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@Gigass Gigass released this 02 Sep 05:01
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V1.3.0
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CrazyPod V1.3.0 adds native GB/GBC play, 3.5 mm inline-remote controls, Home Actions, faster persistent catalogs, smoother Cover Flow, and safer storage behavior.

What's New

New

  • Play legally obtained GB and GBC games from /MiniApps/Games. The standalone app supports Click Wheel controls, audio, battery-backed saves, and RTC data.
  • Control playback with compatible 3.5 mm inline remotes. Single, double, and triple presses handle play/pause, next, and previous; volume buttons work throughout CrazyPod.
  • Open Home Actions for the queue, brightness, and volume. Holding Play on Home now opens the lock screen.

Improved

  • Music Cover Flow now follows the Click Wheel with continuous acceleration, gentle release inertia, and smooth snapping. Artwork prefetching pauses while you scroll to reduce contention.
  • Music, Books, and Mini Apps reuse persistent catalogs instead of fully rescanning unchanged content at every launch.
  • EPUB text extraction preserves more document structure, removes hidden markup, and shows clearer first-open and reflow progress.
  • Notes use transactional saves and recover the previous title and body if a write is interrupted.
  • A 50 fps UI cadence reduces unnecessary CPU and LCD work while preserving Click Wheel motion and display sync.

Fixed

  • Restored the USB mode prompt after plugging in the iPod; multimedia-key handling no longer consumes system events.
  • Screen recording now reports save and size-limit failures instead of showing a false success message.
  • Mini Apps in the legacy /MiniApps/Install directory remain discoverable during migration to /MiniApps.

Installation

For a complete upgrade, download CrazyPod-V1.3.0-iPod6G.zip, extract it to the root of a compatible iPod Classic 6G data volume, and copy .rockbox/rockbox.ipod last. The archive does not install or replace a bootloader. Back up the device and keep Apple Disk Mode/DFU recovery available.

Do not install only the standalone firmware on a device that lacks the matching V1.3.0 fonts, icons, codecs, and Mini App packages.

Validation

  • All UI architecture, UI host, Mini App host, Game Boy, EPUB, font, localization, and whitespace gates pass.
  • Clean ipod6g ARM build completed with arm-none-eabi-gcc 16.1.0 and embedded version V1.3.0.
  • The 533-entry install ZIP passes unzip -tq and contains exactly the five expected CPK packages.
  • These checks prove build and package integrity, not complete physical-iPod regression.

SHA-256

  • CrazyPod-V1.3.0-iPod6G.zip: aa0e1d5b487b591a80fd15a16b49b0333b054249ddd111c23d050edf6aeffc5c
  • CrazyPod-V1.3.0-iPod6G-rockbox.ipod: b4d5c608ef37d81251769596bb33d0ae5638c43dc18c17e1846d5781af94dc43

Source commit: 57559e3df752bb87f8081656e2dd98ad2b244731

Full Changelog: V1.2.1...V1.3.0

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