1.0.6

Sphaira 1.0.6

• Added support for installing complete folders through MTP.
• Added a filter for games with missing updates or DLC.
• Added a Y shortcut to view application content directly from the Games menu.
• Fixed touch input and focus navigation in the forwarder editor. @Niklas080208
• Improved HTTP compatibility by identifying requests with the Sphaira version. @a1ex4
• Improved translations, including Korean corrections, localized playtime units, and better sentence ordering. @Yorunokyujitsu

If you’re launching Sphaira through a forwarder, you may need to delete and recreate it using this newer release to receive the NRO launch fix.

1.0.5

Sphaira 1.0.5

• Added .msp mod package support.
• Added a Play Statistics option to disable it. @Insektaure
• Added a Screen Off control during installations and dumps. @Insektaure
• Fixed NRO launch loops affecting applications such as patched Tinfoil.
• Corrected Spanish translations.

If you’re launching Sphaira through a forwarder, you may need to delete and recreate it using this newer release to receive the NRO launch fix.

1.0.4

Sphaira 1.0.4

• Added update and DLC checker to the game content menu. @Insektaure
• Playtime information now refreshes asynchronously, improving navigation performance for large game libraries.
• Fixed failing to launch .nro files when running as a forwarder.

1.0.3

Sphaira 1.0.3

This cumulative release includes all improvements made since Sphaira 1.0.0.

1.0.3

New features

• Added affinity-aware 3-core and 4-core support for generated forwarders.
• Added sorting games by publisher.
• Added configurable Homebrew search paths from the File Browser's Advanced menu.
• Added game names next to Title IDs inside atmosphere/contents.
• Added GitHub repository management directly from the GitHub menu.
• Added support for installing and managing custom direct ZIP links.
• Added missing ROM associations for:
  • NEC PC Engine SuperGrafx (.pce, .chd)
  • Nintendo Famicom Disk System (.fds)
  • SNK Neo Geo (.zip)
  • FBNeo Arcade (.zip)

Improvements and fixes

• Added a default icon for NRO files that do not contain one.
• Added safe icon validation, resizing and fallback handling for oversized, corrupted or unsupported icons.
• Homebrew entries now refresh automatically after uploading or deleting an NRO through FTP.
• Export filenames now use the English title when available and fall back to the Title ID.
• Added an option to preserve localized and Unicode export filenames.
• Fixed MTP metadata errors affecting unusual SD root entries such as /.__.
• Fixed NFS export URL parsing.
• Fixed resetting the Required System Version of installed content.
• Moved Applet Mode above the network status to prevent header titles and paths from being cut off.
• Updated the built-in updater for the new official repository and removed the duplicate legacy updater entry.

1.0.2

• Enabled all system keyboard languages, including Korean, when editing names and text.
• Fixed file associations failing for ROMs stored in folders such as psp.
• Improved the alignment and scrolling of long menu titles and paths.
• Updated the Spanish and Russian translations and corrected several localization issues.

1.0.1

Forwarder creation

• Added a redesigned forwarder creation interface with icon preview.
• Added editable application titles.
• Added selectable 36-bit and 39-bit address-space modes.
• Added screenshot and video-capture options.
• Added configurable svcDebug handling.
• Added profile-selection support.
• Added custom icon selection from local files.
• Added SteamGridDB icon search and API-key configuration.

Games and Homebrew

• Added game search.
• Added sorting by title, Title ID, last played and total playtime.
• Added playtime information, including per-profile statistics.
• Added compatibility with newer compressed NACP title format.
• Added a built-in UTF-8/Unicode text editor.
• Added support for customizing Homebrew names and icons.

App Store, GitHub and Themezer

• Added support for switching between App Store sources.
• Added support for custom store catalogs and third-party resource URLs.
• Improved App Store loading, scrolling, download progress and reliability.
• Fixed and improved Themezer integration.
• Added the categorized Switch Ports catalog with direct installation.
• Added a built-in update checker with localized changelogs and validated self-updates.

Interface and localization

• Added Wi-Fi status and IP address information to Applet Mode.
• Improved long-text scrolling so labels no longer overlap ON/OFF values.
• Improved menu, dialog and path layouts.
• Expanded localization support, including separate Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations.

1.0.0

What's Changed

• General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

Full Changelog: 0.13.3...1.0.0

0.13.3

This is a bug fix release, please see the previous release for the feature notes.

What's Changed

• Fixed account save listing where the profile uid differs from the account uid.
• Updated UK translation by @rashevskyv in #180

Full Changelog: 0.13.2...0.13.3

0.13.2

This is a bug fix release, please see the previous release for the feature notes.

What's Changed

• Fixed flashcart detection in the GameCard menu.
• Fixed CreateFolderWithPath for hdd crashing due to a nullptr dereference.

Full Changelog: 0.13.1...0.13.2

0.13.1

This is a bug fix release, please see the previous release for the feature notes.

What's Changed

• Fixed potential deadlock if an invalid jpeg was loading with nvjpg (thanks to Dark_Iron_X for reporting and helping fix the bug).

Full Changelog: 0.13.0...0.13.1

0.13.0

Bug Fixes

• fixed rare crash when closing the appstore.
• fixed gc menu not being able to select "Back" whilst a gamecard is not inserted.
• fixed themezer theme download crash when downloading certain themes that had % in their file name.
• fixed hdd freeze when doing hdd->hdd copy, zip or unzip due to a deadlock bug in usbhsfs (will be fixed upstream soon).
• fixed not deleting save before restoring, which could result in stale files being leftover.
• fixed es ticket struct being the wrong size, this could result in failed installs.
• fixed the filebrowser not displaying the correct current mount fs when translations were enabled.
• fixed filebrowser split screen button not working.
• fixed tik/cert files being placed at the beginning of the nsp when dumped, they're now placed at the end of the file list, following standardNSP.

What's Changed

• added save backup / restore to USB.
• homebrew refreshes itself when an app is installed / removed from the appstore, as well as downloading via ghdl.
• added support for all save types (system, bcat, cache, device).
• added more descriptive error messages for internal sphaira errors.
• enable boost mode as early as possible during init.
• added mtp custom mount support (sd card, image sd/nand, install, speed test).
• use the real save timestamp when creating a save zip backup.
• added common ticket patching if the ticket has been modified. this is applied during install and game dumping.
• added personalised -> common ticket convert option for installing.

Translation Updates

• Update pt.json by @ninstar in #165
• Update ru.json by @redraz in #166
• Update french translation and fix a small typing error. by @shadow2560 in #168
• Update pt.json by @ninstar in #169
• Update zh.json by @Johnluckygogogo in #171
• Spanish file Update by @impeeza in #170
• update Chinese translation and fix typo by @aistra0528 in #172
• German File Update by @sandmaennchen5 in #177
• Update pt.json by @ninstar in #178

New Contributors

• @aistra0528 made their first contribution in #172
• @sandmaennchen5 made their first contribution in #177

Preview

Full Changelog: 0.12.0...0.13.0

0.12.0

What's Changed

• fix ncz block installs.
• fix usbds setting zlt for both read/write, rather than just write.
• appstore add option to view installed files.
• appstore add option to view project website.
• add support for setting custom forwarder gif/logo from file.
• option to swap left/right side menus.
• multi-threaded zip and unzip.
• further optimise appstore installing by downloading zip to memory rather than file, multi-threading the md5 hash and multi-threading the unzip.
• use nxtc for title caching.
• use oss-nvjpg for jpeg loading (improved performance over stbi).
• add save menu, currently backup and restore are supported.
• further optimise zip/unzip code by increasing the file buffer size to reduce io r/w.
• fix action buttons in the filebrowser not responding to touch screen.
• Pt patches by @ninstar in #157
• Add default theme and update screenshots by @ninstar in #160
• Updated theme and new strings. by @Yorunokyujitsu in #156
• 中文语言文件更新 by @Johnluckygogogo in #163
• Update fr.json by @chronoss09 in #162
• fixed long strings, translate untranslated by @rashevskyv in #164

New Contributors

• @Johnluckygogogo made their first contribution in #163
• @chronoss09 made their first contribution in #162

Full Changelog: 0.11.3...0.12.0

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