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@mmadalone mmadalone released this 20 Jun 20:19
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v0.2.0
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First pass at making the repo safe to install on someone else's Steam Deck
("share-readiness"). The maintainer's full rig (X-Arcade Tankstick, 2× Sinden,
multi-pad) is unaffected — every change below only alters the experience on a
fresh/other Deck.

Fixed

  • Arcade launches no longer blocked on a Deck without an X-Arcade. The
    "No X-Arcade detected" dialog now appears only once an X-Arcade has actually
    been identified; previously it blocked every arcade / OpenBOR / MUGEN launch
    (~30 s) on any Deck with no arcade stick.
  • install.sh fails loudly when ES-DE didn't install. A failed patched-ES-DE
    download now stops with a clear, actionable recovery message instead of
    reporting success and leaving an unlaunchable front-end.
  • Controllers detected on first install. install.sh now tells a new user to
    reboot / re-login (for the input group) before launching ES-DE — without it
    MAD silently sees no controllers. The advisory is suppressed under --dry-run,
    where nothing was actually changed.

Changed

  • controller-policy.example.toml is now a neutral, fully-commented template.
    Installing it seeds a clean default policy instead of the maintainer's personal
    setup (stale X-Arcade USB port, a custom splash image, oversized fonts, a Sinden
    lightgun collection). The shipped controller-policy.toml carries no
    rig-specific active stanzas, so a bare Deck gets sane defaults and rig-specific
    warnings stay silent until the matching hardware is identified.
  • Hardware-neutral labels in the --standalone systems template (dropped
    "(X-Arcade)" and "(Linux Sinden, 2-player)" from emulator command labels).
  • README / GUIDE updated to describe the example policy as a neutral template.

Removed

  • Maintainer-private files no longer ship in a public clone:
    openbor-metadata.json, romhack-*.json, skyscraper-flagged.json,
    review-findings/, a stray squashfs-root → ./AppDir symlink, and the
    superseded install-bezels*.sh. Local copies are kept; nothing on the install
    path referenced them.
  • Obsolete model2-m2emu.sh (renamed to model-2-emulator.sh).
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