never free()'d)
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: A new Android-style 'system bar' has been added. This shows current core name, clock and battery level
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: A new search icon is shown on the title bar when viewing playlists and file browser lists. Pressing this launches the search interface
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: The title bar now uses a larger font, and the sublabel font has also been enlarged a little, to more closely align with Material UI standards
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: A number (quite a large number) of layout/spacing issues have been fixed
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: The existing colour theme handling code is not fit for purpose, so the whole lot got ripped out and reimplemented. In doing so, also adjusted all the theme colours to better match Material UI standards - with a few liberties taken for aesthetic purposes.
  • OSD: Fix fast forward indicator when not using menu widgets
  • PSP1: Remove duplicated FPS indicator on the screen
  • SWITCH: Make audren threaded audio driver the new default
  • VIDEO LAYOUT: Add video layout mame overlay compatibility. Enabled for Windows/Linux/OSX/iOS/Android/libnx. Only works with GL driver for now, no glcore yet
(1.7.9) (v2)

  • 3DS: Fix 3DS screen flickering when OSD is enabled
  • IOS: Fix crash that could happen at startup
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Change DPI scaling back to original - too many issues with current implementation, requires a redesign
(1.7.9)

  • AI SERVICE: Image mode is now much faster, it now saves the image in-memory in PNG format then passes it along to the translation service
  • BUGFIX: Touch input - When using an overlay to toggle the quick menu on touchscreen devices, we no longer get 'phantom' menu input - i.e. the old bug of hitting the toggle and instantly resuming content (or performing a save state) is fixed
  • BUGFIX: Networking - RetroArch crashed when pressing left while Relay Server Location entry was selected
  • BUGFIX: Networking - fix memory leak that could happen at exit after a network operation had run
  • CHEEVOS: Improve handling of line endings when calculating CD hashes for retroachievements
  • CHEEVOS: Add support for Sega CD/Saturn; reduce hash calls to server
  • FPGA: Add initial FPGA port for Z-Turn boards - not really release-ready yet, will need community support to continue. Currently employs naive framebuffer approach, not fullspeed
  • GL1: GLDirect (D3D9 to OGL1.1 wrapper) support
  • GONG: Stability fixes
  • LINUX/UDEV: Fix touchscreen/lightgun issues
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: MaterialUI no longer 'forgets' its place when navigating backwards in menus, and navigation in general is 'cleaner'.
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Add initial gesture support
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Improved touch support
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - Random' items are no longer automatically highlighted when performing standard up/down 'flick' scrolling through lists (items are only highlighted when you keep the pointer still for > 200 ms)
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The display no longer 'jerks' for one frame when navigating backwards through lists
  • MENU/MATERIALUI: Bugfix - The Material UI scaling factor is now based upon the device-reported screen DPI value (previously it relied upon a hard-coded magic number, which was never correct)
  • MENU/RGUI: Functional mouse/touchscreen support
  • MENU/ONSCREEN KEYBOARD: On-screen keyboard entry via mouse/touchscreen has been tidied up - no more double inputs (or unwanted menu interaction in the background)
  • MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel up/down is now a proper 'up/down', same as using cursor keys or a dpad
  • MENU/MOUSE: Mouse wheel tilt left/right has been wired up to normal 'left/right' commands. Also further improved mouse wheel tilt
  • MENU/OZONE: Add option to toggle between static and scrolling content metadata
  • MENU/XMB: Add full gesture support
  • MENU/OSX: Fixed mouse buttons - mouse down events were not hooked up
  • MENU: When navigating backwards from a core options drop-down list (i.e. pressing select or cancel), the last menu position is remembered (instead of resetting back to the first core option item each time)
  • MENU: Add mouse/touchscreen gesture support
  • MENU: Add option to delete playlists (Settings > Playlists > Playlist Management)
  • MOBILE (ANDROID/IOS): Add option to automatically rotate overlays when changing orientation
  • OSD: Memory details should now be available on every platform (get_mem_total and get_mem_free need to be implemented in the frontend driver for it to work)
  • OSD: Memory details can now be shown individually without FPS and frame count
  • PS2: Fix memory leaks in font/video driver
  • SWITCH: Set default aspect ratio to core provided instead of 4:3
  • THREADED VIDEO: Fix FPS text in threaded video mode
  • VITA: Set default aspect ratio to core provided instead of 4:3
  • VITA: Add system language detection
  • VITA: More memory support
  • WIN32: Log window now has title 'Logging Console'
  • WII: Add Wiimote lightgun support
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