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date: 2024-04-20
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# April 2024: Porting things
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Highlights:
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- Bonsai Banana Released
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- PortMaster
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## Bonsai Banana - Released
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We thank everyone for your patience.
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The update was hard to get out as it needed major back-end changes to accommodate both Ponzu and all the major structural changes brought by the ES-DE 3.0 update.
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We opted for a more extended testing period as well to make sure everything was as safe as possible. But as always there will be bugs as no software is bug free.
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Everyone is watching and documenting the issues people are having on Discord, Matrix, Reddit, Lemmy and other places and added to a list. So far, no severe issues have been reported (application crashes, loss of data, etc.).
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## PortMaster and RetroDECK
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The RetroDECK Team have been working with parts of PortMaster Team and other passionate developers that want to bring [PortMaster](https://portmaster.games/index.html) to RetroDECK and x86_64 systems.
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In this video we display an early POC one developer made from PortMaster running within RetroDECK.
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This is still incredibly early and if or when this will fully ship, we don't know yet. The scaling is also wrong and not everything works...
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### What is PortMaster?
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It is a Linux Port Manager to easily download, manage, create and play various Linux game ports.
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In many of the ports you will need to own the game and take files from the original game for the ports to work.
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For a full game list check here:
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[PortMaster Gamelist](https://portmaster.games/games.html)
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### There exist other ways to run the same games?
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Yes, there exists many ways to run these ports and games outside of PortMaster.
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PortMaster was born from the scope of arm based handheld gaming devices to play games not available for those systems.
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For certain ports it might make more sense to install them directly via:
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- [Luxtorpeda](https://github.com/dreamer/luxtorpeda)
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- [Lutris](https://lutris.net/)
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- [Flathub](https://flathub.org/en)
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- [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/)
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- [Heroic](https://heroicgameslauncher.com/)
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- [MiniGalaxy](https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/)
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Some ports are extremely hard to install for the average user and PortMaster makes it a breeze to install.
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What we are doing is providing you with a new possibility within RetroDECK.
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## I don't care about any of this, I just want to add my games to Steam!
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The team is working on integrating an already pre-configured micro version of SRM (Steam ROM Manager) within RetroDECK with several functions exposed in the configurator.
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We know how you feel, it is by far the:
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[Most Requested Feature](https://soundcloud.com/lazorne/the-most-requested-feature-1/s-ZU517nfk95h?si=82f784da8bae467f8655d43fdadb15a8)
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## That is all for April
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Thanks everyone!
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//The RetroDECK Team
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[Discord](https://discord.gg/WDc5C9YWMx)
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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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