Actualités - Planet Emulation (2024)

Fixes:
- Fix "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error
- Fix missing 'reminiscence' and 'devilutionx' rom folders
- Fix RetroArch 'video_swap_interval' default value (was 1 instead of 0)
- Delete ps3.keys (was assigning R1 button to middle mouse)
- Fix TI99/4a information (year + name)
- Fix duckstation internal postprocessing filter options
- Fix PCSX2 mouse cursor (enable the option to set crosshairs to NONE)
- Fix missing END in hypinput.ini
- Fix .png extension for pico8 with retroarch

Features:
- Renaming and reorganization of features for Mednafen
- Citra/Lime3DS : Add screen layouts + texture filter feature
- Add -outputs=win command line option to supermodel (for mamehooker)
- FBNEO : add on option to use alternative gamepad indexes if a dolphinbar is connected
- FBNEO : if controls mapping is not found for a rom in fbneo.yml, search the parent rom
- DUCKSTATION : add option to force BIOS to use
- BIGPEMU : add controller autoconfiguration (based on dinput)
- SUPERMODEL : add possibility to run in borderless window instead of fullscreen (can be useful for lightgun games)

Other:
- Add casio loopy to screenscraper
- Maj WIKI (teknoparrot + new features)
- Align shortcut for MESEN & Ares to take screenshots to hotkey + R3
- Updated WIKI for symbian games
- Align hotkey + R3 for screenshots in some emulators

Fixes:
- Disable « rewind » feature with ppsspp libretro core ==> the feature is incompatible and was generating black screen on many games
- Fix libretro-ppsspp language feature
- Fix FPinball features
- Fix Cemu and Ryujinx autoconfig for new XBOX controllers with updated firmware
- Fix Mame64 controller index autoconfiguration
- Fix openBor custom version exit error message
- Fix Mame2016 corrupted cheat.zip file
- Fix Dolphin borderless fullscreen being always overwritten
- Update MAME hash files with 0.264 files
- Fix citra controllers autoconfiguration
- Add option to disable controller auto-configuration to demul-old
- Switch : fix handheld mode
- lr-opera : fix BIOS selection
- lr-swanstation : fix ratio setting
- libretro-fbneo : fix overclock feature
- MAME : do not delete default.cfg anymore
- Fix keyboard auto-configuration for Mesen standalone
- RPCS3 : align features with latest version from 04/05/2024

Features:
- lr-citra : add « virtual SD card » and option to disable hardware renderer
- lr-ppsspp : remove deprecated features
- Add Chihiro CXBX features
- Add pad2key to VPinball
- RPCS3 add option to force SDL driver for Xinput controllers
- Add shaders to Ares
- Cemu : Add option to use XInput api for XInput controllers
- Add ports options for MAME/MESS computers (mostly joysticks)
- Add new games to FBNEO standalone autoconfiguration (still many to add !)
- Add possibility to create a .gameexe file next to a windows shortcut (in windows games) to specify the game executable RetroBat should check before returning to ES
- Add possibility to create a .uwp file next to a windows shortcut to precise the name of the UWP App that is launched with the shortcut and let RetroBat find the right executable to monitor
- Add custom resolutions to ryujinx (0.5 and 0.8)
- MESS systems : Add ability to add a boot command in a .autorun file (must be placed near the game rom file with the same name)
- DOLPHIN : add option to disable Gamecube controller when using real wiimotes (fixes control issues for games such as Goldeneye 007)
- MAME: add -output option (windows or network)
- Add choice of device for EKA2L1
- OpenBOR : add possibility to run specific versions that have a different executable name than openbor.exe
- PSXMAME – add analog to dpad option
- Add .zip and .7z extensions to BigPEmu, Bizhawk, Dolphin, Duckstation, Jynx, Mednafen and PPSSPP
- Add features to libretro pce, pcecd and pcfx cores (6-button pad + disable sprite limit)
- Add RetroAchievements to Flycast standalone
- Add video driver option for BigPEmu

Interface:
- Add option to not override game name when scrapping

Other stuff
- Enable disk spanning for installer
- Add option to install dependencies in RetroBat installer

Features:
- [WHEELS] First implementation : model2, model3, pcsx2, flycast (dreamcast) (currently supported wheels : Logitech G29 and experimental: G920, driving force GT and G923, Thrustmaster T300RS (gearstik only in model2 and model3))
- [CONTROLS] Magic Engine controllers autoconfiguration
- [CONTROLS] Add xinput driver option for MAME autoconfiguration with correct joystick orders
- [CONTROLS] Add logic to search per-game MAME cfg files first in saves\mame\ctrlr then in bios\mame\ctrlr when using "per-game" controller profile option
- [CONTROLS] Add option to use left analog joystick instead of dpad in SNES9X
- [CONTROLS] Add option to disable MOUSE in libretro:mame
- [CONTROLS] Dolphin : add management of Gamecube adapters from Raphnet and Mayflash (you need to connect gc pads in reverse order on mayflash (4 for player 1, etc.)
- [CONTROLS] Add autoconfiguration of N64 controller from Nintendo online shop for Ares, Bizhawk, Simple64 and Rosalie's Mupen64
- [CONTROLS] Add autoconfiguration of N64 adapters from Raphnet & Mayflash for Ares, Bizhawk, Retroarch, Simple64 and Rosalie's Mupen64
- [CONTROLS] Cemu : add wiimote horizontal controller profile
- [CONTROLS] Add gun option to libretro mame, mame2003_plus and mame2016 cores
- [CONTROLS] Enable raw input driver in Retroarch if use_gun is set and multiple gun devices are connected
- [CONTROLS] RetroArch & Flycast standalone: add individual game controller configuration for all arcade games and ability for user to manage through a file * * * * * * * * * WIKI
- [CONTROLS] Add profile for lightgun for wii games with dolphin
- [FEATURES] MAME : add setting skip_warnings to 1 in ui.ini file
- [FEATURES] Add desktop resolution option to Teknopparot and Demul
- [FEATURES] Add .chd extension for PSP system
- [FEATURES] Add libretro-desmume features
- [FEATURES] Add .chd extension to amigacdtv
- [FEATURES] Add ability to run gemdos hdd images with hatarib core (using m3u and .GEM file)
- [FEATURES] Add crosshair feature for model2
- [FEATURES] Add 2 features in Vita3K emulator
- [FEATURES] Add Technicolor shader in RetroArch
- [FEATURES] Add features fo fbalpha, mame non-current cores.
- [FEATURES] Add "-output windows" option for MAME standalone (used for mamehooks)
- [FEATURES] Future Pinball : added camera type feature
- [FEATURES] Supermodel : add supersampling (needs a beefy gpu !)
- [FEATURES] Vita3k : enhancement with pref-path management, if setting your own emulator content path, RetroBat will use it, else it will use the emulator path
- [FEATURES] Retroarch : add support for new mitm-session argument (netplay)
- [FEATURES] Flycast (standalone) add option to use R1 and L1 instead of triggers
- [UPDATES] Update bios\PPSSPP assets for libretro-PPSSPP core
- [UPDATES] Update BIOS lookup and bios selection for PCSX2 (both standalone & libretro core) : bios must be placed in bios\pcsx2\bios and the list has changed
- [UPDATES] Update BIOS lookup for psx bios (default RetroBat is now psxonpsp660.bin)
- [UPDATES] Remove unnecessary file formats for MUGEN system

Fixes:
- fix some features not correctly working in libretro ppsspp (e.g. anisotropic filtering)
- fix exit of chihiro / cxbx
- Vpinball & fpinball : fix .zip management
- fix screenshots being deleted on game exit
- fix controllers not autoconfigured with new versions of ryujinx & CEMU (ensure GUID calculation can match SDL 2.30 version with manufacturer name)
- Fix dolphin savestates combo with non-xinput controllers
- Fix MAME exit combo
- Fix model2 exit combo not saving NVRAM
- Fix supracan md5 bios check
- Fix mono-gun games in retroarch settings when multiple guns are connected
- disable teknoparrot update search when running from RetroBat
- Fix bios checking engine that did not work when the path contains twice /bios
- Remove obsolete aspect ratios for mame standalone (as these are only used in -window mode)
- Fix screen size for hypseus on high-resolution displays
- Fix shaders when using OpenGL driver on libretro cores that force glcore (use slang shader instead of glsl for these cores), also added ability to specify different glsl and slang shaders for a single RetroBat preset
- Fix PPSSPP standalone autoconfiguration of controllers for non-xinput devices (attention, PPSSPP has a bug that prevents non-Xinput controllers to work when a XInput controller is connected)
- Fix zinc start failing if controller does not have a required button
- cemu : allow gamepad button inversion also for non-xinput controllers
- Remove default colorization of GameBoy games with libretro:gambatte
- Fix launch of Dolphin Triforce emulator from RetroBat menu not working
- Fix one feature value not available anymore in new Ryujinx Avalonia UI
- Fix pcsx2 cheats path that had too many subpaths ('cheats\pcsx2\cheats\cheats' now is 'cheats\pcsx2\cheats')
- Fix XEMU not launching in fullscreen in some cases
- fix duplicate features naming (e.g. beetle_psx_hw video renderer)
- Fix retroarch 'custom' aspect ratio not applying
- Fix Mednafen standalone controller configuration (emulator is using dinput)
- Remove unnecessary extensions for MUGEN
- Vita3k no detection of .m3u file in some cases

Interface:
- Fix issue of disconnection of gamepad in RetroBat interface when trying to affect controllers to users and having multiple controllers of the same type
- Fix network icon not being removed when choosing the option to hide it
- Fix display of gametime when duration is between 24 and 25 hours

Dev stuff:
- Add method to get new SDL 2.30 guid value (with CRC) (still in progress, not fully functional)
- disable check for sinden FilterGraphWindow (camera activity) when searching for connected SindenLightguns
- Move core/system specific remaps to remap files instead of retroarch global mapping
- Add method to be able to manage in future game-specific options in scummvm (disabled for now)

Project:
- New retrobat notice document