What's New:
Changes
- Renamed the application from EmulationStation Desktop Edition to ES-DE
- Renamed the application data directory from .emulationstation to ES-DE
- Updated the splash screen to reflect the new application name
- Added a new default theme named "Linear"
- Split the es_find_rules.xml and es_systems.xml files for Linux and BSD Unix into separate directories
- Added support for defining font sizes from the theme configuration and selecting these from the UI settings menu
- Added the theme font sizes count to the theme downloader interface
- Added support for medium and large font sizes to the Slate and Modern themes
- Added an option to the Input device settings menu to swap the A/B and X/Y buttons
- Added support for .webp, .svg and unanimated .gif files to the slideshow screensaver when using a custom image directory
- Changed the default slideshow custom image directory from slideshow/custom_images to screensavers/custom_slideshow
- Changed the custom slideshow image directory setting from ScreensaverSlideshowImageDir to ScreensaverSlideshowCustomDir
- The HTTP error code will now be shown on scraper errors instead of the "File is smaller than 350 bytes" message
- Removed the ScraperHaltOnInvalidMedia option and corresponding menu entry as it has been superseded by the HTTP error code logic
- Added a ScraperIgnoreHTTP404Errors option that can be manually set in es_settings.xml to ignore 404 errors (i.e. resource not found)
- Added Mednafen standalone as an alternative emulator for the gb, gba, gbc and supergrafx systems
- Added Mesen standalone as an alternative emulator for the gamegear, mastersystem and multivision systems on Linux, Unix and Windows
- Added Mesen standalone as an alternative emulator for the sg-1000 and supergrafx systems on Linux, Unix and Windows
- Set Mesen standalone to specifically run in Super Game Boy mode for the sgb system on Linux, Unix and Windows
- Added the DoubleCherryGB RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the gb and gbc systems on Linux, Unix and Windows
- Added the MAME - Current RetroArch core as the default emulator for the gameandwatch and lcdgames systems
- Added the melonDS DS RetroArch core as the default emulator for the nds system
- (Linux) Added support for the AppImage release of Vita3K
- (Linux) Added support for the Flatpak release of puNES
- Added the .zso file extension to the ps2 system
- Added the .zar file extension to the xbox360 system on Linux and Windows
- Added the .pk3 and .ipk3 file extensions to the doom system on Linux, Unix and Windows
- Added the .dirksimple file extension to the daphne and laserdisc systems
- (Unix) Removed the -Minimized flag from the Visual Pinball launch command
- (Windows) Updated the find rules for Visual Pinball to match the actual filenames of the official releases
- (Windows) Added the %RUNINBACKGROUND% variable for the epic system
- When scraping using ScreenScraper, the wheel and wheel-hd media types are now considered equivalent
- Added conversion of an additional HTML character code when scraping using ScreenScraper
- Added a "renderDuringTransitions" property to the image element
- Added a "selectorWidth" property to the textlist element
- Added a "hideIfZero" property to the rating element
- Putting the computer to sleep while a video is playing will no longer result in a massive fast-forward on resume
- Combining video pillarboxes with rounded corners will no longer round corners for the actual video frame (except for extreme values)
- Made the text element "defaultValue" property usable with the metadata types systemName, systemFullname, sourceSystemName and sourceSystemFullname
- Replaced the default d-pad helpsystem images to make them more legible when using smaller screen sizes
- Placeholder entries in es_systems.xml are now skipped by default when creating the system directories and systeminfo.txt files
- Added a CreatePlaceholderSystemDirectories option that can be manually set in es_settings.xml to still create placeholder directories
- Changed the ScreenScraper URL from https://www.screenscraper.fr/api2 to https://api.screenscraper.fr/api2
- Added support for more extreme vertical resolutions than previously allowed
- Added support for the 19.5:9, 20:9 and 1:1 display aspect ratios
- If any legacy theme configuration is encountered the error messages now simply state that the config is unsupported
- (Windows) Removed support for building the application using MinGW
- The relevant SDL error message is now printed to the log if a controller could not be added
- Added rendering workarounds for some mobile GPUs which do not support all OpenGL operations when using the BGRA pixel format
- Added the UTF8-CPP library as a dependency
- Updated SDL to 2.30.0 on Windows, macOS and the Linux AppImage builds
- Bundled the December 2023 release of the Mozilla TLS/SSL certificates
Bug fixes
- Attempting to create the system directories with invalid entries in es_systems.xml could crash the application
- Sometimes controllers were not added correctly when there was a mix of supported and unsupported devices present
- The last grid row would sometimes not render correctly if fractionalRows was set to true
- Stationary image elements could sometimes glitch out during carousel navigation
- Videos were sometimes positioned incorrectly if combining pillarboxes with rounded corners while using an origin value higher than 0.5
- An extra space character was appended to text elements when setting the systemdata property to gamecountGames or gamecountGamesNoText
- Theme loading debug output would sometimes print incorrect paths when the configuration included files using variables
- Font textures were sometimes updated with empty glyhps which generated OpenGL errors on some mobile GPUs
- The custom collection editing popup did not show the correct button name if the controller type was a PlayStation variant
- The UI mode confirmation dialog did not show the correct button descriptions if the controller type was PlayStation 1/2/3