This release brings NX Redux beyond the handheld for the first time with a desktop port — a native macOS .app and Linux AppImage running the full UI and all 28 emulator cores — alongside a new Image Viewer tool pak with browsing, zoom/pan and file management. ROMs can now ship as .7z archives, favorite Tools paks can be launched instantly with the F1/F2 keys on the Brick family, and update checks no longer hit GitHub API rate limits. Rename Rom has been reworked to use display aliases for every core so files on disk are never touched, and a batch of fixes covers Dreamcast arcade coin insert, shader flicker, the in-game menu, and media player resume.
What's Changed
Features
- Desktop port: native macOS .app and Linux AppImage with the full UI, 28 libretro cores and 37 emulator paks (e2f0800)
- Image Viewer tool pak: folder browsing with previews, zoom/pan viewer, context-menu rename and delete (916c11d)
- .7z ROM support in every core via bundled 7-Zip extraction (27b8701)
- F1/F2 keys launch user-assigned Tools paks from the main menu on the Brick family, with a new Settings page (2823146)
- Updater: update checks via github.com redirect (immune to API rate limits), release notes fetched on demand with a tag-derived download fallback (42160f2)
- Rename Rom standardized to display aliases for every core — files on disk are never renamed, preserving play-time history and netplay compatibility (96ef16d)
- Unpin added to the root context menu for pinned items (7ec23a9)
- In-game menu polish: titles on every menu page, two-line section hints in settings, release version shown in the Frontend section (3c693d1)
- Screenshots on tg5040 now capture the fully composited output, including OSD, toasts and video layers (3f2442f)
- Flycast: the modern MAME Atomiswave BIOS dump is now accepted natively (959dbfb)
Fixes
- Dreamcast: SELECT inserts coins in Atomiswave arcade games, with existing installed mappings upgraded in place (914f70b)
- Video: PT_SkyWalker541 shader pack flicker fixed by providing the OrigTexture uniforms (697050f)
- Overlay: DC/N64 in-game menu now shows the renamed title while netplay keeps the correct game id (8d183f9)
- Input: MENU long-press for the OSD raised to 1s and cancelled by any combo button, so quick menu presses no longer misfire (a135392)
- UI: on-screen keyboard no longer shows box art or marquee floating over the keys (5580f6f)
- UI: overlong confirm-dialog titles are truncated to a single line (8a364b7)
- UI: missing folder placeholder art for Dreamcast (6ce8631)
- Media Player: pressing A resumes from the saved position, with Play from Start moved to the context menu (1ed334a)
- Music Player: missing button hints on the playlist detail view (9ceb129)
Docs
- Documentation site linked from the README, plus Xtras PSP entry (5d1a42b)
Select zip files that is relevant to your platform and extract it to your exFAT formatted SDCARD. Alternatively, you can update directly using the OTA update feature in the device. If you have any questions, please open an issue in the repository.
Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0