RetroFlow-Launcher Version 6.1.0

New

• Added two new game views: a 'List view' and a 'Side-scrolling view', both are 2D views using scaled images instead of 3D models. Screenshots here.
• When using List view, press DPad right to jump to the recently played / favourites category, or filter categories to only show collections.
• More wallpaper background images added, credit to Tech & ALL.

Improvements

• Default colours and background changed to neutral greys.
• Analogue scrolling added to menus.
• CHD extension support added for RetroArch PS1 core.
• Background image sizing improved, thanks to Axce.
• Background image position fixed for one of the game views, thanks to Axce.
• Polish translations improved, thanks to SK00RUPA.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where homebrew was imported when using the favourites feature.
• Fixed an issue where some PS1 RetroArch games were imported twice, with the second appearing as 'Eboot' in the game list.

Note

• This may be the last / one of the last releases. It's been fun working on the app, but its journey is ending.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page before posting an issue.

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 6.0.0

New

• Custom categories (Collections): Added support for custom categories, create a collection by pressing the triangle button on a game, press triangle again to bring up the mini menu. Collections can be renamed/deleted by going to the main settings menu 'Other settings > Edit collections'.

• New systems: ScummVM, PICO-8 and PlayStation Mobile added.

• New languages: Portuguese (Brazilian) and Hungarian.

• Smooth scrolling: Game cover transitions are smooth when browsing games. Can be turned off by going to the theme settings.

• Adrenaline: Option to include games from all available partitions. (This is now the default setting).

• D-Pad Up: Jump to the recently played / favourites category, or filter categories to only show collections.

• Hide missing covers: Setting to hide games with missing covers. Go to the main settings menu 'Other settings > Show missing covers'. The first time you do this it may rescan.

• N64 and SNES: Support added for portrait Japanese N64 and SNES boxes (delete your old N64 and SNES covers and download again).

• Vita: Option to extract background images. Achieved by integrating a modified version of copyicons by cy33hc. The normal functions of copyicons are also performed.

• PICO-8: Option to extract PICO-8 background images (uses the image in the centre of the game cart).

Improvements

• Better launch method: Removed dependency on repatch plugin and launch bin files.

• Box art sizes: New approach, the image size is checked and the closest box size is assigned (adding your own covers should give better results).

• Box art cassette tapes: Boxes now appear larger in their own categories (C64, MSX, MSX2, Spectrum).

• Box art reflections: Improved game reflections, small gap removed.

• PSTV: Battery icon and percentage removed.

• PSP: Image extraction now only gets missing images, speeding up the process. Images are no longer shown whilst extracting to prevent a drain on resources.

• Improved translations: Polish and French.

• Languages: Sorted alphabetically.

Bug fixes

• File settings error: Fixed error saving when pressing buttons repeatedly very quickly.

• PSP and PS1: Fixed error with bad game titles which contained double quotes. (PES C19 fix).

• PSP: PSP background extraction, fixed C2-12828-1, images are no longer displayed when extracting.

• Hidden games: Hidden games were showing when rescanning, the overall approach was revised.

• Lots of minor fixes not worth mentioning, see the nightly build for more.

Know issues

• PSP background extraction: May need to be run more than once, after around 150 games it skips the rest.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page before posting an issue.

Thanks and credits

Many thanks to everyone that contributed to this release:

• BlackSheepBoy69 - General support.
• Axce - Code for smooth scrolling. French translations.
• dagadtwok - Hungarian translations.
• SK00RUPA - Updated Polish translations.
• dariofflima - Portuguese (Brazilian) transaltions.
• Rinnegatamante - Supporting with updates to Lua Player Plus Vita.
• cy33hc - Code for extracting Vita backgrounds based on copyicons.

Nightly

Rolling updates and bug fixes

Updates

-2023-05-21: New: Setting to turn off 2D views. Available in theme settings.
-2023-05-21: New: Setting to turn off changing views (locking the current view). Available in theme settings.
-2023-05-21: Bug fix: Some settings were not being read properly.
-2023-05-21: Bug fix: Fixed issue where changing background images in the theme settings could cause a slow down.

-2023-05-15: v6.1.0 released

Milestones

v6.1.0 released

-2023-05-15: Bug fix: Fixes issue where homebrew was imported when using the favourites feature. -2023-05-15: Improvement: Analogue scroll added to menus.

-2023-05-10: New: 3D views aren't for everyone, I've added a 2D List view and also a 2D Side-scrolling view, both display scaled images instead of 3D models. Screenshots here.
-2023-05-10: Improvement: Default colours and background changed to be more neutral using greys.
-2023-05-10: New: More wallpaper background images added, they will be copied over to the user data folder. Credit to Tech & ALL.
-2023-05-10: Bug fix: Some PS1 RetroArch games were imported twice, with the second appearing as 'Eboot' in the game list.

-2023-04-26: Improvement: CHD extension support added for RetroArch PS1 core.

-2023-04-25: Bug fix: Homebrew titles duplicated if adding/removing homebrew to favourites.
-2023-04-25: Improvement: Polish translations improved, thanks to SK00RUPA.
-2023-04-25: Improvement: Background image sizing improved, thanks to Axce.
-2023-04-25: Bug fix: Background image position fixed for one of the game views, thanks to Axce.

-2023-04-22: Nightly version released as v6.00

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v6.0.0 released

-2023-04-19: Fix: Adrenaline driver overrides not being honoured.

-2023-04-17: Improvement: Added check to see if a collection file already exists when creating a new one. If so add a number on the end e.g. Racing (1), otherwise would overwrite. (Update for nightly).

-2023-04-15: New: Smooth scrolling of covers added, much thanks to Axce. Smooth scrolling can be turned off by going to the theme settings.

-2023-04-14: Bug fix: Changing the category after a search would show collections shown regardless of settings (Fix for nightly).
-2023-04-14: Bug fix: The search results category is now emptied when changing the category.

-2023-04-13: Bug fix: Fixed 'file_settings' error saving when pressing buttons repeatedly very quickly.

-2023-04-11: Improvement: French translation corrections, much thanks to Axce.

-2023-04-10: New: Portuguese (Brazilian) language added, big thanks to dariofflima for the translation.
-2023-04-10: Improvement: Languages ordered alphabetically.
-2023-04-10: Bug fix: Homebrew is now shown in collections and recent category when the show homebrew category is off.

-2023-04-02: Bug fix: Renaming a game without a cover, the missing cover would then be incorrect.
-2023-04-02: Improvement: PSTV devices - Battery icon and percentage removed.

-2023-04-01: New: Filter categories to only show collections by pressing D-Pad Up.
-2023-04-01: New: Jump to the recently played / favourites category by pressing D-Pad Up.
-2023-04-01: New: Option to hide games with missing covers. Go to the main settings menu 'Other settings > Show missing covers'. The first time you do this it may rescan.
-2023-04-01: New: Support added for portrait Japanese N64 and SNES boxes (delete your old N64 and SNES covers and download again).
-2023-04-01: Improvement: Cassette tape boxes now appear larger in their own categories.
-2023-04-01: Improvement: Box art is now handled differently, the image size is checked and the closest box is assigned (adding your own covers should give better results).
-2023-04-01: Bug fix: Fixed error with bad PSP/PS1 game titles which contained double quotes. (PES C19 fix).

-2023-03-22: Bug fix: Deleting the last title in Favorites causes the application to crash (Update for nightly).
-2023-03-22: Bug fix: 'All category" always displayed (Update for nightly).
-2023-03-22: Bug fix: PSP favourites not being added to favourites when rescanning (Update for nightly).
-2023-03-22: Bug fix: PSP background extract: Fixed C2-12828-1, images are no longer displayed when extracting.
-2023-03-22: New known issue: PSP extract will skips games after around 150 games, needs to be re-run to get more images (issue with onelua).
-2023-03-22: Bug fix: PSP background extract: Fixed C2-12828-1, bg0 and bg no longer extracted (Update for nightly).
-2023-03-22: Bug fix: Vita background extract: Fixed C2-12828-1 (Update for nightly).

-2023-03-15: Bug fix: Fixed issue where a corrupt game in 'pspemu/PSP/GAME' could make the scan unresponsive.

-2023-03-13: Improvement: PSP image extraction only gets missing images. I found I wasn't using the feature as it extracting every game image each time, this is more useable. If you have screenshots, they will be kept.
-2023-03-13: Update to extract Vita images bin: modules relocated to RetroFlow data folder.

-2023-03-12: Bug fix: Removing PSP from recent, dynamic mini menu fix (Update for nightly)
-2023-03-12: New: Option to extract Vita background images. Achieved by integrating a modified version of copyicons by cy33hc. The normal functions of copyicons are also performed.
-2023-03-12: New: Option to extract PICO-8 background images (uses the image in the centre of the game cart).
-2023-03-12: Bug fix: Fixed error when deleting a collection when it is set as the start category. (Update for nightly)
-2023-03-12: Updated translations for Hungarian and Polish, big thanks to dagadtwok and SK00RUPA.

-2023-03-11: New: Added support for custom categories (called 'Collections'). You can create a collection by pressing the triangle button on a game and pressing the triangle button again to bring up the mini menu.
Collections can be renamed/deleted by going to the main settings menu 'Other settings > Edit collections'.
-2023-03-11: New: ScummVM game support added
-2023-03-11: New: Pico8 game support added
-2023-03-11: Improvement: PS Mobile games category moved to be after PS1 instead of being the last category (Update for nightly).

-2023-02-26: Bug fix: Adding PSM games to favourites. (Update for nightly)

-2023-02-22: Bug fix: Fixed an error caused by some FBA game names.
-2023-02-22: Improvement: Updated Hungarian translations. (Update for nightly)

-2023-02-13: Improvement: Updated eboot to get short app titles from sfo files. (Update for nightly)

-2023-02-12: Bug fix: Search results showing recent category. (Fix for nightly)
-2023-02-12: Bug fix: Fixed close app prompt when launching a game when you have a large library of games. (New eboot thanks to Rinne). (Fix for nightly)

-2023-02-11: New: Option to include Adrenaline games from all available partitions. (This is now the default setting).
-2023-02-11: Bug fix: PlayStation Mobile skipping empty category fix. (Fix for nightly)

-2023-02-04: Improvement: Improved game reflections, small gap removed.

-2023-01-28: New: Hungarian translation added, thanks to dagadtwok
-2023-01-28: Improvement: Minor text alignment changes on the game info screen.

-2023-01-24: Bug fix: Added directory check for psm folder before scanning.
-2023-01-24: Bug fix: Hidden games showing when rescan, overall approach revised.

-2023-01-22: New: PlayStation Mobile support added

-2023-01-19: Bug fix: Existence of hidden games checked before import
-2023-01-19: Improvement: Only app folders with 9 characters imported, removes duplicates or manually backed-up / renamed folders.
-2023-01-19: Improvement: System exit added after executeUri

-2023-01-18: Improvement: Updated launch methods, removed dependency on repatch plugin and launch bin files.

-2023-01-16: Improvement: Updated Polish translations

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 5.1.1 (hotfix)

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue where PSX games would not boot fully with Adrenaline.
• Removed Adrenaline game options for PSX games.

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 5.1.0

New

• New 'Game Options Menu' - Access by pressing the triangle button on a game and the triangle button again to access game-specific options.
• Adrenaline - New game-specific option to change driver and bin file to execute. Available in the Game Options Menu (don't forget to click 'Save' when changing settings).
• Adrenaline - New global setting to change the behaviour of the PS button. 'Settings > Other Settings > Adrenaline PS button'
• Option to hide a game. (Available in the Game Options Menu). To show hidden games go to 'Settings > Categories > Show Hidden games'.
• Option to remove a game from the 'Recently played' category. (Available in the Game Options Menu).
• Setting to swap the X and O buttons (preferred by some Asian countries). The new option is here: 'Settings > Other Settings > Swap X and O buttons'.
• Japanese Ryukyuan language added.

Improvements

• Adrenaline bubbles using 'PSPEMU' as titles are now excluded from the app.
  (The games used for the bubbles will still be included in the PSP or PS1 category).
• Improved Polish translations.
• Improved Japanese translations.

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue where adding to favorites would initiate a scan when opening the app the next time.
• RetroFlow Adrenaline Launcher - Corrected the LiveArea startup image position.
  Install the v3 vpk in this release or alternatively, once you have installed the 5.0.2 vpk you can install it from the app directory here:
  ux0:/app/RETROFLOW/payloads/RetroFlow Adrenaline Launcher.vpk
• Fixed Japanese game title names displaying incorrectly.
• Fixed slow loading of categories with only one or a couple of games. Thanks to BlackSheepBoy69 for the fix.

Thanks and credits

• kuragehimekurara1 for updated Japanese and new Japanese Ryukyuan translations.
• SK00RUPA for updated Polish translations.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Note

• VPK updated to v5.1.1 due to a problem booting PSX games.

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 5.0.1

New

• Categories Lite support for Adrenaline

Bug fixes

• Some RetroArch PS1 games not showing.
• More robust filtering for bad sfo files
• Fixed image error when overriding category.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 5.0

New

• No longer need to rename PSP games - PSP and PS1 game titles are now extracted from iso, cso and pbp files.
• Extract PSP background images - New option to extract PSP background images from iso files rather than downloading in-game screenshots.
• New loading screen - Progress bar added to loading / scanning screen.
• New help section - Replaced the 'About' screen with a help section for general setup etc. (Also now fully translated). Press start then triangle to view the help section.
• Adrenaline - Added support for ur0, imc0 and xmc0 partitions.
• New Control - DPad Down + Square: Go back one category.
• New Control - DPad Down + L/R triggers: Skip games alphabetically.
• New Languages - Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, Korean, Chinese (Simplified).

Improvements

• Language - Operating system language is checked the first time the app is opened and a matching language is set if available.
• Language - Additional fonts added for Korean, traditional and simplified Chinese.
• Renaming - When renaming a game, RetroFlow will now check for the cover and update if found.

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue when downloading a single cover, the custom cover would be removed.
• Search and rename keyboard set to latin, as non latin characters don't seem to be supported.

Note

• PS1 and PSP titles will change as the names are now coming from the game's sfo files rather than a database lookup.
• You can rename titles within the app if there's some you want to change.

Translations

• If you would like to contribute to improving translations, please submit an issue or pull request.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Bugs
If you encounter a bug, please try the new pre-release v5.0.1. If it's still not resolved, please raise an issue. Thanks

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 4.0.3

New

• Adrenaline - Added support for ur0, imc0 and xmc0 partitions. (ux0 and uma0 were already supported).

Improvements

• Cover and background image downloads from the settings menu now update the cache automatically.
• Better URL encoding for artwork downloads

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with game filenames containing a "%" symbol. (Stopped artwork downloading).
• Fixed error when searching using special characters like "%" or "(" symbol
• Fixed cache import for TGCD.
• Better error handling for user rom directory file

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 4.0.2

New

• RetroArch PS1 support added. (Adrenaline still recommended over RetroArch for PS1)

Bug fixes

• Fixed a small percentage of games not showing due to filename filtering.
• Fixed error on scanning when a file has no extension (retro systems), those files are now excluded from the scan.
• Fixed app name titles crashing into the footer text for one of the game view options (long names masked with a gradient).
• Battery icon repotioned slightly.

Note

• More info on setting up the RetroArch PS1 core (PCSX ReARMed) here: https://docs.libretro.com/library/pcsx_rearmed/

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation guide

RetroFlow-Launcher Version 4.0.1

New

• Added rom directory support for: uma0, imc0, xmc0, grw0 partitions.
• Added support for multiple music tracks. Save your .ogg formatted music in the new ux0:/data/RetroFlow/MUSIC folder.
  Mp3 is no longer supported, see note below.
• New audio settings menu.
• Music playback can be randomised (default) or played alphabetically.
• Music tracks can also be skipped
• Added chd extension support for Sega CD, TurboGrafx-CD and PC Engine CD

Bug fixes

• Fixed Neo Geo category showing FBA games.
• Fixed - Error when user selected game folder has been deleted.
• Fixed - Homebrew being shown after rescan, when show homebrew is set to off.
• Fixed - After you rename a game, you now remain on the game information screen rather than going to game category screen.
• Fixed - Error getting filesize of retro game that has been deleted / renamed
• Fixed - Renaming of games for disc based systems. (Was reverting to default name after a rescan).
• Fixed - Cover names for retro systems, can now use the app title in addition to full name.
• Added filters to prevent save files from being recognised as games.

Note

• Removed support for mp3 music - There are too many errors ocurring with this file format.
  Please convert the mp3's to ogg format to continue to use the music.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation guide