Console Overlay 1.3.1 — Steam achievements, 6 new languages and sharper screenshots

💙 Special Thanks

A huge thank you to @UnderFusion, creator of GameHQ, for taking the time to test Console Overlay, finding why screenshots looked blurry on 4K displays and sending a patch to fix it. That fix is part of this release. His own release, GameHQ 0.8.0 Stable, is out now too: if you want a capture tool that works great with the overlay, go check it out!

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Console Overlay 1.3.1

A big update with a lot of hours behind it. Thank you all for the support and the feedback!

🎬 Drag the demo video here once it's uploaded.

✨ New

• Steam achievements, completed from Steam itself. For Steam games, the plugin now reads Steam's own local stats files (read-only, no network). Unlocks and progress counters show up in the menu as soon as the game reports them, instead of waiting for Playnite Achievements to refresh.
• Achievement names and descriptions in your language, using Steam's own translation when available.
• Six new languages (beta): Polish, Turkish, Korean, Dutch, Ukrainian and Traditional Chinese. They are machine-translated and not yet reviewed by native speakers, so they are marked "(beta)" in the language list. If you spot a mistake, fix it with a lang\xx.txt file in the plugin's data folder or tell me here. The plugin now supports 15 languages.
• Sharper screenshots on 4K displays. The viewer now shows the original resolution (up to 3840 px wide) and gallery thumbnails are decoded at a higher quality. Thanks again, @UnderFusion!

🎨 Improved

• The controller battery always shows in its glass pill with its number, also with a single controller.
• New menu layout: bigger game preview placed higher, "Switch to" in its own glass card with more room between covers, and a lighter secondary text colour tinted with the theme.
• Achievements are re-read whenever the data changes, so the menu no longer shows an old state within the same session.

🐛 Fixed

• After leaving Achievements, the cursor could jump to another row when the mouse pointer was resting over the menu.
• Accepting in Achievements no longer plays a sound.
• The Achievements header (tabs and counters) stays in place when a filter shows fewer items.
• The menu no longer flickers out for a moment when the music player opens or closes.
• The capture counter in the gallery is aligned with the rest of the layout.
• Windows Media Player shows its proper name in the player list.

⚠️ Good to know

Many games only report counters (for example "break 666 objects") to Steam when you save or quit, so those can still lag behind what you see in-game. Unlocks, on the other hand, are reflected right away.

📦 Install / update

1. Download ConsoleOverlay_galcn10_1_3_1.pext below.
2. Double-click it (or drag it onto Playnite). Playnite asks to install and restart.
3. Open Add-ons → Extensions settings → Console Overlay.

The optional in-menu clip player (mpv) still needs its own mpv folder inside the plugin folder; see the README.

☕ Support

If you like the plugin and want to support its development, you can do it on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/galcn10. Totally optional, and thank you!

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

v1.3.0 – Music card, Switch to, new settings

Console Overlay 1.3.0 is the biggest update so far. It also includes everything prepared as 1.2.1 (never released on its own).

New

• Settings redesigned: tabs on top, switches with a short help line under each option, and a search box.
• Switch to: with "End game" selected, press right to see your last 3 played games. Pick one and the current game closes and the new one opens behind a transition screen, with no desktop or Playnite flashing in between. Optional (Menu tab).
• Music card: shows what is playing (Spotify, SimpMusic, YouTube Music, VLC...) through Windows media controls. Controls are play/pause, previous/next, volume (L2/R2 or right stick), shuffle (Y) and repeat (R3) where the player supports them. The card uses the player's own icon and colour.
• Open music: when nothing is playing, the row launches your player (Spotify by default; add more in "Players to open", one per line as Name|path). It opens minimized and you stay in the game. You can also close the player from the menu.
• Achievements: a trophy by rarity on every row (bronze, silver, gold, platinum), trophy counters in the header, progress bars for partial ones and a gold highlight for unlocked ones. A platinum trophy shows on the main menu when you have them all.
• Pause the game when the menu opens is now a setting (on by default). Per game: NoPause / NoOverlay tags. There is also an option to skip emulator games (RetroArch, PCSX2, DuckStation...).
• New glass look, and numbered controller batteries (1 blue, 2 red, 3 green, 4 yellow).
• Button legends follow the controller style set in Playnite (Xbox / PlayStation / Nintendo).
• All 9 languages updated.

Improved

• Faster opening and closing, also when calling the menu repeatedly.
• Music apps opened from the menu are only minimized while the menu is open.

Fixed

• The menu could disappear after closing a music player.
• Possible freeze when returning to the game after closing a player. If the game is still suspended it is now resumed automatically, and the log records the state.

Install

Download the .pext and double-click it (or use Playnite's add-on browser). Optional: mpv for in-menu clip playback, see the README.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome in Issues. If something fails, attach extensions.log.

Console Overlay 1.2.0

• New menu design: colored icons, a short description under the selected option and a curved accent bar. Lighter on the GPU.
• Clips play inside the captures gallery with the optional mpv player (see README); without mpv they open in the Windows player.
• Achievements: no duplicates, unlocked first, filters, rarity highlight and locked ones in grayscale.
• Menu sounds, controller vibration, optional Start + LB to close the game.
• Faster opening; fixes for first-open sound burst and Playnite not responding after repeated calls.

Console Overlay 1.0.0

v1.0.0

Console Overlay 1.0.0