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@tarikbc tarikbc released this 09 Nov 21:05
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ZyperOS 1.0.2 brings PortMaster, a Storage page, smooth Nintendo 64, a new way to pick covers and videos, and many things I wanted after playing 1.0.1 every day.

Install

  1. Download ZyperOS Installer for your computer below: macOS (.zip), Windows (.exe), or Linux (.deb or .rpm).
  2. Put the microSD card in the computer, open the installer, and pick the GKD Pixel 2, the latest release and the card. Fresh install erases the card and puts ZyperOS on it.
  3. Put the card in the Pixel 2 and turn it on. The first start sets the card up (about a minute), then asks for your language, and Zyper shows you each button.

Or write ZyperOS-v1.0.2-pixel2.img.xz with any disk image writer (Raspberry Pi Imager, balenaEtcher). Check it against SHA256SUMS first.

What's new

  • PortMaster: install it from the Ports shelf, then pick ports from its own list. MENU over any port, PortMaster, OpenBOR or another program opens the in-game menu, with Continue, a real Controls page from the port's own files, and Quit. PortMaster has its own art in both themes.
  • MENU > Storage shows how the card is used, as a phone does. Open a group to see what takes the most room, sort it with X, and delete what you don't want.
  • Smooth Nintendo 64: ParallelN64 with Glide64 is the default now, as in ROGUE OS. Each button is the N64 button it names, the d-pad is the stick, the C buttons are SELECT with X, A, B or Y, and you choose the Rumble Pak or the Controller Pak in the in-game menu.
  • Cover and Video: on a game's details (X), pick its cover from libretro, ScreenScraper and SteamGridDB, see each one big next to the one you have, and put the old one back if you change your mind. Download, watch, replace or delete its video snap there too.
  • Continue or start over: A continues a game where you left it, and Y starts it from the start. Favorite moved to the game's details, and a heart before its name marks a favorite on its console's shelf.
  • Hotkeys in a game: hold SELECT and press R1 to save a state or L1 to load it, into a Quick Slot you choose for each system. SELECT + R2 and SELECT + L2 play faster and slower.
  • X quits from any row of the in-game menu, and Controls shows each system's own buttons, the PlayStation's shapes included.
  • MENU + START, held a second, takes you home from anything: a game, a port or a screen that stopped answering. After a crash, the Pixel 2 now starts on the home instead of going back into the game.
  • MP4: albums, books and films on one shelf, each with a small mark for its kind. A long song name slides in the top bar, Now Playing shows its buttons, and X or SELECT + START locks the screen, which wakes at its lowest brightness. Audio Channels Auto plays mono on the speaker and stereo on headphones.
  • Battery Time Left: the battery icon can show the time left instead of the percentage, and says On hold at the charge limit and Charged when full.
  • Nintendo DS: a Game Language row picks each game's language, and DSperate is the only DS emulator, so DraStic is no longer needed.
  • Achievements have a clearer name and badge, and Zyper cheers each unlock.
  • Developer Mode: hold L2 + R2 on About for five seconds to turn on SSH over the USB cable.
  • Fixes: text fits its box in all eight languages, the in-game clock no longer meets the battery, the play time line sits closer to the title, and a short video snap (a DS or Game Boy one) no longer restarts the launcher.

Updating from 1.0.1

MENU > System Update offers System and ZyperOS over Wi-Fi or the USB cable: this release updates the system too, for PortMaster. Or use Update in ZyperOS Installer, which keeps your games, music and saves.

Good to know

  • The GKD Pixel 2 only. The TrimUI Brick's image comes in a later release.
  • Not included, add them if you want: BIOS files, which go in Bios/. The README lists each one.
  • Your own games only. ZyperOS comes with no games.

Thanks

ZyperOS is built on TortOS, plastron and Diatom by Eric Reinsmidt, on PortMaster, the libretro cores, Linux, Buildroot, SDL and many more open-source projects, each listed in the card's Licenses folder and in ZyperOS-v1.0.2-pixel2-sources.tar.

If ZyperOS makes your Pixel 2 more fun, you can leave a tip.

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