Actualités - Planet Emulation (2024)

Fixes:
- Fix potential null pointer in libretro guns autoconfiguration
- Fix EKA2L1 controller index assignment
- XEMU : change closing hotkey to send CLOSE instead of taskkill : this should fix saves corruption issue
- Lime3ds : add new executable name
- PC-ENGINE : default to 2-button pad
- libretro-Mupen64 : force vulkan when using parallel plugin
- Few fixes of default settings values for libretro cores
- RPCS3 : fix features for new version
- MEDNAFEN : fix psx & saturn controller error
- VPinball : fix -extminimized and -ini command lines not being passed to command line for new RC versions of VPinball
- Dolphin : change exit combo to send CLOSE instead of KILL - might fix wiimote disconnection issues some people had
- MAME & FBNEO : if game is vertical and no specific bezel is set, RetroBat will default to vertical arcade bezel
- CAP32 : fix running dedicated COMMAND from .m3u file by deactivating autorun when a command is present
- WINDOWS : .gameexe file to specify process to monitor does now work for any .lnk file

Features:
- 3ds : Add bezels for side-by-side layout (also added capability to search for nds, but no bezel is yet available)
- Libretro nes cores : add palette options
- BigPEmu : set SDL as default input driver
- Citra & Lime3DS : enable bezels
- DOLPHIN: Add Retroachievements support (Gamecube & Wii)
- Duckstation: add new shaders
- HYPSEUS: management of .singe folders
- JGenesis: Add nes zapper option
- LR-FCEUMM & LR-MESEN: add turbo and core aspect ratio features
- LR-FCEUMM: fix overscan option
- Ryujinx : add option to force number of controllers that will be configured, this can avoid the gamepad screen to popup in Ryujinx (by default Retrobat was configuring as many players as the number of connected controllers)
- Ryujinx : add network features
- SINGE2: update ways of searching for .singe file and videofile
- XEMU : add option to select cerbios flashrom (needs 'Cerbios.bin' in retrobat\bios folder)
- NEC PC98 : add .cue extension
- RAINE : add features & controller autoconfiguration
- DOLPHIN : add aspect ratio setting for wii in sysconf
- Play! : added few missing features
- FBNEO : add games to autoconfiguration of controllers
- PCSX2 : add per game memory card option
- PCSX2 : add .m3u support (RetroBat will launch the file specified in first line of .m3u file)
- Add squashfs support to some emulators (dolphin, citra, lime3ds, duckstation, bigpemu, ppsspp)
- Add Retroarch turbo feature to few cores
- MODEL 3 : add option to use L1 and R1 for racing games instead of triggers for people with arcade cabinets without triggers
- CEMU : add button mapping to display Gamepad screen
- PCSX2 and PSX : add option to change controller mapping and use L2 and R2 for driving games (useful for Gran Turismo)
- SIMPLE64 : add selection of controller pak
- XENIA & XENIA-CANARY : add some features and fixed a few that have changed with xenia update
- FLYCAST : add network features in RetroBat menu

Other stuff:
- Update WIKI
- Add animated bezels for RetroArch (only on few systems)
- Add Retroshooters guns detection
- Add MAME nvram preconfigured files
- Add TEKNOPARROT lightgun games in lightgun collection
- Add lowresNX scrapping capability (screenscraper)
- French translations rework

v1.19.0
- AI: Revert AI translation to previous version (fix for translation not working with HW rendered cores)
- APPLE: Try to use system preferred language
- APPLE: Correctly register for filetypes uniquely
- APPLE/MFI: improved Switch Online controller support through MFi
- AUDIO: Bring back audio toggling on menu toggle
- CHEEVOS: Build a default RetroAchievements memory map when no RetroAchievements game is loaded
- CHEEVOS: Update to rcheevos 11.3
- CHEEVOS: fix hardcore acting as if it’s enabled when it isn’t
- CLANG: Fix clang error incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers
- CLOUDSYNC/LINUX: Enable Cloud Sync by default on Linux builds with network (#16456)
- CLOUDSYNC/WEBOS: Enable Cloud Sync by default on Linux builds with network (#16456)
- CORE: Set compute fps stats logging to debug level
- EMSCRIPTEN: Added M2000 to core selection dropdown
- FFMPEG: Add compatibility with FFMPEG 7.0
- GLSLANG: Remove unneeded ENABLE_HLSL code from glslang
- GENERAL: Memory leak: Dynamic allocation from msg_hash_get_help_us_enum was not freed.
- INPUT/KEYBOARD: Add support for multimedia keys – Extended RETROK_ values with 18 new items, commonly found on
“multimedia” keyboards. Mapping added for SDL, X11, Wayland, dinput, winraw keymaps.
- INPUT/MFI: Pressure sensitive left/right triggers
- INPUT/MFI: Fix Start + L1/L2/R2 combinations
- INPUT/MFI: Support strong and weak rumble
- INTL: Fetch translations from Crowdin
- INTL: Add Galician and Norwegian to list of languages
- LAKKA: Display reboot/shutdown message also when not saving config on exit
- LAKKA: Provide update URL and target name at buildtime
- LIBRETRO: Add a debug message for the SET_ROTATION callback
- macOS: Default Accessibility on if VoiceOver is on
- iOS: default audio sync on again, also more mfi logging
- iOS: Fix Import Content
- iOS: Fix ios-arm64 nightly build crash
- iOS: Import content from iCloud
- iOS: Fix #16485 crash on startup
- iOS: Display app icon in app icon picker in materialui
- iOS/tvOS: Various QoL improvements
- iOS/tvOS: Fix a couple more path name mangling bugs
- iOS/tvOS: Better way of packaging Frameworks
- iOS/tvOS: define PACKAGE_VERSION to be App Store MARKETING_VERSION
- iOS/tvOS: Fix keyboard handling for app store builds
- iOS/tvOS: Fix escaping the sandbox for jailbroken devices
- iOS/tvOS: default accessibility on if voice over is enabled
- iOS/tvOS: better way of reporting available memory
- macOS/iOS/tvOS: enable text-to-speech using AVSpeechSynthesizer.
- tvOS: Fix scaling for 720p
- MENU: New function in Quick Menu: Add to Playlist
- MENU/XMB: New theme: FlatUX, designed to merge FlatUI and Retroactive themes into a single, unified design
- NETWORKING/RETROPAD CORE: Fix socket close method
- PIXMAN: Update pixman-private.h – patch to fix build issue with musl
- PLAYLIST: Cleanup ‘Add to Playlist’ (#16495)
- SCANNING: Fix for scanning PSP ISOs (and probably few others)
- SAVES: Fix core config saving
- SAVES: Fix save new config name when core loaded
- SAVESTATES: Increase save state chunk size for all platforms – Even a class 6 or class 10 SD card can handle reads and writes on the order of MB/s, which means a 4KB chunk size is just wasting time in syscalls. This could maybe be fixed with a buffering reader but I don’t feel comfortable tweaking libretro-common’s VFS to handle that. Instead, I thought it would be good to both remove an ifdef and increase the chunk size to 128KB. For cores with small states this will should make state saving virtually instantaneous, and for cores with large states it should be a 32x speedup.
- VIDEO: Fix crash when using threaded video – for Mesa 23.2 and later
- VIDEO/GL: Fix reinitialization of the threaded gl drivers
- VIDEO/VULKAN: Add support for A2R10G10B10 HDR format
- VIDEO/VULKAN: Implement HDR readback – screenshot support
- WAYLAND: Ignore configure events during splash (fix not remembering window size)
- WAYLAND: Use frontend signal handler to quit (fix quit by window close)
- WAYLAND: Commit viewport resizes (window resize is more responsive)
- UWP: Align MESA to alpha-2-resfix – Remove wrong resolution special handling for OPENGL
- UWP: 4K fix: align MESA reading of ClientRect to retroarch procedure, this fixes max resolution being set to 1080p. As reading must be done inside an UI thread and is in fact an async operation which might delay frame generation, the reading itself is doen once and cached, give that changing resolution while the app is running is an unlikely corner-case use
- WINDOWS: Windows mouse ungrab must release the mouse instead of confine it to the current desktop (#16488)
- WINDOWS: Fix numlock/pause key release events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Total DOS Collection, Date/Time
- Originally there was trrntzip formated zips, this format has served up well for many many years. It uses deflate compression (level 9) and a fixed date time of: 12/24/1996 11:32 PM Rumored to be the date MAME was first released! So I have been working closely with the main guy over at the Total DOS Collection for about the last 6 months (Thanks for all the great collaboration efforts), and am very please to anounch the first big upgrade to the zip format is TDCZip (Think of this as trrntzip with date/time support.), this turned into quite an adventure to get all the TDC zips supported in RomVault. Including discovering that ZIP's original date/time storage can and does store potentially invalid date/times suck as 1990/00/00 00:00:00 = month 0 , day 0, and invalid time can also be stored. Also had to rework my code support for code page 437 (as used in early zip filenames) as it turns out .NET's version of this code page does not correctly support the ASCII values below 32.
- The daily Total DOS collection DATs will now also be included in DatVault updates. DatVault will also contain a RomVault corrected TDC Release 21 DAT (Please don't try using the numbered release DATs from TDC, they are honestly a mess.), and also a daily Diff dat with just the news files in the Daily compared to the Release 21 DAT we be available in DatVault.

ZSTD Compression
- So while re-working the zip format it was also possible to add the next big update to ZIP... zstd compression zip. This timing turned out to be just about perfect as MAME can now support reading zstd compressed zips!
- What is zstd? It is a new compression methods invented by facebook devs, compresses better that deflate, compresses faster than deflate (With multi-threading compression!), and decompresses at crazy fast speeds, so it is win, win, win all the way around.
- Also WinRAR 7.x and 7zUI v24.x also now support zstd compressed zips, so zstd zip is now a very well supported compression system.
- So we now have what I am refering to as Structured archive formats:
*Trrntzip: Original format.
*TDCZip: Total DOS Collect Date/Time supported format.
*RVZSTD: RomVault zstd format
These are now the 3 supported structured ZIP formats in RV, but wait... theres more.. lets not leave out 7Z!
- 7Z got a big upgrade also, now supporting 4 different formats:
*LZMA-Solid: This is the originally supported 7z format
*LZMA-NonSolid: Added Nonsolid as a 7z supported option now
*zstd-Solid: ZSTD has arrived in 7z also
*zstd-NonSolid: Its here and uses the same compression as ZIP, (And can raw copy between NonSolid 7z's and zip!)
- As well as these two main features, there have been many equally imported enhancements such as better file fixing source priority selection, and better handling of zero byte files, now meaning zipmove can be used in more places.
Dark UI mode has been hiding in RV for a while, but has officially been added to the config UI.

TrrntzipUI becomes S.A.M. Structured Archive Maker
- With the arrival of more than just Trrtnzip, TrrntzipUI also needed an overhall, and has officially been renamed to Structred Archive Maker, It can now recompress all of the above structured archive formats. (With the exception of TDC, because you need to DAT to get the Date/time correct.) S.A.M. is now available from the RomVault top menu, and the stand along version will be released here soon.
- And..... just because people do ask for it: The command line versions for windows and Linux got an update with all the new v3.7 features.
- Thanks again for all the support, and help from my great freinds over in RomVault discord This great releases would not be what it is without your help and support.

So here the detailed list of all the updates and bug fixes in V3.7.0!

Feature Updates:
- Added new structured archive formats for zstd Zip/7z and TDC (Total DOS Collection) Zip
- Added the ability to raw copy zstd compressed files between archives
- Added raw copy functionality to and from 7z archives
- Added decompression support for several 7z compression filters
- Added support for DATs with timestamps (E.g. TDC)
- Added modified Date/Time to the Game List grid
- Added new graphics for the Game List grid to show current and preferred storage type
- Added multithreaded zstd compression options to Global Settings
- Added a Dark Mode toggle in Global Settings
- Enhanced ZipMove to work with zstd zip and 7z archives
- Enhanced ZipMove to work with TDC zip archives
- Enhanced archive fixing logic to use a priority system to pick the most efficient source for a fix
- Enhanced archive fixing logic so that 0-byte files are not prematurely deleted which would prevent ZipMove
- Improved performance of handling 0-byte files
- Improved error reporting
- Rebranded trrntzipUI to SAM (Structured Archive Maker) and added new zstd archive options

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a crash that could occur if the DatRoot folder was missing and you attempted to add a directory from the DatVault UI
- Fixed a crash when ZipMove was wused on a set with NotCollected ROMs
- Fixed a crash related to the category reorder buttons
- Fixed a crash when loading old ROM Center DATs
- Fixed an issue related codepage 437 to better support lower ASCII values (lower than 32)
- Fixed an issue with reading some DATs generated by FB Alpha
- Fixed an issue that could result in duplicate directory rules in the cache file
- Fixed an issue where repacking zips in a ToSort would modify the timestamps of the contents