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🎉 We're excited to announce 🎉

Emulator Auto-Downloader (EAD) v5.0 🚀

🔥 What’s New in v5.0?

✅ Fully Rewritten – Built from the ground up with the latest Python 3.12 and PyQt6 for better performance and stability.

All-New GUI – A fresh, modern layout featuring:

✅ Download History to track your past downloads
✅ Emulator Information for quick insights
✅ New Themes for a personalized look
✅ Integrated Download Progress – Stay informed with real-time progress updates.
✅ Version Selection – Choose from the latest few versions of your favorite emulators.
✅ Pre-Release Downloads – Access pre-release github versions (if available) before the official launch. (enabled in options)
✅ Enhanced Debug Logging – Improved logging for better troubleshooting and diagnostics.
✅ GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) Support – For power users, use your PAT to increase download rate limits. (enabled in options)

This update brings major improvements in usability, customization, and performance. Upgrade today and enjoy a smoother emulator download experience!

Wide Emulator Support: Download releases for over 50 emulators, including PCSX2, PPSSPP, RPCS3, Cemu, Redream, and new additions like AzaharPlus and ps4Off.

Enhancements since RC2

  • File Path Management: dynamically determine the application directory, especially for PyInstaller builds
  • Rewritten to fetch PPSSPP download URLs from https://builds.ppsspp.org/meta/status.json. providing a more reliable fetching of PPSSPP builds, supporting Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • New Styling: Updated stylesheet for the options menu with dynamic theming:
  • Added more detailed logging in download_selected and download_all for each emulator and OS combination
  • Improved Version Fetching for PCSX2

Theme improvements

  • Updated a few of the themes with new logo images
  • Switched to CP78 as the default theme

Code Improvements:

  • Switched from Qt5 to Qt6
  • Bug Fixes and Improvements in Download Logic
  • Standardized error handling and logging for consistent emulator version retrieval.
  • Enhanced thread and worker management
  • Progress Bar Updates - Better tracking of download attempts, including skips due to existing files.
  • Cache Expiration: New: CACHE_EXPIRATION_SECONDS = 86400 (1 day). Impact: Reduces frequency of API calls, improving performance and reducing server load.

Known Issues

  • On Linux systems the menu buttons might not show. We are looking into this. if this happens to you please file an issue with details.
  • On Window 11 we have seen a rare instance where you select an emulator and it does not highlight. only able to reproduce this on one system so far. We are looking into this. if this happens please file an issue.

Installation

Download Windows the EAD.exe from the Releases page and place in a folder of your choosing. Recommend a folder named EAD. In the directory where you will run EAD from there will be several files created on first run. ead.ini, releases_cache.json, ead.log (if enabled) & emulator_info.json

For MacOS - download the ead-macos.zip (for Apple M chips)

  • Enhanced: macOS distribution via zipped .app bundle for user-friendly installation
  • unzip and then run EAD application

For Linux - download the EAD-Linux (tested on Ubuntu)

Note

GitHub API Rate Limits
The GitHub API limits unauthenticated users to 60 requests per hour, which may be exceeded if you frequently refresh the emulator cache. To avoid this, generate a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) to increase the limit to 5,000 requests per hour. Create a PAT at GitHub Settings (no specific scopes needed for public repositories), then enter it in the app’s Options menu under “GitHub Settings.” The app validates the token and logs its usage for debugging.

You can turn on logging and check for GitHub API Rate Limits in the ead.log file it you think your running up against the Github rate limit.

Contributing

We welcome your feedback and contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details on submitting issues or pull requests.

Acknowledgments

A huge thank you to our community for your support and feedback, helping us make EAD better with each release!

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