RetroArch UWP v1.7.7 (Build 20) Released
The Libretro Team have recently released a new build of their RetroArch emulator for the Microsoft Xbox One and Xbox One X video gaming consoles. RetroArch, which is run using the developer mode, allows you to play a wide range of classic games for vintage video gaming consoles on your Xbox console.
What's New?
v1.7.7Description
* 3DS: Add unique IDs to prevent cores overwriting each other.
* 3DS: Fix screen tearing when running 50Hz content.
* ANDROID: We now target API level 26 (minimum is still API level 9).
* ANDROID: Add option to vibrate on touch (works in menu or overlay).
* ANDROID: Add device vibration option for cores that support rumble.
* ANDROID: Add gamepad vibration support for cores that support rumble.
* ANDROID: Allow stylus/pen to move mouse without pressing down.
* AUDIO: Avoid deadlocks in certain audio drivers when toggling menu sounds on.
* BLISS-BOX: Support PSX Jogcon (requires firmware 3.0).
* CHEEVOS: Fix crash when reading memory that is out of range.
* CHEEVOS: New Cheevos implementation enabled by default.
* CHEEVOS: Pop-up badges when an achievement is triggered.
* CRT: Dynamic super resolution support.
* DISCORD: Fix potential crash when username is empty and discord is disabled.
* DISCORD: Ask to join support for Linux.
* INPUT/ANDROID: Add "Input Block Timeout" option.
* COMMON: For platforms without HAVE_THREADS, don't automatically resume content when saving/loading states
* COMMON: Make playlist sorting optional and consistent.
* COMMON: Fix sorting of playlists with blank labels.
* COMMON: Fix content scanner creating false positive playlist entries that also have wrong label and crc32.
* COMMON: Add some MMX-optimized pixel conversion routines.
* COMMON: Fix typo preventing some SSE2-optimized pixel conversions from being used.
* COMMON: Add option to track how long content has been running over time.
* COMMON: Fix buffer overflows in system information.
* COMMON: Add option to change screen orientation via the windowing system (Android, Windows, X11).
* COMMON: Show CPU model name in log.
* COMMON: Add "Help -] Send Debug Info" option (and F10 hotkey) to send diagnostic info to the RetroArch team for help with problems.
* COMMON: Show GPU device name/version in log.
* COMMON: Add menu option to write log info to a file.
* COMMON: Add subsystem support for playlists. Subsystem info is automatically saved to the history playlist for easy relaunching.
* GL: Add new "gl1" OpenGL 1.1 compliant video driver for legacy GPUs and software renderers
* GL: Add a new "glcore" driver with slang support (requires GL 3.2+ or GLES3).
* GL: Draw OSD on top of overlay.
* GONG: Add savestate support.
* GONG: Add video refresh rate core options.
* GONG: Two player support via core option.
* GUI: Fix text alignment when using stb_unicode.
* GUI: Fix text display issues when using Japanese (and other unicode-dependent language) text with stb_unicode.
* GUI: Set language on first startup to the user's preferred OS language (Windows, *nix and Android).
* INPUT: Add (scaled radial) analog deadzone and sensitivity options.
* LIBRETRO: Add Turkish language support.
* LIBRETRO: Allow non-accelerated video to rotate the display.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update French translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update German translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Add new Turkish translation.
* MIDI: Fix startup crash in midi driver.
* MENU: Bugfix - you can no longer get stuck in Online Updater -] Update Core screen when toggling between ingame and menu.
* MENU: Selectively hide 'Take Screenshot' for video drivers that don't support taking screenshots.
* MENU: Framerate independent menu rendering. MaterialUI/Ozone/XMB/RGUI can now run at higher framerates.
* MENU: Thumbnails work in history list.
* MENU: Menu widgets.
* MENU: Add memory statistics support to more context drivers.
* MENU: Enable ozone driver for UWP builds.
* MENU: Add optional "looping" menu text ticker with configurable speed.
* MENU: Fix core video rendering when using ozone with GL cores that implement the scissor test.
* MENU: Add optional playlist sublabels (associated core + play time, where available).
* MENU: Dropdown list settings now apply immediately.
* MENU: Add setting to require pressing the "Exit RetroArch" hotkey twice to confirm.
* MENU: Now able to run at higher refresh rates than 60Hz.
* MENU: Enable "Add to Favorites" without loading a core.
* MENU: Allow core name to be hidden on history/favorites playlists.
* MENU: Populate crc32 and db_name fields when adding history/favourites playlist entries.
* MENU: Fix TTF files not showing in OSD/menu font selection screen.
* MENU: Fix audio/video filters not showing in file browser.
* MENU/MaterialUI: Add subsystem support.
* MENU/MaterialUI: Add currently selected entry in dropdown menus.
* MENU/OZONE: Add mouse support on entries (no sidebar yet).
* MENU/OZONE: Allow collapsing the sidebar.
* MENU/OZONE: Add thumbnail support.
* MENU/OZONE: Battery notifications.
* MENU/OZONE: Add wifi icon for network entries.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Add git version and build date to Help-]About window.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix content loading via the file browser.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Add new settings window to control all RetroArch settings.
* MENU/RGUI: Improve playlist titles.
* MENU/RGUI: Add option to hide associated cores in playlists.
* MENU/RGUI: Add internal upscaling option.
* MENU/RGUI: Add subsystem support.
* MENU/RGUI: Add menu sublabel support.
* MENU/RGUI: Re-enable "Load Core" option when content is loaded.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional "Collections" entry to main menu.
* MENU/RGUI: Add "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option.
* MENU/RGUI: Add "full width" layout option.
* MENU/RGUI: Ensure menu color theme is applied immediately.
* MENU/RGUI: Fix "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option when using custom viewports.
* MENU/RGUI: Add widescreen support.
* MENU/RGUI: Allow text to be centred when selecting widescreen layouts.
* MENU/RGUI: Add inline playlist thumbnail support.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional shadow effects.
* MENU/RGUI: Performance optimizations.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional extended ASCII support.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional delay when loading thumbnails.
* MENU/RGUI: Add on-screen keyboard.
* MENU/RGUI: Battery notifications.
* MENU/XMB: Prevent crashes when resizing to a tiny window.
* MENU/XMB: XMB honors the 'show menu sublabels' setting now - was previously RGUI only
* NETPLAY: Fix stall-out causing total disconnection with ]2 players.
* NETPLAY: Different (more intuitive?) default netplay share policy.
* NETPLAY: Add hotkey option to toggle hosting on/off.
* NETWORKING: Encode URLs to allow for spaces in directory names.
* OSX: Prevent crash on exit.
* OSX: Metal is now the default video driver for the RetroArch Metal build.
* OSX: Enable CoreAudio v3 driver for Metal.
* OSX/MACOS/IOS: Now uses the STB Unicode font driver.
* PS2: CDFS support.
* PS2: Implemented analog support for ps2 controllers.
* PS2: Fix audio freeze after restarting core.
* PS2: Fix issues with load state and the font driver.
* PS2: File I/O now works for USB and network host.
* PS2: Support cores with extra padding in their frame buffers.
* SCANNER: New option 'Scan without core match'. When this is enabled, supported extensions by all installed cores are not checked, and instead it will add all content it finds to a playlist. This way, you can install the core you need later on after scanning. Not enabled by default.
* SHADERS: Don't alphabetize shader presets.
* SWITCH: Add rumble support.
* SWITCH: Add USB keyboard support.
* VITA: Add bluetooth mouse and keyboard support.
* VULKAN: Fix color issues with RGBA8888 swapchains in readback (screenshots).
* WII: Don't init overlay when RAM is beyond 72MB.
* WII: Skip CRC calculation on content load, can improve load times of larger games by several seconds.
* WINDOWS: Fall back to gl1 driver if accelerated GPU driver is unavailable.
* WINDOWS: Allow winraw and xinput to work without dinput (needed for WinRT).
* WINDOWS: Add MSVC2017 ARM desktop support.
* UWP: Fix rewind by opting for slower codepath.
* UWP: Fix relative path name issues when loading shaders.
* UWP: Optimizations for VFS system.
RetroArch is a multi-video gaming console emulator front-end for your developer mode enabled Microsoft Xbox One video gaming console. RetroArch is a front-end for Libretro cores with each emulating an entire video gaming console allowing you to enjoy classic games on your modern video gaming console.
Credits
dominater01
Libretro Team
Changelog
v1.7.7
* 3DS: Add unique IDs to prevent cores overwriting each other.
* 3DS: Fix screen tearing when running 50Hz content.
* ANDROID: We now target API level 26 (minimum is still API level 9).
* ANDROID: Add option to vibrate on touch (works in menu or overlay).
* ANDROID: Add device vibration option for cores that support rumble.
* ANDROID: Add gamepad vibration support for cores that support rumble.
* ANDROID: Allow stylus/pen to move mouse without pressing down.
* AUDIO: Avoid deadlocks in certain audio drivers when toggling menu sounds on.
* BLISS-BOX: Support PSX Jogcon (requires firmware 3.0).
* CHEEVOS: Fix crash when reading memory that is out of range.
* CHEEVOS: New Cheevos implementation enabled by default.
* CHEEVOS: Pop-up badges when an achievement is triggered.
* CRT: Dynamic super resolution support.
* DISCORD: Fix potential crash when username is empty and discord is disabled.
* DISCORD: Ask to join support for Linux.
* INPUT/ANDROID: Add "Input Block Timeout" option.
* COMMON: For platforms without HAVE_THREADS, don't automatically resume content when saving/loading states
* COMMON: Make playlist sorting optional and consistent.
* COMMON: Fix sorting of playlists with blank labels.
* COMMON: Fix content scanner creating false positive playlist entries that also have wrong label and crc32.
* COMMON: Add some MMX-optimized pixel conversion routines.
* COMMON: Fix typo preventing some SSE2-optimized pixel conversions from being used.
* COMMON: Add option to track how long content has been running over time.
* COMMON: Fix buffer overflows in system information.
* COMMON: Add option to change screen orientation via the windowing system (Android, Windows, X11).
* COMMON: Show CPU model name in log.
* COMMON: Add "Help -] Send Debug Info" option (and F10 hotkey) to send diagnostic info to the RetroArch team for help with problems.
* COMMON: Show GPU device name/version in log.
* COMMON: Add menu option to write log info to a file.
* COMMON: Add subsystem support for playlists. Subsystem info is automatically saved to the history playlist for easy relaunching.
* GL: Add new "gl1" OpenGL 1.1 compliant video driver for legacy GPUs and software renderers
* GL: Add a new "glcore" driver with slang support (requires GL 3.2+ or GLES3).
* GL: Draw OSD on top of overlay.
* GONG: Add savestate support.
* GONG: Add video refresh rate core options.
* GONG: Two player support via core option.
* GUI: Fix text alignment when using stb_unicode.
* GUI: Fix text display issues when using Japanese (and other unicode-dependent language) text with stb_unicode.
* GUI: Set language on first startup to the user's preferred OS language (Windows, *nix and Android).
* INPUT: Add (scaled radial) analog deadzone and sensitivity options.
* LIBRETRO: Add Turkish language support.
* LIBRETRO: Allow non-accelerated video to rotate the display.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Simplified) translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Chinese (Traditional) translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Dutch translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update French translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update German translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Polish translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Russian translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Add new Turkish translation.
* MIDI: Fix startup crash in midi driver.
* MENU: Bugfix - you can no longer get stuck in Online Updater -] Update Core screen when toggling between ingame and menu.
* MENU: Selectively hide 'Take Screenshot' for video drivers that don't support taking screenshots.
* MENU: Framerate independent menu rendering. MaterialUI/Ozone/XMB/RGUI can now run at higher framerates.
* MENU: Thumbnails work in history list.
* MENU: Menu widgets.
* MENU: Add memory statistics support to more context drivers.
* MENU: Enable ozone driver for UWP builds.
* MENU: Add optional "looping" menu text ticker with configurable speed.
* MENU: Fix core video rendering when using ozone with GL cores that implement the scissor test.
* MENU: Add optional playlist sublabels (associated core + play time, where available).
* MENU: Dropdown list settings now apply immediately.
* MENU: Add setting to require pressing the "Exit RetroArch" hotkey twice to confirm.
* MENU: Now able to run at higher refresh rates than 60Hz.
* MENU: Enable "Add to Favorites" without loading a core.
* MENU: Allow core name to be hidden on history/favorites playlists.
* MENU: Populate crc32 and db_name fields when adding history/favourites playlist entries.
* MENU: Fix TTF files not showing in OSD/menu font selection screen.
* MENU: Fix audio/video filters not showing in file browser.
* MENU/MaterialUI: Add subsystem support.
* MENU/MaterialUI: Add currently selected entry in dropdown menus.
* MENU/OZONE: Add mouse support on entries (nosidebar yet).
* MENU/OZONE: Allow collapsing the sidebar.
* MENU/OZONE: Add thumbnail support.
* MENU/OZONE: Battery notifications.
* MENU/OZONE: Add wifi icon for network entries.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Add git version and build date to Help-]About window.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Fix content loading via the file browser.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Add new settings window to control all RetroArch settings.
* MENU/RGUI: Improve playlist titles.
* MENU/RGUI: Add option to hide associated cores in playlists.
* MENU/RGUI: Add internal upscaling option.
* MENU/RGUI: Add subsystem support.
* MENU/RGUI: Add menu sublabel support.
* MENU/RGUI: Re-enable "Load Core" option when content is loaded.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional "Collections" entry to main menu.
* MENU/RGUI: Add "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option.
* MENU/RGUI: Add "full width" layout option.
* MENU/RGUI: Ensure menu color theme is applied immediately.
* MENU/RGUI: Fix "Lock Menu Aspect Ratio" option when using custom viewports.
* MENU/RGUI: Add widescreen support.
* MENU/RGUI: Allow text to be centred when selecting widescreen layouts.
* MENU/RGUI: Add inline playlist thumbnail support.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional shadow effects.
* MENU/RGUI: Performance optimizations.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional extended ASCII support.
* MENU/RGUI: Add optional delay when loading thumbnails.
* MENU/RGUI: Add on-screen keyboard.
* MENU/RGUI: Battery notifications.
* MENU/XMB: Prevent crashes when resizing to a tiny window.
* MENU/XMB: XMB honors the 'show menu sublabels' setting now - was previously RGUI only
* NETPLAY: Fix stall-out causing total disconnection with ]2 players.
* NETPLAY: Different (more intuitive?) default netplay share policy.
* NETPLAY: Add hotkey option to toggle hosting on/off.
* NETWORKING: Encode URLs to allow for spaces in directory names.
* OSX: Prevent crash on exit.
* OSX: Metal is now the default video driver for the RetroArch Metal build.
* OSX: Enable CoreAudio v3 driver for Metal.
* OSX/MACOS/IOS: Now uses the STB Unicode font driver.
* PS2: CDFS support.
* PS2: Implemented analog support for ps2 controllers.
* PS2: Fix audio freeze after restarting core.
* PS2: Fix issues with load state and the font driver.
* PS2: File I/O now works for USB and network host.
* PS2: Support cores with extra padding in their frame buffers.
* SCANNER: New option 'Scan without core match'. When this is enabled, supported extensions by all installed cores are not checked, and instead it will add all content it finds to a playlist. This way, you can install the core you need later on after scanning. Not enabled by default.
* SHADERS: Don't alphabetize shader presets.
* SWITCH: Add rumble support.
* SWITCH: Add USB keyboard support.
* VITA: Add bluetooth mouse and keyboard support.
* VULKAN: Fix color issues with RGBA8888 swapchains in readback (screenshots).
* WII: Don't init overlay when RAM is beyond 72MB.
* WII: Skip CRC calculation on content load, can improve load times of larger games by several seconds.
* WINDOWS: Fall back to gl1 driver if accelerated GPU driver is unavailable.
* WINDOWS: Allow winraw and xinput to work without dinput (needed for WinRT).
* WINDOWS: Add MSVC2017 ARM desktop support.
* UWP: Fix rewind by opting for slower codepath.
* UWP: Fix relative path name issues when loading shaders.
* UWP: Optimizations for VFS system.
v1.7.6
* ANDROID: Fix Xperia Play input binding.
* CHEEVOS: Reset when hardcore mode is toggled.
* CHEEVOS: Update the hashing methods to identify NES, SNES and Lynx games (more accurate and accepting headerless ROMs).
* COMMON: Add new JSON playlist format.
* COMMON: Fix playlist corruption when deleting items.
* COMMON: Fix archive progress display calculation.
* COMMON: Fix playlist entries appearing with previously used names.
* COMMON: Fix screenshot filename with no core or content.
* COMMON: Allow compiling without menu support.
* CORE UPDATER: Allow sideloading cores from the menu.
* CPU FILTERS: Add Normal2x filter.
* CRT/LINUX: New Linux switching method partially implemented.
* CRT/LINUX: Linux restore desktop resolution fixed.
* CRT/LINUX: Monitor index switching and auto enumerate for output detection in Linux (still working on the windows method).
* CRT/RASPBERRY PI: Initial support.
* DATE: Add Date / Time style options.
* DEBUGGING: Add an integrated crash handler for debug builds (see [https://docs.libretro.com/tech/debugging](https://docs.libretro.com/tech/debugging))
* DISCORD: Register the application name properly.
* DISK CONTROL: Remember the last used folder / current active folder to make disk-swapping faster.
* INPUT: Add new menu toggle (hold start button for 2 seconds)
* INPUT: Fix arrow keys being incorrectly bound as numpad keys
* INPUT/SDL: Flush the joypad events. Decreases cpu usage over time with the SDL joypad driver.
* LOCALIZATION: Add Greek translation.* LOCALIZATION: Update German translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Italian translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Japanese translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Simplified Chinese translation.
* LOCALIZATION: Update Spanish translation.
* MENU: New "ozone" menu driver.
* MENU: Only show CRT SwitchRes if video display server is implemented (Windows/Linux for now)
* MENU: User Interface -] Appearance -] 'Menu Font Green/Blue Color' settings now work properly.
* MENU: Add option to enable in-menu sound effects.
* MENU/D3D: Scissoring support (will be used for Ozone and menu widgets).
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Allow building with MSVC2017.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Add detailed file browser table.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: New grid view implementation that is faster and loads thumbnails on-demand.
* MENU/QT/WIMP: Thumbnail drag and drop support.
* MENU/RGUI: Overhaul custom theme interface + add wallpaper support.
* MENU/RGUI: Thumbnail support and thumbnail downscaling.
* MENU: Hide password values.
* MENU/SOUNDS: Implement in-menu sound effects (not enabled by default for now, still experimental).
* MIDI: Add a Linux ALSA driver for MIDI.
* NETPLAY: Force fast-save-states when netplay is enabled.
* NETPLAY: Allow quick joining subsystem lobbies.
* OSX: Initial CoreAudio V3 audio driver (not yet used in release builds).
* OSX: OpenGL 3.2 Core support for cores.
* PS2: Initial PlayStation2 port.
* PS4: Initial PlayStation4 port.
* RECORDING: Implement recording options in the menu complete with quality profiles, streaming, and proper file naming
* SCANNER: Fix GDI disc scanning.
* SHADERS: Fix auto shader preset loading on D3D10, D3D11, D3D12
* SUBSYSTEM: Allow more than 10 subsystems
* SUBSYSTEM: Cores that use subsystem for complex scenarios can now load content without starting a regular content first
* SUBSYSTEM: Remember the last used folder to make loading subsystem type content faster
* SWITCH/LIBNX: Improve touch scaling calculation.
* SWITCH: Proper button labels.
* TVOS: Initial tvOS port.
* VULKAN: Fix RGUI crashing at startup.
* VULKAN/RGUI: Enable 'Menu Linear Filter' option.
* VULKAN: Fix secondary screens in overlays not working.
* WAYLAND: Implement idle-inhibit support (needed for screensaver suspend).
* WAYLAND: Fix fullscreen toggle.
* WIIU: Initial netplay peer-to-peer support. Network information working.
* WINDOWS/WSA: Network Information info is blank until first network operation.
* WINDOWS: Fix an ancient bug that caused wrong mappings for keyboard arrows.
* WINDOWS: Remember window size and position if so desired.
* WINDOWS: SSL/TLS connections now work properly.
* WINDOWS: Fall back to GDI driver if no accelerated graphics driver is found.
* UWP: Initial UWP port.
* VFS: Update to version 3.
* XBONE: Initial Xbox One port.
* XMB/OZONE: Add more icons
* XMB: Add Automatic Inverted theme
* ???: Easter Egg
Links & Downloads
https://www.mediafire.com/file/063bqdgwfzb0vyu/Retroarch_v1.7.7_%28Build_21%29.7z/file
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