SleekMenu 64 v2.2.1

Upgrading from 2.2.0: download the new Game Catalog Manager and press
Update card. It puts SleekMenu 2.2.1 on the card.

• EverDrive-64 Pro Fix: the card no longer stops answering. After a while
  in SleekMenu, most often with music on or while going through games on
  their details screen.

SleekMenu 64 v2.2.0

EverDrive-64 Pro owners: update to 2.2.1, which fixes the card no longer answering after a while.

Upgrading from 2.1: download the new Game Catalog Manager and press
Update card. It puts SleekMenu 2.2.0 on the card.

• Background music. Choose a song under Theme on the Card tab
  (MP3, WAV, FLAC or OGG) and SleekMenu plays it on a loop while you
  browse. It fades out when a game starts. On the console, the new MUSIC
  row of the Z screen turns it on or off. The Card tab's Console group
  is now called Theme, with Colors and Music options.
• Start the console in SleekMenu on the Pro and X7. The toggle on the
  Card tab now works on the EverDrive-64 Pro with firmware 26.1014 or
  newer. It copies SleekMenu to ED64/menu.n64, which the Pro starts in
  place of its own menu. Games started from SleekMenu then have no in-game
  menu or save states. Uncheck the switch to get the Pro's menu back. On
  the X7 it works as before, through ED64/autoexec.v64.
• The box-art collection lives in sleekmenu/. release-metadata.zip
  is fetched into the sleekmenu/ folder with everything else the Game
  Catalog Manager keeps, and one at the card root is moved there by the
  next update. Nothing is downloaded again.
• Fixed a bug that prevented game loading from X7 when the card has screenshots.
  Since 2.1, SleekMenu kept its four picture files open, and the X7 can only have
  four files open at once, so every game failed with "ROM OPEN FAILED".
  It now keeps one of them open at a time.
• Cycle through games from a game's details. Left and right on the
  D-pad go to the previous or next game. Hold it to run through them. The
  box and the save type show up when you stop, and B goes back to the list
  on the game you ended on.
• Other minor fixes

SleekMenu 64 v2.1.1

Upgrading from 2.1.0: download the new Game Catalog Manager and press
Update card: it puts SleekMenu 2.1.1 on the card.

• EverDrive-64 Pro with firmware 26.1014: SleekMenu lists the card's games
  again. That firmware starts SleekMenu with the outcome of its own last
  command still standing, an error of no consequence, which SleekMenu took
  as the cartridge failing and so started with no games. Older firmware
  and the X7 are not affected.
• Minor fixes

SleekMenu 64 v2.1.0

Upgrading from 2.0: download the new Game Catalog Manager and press
Update card once: it puts SleekMenu 2.1.0 on the card in place of 2.0.
To have screenshots, tick Fetch screenshots first.

On the console

• Screenshots: game's title screen and screenshot were added as two
  thumbnails beside the facts on its details, and full size in the box
  view, where left and right turn from the box to them. A game without
  those assets will look as before.
• Improved games scrolling : after three seconds it moves five games a step,
  after six twenty.
• Four more themes, making ten: Smoke and Watermelon complete the
  Funtastic colours, with Atomic Purple and Gold.
• The grid's covers are a bit sharper: each is shrunk to its tile by averaging
  the pixels it covers, instead of dropping one column and one row in
  three.
• Hacks, translations and homebrew are tagged HACK, TL and HB on their
  row and named on their details, and the filter page has a kind of game row.

The Game Catalog Manager

• Auto pull new version : Set up card and Update card put the
  SleekMenu64.z64 of the same release at the root of the card when the
  card has an older one, or none, and keep the X7's start-up copy in step.
  A newer one, or one of your own build, is left alone. Untick Keep
  SleekMenu on the card up to date (or pass --keep-browser) to leave the
  card's as it is.
• The catalog manager tells you when a newer version is out, with a link to
  the download.
• Fetch screenshots, on the Card tab: the title screen and a moment of
  play from libretro for every retail game, about 0.4 MB a game on the
  card. Off until you tick it; the card remembers. On the command line,
  --shots and --no-shots.
• Screenshots…, in the Games tab: a game's two screenshots as the
  console shows them, and your own for either one, which no download
  replaces. You can add your own screenshots for hacks and translations.
• Each game type (retail, hack, translation, home-brew) is worked out
  from the tags in its file name, its folder when it says, and what the
  database knows of the game it was built on, so a card with every game
  in one folder is sorted too. It is shown in the Games tab and searchable;
  a wrong guess is corrected there and kept on the card.
• While a card is updated, each step names everything it is working on:
  boxes, screenshots and cheat codes fetched, covers and screenshots made.
• Every text box has Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All on a right-click, and
  on a Mac in the Edit menu too: a description can be pasted from the web
  with the mouse.
• A game copied on since the last update can be given its title, facts and
  description before it is in the catalog: Save adds it to the card with
  them.

SleekMenu 64 v2.0.0

Upgrading from 1.2: copy the new SleekMenu64.z64 over the old one at
the root of the card, download the Game Catalog Manager (the prep GUI,
under its new name), and press Update card once. Your catalog, boxes
and edits are kept.

The Game Catalog Manager

• A new name for the prep GUI and a more intuitive layout.
• One button. Set up card the first time and Update card after do
  the whole job in one run: read the games, fetch what the card lacks,
  build the catalog and the covers, write them. Four steps show where it
  is; Stop ends it and the next run carries on from there. There is no
  separate download to press first.
• Sharp boxes by default: a 512-pixel box is fetched for every game the
  database knows, and a card keeps them complete as games are added.
• The Games tab shows the card as the console will and is where a game
  is changed: its box as the console draws it, and its title, genre,
  publisher, year, players, region and description in fields you type in.
  Only what you change is written; Save puts it on the card at once, and
  Undo my changes brings the original back.
• Change box… offers the boxes libretro has for the game, one per
  region, or a picture of your own; a PNG or JPEG can also be dropped
  straight onto the box. One tick applies an edit to every version of the
  game on the card.
• Fetch cheat codes, on the Card tab: libretro's cheat file for the
  exact dump of each game, for the many games the EverDrive's cheat pack
  does not cover. Off until you tick it; the card remembers.
• Theme, on the Card tab: the browser's colours, chosen from six.

On the console

• Themes: Midnight, Charcoal, Jungle, Grape, Fire and Ice. Midnight is the
  look it always had. Z, then the THEME row under the filters, changes it;
  so does the Game Catalog Manager.
• The help bar shows each button as a picture in the button's own colour:
  a blue A, a green B, a red Start, yellow C buttons with their arrow,
  grey Z, L and R, a cross for the D-pad.
• In the grid and coverflow the title bar spells the genre out (ACTION,
  not ACT).
• Cheats: a game the EverDrive's cheat pack has no file for, or none for
  the cartridge's region, uses the file the Game Catalog Manager fetched
  for it.

Fixes

• The window no longer takes a volume of macOS's own (Recovery, on the
  Macs that keep it mounted) for the card when no card is in.
• Boxes were missing for the revisions libretro files as a link to their
  game's box (Castlevania Rev 1 is one of about 130). The link is followed;
  a card that recorded those as missing asks again by itself.
• With one games folder chosen, an edited game went on saying "Edit
  waiting" after it was on the card.
• A description of your own longer than the catalog allows stopped the
  update. It is cut at a word.
• An edit that changed only a game's regions was not shown as yours.
• A collection zip cut short on the card stopped every run; it is fetched
  again.
• The database had eight publishers spelled with a no-break space, and the
  wrong genre for one Super Mario 64 dump.

The command line takes the same choices: --cheats, --no-cheats and
--direct-boot on|off.

Support

Sleekmenu64 is free. If you like it, consider supporting!

SleekMenu 64 v1.2.0

Upgrading from 1.1: copy the new SleekMenu64.z64 over the old one at
the root of the card. The card does not need preparing again.

• Coverflow glides: the shelf eases from cover to cover instead of
  stepping, a press in the middle of a move turns it instead of restarting
  it, and holding a direction keeps the shelf sliding, faster the longer you
  hold. Holding the D-pad or stick now repeats in every view.
• Coverflow uses the space under the shelf: the genre, year, publisher and
  players on one line, the first two lines of the description, and a strip
  of initials showing where you are and where L and R will jump. A longer
  description creeps up slowly after five seconds on the same game.
• Covers draw faster, and with an Expansion Pak the screen has a third
  buffer, so a slow frame no longer halves the frame rate.
• A cover could stay blank for good after moving twice quickly in the grid
  or coverflow. It now arrives.

SleekMenu 64 v1.1.0

Upgrading from 1.0:

• download and copy the new SleekMenu64.z64 over the old one at
  the root of the card
• download the correct prep GUI version for your setup (orsleekmenu-prep.pyz v1.1)
• prepare the card once with the prep GUI (orsleekmenu-prep.pyz v1.1)

A card prepared by 1.0 still browses, but only a 1.1 prepare gives it the box view's covers and the fixes below.

Note that the Prep GUI tool is unsigned on Mac so it will trigger a warning. You can open an unsigned app on macOS by attempting to launch it, then going to Settings under Privacy & Security in System Settings to click "Open Anyway"

Fixed

• Games are found anywhere on the card, not only in ROMS/ (or pick one folder in the GUI and it will be remembered)
• Some hacks that booted to black screens now properly: the header checksum is fixed at launch, like the EverDrive menu does
• Games with accents in their name (Pokémon…) showed up twice with weird characters and wouldn't start if the card was prepared on a Mac
• Long descriptions now scroll instead of being cut off. You can also scroll using d-pad up and down
• Everdrive X7: games that use the clock (Animal Forest) get it set at launch. Thanks TheDiscordian for the PR!

New features

• Start launches the game straight from the list, A still opens the details
• Box view: A on the details shows the box art full screen, with optional high-res boxes
• Games you copied since the last prepare show up anyway and play (marked NOT IN CATALOG, so no metadata and covers)
• High-resolution boxes: an option fetches libretro's 512-pixel boxes for
  the box view; a card that has them keeps them complete from then on.
• Your own box art and metadata, handy for hacks and homebrew (using the GUI)
• Version number on the start screen

The prep GUI

• The card is now prepared from a GUI, one download per system — working on macOS
  (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux — with nothing to install.
  Pick the card, press Download the first time to fetch the box-art
  collection onto it, then Prepare.
• The Catalog tab shows the card as the browser will: every game, its box
  as the console draws it, and where each fact came from. Search narrows
  the list; Show narrows it to what you changed, or to what is not in the
  catalog yet.
• Give any game, or every game with one game code, your own picture, text,
  title, genre, publisher, year, players and regions. Save puts it on the
  card straight away; Remove my edit puts the original back.
• Prepare is incremental : only new or changed files are read.

SleekMenu 64 v1.0.0

Game browser for the EverDrive-64 X7 and Pro. Copy both files to the card root and see the README.