GameHub 0.9.106 beta

Update notices in both modes

• Console Mode now tells you when a new GameHub is out. A banner appears next to the clock, and Update GameHub is added to the menu so you can install it with the controller. The banner shows the download's progress while it updates.
• Skipping a version, or closing the notice on the desktop, hides the banner too. Update GameHub stays in the menu, just as Settings still lists the update.
• GameHub now also checks for updates while it's left open, not only when it starts. It still asks GitHub at most once a day.

Fixes

• Starting straight into Console Mode showed no games. The library only loaded when the desktop library page opened, which Console Mode skips. Console Mode now loads your library itself.

Install

GameHub 0.9.93 or later will offer this update when it starts. Choose Update and restart, or check now in Settings > About > Updates.

To install it by hand, download GameHub-Setup-0.9.106.0-beta.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows account without needing admin rights. It needs Windows 10 1809 or later (64-bit).

This is a beta: please report anything that goes wrong.

GameHub 0.9.103 beta

Real box art for emulated games

GameHub now gets box art from the LaunchBox Games Database, so emulated games show the actual box they came in.

• LaunchBox art is used first for emulated games, and second to SteamGridDB for PC games. Art you picked yourself is never replaced.
• GameHub prefers the box art for your own region, so you see the covers you remember.
• It needs no API key. GameHub downloads LaunchBox's database at most once a week, and only when it has changed. You can switch it off in Settings.
• Fix match has a new Box art (LaunchBox) option, on the game page and in Console Mode.
• If a picture is removed from the source site, GameHub now moves on to the next best one instead of failing on every sync.

Covers in the right shape

Cover tiles now take the shape of each platform's box, so the whole box is shown and nothing is cut off:

• Square for PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cases
• Wide for Nintendo 64 and SNES boxes
• Tall as before for DVD-style cases (PS2, GameCube, Wii, Xbox, Switch and more) and PC games

In Console Mode, every cover is its own shape, even on shelves that mix platforms like Recently played and All games. Covers line up along the bottom of each row, like boxes on a shelf. Up and down on the controller move to the cover that lines up best in the next row.

In the desktop library, a grid showing one platform uses that platform's shape. A grid that mixes platforms keeps the tall card and shows each cover whole inside it.

Console Mode

• When a game's buttons wrap onto a second row, up and down now move between the rows of buttons instead of only scrolling the page.

Install

GameHub 0.9.93 or later will offer this update when it starts. Choose Update and restart, or check now in Settings > About > Updates.

To install it by hand, download GameHub-Setup-0.9.103.0-beta.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows account without needing admin rights. It needs Windows 10 1809 or later (64-bit).

This is a beta: please report anything that goes wrong.

GameHub 0.9.93 beta

GameHub now updates itself

From this version on, GameHub tells you when a new version is out and installs it for you.

• When GameHub starts, it checks for a new version (at most once a day). If there is one, a notice appears at the top of the window.
• Choose Update and restart. GameHub downloads the update, installs it and opens again, usually within a minute. Your library, keys, art and settings stay as they are.
• Not ready? Choose Skip this version and you won't be asked about it again. The next version will still be offered.
• You can also check by hand in Settings > About > Updates, and switch off the check at start-up there.

The updater only downloads from this GitHub page and checks that the file matches the release before installing it.

Installing this version: older versions of GameHub can't update themselves, so download and run the installer below once. Updates after this one install on their own.

Also new since 0.9.89

• Screensavers: a new option hides the time on Console Mode's screensavers.
• User guide: a PDF guide now comes with GameHub. Open it from Settings > About.
• Smaller install: GameHub no longer installs translations of Windows' built-in control text or unused AI/ML components.

Install

Download GameHub-Setup-0.9.93.0-beta.exe below and run it. It installs for your Windows account without needing admin rights, and Windows 10 1809 or later (64-bit) is required.

This is a beta: please report anything that goes wrong.