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date: 2024-11-10
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# November 2024: Merged winter
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It's a new month and more things to talk about!
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## Highlights
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- Development is a bit slower
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- New website
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- 3DS Emulation - status
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- Xenia - status
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- Godot Configurator - status
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- RetroDECK ES-DE Theme
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- Merged Chungus Cooker
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<img src="../../../battery-low-charging.png" width="80">
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## Development is a bit slower
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Please note that this is a big release with several big features that requires coordination of many people that spends their free time doing this.
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The team had an internal goal of December but sometimes IRL issues happen that takes away that time (work, family, life, death, love, etc..).
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We also do understand that people want more updated systems then current stable.
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0.9.0b is a huge endeavor as we are rewriting huge aspects of RetroDECK and adding tons of new features.
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As such we cannot give any ETA's on when 0.9.0b will be released and done
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If you are following our GitHub you can see things are happening almost everyday and no one is sitting idle.
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<img src="../../../website.png" width="800">
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## New website
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We are secretly soft launched our new website during Halloween.
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[RetroDECK NEW Website](https://retrodeck.net/)
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Check it out and give feedback on the Discord on Lemmy.
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[Steam Deck HQ](https://steamdeckhq.com/retrodeck-new-website-custom-es-de-theme/) also did an article about it.
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Thanks `Adam Iannazzone` for all his hard work on contributing his free time to the RetroDECK project and the new website.
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---
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<img src="../../../citra.png" width="80">
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## 3DS Emulation - status
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We had secret plans to include Lime3DS into the release of 0.9.0b.
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But as the big Citra forks are merging into one, it feels better to wait until they have sorted everything out.
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When their new repo is up and running, we will target that.
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It is better to get the best project into RetroDECK.
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---
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<img src="../../../xenia.png" width="80">
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## Xenia - status
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We are looking into utilizing [UMU Launcher](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher) for Xenia (and other Wine based systems in the future).
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Instead of pulling in all vanilla Wine into RetroDECK and configuring it, UMU Launcher feels like a better architectural choice that can give more synergies in the future.
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We are waiting for the magnificent Open Wine Components Team (Heroic Game Launcher, Lutris, Bottles, Lutris, Proton-GE and more) to finish their Flatpak version.
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Xenia will not be part of 0.9.0b.
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<img src="../../../godot.png" width="80">
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## Godot Configurator - status
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**Game Mode – Markdown viewer**
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We are looking into a sophisticated markdown viewer to integrate into RetroDECK.
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The general thought is if we can provide an option to manually synchronize the entire wiki down to local storage with the click of a button and have it readable no matter if you are online or offline and viewed via the markdown viewer.
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---
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<img src="../../../preferences-desktop-theme.png" width="80">
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## New - RetroDECK ES-DE Theme
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In 0.9.0b we are shipping a new exclusive ES-DE theme with RetroDECK.
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The theme is a remix on the themes: Mini Banner made for Launchbox and ES-DE-Mini made for ES-DE.
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But the RetroDECK Theme features:
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- Other types of sub-menus and layout.
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- Icons for RetroDECK features like PortMaster.
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- RetroDECK colors / graphics.
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<img src="../../../RetroDECKESDE1.webp" width="800">
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<img src="../../../RetroDECKESDE2.webp" width="800">
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The original themes Mini Banner and ES-DE-Mini are made by: `Weestuarty`, `DerSchlachter`, `Dan Patrick`.
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`Weestuarty` of the group made us the RetroDECK Theme (thanks! 💕).
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---
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<img src="../../../big-chungus.png" width="100">
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## Merged Chungus Cooker
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Several of the big feature branches are now merged into Cooker proper (creating one chunky boi).
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Having one big cooker now will make it easier to test everything that 0.9.0b has to offer.
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In the future we might utilize the Flathub-beta remote to facilitate easy testing when the cooker is more stable.
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The current cooker now features most of 0.9.0b:
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- SRM (Add to Steam)
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- Godot Configurator
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- Updated Emulators / Components
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- PortMaster
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- Lighter Manifest
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- Ruffle
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There is still plenty of work to do and we always do need more people testing and developing.
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If you want to help with parts of development or testing, please contact us on `Matrix` / `Discord` in the `💙-i-want-to-help` channel.
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<img src="../../../utilities-system-monitor.png" width="80">
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## Known issues in cooker
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This is a list of significant smaller and bigger issues we are investigating (in addition to all of the other 0.9.0b issues).
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<img src="../../../folder-blue-games.png" width="30">
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### Lighter Manifest
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- There still are some issues when building certain systems and features via the new pipelines. Not all systems are updated yet.
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<img src="../../../srm-logo.png" width="30">
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### SRM
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- Is not yet added to Godot Configurator and need to be enabled from Legacy Configurator.
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- Not all systems are adding the games as they should.
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- Does not work with the flatpak version of Steam.
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<img src="../../../godot.png" width="30">
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### Godot Configurator
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- Bash slowdown for certain scripts if launched via Godot Configurator via Steam.
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- Need to add some more menus / buttons.
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- Needs more testing of all the features.
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<img src="../../../Ryujinx.png" width="30">
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### Emulators / Components
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- Not all emulators have been updated yet as some have added additional dependencies we need to build.
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- Ryujinx is disabled at this moment, because of bugs.
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<img src="../../../portmaster.png" width="30">
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### PortMaster
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- No reported issues
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<img src="../../../ruffle.png" width="30">
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### Ruffle
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- Need to do a configuration pass on settings and controls.
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## That is all for now
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There are more things we are working on, but you will see them in future blog updates!
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Thanks everyone!
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//The RetroDECK Team
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### Links
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[RetroDECK Website](https://retrodeck.net/)
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[Discord](https://discord.gg/WDc5C9YWMx)
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[Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#retrodeck:matrix.org)
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[GitHub](https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK)
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[Wiki](https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK/wiki)
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[Donations](https://retrodeck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wiki_about/donations-licenses/)
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[Lemmy](https://lemmy.zip/c/retrodeck)
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