Actualités - Planet Emulation (2024)

v1.19.0
- 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

v1.18.0
- AI: Fix narrator language when AI translation and menu languages are different
- DISK CONTROL: Add option to disable initial disk change
- DISK CONTROL: Visibility option for disk control notifications
- DRM: Fix mode vrefresh calculation. When using an interlaced/doublescan mode, the vertical refresh rate is mis-calculated.
- EMSCRIPTEN: Fix mouse Y parameter translation in rwebinput
- INPUT: Fix input state combos including R3 and false triggers of RETROK_UNKNOWN
- INPUT: Add a new turbo mode, “Classic (Toggle)”
- INPUT: Fix bind hold when axis does not rest at 0
- INPUT: Limit axis threshold setting to sensible values
- INPUT: Add Overlay Mouse, Lightgun, and Pointer
- INPUT/ANDROID: Fix mouse grab behavior on Android
- INPUT/LINUXRAW: Fix device name and hotplug reconnect
- IOS: Minor iOS JIT availability information
- IOS/TVOS: Pause application on applicationWillResignActive
- LIBRETRO: Add Doxygen-styled comments to parts of the libretro API
- LUA: Update Lua to version 5.3.6
- MENU: Add sublabels for input bind common entries
- MENU: Don’t load history and favorites if size is 0
- MENU: Don’t disable fast forward when entering menu
- MENU: Widget position, size, color, icon adjustments
- MENU: Fix savestate slots in Qt UI
- MENU: Reorder and reduce depth of User Interface menu
- MENU/OZONE: Fix sidebar wraparound, visibility after config load, crash after playlist delete
- MENU/OZONE: Fix sidebar and sublabel animations
- OSX/MACOS: Fix crash on non-Metal build
- OSX/MACOS: Add portable.txt as flag for portable install
- REMOTE RETROPAD: add display for analog axes, indication of inputs already pressed
- SAVES: Allow combining saves in content dir with save sorting
- SHADER: Added rolling scan line simulation based on the shader subframe feature. This is implemented with a scrolling scissor rect rather than in the shader itself as this is more efficient although may not work for every shader pass – we may need an option to exclude certain passes. The implementation simply divides the screen up by the number of sub frames and then moves the scissor rect down over the screen over the number of sub frames
- TVOS: Force asset re-extraction when cache is deleted
- TVOS: Add history and favorites to Top Shelf
- TVOS: Fix crash when history item does not have a label
- UWP: Enable HAVE_ACCESSIBILITY for UWP builds
- UWP: Allow UWP build to work with a modified version of Mesa Gallium D3D12
- VIDEO: Add subframe shader support for Vulkan/GLcore/DX10-11-12, enabling shaders to run at higher framerate than the content
- VIDEO: Fix restoring fullscreen/windowed setting when unloading override
- VIDEO/VULKAN: Fix HDR with Vulkan after reinit
- VIDEO/VULKAN: Remove the use of oldSwapchain
- VIDEO/GL2: Fix OpenGL ES version detection
- WEBDAV: Fixed SEGFAULT in WebDav task sync + type changes
- WEBOS: Fix build, add core location on webosbrew.org
- WIN32: Fix Alt+Enter not working when menubar is disabled

Fixes:
- Fix "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error
- Fix missing 'reminiscence' and 'devilutionx' rom folders
- Fix RetroArch 'video_swap_interval' default value (was 1 instead of 0)
- Delete ps3.keys (was assigning R1 button to middle mouse)
- Fix TI99/4a information (year + name)
- Fix duckstation internal postprocessing filter options
- Fix PCSX2 mouse cursor (enable the option to set crosshairs to NONE)
- Fix missing END in hypinput.ini
- Fix .png extension for pico8 with retroarch

Features:
- Renaming and reorganization of features for Mednafen
- Citra/Lime3DS : Add screen layouts + texture filter feature
- Add -outputs=win command line option to supermodel (for mamehooker)
- FBNEO : add on option to use alternative gamepad indexes if a dolphinbar is connected
- FBNEO : if controls mapping is not found for a rom in fbneo.yml, search the parent rom
- DUCKSTATION : add option to force BIOS to use
- BIGPEMU : add controller autoconfiguration (based on dinput)
- SUPERMODEL : add possibility to run in borderless window instead of fullscreen (can be useful for lightgun games)

Other:
- Add casio loopy to screenscraper
- Maj WIKI (teknoparrot + new features)
- Align shortcut for MESEN & Ares to take screenshots to hotkey + R3
- Updated WIKI for symbian games
- Align hotkey + R3 for screenshots in some emulators

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a crash that occured when Single Archive option was used with DATs that contained CHDs
- Fixed a crash due to processing corrupt 7z archives in ToSort
- Fixed a startup crash when more than 32 CPU cores are detected
- Fixed a bug that caused the status log to close after a fix was complete when using the “scan, find, fix” shortcut
- Updated the default setting for Max ZSTD Workers to “Auto”
- Added a missing status when a file needs to be deleted but its flagged as MIA in the DAT

Fixes:
- Disable « rewind » feature with ppsspp libretro core ==> the feature is incompatible and was generating black screen on many games
- Fix libretro-ppsspp language feature
- Fix FPinball features
- Fix Cemu and Ryujinx autoconfig for new XBOX controllers with updated firmware
- Fix Mame64 controller index autoconfiguration
- Fix openBor custom version exit error message
- Fix Mame2016 corrupted cheat.zip file
- Fix Dolphin borderless fullscreen being always overwritten
- Update MAME hash files with 0.264 files
- Fix citra controllers autoconfiguration
- Add option to disable controller auto-configuration to demul-old
- Switch : fix handheld mode
- lr-opera : fix BIOS selection
- lr-swanstation : fix ratio setting
- libretro-fbneo : fix overclock feature
- MAME : do not delete default.cfg anymore
- Fix keyboard auto-configuration for Mesen standalone
- RPCS3 : align features with latest version from 04/05/2024

Features:
- lr-citra : add « virtual SD card » and option to disable hardware renderer
- lr-ppsspp : remove deprecated features
- Add Chihiro CXBX features
- Add pad2key to VPinball
- RPCS3 add option to force SDL driver for Xinput controllers
- Add shaders to Ares
- Cemu : Add option to use XInput api for XInput controllers
- Add ports options for MAME/MESS computers (mostly joysticks)
- Add new games to FBNEO standalone autoconfiguration (still many to add !)
- Add possibility to create a .gameexe file next to a windows shortcut (in windows games) to specify the game executable RetroBat should check before returning to ES
- Add possibility to create a .uwp file next to a windows shortcut to precise the name of the UWP App that is launched with the shortcut and let RetroBat find the right executable to monitor
- Add custom resolutions to ryujinx (0.5 and 0.8)
- MESS systems : Add ability to add a boot command in a .autorun file (must be placed near the game rom file with the same name)
- DOLPHIN : add option to disable Gamecube controller when using real wiimotes (fixes control issues for games such as Goldeneye 007)
- MAME: add -output option (windows or network)
- Add choice of device for EKA2L1
- OpenBOR : add possibility to run specific versions that have a different executable name than openbor.exe
- PSXMAME – add analog to dpad option
- Add .zip and .7z extensions to BigPEmu, Bizhawk, Dolphin, Duckstation, Jynx, Mednafen and PPSSPP
- Add features to libretro pce, pcecd and pcfx cores (6-button pad + disable sprite limit)
- Add RetroAchievements to Flycast standalone
- Add video driver option for BigPEmu

Interface:
- Add option to not override game name when scrapping

Other stuff
- Enable disk spanning for installer
- Add option to install dependencies in RetroBat installer

Bandai - WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color
- Minor fixes to v30mz CPU emulation
- Emulate 32KB SRAM for '8KB' type cartridges
- Implement Sound Test register bits 1,2 and 3

Nintendo - NES / Famicom
- Improved 6502 CPU emulation; all unofficial opcodes are now supported
- Fix APU frame counter emulation
- Various improvements to APU emulation
- Implement correct 6502 reset timing

Nintendo - Nintendo 64
- Fix an issue where saved data from the current game could be duplicated into the next
- Fix an issue where the Real Time Clock may not function correctly depending on the user's local time zone

Nintendo - Game Boy Advance
- Implement that the last cycle of the prefetcher cannot be interrupted
- Implement correct ROM mirroring for Famicom Mini / Classic NES series
- Improve handling of SRAM/Flash bus
- Fix the timing of initial DMA wait cycles

Sega Mega Drive / CD / 32X
- Lower sync interval between MD and 32X: improves emulation accuracy but does reduce performance

Sony - PlayStation
- Update the blitter to operate on a copy of the framebuffer; fixes potential threading issues

ruby (Audio/Video/Input abstraction layer)
- Added a native Metal backend for macOS with VRR support
- Implemented latency selection in SDL audio driver
- Removed the built-in Blur shader, using the bilinear slang shader is preferred
- Removed non-hardware accelerated video drivers (any platform capable of running ares should at least have OpenGL, D3D or Metal available)
- Reduce CPU usage on the video thread by using a condition variable rather than a spinlock
- Add support for connecting a Mouse on macOS (for emulating SNES mouse, etc)
- Remove tight loops in SDL and OpenAL drivers, reducing CPU usage when using these drivers.

User Interface
- Fix an issue where nested slang shaders were not available in the UI