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PyroCade 0.4.0

New ways to browse

  • Bookshelf: your cases stand spine-out side by side, and the selected game slides out to show its cover.
  • Spinner rack: a rotating store tower with three tiers of cases. Browsing turns the tower.
  • Real-looking spines:
    • Generated spines now follow each console's retail design: a red Switch band over a white spine, a green Xbox band, a blue Wii U band, and the PlayStation logo running down a black spine.
    • Real spine scans are downloaded too.

Press Play

  • Start animation: the disc spins into a drive slot, or the cartridge is pushed half-way into its slot, and then the game starts. You can turn it off in Settings.

Manuals

  • Found automatically: manuals kept next to your ROMs (for example 00 Goodies\Manuals) are matched by title, even when the names differ slightly.
  • Find manuals in a folder… matches a whole folder of PDFs, and you can add one by hand.
  • Read in PyroCade: manuals open in a full-screen PDF viewer with zoom, pages and search.

Artwork

  • Game details: descriptions, years, developers, genres and player counts fill in automatically from the LaunchBox database.
  • Logos and backgrounds: clear logos replace the game title, and background art appears behind the selected game.
  • Other versions…: pick a different cover, spine, disc or logo when a match is wrong.
  • Real cartridge labels for NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, DS and 3DS, on top of the Game Boy family.
  • Much smaller files: images are capped and stored as JPEG, about 0.2–0.8 MB instead of 10–15 MB. Oversized images from 0.3.0 are shrunk once, in the background.
  • Your own images are never replaced by the "sharper copies" option.

Interface

  • One calm style across Library, Emulators, Artwork and Settings.
  • Readable dropdown menus.
  • A solid instruction booklet in the opened case.

Fixes

  • Covers no longer turn blank after being upgraded to a sharper copy.
  • An out-of-date LaunchBox database is never re-downloaded in the background. Library scans no longer wait for game details.
  • The emulator Source form keeps what you typed during installs.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md · compare v0.3.0...v0.4.0

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