Documentation update.

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Leon Styhre 2022-12-17 19:51:57 +01:00
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* Added support for the mugen system on Linux and macOS using the Ikemen GO game engine
* Added CPCemu standalone as an alternative emulator for the amstradcpc system
* Added MAME standalone as an alternative emulator for the gx4000 system
* Added MAME standalone as an alternative emulator for the atarijaguar system
* (Windows) Added BigPEmu standalone as an alternative emulator for the atarijaguar system
* Reverted the atarijaguarcd system to placeholder status as no emulators including Virtual Jaguar run these games properly
* Added the . (dot) file extension to the xbox360 system on Windows to support extensionless XBLA games
* Added the .car and .rom file extensions to the a5200 system
* Added the .car file extension to the atari800 system
* Added the .bin file extension to the gx4000 system
* Added the .m3u file extension to the pcfx system
* Removed the .7z and .zip file extensions from the 3do, neogeocd and neogeocdjp systems
* Removed the .7z and .zip file extensions from the 3do, neogeocd, neogeocdjp and switch systems
* Removed the .ccd and .cue file extensions from the fbneo system
* Removed the .ccd, .cue and .iso file extensions from the neogeo system
* Added the FinalBurn Neo RetroArch core as an alternative emulator for the neogeocd and neogeocdjp systems
* Added MAME standalone as an alternative emulator for the neogeo, neogeocd and neogeocdjp systems
* Added FinalBurn Neo standalone as an alternative emulator for the fbneo, neogeo, neogeocd and neogeocdjp systems on Linux
* Added FinalBurn Neo standalone as an alternative emulator for the fbneo and neogeo system on Windows
* (Linux) Added FinalBurn Neo standalone as an alternative emulator for the arcade, cps, fbneo, mame, neogeo, neogeocd and neogeocdjp systems
* (Windows) Added FinalBurn Neo standalone as an alternative emulator for the arcade, cps, fbneo, mame and neogeo system
* Set DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging to start in the game directory so per-game dosbox.conf files can be used
* (macOS) Added an additional find rule entry for DOSBox-X as the binary name has been changed
* (Linux) Added Flatpak support for Mednafen using the Mednaffe package
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* Multiple levels of symlinking in the ROMs directory tree could crash the application on startup
* Adding a dot (.) to the es_systems.xml extension tag (to setup extensionless entries) lead to a crash if the system contained folders
* Parsing of .desktop files on Unix did not properly handle escaping of % characters which made game launching fail for some RPCS3 games
* For the cps system, MAME standalone was configured with the wrong system directory for the -rompath option, pointing to "arcade" instead of "cps"
* During some menu operations that reloaded the gamelist view, the cached background could miss some components as they were not rendered in time
* Text wrapping did not work correctly for text that typically does not contain spaces, like Japanese

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#### v2.1
* Add element transition animations to the theme engine
* New texture/cache manager with improved memory management and support for GIF and Lottie animations
* Reduced amount of gamelist reloading to retain cached textures and improve overall performance
* Add scraping of game manuals and maps and create a viewer for these (with PDF, GIF, JPG and PNG support)
* Support for additional scraper services (if feasible?)
* Web proxy support for the scraper
* Theme engine composite element support for enabling advanced and finely controlled layouts
* Theme engine element animation support (storyboards)
* New texture/cache manager with improved memory management and performance
* Better and more accurate RAM and VRAM usage statistics
* Scraping of game manuals and maps plus a viewer for these (with PDF and raster image support)
* Support for additional scraper services
* RetroAchievements.org integration
* Add "time played" counter per game, similar to how it works in Steam
#### v2.2
* Theme downloader
* Scrollbar component for the gamelist view which can be used by the themes
* Reorganize the menus, possibly adding basic/advanced modes
* Background music
* Proper audio mixer
* Reorganize the menus, possibly adding basic/advanced modes
* Reduced amount of gamelist reloading to retain cached textures and improve overall performance
* Add "time played" counter per game, similar to how it works in Steam
* Checksum support for the scraper for exact searches and for determining when to overwrite files
* Support for portrait orientation, e.g. for Tate Mode arcade cabinets
* Replace the built-in Unicode functions and lookup tables with those of the ICU library
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#### v2.3
* Vulkan renderer for all supported operating systems
* Use of MoltenVK to get Metal support on macOS
* Localization/multi-language support
* Dependency on MoltenVK to get Metal support on macOS
* Better and more accurate GPU and memory usage statistics overlay
* Simple file browsing component
* Bulk metadata editor
* Scrollbar component for the gamelist view which can be used by themes
* Simple file browsing component
* Web proxy support for the scraper
* Improve multi-threading
#### v2.4

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| android | Google Android | BlueStacks **(Standalone)** [W] | | No | Shortcut (.lnk) file in root folder |
| apple2 | Apple II | LinApple **(Standalone)** [U],<br>Mednafen **(Standalone)** [M],<br>AppleWin **(Standalone)** [W*] | Mednafen **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | Yes for Mednafen and MAME | See the specific _Apple II_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| apple2gs | Apple IIGS | MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | | Yes | See the specific _Apple IIGS_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| arcade | Arcade | MAME - Current | MAME 2010,<br>MAME 2003-Plus,<br>MAME 2000,<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>FinalBurn Neo,<br>FB Alpha 2012,<br>Flycast,<br>Flycast **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>Kronos [UW],<br>Model 2 Emulator **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Model 2 Emulator [Suspend ES-DE] **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Supermodel **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>Supermodel [Fullscreen] **(Standalone)** [UW*] | Depends | See the specific _Arcade and Neo Geo_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| arcade | Arcade | MAME - Current | MAME 2010,<br>MAME 2003-Plus,<br>MAME 2000,<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>FinalBurn Neo,<br>FinalBurn Neo **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>FB Alpha 2012,<br>Flycast,<br>Flycast **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>Kronos [UW],<br>Model 2 Emulator **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Model 2 Emulator [Suspend ES-DE] **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Supermodel **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>Supermodel [Fullscreen] **(Standalone)** [UW*] | Depends | See the specific _Arcade and Neo Geo_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| astrocde | Bally Astrocade | MAME - Current | MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | | See the specific _Bally Astrocade_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| atari2600 | Atari 2600 | Stella | Stella 2014,<br>ares **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | No | Single archive or ROM file in root folder |
| atari5200 | Atari 5200 | a5200 | Atari800,<br>Atari800 **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | Yes | |
| atari7800 | Atari 7800 ProSystem | ProSystem | | Yes | |
| atari800 | Atari 800 | Atari800 | Atari800 **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | No | |
| atarijaguar | Atari Jaguar | Virtual Jaguar | | No | |
| atarijaguarcd | Atari Jaguar CD | Virtual Jaguar | | | |
| atarijaguar | Atari Jaguar | Virtual Jaguar | BigPEmu **(Standalone**) [W*],<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | Yes for MAME | Single archive or ROM file in root folder |
| atarijaguarcd | Atari Jaguar CD | _Placeholder_ | | | |
| atarilynx | Atari Lynx | Handy | Beetle Lynx,<br>Mednafen **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | | |
| atarist | Atari ST [also STE and Falcon] | Hatari | | | |
| atarixe | Atari XE | Atari800 | Atari800 **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | No | |
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| channelf | Fairchild Channel F | FreeChaF | | | |
| coco | Tandy Color Computer | XRoar CoCo 2 NTSC **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | XRoar CoCo 2 PAL **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | Yes | See the specific _Tandy Color Computer_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| colecovision | ColecoVision | blueMSX | Gearcoleco,<br>openMSX **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>ares **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | Yes | Single archive or ROM file in root folder |
| cps | Capcom Play System | MAME - Current | MAME 2010,<br>MAME 2003-Plus,<br>MAME 2000,<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>FinalBurn Neo,<br>FB Alpha 2012,<br>FB Alpha 2012 CPS-1,<br>FB Alpha 2012 CPS-2,<br>FB Alpha 2012 CPS-3 | Depends | See the specific _Arcade and Neo Geo_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| cps | Capcom Play System | MAME - Current | MAME 2010,<br>MAME 2003-Plus,<br>MAME 2000,<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>FinalBurn Neo,<br>FinalBurn Neo **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>FB Alpha 2012,<br>FB Alpha 2012 CPS-1,<br>FB Alpha 2012 CPS-2,<br>FB Alpha 2012 CPS-3 | Depends | See the specific _Arcade and Neo Geo_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| daphne | Daphne Arcade LaserDisc Emulator | Hypseus [Daphne] **(Standalone)** [UW*] | Hypseus [Singe] **(Standalone)** [UW*] | Yes for Daphne games | See the specific _Hypseus Singe (Daphne)_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| desktop | Desktop Applications | _Suspend ES-DE_ | _Keep ES-DE running_ | | See the specific _Ports and desktop applications_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| doom | Doom | PrBoom | Boom 3 [UW],<br>Boom 3 xp [UW],<br>_Shortcut or script_ | No | |
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| lutris | Lutris Open Gaming Platform | Lutris application **(Standalone)** [U] | | No | See the specific _Lutris_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| lutro | Lutro Game Engine | Lutro | | | |
| macintosh | Apple Macintosh | Basilisk II **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | SheepShaver **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | Yes | See the specific _Apple Macintosh_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| mame | Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator | MAME - Current | MAME 2010,<br>MAME 2003-Plus,<br>MAME 2000,<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>FinalBurn Neo,<br>FB Alpha 2012,<br>Flycast,<br>Flycast **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>Kronos [UW],<br>Model 2 Emulator **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Model 2 Emulator [Suspend ES-DE] **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Supermodel **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>Supermodel [Fullscreen] **(Standalone)** [UW*] | Depends | See the specific _Arcade and Neo Geo_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| mame | Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator | MAME - Current | MAME 2010,<br>MAME 2003-Plus,<br>MAME 2000,<br>MAME **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>FinalBurn Neo,<br>FinalBurn Neo **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>FB Alpha 2012,<br>Flycast,<br>Flycast **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>Kronos [UW],<br>Model 2 Emulator **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Model 2 Emulator [Suspend ES-DE] **(Standalone)** [W*],<br>Supermodel **(Standalone)** [UW*],<br>Supermodel [Fullscreen] **(Standalone)** [UW*] | Depends | See the specific _Arcade and Neo Geo_ section elsewhere in this guide |
| mame-advmame | AdvanceMAME | _Placeholder_ | | Depends | |
| mame-mame4all | MAME4ALL | _Placeholder_ | | Depends | |
| mastersystem | Sega Master System | Genesis Plus GX | Genesis Plus GX Wide,<br>SMS Plus GX,<br>Gearsystem,<br>PicoDrive,<br>Mednafen **(Standalone)** [UMW*],<br>ares **(Standalone)** [UMW*] | No | Single archive or ROM file in root folder |

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Emulators\ares\ares.exe
Emulators\atari800\atari800.exe
Emulators\BasiliskII\BasiliskII.exe
Emulators\BigPEmu\BigPEmu.exe
Emulators\bsnes\bsnes.exe
Emulators\cemu\Cemu.exe
Emulators\Citra\canary-mingw\citra-qt.exe