RetroForge 0.7.0 beta: PC games

RetroForge 0.7.0 beta

The biggest update yet: PC games.

WHAT'S NEW

PC games, played by RetroForge itself (new and early)

• RetroForge's own PC player runs Windows games on your phone: no other app needed. It's built on
  Wine (Proton for ARM), the FEX translator and DXVK graphics, downloaded the first time you use it, with
  a percentage.
• Sign in to Steam (approve in the Steam app, password and Steam Guard, or a QR code), see your Steam
  library with artwork in the PC tab, and download your games in RetroForge. Downloads wait for Wi-Fi
  unless you allow mobile data.
• Steam Cloud saves: your saves come down when a game starts and go back up when you quit.
• Add any Windows game folder you own; RetroForge picks the right .exe (and you can choose another).
• On-screen Xbox-style controller with a pause menu; a real controller works too, and the phone's
  keyboard types into games.
• Play together: LAN games over Wi-Fi, or a virtual LAN over the internet.
• Games fill the screen, with blurred or black sides beside 4:3 games.
• On graphics chips that can't run DXVK, games switch to Wine's own Direct3D by themselves.
• Tested on a Galaxy S22 (Exynos) and a Galaxy Tab A9+ (Snapdragon). This is early: plenty of games
  won't run yet. PC games are kept in RetroForge's own storage (or an SD card), which fixes games
  closing on some Android 16 devices.

More PC gaming

• Stream from your own PC: Moonlight's streaming is built in. RetroForge finds your Sunshine PC, pairs
  with a PIN and streams its games (tested at 60 FPS with hardware decoding).
• Xbox Cloud Gaming in the PC tab (with Better xCloud), plus GeForce NOW, Boosteroid and Amazon Luna.
• Your PC games list also starts Steam, Epic, GOG and Amazon games in GameNative, and Winlator shortcuts,
  found by themselves in a "windows" or "steam" game folder (ES-DE's layout).
• Free games: 21 shareware, freeware and homebrew games to download in one tap (Doom, Wolfenstein 3D,
  Commander Keen, and new games for the NES, SNES, Mega Drive, Game Boy, GBA and TIC-80).

Everything else

• Bezels from The Bezel Project round the game in landscape: download them for every system at once,
  and each game gets its own bezel where the pack has one.
• Save syncing: your saves and save states kept the same on every device, through your PC's shared
  folder or a folder a cloud app keeps in step. Newer wins; the other copy is kept.
• Game lists as a list, a grid or a bookshelf: game boxes as 3D cases on shelves.
• Netplay: Play together only shows on games it suits; quick taps always count; the joiner's game no
  longer waits behind the menu.
• On-screen controls: systems without their own pad show the buttons their emulator really uses.
• RetroForge checks for updates once a day and offers them on Home.
• Percentages on downloads and scans; Settings → Thanks and licences credits everyone RetroForge
  builds on or features.

Made by Darren Glancy, built with a lot of help from AI (Claude). Feedback and bug reports are very
welcome on GitHub, and there's a "Suggest a feature" form too.