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@github-actions github-actions released this 06 Nov 06:40
v0.13.3
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💙 Thank you, Eduard!

CosmoU 0.13.3 is built on ideas and bug reports by Eduard in the CosmoU Discord – pictures and music per console, your own order, marks, your own consoles, apps in full screen and so much more. Thank you for testing every beta and for every idea. This update is yours! 🎉

✨ What's new

🎨 One CosmoU, and a Switch that feels like a Switch

  • 🎮 The Switch has its own interface – with the Switch on screen, CosmoU looks and works like a Switch: Home with your last played games in one row (A starts the first one right away), round buttons below (All Software, Play Activity, Themes, Controllers, Consoles, System Settings, Power), All Software with sorting (Y) and search (/), a page for each game (+), Quick Settings on the Home button (or Q), Basic White and Basic Black, its own clicks. No Wii U Home, no Plaza, no buddies there. With a Wii U as well: the circles at the top left (or L / R) switch the whole window. Settings → Appearance → Switch → Its own interface turns it off.
  • 🎯 Nintendo controllers – A is the button with the A on it (on the right, like on a Switch), everywhere in CosmoU. PlayStation controllers show ✕ ○ □ △ in the legend.
  • 🧭 One dock – Library · Favorites · Recently played | Themes · Settings (keys L, *, R, T, ,). Favorites and the themes are one click away.
  • 🕹️ Controller legend – while you use a controller, a small line above the dock shows what A, Y, X, LB / RB and Home do right now.
  • 🪟 The same rules in every window – the same corners, buttons and rows everywhere, headings without capitals, calmer shadows. Details: Play, Favorite, Mark and ⋯ More side by side, the tools as one list, Quick quality as one switch.
  • ⚙️ Settings in two groups – Games & Consoles (was “Cemu & Games”), Appearance, Sound & Music, Controllers & TV, Saves & Data – then Wii U · Cemu: Graphics, Overlay, Buddies & Plaza. Without a Wii U they are not shown.
  • Buddies live on the Wii U – the other consoles start without the buddy greeting.

🧰 Also new

  • 🎮 Pictures and music in the Quick Menu – Quick Menu (Home / Guide button, or Q) → Sound → Pictures · … and Music · … for the console you're on: add, change or remove them with the controller.

  • 🖼️ A new picture on every visit – add several pictures to a console (up to 30); every time you go to that console (and at every start of CosmoU) the next one shows up. Settings → Appearance has Add picture…, Next and Remove this one too.

  • ↔ Your own order – press RT on a game (or M, or “Move” in its menu), move it with the D-pad, put it down with A or RT. Sort: “Your order”, kept for each console.

  • 🧹 Clean view – hold LT + RT (or press H, or Quick Menu → Look): in Covers only the games stay, small at the bottom with the name above them – your background is free.

  • ➕ Add an app right from the Quick Menu (Sound column).

  • The pictures menu stays open on Next / Previous picture, so you can skip through to your favourite.

  • 🪟 Apps in full screen (Windows) – Edit app → Window: Maximized or Full screen. For PC ports and games that always open in a small window: CosmoU makes the game's window full screen (also when a launcher starts the game, and for a shortcut (.lnk) to the game – its launch options work then too).

  • 🌐 Every console on one page – the last card when choosing a console (or Sort & filter → Every console): the games of all your consoles together, in the look of the console you're on. Favorites now show the favorites of every console.

  • 🎮 Back to CosmoU – when a game ends, CosmoU comes to the front again. L + D-pad Down + Select closes the game you're playing and brings you back (on Windows also while the game has the focus).

  • 🏷️ Marks – click the left stick to make a game a favorite; hold it for a wheel of colours and signs (⚙ system app, ?, !). The colour lines the game's cover in every view. Also with K or “Mark…” in a game's menu.

  • 🧩 Your own console – Settings → Games & Consoles → Add another console → Your own console (apps)…: a console with your name (Mods, Tools, PC ports …) in the look of a real one, for apps only.

  • 📂 Click “CosmoU” at the top left to open the CosmoU folder (settings, covers, music, pictures, themes – CosmoU-data next to the portable .exe).

🛠️ Fixed

  • Wii U Look (Home Menu layout) shows your picture behind the tiles now.
  • Apps on every console: a new app now goes only to the console you're on (Edit app → Console to move it, or Every console). Apps added before keep showing everywhere until you choose a console for them.
  • Changing an app's cover: the new cover shows right away – no more deleting the old one in the covers folder.
  • Background pictures from a slow drive: switching consoles no longer flashes black – the old picture stays until the new one is loaded, and the next pictures load ahead.
  • Grid: the big banner stays at the top while you scroll down with the controller – only the games scroll.
  • Long names in the Grid: no half-cut third line any more; the chosen (or pointed at) game's long name rolls through on one line.
  • DS covers (Grid and DS Menu) show the whole box instead of cutting off its edges.
  • Ports with a log window (cmd): the game's window comes to the front – keyboard and controller go to the game, the log window steps aside, and Window: Full screen works for them too.
  • Box art after adding or changing a cover: shows right away on the 3D case too (it needed a restart before).
  • 🕹️ Right stick scrolls Settings and every other window (and the Grid), like in Nintendo's menus.
  • Drop-down lists (like “Add another console”) are readable in every theme.
  • Mouse: the arrow stays an arrow over text (the text cursor only shows where you can type).
  • Covers for N64, Wii, NES … come from libretro's archive on GitHub when their server is down.
  • Grid: moving with the controller or the arrow keys no longer makes the whole grid blink like a reloaded page – and up / down go a row.

Downloads
Windows CosmoU-Windows-Setup-0.13.3.exe or the portable .exe
macOS .dmg (Apple silicon and Intel)
Linux .AppImage, .deb, .tar.gz
Android .apk
iPhone / iPad .ipa for sideloading

The files appear here a few minutes after the release is published.

🎮 CosmoU for Wii U

CosmoU-WiiU-0.13.0.wuhb is CosmoU as an app on the Wii U itself. It shows the games installed on your Wii U (system memory, USB drive and disc) in CosmoU's look, with Covers and Grid views and themes with their music, and starts them, on the TV and the GamePad.

🛍️ Shop: press + (or tap Shop) to install things right on the Wii U:

  • Emulators: RetroArch (NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance in one app), NooDS (Nintendo DS) and other emulators
  • Apps: the whole Homebrew App Store catalog by ForTheUsers (apps installed in CosmoU also show up as installed there, and the other way round)
  • Themes: the 17 other CosmoU themes with their music (Classic Wii, Plaza, Switch 2, DS, DSi, 3DS, GameCube, Game Boy, Virtual Boy, SNES, NES, Game & Watch, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, GBA, GBA SP, Game Boy Micro)
  • Fonts: Rounded, Soft, Pixel, Arcade and Condensed

The shop only has homebrew, themes and fonts: no games, ROMs, BIOS files or keys.

Install: you need a Wii U with the Aroma homebrew environment.

  1. Copy CosmoU-WiiU-0.13.0.wuhb to your SD card into wiiu/apps/.
  2. Put the SD card back into the Wii U and start CosmoU from the Wii U Menu.

Controls: D-pad or stick to move · A start · Y Covers / Grid · X theme · + shop · − music on/off · the touch screen works too. In the shop: L / R tabs · A install / use · X remove · B back.

This Wii U version belongs to 0.13.0 and has no update check.

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