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@JohnnyCollado JohnnyCollado released this 23 Oct 09:19
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New Features

  • Your own icon on a custom memory card. Settings › Library › Custom Memory Cards › (a card) ›
    Change Icon
    now offers three kinds of icon:
    • From Your Device: any PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP, HEIC or GIF. An animated GIF plays while the
      cursor is on the card.
    • From the Applied Theme: the current theme's icons, each with a preview. A picked one is
      copied to the card, so it stays when you change themes.
    • Built-in: the existing icon set. Picking one removes your own image.
  • Select opens the category menu. On the XMB bar, Select now opens the same menu as
    long-pressing a category icon, so the controller can reach it. Everywhere else Select still
    changes the sort order.

Improvements

  • Custom memory cards for apps. You can now make a card in Network, App Store or any of your own
    app categories, not just in games. Settings › Library › Custom Memory Cards lists every category
    that can hold a card and marks each one "Game card" or "App card", and an app card counts and
    describes its contents as apps.

  • New Custom Card, straight from the bar. Long-press a category icon (or press Options or
    Select on it) and pick New Custom Card to make one right in that column, without first finding
    an item to add.

  • Everything works with a controller. These used to be touch-only and now take the D-pad and A
    like the rest of the launcher:

    • the "Couldn't launch" sheet, including Change Emulator, Change per-system default and
      Copy diagnostics;
    • Try again and Open Settings when an online search fails, now also in Options;
    • the Discord sign-in screen's Try again and Copy code (Full only);
    • the default music and video player pickers, which also open on the player you already use;
    • choosing a column for a new custom card, and the card's icon, now its own settings page;
    • Add by ID for PC games, now a settings page with Game ID, Game name, Source, Test Launch and
      Add Game.
  • Rename a saved theme by touch. Long-press a theme in Themes › My Themes to open its menu.

  • The clock follows your phone. The status bar uses your Android 12- or 24-hour setting and your
    region's date order.

  • Clearer words throughout. Settings now say what they actually do and point to screens that
    exist:

    • Re-Scan All (Mark Missing) keeps games and their history instead of claiming to remove them;
    • messages name Settings › Achievements › … and Library Manager instead of screens that were
      renamed;
    • Reset Sound to Defaults describes exactly what it resets;
    • Thermal Throttle Awareness says it freezes the background;
    • the Logs row says it opens or shares your logs;
    • the PDF manual viewer shows ◀ ▶ to turn pages.
  • Smarter Launch With. It only appears when another launcher can really open the game, and it
    names the launcher the game will actually start in.

  • Scan ROM Roots is back in Library Manager. After setting up ES-DE folders and copying games in,
    scan them from the ROM Roots list.

Bug Fixes

  • The GameBoot light sweep is back with a still wallpaper. It followed a motion setting that is
    hidden while a still image is your wallpaper, so it could switch off with no way back. It now
    turns off only for battery saver, a hot device, or Android's Remove animations.

  • Apps on a custom card show their own icon cleanly. The dark square behind an app's icon is
    gone; it only appears for an app with no icon, behind its letter.

  • SD-card games no longer go "Missing" after a reboot. If a card or folder is still waking up
    when the launcher scans, nothing is marked missing, and a manual scan tells you a folder couldn't
    be read.

  • Music, video and photo libraries survive a slow folder. A folder that can't be read for a
    moment no longer empties your library or resets video resume points.

  • The music player skips a broken track cleanly. Pause and Stop keep working afterwards, and
    nothing keeps playing behind the menu.

  • Steam achievements stay earned when Steam has a bad moment. An error from Steam no longer
    flips your coins to unearned.

  • RetroAchievements unlocks stay earned even when the unlock date comes back in an unexpected
    format.

  • Games with no achievements stop being re-checked every time you open them.

  • Renamed games keep their name in the Shiba Coins hub (All Tracked, Recent, Rarest).

  • Playlist counts match what plays. Removing a music or video folder takes its tracks out of
    your playlists instead of leaving "20 tracks" that open empty.

  • Detail pages always show what you opened. Quickly backing out and opening another app, video
    or photo can no longer show the previous one.

  • App Drawer keeps a highlighted tile after an uninstall, and a just-uninstalled app can't
    reappear.

  • Multi-disc playlists stay in their own folder. A .m3u no longer pulls a same-named disc from
    a different region's folder into its set.

  • Favorites, artwork and play time set during a scan are kept. A long scan can no longer write
    older values back over them.

  • A folder named "game" is only read as PSP when it sits inside a PSP folder. …/ps2/game/ games
    are PS2 again.

  • FLAC and Opus files are found even when a storage provider reports them as an unknown file
    type.

  • Creating a category can't overwrite another one that happened to get the same internal name.

  • Discord voice volume and balance step through every level (Full only).

  • Wallpapers: a still .webp image is set as a normal wallpaper instead of being treated as a
    motion wallpaper, and Preview Wallpaper only appears when there is one to preview.

  • Lock screen: Reset only reports success when Android actually reset it.

  • Import All PC games reports how many failed instead of always calling it a success.

  • Sound import no longer leaves the progress indicator stuck if a file can't be read.

  • Remove prompts tell the truth for apps. Removing an app, or the Android card, says the apps stay
    installed rather than talking about ROM files and scans.

  • The setup wizard keeps Auto-fit however you leave its last page, and its first page no longer
    shows a Skip that did the same as Get Started.

  • Turning on the Goldberg installer from Library Manager now shows the same "back up your saves
    first" warning as Achievements settings.

  • Reset Emulator Configuration can be reached again under Emulators › Installed.

  • Reset to Scraped Default in Artwork Studio only appears for artwork the scraper fetched; use
    Restore Previous to undo your own pick.

  • Startup repairs finish properly. If a one-time library repair is interrupted, it now runs again
    on the next launch, and merging duplicate Windows games keeps their play history and achievement
    links.

Action Required

  • Nothing to do. Your library, cards, themes, artwork and play time carry over as they are.
  • Select has a new job on the XMB bar. If you used Select there to change the sort order, use
    X / □ instead; Select still sorts inside lists.
  • Two settings changed shape. Display › Use My Exact Colour is gone because your font colour is
    always shown exactly as picked; a very dark choice now gets a plain "may be hard to read" warning.
    Display › Text Legibility is still saved with your themes but is marked "Not applied yet".