R-CADE v1.1.1 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.1.1

• Additional performance and stability improvements

• Add support for Legends Core Max

• Add separate system options and game options menu

  • Moved default emulator and resolution selections to system and game options
  • Moved "boot to game" to game options
  • Moved "extract archives" to system options
  • Moved game-specific "single-joystick assignment" to game options
  • Add system-level setting for "single joystick assignment"
  • Add game setting to manually enable the gate restrictor
    • Closes Issue #26

• Add different BitLCD display options

• Add ability to download and install new BitLCD marquees

• Add some safeguards to try and keep the external device scans from taking too long or freezing up

• Add option to boot directly to a restricted UI mode (Kid/Kiosk)

• Add option to forget (unpair) all bluetooth controllers

• Add option to import (copy) a single game from an external device to internal storage

• Add option to import (copy) ALL games and media from ALL external drives to internal storage

• Add option to select multiple systems to download bezels for

  • NOTE: bezel downloads can take a very long time, especially when being saved to external media, select multiple systems with caution and patience

• Add feature "NetDrive" - settings to mount a network location as an external device

  • Handled exactly like a USB drive
  • Will attempt to auto-connect in the background while the network is coming online without any waiting
  • Supports preparing the network location with RCade folders
  • Supports backup/restore to network location
  • NOTE: Enabling network drives will slow down the system boot as it needs to scan network locations for games

• Add internet speed test

• Add setting to delay booting for specific number of seconds waiting for network to connect

• Add setting to enable the hidden game filter by default

  • Already always enabled in kiosk and kid mode, this will allow full UI mode to default to hide games with metadata set as hidden

• Add auto-fixing user scripts that aren't executable

• Fix some missing platform names for systems

• Fix disabling wireless network

• Fix no networks found when wifi is disabled

• Fix some videos not playing correctly

• Fix issues with KID and KIOSK modes

• Fix KODI user interface being laggy / slow on some devices

• Fix system-select userscript for menu running even when menu is hidden

• Fix some cases where upgrades were failing to install

• Fix custom resolution selection of N64DD isn't applied

• Fix some scripts not always running

• Fix creating a new controller profile without axis can sometimes cause issues

• Fix sometimes unable to create a new custom collection

• Fix rotating display on some resolutions caused garbled output

• Fix automatic setting of single-joystick mapping (such as the ALU) for Playstation

• Update ffmpeg to 4.4.4 and include a few additional fixes as well

• Update Mali Midgard kernel driver to R20

• Update Mali Utgard kernel driver to R9

• External device folders will now show as USB, MMC, or NET depending on the type

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Full-RockPi4
  The full version of R-Cade for the Radxa Rockpi4 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RG552
  The full version of R-Cade for the Anbernic RG552 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-PinebookPro
  The full version of R-Cade for the Pinebook Pro including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RockPro64
  The full version of R-Cade for the RockPro64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-CoreMax
  The full version of R-Cade for the RK3399 Atgames Legends Core Max including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-StationM1
  The full version of R-Cade for the Firefly Station M1 (RK3328-ROC-PC) including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-HA8801
  The full version of R-Cade for the RK3328 Atgames Legends Arcade Cabinets including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Upgrade-(MODEL OF BOARD)
  This only contains the files needed to perform the in-place upgrade on supported hardware. This is only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. These are NOT BOOTABLE images, do not try to flash them to a disk and boot it, it will not work.

R-CADE v1.1.0 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.1.0

• Increased stability, decreased memory leaks, and other ES bug fixes

• Additional fixes to speaker "pop" noise when audio starts on the ALU

  • Note that a soft click when audio starts is still normal

• Replaced VLC with FFMPEG in R-Cade's EmulationStation

  • Fixes gamelist video audio not playing with background music
  • Added hardware-acceleration to video playback
  • Allows gamelist videos to be High Definition or animated gifs!
    • NOTE: Not all HD videos will play smoothly in EmulationStation, that's why there's KODI!

• Complete rewrite of screensaver source

  • Uses FFMPEG for video screensaver now
  • Starting video and image screensavers is much faster now
  • Added two additional screensavers: fireplace and retro-fireplace
  • Added option to mute screensaver
  • Fixes bug that sometimes screensaver causes crashes
  • Fixes bug that sometimes gamelist videos wouldn't play after screensaver
  • Fixes bug that sometimes ES would run very sluggish after video screensaver
  • Fixes bug that changing the screensaver setting doesn't take effect immediately
  • Fixes bug that can cause a crash is user tries to cycle through the video screensaver too fast

• Complete rewrite of the threading implementation

  • Fixes some random crashes
  • Fixes sometimes the wrong thread would be asked to close
  • Optimizes thread-to-cpu usage
  • Better handling of opening and closing threads
  • Overall performance improvement

• Complete rewrite of the audio manager

  • Stability improvements
  • Better integration with screensavers
  • Allows for enabling audio of background music and theme sounds separate than the gamelist video audio

• Removed the mupen64-glide64mk2 core - it was the only reason the boost system library was needed. Will re-add later if it's updated to not require boost.

• Removed unneeded boost system library

• Removed unneeded libvlc system library

• Fix vim start failure

• Fix crash when adding multiple controllers at the exact same time

• Fix networking sometimes not starting or failing to connect

• Fix retroarch joystick setting to left-analog isn't always working

• Fix joining a hidden network by allowing SSID entry with keyboard

• Fix joining open wifi without a PSK

• Fix license agreement sometimes continuing to pop-up even after accepting

• Fix lateboot userscript

• Fix loading UI sometimes not showing and causing instability

• Fix low system entropy

• Fix ALU RTC - the system clock will now be correctly set after a system restart before any network connection is available

• Fix BitLCD sometimes not being found on boot

• Fix game-selected script showing the collection name instead of the system name

• Fix getting stuck at a black screen sometimes when exiting a game when CEC is enabled

• Fix showing UCE warning every time - only warns once

• Fix "Search Media for Game Art" sometimes not finding the images and videos even when named correctly

• Fix random selections not actually being random

• Fix handling and mapping true axis triggers in ES

• Fix crash when re-scanning for bluetooth controllers too many times in a row

• Fix last-played collection not immediately updating after a game was played

• Fix some bluetooth controllers not powering off during suspend (ex: wiimote)

• Fix issue where on some devices it will randomly return "boot failure"

• Fix the wrong gamepad sometimes being assigned to a player (or sometimes multiple players) if it has the same guid

• Fix the first game's metadata and media not auto-showing when the gamelist is first opened if game is in a folder

• Fix issue creating new mapping profile for keyboards

• Updated to Kodi v20.1+ Nexus (and all associated addons)

  • Includes huge amount of bug fixes and improvements
  • Also included all up-stream fixes that have been done after the v20.1 release date
  • R-Cade specific optimizations to video cache/buffer to reduce buffering
  • R-Cade custom patches to improve user experience and stability

• Updated buildroot to 2023.2 - this means:

  • Basically every app and library in the root file-system has been updated
  • Newer build system - more efficient compiling and maybe some performance improvement

• Updated SDL to 2.26.5

• Updated gcc to 12.2

• Updated FFMPEG to 4.4.3

• Updated Rockbox Wifi Kernel Driver (RTL8189fs) to v5.7.9_35795.20191128

• Updated Gate Restrictor Accessory Code

  • Updated the built-in list of roms

• Updated Rockchip MPP library

• Updated Moonlight to v2.5.3

  • Add custom support for Rockchip video acceleration
  • Fixed exit hot-key combo to be the same as other systems (select + start)

• Updated Amiberry to 5.6.0

• Updated BitLCD - fixes issue with Jungle Hunt

• Updated Daphne (hypseus-singe) emulator to latest v2.10.3

• Updated Dosbox-Staging

• Updated Flashback Libretro Core

• Updated NeoCD Libretro Core

• Updated Neo-Geo Pocket Libretro Core

• Updated ScummVM cores

• Updated TIC-80 Libretro Core

• Updated FB Neo Core

  • Added experimental multi-threading support by Walknight (thank you!) - disabled by default
  • Added fbneo core as an alternate option for MAME games

• Updated Vectrex core

  • Includes some control fixes and the ability to run full speed with the new GPU renderer - both thanks to Walknight!

• Added more validation for retroarch invalid configs that were causing mame2003+ to crash

  • Specifically fixes reported issues starting Donkey Kong

• Added evsieve utility

• Added auto-setting "show FPS" in retroarch to match the selection in ES

• Allow moonlight to use both 720p and 1080p resolutions

• Added adjusting volume of gamelist videos separate than the system volume

• Added ability for ALU to use built-in HDMI switch (thanks n-i-x!)

• Added additional protection against config issues leading to boot-loops and ES never starting

• Added a splash screen to alert you when the system is performing the scheduled file-scan so that it doesn't look like it's just frozen on boot

• Added additional support option to create a file on the boot partition that will tell RCade to perform an internal action before starting

• Added ability to create a "roms" folder on the boot partition and have R-Cade import any roms you put in there before starting

  • Note that the boot partition is not very big so this won't support larger roms or romsets

• Added support for Google Stadia controllers

• Added acknowledgements section to about-us area of the support menu

  • Are you on the list? Go check! Thank you everyone!

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Full-RockPi4
  The full version of R-Cade for the Radxa Rockpi4 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RG552
  The full version of R-Cade for the Anbernic RG552 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-PinebookPro
  The full version of R-Cade for the Pinebook Pro including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RockPro64
  The full version of R-Cade for the RockPro64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-StationM1
  The full version of R-Cade for the Firefly Station M1 (RK3328-ROC-PC) including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-HA8801
  The full version of R-Cade for the RK3328 Atgames Legends Arcade Cabinets including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Upgrade-(MODEL OF BOARD)
  This only contains the files needed to perform the in-place upgrade on supported hardware. This is only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. These are NOT BOOTABLE images, do not try to flash them to a disk and boot it, it will not work.

R-CADE v1.0.9 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.0.9

• Increased stability, decreased memory leaks, and other ES bug fixes

• Improved compatibility with booting off USB hard disks, such as SSDs

• More upstream kernel backports

• Adjustments to CEC to improve compatibility with some a/v receivers

• Reduced the observed speaker "pop" noise when sound starts on the ALU

• Allow the support archive to be copied from the share folder over the network before a reboot

• Custom improvements to 3DO core performance

• Moved non-game system folders out of ~/roms

• Always show folders at the top of the gamelists

• Changed all the default cores for amiga to the puae libretro core

• Updated the list of mapped mame game and bios name's to file names

• Disable bi-linear filtering in retroarch by default on the ALU

• Mount all the rom folders on external devices even if they are empty so they can be populated over the network

• Improve the speed of mounting external media with lots of files on it

• Improved SAMBA share settings - faster and better compatibility

• Add more image and video auto-searching when "Search Media for Game Art" is enabled

  • Updated README files in the metadata sub-folders with detail

• Updated retroarch to version v1.15.0

• Updated pixelweb and gaterestrictor

• Updated ppsspp to v1.14.4

• Update libretro scummvm core and fix the menu loading the theme

• Updated Mali userspace driver

• Updated libretro Quake 1 core

• Added metadata setting to ability to control how to map the joystick in any game (dpad or left analog)

• Added the ability for bezels to be located on external storage

• Added libretro HBMame core for Home-Brew arcade roms and backported updates and fixes to it from upstream mame

• Added libretro Mame-2016 core

• Added more logging to external device setup process

• Added option to re-install the most recent upgrade to the support menu

• Added missing backgrounds to a couple systems for carbon theme

• Added new auto-collection systems: ARCADE and NEVER PLAYED

• Added carousel icon to open main menu for gamepads or remotes very few buttons

• Added ability to flatten gamelists so they are not organized in folders

• Added parenthesis around folders in the non-grid gamelists

• Added setting to set the network hostname under advanced network setting

• Added 2048 NES game

• Added a third argument to the game-start script that includes the title of the game being launched

• Added ES carousel menu

  • Moved transition style here
  • Added ability to show/hide any system
  • Added ability to sort the systems in the system list
  • Added ability to control where to put non-game systems on the carousel
  • Added ability to control where to put collections systems on the carousel

• Fix one missing media subfolder on external storage prepare - allows boxart to be placed in the metadata subfolder

• Fix for some onboard ALU games not showing up or missing metadata

• Fix moonlight joystick control mappings for some gamepads

• Fix CRC hash calculations for games

• Fix some retroarchievement passwords having extra characters after them

• Fix retroarch config sometimes being corrupt and causing controls to not work

• Fix atari800 not seeing bios is first run before adding it

• Fix some gamepads not detecting shoulders in ppsspp

• Fix Quake1 save folder and make it load the saved control mappings from the quake config

• Fix Quake2 sometimes not finding the pak files

• Fix Quake2 dpad mappings

• Fix sometimes the metadata edit screen row heights being wrong

• Fix the controller configuration sometimes not detecting axis presses

• Fix custom collections sometimes disappearing or causing a crash

• Fix when multiple external devices are attached - detaching one disconnects the bios/configs/saves for all

• Fix allow clearing the SSID

• Fix the network sometimes being reset a few times right after boot

• Fix samba share not showing symlinks

• Fix icons and clock not always aligning on top of ES

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Upgrade-All
  This only contains the files needed to perform the in-place upgrade on supported hardware. This is only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. These are not bootable images, do not try to flash them to a disk and boot it, it will not work.

R-CADE v1.0.8 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

Officially added compatibility and support for the following AtGames Legends Arcade Cabinets

• Core Puck, Gamer Pro, Gamer Mini, Ultimate Arcade (1.0, 1.1, and Mini), and Connect
  • NOTE: This release is considered a public beta release, as it's the first time this cabinet has ever supported custom firmware. This means there may still be some bugs to work out, but we have spent a LOT of time testing and working to deliver an optimum experience
  • NOTE 2: Ultimate Arcade v1.0 does not support USB3 and therefore may experience more instability
• HUGE Call-Out to the contributions of n-i-x, Cowboy, and the Legends Unchained user community! Without them this would not have been possible.
• ALU mini will rotate when you rotate the screen
• QuadPlay player numbering support added
• Custom theme help icons to match the controls
• Automatically scans and shows existing games that come with the cabinets

UPDATED IN 1.0.8

• Increased stability, decreased memory leaks, and other ES bug fixes

• Better memory handling and increased loading speed for ES graphics

• Updated BinUtils

• Updated Bluez to 5.65

• Updated GLibC

• Updated GPU and VPU drivers

• Updated Kernel Midgard driver on RK3399

• Updated Kodi's inputstream-adaptive

• Updated NanoSVG

• Updated Retroarch to 1.14.0

• Updated SDL to 2.24.1

• Updated Cap32 emulator

• Updated DesMume emulator

• Updated Flycast cores

• Updated fceumm emulator

• Updated FBNeo emulator

• Updated gpsp emulator

• Updated all available Mupen64Plus Libraries

• Updated MelonDS emulator

• Updated all mame cores

• Updated OpenBor emulator

• Updated Opera emulator

• Updated PicoDrive emulator

• Updated PPSSPP to the latest version

• Updated Quake2 emulator

• Updated ScummVM emulator

• Updated Stella emulator

• Updated Stella2014 emulator

• Updated VirtualJaguar emulator

• Additional kernel backports from upstream to improve performance and stability

• Additional kernel custom fixes:

  • Support for more DS3 unofficial 3rd party clones
  • Fixes for Roshambo SSD Drive
  • Support for binder and ashmem added
  • Fix xpad driver sometimes causing a crash after resume
  • Fix rk3399 mmc numbering sometimes changing between reboots
  • Fix and enable IEP and RGA drivers
  • Fixed system sometimes not resuming from suspend

• Additional ffmpeg updates from upstream

• Additional kodi updates from upstream

• Custom enhancements to FFMPEG and Kodi

  • Fallback to ffmpeg decoder when hardware decoding fails
  • Added h263, mpeg1, mpeg2, and mpeg4 to hardware decoding
  • Improved kodi video defaults

• Added a custom theme based on "Carbon" with more system graphics

• Added help menu theme support

• Added theme support for system manufacturer and release date (date, day, month, and year)

• Added theme support for system scroll sound

• Added theme support to determine if an element should only apply to certain board models

• Added the option to customize the top announcement bar's default text

• Added automatically fixing expired mounts for external media

• Added custom mouse support to Stella cores (Atari2600) - thanks to walknight!!

• Added intelligent image loading and threaded script calls so ES doesn't lag when scrolling

• Added manufacturer and release date to all system metadata to support themes that want to display them

• Added support for RTL8822BU WiFi

• Added support for running UCE files as games

• Added python-keyboard module to emulate keyboard keypresses

• Added internal fan level setting for RG552 (still applies to RockPro64 also)

• Added better error handling if filesystem or system config files gets corrupt or deleted

• Added option to boot directly to a selected game

• Added support for .dat rom extensions for NES

• Added support for .fig rom extension for SNES

• Added automatic audio sample file extraction from arcade roms

• Added ability to clear any custom controller mappings and restore the defaults

• Added option to use the retroarch core-provided aspect ratio

• Added easy retroarch bezel download and install, as well as option to disable any downloaded bezels

• Added retroarch combo for DOWN + START to be SELECT for some gamepads / cabinets without a select button

• Added arcade-mode mappings that moves some buttons around for some games to try and match an arcade cabinet button layout

• Added option to enable "All Users Control Menu" for Retroarch - now enabled by default

  • REMINDER: this also enables the custom option that lets any player quit the retroarch core using the hotkey

• Added Support Menu

  • Moved "System Information", "Debug Logging", and "About R-Cade" into this new menu
  • New option: "Generate Support File" creates an archive of important system detail for easy reference when troubleshooting
  • New option to manually queue a filesystem health check
  • New option to factory-reset R-Cade, reverting to a first-boot stage and recreating the system files

• Added better integration with Roshambo Case from Pine64

  • If in-game - will blink LED until game exit and then suspends
  • Safer suspend/resume by unloading memory resident files first
  • Fixes Rock64 power button properly resumes from suspend
  • Protects against suspending mid-I/O and causing a crash
  • NOTE: also seamlessly integrates with Kintaro SNES Super Kuma 9000 case

• Added "Accessory Settings" menu and Built In (plug-and-play) Support for:

  • TOS GRS Switchable 4-to-8-Way Restrictor
  • Pixelcade / BitPixel LED animation screens and controlling default display settings
    • Including options to display weather, stocks, sports, time, and more!
  • BitLCD animation screens

• Added additional user script support for early in the boot process and later in the boot process

  • Documentation in userscripts folder updated

• Fixed broken symlinks showing in game lists

• Fixed themed sound effects

• Fixed switching themes without restarting ES

• Fixed removing a game from the gamelist sometimes not removing the file

• Fixed music playback when a track gets removed

• Fixed some theme images reloading too often

• Fixed game/system selected scripts not always being called

• Fixed random issue where some font characters would show as junk text

• Fixed the controller configuration screen sometimes having the wrong height

• Fixed fallback fonts to support some special characters

• Fixed the time / timezone sometimes not synchronizing when the network comes online

• Fixed random ES screen flashes when screen size had been adjusted

• Fixed screen tearing for some resolutions and emulators

• Fixed system-selected script not starting on first boot

• Fixed controllers sometimes controlling more than one player when they are the same gamepad type

• Fixed some emulators not properly supporting some gamepads without axis

• Fixed some controllers not working in atari800 and 5200

• Fixed some usb drives with a LOT of roms / configs not being properly detected

• Fixed megadrive emulator only using 3 button layout

• Fixed a few libretro cores not allowing save-states

• Fixed audio for C64 sometimes being corrupt

• Fixed OpenBOR controls sometimes not working

• Fixed Kodi playback of DVD and Bluray ISOs

• Fixed Retroarch crash when you toggle the bi-linear filtering on/off

• Fixed some controllers with hats not working properly in KODI

• Fixed some DHCP servers always assigning a new IP address

• Fixed Rock64 Roshambo Case for Power On/Off

• Fixed python-evdev installation

• Fixed N64DD not starting

• Fixed running a filesystem health check on every boot

  • This can cause a delay in boot if there's a lot of files on your share partition
  • Will now only run every 10 boots

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Full-RockPi4
  The full version of R-Cade for the Radxa Rockpi4 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RG552
  The full version of R-Cade for the Anbernic RG552 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-PinebookPro
  The full version of R-Cade for the Pinebook Pro including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RockPro64
  The full version of R-Cade for the RockPro64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-StationM1
  The full version of R-Cade for the Firefly Station M1 (RK3328-ROC-PC) including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-HA8801
  The full version of R-Cade for the RK3328 Atgames Legends Arcade Cabinets including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Upgrade-(MODEL OF BOARD)
  This only contains the files needed to perform the in-place upgrade on supported hardware. This is only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. These are not bootable images, do not try to flash them to a disk and boot it, it will not work.

R-CADE v1.0.7 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.0.7

• Fixed booting RCade directly from USB drives
• Improved threading management
  • When games are started - ES threads are closed (and started again when game exits)
  • Open threads are properly closed and cleaned up
  • Additional threading to improve performance and user experience
• Improved memory management in ES when loading resources
• Upstream and custom fixes for the XPAD joystick driver
• Upstream and custom fixes for the SONY HID driver
• Updates to WiFi drivers and helper code to improve stability and performance
• Station-M1 Bluetooth is now working
• Added support for Radxa Rockpi4 (resolves issue #9)
• Added support for the exFAT filesystem
• Added Python-Evdev library so that users can write python scripts to create key-press events (for example: if they are using GPIO inputs)
• Improved user-experience on the controller configuration screen
• Reorganized controller menu and added Advanced Controller Menu
• Keyboard Mappings: "PineRemote" changed to "RemoteControl"
• New Feature: Controller Profiles - this adds a number of additional pieces of functionality and also fixes some gamepad compatibility issues
  • View/Edit the current button mappings for any gamepad or keyboard (resolves issue #11)
  • Allows different button mappings to be saved for a single physical gamepad / remote
    • Some gamepads support multiple players, now you can map both players and assign the same gamepad to more than one player
    • Some 3rd-party clone controllers share the same hardware ids but have different mapping codes/values, now you can create mappings for both and set the priority for the mappings
    • RemoteControl and Keyboards can have different mappings
• Added the ability to control most emulators with the remote control
  • You can exit retroarch games by hitting "Power"
• System stability improvements and bug fixes
  • Researched and resolved ALL observed failures during beta-testing debugging
• Custom enhancement to Retroarch that allows any user to exit the game
  • This is especially helpful when a bluetooth gamepad times out and reconnects with a different ID
  • You must turn on "all users control menu" in order to enable this, as not all users want this to be enabled
• Fixed video playback in video gamelist
• Fixed keyboard support for controlling retroarch games
• Fixed connecting to SSIDs with special characters
• Fixed Retroarch games not able to save-states (issue #13)
• Fixed Retroarch sometimes having old button mappings from prior plugged controller
• Fixed top of first game in gamelist being cut-off in low resolution
• Fixed some distortion when images are used multiple times at different sizes in a theme
• Fixed an issue where randomly the system would not start after a reboot / shutdown
• Fixed game list images being stretched when they shouldn't be
• Fixed video game list images showing behind the video when it's playing
• Fixed NetPlay not passing customized user name
• Fixed missing fonts when a loading window processed too quickly
• Fixed ES recovery option causing endless reboots when starting without display
• Reduced disk IO by caching things that the system was checking and loading multiple times
• Additional user-scripts supported: system-boot, system-ready, game-selected, system-selected
  • Added documentation in the user-script folder for all supported scripts
• Option to reload the gamelist for a single system instead of all systems
• Option to jump to a system's gamelist from a collection
• Option to turn off auto-scanning SD / eMMC for games and media
• Option to disable case scripts on applicable boards (needed to allow uart debug for some cases when GPIO pins are shared)
• Option to set internal fan level on supported boards
• Improved XML settings search speed
• Improved status messages to better inform users what's happening in the background
• Improved automatic gamelist style to prioritize grid view when there's a lot of boxart available
• Improved default settings for C64
• Updated version for Atari800 and Atari5200 emulator
• Added SNES HomeBrew Game: Super Boss Gaiden
• Added C64 HomeBrew Game: Sonic the Hedgehog

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Full-RockPi4
  The full version of R-Cade for the Radxa Rockpi4 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RG552
  The full version of R-Cade for the Anbernic RG552 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-PinebookPro
  The full version of R-Cade for the Pinebook Pro including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RockPro64
  The full version of R-Cade for the RockPro64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-StationM1
  The full version of R-Cade for the Firefly Station M1 (RK3328-ROC-PC) including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-HA8801
  The full version of R-Cade for the RK3328 HA8801 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Upgrade-All
  This only contains the files needed to perform the in-place upgrade on supported hardware. This is only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. This is not bootable images, do not try to flash this to a disk and boot it, it will not work.

R-CADE v1.0.6 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.0.6

• This release includes downloads for RK3399 and RK3328 (rk3328 was skipped in 1.0.5 release due to covid)
  • All the updates from 1.0.5 are included in this release (of course)
• This is a full root filesystem upgrade
• Fix not always correctly identifying when a keyboard is present and make the check faster
• Fix incorrectly showing Ethernet icon when IP address isn't present
• Fix Display Port functionality for RK3399
• Fix NetSurf mouse not working for some touchpads
• Added Advanced Networking menu
  • Allows the override of the MAC addresses (useful in many situations, especially at hotels)
• Updated Kernel
• Support for Roshambo Super Famicom and Kintaro SNES cases added to Rock64 (also supported by RockPro64)
• Support added for Pine64 Pinebook Pro

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Full-RG552
  The full version of R-Cade for the Anbernic RG552 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-PinebookPro
  The full version of R-Cade for the Pinebook Pro including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RockPro64
  The full version of R-Cade for the RockPro64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Station_M1
  The full version of R-Cade for the Firefly Station M1 (RK3328-ROC-PC) including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Upgrade-(MODEL OF BOARD)
  These only contain the files needed to perform the upgrade for the specified hardware. These are only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. These are not bootable images, do not try to flash these to a disk and boot them, it will not work.

R-CADE v1.0.5 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.0.5

• Added support for some RK3399 products! (More still to come)
  • Fixes issue #2
• No upgrades were made available for this release and no RK3328 releases were generated due to a covid slowdown
  • Release 1.0.6 includes all of these fixes and is available for all boards
• Bug fixes, including accommodating some quirky screens due to resolution or CEC communication issues
• Additional error handling for emulator crashes to try and gracefully recover so users are not left on a black screen
  • RCade will inform you if this happens and let you know what it did to recover
• Allow a user to configure unknown game pads before being asked to agree to the license agreement
• Performance enhancements, including additional multi-threading improvements
• Custom NetSurf to upgraded SDL2
• Fixed NetSurf not always taking up the whole screen in different resolutions
• Fixed DosBox working in different resolutions
• Fixed adding multiple game pads in 1 second
• Fixed splash video sometimes not playing in full resolution and sometimes without audio
• Fixed Linapple (Apple II) default save-state path
• Fixed lots of game pad mappings that would be incorrect in games
• Fixed random mupen64 audio issue
• Improved supportable resolution detection when launching games
• Enhanced support for controllers with fewer buttons
• Upgrade KODI to 19.4 and included additional custom bug fixes and auto-recovery from invalid display settings
• Upgraded OpenArena and Quake3 to ioQuake3 latest commit
  • Added custom NEON performance improvements, GLES renderer, and completely rewritten input handler
• Upgraded Flycast (Dreamcast) to latest release
• Upgraded Retroarch to latest release
• Upgraded Alsa
• Upgraded SDL2
• Upgraded Dosbox-X
• Upgraded Libretro Mupen64 Next
• Upgraded Mupen64Plus Core
• Upgraded Firmware Libraries
• Support for Roshambo Super Famicom and Kintaro SNES cases added to RockPro64

Download Files Detail (MORE COMING SOON)

• RCade-Full-RG552 (NOW AVAILABLE)
  The full version of R-Cade for the Anbernic RG552 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-RockPro64 (NOW AVAILABLE)
  The full version of R-Cade for the RockPro64 including all emulators and cores

Upgrades and releases for other boards not available for v1.0.5 - see v1.0.6

R-CADE v1.0.4 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.0.4

• This is a very small update (only 958kb download)
• Fixed a bug in the new N64 Rice auto-skip feature
• Fixed an incorrect setting for N64 game Jet Force Gemini
• Added custom N64 Rice feature that will try and search for default game settings when a rom has no settings
• Added a new feature that will use the SDL Game Controller Database to try and auto-map unknown controllers when they are first connected. It will alert you that it recommends you manually re-map, but the controller should mostly work right after plugging it in now.
  • There are currently 1562 default mappings in this database

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Upgrade-All
  This only contains the files needed to perform the upgrade. It is the same on all hardware. This is only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. This is not a bootable image, do not try to flash this to a disk and boot, it will not work.

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Station_M1
  The full version of R-Cade for the Firefly Station M1 (RK3328-ROC-PC) including all emulators and cores

R-CADE v1.0.3 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.0.3

• This is a full root filesystem upgrade.
• Updated Kernel
• Fixed Realtek Bluetooth driver not working after suspend
• Fixed issue #6
• Performance enhancements and misc bug fixes
• Theme adjustments and fixes
• Custom auto-skip feature added for Mupen64Plus-Rice plugin. Only enables if game is running REALLY slow, or if the game has a custom target fps setting in the Rice INI (currently only Goldeneye does)
• Adjustments to better support some N64 games (such as Jet Force Gemini)
• Alerting at the top of the screen when a new gamepad is added
• GLES rendering fixes and updates
• Added support for TV RCA Composite output for the Rock64
  • Needs this $3 USD adapter to work: https://pine64.com/product/rock64-premium-av-and-rca-composite-video-audio-cable/
  • Same adapter will work for the Firefly Station M1
• Fixed saving the selection for starting games within archives
• Fixed some gamepads not working properly in KODI
• Fixed some Dreamcast games that weren't loading
• Added ES Video Settings
  • Select video out (if your board has multiple)
  • Select desired max resolution for Emulationstation (and boot splash)
  • Select default max resolution for games (can be overridden by system or game)
  • Top/Left offset adjustments
  • Width/Height adjustments
  • Toggle CEC on/off
  • Toggle auto-adjustments for widescreens on/off
  • Tests the new settings and auto-reverts in 15 seconds if you don't select to keep them (in case there's a display problem)

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Upgrade-rock64, RCade-Upgrade-rockbox, RCade-Upgrade-roc-pc
  These only contain the files needed to perform the upgrade for the specified hardware. These are only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. These are not bootable images, do not try to flash these to a disk and boot them, it will not work.

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Station_M1
  The full version of R-Cade for the Firefly Station M1 (RK3328-ROC-PC) including all emulators and cores

R-CADE v1.0.2 Update - 4K Retro-Gaming Media Center

R-Cade is THE retro-gaming media center solution! It is a custom operating system INCLUDED and specifically designed to be shipped on all devices sold from
Retro-Center.

• Over 100 Retro-Gaming Systems
• Lightweight Web Browser
• Full 4K UHD 60fps Media Playback
• Online Streaming
• All FUN - No Work!

R-Cade has been developed specifically for compatibility with Rockchip hardware manufactured by our partners, such as Pine64.

You can read all the exciting detail about R-Cade here:
https://www.retro-center.com/about-r-cade/

UPDATED IN 1.0.2

• This is a full root filesystem upgrade that includes a bump to Buildroot 2021.11, meaning the majority of the system libraries and tools have been upgraded to newer versions (meaning they are faster and have some fixes), including SDL2 which has been upgraded to version 2.0.18.
• Some updated configs to accommodate changes in updated libraries
• Additional support for N64DD games
• Systems carousel has been reorganized to be more intuitive
• Fixes for issues 5, 4, and 3
• Fix for Kodi fast forwarding
• Fixed Bluetooth not correctly starting
• Added a check for a keyboard or gamepad before a game launch
• Removed Python2 and finalized Python3 upgrade
• Updated ScummVM
• Updated Mupen64Plus Core library
• Updated Mupen64Plus GLideN64 video plugin
• Updated Rockchip Mali Headers
• Updated SDL1.2 Compat

Download Files Detail

• RCade-Upgrade-All
  This contains only the changed files from the previous version. It applies to all hardware. This is only used when R-Cade performs upgrades. This is not a bootable image.

• RCade-Full-Rockbox
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rockbox including all emulators and cores

• RCade-Full-Rock64
  The full version of R-Cade for the Rock64 including all emulators and cores