RetroArch Changelog

What's new in RetroArch 1.17.0

Feb 4, 2024

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
IOS: Fix widget on IOS17
IOS: Exit instead of crash on some errors
IOS: Fix ios-vulkan-ppsspp
IOS: Enable HDR support on IOS
IOS: Add option to disable respecting silent mode
IOS: Allow ignoring safe area (fullscreen over notch)
IOS: Default to not enabling keyboard gamepad
IOS: Fix XRGB8888 in GL driver
IOS: Allow changing the app icon
IOS: Add HAVE_ACCESSIBILITY to iOS builds
IOS/TVOS: Create GL context as GLES3 to fix some rendering performance problems
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
PS2: Fix for no sound
PS2: Fix 0-byte logs and add memory stats
PSP: Fix memory leak in audio driver
RUNLOOP: Frame Rest, experimental sleep feature aiming to lower CPU usage and temperature when using certain CPU hungry vsync modes
RPI: Fix videocore + switchres compile failure
SCAN: Do CRC check on PSP/PSP(PSN) content
TVOS: Enable overlay support
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
WII: Enable Cheevos for Wii builds
WIIU: Fix config file and core info reading
WIIU: Fix “Up” and “Left” directional input for both Analog sticks for GC Adapter
WIIU: Fix 3 USB controllers (NES/SNES/Retrode)
WIIU: Fix file descriptor leak
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

New in RetroArch 1.15.0 (Mar 12, 2023)

AI SERVICE: Fix NVDA switching to Powershell on speak
ANDROID: In Android builds, add input_android_physical_keyboard configuration option and its corresponding menu entry to force a device to act as a physical keyboard. When running on Android, RetroArch considers most devices that emit dpad events as gamepads, even if they also emit other keyboard events; this is usually the right thing to do, but it has the side effect of not letting some actual keyboards (e.g.: Logitech K480) act as such inside RetroArch. This configuration option allows users to manually select a specific input device to act as a physical keyboard instead of a gamepad, which is handy when emulating computers as opposed to consoles.
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
IOS: Include ‘Update Core Info Files’
IOS: Fix #14778 – In addition to sending logs to asl_client, add them to the logfile.
IOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Vulkan video driver on iOS
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.
PS2: Avoid loading extra drivers when not needed. Fixed a bug where it wasn’t using the variable extra_drivers, for loading the specific IRX needed drivers. This is increasing compatibility with some specific PS2 models that sometimes fail when loading cores.
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add improvements to the RSX driver (#14965)
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add modern_alpha_blend and modern_opaque rsx shaders
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add perf improvements to the rsx driver
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add RSX video driver
PS3/PSL1GHT/MENU/XMB: Do XMB menu scaling for psl1ght
PS3/PSL1GHT: Update Makefile to use latest shaders and more UI menu options
PS3/PSL1GHT: Default folders normalization
PS3/PSL1GHT: Fix video rotation
PS3/PSL1GHT: Fix HTTP download
QB/CONFIGURE: Add new flags – HAVE_UPDATE_CORE_INFO, ASSETS_DIR, FILTERS_DIR
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
STATICALLY LINKED/SALAMANDER: Fix salamander config save on fork for static platforms
TVOS/VULKAN/MOLTENVK: Vulkan on tvOS
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 in RetroArch 1.14.0 (Mar 12, 2023)

AUDIO/COREAUDIO/APPLE: Allow coreaudio3 driver to work with audio devices that have 2 or more output channels
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 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.
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
DRM/ODROID GO2: Implement get_video_size for DRM GL context driver
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).
FFMPEG CORE: Fix runtime error in FFmpeg core when build with FFmpeg n5.1.2 and OpenGL ES
GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: (picoscale_256x_320x240) Added snn function to upscale Fuse (ZX Spectrum) core borderless output to 320×240. ZX Spectrum resolution of 256×192 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
LEAPFROG: Add Leapfrog (LFx000) Target
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)
OSX/MACOS: Fixed Cocoa keyboard not allowing to map Analog stick
PS2: Use the recently created ps2_drivers which makes easier the loading and init of all the drivers: Memory Card, USB, HDD, Audio, Controllers
PS2: Adds exFat support for USB, and probably solves some unexpected issues when using an HDD driver for booting cores/games.
SDL GFX: Fix no menu on start/blank screen issue.
SRAM: Don’t init SRAM saving without content (gets rid of the redundant logging)

New in RetroArch 1.13.0 (Nov 20, 2022)

3DS: Remove debug button combo to shutdown RA
3DS: Remove MaterialUI as per MrHuu recommendation
ANDROID: Enable ‘Vibrate On Key Press’ haptics by default
ANDROID: Turn ‘Threaded Video’ off by default
CHEEVOS: Upgrade to rcheevos 10.5
COMPILATION: Fixed compiling with –disable-menu
CONFIG: Don’t 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)
IOS13+: Pointer movement accuracy. iPad Trackpad Pointer Movement Accuracy through absolute location (for iOS 13.4 and above)
IOS13+: Adds iPad Trackpad Support to iOS13 Project (for iOS 13.4 and above)
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 won’t allow fullscreen toggle when it shouldn’t
MENU/OZONE: Selection position remembering in non-playlists won’t 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
OSX: Fixed Z/X keys not working on the macOS port
OSX: Fixed RETROK_LMETA not working on macOS port. The RETROK_LMETA key was not defined in the rarch_key_map_apple_hid
OSX: Fix broken fullscreen mode in macOS Ventura
PS2: Fix Error saving remaps and runtime logs
PS3: Fix Core Remap Overwrite Fail
QB: Don’t fail if OSDependent/OGLCompiler libraries are not present
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.

New in RetroArch 1.12.0 (Oct 18, 2022)

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
IOS: New modern iOS version (targeting iOS 13 and up), leverages Swift
IOS: Fixes to iOS toolbar
IOS16: Add iOS 16 lock screen widget
IOS13+: Added emulator keyboard
IOS13+: Add JIT support for non-jailbroken devices
IOS13+: Added support for touch mouse handler
IOS13+: Changed click-and-drag behavior to double tap hold and drag
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.
NETWORKING/WIIU: Fix socket_connect_with_timeout for WIIU
NETWORKING/WIIU: Fixes RetroAchievements login
NETWORKING/WIIU: Fixes other online updater functionality
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
WIIU: Add some missing default directories
WIIU: Get mkdir working on WiiU (directory creation)

New in RetroArch 1.11.1 (Oct 5, 2022)

New in RetroArch 1.11.0 (Oct 2, 2022)

3DS: Add unique ID’s
3DS: Add bottom menu options
3DS: Set bottom_asset directory default
3DS: Only enable internal counter with CONSOLE_LOG defined
3DS: Set default bottom font values
3DS: Fix CIA installation issues
3DS: Support latest libctru
ANDROID: Add HAVE_ACCESSIBILITY
ANDROID: Gingerbread support
ANDROID: Touchpads support
ANDROID: Builtin Xperia Play autoconfig profile
ANDROID: Disable Feral GameMode for Android – only available on Linux
ANDROID: Add a configurable workaround for Android reconnecting devices
ANDROID/FDROID: Add F-Droid metadata to repo in Fastlane format
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 doesn’t 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
DOS/DJGPP: Add a workaround for libc bug
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: Don’t 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_240x160-320×240 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/HID/WIIU: Fix DualShock3 support
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
IOS: iOS app icon fixes & revisions
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, you’ll 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
MIYOO: Exclude unused HAVE_HID for Miyoo
MIYOO: Enable screenshots
MIYOO: Enable rewind
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_retro’s 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 client’s 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/NETPLAY/VITA: Add net_ifinfo support
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Enable partial LAN discovery
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Change default UDP port to 19492
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Do not multiply negative timeout values
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Fix epoll’s timeout parameter
NETWORK/NETPLAY/VITA: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/3DS: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/3DS: Adapt POLL for 3DS platform
NETWORK/NETPLAY/PS3: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/WII: Enable net_ifinfo for some features. In practice, this only allows the netplay’s UPnP task to succeed on the Wii.
NETWORK/NETPLAY/WIIU: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/NETPLAY/SWITCH: Launch compatibility patch
NETWORK/UPNP: Attempt support for remaining platforms
NETWORK/UPNP: Support for IPv4 tunneling
ODROID GO2: Increase DEFAULT_MAX_PADS to 8 for ODROIDGO2, since that impacts the RG351[X] consoles. The RG351[X] have a USB host controller and can have an arbitrary number of USB gamepads.
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.
PS4/ORBIS: Orbis/PS4 Support using OrbisDev toolchain
PS4/ORBIS: Update xxHash dependency
PS4/ORBIS: Shader cache
RETROFW: Exclude unused HAVE_HID for RetroFW
RETROFW: Support battery indicator on RetroFW
RETROFW: Enable menu toggle button on retrofw devices
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 couldn’t be extracted. Scanner will then fallback on crc check, and usually ends up finding the games in the database.
SWITCH: Enable RWAV (WAV audio file) support
STRING: Do not assume char is unsigned
TASKS: More thread-awareness in task callbacks
TASKS: Fix race condition at task_queue_wait
TVOS: Revised tvOS icons w/ updated alien.
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 you’d 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 wasn’t NULL’d, thus set_window_progress would cause weird behavior
WII/GX: Fix potential datarace
WIIU: Implement sysconf and __clear_cache
WIIU: Add OS memory mapping imports
UWP: Added launch protocol arg ‘forceExit’ so a frontend can tell an already-running RetroArch UWP instance to quit.
UWP: Enable core downloader/updater
UWP: Remove copy permissions as its inefficient as we can just directly assign the new ACL and that works
Xbox/UWP: Remove expandedResources
Xbox/UWP: UWP OnSuspending crash fix
Xbox/UWP: Enable savestate file compression by default for UWP/Xbox – got told there are no more issues with it
Xbox/UWP: Add support for 4k to angle on xbox for MSVC2017 build

New in RetroArch 1.10.2 (Apr 11, 2022)

3DS: Add a menu toggle for switching between old and new 3DS speeds, located in the ‘Power Management’ menu. Enabled by default, hidden on old 3DS devices.
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
IOS/IOS13+: Support a toolbar that allows toggling of onscreen keyboard and touch mouse
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
MIYOO: Improve CPU architecture and model name identification for Miyoo
MENU/SETTINGS: Remove ‘Advanced Settings’ flag from ‘Settings > Core’ menu
MENU/MATERIALUI: Add ‘Gray Dark + Light’ themes
MENU/RGUI: Add 6×10 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 don’t support rewind, if rewind functionality itself is disabled
HOTKEYS: Add hotkey for toggling sync to exact content framerate
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add RSX graphics support
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add libco support
PS3/PSL1GHT: Add experimental PSMove support
RS90: Optimise layout of sdl_rs90_video
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
WII: Fix find_connection_entry(): needs unsigned int Otherwise the USB gamepad cannot be found, if VID/PID has leading zero. This issue happened with Retrode gamepad adapter
WII: Rework Retrode gamepad implementation to support multi_pad interface
WII: Fix – Unplugging and re-plugging now works again
WII: vWii- Only gamepad 1 is supported, because multi_pad is currently only relevant in the Wii U implementation
WIIU: Implemented the multi_pad interface according to input/connect/connect_wiiugca.c
WIIU: Add Optimize for Gamepad option
WIIU: Fix USB gamepad support

New in RetroArch 1.10.1 (Mar 7, 2022)

ANDROID: Add HAVE_LANGEXTRA back to makefile
ANDROID: Include adaptive launcher icons
ANDROID: Populate external storage devices inside the file browser on Android 11+ devices
CHEEVOS: add mastery placard
CHEEVOS: more description message for missing RetroAchievements credentials
CHEEVOS: prevent occasional infinite wait loading multi-disc game from secondary disc
CHEEVOS: stop load process if unable to retrieve achievement data
CHEEVOS: support for identifying Dreamcast CHDs
CHEEVOS: Updated to 10.3.2
CONTENTLESS CORES: Disable per-game and per-content-directory remaps when running contentless cores
CONTENTLESS CORES: Disable per-game and per-content-directory shader presets
CONTENTLESS CORES: Enable config overrides
CONTENTLESS CORES: Enable runtime logging
CORE INFORMATION: Show core version
CORE UPDATER: Add ‘Core System Files Downloader’
CORES/SETTINGS: Add ‘Standalone Cores’ menu
D3D10/D3D11: Add Vsync swap interval
EMSCRIPTEN: Enable 7zip
GBA: New GBA filter Upscale_240x160-320×240
GONG: Removed now that it’s a standalone core
HISTORY/FAVORITES: Fix default core on ‘Add to Favorites’
INPUT/WAYLAND: Allow toggling mouse grabs
INPUT/WAYLAND: Release keys and mouse buttons on lost focus
iOS: Support for custom keyboard and touch mouse support, among other iOS 13 features
LIBRETRO: Fix crash when cores using RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_AUDIO_CALLBACK return false from retro_load_game()
LIBRETRO: Add optional frame skipping when fast-forwarding
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
LOCALIZATION: OSD fonts for Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Persian
LOCALIZATION: Translation fixes for various languages
MENU/RGUI: Add dynamic theme
MIYOO: Enable NEAREST audio resampler
MIYOO: Support battery level
NETPLAY: Disable savestates on stateless mode
NGC/Wii: Several improvements
OSX: Enable compilation on PPC
OZONE/XMB: Improve efficiency/accuracy of History/Favorites icon rendering
RECORDING/FFMPEG: Fix building against FFmpeg 5.0
RETROARCH INFORMATION: No longer report on enabled Python support, which was removed in RetroArch 1.7.8
SAVESTATES: Disable save states based on save state support level defined in core info files
UNIX/WINDOWS: Allow setting the default libretro_directory via environment variable
WAYLAND/VULKAN: Fix Wayland Vulkan not reacting to initial resize
WINDOWS/WINRAW: Enable mouse overlay control
Xbox/UWP: Fix CHD not working with Cheevos / Add 7zip support.

New in RetroArch 1.10.0 (Jan 25, 2022)

3DS: Add Jaxe, A5200 and WASM4 cores
3DS: Fix rotation
ARCHIVE: Allow loading files from archive subdirectory
AUDIO: Remove frame limit from audio batch callback. Before, if a core used the audio batch callback, there would be a hidden cap of 1024 on the number of audio frames that could be sent. If a core exceeded this value, any excess samples were silently discarded. While this is sufficient for ‘normal’ samplerates/framerates, it means that e.g. a core using the batch callback to send 44100 Hz audio at 30 fps with would have entirely broken sound. This has been fixed by removing the audio batch frame limit.
AUDIO/RESAMPLER/NEON: Implement sinc kaiser NEON function
CHEEVOS: Reset hardcore default to enabled; show message when trying to load state in hardcore
CHEEVOS: Fix memory map conversion
CHEEVOS: Check netplay status when unlocking achievements
CHEEVOS: Support for hashing buffered NDS ROMs
CHEEVOS: Fix hung task whe badge doesn’t exist
CLI: Load save states from command-line or playlist
CORE INFO CACHE/SETTINGS: Restore missing ‘Cache Core Info Files’ menu entry
DATABASE: Serial scanning for Gamecube/MegaCD/SegaCD/Saturn/PSX/PSP/Dreamcast/Wii
D3D10/D3D11: Add Vsync swap interval
EMSCRIPTEN: Add Jaxe, WASM4 cores
FILE IO: Fix incorrect file names for remap files when the content path doesn’t have a preceding slash
INPUT/OVERLAY: Added support for showing the overlay behind the menu instead of in front. This is currently only supported on the GL, Vulkan, D3D 9/10/11/12 and 3DS drivers.
INPUT/UDEV: Convert abs mouse from screen to viewport coordinates; fix relative mouse coords
INPUT/WAYLAND: Ignore mouse clicks on window decoration
INPUT/WAYLAND: Add scroll wheel support
LINUX: Added support for Linux GameMode (https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode), which can be toggled on/off in the Power Management or Latency settings menus.
LOCALIZATION: Fetch translations from Crowdin
LOCALIZATION: Add Indonesian, Swedish and Ukrainian language options
LOCALIZATION/MENU/RGUI: Enable Indonesian and Swedish localisations for RGUI
LOGGING: Logging cleanups
LOGGING: Stop logging FPS statistics twice on quit
LOGGING: Log font rendering backend only once
HOTKEYS: Added a hotkey toggle for the on-screen technical statistics.
HOTKEYS: Add delay + acceleration to volume hotkeys
MENU: Add option for showing notifications only in menu
MENU/RGUI: Add Finnish to supported languages
MENU/XMB: Optional vertical list item fade
MENU/XMB/OZONE: Category + History/Favorites icons
NETWORK: Fix dummy notification – no longer shows a netplay initialization failed notification when netplay is not enabled
NETWORK: LAN addresses only for UPnP – Some router devices might accept non-LAN addresses without raising an error.
NETWORK: Filter out non-connectable rooms. Add an option for filtering out non-connectable netplay rooms.
NETWORK: Netplay spectator notification fix. Fix double notification when the host switches to spectator.
NETWORK: Prevents long-term pausing from clients dishonoring allow pausing
NETWORK/LOBBY: Lobby Viewer: Filter out rooms that are not running RetroArch
NETWORK/LOBBY: Lobby Viewer: Display a non-connectable tag to non-connectable rooms
NETWORK/LOBBY: Host: Display warning if we are announcing to the internet but our room isn’t connectable from there
NETWORK/RELAY: Custom relay server support – Add support for custom user-ran relay servers
NETWORK/RELAY: Replace Canadian relay server with Singapore relay server. Current relays: New York/USA, Madrid/Spain, Sao Paulo/Brazil, Singapore
NETWORK/UPNP: Various refactors/improvements, no more dependent on miniupnpc
NETWORK/UPNP: Various UPnP binding fixes for specific routers
NETWORK/UPNP: Accept IGD v2 service types
NETWORK/UPNP: Delay lobby server announcing – delay the announcing in order to give UPnP’s port forwarding more time. Fix the remaining truncation warnings.
NETWORK/UPNP: Smart interface selection – Find the most suitable address for UPnP by scoring interfaces on how close their address is to the device’s address
OPENGL1: Fix buffer overflow – RetroArch would sometimes crashes at startup when loading asset textures with GL1 driver
PS3: PSL1GHT port added to Gitlab CI
VULKAN: Double combined image sampler descriptor pool size – fix segfaults with AMD GPUs using RADV
VULKAN: Emulate mailbox only with Vsync enabled – otherwise have it disabled – useful for VRR/G-Sync/FreeSync
VULKAN/SWAPCHAIN: Vulkan max swapchain images option adjustments: removed value 1, since it won’t be used – Video reinit on change, so that there is no need to restart or toggle fullscreen
VULKAN/HDR: HDR support – tested on Windows
WAYLAND: Add libdecor for client side decoration
WAYLAND: Use any display for initial metrics
WAYLAND: Fix the window closing, if RetroArch is build without libdecor
WAYLAND: Use checked sizes in EGL resize
WAYLAND: Fix window title update
WEBOS: Fix webOS build and run
WIIU: Fix rotation
UWP/XBOX: Fix content over 4GB (approx) failing to load, improve/speed up copy/load times
UWP/XBOX: Fix scanning for playlists
UWP/XBOX: Move content copied to LocalState to a dedicated dir and clear on startup
UWP/XBOX: Make content copy to a specific cache directory in the LocalState folder when it’s copied
UWP/XBOX: Auto delete VFS cache dir on startup
UWP/XBOX: Make resolution switching automatic and fix angle output issues
UWP/XBOX: Force ANGLE to render at 1080p regardless of screensize as the output is 1080p regardless of screensize. This fixes an issue where at 4k any angle output would be zoomed into a corner.
UWP/XBOX: Set resolution based on display resolution (auto 4k)
UWP/XBOX: Set driver to D3D11 if booting with opengl
UWP/XBOX: Reset width and height of output on boot to match display
UWP/XBOX: Mitigate need for VFS cores on NTFS drives
UWP/XBOX: Make check for standard I/O by access rather than the just assuming based on path string
UWP/XBOX: Add code to auto permissions so files can be accessed by non VFS cores (no exFAT or FAT32 support yet)

New in RetroArch 1.7.9 (Oct 8, 2019)

New in RetroArch 1.7.8 (Aug 26, 2019)

Fix Fixed the offset navigation on the one page docs with a sticky header.
3DS Fix C-Stick y-axis inversion.
3DS Update all icon/banner images.
Android Implemented multi-touch touchscreen support.
BLISS-BOX Add 4 new pad types from firmware 3.0
COMMON Add optional 'on demand' thumbnail downloads
COMMON Add new playlist-based thumbnail downloader. Hide the legacy thumbnail pack version by default.
COMMON Show license per core (if available) inside 'Load Core'
COMMON Add option to load content from (and dump) CD-ROM discs.
COMMON New core options interface, allows for localization, sublabels and more.
COMMON Re-enable '--log-file' command line option.
COMMON Default playlist core association is now stored as metadata inside each playlist.
COMMON Fix playlist format detection.
COMMON When saving core option overrides, only include settings for the current core.
COMMON Favorites playlist size can now be set independently of content history size. Values can be set from 0-999, or '-1' for unlimited (99999).
COMMON Prevent adding new items to favorites when playlist is full (old entries are no longer overwritten).
COMMON Prevent loading content with cores that require an incompatible graphics API version from the current one.
CPU FILTERS Add Scanline2x filter.
GAMECUBE Add default video/audio filter directories
GL1 Ignore alpha in core video, fixes XRGB8888 rendering in some cores.
GLCORE Don't hardcode shader cross compilation target version but poll it. glcore would always only use the minimum target shader version, i.e. GLSL ES 3.00 for OpenGL ES 3.0+ or GLSL 1.50 for OpenGL 3.2+
D3D10/11/12 SLANG - Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic. Works fine with braid-rewind shader, not entirely perfect with D3D12 though.
D3D10/11/12 Add option to select which GPU to render with.
D3D10/11 Fix maintaining aspect ratio when resizing window.
GLCORE SLANG - Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic.
INPUT Menu toggle hotkey can now be bound to another keyboard key and it will toggle properly.
IOS Correctly centers screen on iPhone X landscape.
IOS Implemented multi-touch touchscreen support.
LOCALIZATION Update Korean translation.
LOCALIZATION Update Japanese translation.
LOCALIZATION Update Portuguese Brazilian translation.
LOCALIZATION Update Polish translation.
LOCALIZATION Update Turkish translation.
MENU WIDGETS - All widgets are now properly cleaned up, fixing the frozen widgets bug when loading / closing content.
MENU WIDGETS - Widgets are now drawn above the overlay with OpenGL and Vulkan
MENU WIDGETS - Fine tune progress bar colors
MENU WIDGETS - Fix longstanding menu display issues on Mali400 GPUs (on ARM hardware, SBCs and mobile phones/tablets).
MENU Fix Record -> Streaming Quality, and Record -> Recording Threads settings.
MENU Fix history playlist navigation after running content.
MENU Menu entry performance optimisations.
MENU Add option to show 'remove playlist entry' only on history/favourites..
MENU Overhaul content 'Information' menu display.
MENU Add new 'Playlist Management' submenu. Allows default core associations to be set (via dropdown list), and all existing associations to be reset.
MENU Add 'Set Core Association' option to Quick Menu.
MENU Add option to remain in menu after saving/loading states.
MENU Ensure that displayed thumbnails are always refreshed correctly after selecting 'Download Thumbnails' from Quick Menu.
MENU OZONE - added to PS3.
MENU OZONE - Fix regression in 1.7.7 - OSX/macOS - was unable to start it.
MENU OZONE - Fix sublabel spacing.
MENU XMB - Add menu animation settings.
MENU XMB - Add optional thumbnail scaling.
MENU XMB - Fix display of long sublabels. Text that would exceed the display area now scrolls line-by-line.
MENU XMB/OZONE - Add optional thumbnail scaling.
MENU QT/WIMP - Path selector fixes.
MENU RGUI - Enable playlist display on platforms without database support.
METAL/SLANG Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic.
NETBSD Audioio is now the default audio driver.
NETBSD Fix a segfault when starting RetroArch with an empty configuration file and LANG unset in the environment.
OSD OSD is now drawn above the overlay with Vulkan.
OSX Fix regression with Cocoa GL - shader / preset loading was getting stuck in an infinite loop.
RECORD Fix Twitch streaming.
SCALER Fix SSE2 path for ARGB/BGRA -> BGR24 - should fix screenshots being taken for XRGB888 (viewport).
SCANNNER Skip all databases with incompatible file extensions, whether content is inside an archive or not.
SCANNNER Fix hang on empty files inside archives.
VULKAN SLANG : Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic.
VULKAN Add option to select which GPU to render with.
WII Add default video/audio filter directories.
WII Fix RGUI display corruption.
WII Fix HID joypad drivers.
WII Add optional overscan correction.
WII Fix recursive path_mkdir() operations.
WII Add widescreen RGUI support.
WIIU SLANG - Added "FrameDirection" slang semantic.
X11 Add non-evdev keycodes to fix keyboard input on non-Linux systems with X11.
X11 UDEV - Mouse pointer should work now in X11 environment with no Display.