Leaf v0.10.1-beta.1 (Tester Build)

Warning

This is a beta test channel, not a public release.
Builds here are provided for testers only. They may be unstable, incomplete, or
change without notice. Do not run them as your everyday setup, and please do not
redistribute them. For a stable, supported version, install the latest release
from the main Leaf repo:
https://github.com/Utility-Muffin-Research-Kitchen/Leaf/releases/latest

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What's new in v0.10.1-beta.1

This build adds first-class Amiga support, makes RetroArch settings and shutdowns
more reliable, restores Select as a normal game button, and improves controller input,
Cover Flow startup, and Simplified Chinese app support.

Amiga joins the library

• Put Amiga games in Roms/AMIGA. Leaf supports floppy, hard-disk, CD, WHDLoad,
  archive, and manual .m3u playlist formats through the packaged PUAE 2021 core.
  The newer core is the default; full PUAE remains available from the Core menu.
• Put user-supplied Kickstart firmware under BIOS/puae. Leaf does not include
  proprietary firmware.
• Multi-disk .m3u games appear as one library entry while their member files stay
  available to RetroArch's disk controls. ZIP and 7z packages pass through intact.
• Amiga has dedicated launcher and Central Scrutinizer cards, normal and Cover Flow
  artwork, safe ROM/BIOS upload routing, and ordered ScreenScraper matching for Amiga,
  AGA, CDTV, and CD32 content.

RetroArch settings survive normal and forced exits

• Ordinary settings changed in the RetroArch app now save back to Leaf's durable
  configuration after Quit, launcher restart, reboot, and other managed shutdowns.
• Leaf hides RetroArch's unsupported alternate-configuration menu, keeps its per-launch
  working copy private, and replaces the durable configuration atomically so a failed
  save cannot truncate the last good copy.
• Launcher shutdown now gives RetroArch time to save before cleaning up verified
  stragglers. A normal boot no longer waits through the former fixed one-second delay.

Select is a game button again

• RetroArch no longer reserves Select as its hotkey modifier or combines it with
  Start to exit. Existing shared configurations are healed automatically.
• Holding Select no longer blocks the D-pad or other core input, fixing hold-to-act
  controls such as the warp action in Goodboy Galaxy.
• Leaf's Menu button still opens the in-game menu, and the existing Menu chords for
  screenshots, recording, brightness, and game switching remain in place.

Faster, more dependable launcher input

• Short D-pad presses are no longer swallowed when a slow frame queues a release and
  the next press together. The input daemon also wakes immediately for physical
  controller activity instead of forwarding a quick press and release as one batch.
• Animated list text now reuses cached glyphs instead of rerendering every color step.
• Cover Flow loads system and app images through the background worker, uses smaller
  runtime icons, and starts sooner while thumbnails stream in.
• PC-98, Atomiswave, and Naomi now use photographic Cover Flow renders consistent with
  the rest of the carousel.

Simplified Chinese in Thing-File

Leaf now passes its language to launched apps. Thing-File follows that setting, ships a
fully reviewed Simplified Chinese interface, and reuses Leaf's shared CJK font for both
translated controls and Chinese or Japanese filenames.

Tester focus

• Amiga: test A500 floppy, AGA/WHDLoad, multi-disk .m3u, mouse, CDTV, and CD32
  content. Exercise disk controls, saves, states, NVRAM, timing, scraping, and reboot
  persistence with legally supplied firmware under BIOS/puae.
• Central Scrutinizer: upload representative Amiga ROM, archive, playlist, and BIOS
  files; confirm their destinations and that unsupported content leaves no partial file.
• RetroArch settings: change an ordinary setting in the RetroArch app, then test Quit,
  Leaf restart, reboot, and a forced close. Confirm the setting survives and no stale
  RetroArch process remains.
• Select and Menu: hold Select in several cores, confirm Start alone never exits, and
  exercise the in-game menu, screenshot, recording, brightness, and game-switcher chords.
• Input and Cover Flow: hammer short D-pad taps in an art-heavy library and watch for
  missed movement, stutter, blank icons, or late image corruption.
• Thing-File: switch Leaf between English and Simplified Chinese, browse CJK filenames,
  and check long dialogs and first/last-item selection.

This beta includes everything in stable Leaf v0.10.0.

Already running a compatible Leaf install? Open System Update, set Update Channel
to Beta, then check for and install the update.

For a fresh install, extract leaf-mlp1-sd-v0.10.1-beta.1.zip to the root of a FAT32
or ext4 SD card and boot with it inserted. Your games, saves, and states are left alone.