RetroArch 1.19.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here.

Changelog

RetroArch 1.19.0 has just been released. Changes 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 its enabled when it isnt 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 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 dont feel comfortable tweaking libretro-commons 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 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: Dont load history and favorites if size is 0 MENU: Dont 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 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 WIN32: Fix Alt+Enter not working when menubar is disabled

We added a new core, Dosbox Pure. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 65 now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3005610/RetroArch__DOSBox_Pure/ DOSBox Pure is a hard fork of the multiplatform MS-DOS emulator. It was built by Psyraven in 2020 specifically for RetroArch/Libretro and implements advanced features like save states, an on-screen keyboard, highly customizable controller setup or rewinding. DOSBox Pure aims for simplicity and ease of use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkIz4-SewI

We added a new core, Geolith. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 62 now. Geolith is a highly accurate core for a popular console/arcade system released in the early 1990s, and surviving into the mid 2000s. It is written in modern C and takes a unique approach compared to other emulators for this system. This core focuses on providing a user experience similar to a traditional home console, both by defaulting to home console mode and the use of single-file game files. However, despite this focus, it also maintains full support for playing games in arcade form. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2857800/RetroArch__Geolith/

RetroArch 1.17 expands Netplay to support playing multiplayer games that were originally played on two or more separate consoles or computers connected together. This is currently supported by two cores: DOSBox Pure (not available on Steam) and gpSP (available on Steam). https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227468/RetroArch__gpSP/ In DOSBox Pure it is now possible to play DOS and early Windows multiplayer games that used IPX, Ethernet or a modem over the internet. In gpSP, games that support the Wireless Adapter can also benefit from this feature, although only a subset of games work well at the moment. Those curious about more details can read David G.F.s article about the gpSP implementation here. In order to use this new functionality just use the regular Netplay menu, where you can host and/or join netplay games. It works seamless with the existing Netplay feature (including lobbies) with no additional settings required. Make sure however, that you use the same or compatible games, since this wont be automatically enforced.

RetroArch 1.17.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here. We also added a new core, PX68K. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 61 now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227463/RetroArch__PX68k/

Changelog

• ACCESSIBILITY/TTS: fix target language and missing espeak handling on Linux
• AI: AI service reworked: performance increase, automatic translation, configurable subtitle placement, and more
• APPLE: Fix WebDAV crash with digest auth (Cloud Sync)
• APPLE: Cloud sync fixes
• ignore .DS_Store files and re-sync on app foreground
• APPLE: Don't re-create default directories
• APPLE: Show Git information correctly
• AUDIO/SYNC: Handle Hz skew adjustment for high refresh rates better (BFI, swap interval)
• AUDIO/MIXER: Separate ffmpeg/mpv and audiomixer conditionals
• AUDIO/WASAPI: Reworked shared buffer operation for more flexibility, fixed exclusive mode last buffer looping when entering menu
• CONFIG/OVERRIDES: Fix setting savefile_directory in override file
• CONFIG: Force fixed locale for numbers
• CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 11.0
• CHEEVOS: Use rc_client for state management
• CHEEVOS: Don't track disc changes when achievements are disabled
• CHEEVOS: Reinitialize rewind buffer after loading game with achievements
• CHEEVOS: Inform user when server is unreachable
• CHEEVOS: Fix crash on first load of game with achievements with threaded video
• EMSCRIPTEN: Increase chunk size for reads/writes
• EMSCRIPTEN: Modularize the JavaScript and clean up the web build
• EMSCRIPTEN: Prefix core name with libretro_ for exports
• EMSCRIPTEN: replace dashes with underscores in corenames (fix for vitaquake cores)
• EMSCRIPTEN: Use ZipFS for web player asset bundle
• EMSCRIPTEN: Change default audio rate to 44100
• INPUT: Fix ghost input when setting RETROK_UNKNOWN
• INPUT: Default 'Bind Hold' to 0 to prevent problems with controllers not resting at null state
• INPUT: Add a setting to allow turbo d-pad directions
• INPUT: Don't save mouse buttons to autoconfig
• INPUT/MENU: Add option for merging 'Hotkey Enable' device types
• INPUT/mFI: disable secondary_joypad to prevent issues with controllers detected both as HID and mFI
• INPUT/UDEV: Change event detection to polling in udev_joypad
• INPUT/WAYLAND: Use unaccelerated pointer motion to prevent mouse dead zone
• LAKKA: Add new menu options for Switch (overclock, CEC, BT ERTM)
• LIBRETRO: Add environment command to get playlist path
• LIBRETRO/NETPACKET: Switch environment call number from 76 to 78 (retire 76 as it was never used by any core) Simplify broadcasts by removing the option to send to all but one client, use an explicit RETRO_NETPACKET_BROADCAST constant instead Separate explicit flushing and querying of incoming packet into two operations Enable a core to specify a protocol version string which can get used instead of core version to determine compatibility between two players Log and notify a separate message when there is a content crc mismatch while using this interface to convey it being less severe
• MENU: Fix menu analog stick navigation (1.16.0.1)
• MENU: Add option to find thumbnail images by playlist rom filename (1.16.0.2)
• MENU: Don't process menu events while input is being flushed (1.16.0.2)
• MENU: Prevent proceeding to next bind when single binding (1.16.0.3)
• MENU: Fix touchscreen menu false positives in case of overlap
• MENU: Sort playlists ignoring extension (Playstation 2 should come after Playstation)
• MENU: Treat System Volume Information folder as hidden on all platforms
• MENU: Add Belarusian language option
• MENU: Fix savestate thumbnail behavior when navigating back to playlist while content is still running
• MENU: Fix word wrapped widget length
• MENU: Add help text to controller drivers
• MENU: Fix quit on content close option
• MENU: Fix thumbnails in History for content loaded through Load Content
• MENU: Flexible thumbnail matching (ROM name
• database name
• short name)
• MENU: Remove legacy thumbnail pack downloader
• MENU/GLUI: Icon corrections
• MENU/OZONE: Thumbnail related fixes (missing thumbnail bar, fullscreen thumbnail flashing, sidebar focus)
• MENU/RGUI: Fix text scaling in 16:9
• MENU/XMB: Background images take precedence over color themes, default image opacity set the same as color theme opacity
• MENU/XMB: Fix segmentation fault when background image is missing
• MENU/XMB: Several corrections and cleanups
• MENU/XMB: Layout/thumbnail fixes
• Thumbnail layout adjustments, Header title improvements, Handheld layout adjustments
• NETWORKING/NETPLAY: Add support for joining MITM servers from command line
• NETWORKING/NETPACKET: Interface connection flow improvements
• OSX: Fix mouse support for MelonDS DS on OSX
• OSX: Option to create a portable build
• PATCHES: Add support for XDelta-formatted patches.
• PATCHES: Fix patching for cores that support contentless mode
• RUNLOOP: Frame Rest, experimental sleep feature aiming to lower CPU usage and temperature when using certain CPU hungry vsync modes
• SCAN: Do CRC check on PSP/PSP(PSN) content
• VIDEO/BFI: Black Frame Insertion added to DirectX10/11/12. BFI Hz range now covers every 60hz multiple under 1000hz. Variable Strobe length via new 'Dark Frames' option, algorithm to auto select 'decent' Dark Frames choice.
• VIDEO/GLSL: Add FinalViewportSize support to GLSL
• VIDEO/GLSL: Change rotation type to int to maximize compatibility
• VIDEO: Use video refresh rate instead of core refresh rate for menu frame limiting
• VIDEO: Limit paused video refresh rate
• VIDEO: Enforce swap interval 1 in menu if vsync is on
• WIN32: Prefer D3D11 and WASAPI as default video and audio drivers
• WIN32: Fix window size when aspect ratio is < 0
• WIN32: Fix screen resolution always tied to the main monitor
• WAYLAND: Enable fallback for screensaver inhibit via D-Bus
• WAYLAND: Introduce wp_fractional_scale_v1 protocol for proper fractional scaling
• WAYLAND: Update wayland-protocols version to 1.31

RetroArch 1.16.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here.

Changelog

• AUDIO: Fast-Forward Audio Resampling
• AUDIO: Reinit audio on audio sync toggle
• AUDIO: Count audio samples in stats when rate control is disabled
• AUDIO/PULSEAUDIO: Support device list for PulseAudio
• AUDIO/WASAPI: WASAPI Frame Delay fix + cleanups
• AUDIO/WASAPI/MIDI: Frame Delay correction
• ARCHIVE/ZIP: Improve ZIP decompression This reduces the amount of memory Retroarch needs to extract a ROM file. It will only need the size of the ROM plus 128KiB to extract the file from the ZIP. Previously it needed as much as twice that amount if the compression ratio was not great. This is useful on memory constrained platforms and has no impact on platforms with plenty of memory. Handles all cases correctly (with and without MMAP, for cores that require fullpath or not, small and big ZIP files).
• APPLE: Add default keyboard overlay directory to platform_darwin
• APPLE: Update to MoltenVK 1.2.4
• APPLE: Don't include MoltenVK library in Load Core menu list
• APPLE: Enable AltServer JIT for builds installed by Xcode
• APPLE: The default pthread stack size on Apple is too small for detect_ps2_game, so increase it
• CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.7
• CHEEVOS: Don't initialize rcheevos memory unless used
• CHEEVOS: Add progress tracker widget
• CHEEVOS: Eliminate leaderboard tracker stutter
• CHEEVOS: Expand leaderboard visibility settings
• CHEEVOS: Collapse trackers with same value definition
• CHEEVOS: prevent frame step when hitting rewind button while paused in hardcore
• CHEEVOS: disallow video_swap_interval and black_frame_insertion in hardcore
• CRT/SWITCHRES: Don't always force core aspect ratio
• CRT/SWITCHRES: Fix aspect ratio for tate games on a horizontal screen
• CRT/SWITCHRES: Add PAL threshold option for automatic refresh rate switch
• CRT/SWITCHRES/KMS: Add KMS modeswitch
• COMMAND: Make cmd interface more useful for replay information
• CONFIG: Allow all systems to check for backslashes (Windows) as last slash in path. Improves portable core logic
• D3D11: Fix memory corruption in d3d11_gfx_init
• D3D12: Enable blending when drawing the menu
• D3D12: Move fence signaling out of d3d12_gfx_sync
• D3D12/LIBRETRO: Add D3D12 HW_render support
• DOWNLOADS/THUMBNAILS: Prevent directory creation on bogus thumbnail downloads
• EMSCRIPTEN: Fix Emscripten sleep function/macro
• EMSCRIPTEN/RWEBAUDIO: Fix RWebAudioInit race condition
• EMSCRIPTEN/OPENAL: Make openal default audio driver
• FFMPEG: Fix RetroArch fails to restart streaming when video re-inits and instead starts recording
• FRAMESKIP: Use refresh rate instead of core fps for frameskip timing
• INPUT: Combo hold + 'enable_hotkey' correction. Fixed issue with having menu toggle hold combo in different button than 'enable_hotkey', which caused 'enable_hotkey' to also act as menu toggle if held long enough, and simplified and unified duplicate code in start+select holds to a single function.
• INPUT: input_keyboard_event: Don't check hotkey binds when device is RETRO_DEVICE_POINTER
• INPUT: Add input_keymaps_translate_rk_to_ascii() for correct character input to input_keyboard_event
• INPUT: input_overlay_poll: Delay clearing INPUT_OVERLAY_BLOCKED flag until there is no overlay input (Avoids stray input after osk_toggle)
• INPUT: Send keyboard events for modifiers before other keys (for correct modifier+key input if hitboxes overlap)
• INPUT: Remember currently set keyboard mapping bits during same config read, because otherwise customized keybinds can get cleared out of the bits on the next iteration, causing keyboard events to get passed to the core when they should get blocked.
• INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Reinit after updating autoconf profiles
• INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Log mouse devices in info level
• INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: First working version of udev driver with touchscreen support and gestures.
• INPUT/WAYLAND: Add wayland to input driver list
• INPUT/MENU: move port X binds into retropad binds submenu and add appropriate help text and sublabels to discourage people from messing around in there unnecessarily
• INPUT/MENU: Add menu icons to 'RetroPad Binds'
• INPUT/MENU/OSK: Allow more keyboard actions with menu osk
• INPUT/REMAP: Remap label fix when no autoconf profile active
• INPUT/REMAP: Add 'Save As' option for remaps and overrides
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Add overlay parameter to control x/y separation in auto-scale mode
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Revive/rewrite Keyboard Overlay and OSK Toggle. Add keyboard overlay preset, keyboard submenu, and osk_toggle hotkey. Use overlay caching for osk_toggle.
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Overlay Caching. Adds overlay_cache_ptr to keep a disabled overlay in memory when it's expected to be shown again. Most input_overlay_deinit calls are replaced with input_overlay_unload, which caches the overlay unless initing/deiniting core or disabling overlays. Loading a cached overlay is done as a swap, intended for osk_toggle.
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Add input_overlay_check_mouse_cursor() to preserve show/hide mouse behavior
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Don't apply input_overlay_show_mouse_cursor in windowed mode (controlled by mouse grab only)
• INPUT/REMAPPING: Stop always reseting to defaults on remap delete
• INPUT/SDL: Fix rumble on PS4/PS5 controllers connected via bluetooth
• INTL: Fix language detection in Canada to English
• LANGEXTRA: Enable language autodetect for all builds with LANGEXTRA
• LIBRETRO: Add new context hardware render enums - enables autodetection of DX12 for PS2 core
• LIBRETRO: Add API to check JIT availability on iOS
• LIBRETRO: Allow RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_MEMORY_MAPS also after core startup. Change the comment in libretro.h about the removed limit and handle the environment call during core runtime in RetroArch.
• LIBRETRO/MICROPHONE: Add new API for microphone support.
• LIBRETRO: Add new API for querying the device's power state.
• LIBRETRO/VFS: Rewrite retro_vfs_file_remove_impl
• LINUX: Input driver fix 8+ joypads. It was reported that controllers beyond 8 worked only partially (analogs yes, but not buttons), and the found fix was also confirmed.
• MIDI: Show MIDI output first
• MENU: Reorganize 'Saving' menu
• MENU: Start directory browsing from current value
• MENU: Fix menu toggle combo hold with same 'enable_hotkey'
• MENU: Add menu scroll home+end actions
• MENU: Move 'systemfiles_in_content_dir' from Saving to Core
• MENU: Menu navigation acceleration adjustments
• MENU: Audio synchronization menu cleanup
• MENU: Menu value label cleanup
• MENU: Show playlist history/favorites icons by default
• MENU: Remove advanced option flag from video rotation + orientation
• MENU: Combine audio resampler menu with audio output menu
• MENU: Microphone menu cleanup
• MENU: Add missing menu visibility option for content dir override
• MENU: Fix menu refresh in action_ok_network
• MENU: Video settings menu cleanup
• MENU: Try to declutter Quick Menu
• MENU: Change network port menu options to 'allow_input' mode
• MENU: Preselect current core in "Set Core Assocation" menu for more carefree usage
• MENU: Focus back to "Set Core Association" item after returning from the menu instead of first item
• MENU: Replaced hack fix for focusing the first item after returning from core suggestion "Run" menu after association reset
• MENU: Fixed setting core association in history/favorites after resetting it and running without setting
• MENU: Relocate playlist manager core association options to prevent accidental resets with Start
• MENU: Fraction setting wraparound rounding correction
• MENU: Add more missing sublabels
• MENU: 'Updater Settings' relocation
• MENU: Search box usability improvements
• MENU/RGUI: Implement 'Remember Selection' option
• MENU/RGUI: Fix savestate thumbnail fullscreen cancel action
• MENU/RGUI: Fix and add toggle for playlist thumbnails
• MENU/OZONE: Update Dracula theme
• MENU/OZONE: Return to sidebar from playlist manage quick access
• MENU/OZONE: Sidebar multiline scrolling
• MENU/OZONE: Avoid crash if ozone sidebar_index_size is 0
• MENU/OZONE: Prevent metadata and footer overlap
• MENU/OZONE: Sublabel width tweak
• MENU/OZONE: Mouse hover selection fix
• MENU/XMB: Message/help box adjustments
• MENU/XMB: XMB menu playlist index bugfix
• MENU/XMB: Playlist label limit fixes
• MENU/XMB: Prevent playlist label truncating long items even when right thumbnail is not enabled/visible
• MENU/XMB: Prevent playlist label length resetting to full width on every item change while thumbnail is pending
• MENU/XMB: Stop showing playlist entry index outside of playlists
• MENU/XMB: Fix menu focus issue when returning from "Set Core Association" if playlist index is greater than the previous menu
• MENU/EXPLORE: Prevent flashing when browsing fullscreen thumbnails
• MENU/EXPLORE: Match label ticker length behavior with playlists
• MENU/SOUNDS: Fix certain audio drivers from hanging when menu pause is enabled with menu sounds
• MENU/SOUNDS: Fix menu sounds stopping after fullscreen toggle / video reinit
• MENU/QT/WIMP: Cleanup Desktop Menu welcome text
• MENU/OVERLAYS: Reorder overlay menu
• MICROPHONE: Add support for microphones.
• MICROPHONE/ALSA: Add alsa and alsathread microphone drivers.
• MICROPHONE/SDL: Add sdl2 microphone driver.
• MICROPHONE/WASAPI: Add wasapi microphone driver.
• MOBILE: On mobile in portrait mode, don't override custom viewport
• NETWORKING: Enhance netpacket interface
• NETWORKING/NETPLAY: Enable core host to refuse connecting new players to limit the number of connected players
• NETWORKING/NETPLAY: Enable a core to flush outgoing packets and read incoming packets without waiting for the next frame (can be used for lower latency or blocking reads)
• OPENDINGUX/RG350: Enable networking for RG350
• OPENGL/WAYLAND: Add frame callback after egl_swap_buffers to improve latency when max_swapchain <= 2
• OSD/STATISTICS: Show current video + audio drivers in statistics
• OSD/STATISTICS: Ensure statistics text is aligned left
• OSX/MACOS: Fix steam OSX core path
• OSX/MACOS: Add HAVE_STDIN_CMD support
• OSX/MACOS: fix mouse grab in windowed mode
• OSX/MACOS/IOS/TVOS: Enable SSL in macos/ios/tvos builds
• PLAYLIST: Change default playlist last played time format
• RUNLOOP: Don't count frames while paused
• SERENITYOS: Add SerenityOS to the list of supported operating systems
• SCANNER: Improve scanner console output
• SCANNER: More scanner console output coloring
• SCANNER: Improve CLI scan console output
• SCANNER: Add content import/scan via CLI
• SCANNER/PS1: Serial extraction is now considered a failure if PSX.EXE is found, allowing CRC fallback and actually fixing the game scanning
• VIDEO: Correct rotated core provided aspect ratio
• VIDEO: Minor adjustments to refresh rate switch behavior
• VIDEO: Fix windowed viewport with libretro rotation
• VIDEO/SDL2: Use "nearest" scaling in menus
• TASKS: Fix corrupt task progress percentage
• XVIDEO/MENU: Add menu support to xvideo gfx driver, making it usable
• UWP: Fix modifier keys ( shift, ctrl, alt ) as well as F10 not being detected on the UWP platform
• VULKAN: Ignore Fast-Forward Frameskip option
• VULKAN/KHR_DISPLAY: Support screen refresh rate with Vulkan KHR_Display context
• WIN32: Increase maximum window limit
• WIN32/WINDOWSXP/MSVC2010: Fix invisible menu display
• WAYLAND: Remove splash screen
• WAYLAND: Check for pointer before locking it
• WAYLAND: Add mouse grab/lock functionality
• WAYLAND: Get system wayland-protocols path via pkg-config

We added a new core, DirkSimple. This brings the total number of available cores on Steam to 60 now. DirkSimple is a core written from scratch by icculus, one of the original creators/maintainers of popular open source projects like SDL. It can play some of the 1980s LaserDisc arcade games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2342900/RetroArch__DirkSimple/?curator_clanid=35417007 [previewyoutube=GACe_kG58Fw;full][/previewyoutube]

RetroArch 1.15.0 updated

Link to our full blog article here, snippet below - A new concept were going to try, well see if it lasts. Expect irregular blog posts like this, whenever something is on our mind that we want to share. Its basically like a development diary where we discuss future plans for upcoming versions and what we have been thinking about doing. Raising the lowest common denominator RetroArch pushes the concept of backwards compatibility to an absolute extreme. Its one of our definite pet peeves and something were quite proud of. The degree to which we push this is quite irregular in the modern day software industry but we believe it differentiates us from the rest of the pack, and in a good way. That being the case, recently we believe that in order to improve the out of the box enduser experience, it is perhaps necessary to start making some general baseline assumptions on what endusers realistically are using in terms of hardware. Lets explain what is behind this idea. The Steam Mac version was a good opportunity for us to establish some minimum baseline system requirements to make sure that RetroArch on Mac would run well out of the box. We have some plans for the Windows version which we hope will provide a much better out of the box experience. To learn more about them, read our blog article here on our website.

RetroArch 1.15.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here.

Now available for macOS

• Your Mac should be running macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later. It is technically possible to try to run it on a version as low as macOS 10.11 (El Capitan), but in order to use it with all features reliably working wed recommend 10.13 or later.
• Your GPU should at least support the Apple Metal 2 graphics API. This is because Vulkan is the default video driver, which in turn relies on MoltenVK. MoltenVK is a Vulkan to Metal abstraction layer which converts Vulkan API calls to Metal. Therefore, a GPU that supports the Metal graphics API is essential for an optimal out of the box experience. Thankfully, most Macs produced in the past 10 years should be able to meet this requirement. If you want to know if your Mac meets the minimum Metal requirements, refer to this page here. TLDR you should be good to go with a Mac that came out mid 2012 or later.

New cores added

Changelog

• AI SERVICE: Fix NVDA switching to Powershell on speak
• APPLE: Add App Category to a few places it should have been
• APPLE/MFI: Prevent crash when controller player index is unset (-1)
• AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Helped delay to decrease easier when it should and helped delay to stay put when it should when triggering pause & menu with or without pause & fast-forward & slow-motion & geometry change
• AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Recalibrate delay on video reinit (fullscreen toggle and such)
• AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Show (x effective) only in menu item and not in dropdown list items when auto is enabled
• CHEEVOS: Allow repositioning of RetroAchievement notifications
• CHEEVOS/MENU: Add Achievements Visibility submenu option
• CHEEVOS/MENU: Startup Summary split off from Verbose Mode, added option to hide for games with zero core cheevos
• CHEEVOS/MENU: 'Unlocks/Mastery' split into two options
• CHEEVOS/MENU: 'Account/Login Messages' split off from 'Verbose', gated all login success/error messages
• CONFIG/INPUT: Unload restores current global config
• CONFIG/INPUT/OVERRIDES: Removing a file does not unload current override
• CONFIG/INPUT/OVERRIDES: Saving an empty override removes the file if it exists, and won't save when it does not
• CONFIG/INPUT/OVERRIDES: Prevent the use of RUNLOOP_FLAG_OVERRIDES_ACTIVE with appendconfig
• CORE OPTION: Core option setting type checks. Added checks for getting and setting core option type, since otherwise there will be a crash on close content after browsing to core option categories. Also fixed the no-show switch icon for lone wolf "Lock Installed Core".
• CLI: Update selected save slot when start with cli --entryslot
• CLI: Decouple config CLI append and config overrides
• CLI/MENU/XMB: Stop showing bogus previous icon on CLI launch
• D3D9: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
• D3D10: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
• D3D11: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
• D3D11: Fixed build when HAVE_DXGI_HDR is not defined
• D3D11: Moved waitable swapchain waiting to happen always even when resizing swapchain
• D3D12: Fixed display driver scissoring implementation - can now accept 0 width/height
• D3D12: Fixed window scaling issue, which was caused by swapchain resize function not using the same flags (waitable swapchain) as swapchain creation
• D3D12: Fixed swapchain scissoring issue (visual + crash) after manually resizing window to smaller size
• D3D12: Fixed eventual crashing issue on video reinit when swapchain is being freed
• D3D12: Moved waitable swapchain waiting to happen always even when resizing swapchain
• EMSCRIPTEN: Add HAVE_PATCH support for Emscripten
• EMSCRIPTEN: Add BSV/Replay support for Emscripten
• EMSCRIPTEN: Add command and stdin_cmd features to emscripten RA. update libretro.js to show how commands could be sent over emscripten stdin.
• FRAME DELAY/MENU: Show Frame Delay without VSync
• GENERAL: Start unpause restriction. Limit the feature using retropad start button to unpause RA to the setting it was made for; "pause on controller disconnect".
• GENERAL: Savestate thumbnail aspect ratio fallback. Thanks to at least one certain core that announces aspect ratio as 0, we have to add the same fallback in savestate thumbnails that is happening elsewhere in normal video driver use anyway.
• GENERAL: Add support for system subdirs per core/database. Added the trivial and graceful automatic ability to send a different system directory to cores if it exists, for keeping the system dir more sane. First by using the core/library name just like in configs and saves, and then by playlist name, like in thumbnails, and of course default to the current global system dir.
• GENERAL: Ignore system subdir replacement if subdir has subdirs.
• GENERAL: Restore cached video driver always on quit
• LATENCY/PREEMPTIVE FRAMES: Add Preemptive Frames to Latency Settings. RunAhead alternative that reruns core logic to "rewrite history" before the current frame. Frames are only rerun when the controller state changes, so it's faster overall.
• LATENCY/PREEMPTIVE FRAMES: Call retro_run before retro_serialize (#14893). Fixes preemptive frames not starting up with a few cores
• LOCALIZATION: Updates
• LOCALIZATION: Enable localization of video rotation, orientation, and aspect ratio option values.
• LOCALIZATION: Mixer stream localization also added
• LOCALIZATION/MENU/HELP: Context dependent help text for audio and video drivers. Language corrections
• LOCALIZATION/MENU/LANGUAGE: Language submenu now shows the progress of translated strings for each language.
• LOCALIZATION: Help texts now localizable through Crowdin.
• LIBRETRO: Enable RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_SUPPORT_NO_GAME for libretro-video-processor
• LIBRETRO/HW: Add GET_HW_CONTEXT_NEGOTIATION_INTERFACE_SUPPORT. Works around issues in v1 interface where it was not possible to query what frontend would do when faces with newer interface versions. This env-call gives stronger guarantees how things have to work.
• INPUT: Allowing keyboard hotkeys to work without hotkey modifier if modifier is only mapped to RetroPad
• INPUT: Allowing keyboard hotkey keys for typing if hotkey modifier is set to keyboard but not pressed
• INPUT: Allowing keyboard RetroPad keys for typing if emulated device type is "None"
• INPUT/BLUETOOTH: Fix a crash in for BT HID devices. (#14922) pad_connection_destroy() frees slots, no need to free it again.
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't start video recording when BSV recording starts
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't double-record inputs in BSV recording
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't autoload states if a BSV file is being played back or recorded
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Moved BSV initialization before autoload code
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Don't trigger autoload code if there is bsv movie state
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Allow for both -e and -R to start a BSV file recording at a state
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add keyboard recording support to BSV
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Fix BSV playback from a starting state for DOSbox
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Associate states with replays. Now states can be saved and loaded during replay recording and playback in a way that keeps the integrity of the recording. Recordings also have a (moderately) unique identifier associated with them.
• INPUT/BSV/REPLAY: Add checkpointing feature for replay recordings. If cores are not deterministic, or if they only have bounded determinism, we can obtain less drift if replay files also contain periodic checkpoint states. These are configured by the new retroarch setting replay_checkpoint_interval (measured in seconds). States are inserted into the replay file in between frames. This also fixes the settings display for the replay autoincrement max keep setting.
• INPUT/FRAMEADVANCE: Use non-rendering pause mode when frameadvance is triggered
• INPUT/HOTKEYS/OVERLAYS: Do not block input overlay hotkeys
• INPUT/HOTKEYS: Hotkey blocking correction. Turned out the previous hotkey blocking changes worked properly only with winraw driver and not the rest (at least with Windows), because input_keyboard_event() could be called at the wrong moment, and thus storing keyboard menu press there broke the separation of controller Guide menu button and keyboard menu key. Also allowed the blocking to work in both directions so that controller hotkeys won't get blocked if only keyboard has "enable_hotkey" bind.
• INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Fix udev guns input when id_mouse is not id_joystick
• MENU: Rename 'Standalone Cores' to 'Contentless Cores'
• MENU: Music files should also obey builtin_mediaplayer_enable (#14967) Disabling the built in media player should be possible for music files as well. Without this, sound files can not be opened from file browser with cores that support them.
• MENU: Relocated items to a more logical order
• MENU: Corrected some title capitalizations (when/before/after are not low case, but for/the/a are)
• MENU/AUDIO: Add dropdown menu for audio device
• MENU/HELP: Help for turbo modes (#14919). Help text added for each of the selectable turbo modes.
• MENU/INPUT: Add unified back action to all menu drivers. Usability boost for all menu drivers resulting in similar behavior as with Ozone currently, which is pressing back/cancel enough the selection jumps first to Main Menu and when pressed again jumps to the first item, so that when a core is running, Quick Menu is very quickly accessible from anywhere. And when core is not running, the first item would be Load Core.
• MENU/INPUT: Override bind save + menu manager overhaul
• MENU/INPUT: Allowed and fixed input bind saving to overrides
• MENU/INPUT: Overhauled override menu
• MENU/INPUT: Pressing Start on the top active file entry reloads current overrides as startup would
• MENU/SUBLABELS: All under "Configuration File" + moved "Reset to Defaults" to bottom
• MENU/SUBLABELS: Quick Menu > Controls > Port x Controls
• MENU/SUBLABELS: Port x Controls > Device Type
• MENU/RGUI: Fix disabled menu item color. The effect was not working properly, since transparency meant using the core output color as background.
• MENU/XMB: Fixed playlist manager icons to take Explore Views into account properly
• MENU/XMB: Changed XMB Explore View title to match Ozone
• MENU/XMB: Added "Switch Icons" option
• MENU/XMB: Fix MENU_ACTION_CANCEL when search is active. Nasty issue discovered in XMB which broke search term cancelation.
• MENU/XMB: Layout corrections:
• MENU/XMB: More room for longer item labels and values
• MENU/XMB: "Core Downloader" has extra space for item and "installed" indicator
• MENU/XMB: Fixed "Menu Scale Factor" to not require restarting to get the actual end result
• MENU/XMB: Adjusted scale factor to behave better with both layouts
• MENU/XMB: Fixed savestate thumbnails and adjusted vertical fade factor in "Handheld" layout
• MENU/XMB: Changed thumbnail shadow to outline and tightened fullscreen thumbnail margins
• MENU/XMB: Adjusted global shadow opacity
• MENU/XMB: Remove "Framebuffer opacity" from XMB as it does not use it. Also, rename the corresponding menu title, since "framebuffer" is not that intuitive.
• MENU/OZONE: Fixed playlist manager icons to take Explore Views into account properly
• MENU/OZONE: Refresh thumbnail on close content hotkey
• MENU/OZONE: Ozone footer enhancements (#14926). Add Help button (Select) and Reset to Default (Start) to footer where applicable.
• MENU/OZONE: Ozone footer enhancements (#14934). Display Help footer only if there is actual info to be displayed, either actual help, or sublabel if it is not visible otherwise.
• MENU/OZONE: Ozone footer enhancement: Scan button (#14949). Display Scan button in footer when it is applicable.
• MENU/OZONE: Add Clear button to Ozone footer (#14947). Add indication of Clear button when it is applicable (currently: keybinds).
• MENU/MATERIALUI: Added missing Favorites+History icons in playlist manager
• MENU/MATERIALUI: Added "Switch Icons" option
• MENU/CHEATS: Added missing icons in cheats (Delete + Copy After/Before)
• MENU/CHEATS: Fixed label capitalization in cheats (Add New After/Before This)
• MENU/SOUNDS: Add scrolling sounds for RGUI, XMB, MaterialUI and Ozone.
• MENU/SOUNDS: Better scrolling sound implementation, add new 'notice back' sound
• MENU/SOUNDS: Scroll sound fixes. Correctly get list size in xmb.c for playing scrolling sound when switching categories, play the scrolling sound when pressing cancel in ozone, play the sound when scrolling with ZL and ZR, play the correct sound when scrolling with L- MIYOO: L3/R3 support for Dingux Gamepad controller device.
• MENU/WIDGETS: Show square sized widget on volume mute. Volume widget is currently fixed size always, and thus showing a lot of empty space when muting, therefore shorten the box to icon size only when muting.
• NETWORKING: Call ssl_socket_close for SSL sockets
• NETWORKING/CHEEVOS: net_http - Temporary fix for cheevos crash. Don't use new timeout/poll code for cheevos HTTP requests.
• NETWORKING/MENU: Network information cleanup:
• NETWORKING/MENU: Remove extra space from : delimiter
• NETWORKING/MENU: Trim useless/duplicate garbage from the end of ipv6 address. Windows shows %[adapter number], Linux shows %[adapter name], which already shows before the address
• NETWORKING/STDIN: Add LOAD_STATE_SLOT N command to stdin/network protocol
• OSD/STATISTICS: Add Run-Ahead data to on-screen statistics
• OSX/MACOS: Steam platform support
• OSX/MACOS: Set LSApplicationCategoryType to games
• OSX/MACOS: Include OpenGL video driver on Metal macOS builds (10.13 and higher)
• OSX/MACOS: Fix a few mac windowed mode settings -
• OSX/MACOS: Use "Remember window position and size" setting (fixes #14806)
• OSX/MACOS: Implement window opacity
• OSX/MACOS: Enable "Show window decorations" toggle
• OSX/MACOS: Hide "Disable composition" option (osx does not support disabling composition)
• OSX/MACOS: Make sure to use the file system path name, not the URL name
• OSX/MACOS/IOHIDMANAGER: Various memory access fixes to prevent crashes (#14459) (#15000). Prevent double free and null dereference when the controller is quickly reconnected. Handle error when controller device query returns null instead of crashing.
• OSX/MACOS/METAL BUILD: Fix input events (keyboard/mouse) sometimes going lost when switching between fullscreen and windowed mode. Fixes lots of longstanding issues
• OSX/MACOS/OPENGL: Fix for fullscreen OpenGL driver in Metal macOS build
• OSX/MACOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Default to Vulkan driver when available (for 10.13 Metal Universal build)
• OSX/MACOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Updated Vulkan on Metal for OSX via MoltenVK
• OSX/MACOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK/HDR: Fix non-HDR colors
• OSX/MACOS/SLANG: The change to apply shaders would be executed and then a command to apply shaders would immeidately be enqueued, to run asynchronously after the current event handler, which then did exactly the same. Fixes issue #14789 - Turning on shaders on Metal build 1.14.0 stable for Mac OS will slow emulation drastically thing, creating a busy loop.
• RECORDING: Add recordings to video history playlist
• REWIND: Don't take rewind steps while menu pause active
• RUNLOOP: Currently when core is paused, video output will be stopped completely too, making it impossible to animate widgets while paused, therefore:
• RUNLOOP: Added a new runloop state for pause which renders last cached frame
• RUNLOOP: Allowed rewinding while paused so that it acts like backwards frameadvance. Also moved rewind step taking before menu iteration so that steps won't be lost while in menu when menu_pause is disabled
• RUNLOOP: State load and reset while paused will forget pause for x frames in order to show proper output
• RUNLOOP: Allowed reading pause hotkey while menu is active
• RUNLOOP: Allowed reading screenshot hotkey while menu is active
• RUNLOOP: Joined 2 fullscreen hotkey checks to one (Any ideas why they were separated for paused and non-paused states, since one works fine for both..?)
• RUNLOOP: Implement GET_HW_CONTEXT_NEGOTIATION_INTERFACE_SUPPORT. Fairly trivial. Just report the latest version.
• SAVESTATES: State slot hotkey adjustments -
• SAVESTATES: Allow selecting -1 Auto slot with hotkeys
• SAVESTATES: Allow wrap-around from -1 to 999 and backwards
• SAVESTATES: Show failure message when trying to load a state that does not exist instead of plain "Loading state"
• SAVESTATES: Shorten the duration of slot change notification
• SAVESTATES: Change the widget type to the same type as shader toggle for better back and forth action. Closes [Widgets] Save state slot switcher
• SHADERS: Append Preset feature
• SHADERS: Prepend Preset feature
• SHADERS: Shader Preset - Wildcard Replacement in Paths on Load. When a simple preset loads, text wildcards which are found in paths inside the presets will be replaced with values coming from the current RetroArch context. The replacement will be executed on both texture paths and reference paths.
• SHADERS/SLANG/SPIRVCROSS: Update to latest SPIRV-Cross, fixing Metal shader compilation issues along the way
• VIDEO: Allow manual video swap interval forcing. The addition of auto swap interval effectively prevented manual forcing, which is beneficial when the rate is not reported properly. Therefore use the interval in the calculation only when using automatic interval.
• VULKAN: Fix crash when using multiple physical devices and HW core (#14889)
• VULKAN: Detect if wrong PhysicalDevice is returned.
• VULKAN: Actually query physical device before creating core device.
• VULKAN: Define and implement v2 of context negotiation interface
• VULKAN: Add v2 of context negotiation interface.
• VULKAN: Add vkEnumerateInstanceVersion symbol.
• VULKAN: Implement v2 context negotiation
• VULKAN: Use compute shaders to upload RGB565
• VULKAN: Fix regression with RGB565 and OriginalHistory.
• VULKAN/WAYLAND: Don't clamp the number of requested images. Due to an unfortunate "feature", MESA always reports 4 as the Vulkan surface's minImageCount in Wayland. However, values of 2 and 3 work perfectly well, even if they are out of spec, providing way better latencies when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland. So this removes the artificial clamping that was being done to desired_swapchain_images, because it's not really necessary and was causing very noticeable input lag on Wayland+Vulkan.
• VULKAN/MENU/RGUI: Fix RGUI on Vulkan on platforms that don't have _pack16 VkFormats
• VULKAN/MACOS/OSX: avoid using _PACK16 pixel formats on platforms without them
• WAYLAND: On scaled desktops the wayland backend deciding to resize based on values multiplied by the scale factor twice. Resulting in continuous attempts to rebuild the swapchain when in fullscreen.
• WAYLAND: Wait for splash screen configuration. Before, configuration (resize) events for the initial wayland window could happen before or after set_video_mode which could result in a small or corrupted window. Now we make sure that the initial window has processed it's resize events before window size is set by set_video_mode.
• WAYLAND: Changes the initial window to show a RetroArch logo copied from the icon of the X11 backend.
• WAYLAND: Build pointer-constraints and relative-pointer protocols.
• WAYLAND/GL: GL is sometimes not rescaling property (Super + Left).
• WIN32/INPUT: Add support for mouse button swap
• WIN32: Fix keyboard event characters. Added sending key chars to all input drivers (currently they only send scan codes), and also missing mods for raw.
• WIN32: Fix restart if path has spaces. CreateProcess does not like to have anything executable path related in the second parameter lpCommandLine if the path has spaces. Thus strip everything from args except the actual parameters.

New cores added for RetroArch Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2301080/RetroArch__Numero/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2345800/RetroArch__ScummVM/ You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 57 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

New core added for RetroArch Steam brought to you by icculus https://store.steampowered.com/app/2246910/RetroArch__MojoZork/ You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 55 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. ---------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps9uB8tY1HI This is an implementation of Infocom's Z-Machine. The Z-Machine is a virtual machine that's something like a high-level CPU. To keep their games portable and easier to write, Infocom's games all use this fake processor and ship with a platform-specific Z-Machine "emulator" ... so a game could run wherever someone had implemented the Z-Machine. This project is just for fun; everyone should write this at some point as an educational activity. If you want a serious Z-Machine implementation, there are certainly better ones out there (I personally recommend "Frotz" and there are many others, too). This program currently supports most of the Version 3 Z-Machine. This is enough to play the vast majority of Infocom's catalog. Later Infocom games used version 4, 5, and 6 of the Z-Machine, and those will currently not run here. Most modern Interactive Fiction is built with a tool called Inform and usually targets version 5 at the lowest; these games currently don't work with this project. Maybe later. If you want to write your own Z-Machine, there is an "official" specification on how to implement it, written by people that spent significant time reverse engineering the originals from Infocom, and extending the ecosystem with new tools. You can find that specification here. As usual, Wikipedia offers a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down, too, in their Z-machine article.

Changelog since 1.14.0: D3D12: Fixed some shaders not appearing with the d3d12 driver - this reintroduces a validation error though but it seems to work as in not crash and is the old RA behaviour. Guess we need a different way of fixing the validation issue.

RetroArch 1.14.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here. Check our Libretro Core Progress Report (May to December 2022) article here.

Changelog

• CHEEVOS: Fix construction of Cheevos badge path
• CLI: Fixed not getting any output when running --version or --features without --verbose
• CLI: Fixed crash when running empty - parameter (it proceeded to content loading)
• CLI: Reformatted --features to require less rows and to be more consistent
• CLI: Added -V shorthand for --version
• CLI: Tab removal + whitespace nits
• CONFIG/MIDI: Prevent MIDI startup error with old configurations
• D3D11: Fix when using shaders with TATE mode arcades etc
• D3D12: Fix when using shaders with TATE mode arcades etc
• D3D12: Added support for break on errors (development aid - define DEVICE_DEBUG to use)
• D3D12: Added support for DRED (device remove extended data) (development aid - define DEVICE_DEBUG to use)
• D3D12: Made D3D12 viewport and scissors to behave more like Vulkan drivers (or be more correct)
• D3D12: Fixed validation error on start up due to buffers not being setup correctly for one frame
• DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Bugfix - RGUI did not clear thumbnail on non-playlist items such as Save and Delete menu_explore_get_entry_playlist_index() returns -1 on invalid entries, but the variable where it was stored was unsigned
• DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Bugfix - XMB+Ozone cleared thumbnail in Quick Menu when navigating away from Run
• FASTFORWARD: Restore framelimit on fastforward toggle. Fast-forward was broken after toggling vrr_runloop off, since it will force frame limit to 1.0 (even on every frame) and never restores it. So let's make sure the wanted ratio is applied when toggling FF (Fastforward).
• GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: (picoscale_256x_320x240) Added snn function to upscale Fuse (ZX Spectrum) core borderless output to 320x240. ZX Spectrum resolution of 256x192 was previously unsupported.
• HOTKEYS: Further reorder internal hotkey items for consistency and removed SEND_DEBUG_INFO, OVERLAY_NEXT and OSK from visible hotkey bind list. "Send Debug Info" stuff is removed as much as possible without breakage due to translation files.
• INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Disable 'pause on controller disconnect' by default - was enabled by default on 1.13.0
• INPUT/MENU: Device Index menu refactor
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix analog drift blocking touch input (could occur on overlay_next if physical inputs shown on overlay)
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix overlay_next buttons lighting up in unison
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Skip meta keys in input_overlay_add_inputs (not supported by input_state_internal)
• INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix mouse position when using input overlay with mouse cursor
• INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fixed mouse position to use the same method required for menu items and pointer when simulating input overlays with mouse, since it won't work with multi mouse method
• INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fixed passing mouse position to core also when using aforementioned method
• LOCALIZATION: Updates
• LOCALIZATION/INPUT/IME/MENU/ONSCREEN KEYBOARD: Extended IME and Korean OSK
• MENU: Cleanup of help texts
• MENU: Allow toggling info off with the same button
• MENU: Allow menu wallpaper/background reset. Let's also remove the current wallpaper from the screen when pressing Start.
• MENU: Null driver shows with different color (Added for all menus the ability to show "disabled" items with a muted color)
• MENU/DRIVERS: Menu driver first, Audio Resampler removed because it is enough to exist under audio settings
• MENU/INPUT: Moved "Confirm Quit" to Input menu
• MENU/INPUT/HOTKEYS: Input hotkey menu completely overhauled to keep related entries together, and also adjusted some labels and sublabels
• MENU/OVERLAY: Fix overlays behind menu without core running. "Show Overlay Behind Menu" is currently broken with Ozone and XMB (with any other color theme than Plain) when running without a core.
• MENU/MATERIALUI: Fix home screen on first startup - no more stray entries
• MENU/OZONE: Allowed drawing sidebar and thumbnail bar background color also when core is running
• MENU/OZONE: Stopped using different padding and position for savestate thumbnails vs imageviewer
• MENU/OZONE: Removed gradient background effect when core is running, because some themes already have gradient background, which creates ugly rough steps
• MENU/OZONE: Fixed "Gray Light" theme from using the same background as "Gray Dark", which makes selection cursor near impossible to see
• MENU/OZONE: Some whitespace corrections
• MENU/UX: Extend OFF menu value colors
• MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Menu Visibility icons (Quick Menu + Settings)
• MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Playlist Manager icons
• MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Explore icon as database icon
• MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - View and filter icons as cursor icon (folder icon in GLUI)
• MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - View save + delete icons
• MENU/UX: Menu icon improvements - Moved Explore + Views below Standalone Cores
• MENU/UX/OZONE: Removed icons from menus where others items don't have icons, and added icons to menus where the rest have icons
• MENU/UX/OZONE: Changed the way "no icon" is handled from kludgy way of not drawing SUBSETTING icon
• MENU/UX/XMB: Changed playlist entry index positioning to bottom right when thumbnails are in vertical mode, because big lists will overlap with arrow and current "breadcrumb" icons when the position is next to current selection
• MENU/UX/XMB: Added a rather nasty hack to prevent showing wrong icons under Explore as "breadcrumb" icon
• MENU/UX/XMB: Optimized certain icon drawing loops (Main horizontal icons were looped even when not visible, and all previous "breadcrumb" icons were looped when only one certain was needed)
• MENU/UX/MATERIALUI: Fixed showing icons where there should not be any (Waitable Swapchains, Show Recording + Streaming)
• SRAM: Don't init SRAM saving without content (gets rid of the redundant logging)

New core added for RetroArch Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2234340/RetroArch__ep128emu/ You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 54 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam. Leverage the convenience of libretro/RetroArch to emulate the Z80 based home computers that the original ep128emu supports - that is, Enterprise 64/128, Videoton TVC, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. Focus is on Enterprise and TVC. Since the emulated machines are 8-bit platforms from the 1980's, modern setups should have no problem emulating them. Tested on Raspberry Pi 2.

RetroArch 1.13.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here.

Overlay / onscreen gamepad controls improvements

• gamepads/neoretropad
• gamepads/neoretropad-clear

Add eightway area types

• New descriptors: dpad_area and abxy_area
• Each has a diagonal sensitivity setting, 100% being 8-way symmetry
• Buttons can be redefined in the cfg file

Add reach and exclusive for hitboxes

Hitbox Reach

• Stretches hitbox in one direction:

• Stretches hitbox symmetrically

Exclusive Hitboxes

• A range_mod_exclusive hitbox placed close enough to other hitboxes that its range_mod value would otherwise cause unwanted overlap.
• A smaller exclusive hitbox placed inside (or partially inside) a larger one; the smaller hitbox would carve out space for itself.
• A combination of the two: A smaller exclusive hitbox carves out space for itself, but the larger hitbox has range_mod_exclusive. Whichever is hit first effectively has priority.
• Ignore hitboxes with zero area

Content scanning

Menu QoL improvements

• Quick Menu entries were pretty random in regards of doing scrolling with left & right, so its been cleaned up a bit, and we made sure all submenus behave in unison.
• Ozone Show metadata helper in footer only with second thumbnail. Removed metadata toggle helper from footer when second thumbnail is not enabled which is the default because the button wont do anything without second thumbnail enabled.
• We made the background image selector usage more comfortable by starting from assets directory or current selection instead of drive letter root, and showing image previews while browsing.
• File selector globally removes file from selection path, uses path instead and sets file as selection
• File selector title corrected to have : separator
• Its possible to control the menu now with the right analog stick, or both at the same time if you want to do so.
• Cursor memory for most menu screens
• (Applicable to Ozone) Footer improvements show metadata helper in footer only with second thumbnail, add Cycle thumbnails helper when suitable, show Search helper only when search function is enabled, fix Thumbnails available helper for save states, tighten padding between icon and title, and widen between helpers

Vulkan fix for HDR mode

Changelog

• CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.5
• COMPILATION: Fixed compiling with disable-menu
• CONFIG: Dont show override notification with appendconfig alone
• DATABASE/PLAYLISTS: Playlist + database changes Cleanup entry_slot, fallback label + logging
• FRONTEND: Fix default remaps folder for various cores: remap should be nested in config folder
• HOTKEYS: Fix shader toggle and add hotkey + sublabel
• HOTKEYS: Cleanups and corrections Keep hotkey pause and menu pause separate in order to not trigger unwanted pause when toggling menu regardless if menu will pause or not
• HOTKEYS: Cleanups and corrections Allow unpausing with Start (makes resuming more convenient after controller disconnect if menu does not pause)
• INPUT: Fixed the way devices were previously indexed. Input devices were only being indexed in order and would stop at the first time an input has no device connected to it. The problem is when a device gets disconnected, that input will have no devices connected to it, but the next input may still have a device connected. So, that makes changing the port of the currently connected devices impossible.
• INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Add option for pause on controller disconnect
• INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Driver independent disconnection notification. Should show disconnect notification now properly on Windows with XInput and/or DirectInput pads
• INPUT/HID: Added usb hid controllers for the famous ZeroDelay encoder and also for Kade: Kick Ass Dynamic Encoder to be able to use some custom arcade sticks.
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Add eightway area types.
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Fix overlay next_index for unnamed targets
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Ignore hitboxes with zero area. I.e. Set reach_x or reach_y to zero to ensure no hitbox math is done. This simplifies designating animation-only descriptors (e.g. for eightway areas) or obsolete descriptors.
• INPUT/OVERLAY: Add reach and exclusive for hitboxes. Allows stretching hitboxes and handling their overlap.
• INPUT/MENU: Addition to analog stick menu navigation
• INPUT/MENU: Enable menu navigation also with right analog stick
• INPUT/MENU: Add option for swapping menu scrolling buttons
• LOCALIZATION: Updates
• LOCALIZATION: Add Hungarian language option
• MENU: Thumbnail fullscreen toggle behavior correction
• MENU: Consistent left-right scrolling for Quick Menu items
• MENU: Remove useless sublabel from System Information
• MENU: Improve widget appearance with missing assets
• MENU/QT/WIMP: Remove SSL/TLS check at startup
• MENU/OZONE: Show metadata helper in footer only with second thumbnail
• MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements Add Cycle thumbnails helper when suitable
• MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements Show Search helper only when search function is enabled
• MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements Fix Thumbnails available helper for save states
• MENU/OZONE: Footer improvements Tighten padding between icon and title, and widen between helpers
• MENU/OZONE: Launching anything from a View no longer throws Quick Menu off the screen
• MENU/OZONE: Save state thumbnails in slot dropdown obeys fullscreen toggle properly when content launched via CLI
• MENU/OZONE: Save state thumbnail dropdown wont allow fullscreen toggle when it shouldnt
• MENU/OZONE: Selection position remembering in non-playlists wont flash the first entry
• MENU/OZONE: Remember selection per main tabs
• MENU/OZONE: Remove incomplete assets warning
• MENU/OZONE: Add option to adjust cursor memory when changing menu tabs
• MENU/OZONE: Further extend texture support for Core Option categories
• MENU/XMB: Remove incomplete assets warning
• MENU/XMB: Add truncate playlist name option
• MENU/XMB: Improve background image selector
• MENU/XMB: Add option to adjust cursor memory when changing menu tabs
• MENU/XMB: Further extend texture support for Core Option categories
• MENU/MATERIALUI: Remove incomplete assets warning
• SCANNER/PS1: Improved scanning of PS1 discs
• SCANNER/PS2: Added serial scanning of PS2 discs should now scan DVDs and other discs which were previously missed
• THREADED VIDEO/GLCORE: Fix regression Shader presets dont load, when video driver is set to glcore
• VULKAN: Fix HDR inverse tonemapping. Only skip tonemapper if HDR10 is explicitly enabled by last shader pass. Otherwise, we are simply just inheriting the bit-depth of the swapchain.

RetroArch 1.12.0 has just been released. Read the full article on our website here.

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• Games made between 1992 and 1996 by developers Capcom and Capcom Production Studio 1
• Games supporting 5 to 8 players
• Games containing Mario in the title released between 1988 and 1994

Changelog

• CONFIG/CLI: Allow use of appendconfig with override cfgs instead of getting ignored
• CONFIG/LOGGING: No more console startup logging if logging to file
• CONFIG: Saves config on exit only once instead of (worst case scenario) 3 times
• DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Add View feature Add saving of a filter set in the Explore menu into a so called View file which then gets listed alongside playlists. This also adds the ability to filter a category by range in the Explore menu and not just filter on exact matches.
• FILEBROWSER: Fix regression certain extensions keep disappearing
• INPUT/HAPTIC/OVERLAYS/ANDROID: Improve haptic feedback for input overlays
• LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Add conditional support for OpenGL ES 3.x
• LOCALIZATION: Updates
• LOCALIZATION/ENGLISH: Add British English language option
• LOGGING/QT: Increase log buffer to 2048 characters Vulkan validation layer messages output correctly now.
• MENU/XMB: Remember selection per main tabs. Addresses the following : collection playlists can contain hundreds or thousands of items. When scrolling through one, pressing left or right by accident can be common. This resets the playlist to the top
• MIST/STEAM/STEAMDECK: Dont expose Black Frame Insertion (BFI) if we are running on a Steam Deck
• NETWORKING/WINDOWS: Disable poll support for MSVC 2010 and earlier. WSAPoll is not supported on Windows XP and earlier.
• SAVESTATES/NOTIFICATIONS: Add delay to savestate notifications, so that GPU savestate screenshots stay untouched
• SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid video_gpu_screenshot with savestates. Allow GPU screenshots with savestates only when there is no other way of getting a screenshot.
• SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Unload screenshot widget texture early. Fixes Vulkan crash when closing content while a screenshot widget is still on-screen
• SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Fix screenshot widget crash when ticker animating
• WAYLAND: Set correct app ID

Changelog: - CONFIG/CLI: Allow use of --appendconfig with override cfgs instead of getting ignored - CONFIG/LOGGING: No more console startup logging if logging to file - CONFIG: Saves config on exit only once instead of (worst case scenario) 3 times - DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Add View feature - Add saving of a filter set in the Explore menu into a so called "View" file which then gets listed alongside playlists. This also adds the ability to filter a category by range in the Explore menu and not just filter on exact matches. - FILEBROWSER: Fix regression - certain extensions keep disappearing - INPUT/HAPTIC/OVERLAYS/ANDROID: Improve haptic feedback for input overlays - LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Add conditional support for OpenGL ES 3.x - LOCALIZATION: Updates - LOCALIZATION/ENGLISH: Add British English language option - LOGGING/QT: Increase log buffer to 2048 characters - Vulkan validation layer messages output correctly now. - MENU/XMB: Remember selection per main tabs. Addresses the following : collection playlists can contain hundreds or thousands of items. When scrolling through one, pressing left or right by accident can be common. This resets the playlist to the top - MIST/STEAM/STEAMDECK: Don't expose Black Frame Insertion (BFI) if we are running on a Steam Deck - NETWORKING/WINDOWS: Disable poll support for MSVC 2010 and earlier. WSAPoll is not supported on Windows XP and earlier. - SAVESTATES/NOTIFICATIONS: Add delay to savestate notifications, so that GPU savestate screenshots stay untouched - SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid 'video_gpu_screenshot' with savestates. Allow GPU screenshots with savestates only when there is no other way of getting a screenshot. - SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Unload screenshot widget texture early. Fixes Vulkan crash when closing content while a screenshot widget is still on-screen - SCREENSHOTS/VULKAN: Fix screenshot widget crash when ticker animating - WAYLAND: Set correct app ID

Point fix update. Read the full article here. 1.11.1 - GENERAL: Fix DEFAULT_FILL_TITLE_MACRO - NETWORKING: Add the const qualifier to some function parameters - NETWORKING/NETPLAY/UPNP: Add a private or CGNAT address warning to UPnP - SAVESTATES/SCREENSHOTS: Avoid video_gpu_screenshot with savestates - UWP: Better Save on quit fix

RetroArch 1.11.0 has just been released! Months of work has gone into significantly improving RetroArch across the board. Particular points of focus have been networking/netplay and user interface improvements. Read the full article on our website here. Patch notes: AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Add missing locks for thread safety AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Fix audio mixer memory leak + remove redundant single threaded rthreads implementation AUTOSAVE: Change/improve exit behavior of autosave thread if condition variable is signaled, the loop is ran another last time so we can do a final check/save before stopping the thread. CDROM: Fix memory leak caught with asan buf passed to filestream_read_file CORE INFO/NETPLAY: Ensure current core info is initialized at runloop_event_init_core when netplay is enabled CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.4 CHEEVOS: Allow creating auto savestate in hardcore CHEEVOS: prevent invalid memory reference if game has achievements but core doesnt expose memory CHEEVOS: Release achievement badge textures when video driver is deinitialized CHEEVOS: Re-enforce hardcore limitations once achievements are loaded CHEEVOS/MENU/MATERIALUI: Show achievement badge icons in MaterialUI driver D3D9: D3D9 has been split up into two drivers D3D9 HLSL (max compatibility, no shader support yet) and D3D9 Cg (dependent on deprecated Nvidia Cg runtime library) D3D9/HLSL/XMB: XMB fix D3D9/CG: D3D9 Cg driver fixed D3D11: Fix overlay not showing up D3D11/12: Reduce lag with WaitForVBlank this rather simple addition seems to make D3D11/12 very very close to Vulkan/GLCore regarding input lag. D3D11/12: Add waitable swapchains and max frame latency option D3D11/12: Make waitable swapchains optional DATABASE: Reformat rdb_entry_int Nitpick adjustments for database entries: Capitalize Release Date, and remove space before : from Release Date rows which use integer DATABASE/EXPLORE: Allow On-Demand Thumbnails in Explore menu DATABASE/EXPLORE/MENU/OZONE/XMB/RGUI: Explore menu thumbnails DISC CONTROL: Better Disc Control append focus AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added slowmotion resiliency AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added string representation for seeing the current effective delay without opening statistics AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added ms to logging and (ms) to label just like in Audio Latency GENERAL: Dont bake in OpenAL and libcaca by default unless explicitly enabled with configure switch. GENERAL: Reduce amount of strlen calls GENERAL: Reduce or simply sin/cosf calls GFX: Fix readability and precision issues in aspectratio_lut GFX: Add option to manually enable/disable automatic refresh rate switching GFX: Enable automatic configuration of VSync Swap Interval GFX/FONT/FREETYPE: Use FT_New_Memory_Face first read it from file to memory beforehand this solves an asset extraction issue when selecting Update Assets apparently FT_New_Face keeps an open file handle to the font file which prevents it from being overwritten/deleted while the program is still running. GFX/THUMBNAILS: Thumbnail aspect ratio fix GFX/THREADED VIDEO: Optimizations, fixes and cleanups GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: Add Upscale_240x160-320240 video filter with mixed method GLSLANG: Fix compilation with ./configure disable-builtinglslang was missing linking against -lMachineIndependent and -lGenericCodeGen static libs INPUT: Fix off by one error for input_block_timeout setting. Also default to 0 for this setting (pretty massive performance gain) INPUT: Analog button mapping fixes INPUT/HID/OSX: Fix DualShock3 support INPUT/HID/LINUX: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Linux as long as there are no working backends for both INPUT/HID/WINDOWS: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Windows as long as there are no working backends for both INPUT/OVERLAY: Block pointer input when overlay is pressed INPUT/REMAPPING: input_remapping_save_file existing remapping file was needlessly reloaded INPUT/REMAPPING: Add option to disable automatic saving of input remap files INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Fix lightgun scaling on Y axis INPUT/LINUX/X11/LED: Add LED keyboard driver INPUT/WINDOWS/LED: LED keyboard driver cleanup INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Clear key states when unfocused INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix pointer device position LIBRETRO/SAVESTATES: Implement an api call for context awareness LOCALIZATION: Updates LOCALIZATION: Add Catalan language option LOCALIZATION: Fix some bad localization LINUX: Make memfd_create call more backwards compatible by calling it through syscall on older systems, youll have to include linux/memfd.h for the MFD_ defines, and call memfd_create() via the the syscall(2) wrapper (and include unistd.h and sys/syscall.h for it work). We exclude linux/memfd.h header include because we already provide the MFD_ defines in case they are missing LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Fix assertion failed on video threaded switch MENU: Menu paging navigation adjustments MENU: New Menu Items for disabling Info & Search buttons in the menu MENU: Allow the user to use volume up/down/mute hotkeys from within the menu MENU: Add missing sublabels for non-running Quick Menu MENU: Reorganize Quick Menu Information MENU: Savestate thumbnails Savestate slot reset action MENU: Allow changing savestate slots with left/right on save/load MENU: Add Ago to playlist last played styles MENU: Add proper icons for shader items MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon for Download Thumbnails MENU/XMB: Add options for hiding header and horizontal title margin MENU/XMB: Dynamic wallpaper fixes MENU/XMB: Add Daite XMB Icon Theme MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail aspect ratio MENU/XMB/OZONE: Core option category icon refinements MENU/XMB/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail browsing MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add playlist icons under Load Content MENU/XMB/OZONE: Thumbnail improvements MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fullscreen + dropdown MENU/XMB/OZONE: Prevent unnecessary thumbnail requests when scrolling through playlists MENU/OZONE: Fix playlist thumbnail mouse hover after returning from Quick Menu MENU/OZONE: Thumbnail visibility corrections MENU/OZONE: Playlist metadata reformat MENU/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fixes MENU/OZONE: Add savestate thumbnails MENU/OZONE: Header icon spacing adjustment MENU/RGUI: Savestate thumbnails MENU/SETTINGS: Turn Advanced Settings on by default, this entire filtering of settings will need a complete rethink anyways MENU/WIDGETS: Widget color + position adjustments NETWORK: Allow MITM server selection on OK callback NETWORK: Replace socket_select calls NETWORK: Implement binary network streams NETWORK: Poll support NETWORK: Check connect errno for successful connection NETWORK: Get rid of the timeout_enable parameter for socket_connect NETWORK: Fix getnameinfo_retros port value for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms NETWORK: Define inet_ntop and inet_pton for older Windows versions NETWORK: Define isinprogress function NETWORK/NATT: Move natt files to network NETWORK/NETWORK STREAMS: Add function netstream_eof NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix game CRC parsing NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable and hide stateless mode NETWORK/NETPLAY: Change default for input sharing to no sharing NETWORK/NETPLAY: Enforce a timeout during connection NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow clients from loading states and resetting NETWORK/NETPLAY: Special saves directory for client NETWORK/NETPLAY: Ensure current content is reloaded before joining a host NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix client info devices index NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix input for some cores when hosting NETWORK/NETPLAY: Memory leak fixes NETWORK/NETPLAY: Force a core update when starting netplay NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix NAT traversal announce for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Refactor fork arguments NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix content reload deadlocks on static core platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow netplay start when content is not loaded for static core platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Show client slowdown information NETWORK/NETPLAY: Improve check frames menu entry NETWORK/NETPLAY: Do not try to receive new data if the data is in the buffer NETWORK/NETPLAY: Copy data on receive, even if the buffer is full NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix lobby sublabel CRC display on some platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for customizing chat colors NETWORK/NETPLAY: Small launch compatibility patch adjustments NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for banning clients NETWORK/NETPLAY: Minor tweaks to the find content task NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for gathering client info and kicking NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix possible deadlock NETWORK/NETPLAY: Initialize clients allow_pausing to true NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable netplay for unsupported cores with stateless mode being disabled for now, there is no reason not to include this. Refuse to initialize netplay when the current core is not supported (no proper savestates support) NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Ensure fixed width ints on packet struct NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Support for IPv4 tunneling (6to4) NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY/TASKS: Netplay/LAN Discovery Task refactor aims to prevent blocking the main thread while awaiting for the LAN discovery timeout; This is accomplished by moving the whole discovery functionality into its task and using a non-blocking timer to finish the task. Also fixes discovery sockets not being made non-blocking, which could cause the main thread to hang for very long periods of time every pre-frame. NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor fixes many issues along the way, including a couple of nasty memory leaks that would leak thousands of bytes each time the task ran. It also expands the original concept by matching currently run content by filename (CRC matching is always performed first though). NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor Ensure CRC32 is 8 characters long NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add setting for filtering out rooms with non-installed cores NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Hide older (incompatible) rooms NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add a toggleable filter for passworded rooms. In addition, move lobby filters into its own submenu for better organization. NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Chat supported info for the host kick submenu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Localize relay servers NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Host Ban Submenu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Add client devices info to the kick sub-menu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Path: Netplay -> Host -> Kick Client Allows the host to kick clients. Allows the host to view client information: connected clients (names), status (playing/spectating) and ping. NETWORK/UPNP: Attempt support for remaining platforms NETWORK/UPNP: Support for IPv4 tunneling ONLINE UPDATER: Online Updater menu reorganizing OSX: Fixed items of system top menu bar on macOS OSX: Revision to macOS app icon set PLAYLISTS: Ensure history list will contain CRC32 PLAYLISTS: Fix CRC32 comparison as state->content_crc has |crc suffix. SHADERS: Shader Preset Loading of Multiple additional #references lines for settings SHADERS: Shader Load Extra Parameter Reference Files this adds the ability to put additional #reference lines inside shader presets which will load additional settings. The first reference in the preset still needs to point at a chain of presets which ends with a shader chain, and subsequent #reference lines will load presets which only have parameter values adjustment. This allows presets to be made with a modular selection of settings. For example with the Mega Bezel one additional reference could point at a preset which contained settings for Night mode vs Day mode, and another reference could point to a preset which contained settings for how much the screen should be zoomed in. SHADERS/MENU: Increase shader scale max value SCANNER/DC: Fix Redump bin/cue scan for some DC games SCANNER/GC/WII: Add RVZ/WIA scan support for GC/Wii SCANNER/PS1: Improved success rate of Serial scanning on PS1 by adding support for the xx.xxx format SCANNER/PS1: Changed return value of detect_ps1_game function to actually return a failure when the Serial couldnt be extracted. Scanner will then fallback on crc check, and usually ends up finding the games in the database. STRING: Do not assume char is unsigned TASKS: More thread-awareness in task callbacks TASKS: Fix race condition at task_queue_wait VFS: Fix various VFS / file stream issues VULKAN: Fix more validation errors VULKAN: Attempt to fix validation errors with HDR swapchain. Always use final render pass type equal to swapchain format. Use more direct logic to expose if filter chain emits HDR10 color space or not VULKAN/DEBUG: Automatically mark buffer/images/memory with names VULKAN/DEBUG: Move over to VK_EXT_debug_utils. Debug marker is deprecated years ago. VULKAN/HDR: Fix leak of HDR UBO buffer VULKAN/BFI: Fix BFI (Black Frame Insertion) regression WINDOWS: Fix exclusive fullscreen video refresh rate when vsync swap interval is not equal to one refresh rate in exclusive fullscreen mode was being incorrectly multiplied by vsync swap interval, breaking swap interval functionality at the gfx driver level WIN32: Do optimization for Windows where we only update the title with SetWindowText when the previous title differs from the current title WIN32: Skip console attach when logging to file WIN32: Remove black margins with borderless non-fullscreen window WIN32/TASKBAR: Release ITaskbarList3 on failed HrInit pointer wasnt NULLd, thus set_window_progress would cause weird behavior

RetroArch 1.11.0 has been released! Patch notes: AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Add missing locks for thread safety AUDIO/AUDIO MIXER: Fix audio mixer memory leak + remove redundant single threaded rthreads implementation AUTOSAVE: Change/improve exit behavior of autosave thread if condition variable is signaled, the loop is ran another last time so we can do a final check/save before stopping the thread. CDROM: Fix memory leak caught with asan buf passed to filestream_read_file CORE INFO/NETPLAY: Ensure current core info is initialized at runloop_event_init_core when netplay is enabled CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.4 CHEEVOS: Allow creating auto savestate in hardcore CHEEVOS: prevent invalid memory reference if game has achievements but core doesnt expose memory CHEEVOS: Release achievement badge textures when video driver is deinitialized CHEEVOS: Re-enforce hardcore limitations once achievements are loaded CHEEVOS/MENU/MATERIALUI: Show achievement badge icons in MaterialUI driver D3D9: D3D9 has been split up into two drivers D3D9 HLSL (max compatibility, no shader support yet) and D3D9 Cg (dependent on deprecated Nvidia Cg runtime library) D3D9/HLSL/XMB: XMB fix D3D9/CG: D3D9 Cg driver fixed D3D11: Fix overlay not showing up D3D11/12: Reduce lag with WaitForVBlank this rather simple addition seems to make D3D11/12 very very close to Vulkan/GLCore regarding input lag. D3D11/12: Add waitable swapchains and max frame latency option D3D11/12: Make waitable swapchains optional DATABASE: Reformat rdb_entry_int Nitpick adjustments for database entries: Capitalize Release Date, and remove space before : from Release Date rows which use integer DATABASE/EXPLORE: Allow On-Demand Thumbnails in Explore menu DATABASE/EXPLORE/MENU/OZONE/XMB/RGUI: Explore menu thumbnails DISC CONTROL: Better Disc Control append focus AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added slowmotion resiliency AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added string representation for seeing the current effective delay without opening statistics AUTOMATIC FRAME DELAY: Added ms to logging and (ms) to label just like in Audio Latency GENERAL: Dont bake in OpenAL and libcaca by default unless explicitly enabled with configure switch. GENERAL: Reduce amount of strlen calls GENERAL: Reduce or simply sin/cosf calls GFX: Fix readability and precision issues in aspectratio_lut GFX: Add option to manually enable/disable automatic refresh rate switching GFX: Enable automatic configuration of VSync Swap Interval GFX/FONT/FREETYPE: Use FT_New_Memory_Face first read it from file to memory beforehand this solves an asset extraction issue when selecting Update Assets apparently FT_New_Face keeps an open file handle to the font file which prevents it from being overwritten/deleted while the program is still running. GFX/THUMBNAILS: Thumbnail aspect ratio fix GFX/THREADED VIDEO: Optimizations, fixes and cleanups GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: Add Upscale_240x160-320240 video filter with mixed method GLSLANG: Fix compilation with ./configure disable-builtinglslang was missing linking against -lMachineIndependent and -lGenericCodeGen static libs INPUT: Fix off by one error for input_block_timeout setting. Also default to 0 for this setting (pretty massive performance gain) INPUT: Analog button mapping fixes INPUT/HID/OSX: Fix DualShock3 support INPUT/HID/LINUX: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Linux as long as there are no working backends for both INPUT/HID/WINDOWS: (qb) Disable HAVE_HID by default for now for Windows as long as there are no working backends for both INPUT/OVERLAY: Block pointer input when overlay is pressed INPUT/REMAPPING: input_remapping_save_file existing remapping file was needlessly reloaded INPUT/REMAPPING: Add option to disable automatic saving of input remap files INPUT/LINUX/UDEV: Fix lightgun scaling on Y axis INPUT/LINUX/X11/LED: Add LED keyboard driver INPUT/WINDOWS/LED: LED keyboard driver cleanup INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Clear key states when unfocused INPUT/WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix pointer device position LIBRETRO/SAVESTATES: Implement an api call for context awareness LOCALIZATION: Updates LOCALIZATION: Add Catalan language option LOCALIZATION: Fix some bad localization LINUX: Make memfd_create call more backwards compatible by calling it through syscall on older systems, youll have to include linux/memfd.h for the MFD_ defines, and call memfd_create() via the the syscall(2) wrapper (and include unistd.h and sys/syscall.h for it work). We exclude linux/memfd.h header include because we already provide the MFD_ defines in case they are missing LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Fix assertion failed on video threaded switch MENU: Menu paging navigation adjustments MENU: New Menu Items for disabling Info & Search buttons in the menu MENU: Allow the user to use volume up/down/mute hotkeys from within the menu MENU: Add missing sublabels for non-running Quick Menu MENU: Reorganize Quick Menu Information MENU: Savestate thumbnails Savestate slot reset action MENU: Allow changing savestate slots with left/right on save/load MENU: Add Ago to playlist last played styles MENU: Add proper icons for shader items MENU/MATERIALUI: Add icon for Download Thumbnails MENU/XMB: Add options for hiding header and horizontal title margin MENU/XMB: Dynamic wallpaper fixes MENU/XMB: Add Daite XMB Icon Theme MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail aspect ratio MENU/XMB/OZONE: Core option category icon refinements MENU/XMB/OZONE: Fullscreen thumbnail browsing MENU/XMB/OZONE: Add playlist icons under Load Content MENU/XMB/OZONE: Thumbnail improvements MENU/XMB/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fullscreen + dropdown MENU/XMB/OZONE: Prevent unnecessary thumbnail requests when scrolling through playlists MENU/OZONE: Fix playlist thumbnail mouse hover after returning from Quick Menu MENU/OZONE: Thumbnail visibility corrections MENU/OZONE: Playlist metadata reformat MENU/OZONE: Savestate thumbnail fixes MENU/OZONE: Add savestate thumbnails MENU/OZONE: Header icon spacing adjustment MENU/RGUI: Savestate thumbnails MENU/SETTINGS: Turn Advanced Settings on by default, this entire filtering of settings will need a complete rethink anyways MENU/WIDGETS: Widget color + position adjustments NETWORK: Allow MITM server selection on OK callback NETWORK: Replace socket_select calls NETWORK: Implement binary network streams NETWORK: Poll support NETWORK: Check connect errno for successful connection NETWORK: Get rid of the timeout_enable parameter for socket_connect NETWORK: Fix getnameinfo_retros port value for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms NETWORK: Define inet_ntop and inet_pton for older Windows versions NETWORK: Define isinprogress function NETWORK/NATT: Move natt files to network NETWORK/NETWORK STREAMS: Add function netstream_eof NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix game CRC parsing NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable and hide stateless mode NETWORK/NETPLAY: Change default for input sharing to no sharing NETWORK/NETPLAY: Enforce a timeout during connection NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow clients from loading states and resetting NETWORK/NETPLAY: Special saves directory for client NETWORK/NETPLAY: Ensure current content is reloaded before joining a host NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix client info devices index NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix input for some cores when hosting NETWORK/NETPLAY: Memory leak fixes NETWORK/NETPLAY: Force a core update when starting netplay NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix NAT traversal announce for HAVE_SOCKET_LEGACY platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Refactor fork arguments NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix content reload deadlocks on static core platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disallow netplay start when content is not loaded for static core platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Show client slowdown information NETWORK/NETPLAY: Improve check frames menu entry NETWORK/NETPLAY: Do not try to receive new data if the data is in the buffer NETWORK/NETPLAY: Copy data on receive, even if the buffer is full NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix lobby sublabel CRC display on some platforms NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for customizing chat colors NETWORK/NETPLAY: Small launch compatibility patch adjustments NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for banning clients NETWORK/NETPLAY: Minor tweaks to the find content task NETWORK/NETPLAY: Support for gathering client info and kicking NETWORK/NETPLAY: Fix possible deadlock NETWORK/NETPLAY: Initialize clients allow_pausing to true NETWORK/NETPLAY: Disable netplay for unsupported cores with stateless mode being disabled for now, there is no reason not to include this. Refuse to initialize netplay when the current core is not supported (no proper savestates support) NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Ensure fixed width ints on packet struct NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY: Support for IPv4 tunneling (6to4) NETWORK/NETPLAY/DISCOVERY/TASKS: Netplay/LAN Discovery Task refactor aims to prevent blocking the main thread while awaiting for the LAN discovery timeout; This is accomplished by moving the whole discovery functionality into its task and using a non-blocking timer to finish the task. Also fixes discovery sockets not being made non-blocking, which could cause the main thread to hang for very long periods of time every pre-frame. NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor fixes many issues along the way, including a couple of nasty memory leaks that would leak thousands of bytes each time the task ran. It also expands the original concept by matching currently run content by filename (CRC matching is always performed first though). NETWORK/NETPLAY/TASKS: Find content task refactor Ensure CRC32 is 8 characters long NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add setting for filtering out rooms with non-installed cores NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Hide older (incompatible) rooms NETWORK/NETPLAY/LOBBY: Add a toggleable filter for passworded rooms. In addition, move lobby filters into its own submenu for better organization. NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Chat supported info for the host kick submenu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Localize relay servers NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Host Ban Submenu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Add client devices info to the kick sub-menu NETWORK/NETPLAY/MENU: Path: Netplay -> Host -> Kick Client Allows the host to kick clients. Allows the host to view client information: connected clients (names), status (playing/spectating) and ping. NETWORK/UPNP: Attempt support for remaining platforms NETWORK/UPNP: Support for IPv4 tunneling ONLINE UPDATER: Online Updater menu reorganizing OSX: Fixed items of system top menu bar on macOS OSX: Revision to macOS app icon set PLAYLISTS: Ensure history list will contain CRC32 PLAYLISTS: Fix CRC32 comparison as state->content_crc has |crc suffix. SHADERS: Shader Preset Loading of Multiple additional #references lines for settings SHADERS: Shader Load Extra Parameter Reference Files this adds the ability to put additional #reference lines inside shader presets which will load additional settings. The first reference in the preset still needs to point at a chain of presets which ends with a shader chain, and subsequent #reference lines will load presets which only have parameter values adjustment. This allows presets to be made with a modular selection of settings. For example with the Mega Bezel one additional reference could point at a preset which contained settings for Night mode vs Day mode, and another reference could point to a preset which contained settings for how much the screen should be zoomed in. SHADERS/MENU: Increase shader scale max value SCANNER/DC: Fix Redump bin/cue scan for some DC games SCANNER/GC/WII: Add RVZ/WIA scan support for GC/Wii SCANNER/PS1: Improved success rate of Serial scanning on PS1 by adding support for the xx.xxx format SCANNER/PS1: Changed return value of detect_ps1_game function to actually return a failure when the Serial couldnt be extracted. Scanner will then fallback on crc check, and usually ends up finding the games in the database. STRING: Do not assume char is unsigned TASKS: More thread-awareness in task callbacks TASKS: Fix race condition at task_queue_wait VFS: Fix various VFS / file stream issues VULKAN: Fix more validation errors VULKAN: Attempt to fix validation errors with HDR swapchain. Always use final render pass type equal to swapchain format. Use more direct logic to expose if filter chain emits HDR10 color space or not VULKAN/ANDROID: Honor SUBOPTIMAL on non-Android since youd want to recreate swapchains then. On Android it can be promoted to SUCCESS. SUBOPTIMAL_KHR can happen there when rotation (pre-rotate) is wrong. VULKAN/DEBUG: Automatically mark buffer/images/memory with names VULKAN/DEBUG: Move over to VK_EXT_debug_utils. Debug marker is deprecated years ago. VULKAN/HDR: Fix leak of HDR UBO buffer VULKAN/BFI: Fix BFI (Black Frame Insertion) regression WINDOWS: Fix exclusive fullscreen video refresh rate when vsync swap interval is not equal to one refresh rate in exclusive fullscreen mode was being incorrectly multiplied by vsync swap interval, breaking swap interval functionality at the gfx driver level WIN32: Do optimization for Windows where we only update the title with SetWindowText when the previous title differs from the current title WIN32: Skip console attach when logging to file WIN32: Remove black margins with borderless non-fullscreen window WIN32/TASKBAR: Release ITaskbarList3 on failed HrInit pointer wasnt NULLd, thus set_window_progress would cause weird behavior

A new core has been added for RetroArch Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2066880/RetroArch__A5200/ You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. There are now 53 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

A new core has been added for RetroArch Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1238580/RetroArch__A800/ You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these cores, you can go to our Documentation Center site. Documentation for the A800 core can be found here. There are now 51 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

2 new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2010121/RetroArch__BlueMSX/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1876450/RetroArch__WASM4/ WASM-4 is a low-level fantasy game console for building small games with WebAssembly. Game cartridges (ROMs) are small, self-contained .wasm files that can be built with any programming language that compiles to WebAssembly. You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading them for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these cores, you can go to our Documentation Center site. Documentation for the BlueMSX core can be found here. Documentation for the WASM-4 core can be found here. There are now 50 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

4 new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227485/RetroArch__Gearboy/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227484/RetroArch__Gearsystem/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222637/RetroArch__TIC80/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2062460/RetroArch__Handy/ You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading them for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these cores, you can go to our Documentation Center site. Documentation for the Gearboy core can be found here. Documentation for the Gearsystem core can be found here. Documentation for the TIC-80 core can be found here. Documentation for the Handy core can be found here. There are now 48 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

Three new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2004070/RetroArch__Gambatte/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227457/RetroArch__FreeIntv/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227482/RetroArch__CrocoDS/ You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading them for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these cores, you can go to our Documentation Center site. Documentation for the Gambatte core can be found here. Documentation for the FreeIntv core can be found here. Documentation for the CrocoDS core can be found here. There are now 44 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

A new core has been added for RetroArch Steam - FreeChaF. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227458/RetroArch__FreeChaF/ You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about this core, you can refer to more information on our Documentation Center site. There are now 41 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

Two new cores have been added for RetroArch Steam - Beetle Saturn and FUSE. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1905200/RetroArch__Beetle_Saturn/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2004140/RetroArch__Fuse/ You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these two cores, you can refer to more information on our Documentation Center site. There are now 40 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

A new core has been added for RetroArch Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008300/RetroArch__vecx/ You can download this core either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading it for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these two cores, you can refer to more information on our Documentation Center site. Documentation for Vecx core can be found here. There are now 38 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

Two new cores have been added! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227450/RetroArch__GW/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2010120/RetroArch__TGB_Dual/ You can download these cores either from within RetroArch Steam by going to Manage Cores, or by simply downloading them for free from Steam. If you'd like to learn more about these two cores, you can refer to more information on our Documentation Center site. Documentation for GW core can be found here. Documentation for the TGB Dual core can be found here. There are now 37 cores available in total for RetroArch Steam.

Flycast updated with Naomi2 arcade game support

RetroArch 1.10.3 has just been released. This is a condensed version of the original article on our website. If you want to read the article in full, click here.

RetroArch Updates

Core Updates

Nestopia

• Spacey McRacey
• NNNNNN
• Arkade Rush
• Justice Duel
• BMX Simulator
• Way of the Exploding Fist

PCSX ReARMed

• Add Trigger, Reload, Aux A, and Aux B as mappable buttons in RetroArch menu for players 1 and 2.
• GunCon trigger, A, and B buttons are mapped to Gun Trigger, Gun Aux A, and Gun Aux B instead of hard coded to left click, right click, and middle click.
• Force cursor to corner of screen for offscreen reload so that reloading works on all four edges of the screen.
• Allow Gun Reload RetroArch input to emulate an offscreen shot.
• Switch gun coordinates from Pointer type to Lightgun type.

gpSP

Beetle Virtual Boy

Mesen

• Sets the default audio sample rate to 48000 Hz. The previous default of 96000 Hz is so high that RetroArch is required to flush the audio driver twice per frame, which is bad for AV synchronisation.
• Removes the 192000 and 384000 sample rate options, since these are in fact unsupported by the underlying emulator code

Snes9x 2005

• Neither variant of the core sent a number of samples per frame that would match the nominal expected values given by the sample rate and fps set in retro_get_system_av_info()
• Due to integer rounding errors, the non-plus core always would send too few samples
• The plus version of the core would send the correct number of samples, in terms of actual emulation but this does not tally with the sample rate reported to the frontend. Moreover, the plus core would call the audio batch callback twice per frame, which unduly stresses the frontend audio buffer.
• As a result, the core had bad audio/video synchronisation, affecting frame pacing.

• The audio sample rate is now reported as 32040 Hz
• The non-plus core uses an accumulator to ensure that fractional audio samples are accounted for and sent when required
• The plus core now uploads audio samples only once per frame
• In addition, we did the following

• Fixed three memory leaks that were found in the core
• Modified the Console Region core option to require a restart (since it has never been possible to change this at runtime)
• Snes9x2005 Non-Plus: Add optional low pass audio filter
• Apart from a substantial difference in audio emulation accuracy, probably the most obvious difference between the plus and non-plus versions of the core is that the latter has an inadequate level of low pass audio filtering, leading to tinny/scratchy sound.

Snes9x 2010

60Hz modes for > 60Hz emulated platforms

Beetle Cygne/WonderSwan

• The frontend reported framerate is now set correctly in 75Hz mode (previously this was truncated, leading to a slight tendency for the frontend audio buffer to under-run)
• The internal audio samples buffer has been reduced from a ~64kb (!) static array to a tiny, dynamically created array of just the correct size
• On 3DS, the video buffers are now allocated in linear memory (for improved performance)
• The 96000, 192000 and 384000 audio sample rate options have been removed, because they are nonsensical and harm AV synchronisation

Changelog

• AI/SERVICE: Disable AI Service setting by default
• CHEEVOS: Disallow manual frame delay setting in Hardcore Mode
• DATABASE: Serial scanning for Wii now includes WBFS
• INPUT/MAPPING: Fix offset + crash when clearing input port binds
• INPUT/MAPPING: Fix saving of Analog to Digital Type when configuration overrides are used
• LOCALIZATION: Add Valencian language option
• LOCALIZATION: Updates
• MENU/SETTINGS: Move Show Menu Bar under Windowed Mode settings
• MENU/SETTINGS: Add sublabels for Subsystems and Input Deadzone/Sensitivity
• MENU/SETTINGS: Move On-Screen Notifications to top
• MENU/XMB: Unified the shadow alpha value to a slightly darker one for better readability
• MENU/XMB: Corrected the option label and sublabel for actual behavior
• STATIC PLATFORMS: Populate all history list metadata when launching content from playlists
• STEAM: Introduce Steam Rich Presence
• VIDEO: Fast-Forward Frameskip improvement
• VIDEO/THREADED: Stability fixes
• WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix multiple light guns

AI/SERVICE: Disable AI Service setting by default CHEEVOS: Disallow manual frame delay setting in Hardcore Mode DATABASE: Serial scanning for Wii now includes WBFS INPUT/MAPPING: Fix offset + crash when clearing input port binds INPUT/MAPPING: Fix saving of Analog to Digital Type when configuration overrides are used LOCALIZATION: Add Valencian language option LOCALIZATION: Updates MENU/SETTINGS: Move Show Menu Bar under Windowed Mode settings MENU/SETTINGS: Add sublabels for Subsystems and Input Deadzone/Sensitivity MENU/SETTINGS: Move On-Screen Notifications to top MENU/XMB: Unified the shadow alpha value to a slightly darker one for better readability MENU/XMB: Corrected the option label and sublabel for actual behavior STATIC PLATFORMS: Populate all history list metadata when launching content from playlists STEAM: Introduce Steam Rich Presence VIDEO: Fast-Forward Frameskip improvement VIDEO/THREADED: Stability fixes WINDOWS/WINRAW: Fix multiple light guns

RetroArch 1.10.2 has just been released. You can read the full article on our website here. The condensed version here has been stripped of everything not relevant to the Steam version in specific.

Highlights

Big improvements for Steam and Steam Deck users

• You can now install and uninstall cores directly from inside RetroArch by going to Manage Cores from inside the menu. No longer do you have to manually browse Steam with your webbrowser and download random core DLCs for RetroArch, you can do it from within the convenience of the app running itself.
• On Steam Deck, the native OSK (Onscreen Keyboard) will appear now instead of the RetroArch default OSK. This should give a more seamless experience. We have decided against enabling the Steam OSK with Big Picture since it seems partially broken and instantly dismisses itself (or at least those were our testing results on a Steam Deck).

Improved audio sample pacing / latency in many cores

• Flycast
• Gambatte
• Nestopia
• Snes9x
• Snes9x 2002
• Snes9x 2005
• Snes9x 2010
• UAE
• VICE

UI/UX improvements

Manage Input Remapping Files

Prevent global configuration of input libretro device type

• Input device type has no meaning unless a core is actually running, so the option to set it globally does nothing but confuse users
• A global device type may be set that is incompatible with cores, leading to disabled input in-game. e.g. setting the global type to RetroPad with Analog breaks Beetle PSX, since that is not a valid device type recognised by the core

• Removing the global option Settings > Input > Port N Controls > Device Type (device type can now only be set while a core is running, via Quick Menu > Controls > Port N Controls)
• Ensuring that the global device type is reset to the default RETRO_DEVICE_JOYPAD on startup and when closing cores (unless a device type override is set via the existing command line interface)

Changelog

• AUDIO/MIXER: Free audio voices properly
• CHEEVOS: Update to rcheevos 10.3.3
• CHEEVOS: Support for Arduboy
• CHEEVOS: Fix tab sequences in rich presence being turned into t character
• CHEEVOS: Fix overflow when parsing float value that has more than 9 digits after the decimal
• CHEEVOS: Fix memory mapping when disconnect mask breaks a region into multiple blocks
• CORES: Enable manual selection of which cores are displayed in the Standalone Cores menu
• DATABASE/EXPLORE: Added more categories to the Explore menu
• INPUT: Fix analog stick not working with Unified Menu Controls
• INPUT/MAPPING: Add Manage Remap Files submenu + automatically save input remaps when closing content
• INPUT/MAPPING: Add Reset Input Mapping option to Manage Remap Files menu
• INPUT/MAPPING: Fix keyboard device remap nulling
• LIBRETRO: RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN fix ensure core is properly unloaded when RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN is called
• LIBRETRO: RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN fix ensure menu stack is properly flushed when RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SHUTDOWN is called
• LINUX/MALI FBDEV: Fix segfault switching video threaded from quickmenu
• LOCALIZATION: Add Czech language support
• MMAP: Handle disconnect bits on both sides of len
• MENU/SETTINGS: Remove Advanced Settings flag from Settings > Core menu
• MENU/MATERIALUI: Add Gray Dark + Light themes
• MENU/RGUI: Add 610 extended ASCII and Latin Extended A and B fonts. These will enable most Latin alphabets to be displayed in RGUI.
• MENU/RGUI: Add Gray Dark + Light themes
• MENU/XMB: Add title margin adjustment
• MENU/XMB: Vertical fade corrections
• MENU/OZONE: The size of the thumbnail bar can now be changed though a new option (Settings->User interface->Appearance) up to double its normal size.
• MENU/OZONE: Add Gray Dark + Light themes
• MENU/OZONE: Add thumbnail scale option
• HOTKEYS: Added hotkey for toggling sync to exact content framerate
• HOTKEYS: Prevent log spam when using rewind hotkey with cores that dont support rewind, if rewind functionality itself is disabled
• HOTKEYS: Add hotkey for toggling sync to exact content framerate
• STEAM: Use native OSK (Onscreen Keyboard) instead of built-in RetroArch version
• STEAM: New built-in core DLC downloader
• STEAM: Swap OK/Cancel buttons by default
• VIDEO/HDR: Removed redundant copy of buffer in HDR mode if the shader has already a HDR format i.e. R10G10B10A2 (updated Vulkan/D3D11/D3D12 drivers)
• VIDEO/HDR: Fixed crash when using stock shader and HDR and previous optimisation
• WAYLAND: Dynamically load libdecor at runtime
• WAYLAND: Fix splash screen when using xdg_toplevel
• WAYLAND: SHM anti-collision for the splash screen
• WAYLAND: Skip splash screen if window is not ready

RetroArch 1.10.1 has just been released. Read our full article here on our website.

Highlights

• doesnt need any content of its own to start up (like 2048, Mr. Boom)
• Is only made for one specific game/purpose and is not an emulator core that is meant to run various content, but only one specific thing.

• GPU MHz stay down, which is more energy efficient than presenting frames that are not visible anyway
• Fast-forwarding with 3rd party frame limiting such as scanline sync is possible

RetroArch 1.10.0 has just been released. Read our full article here on our website. RetroArch Open Hardware
Please take a moment to sign up for our RetroArch Open Hardware newsletter. We would also hugely appreciate it if you could fill out the user survey. The link can be found here. If there is sufficient demand, we have the possibility to start building hardware that will help regular users preserve their old videogames at affordable prices. Every person filling in this survey counts towards making this a future reality, so please take a moment to look at it. Highlights HDR support for Vulkan has been added. Its been confirmed working on Windows. Also, HDR support for Slang shaders has been added. The first shader to support HDR is crt\crt-sony-pvm-4k-hdr.slangp. Numerous improvements have been made to netplay. uPnP support has received a complete overhaul (and is no longer reliant on miniupnpc). Relay servers should now be fully operational. A new relay server has been added in Singapore to help out users in South East Asia and bordering countries. A summary of the new features: Netplay features: Text chat, host ping limiter, client ping counter. Netplay relay: New relay system is now functional. Netplay relay: The canadian server was replaced in favor of an asian one. Netplay relay: Custom relay server support. Netplay hosting: A warning will be shown if your room is not connectable from the internet when announcing to the lobby server. Netplay fixes: Many netplay fixes and improvements. Lobby Viewer (Internet): Filter out rooms that are not compatible with RetroArchs netplay. Lobby Viewer (Internet): Display a non-connectable tag to non-connectable rooms. Lobby Viewer (LAN): LAN rooms now have their own refresh button, no longer mixing together with internet rooms. The XMB menu now has a new (optional) effect to hide menu items that are near the edge of the screen, very similar to the original XMB. You can adjust the fade effect to your liking if you want it to fade out more items onscreen. The new setting is called Vertical Fade Factor and can be found in Settings -> User Interface -> Appearance. A VSync swap interval has been added for the Direct3D 10 and 11 drivers. Before, Swap/sync interval was merely on/off based on VSync, leaving the existing option unused. Big improvements for Xbox / UWP users see the changelog for more details. User advice for Xbox users There are apparently some issues people are experiencing with USB drives. We recommend you follow these steps to solve potential issues: * Connect your drive to a Windows PC * Go to File Explorer * Right click on your NTFS drive * Do the following: Properties -> Security -> Advanced -> Add -> Select Principal -> Advanced -> Find Now > All App Packages > Ok > Tick Full Control > Ok > Enable Inheritance. Changelog 1.10.0 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 doesnt 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 doesnt 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 isnt 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 UPnPs 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 devices address OPENGL1: Fix buffer overflow RetroArch would sometimes crashes at startup when loading asset textures with GL1 driver 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 wont 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

New RetroArch version 1.9.10 just released. Changelog down below: 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 doesnt 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 doesnt 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 isnt 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 UPnPs 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 devices 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 wont 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

A busy year passed by and there was a lot of silence on the Open-Hardware Project. The promise of RetroArch Open-Hardware has always been open hardware with open software delivering an open solution. We stand by this goal to this day, however we felt that the DIY market alone will not help the cause significantly to bring emulation to the mainstream. Thus we partnered with a hardware manufacturer for a commercial release bringing the peripheral into everyones hands while still keeping a free and open DIY route. With that in mind we are re-designing the hardware to be modular meaning there would be a base unit & addon modules for other console hardware (the main focus for initial release will still be N64). Our goal is to reach more people with this approach while only slightly increasing the difficulty for DIY folks (req. of a second PCB). If things go well, we could enter production in mid 2022 and have a product by the end of the year (knowing current global shipping tho, there will be some nightmares down the road). To help gauge interest and keep the community up-to-date, we launch today the RetroArch Open-Hardware Newsletter & User survey! Please sign-up if you want to stay updated. We wont spam you and only write you when really needed. Even if you arent interested please still take the survey. Its up to 10 questions max. and should only take 2 minutes to complete. It will help us a lot! The project depends on you Newsletter: https://retroarchopenhardware.com/ Survey: https://retroarchopenhardware.com/survey.php The article can be read in full here: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/introducing-the-retroarch-open-hardware-project/

We're happy to announce that Potator has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! Potator is a handheld emulator. It is a monochrome handheld gaming system released in 1992. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1844930/RetroArch__Potator/

We're happy to announce that Beetle VB has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! An emulator for a portable handheld console released in the mid '90s. It was a virtual reality handset console, and one of the first to showcase stereoscopic 3D graphics. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1844870/RetroArch__Beetle_VB/ The user guides can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/beetle_vb/

We're happy to announce that Beetle Cygne has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! Emulates a handheld game console from the late '90s. It had a D-pad on each side and could be held in both horizontal and vertical orientation. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1843660/RetroArch__Beetle_Cygne/ The user guides can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/beetle_cygne/

We're happy to announce that EasyRPG has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! EasyRPG Player allows you to play compatible RPG games from within RetroArch. Compatible RPG games are:

• RPGM 2000
• RPGM 2003

We're happy to announce that Beetle PCE has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! Comes in three versions:

• Beetle PCE
• Beetle PCE Fast
• Beetle Supergrafx

RetroArch 1.9.14 has just been released. If youd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. This post is an edited version of the article on our website, and it only includes changes relevant to the Steam version (and associated DLC). If you'd like to read the complete untouched article, visit this link here.

Highlights

Vulkan Avoid hard crash when capturing screenshot in emulating mailbox

Steam updates

• Caprice32
• RACE
• gpSP
• Prosystem
• Beetle PSX
• UAE
• VICE
• bsnes

Netplay improvements

• Added setting to allow/disallow players other than the host from pausing the game.
• Added a sublabel for netplay max connections.
• Changed unknown commands to be ignored instead of forcing a disconnection.
• Fixed port override macro from not being set immediately after the port setting.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Show passworded rooms on lobby. Small improvement to the lobby viewer it should now make a distinction between passworded rooms and non-passworded rooms.
• uPnP: Fixes more memory leaks
• uPnP: Added a task_queue_wait to prevent executing two nat tasks at once, so its also thread safe now
• uPnp: Fix UPNP port mapping failed error switch to a permanent lease time, but request it to be removed when we do netplay_free

WiiU improvements

Core improvements

VICE

• Updated to use VFS instead of straight file I/O (ProjectIO)
• Core option sublabel adjustments
• Audio detection for AutoLoadWarp
• More moderate tape warp detection
• Press play on tape change
• Mapper additions
• Dupecheck for disk append
• More distinguishable light gun cursor
• Diskwarp audio detection correction
• Mute Datasette with Autoloadwarp
• Diskwarp audio detection improvement
• Autoloadwarp automuting fixes
• Fix sound muting on rewind
• Add Automatic Zoom Mode
• Aspect toggle correction
• Touch pointer cleanups

FCEUmm

Nestopia

• Add automatic Crowdin synchronization

QuickNES

• Add automatic Crowdin synchronization

Beetle PSX

• Add core options to change crosshair color + remove light gun warnings
• Add automatic Crowdin synchronization

Prosystem

• Fix base height. This system only have one resolution depending on if it is NTSC or PAL. Before it was even worse because it was always reporting a hardcoded 320240 which is totally wrong, so better to output the correct one even if it is also hardcoded.

gpSP

Improved audio frame pacing

PPSSPP

• Move audio callback to the main thread (fixes the longstanding hang issues when using OpenGL)
• 64ms on desktop isnt enough due to excess buffering going on in this emulator. Set default to 128ms instead for now.
• Different audio approach is necessary due to the following: it sets a fixed framerate of 60, then sends either too many or too few audio samples per frame in order to force the frontend to run at the correct speed (.e.g. making the frontend run in slow motion for games that run at 30fps) this is undesirable for libretro, we want a consistent amount of audio samples per batch.

Miscellaneous core improvements

Changelog 1.9.14

• ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Implement MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission
• ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Bump up SDK level to 30 to comply with Play Store policies
• AUDIO/MIXER: Increase sample buffer padding
• CHEEVOS: Disallow achievements when spectating netplay
• CHEEVOS: Fix need-to-activate achievement logic for non-hardcore
• CHEEVOS: Dont queue rewind re-init if already on main thread
• CHEEVOS: Ignore unofficial achievements unless setting is enabled
• CHEEVOS: Use SSL host when available
• CHEEVOS: Validate hashes for secondary discs in multi-disc games
• CHEEVOS: Ensure placard is initialized on main thread when game has no achievements
• CHEEVOS: Audit achievement settings defaults and visibility
• CHEEVOS: Show error message when no password provided
• CHEEVOS: Use widget for game loaded achievement progress
• CONFIG: Honor config_save_on_exit when Reboot/Shutdown is called
• DISK CONTROL: Focus on current content entry in Disk Control append/insert
• FRAMEDELAY: Auto Frame Delay Improvements swap interval handling, D3DX handling, and delay target resets also on core restart. It should now work with high refresh rates and also with Direct3D 10/11/12 drivers
• INPUT/GYRO/ACCELEROMETER/ANDROID: Re-enable Gyroscope & Accelerometer when RetroArch resumes or regains focus
• INPUT/HID: Fix gamepad disconnect on unrecognized HID device
• LAKKA: Patch to fix keyboard typing
• LAKKA: CD-ROM eject menu item
• LAKKA/BLUETOOTH: Add option to remove pairing
• LAKKA/SWITCH: Disable rumble gain
• LAKKA/SWITCH: Disable cpu scaling, uses its own CPU governor
• LOGGING: Logging cleanups. A bunch of unifications and reformattings (capitalizations, dots, quotes, prefixes etc). Also added a few missing things, such as Run-Ahead error logging and LED interface init logging when it is enabled.
• NETPLAY: Networking should not print country for a local lobby
• NETPLAY: Added setting to allow/disallow players other than the host from pausing the game.
• NETPLAY: Added a sublabel for netplay max connections.
• NETPLAY: Fixed port override macro from not being set immediately after the port setting.
• NETPLAY: Show passworded rooms on lobby
• NETWORK: Make HTTP header parsing case insensitive
• NETWORK/UPNP: Fixed memory leaks
• NETWORK/UPNP: Added a task_queue_wait to prevent executing two nat tasks at once, so its also thread safe now
• NETWORK/UPNP: Switch to a permanent lease time, but request it to be removed when we do netplay_free. Switch to a permanent lease time, but request it to be removed when we do netplay_free.
• NETWORK/UPNP: Only use a single interface for UPnP, return on the first one found instead of iterating over all of them and opening them one by one
• OVERLAYS: Revert changes
• RETROFW: Add OSS audio
• VIDEO/ROTATION: Always return false if rotation cant occur. RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_ROTATION should return false when rotation has been forcefully disabled in frontend, that way the core can decide if aspect ratio should be rotated or not for vertical games. Useful for FBNeo for instance.
• VULKAN: Avoid hard crash when capturing screenshot in emulating mailbox.
• WIIU: Make wiiu_gfx_load_texture code safer
• WIIU: Fix keyboard support.

1.9.14 ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Implement MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Bump up SDK level to 30 to comply with Play Store policies AUDIO/MIXER: Increase sample buffer padding CHEEVOS: Disallow achievements when spectating netplay CHEEVOS: Fix need-to-activate achievement logic for non-hardcore CHEEVOS: Dont queue rewind re-init if already on main thread CHEEVOS: Ignore unofficial achievements unless setting is enabled CHEEVOS: Use SSL host when available CHEEVOS: Validate hashes for secondary discs in multi-disc games CHEEVOS: Ensure placard is initialized on main thread when game has no achievements CHEEVOS: Audit achievement settings defaults and visibility CHEEVOS: Show error message when no password provided CHEEVOS: Use widget for game loaded achievement progress CONFIG: Honor config_save_on_exit when Reboot/Shutdown is called DISK CONTROL: Focus on current content entry in Disk Control append/insert FRAMEDELAY: Auto Frame Delay Improvements swap interval handling, D3DX handling, and delay target resets also on core restart. It should now work with high refresh rates and also with Direct3D 10/11/12 drivers INPUT/GYRO/ACCELEROMETER/ANDROID: Re-enable Gyroscope & Accelerometer when RetroArch resumes or regains focus INPUT/HID: Fix gamepad disconnect on unrecognized HID device LAKKA: Patch to fix keyboard typing LAKKA: CD-ROM eject menu item LAKKA/BLUETOOTH: Add option to remove pairing LAKKA/SWITCH: Disable rumble gain LAKKA/SWITCH: Disable cpu scaling, uses its own CPU governor LOGGING: Logging cleanups. A bunch of unifications and reformattings (capitalizations, dots, quotes, prefixes etc). Also added a few missing things, such as Run-Ahead error logging and LED interface init logging when it is enabled. NETPLAY: Networking should not print country for a local lobby NETPLAY: Added setting to allow/disallow players other than the host from pausing the game. NETPLAY: Added a sublabel for netplay max connections. NETPLAY: Fixed port override macro from not being set immediately after the port setting. NETPLAY: Show passworded rooms on lobby NETWORK: Make HTTP header parsing case insensitive NETWORK/UPNP: Fixed memory leaks NETWORK/UPNP: Added a task_queue_wait to prevent executing two nat tasks at once, so its also thread safe now NETWORK/UPNP: Switch to a permanent lease time, but request it to be removed when we do netplay_free. Switch to a permanent lease time, but request it to be removed when we do netplay_free. NETWORK/UPNP: Only use a single interface for UPnP, return on the first one found instead of iterating over all of them and opening them one by one OVERLAYS: Revert changes RETROFW: Add OSS audio VIDEO/ROTATION: Always return false if rotation cant occur. RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_ROTATION should return false when rotation has been forcefully disabled in frontend, that way the core can decide if aspect ratio should be rotated or not for vertical games. Useful for FBNeo for instance. VULKAN: Avoid hard crash when capturing screenshot in emulating mailbox. WIIU: Make wiiu_gfx_load_texture code safer WIIU: Fix keyboard support.

We're happy to announce that Beetle PSX has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! Beetle PSX is a heavily modified fork of Mednafen's PSX module to the libretro API. It can be compiled in C++98 mode. Notable additions in this fork are: [olist]

We're happy to announce that Prosystem has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! The ProSystem emulator is an A7800 emulator. It was originally written in C++ using the Windows API and DirectX. It runs the ANTSC and PAL TV standards. It was originally written by Greg Stanton and then updated by others. For libretro it has been rewritten in C and made more portable, along with some additional enhancements. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227481/RetroArch__ProSystem/ The user guide can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/prosystem/

We're happy to announce that gpSP has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! gpSP is one of the fastest emulators of a very popular 32bit handheld game console released in the early '00s. It was originally made for that console's biggest competitor, quite a feat at the time and as a result it is very hard to beat in terms of performance. It has also recently seen numerous improvements over the original release by dedicated contributors who keep improving this emulator. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227468/RetroArch__gpSP/ The user guide can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/gpsp/

We're happy to announce that Caprice32 has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! Caprice32 is a software emulator of the CPC 8-bit home computer series that were manufactured by the British company between 1984 and 1993. The hardware has great features, like an operating system, CP/M and a HIRES display mode of 80-column. Its custom Gate-array and CRTC chips, exclusively designed, allows scroll effects, custom graphics modes, overscan, and many more. The emulator faithfully imitates the CPC464, CPC664, CPC6128, CPC6128+ and GX4000 models. By recreating the operations of all hardware components at a low level, the emulator achieves a high degree of compatibility with original CPC software. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227454/RetroArch__Caprice32/ The user guide can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/caprice32/

We're happy to announce that RACE has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! Rather A Cardfighter Emulator, RACE is a fast emulator for a 16bit handheld game console that was released in the late '90s. It came in both monochrome and color versions and had a D-pad on each side. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227453/RetroArch__RACE/ The user guide can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/race/

We're happy to announce that UAE has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! This core emulates the old '80s/'90s home computer Commodore Amiga. It also emulates the Amiga CD32. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829870/RetroArch__UAE/ The user guide can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/puae/

We're happy to announce that VICE has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! This DLC includes various cores all based on the same emulator. Each core emulates a different type of Commodore system. You can choose between 'Commodore 64' (C64), 'Commodore 64 + SuperCPU' , 'Commodore - CBM-II 5x0', 'Commodore - CBM-II 6x0/7x0', 'Commodore - PET', 'Commodore - PLUS/4', and 'Commodore - VIC-20'. What also needs mentioning is that there are two different versions for 'Commodore 64'. One is a 'fast' performance core, while the other is an 'accurate' core. The accurate one will, as the name suggests, have higher compatibility and a higher degree of accuracy, but it will also be slower. If you have a computer with low specifications, you might want to try the 'fast' version instead of the 'accurate' one. Link to the new DLC is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1828340/RetroArch__VICE/ The user guide can be found here - https://docs.libretro.com/library/vice/

We're happy to announce that bsnes has been added to RetroArch Steam as core DLC! This DLC includes two cores, bsnes and bsnes hd beta. The difference between the two is that bsnes hd beta also includes experimental widescreen, gradient and windowing features added by DerKoun, who also originated the HD Mode 7 effects included in mainline bsnes"

A ninjafix release was just pushed for RetroArch 1.9.13. This overwrites the current 1.9.13 build. Download it here. The main reason for this was that the overlays had been changed in 1.9.13. This would lead to many peoples existing overlay config files being broken due to the paths no longer working. So we changed it back to defaults. We apologize for the inconvenience. For example, because of this, the default overlay for Android would fail to start, and some overlays for 3DS would fail to show up. Several Cheevos-related fixes have also been pushed. Changes ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Implement MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission ANDROID/PLAYSTORE: Bump up SDK level to 30 to comply with Play Store policies CHEEVOS: Fix need-to-activate achievement logic for non-hardcore CHEEVOS: Dont queue rewind re-init if already on main thread CHEEVOS: Ignore unofficial achievements unless setting is enabled NETPLAY: Networking should not print country for a local lobby NETPLAY: Add Text Chat functionality OVERLAYS: Revert changes VIDEO/ROTATION: Always return false if rotation cant occur. RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_ROTATION should return false when rotation has been forcefully disabled in frontend, that way the core can decide if aspect ratio should be rotated or not for vertical games. Useful for FBNeo for instance. WIIU: Make wiiu_gfx_load_texture code safer

The submission process is taking a while, but we are happy to report that the following core DLCs have now been added for use with RetroArch Steam:

• BlastEm
• Snes9x
• Desmume
• Nestopia
• Flycast
• PPSSPP

Should fix several RetroAchievements-related isssues that were plaguing 1.9.13. CHEEVOS: Fix need-to-activate achievement logic for non-hardcore CHEEVOS: Don't queue rewind re-init if already on main thread CHEEVOS: Ignore unofficial achievements unless setting is enabled VIDEO/ROTATION: Always return false if rotation can't occur. RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_ROTATION should return false when rotation has been forcefully disabled in frontend, that way the core can decide if aspect ratio should be rotated or not for vertical games. Useful for FBNeo for instance.

RetroArch 1.9.13 has just been released. If you'd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn't keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Highlights

Project IO continues

No RetroArch 1.9.13 for Google Play Store for now

Automatic Frame Delay

'All Users Control The Menu' option is back

Initialise 'Explore' menu on a background thread

RetroAchievements - Replace co-routines with tasks

Core improvements

mGBA

Fixed audio pacing - no more crackles and bad frame pacing

Miscellaneous

LRMAME

Update to 0.237

1 frame of input lag removed from core

gpSP

x86 32bit/64bit dynamic recompilers

prBoom

Fix core options version detection

Fix memory leaks + prevent potential segfault when saving/loading games

TyrQuake

Fix startup crash on x64 systems

Clean up file path handling + fix segfault when loading content from 'non-standard' directories

Fixed memory leaks

Miscellaneous core improvements

• Beetle PSX: Add static crop behavior for "Crop Overscan" alongside dynamic
• Beetle PSX: Set game specific tweak to get Monkey Hero running past the title screen
• FBNeo: Numerous updates - see below:
• FBNeo: CPS1 - fix Strider palette fades
• FBNeo: CPS1 - Stars: simplify/fix
• FBNeo: CPS2 - added Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers Super 2 (bootleg, USA 930911)
• FBNeo: CPS2 - Corrected some overdumps for Alien Vs Predator [Guru]
• FBNeo: Sync FB Neo with MAME 0.237
• FBNeo: Spectrum updates from gab75
• FBneo: Mega Drive updates from gab75
• FBNeo: NES updates from gab75 - also add Goemon 2 Translation (English)
• FBNeo: Fix Vigilante breakage
• FBNeo: M90 - Hiscore support
• FBNeo: PC Engine - Add sprite limit override DIP
• FBNeo: PC Engine - Fix timing, arrange render pipeline, scale windowing for Supergrafx
• FBNeo: Supergrafx - Dai Makai - perfect background scrolling fix
• FBNeo: SNK - Fix Psychos DIPs
• FBNeo: Colecovision - Fix v-linecount (glitch in Frogger)
• FBNeo: Pacman - added Buccaneer (set 2) [Jeremy Locke, Cam]
• FBNeo: d_seta.cpp: add dumps for plds in blandia set, and info for undumped plds
• FBNeo: neogeo: add "The King of Fighters '98 (Ratio hack)"
• FBNeo: d_cps2.cpp: add Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha (Asia 960805) [Genaro Rodarte]
• FBNeo: New WORKING clone - Floritas (Multivideo Spanish Moon Cresta bootleg) [Retromaniacs]
• FBNeo: Renamed 'spcdraga' as 'floritas'
• FBNeo: Add 'floritasm' and rename 'spcdraga' as 'floritas'
• FBNeo: Homogenized all "bootleg on Galaxian hardware" descriptions
• FBNeo: Now there's only one "Space Dragon" set
• Frodo: Added WiiU build
• Gambatte: Fix loading of custom palettes with CRLF line terminators
• Genesis Plus GX Wide: Fix specific Plane B scrolling bug - This bug occurred when HSRAM values for Plane B were `>= 0x10000 - config.h40_extra_columns * 4` (e.g., `0xFFD8` when h40_extra_columns = 10) because of a bit carry into the upper 16-bit word of `xscroll`.
• Kronos: Latest updates
• MAME2003 Plus: Improve sound tempo for Dolmen and Twin Action - some sound niggles a constant crackling noise still remain
• MAME2003 Plus: Use control name before universal default - uses the specific control name before filling with our universal defaults. Also update DAT.
• MAME2003 Plus: Support a couple more Afega games - these just hang off the standard NMK16 code so can be added easy enough to nmk16.c rather than afega.c which would be more complicated
• MAME2003 Plus: New gfx scrolling routine for Twin Action
• MAME2003 Plus: Speed up macro search - refine search to look for player specific joycodes.
• MAME2003 Plus: Add Amlogic S812 platform + cleanup unused vars in Makefile
• PCSX2: Numerous updates - see below:
• PCSX2: GS: Don't propagate 24bit textures on download
• PCSX2: GS: Properly loop when reading 32bit CLUT from offset
• PCSX2: GS: Fix up CLUT offset handling in 32bit I8 mode
• PCSX2: GameDB: Add gamefixes for Ruff Trigger
• PCSX2: GameDB: Port Iridium Runners patch, update fixes
• PCSX2: GameDB: Patch rounding problem in Playmobil Hype The Time Quest
• PCSX2: GameDB: Sports (RTL)
• PCSX2: GameDB: Katamari Games
• PCSX2: GameDB: add VU clamping to 'Enthusia Professional Racing'
• PCSX2: GameDB: fix serial for 'Panzer Elite Action - Fields of Glory'
• PCSX2: GameDB: add EE clamping to 'Max Payne 2 - The Fall of Max Payne'
• PCSX2: GameDB: add VU clamping to 'Battle Engine Aquila'
• PCSX2: GS-hw: Don't write clamped depth test value to depth buffer when ZMSK is enabled
• PCSX2: GameDB :add VU clamping to Monster Rancher 3
• PCSX2: GS-hw: Add Slam Tennis to automatic mipmapping.
• PCSX2: EE: Cyclerate > 1 caused some cycles to be lost
• PCSX2: GS-fx/glsl: Get rid of PS_ATST 0 condition. It does nothing so no need to have it in shader.
• PCSX2: SIF: Kind of revert a SIF timing change made a while back to fix Parappa the Rapper 2
• PCSX2: COP2: Fix reg allocation issue. Really fixes Devil May Cry which was a bug hidden by clamping hidden by a bug, yeah i think that covers it all...
• Yabause: Fix pixel format on android

Changelog

• CHEEVOS/MSVC2010: Add Cheevos support
• CRT/SWITCHRES: Fixes some issue where scaling is incorrect in some video modes for CRT output.
• FRAMEDELAY: Add 'Automatic Frame Delay' option
• INPUT: Add 'All users control the menu' setting - any gamepad can control the menu when this is enabled. Only limitation right now is that only player 1 can toggle the menu, but any set Menu Toggle Controller Combo will work fine for all users, so this should be acceptable for now
• INPUT/UDEV: Fix Dolphin bar and safeguard against not adding devices with no mouse or touch buttons detected
• NETPLAY/CLI: -C/--connect commandline fix
• NETPLAY: Other improvements
• NETPLAY: Remove forced disconnection on unknown netplay command - will be backwards compatible with any version that removed this disconnect. instead of disconnecting, we just read the data and ignore, like most network implementations do
• TASKS/CHEEVOS: Replace coroutines with tasks/thread
• TASKS/DATABASE/EXPLORE: Initialise 'Explore' menu on a background thread - no more stall when hovering over the Explore tab

After introducing unique innovations like runahead in the past, RetroArch continues to innovate once more and remains at the forefront of latency reduction: introducing automatic frame delay! Read all about it in this separate article: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-9-13-automatic-frame-delay/

The Neo CD libretro core is now available for download! Get it here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227456/RetroArch__NeoCD/

RetroArch 1.9.12 has just been released. If you'd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn't keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Highlights

Steam

Miyoo - Pocket Go, PowKiddy Q90-V90 and New BittBoy - Over 28 cores now

• 81
• CAP32
• fMSX
• FUSE
• Gambatte
• Genesis Plus GX
• GW
• Handy
• LRMAME2003
• LRMAME2003 Plus
• Mednafen PCE Fast
• Mednafen Wswan
• mGBA
• NXEngine
• O2EM
• Picodrive
• PokeMini
• Potator
• PrBoom
• Prosystem
• QuickNES
• RACE
• Retro8
• ScummVM
• SMS Plus
• Stella 2014
• Theodore
• Vecx

HID subsystem unification - improvements/bugfixes

Increased backwards compatibility for macOS cores

• 2048: 10.9
• 81: 10.9
• atari800: 10.9
• bk: 10.1
• blastem: 10.9
• bluemsx: 10.9
• bsnes2014_accuracy: 10.9
• bsnes2014_balanced: 10.9
• bsnes2014_performance: 10.9
• bsnes_cplusplus98: 10.9
• bsnes_hd_beta: 10.9
• bsnes: 10.9
• bsnes_mercury_accuracy: 10.9
• bsnes_mercury_balanced: 10.9
• bsnes_mercury_performance: 10.9
• cannonball: 10.9
• cap32: 10.9
• craft: 10.7
• crocods: 10.9
• desmume: 10.7
• dinothawr: 10.8
• dosbox_core: 10.9
• dosbox_pure: 10.9
• dosbox_svn: 10.9
• duckstation: 10.15
• easyrpg: 10.9
• ecwolf: 10.9
• fbalpha2012_cps1: 10.9
• fbalpha2012_cps2: 10.9
• fbalpha2012_cps3: 10.9
• fbalpha2012: 10.9
• fbalpha2012_neogeo: 10.7
• fbneo: 10.9
• fceumm: 10.9
• fixgb: 10.9
• flycast: 10.9
• fmsx: 10.9
• freechaf: 10.9
• freeintv: 10.9
• frodo: 10.9
• fuse: 10.9
• gambatte: 10.9
• gearboy: 10.9
• gearcoleco: 10.9
• gearsystem: 10.9
• genesis_plus_gx: 10.9
• genesis_plus_gx_wide: 10.9
• gme: 10.9
• gpsp: 10.1
• gw: 10.9
• handy: 10.9
• hatari: 10.9
• lowresnx: 10.9
• lutro: 10.9
• mame2000: 10.9
• mame2003: 10.9
• mame2003_plus: 10.9
• mame2010: 10.9
• mame: 10.9
• mednafen_gba: 10.9
• mednafen_lynx: 10.9
• mednafen_ngp: 10.9
• mednafen_pce_fast: 10.7
• mednafen_pce: 10.7
• mednafen_pcfx: 10.9
• mednafen_psx: 10.9
• mednafen_saturn: 10.9
• mednafen_snes: 10.9
• mednafen_supergrafx: 10.9
• mednafen_vb: 10.9
• mednafen_wswan: 10.7
• melonds: 10.9
• mesen-s: 10.9
• mesen: 10.9
• mgba: 10.9
• mrboom: 10.9
• mu: 10.9
• nekop2: 10.9
• neocd: 10.9
• nestopia: 10.9
• np2kai: 10.7
• nxengine: 10.9
• o2em: 10.9
• oberon: 10.9
• opera: 10.9
• parallel_n64: 10.7
• pcsx_rearmed: 10.9
• picodrive: 10.6
• play: 10.14
• pocketcdg: 10.9
• pokemini: 10.9
• potator: 10.9
• ppsspp: 10.9
• prboom: 10.9
• prosystem: 10.9
• puae: 10.6
• px68k: 10.7
• quasi88: 10.9
• quicknes: 10.9
• race: 10.9
• reminiscence: 10.9
• retro8: 10.9
• sameboy: 10.9
• scummvm: 10.9
• smsplus: 10.7
• snes9x2002: 10.9
• snes9x2005: 10.9
• snes9x2005_plus: 10.9
• snes9x2010: 10.9
• snes9x: 10.9
• squirreljme: 10.9
• stella2014: 10.7
• stella: 10.9
• tgbdual: 10.7
• theodore: 10.7
• thepowdertoy: 10.15
• tic80: 10.15
• tyrquake: 10.9
• uzem: 10.9
• vba_next: 10.9
• vbam: 10.9
• vecx: 10.9
• vemulator: 10.9
• vice_x128: 10.9
• vice_x64: 10.9
• vice_x64sc: 10.9
• vice_xcbm2: 10.9
• vice_xcbm5x0: 10.9
• vice_xpet: 10.9
• vice_xplus4: 10.9
• vice_xscpu64: 10.9
• vice_xvic: 10.9
• virtualjaguar: 10.9
• vitaquake2: 10.9
• x1: 10.9
• xrick: 10.9
• yabause: 10.9

Project IO - Continued

• 2048
• Beetle PCE
• Beetle PCE Fast
• Beetle PCFX
• Beetle PSX
• Beetle NeoPop
• Beetle Wonderswan
• BlastEm
• FCEUmm
• Gambatte
• gpSP
• GME/Game Music Emu
• Handy
• Mesen
• Nxengine
• Opera
• Pokemini
• Prosystem
• Prboom
• Potator
• QuickNES
• RACE
• Reminiscence
• SameBoy
• SMS Plus
• Snes9x 2002
• Snes9x 2005
• Snes9x 2010
• TGBDual
• Vecx
• VirtualJaguar
• xRick
• VBA Next

Project IO - FCEUmm improvements

Super Mario Bros. YSAOPE + YEAOZA + YEAPYA Start on World 8

Project IO - SameBoy improvements

PCSX ReARMed - Improvements

• Literals are deduplicated, so there's no guarantee they will be stored next to each other, even if they're written sequentially. verify_dirty and get_bounds must use the offsets on each instruction, instead of assuming values are stored sequentially. According to neonloop, this fixes a dynarec crash in FF7 on ARMv5 platforms like the F1C200S as used in the TrimUi handheld. Given that the old3DS is ARMv6, it may also possibly fix some crashes there as well.
• GTE stalls/timings - This is to fix an issue with Battle Arena Toshinden 1 and Zero Divide going too fast. To test the GTE fix with Battle Arena Toshinden : Boot the game and go to "Vs.computer" at the titlescreen. Then, choose any character except rungo and select Rungo for the computer. Before, the game would go too fast. Now, it will run at the correct speed. (well very close, PCSX rearmed's clock counting is still kinda finicky). The fix in question was inspired by a similar fix from PCSX-Revolution. Might also fix NBA Jam Extreme.
• Fix for Armored Core misdetecting a Link cable being detected -fFor some reason, the game would detect that a link cable is plugged in and disables the local multiplayer as a result.
• Various CDROM fixes from Swanstation and Mednafen. These fixes aim to address the inaccuracies of some CDROM commands and make it on par with nocash's doc and mednafen. So far, it mostly fixes some delay issues in the Simple 1500 sound novel game as well as F1 2000 (which is notoriously time sensitive).
• Merge several fixes from PCSX Redux and adjust delay for SetLocPending. There's a game, PoPoLoCrois Monogatari II, that unfortunately locks up during the intro screen. I should have known that code was wrong as Mednafen did not have anything like that in their code either, hence the confusion.Their fix however still don't include the Driver fix so the game would still crash if we don't have the "+ Seektime". To be honest, i'm not sure why the PCSX Reloaded team did it this way... In any case, i adjusted it so it doesn't mess up the audio for Driver's titlescreen and doesn't crash in Worms Pinball either. Seems like setting it to 100000 was not enough for that game. I noticed the fastword and FastBackward were not being used in any way. Looked at Mednafen and all they do is just adjust the cursector and make sure that fastword & backword trigger the AUTO_REPORT code so i did the latter.
• CDROM: Rename Reset+Init commands, fix "This is Football 2" lockup
• CDROM: Ignore sectors with channel number 255 - This was tested on "Blue's Clues : Blue's Big Musical" and it fixed the missing audio there. Taxi 2 is also said to be affected by this.
• ICache emulation (Interpreter) from PCSX redux. Known games to be affected by the lack of or improper ICache emulation : Formula F1 99, Formula F1 2000 (EA), Formula One Champion Season 2000 Formula One Arcade, Formula F1 2001 (Confirmed to be fixed), Buster Bros. Collection, ISS Pro 98
• Dare to set MDEC_BIAS to 10 - This based on an original fix by dmitrysmagin in PCSX4ALL. "This fixes graphic artifacts during cinematics in Vandal Hearts and R-Types, other games seem to be unaffected. (?)"
• GTE: Fix gteH division and sign extension (from PCSX4ALL) - Original comment by senquack : "gteH register is u16, not s16. DIVIDE macro/func assumed it was s16 for some reason. Behavior now matches Mednafen." I also put in there the "GTE_USE_NATIVE_DIVIDE" stuff but currently unless manually enabled, it's not used. You may wish to use this on some low end platforms but that's up to you.
• [SPU] Emulate SPUSTAT[5:0] as a mirror of SPUCNT[5:0] - I have tested the fix against Loonies 8192 (a PSn00bSDK made homebrew game) and it no longer locks up during loading. This affects all games and demos that uses PSn00bSDK. (I've been told it's unlikely this will affect games that uses the official SDK)
• Implement fix from Mednafen for Fantastic Pinball Kyuutenkai - this also fixes 'Multi Track games crash on .CHD'.
• CDROM timing changes - fixes Crash Team Racing's intro music cutting off too soon - FF8 Lunar Cry FMV freeze (Disc 3) - Worms Pinball not booting - Xenogears (Deus fight)
• Fix CD Volume issue in Star Wars Dark Forces - CD Volume is 16-bits signed, not unsigned. Otherwise in Star Wars - Dark Forces : if you lower the music volume slider all the way down, the volume will wrap around and instead be set at the highest volume.

Ozone - new color themes

Libretro additions - Enable SRAM for contentless cores

Changelog

• 3DS: Ensure parallax barrier is disabled when '3DS Display Mode' is '2D'
• COMMAND: Command interface should work again
• INPUT/HID: Rewrote the HID deregistration algorithm; it should no longer cause issues when dealing with multiple pads of the same HID/VID combo
• INPUT/HID: Fix initialization bug that caused wiimotes to fail to register without an accessory attached
• INPUT/HID: Fix Wiimote regression
• INPUT/HID/MAC: Get Sony Sixaxis (DualShock 3) working on MacOS
• INPUT/UDEV: Add extra abs check for dolphinbar
• INPUT/UDEV: Add relative left mouse button when pointer device is not abs
• INPUT/WAYLAND: Fix keyboard input on Wayland - fixes 'Certain cores ignore user input'
• NETPLAY: Improvements from Cthulhu
• OPENDINGUX: Fix HAS_ANALOG/HAS_MENU_TOGGLE defines in sdl_dingux joypad driver
• LIBRETRO: Enable SRAM for contentless cores
• LIBRETRO: Add environment callback to get the rate retro_run is called - GET_THROTTLE_STATE and RETRO_THROTTLE_UNBLOCKED environment callback
• LINUX: Update metadata manifest
• MENU/OZONE: New themes - Solarized Light, Solarized Dark
• WINDOWS/WIN9X: Fix non-ASCII text display in window title

Full blog post / announcement will arrive tomorrow, but here is already the changelog: - ANDROID: New launcher logo - will fill the corners on the homescreen - D3D9: Driver works again (RGUI only and software rendered cores work, no shader support yet) - HID/MAC: WiiU GameCube Adapter now works - HID/WIIU: WiiU and general HID subsystem unified/merged - INPUT: Refactor menu toggle combo button logic to allow quit combo button - INPUT/UDEV: Add mouse relative check and set appropriately to fix issue - LIBNX/SWITCH: Splitted Joycon button mapping - LIBRETRO: Add environment callback to enable cores to notify the frontend that a core otion value has changed - MIYOO: Add initial port - OPENDINGUX/RG350: Enable tinyalsa for the RG350 - PS2: Add 'Change Resolution' option - PS2: Add option to change video windows offsets - STEAM/LINUX: Move to new 'soldier' runtime - WAYLAND: Remove xdg-shell-v6 protocol - WINDOWS: Fix non-ASCII text display in window title - UWP: Further improvements to WinRT VFS layer

Read very important linux changes!
RetroArch 1.9.10 has [strike]just[/strike] been released. If you'd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. The next version of Lakka (with an updated RetroArch 1.9.10 version) is scheduled to be released very soon! Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn't keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Highlights

RetroArch is now finally on Steam!

• New cores are coming as DLC additions.
• There is no macOS version available on Steam yet (but we'd like to!)
• Remote Play is supported. We make no guarantees as to how well this will work.
• Steam Cloud sync should be supported for save files.
• There is work underway on automation - the idea is that both cores and RetroArch on Steam would be updated automatically.

High Dynamic Range fixes for D3D11/D3D12!

• Fixed contrast to be more correct - now scales from 0-10 linearly and behaves more the way you'd expect it to - changed name to ditch legacy settings users may have
• D3D11/HDR: Fixed D3D11's blend, rasterizer and topology states not being set to the sames when using HDR and leaving the menu - caused issues with PCSX2's Shadow of the Colossus
• Added ability to skip inverse tonemapper to the shader via the constant buffer using 'inverse_tonemap' - set to 0.0f to skip
• Fixed potential bug when swapping between HDR and SDR and the bit depth not being set correctly

Filters

Playlist Manager - New 'Refresh Playlist' option

• This functionality will not work with playlists generated before this commit, since they will lack the required metadata. It will be necessary for the user to re-run a 'normal' manual scan for any playlist they might want to later refresh; thereafter, the Refresh Playlist option will appear in the relevant 'playlist manager' menu and maintenance becomes a one-button affair.
• We can only 'refresh' playlists created via the manual content scanner - not the database scanner. When performing a database scan, there is no practical method for extracting all required metadata for a repeat operation.

3DS - Add bottom screen idle state

RetroAchievements/Cheevos improvements

Changelog

• 3DS: Add bottom screen idle state
• 3DS: Add unique IDs for Gearboy/Gearcoleco/Gearsystem, correct CAP32 code
• 3DS/SAVESTATES: Fix RAM states to file when core deinits
• AUDIO/MIXER: Pad sample buffers to prevent potential heap-buffer-overflows when resampling (fixes crash when using 30 kHz menu audio files)
• AUDIO/LINUX/SNAP: Add JACK support
• CHEEVOS: Don't write achievement credentials to overrides
• CHEEVOS: Disable slowmotion when enabling hardcore mode
• D3D9: Fixed MVP matrix issue for RGUI texture (main game frame still won't show up though)
• D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Fixed contrast to be more correct - now scales from 0-10 linearly and behaves more the way you'd expect it to - changed name to ditch legacy settings users may have
• D3D11/HDR: Fixed D3D11's blend, rasterizer and topology states not being set to the sames when using HDR and leaving the menu - caused issues with PCSX2's Shadow of the Colossus
• D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Added ability to skip inverse tonemapper to the shader via the constant buffer using 'inverse_tonemap' - set to 0.0f to skip
• D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Fixed potential bug when swapping between hdr and sdr and the bit depth not being set correctly
• D3D11/D3D12/HDR: Added numerous helper functions to help create the correct values to colour the UI - normally the white UI elements should be rendered at paper white not max brightness for various reasons
• BUGFIX/ANDROID: Fix crash that could happen on Android with Sameboy core - would crash on rumble function
• GFX/WIDGETS: New regular widget message appearance
• INPUT/MOUSE: Add distinct mouse zero index label for drivers that do not support multimouse
• INPUT/RUMBLE: Add generic rumble gain to input settings
• INPUT/UDEV/X11: Add workaround to fix keyboard input when using X11 + Udev
• LIBNX/SWITCH: Add Video Filters support
• LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
• OPENDINGUX/BETA: Disable OpenAL
• PLAYLISTS: Add 'Refresh Playlist' option
• STEAM: Initial release on Steam
• UWP/VFS/XBOX: Improvements and bugfixes to UWP VFS driver
• VIDEO/REFRESH RATE: Automatic PAL/NTSC refresh rate switch where available - as long as the platform display server allows changing refresh rates and the display has the desired refresh rate
• VIDEO FILTERS: Add 'Picoscale_256x-320x240' video filter
• WIIU/HID: Fix analog inputs on HID devices

Hello everyone! We have been busy working on the Steam version to improve compatibility and stability. Right now, we need to make some changes for the Linux platform. For a long time, we have manually released everything on the Steam, this has now been automated for both platforms. Looking forward you can expect regular updates and soon a nightly branch. However, to simplify RetroArch on Steam we are moving to the same folder structure on all platforms. Additionally, on Linux, we are moving from the AppImage-based release to using the newer soldier runtime available in Steam to increase the likelihood of RetroArch working out of the box on more Linux distributions. As there is a small risk for breakages for Linux users we felt the need to properly inform about this. So what does this change mean? Currently, the RetroArch base directory on Linux is RetroArch-Linux-x86_64-Nightly.AppImage.config/retroarch which you can see the retroarch's itself in a subdirectory instead of being in the main directory of the game, so our goal is basically same directory structure for every platform! Due to the chance of data loss our recommendation is to copy everything you care about, for example; save files, options, your cfg files etc. somewhere safe outside the Steam install. While Steam Cloud should keep everything safe, we do still feel the need to mention this, as the changes are not risk-free. The update is currently scheduled to go out the 3rd of October together with the next frontend release. Please contact us if you have any concerns!

[strike]Today[/strike], RetroArch has finally been released on Steam for both Windows and Linux/SteamOS. The Store page can be found here.

Differences between the Steam version and regular version

• There is no Core Downloader to stay compliant with Valve/Steam's Terms of Service.

• Manually dragging the core file (a .dll file on Windows, .so on Linux) over to the 'cores' directory of RetroArch Steam.
• Installing the core as a DLC.

10 Cores Available At Launch

• Mupen64 Plus Next
• Kronos
• PCSX ReARMed
• Stella
• SameBoy
• mGBA
• Mesen
• Mesen S
• Genesis Plus GX
• Final Burn Neo

Things to know

• RetroArch on Steam is available for 64bit Windows/Linux users only for now. We are not sure if we will be supporting 32bit on Steam as well.
• Builds right now are not automated but might be later on.
• There is no macOS version available on Steam yet. There are no plans yet for this, but if there are updates on this, we will tell you.
• Remote Play is supported. We make no guarantees as to how well this will work.
• Steam Cloud sync should be supported for save files.

If you'd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. The next version of Lakka (with an updated RetroArch 1.9.9 version) is scheduled to be released very soon! Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn't keep doing this were it not for spreading the love to our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Highlights

High Dynamic Range support for Direct3D 11/12 drivers!

Thoughts on future RetroArch HDR support

3DS Bottom touchscreen menu

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) has been ported to Libretro/RetroArch!

Add enhanced search functionality to the 'Cheats' menu

Faster sinc resampler and audio conversion for ARM NEON platforms

Important fixes

Changelog

• 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 (not working for Xbox for now)
• D3D12: Add HDR support (not working for Xbox 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

If you'd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. The next version of Lakka (with an updated RetroArch 1.9.7 version) is scheduled to be released a week from today. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn't keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Highlights

New RetroFW port

• RS-97
• LDK
• RG-300
• Powkiddy Q80

• 29 cores available at launch: Atari800, BlueMSX, Cap32, FCEUmm, fMSX, FreeCHAF, FreeIntv, FUSE, Gambatte, Genesis Plus GX, gpSP, GW, Handy, LRMAME2003, LRMAME2003 Plus, Mednafen PCE Fast, NXEngine, O2EM, Picodrive, Pokemini, Potator, Prboom, Prosystem, QuickNES, RACE, Retro8, SMS Plus, Stella 2014, Vecx

Core option categories

Cores that already support core option categories

• Final Burn Neo
• Mupen64Plus Next
• Beetle Saturn
• Beetle PSX
• Beetle PCE
• Beetle PCE Fast
• Genesis Plus GX
• Snes9x 2010/2005/2002
• DOSbox Pure
• DOSbox Core
• UAE (Amiga)
• VICE (Commodore 64)

Have you ever noticed RetroArch starting a game in windowed mode and then blowing up the window to ridiculous sizes that exceeds the boundaries of your desktop? Well, we now have a solution for that! At present, when RetroArch is in windowed mode with Remember Window Position and size disabled, the window size will be equal to the core provided base_width/base_height multiplied by the Windowed Scale. This is potentially 'catastrophic': if a core has a very large base_width/base_height (e.g. PPSSPP with a x7 internal scale factor) and Windowed Scale is set to the default x3, then the window size can be enormous - potentially exceeding the capacity of the host GPU and causing RetroArch to crash. 1.9.8 adds two new options:
• Settings > Video > Windowed Mode > Maximum Window Width (default: 1920)
• Settings > Video > Windowed Mode > Maximum Window Height (default: 1080) ...which can be used to cap the maximum window size to a 'sane' value.
The PR also cleans up the Settings > Video > Windowed Mode menu, auto-hiding options where required, and re-initing drivers when toggling Remember Window Position and size. Also, since the 'remember' part of Remember Window Position and size is only enabled for Windows, an alternate Use Custom Window Size is provided on other platforms.


Auto-updating core option menu visibility updates without toggling Quick Menu


Cores are able to show or hide their options via the RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_CORE_OPTIONS_DISPLAY callback on supported fontends. A significant shortcoming here is that if a change to one core option (via the frontend) affects the visibility of another option, the frontend cannot update the menu state until the core has run for at least one frame. So with the core options menu open, visibility updates cannot happen in real-time - instead, the user must toggle the quick menu off then on before the menu will change. This is ugly and confusing. 1.9.8 adds a new RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_CORE_OPTIONS_UPDATE_DISPLAY_CALLBACK environment callback which allows the core to register a function that enables the frontend to (a) force a core-side option visibility update and (b) allows the frontend to check whether option visibility has changed. This means all show/hide operations can now generate real-time menu updates.

Windows


Plenty of important fixes for Windows users. If you experienced lockups in the past when disconnecting an audio device while using the WASAPI audio driver, well, rejoice, this will no longer happen. Simultaneous shift sticky fixes were made to the DirectInput input driver. Dinput would not send WM_KEYUP for both Shifts if they were pressed together and released, resulting in sticky Shifts = Pinball games ruined in DOSBox. The following fix was made to the Windows RawInput driver - the Left Alt key could get stuck when Alt-Tabbing. No more. The keyboard can now also be mapped to analog input axes, meaning you can bind the left and right analog stick on the RetroPad to your keyboard keys.

PlayStation2 version


1.9.8 solves the flickering issues that appear in the cores that use the FRAME_SKIP as Snes9x2002 does. Also, 1.9.8 basically mounts HDD partition if RetroArch actually started from the HDD unit. In this way, we skip the mount partition if the user just wants to use USB.

macOS/OSX version


Plenty of important fixes for macOS users this time! There were several serious memory leaks with the Metal video driver. These have now been fixed. Serious bugs related to the input autodetection subsystem have finally been fixed. Now when you connect a gamepad, it will no longer try to attach the same pad to two controller ports simultaneously. This has been a longstanding bug that we're glad has finally been consigned to the dustbin of history thanks to the help of a generous contributor who did quite some work to delve deep into this issue. We also made sure everything still works across a wide variety of macOS machines (from a PowerPC Mac running OSX 10.5 to an Intel and ARM Mac running more recent macOS versions).

WiiU version


Lots of improvements have been made once again to the WiiU port. All the libretro RPX cores are now compressed. Not only do they load faster (leading to faster startup times), but it means you have a lot more space left on your SD card. L3 and R3 buttons have been fixed on several gamepads, they were previously completely nonfunctional. Furthermore, promising work is underway for a PlayStation1 emulator core running on RetroArch WiiU. More on that later once more news is forthcoming.

UWP/Xbox versions


We have been fixing several bugs with the UWP port, many of these affecting in particular RetroArch users on Xbox One/Series. Microsoft recently released a new Dashboard update that caused some breakage for existing RetroArch installs. We have managed to fix the startup problem that occurred on the latest dashboard. We also fixed the onscreen keyboard display which was previously completely glitched out. Note that on the latest Dashboard, some compatibility problems still persist. For instance, it has been reported that several games on PCSX2 no longer work as of the recent update. This will require investigation and it is our guess if anything can be done about this, we will have to determine this after more investigation has occurred. For now, you might experience scaling issues with some of the ANGLE/GL powered cores like Mupen64Plus Next and Flycast because of the Dashboard update. We hope that we will be able to transition from ANGLE to something like GLon12 soon. What this would buy us is full desktop OpenGL support instead of just OpenGLES. This would mean a more complete superset of OpenGL (up to 3.3 from what we can hear), more cores that would work out of the box instead of custom cores made to work with ANGLE, etc. We will see if we succeed in this, but that's something for a later version. In the meantime, we have also enabled Translation features. Note that we haven't been able to implement the Text-to-Speech accessibility feature yet, but all other features should be there now for experimentation. We have also re-enabled the "Explore" tab on the Main Menu. We haven't found any issues with this anymore after the recent bugfixes/improvements we made to the underlying database code, but let us know if there are any more issues on that front. Several cores that used the libretro VFS subsystem and/or CHD loading previously no longer worked. Examples include the Beetle cores. This has been fixed.

Screen resolution settings improvements


Currently the "Screen Resolution" list wrongly alters also video_refresh_rate to the rounded value, as in 59.940 Hz becomes 59.000. This change makes sure all the 59.94 multiples (59/119 etc) result in the proper float value instead of integer. Also, previously notifications when setting the refresh rate would repeat itself twice. This has been fixed.

Changelog


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)

What's next


It has been often requested during our project's history, but yes, we finally want to do something on the UI/UX front. We have been considering introducing an 'Easy Mode' that should aim at making things much less of a maze to navigate for non savvy users. Stay tuned for more info!

Lakka 3.3 release

• RetroArch updated from 1.9.5 to 1.9.7
  • Optimized scanning of large data sets
  • Added support for mapping multiple controllers to a single input device
  • Analog to Digital Type usability improvements
  • Updated translations from Crowdin
• Cores updated to their most recent versions
  • Dolpin: add dolphin-emu/Sys folder to RetroArch system folder
  • New: np2kai core (PC-98)
• Generic: enable MIDI sequencer support
• Generic: add Gamecon support
• RPi: disable 4K modes

If you'd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. The next version of Lakka (with an updated RetroArch 1.9.7 version) is scheduled to be released a week from today. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldn't keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store! NOTE: We will update this notice as soon as we have uploaded the 1.9.7 version for UWP/Xbox as well to our server. For now, these still point to the previous version (1.9.6). We thank you for your understanding.

Release notes

Highlights

New RetroMini RS-90 port

• All regular frontend features are working (excluding rewind and runahead support)
• RGUI offers surprisingly comfortable performance at 240x160 (even thumbnails are supported - with a fullscreen toggle mapped to the start button)
• Content can be displayed with integer scaling, or nearest neighbour and semi-linear software filters are provided for fullscreen viewing

• Gambatte: All GB games (GBC games have mixed success)
• Genesis Plus GX: Master System & Game Gear games
• Pokemini
• QuickNES

• Mednafen PCE Fast
• Picodrive: Genesis
• Potator
• RACE
• gpSP

PlayStation2 - playable Game Boy Advance emulator added

WiiU improvements

Linux / xdg-screensaver improvements

Changelog

• 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 scaling. 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

[previewyoutube=eY3diF6G-M8;full][/previewyoutube] RetroArch is now available on the Amazon App Store! Note: Will work best with a gamepad. Link here. As of this moment, RetroArch is available on the Google Play Store (here and here), Amazon App Store (here),Steam (here, available by requesting access) and Itch.io(here).

If youd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. The next version of Lakka (with an updated RetroArch 1.9.6 version) is scheduled to be released a week from today. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldnt keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Release notes

Highlights

Optimize scanning of large data sets

• A manual scan of 100k files takes 20 minutes
• Performing a Clean Playlist operation on the resultant playlist takes 5 minutes

Add support for mapping multiple controllers to a single input device

• Port 1 Controls > Mapped Port > 1
• Port 2 Controls > Mapped Port > 1

• It allows multiple controllers to be used when playing hotseat multiplayer games that normally support only a single controller
• It allows hybrid-type controllers (e.g. two joysticks mounted in a cabinet) to be used as a single device
• It allows easy swapping of player 1/player 2 (etc.) inputs for example, when the PSX version of Metal Gear Solid asks the player to plug their controller into port 2

Analog to Digital Type usability improvements

• None: No mapping
• Left Analog: Map left stick to D-Pad, but disable mapping if core attempts to read analog input
• Right Analog: Map right stick to D-Pad, but disable mapping if core attempts to read analog input
• Left Analog (Forced): Always map left stick to D-Pad, disabling left stick analog input
• Right Analog (Forced): Always map right stick to D-Pad, disabling right stick analog input

• There is no longer contention between analog stick inputs when an input overlay and physical controller are attached to the same port
• Input overlays no longer generate analog stick input in addition to D-Pad input when Analog to Digital Type is set to the left or right stick

AI Service (Windows) Security Improvements

Windows Installer improvements

Changelog

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: Dont use allow tearing flag with blit swap chains. Also disables the flip model if the allow tearing flag is not supported.
• D3D11: Disable DXGIs ALT+ENTER handling
• D3D11: Dont 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 data sets
• SECURITY: Plug so-called high-risk vulnerability related to Powershell avoid injection dont 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

Hi there community, last Sunday a tragedy befell the emulation community, when Near tragically took their own life. While we feel Near needs no introduction, we feel it is only right to let people know of the extent to which Nears work laid the foundational framework of Libretro/RetroArch, and what other great projects they worked on, including of course bsnes (which needs no introduction at this point). Among Nears other great accomplishments: libsnes (which later turned into our fork, libretro), libco (a cooperative multi-threading library), Higan (a multi-system emulator), Ares, and various other auxiliary projects. Out of respect for Nears untimely passing, we have delayed the release of the next RetroArch by a full week. You wont be seeing us doing any promotional material or coverage for it until then, and who knows, we might even skip going into it at all. We feel this right now is more important and should get front and center coverage. We asked three people familiar with Near to provide their own eulogy. Recognize that we speak from the heart and that our purpose in doing this is to pay proper respect and tribute to a great programmer in the emulation scene, the likes of whom we might never get again.

Hunter Kaller

Alcaro

Daniel De Matteis

Person who wishes to remain anonymous

In light of today's events and out of respect for what has transpired, we've decided to delay the release of RetroArch 1.9.6 that was scheduled today. We thank you for your understanding.

Lakka 3.2 has just been released! To learn more, check out this article here - http://lakka.tv/articles/2021/06/19/lakka-3.2/ This version is based on the latest RetroArch version, 1.9.5. Next version of RetroArch (v1.9.6) scheduled for next Sunday (26/6/2021).

If youd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. The next version of Lakka (with an updated RetroArch 1.9.5 version) is scheduled to be released a week from today. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldnt keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Release notes

Highlights

Enhanced search functionality to the Manage Cores menu

API extension for setting need_fullpath based on content file extension and to request persistent frontend content data buffers

New CRT SwitchRes implementation

What is new?

• Better modeline generation.
• Faster and more stable switching.
• Windows dynamic resolutions. No longer limited to locked resolutions/Hz. Timings are modified on-the-fly (ATI only)
• ( Stable resolution restoration. (If RetroArch should crash you will be stuck in the previous resolution that RetroArch was in)
• Improved super resolutions with Integer scaling.
• Fixed primary monitor issue. You no longer have you use your primary monitor only.
• Improved monitor indexing. Allowing for multi-monitor support.
• Low and High resolution options for the RetroArch menu.
• (RawInput support for absolute mice devices (Lightguns, to name a few) had issues with resolution changes, this has been fixed co-ordinates are reassigned after a resolution change.
• New CRT SwitchRes Menu options to remove the need to edit the switchres.ini.
• Switchres.ini can be used to set some advanced options.
• Monitor profiles these allow you to change the modeline generation profile to fit many TV/monitors. (Some available from the CRT SwitchRes menu)
• Custom CRT ranges this allows you to set custom monitor profiles. This can help with uncommon TV/Monitors and geometry issues.

Changelog

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

Lakka 3.1 has just been released! To learn more, check out this article on our sister site Lakka.tv here. This version is based on the latest RetroArch version, 1.9.4. We have the next version of RetroArch (v1.9.5) scheduled for next Saturday (12/6/2021). You can always view our roadmap for Lakka and RetroArch here.

If youd like to learn more about upcoming releases, please consult our roadmap here. The next version of Lakka (with an updated RetroArch 1.9.4 version) is scheduled to be released a week from today. Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldnt keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Release notes

Highlights

Prevent unnecessary extraction (to disk) of compressed content files

• Content is extracted to a temporary file on disk
• Temporary file is loaded into a memory buffer and passed to the core
• Temporary file is deleted when core is unloaded
• This is a huge unnecessary performance overhead, and it causes significant unnecessary wear and tear on flash storage devices

Option to select between touched elements and physical controller inputs when showing inputs on overlays

• OFF: No inputs will be highlighted
• Touched: The overlay element that is touched/clicked will be highlighted, regardless of which RetroPad button it corresponds to (default setting on mobile platforms)
• Physical (Controller): Actual inputs passed through to the core will be highlighted (including remaps). This is the default setting on non-mobile platforms, and can be used by streamers, speedrunners and suchlike to show the actual controls they are using

Changelog

• 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
• RPNG: Fix some memory corruption if processing broken input PNG file
• SECURITY: Fix CVE-2021-28927

The Steam version may differ from the Normal version. The following changes are written for general use. The RetroArch Playtest version will be updated at a later time today. RetroArch 1.9.3 has just been released. Grab it here: http://retroarch.com/?page=platforms Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldnt keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store!

Release notes

Highlights

Core info file caching

• Core info cache can now be enabled/disabled on all platforms via a new Settings > Core > Cache Core Info Files option
• Core info cache file are stored as core_info.cache
• The core info cache file is compressed (rzip) to further reduce disk I/O
• The presence of a core_info.refresh file in the core info directory will force a one-time refresh of the info cache. This file is generated automatically when toggling on the Cache Core Info Files option, and we will also add it to core info file packaging such that updating info files (either manually or via the online updater) will force a refresh
• The core info cache no longer contains core is locked and firmware missing data fields; these are dynamic properties that must be determined at runtime
• The core is locked status is now determined on core info initialisation by parsing the core directory listing, rather than by performing individual lock file exists checks. This minimises file I/O, and greatly improves performance on devices with slow storage
• While parsing the core info cache file, we now avoid unnecessary strdup()s when adding entries to the resultant cache list

(Static Platforms) Add option to not restart RetroArch when launching content with the currently loaded core

• There is a significant annoyance in the way that static builds work. If you run the top level RetroArch app, then everything works as you would expect but if you run a core directly (e.g. a specific core cia on 3DS), RetroArch doesnt actually have any way of knowing which core is currently loaded. It assumes you are running the last loaded core which may not be the case. If it isnt, the first run content operation with Always Reload Core on Run Content disabled will cause an unnecessary fork (but the next run content will behave correctly). Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about this

Changelog

• 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)

Watch this great presentation by Microsoft Azure covering (among other things) RetroArch's AI Translation capabilities [previewyoutube=atga5uMsrYY;full][/previewyoutube]

AI Service

Improvements to the Libretro port

• LowPass Filter : Its available from the core options, I know something similar is available from RetroArchs DSP plugins but you might want to check out this one too. Technically its a 2x resonant lowpass filter which is set-up to mimic the amp section found on most PCBs. For a good 95% of games, it makes the sound a bit more rich/bassy, and for the remaining 5% let us know so that we can fix them. Youll probably never want to turn this option off after getting used to how nice it sounds.
• Cheats : They have been supported through the Libretro API for some time, but now you can also directly use a cheat.dat from MAME, more information about this here.
• Macros : First, some words about macros, the reason macros from standalone arent supported is because there can be dozens of them for a single player on a single game, however you currently cant map that many actions with the Libretro API (and this is not only a problem for macros, handling service menu when it involves several buttons can be tricky too) because all inputs need to be assigned to a button from the get go. In the past, there was some workaround for this through core options, but it had its own share of issues so it was removed later. I recently decided to re-implement support for a select few macros, for now it only includes 3xPunchs and 3xKicks on SF-like games but implementing a few more could be done if I can get some help sorting out the ones thatll be the most useful so that theyll fit within the RetroPad model.

Available cores updated to latest version

• PCSX ReArmed
• Genesis Plus GX
• Genesis Plus GX Wide
• mGBA Stealla
• Kronos
• Mupen64Plus Next
• Mesen
• Mesen S
• Sameboy

The Steam version may differ from the Normal version. The following changes are written for general use. [strike]The RetroArch Playtest version will be updated at a later time today.[/strike] Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldnt keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store! http://retroarch.com/index.php?page=donate https://www.patreon.com/libretro https://github.com/sponsors/libretro https://retroarch.creator-spring.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjAimkVp-G_o6HK5MXujk9A/join

Release notes

Highlights

Multi soft-patching support

Enhanced Load Content file browser search functionality

• When navigating the filesystem via the file browser, the user can press RetroPad X (or /, etc.), and enter a search term
• This becomes a filter all matching entries will be displayed
• The user can then perform another search to further refine the results. Up to 8 filters may be stacked in this fashion
• Pressing cancel clears the last entered filter

• Entering a search term consisting of a single Latin alphabet character will now always jump to the first entry whose first character matches i.e. we no longer apply search filters in this case, since a single alphabet character filter is not useful. This means single character searches can be used for fast alphabet navigation
• When searching file browser lists, the utility entries (e.g. Parent Directory) are ignored, since they have no bearing on the actual list content (i.e. searching for p will now jump to the first p file previously, it would always jump to Parent Directory)
• When performing non-filter searches, the entry labels used in each comparison now exactly match what is printed on screen by the menu driver. Previously, raw file_list values were used, which are often the same, but not always (e.g. in a number of cases, this is the difference between searching against full file paths vs. path basenames, which can produce erroneous results)

Optional menu screensaver animations

OpenDingux beta: Add 50Hz support

OpenDingux beta: Fix IPU scaling when running GB/GBC/GG/NGP-resolution content

• Gameboy (+ Color)/Game Gear at native, x2 and x3 resolutions
• Neo Geo Pocket (+ Color) at x2 resolution

Changelog

• 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/RPC: 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

Reah here as well: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/libretro-cores-updates-pcsx2-alpha-release-for-windows-and-more/ Following updates may not cover Steam version. You can still use standalone version over Steam. PCSX2 DLC not planned at this moment.

PCSX2 Alpha core available for Windows now!

• Create the following directory in your system directory pcsx2. You can put all the asset files there from your regular PCSX2 install. See pic below for an example.

• Its still an alpha version. Things are rough around the edges. Expect bugs and things to be incomplete.
• Theres a working OpenGL renderer and a Direct3D11 renderer option. Direct3D 11 renderer can be faster than OpenGL but also has less features. Pick whichever works best for you. On Xbox you will only be able to use Direct3D11 anyways.
• This core uses the x86_64 dynarec which was added to PCSX2 a year ago. It is still less compatible than the 32bit x86 dynarec in PCSX2, so keep that in mind. Its for similar reasons that the software renderer right now wont work (its not compatible yet with x86_64, not in upstream either).
• Theres a bug that can happen right now upon closing content or exiting RetroArch with the PCSX2 core on Windows the RetroArch process might not completely cleanly shut itself off and you might still be able to see a 0% CPU process remaining in the Task Manager. We have not been able to figure out how to fix that yet as the PCSX2 codebase is a definite case of here be dragons, but for now when this happens, you can just bring up the Task Manager and close it manually. It shouldnt have a real detriment on performance but it is of course far from ideal and hopefully something we can fix soon with the help of some contributors. We have found this happens the most with the Direct3D 11 renderers.
• Switching resolution at runtime right now can be a bit unstable, so does switching fullscreen resolution. We might just make resolution switching require a restart since this tends to be too unstable for now.

Play! (experimental PlayStation2 emulator) is back on the buildbot!

DuckStation/SwanStation core updated

Mainline MAME available for iOS11 and up/tvOS !

gpSP (Game Boy Advance emulator)

• Support for generic MIPS (including Dingux)
• Built-in BIOS that ships internally and requires no external files/dependencies
• Removal of libco (5-6% perf or so) and some performance fixes for x86/arm/mips (for perf)
• Fixed the x86 dynarec and the ARM dynarec, that were pretty much broken. Good speedups (or power savings on portable devices)

Picodrive (Sega Mega Drive/Master System/Sega CD/32X emulator)

FCEUmm (Nintendo Entertainment System emulator)

• implement additional outer bank bit to support multicarts twice as large as WS-1001 (Super 40-in-1)
• implement CNROM-128/-256 mode using two or four inner banks switched via CNROM-like latch at CPU $8000-$FFFF
• implement solder pad/DIP switch change via soft-reset, resulting in different multicart menus
• soft-resetting resets to menu as on real hardware, not just the currently-selected game.
• Tested with the HH-xxx series of multicarts, some of which available on LIBG, as well as the previously-supported WS-1001.

bSNES HD Beta/bsnes mainline available for iOS/tvOS/ARM64 Mac

Genesis Plus GX Wide available for iOS/tvoS/ARM64 Mac

Other cores which have received updates

Written by jdgleaver This is a followup article to our main release blog post, which can be read here. Official support for OpenDingux devices such as the RG350M, RG280V and GCW-Zero was added last December; a full round-up of features and highlights can be found in the original announcement here. Version 1.9.1 represents the first stable release for this platform. As an integrated member of the RetroArch family, the OpenDingux port benefits from all frontend development work but a major addition for this release is a separate, optimised build for OpenDingux Beta (link here). This is an updated, modern firmware (compatible with many devices) which offers significantly improved performance. RetroArch is one of the first applications on OpenDingux Beta to enable configuration of the hardware IPU (Image Processing Unit), with menu-based control of aspect ratio/integer scaling and image filtering method (available on Beta releases after 16/03/2021). Users who prefer to remain on stable operating systems need not fear, however: RetroArch will always be optimised for both beta and stock firmwares. Aside from RetroArch itself, expanding the library of available cores has been a major focus of this release. Launching initially with 20 hand-picked cores, a further seven have been added to the list:

• Mr.Boom
• O2EM (Magnavox Odyssey2 / Phillips Videopac+)
• Potator (Watara Supervision)
• ProSystem (Atari 7800)
• ScummVM (Note: High resolution games unsupported)
• Stella 2014 (Atari 2600)
• TIC-80

O2EM

• The model and region of the emulated console (Odyssey 2, Videopac+ G7400) can now be specified via core options
• A volume control and optional low pass audio filter have been added, along with audio fixes/performance improvements
• An Interframe Blending option has been added, used to simulate CRT ghosting effects
• A Crop Overscan option has been added
• Gamepad inputs can now be swapped (required for a number of games), and numeric keys have been mapped to gamepad buttons
• The rendering of the virtual keyboard has been optimised, reducing performance overheads by 44%-63%
• Save states have been fixed

Potator

• This newly-added core was ported specifically for use on OpenDingux devices!

ProSystem

• 16 bit colour depth support has been added for improved rendering performance
• An optional low pass audio filter has been added, along with general audio quality improvements
• A dual stick controller mode has been added for games such as Robotron: 2084

Stella 2014

• 16 bit colour depth support has been added for improved rendering performance
• An Interframe Blending option has been added, used to simulate CRT ghosting effects and remove screen flicker
• An optional low pass audio filter has been added
• Full analog paddle support is now available

TIC-80

• Comprehensive support for mouse input via gamepad has been added

The Steam version may differ from the Normal version. The following changes are written for general use. Since PCSX2 Core is WIP, it does not exist in Buildbot for now. The Steam DLC version is not on the agenda now. You can use Play! Core from Buildbot or build and use PCSX2 from source code. Those who have problems build from the source can write to me from Steam(id/Gadsby_/) or Discord(gadsby#6752), I can only share the x64 version. Because its core is WIP, it may not be ready for end user use. [strike]The RetroArch Playtest version will be updated at a later time today.[/strike] Remember that this project exists for the benefit of our users, and that we wouldnt keep doing this were it not for spreading the love with our users. This project exists because of your support and belief in us to keep going doing great things. If youd like to show your support, consider donating to us. Check here in order to learn more. In addition to being able to support us on Patreon, there is now also the option to sponsor us on Github Sponsors! You can also help us out by buying some of our merch on our Teespring store! http://retroarch.com/index.php?page=donate https://www.patreon.com/libretro https://github.com/sponsors/libretro https://retroarch.creator-spring.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjAimkVp-G_o6HK5MXujk9A/join
RetroArch back in action! Today marks an important day for our project. We consider the migration to the new infrastructure to be almost 95% done. We have left the old infrastructure behind, it is done and dusted and a thing of the past. From now on, you can expect periodic stable releases again for all platforms. Expect our project to be hitting on all cylinders from this point on! One blog post is not enough to go through all the milestones that have been reached, so expect many followup blog posts in addition to this. In this blog post instead we will try our best to summarize most of the highlights. What remains to be done:

• Some cores will still need to be added (mainly cores that require compilation with CMake for iOS)
• Windows binaries right now are still unsigned and not codesigned. We have ordered an Extended Validation code signing certificate which will allow our Windows binaries in the future to pass through SmartScreen with no issue. This will cost us a pretty penny each year but we consider the additional cost worth it for our users. We hope that by the time the next stable rolls out of the door, these binaries will all be signed, as will the nightlies.
• Because of this, be aware that while installing RetroArch on Windows with the Installer, you might be greeted by a SmartScreen filter that the application is unsafe. You can safely ignore this.

Release notes

Some highlights

Changelog

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