v2.9.0

New

• Artwork packs, installed from Update All. Update All 2.10 ships the MiSTer Artwork Pack: 39 systems and 23,658 images in your choice of 2D boxes, 3D boxes or box + screenshot, enabled under Settings → Extra Content → Game Artwork DBs. The server serves the pack image for the loaded game and the display shows it without a round trip to ScreenScraper, so covered games appear at once and ScreenScraper is left for cores and for the games the pack lacks.
• Shared catalogues. Game Boy and Game Boy Color fall back to each other's folder and the Super Game Boy core borrows both; Famicom Disk System and Satellaview, which the NES and SNES cores load as their own, resolve to their own pack folders and fall back to the cartridge system's when ScreenScraper filed a title there.
• FDS and Satellaview are their own systems on ScreenScraper too. A .fds/.qd image through the NES core is queried as Famicom Disk System and a .bs broadcast through the SNES core as Satellaview, each with its own art, instead of as a cartridge whose CRC ScreenScraper does not know.
• MiSTer Monitor is now fully compatible with Zaparoo Frontend. Games launched from it are identified and get their artwork like an OSD launch.

Fixes

• Neo Geo pack folder is NEOGEO, as the Downloader writes it on the card; the mixed-case name resolved nothing.
• Game names with a slash — the Neo Geo core reports titles such as Metal Slug 2: Super Vehicle-001/II from its romsets.xml — no longer lose everything before the slash when the pack key is built.
• ScreenScraper's own ss region is tried after the geographic ones and before the unsuffixed generic. A box uploaded with no region set is often the only one a title has, and no regional preference could reach it before.
• A stale FILESELECT=selected no longer overrides a fresh launch: it only names the running game when CURRENTPATH was written alongside it.
• Satellaview is hashed as SNES for RetroAchievements.

Notes

• The packs are optional. Without them nothing changes: artwork keeps coming from ScreenScraper as before. Core images and any game the pack does not cover still come from ScreenScraper, so the account is still needed.
• MiSTer Monitor itself is now listed in Update All 2.10 under Settings → Tools & Scripts.
• Update both halves as usual: firmware from the web flasher, server through Update All / MiSTer Companion / Downloader. If the version panel turns red afterwards, one of the two did not update.