RetroArch/CHANGES.md
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1.6.6 (future)

  • 3DS: Fixes serious performance regression that affected every core; rewind was always implicitly enabled.
  • AUDIO: MOD/S3M/XM sound should now be properly mixed in with the core's sound.
  • GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver.
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
  • INPUT: Overlay controller response - when we press buttons on the gamepad or keyboard, the corresponding buttons on the overlay will be highlighted as well.
  • NETBSD: Silence some compilation warnings.
  • COMMON: Fixed bug 'Deleting an entry from a playlist would not update the list view inside XMB'.

1.6.5

Skipped this one.

1.6.4

  • ANDROID: Fire Stick & Fire TV remote overrides gamepad port 0 on button press and viceversa like SHIELD devices
  • ANDROID: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
  • AUDIO: Audio mixer supports MOD/S3M/XM file types now!
  • INPUT: input swap override flag (for remotes) is cleared correctly
  • INPUT: allow specifying libretro device in remap files
  • INPUT: allow specifying analog dpad mode in remap files
  • INPUT: allow saving libretro device to remap files
  • INPUT: allow saving analog dpad mode to remap files
  • INPUT: allow removing core and game remap files from the menu
  • COMMON: Cores can now request to set a 'shared context'. You no longer need to explicitly enable 'Shared Hardware Context' for Citra/OpenLara/Dolphin.
  • COMMON: Add 'Delete Core' option to Core Information menu.
  • COMMON: Allow Max Timing Skew to be set to 0.
  • COMMON: Change the "content dir" behavior so it works on either a flag or an empty directory setting, now platform drivers can provide defaults for save / system / state / screenshot dirs and still allow the content dir functionality, these settings are under settings / saving and flagged as advanced
  • GUI: You can turn on/off 'Horizontal Animation' now for the XMB menu. Turning animations off can result in a performance boost.
  • GUI: Fix sublabel word-wrapping in XMB where multi-byte languages were cut off too soon
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Traditional Chinese translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
  • WINDOWS: Provide default save / system / state / screenshot locations
  • LOBBIES: Show what country the host is in
  • MENU: Enable OSD text rendering for gdi and libcaca drivers
  • WINDOWS 98/ME/2K: Set default directory for MSVC 2005 RetroArch version.
  • WII: Better V-Sync handling, backported from SuperrSonic.
  • WIIU: Exception handler rewritten.

1.6.3

  • IOS: Fix GL regression - 32bit color format cores were no longer rendering
  • CHEEVOS: Add support for N64 cheevos and other small fixes.
  • CHEEVOS: Add 'Achievements -> Achievements Verbose Mode'. Ability to display cheevos related messages in OSD, useful for RetroAchievements users.
  • AUDIO: Audio mixer's volume can now be independently increased/decreased, and muted.
  • AUDIO: Mute now no longer disables/enables audio but instead properly mutes the audio volume. Mute is also independent from the audio mixer volume.
  • INPUT: Add mouse index selection; ability now to select between different mice
  • INPUT: Fix 'All Users Control Menu' setting
  • LINUX: Add a tinyalsa audio driver. Doesn't require asoundlib, should be self-contained and lower-level.
  • LOBBIES: Announce the RetroArch version too
  • LOCALIZATION: Add Traditional Chinese translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update French translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
  • MENU: Add 'User Interface -> Views'. Ability to display/hide online updater and core updater options.
  • NETPLAY: Disconnecting one client shouldn't cause everyone to disconnect anymore
  • NETWORK: SSL/TLS support, disabled by default
  • SCANNER: Fix PS1 game scanning
  • SCANNER: Move content list builder into scanner task with progress, fixes menu freeze with large playlists
  • SDL2: Fix 'SDL2 driver does not see the hat on wired Xbox 360 controller"
  • SETTINGS: Fix regression 'Custom Viewport is no longer overridable per-core or per-game'
  • VITA: Add cheevos support
  • VITA: Add support for external USB if mounted
  • WAYLAND: Fix menu mouse input
  • WII: Add support for single-port 'PS1/PS2 to USB controller adapter'

1.6.0

  • ANDROID: Allow remotes to retain OK/Cancel position when menu_swap_ok_cancel is enabled
  • ANDROID: Improve autoconf fallback
  • ANDROID: Improve shield portable/gamepad device grouping workaround
  • ANDROID: Runtime permission checking
  • AUDIO: Audio mixer support. Mix up to 8 streams with the game's audio.
  • AUTOSAVE/SRAM - Fix bug #3829 / #4820 (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/3829)
  • ENDIANNESS: Fixed database scanning. Should fix scanning on PS3/WiiU/Wii, etc.
  • LOBBIES: Fallback to filename based matching if no CRC matches are found (for people making playlists by hand)
  • LOBBIES: GUI refinement, show stop hosting when a host has been started, show disconnect when playing as client
  • LOBBIES: if the game is already loaded it will try to connect directly instead of re-loading content (non-fullpath cores only)
  • LOBBIES: unify both netplay menus
  • LOCALIZATION/GUI: Korean font should display properly now with XMB/MaterialUI's default font
  • LOCALIZATION: Update German translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update/finish French translation
  • MENU: Improved rendering for XMB ribbon; using additive blending (Vulkan/GL)
  • MISC: Various frontend optimizations.
  • NET: Fix bug #4703 (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/4703)
  • OSX/MACOS: Fixes serious memory leak
  • THUMBNAILS: Thumbnails show up now in Load Content -> Collection, Information -> Database
  • VIDEO: Fix threaded video regression; tickering of menu entries would no longer work.
  • VITA: Fix 30fps menu (poke into input now instead of reading the entire input buffer which apparently is slow)
  • VITA: Fix frame throttle
  • VITA: Fix slow I/O
  • VULKAN: Fix some crashes on loading some thumbnails
  • VULKAN: Unicode font rendering support. Should fix bad character encoding for French characters, etc.
  • WII: Fix crashing issues which could occur with the dummy core
  • WIIU: HID Controller support
  • WIIU: Initial network/netplay support
  • WIIU: XMB/MaterialUI menu driver support
  • WINDOWS: Added RawInput input driver for low-latency, low-level input.
  • WINDOWS: Added WASAPI audio driver for low-latency audio. Both shared and exclusive mode.
  • WINDOWS: Core mouse input should be relative again in cores

1.5.0

  • ANDROID: Autoconf fallback
  • ANDROID: Mouse support / Emulated mouse support
  • AUTOCONF: Fix partial matches for pad name
  • CHEEVOS: Fix crashes in the cheevos description menu
  • CHEEVOS: WIP leaderboards support
  • COMMON: 9-slice texture drawing support
  • COMMON: Threading fixes
  • CORETEXT/APPLE: Ability to load menu display font drivers and loading of custom font.
  • DOS: Add keyboard driver
  • DOS: Improve color accuracy and scaling
  • GUI: Add a symbol page in the OSK
  • GUI: Allow changing icon theme on the fly
  • GUI: Better dialogs for XMB
  • GUI: Various settings are now only visible when advanced settings is enabled
  • LOCALIZATION: Add/update Korean translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Rewrite German translation
  • LOCALIZATION: Update several English sublabels
  • LOCALIZATION: Update several Japanese labels
  • MOBILE: Long-tap a setting to reset to default
  • MOBILE: Single-tap for menu entry selection
  • NET: Allow manual netplay content loading
  • NET: Announcing network games to the public lobby is optional now
  • NET: Bake in miniupnpc
  • NET: Fix netplay join for contentless cores
  • NET: Fix netplay rooms being pushed on the wrong tab
  • NET: Lan games show next to lobbies with (lan) and connect via the private IP address
  • NET: Use new lobby system with MITM support
  • NUKLEAR: Update to current version
  • SCANNER: Always add 7z & zip to supported extensions
  • VULKAN: Add snow/bokeh shader pipeline effects - at parity with GL now
  • VULKAN: Find supported composite alpha in swapchain
  • WIIU: Keyboard support
  • WINDOWS: Fix loading of core/content via file menu
  • WINDOWS: Logging to file no longer spawns an empty window

1.4.1