What's New:
Emulators/cores/systems
- Add Othello multivision (with gearsystem)
- Add nokia ngage with eka2l1
- Add PSXMame for ZINC games
- Add Ikemen-GO
- Add gemRB game engine (open-source implementation of Infinity Engine for Baldur’s Gate type games)
- Add standalone fbneo emulator for fbneo system
- Add ability to run custom OpenBOR build (using rom filename & specific core option) : configuration is NOT automated with custom versions
- VPinball : compatibility with version 10.8
- Update Supermodel version
- Magic Engine can now be downloaded from RetroBat (you still need to purchase a key to get full functionality, RetroBat does not provide it)
- Bump RetroArch to 1.17
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 for thrustmaster 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
- [CONTROLS] Add profile for lightgun for wii games with dolphin
- [CONTROLS] Add option to force raw input driver in RetroArch (can be used for spinners or other non-usual devices)
- [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 psxonpsp.bin)
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 for Cemu yet)
- 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