CHEEVOS: Add badges for achievements, shows thumbnail images of achievements.
CHEEVOS: Leaderboard support.
CHEEVOS: Only disable savestates on hardcore mode if achievements are not available.
COMMANDLINE: Fix fullscreen toggle switch.
COMMON: Add 'Automatically Load Content To Playlist' feature, enabled by default.
COMMON: Fix slowmotion ratio always being reset back to 1.
COMMON: Optimized NBIO implementations now for Apple, Windows, and Linux. Uses mmap for Linux/Windows/BSD if/when available. File I/O should now be much faster for loading images inside the menu.
COMMON: Native Blissbox support now for latest firmware as of writing (2.0). Implementation through libusb and/or native Windows HID.
COMMON: New lightgun API.
COMMON: New VFS (Virtual File System) API.
COMMON: Fixed some playlist bugs.
COMMON: New snow shader.
COMMON: Fix Quick Menu title, no longer shows 'Select File'.
COMMON: Fix loading cores that require no content one after another.
COMMON: Map Delete key to Y button for non-unified menu keyboard controls.
COMMON: Fix for relative paths being normalised and generating a duplicate history entry.
EMSCRIPTEN: Fix references to browserfs.
FREEBSD: Support libusb HID input driver.
HAIKU: Buildfix.
INPUT: Map clear button to DEL key.
LINUX/X11: Add RetroArch logo to window title bar.
LINUX/X11: Input driver now supports new lightgun code.
LINUX/X11: Support window transparency (requires a compositing window manager).
LOBBIES: Fix for crash on join netplay rooms via touch / glui.
LINUX/UDEV: Fix - RetroArch reads keyboard input when not focused with the udev input driver.
NETPLAY: Fix disconnection not fully deinitializing Netplay.
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms when there is more than one room
NETPLAY: Fix lan rooms on systems where all addresses are treated as IPv6
COMMON: Fix clear/free loop conditionals in playlists.
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix flickering of text.
WINDOWS/GDI: Fix graphics corruption on Windows 98
WINDOWS/GDI: Allow compiling without DirectInput8 for NT support
WINDOWS/WGL: Try to use wglSwapLayerBuffers instead of SwapBuffers if possible (for more optimal performance).
WINDOWS: Fix menubar text corruption on Japanese locale systems
WINDOWS: Support Unicode file I/O (can now display CJK characters in file browser for example).
WINDOWS: Support Windows 95, NT3.51, NT4
WINDOWS: add Makefile.griffin targets for msvc6,2003,2005,2010,2012,2013
WII: Use custom, embedded libogc SDK.
WIIU: Initial touchscreen support for WiiU gamepad.
WIIU: Add Cheevos support.
SCANNER: Fix archive scanning.
SCANNER: Support CHD files.
SCANNER: Support Gamecube ISO scanning.
SCANNER: Use primary data track of disc images for CRC lookups rather than cue files. This is slower but finds matches more reliably, and is necessary for CHD files to work at all. Update your databases!
SCANNER: Fall back on looking inside archives when matching MAME/FBA content (most recent cores only). If you had difficulty with content being detected before, you may have better luck now. Update your databases and core info!
Wed Aug 23 15:42:47 UTC 2017 - glmarques.info@gmail.com
- Updated to version 1.6.7
NOTE: This is a bugfixed and spit-and-polish update. The initial release notes below are still from the 1.6.6 release.
General changelog
SCANNER: Fix directory scanning.
SCANNER: Fix file scanning.
COMMON: Fix ‘Disk Image Append’ option.
FREEBSD: Compatibility fixes for Video4Linux2 camera driver.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add disk image append icons.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Improve word wrapping when menu icons are enabled.
GUI: (MaterialUI) Add User Interface -> Appearance -> Menu Icons Enable. You can turn on/off the icons on the lefthand side of the menu entries.
GUI: Performance optimizations for XMB menu driver – only calculates visible items.
LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation.
Core updates since previous version (1.6.6)
Picodrive should hopefully work now again on Android after notaz‘ updates.
Beetle PSX’s OpenGL renderer should now work on various AMD GPUs thanks to rz5‘s efforts. There were previously some black screen issues on certain non-Polaris AMD GPUs.
Beetle PSX – Fixed bugs (geometry updates had max width and height unset, other ones) (by albertofustinoni).
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.
