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AmberELEC - 20210603 Crazy Hedgehog

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3 years ago

Release Notes

Welcome to the Crazy Hedgehog release!
To update drop the correct P or V .tar file into games/update folder and reboot your device.

General:

  • Removed ResidualVM (the game engines are now part of ScummVM standalone core)
  • Removed mba_mini core from ES menu (core was never available in the image)
  • Renamed Mednafen cores to Beetle (following official rebranding)
  • Renamed DuckStation core to SwanStation (following official rebranding)
  • Updated PCSX-ReARMed (performance and compatibility improvements)
  • Updated O2EM core (Magnavox Odyssey²/Philips Videopac G7000), adds The Voice emulation, extract mainsamp.zip and sidsamp.zip content to roms/bios/voice folder
  • Updated most Libretro cores and emulators to their latest version
  • Updated RetroArch to v1.9.4
  • Enabled left analogue as D-Pad where needed

New Stuff:

  • Integrated RetroRun into the image, no more package download necessary
  • Integrated Solarus game engine into the image and bumped to latest version
  • Integrated EasyRPG fully into the image, runtime files are now automatically downloaded on first run
  • Added Samba to the image (see network settings), access your device via Windows fileshare \\351ELEC\...
  • Added new tools script to mount/unmount a USB drive connected to the OTG port
  • Added LZDoom engine (including mod support), WIKI entry
  • Added ECWolf (Wolfenstein 3D) engine (including mod support) WIKI entry
  • Added several new RetroRun core options (Sega Saturn, Nintendo N64)
  • Added MAME 2000 core (MAME4ALL) (0.37b5 rom set)
  • Added MAME 2015 core (0.160 rom set)
  • Added Beetle GBA core (Nintendo Game Boy Advance)
  • Added Beetle Lynx core (Atari Lynx)
  • Added Beetle Supafaust core (Nintendo SNES / SFC)
  • Added SMS Plus GX core (Sega Master System / Game Gear)
  • Added Genesis Plus GX Wide core (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis)
  • Added RACE core (SNK Neo Geo Pocket / Neo Geo Pocket Color)
  • Added freeJ2ME core (Java Platform 2 ME)
  • Added fMSX core (MSX, MSX2)
  • Added support for Mega Duck system
  • Added second core option for ParaLLEl N64 (better performance for some games)
  • Introduced new Gamepad to Keyboard Tool (gptokeyb) (thanks to Shantigilbert)
  • Screenshots gallery: from now on all your screenshots will be placed in roms/screenshots, SELECT + B is now the screenshot button on RetroArch cores (only if you do a clean flash installation, or a RetroArch settings reset in DANGER ZONE)

Fixes:

  • Rolled back Amiberry to last working v3.3 - This addresses #382
  • Rolled back SDL2 to v2.0.10 - This addresses #221 #390
  • Fixed MP3 background music in EmulationStation
  • Fixed RetroArch timezone bug
  • Fixed Yabasanshiro core (Sega Saturn)
  • Fixed unwanted ES restart after plug/unplug of USB storage devices

IMPORTANT NOTE: There are two different images below, one for the RG351P/M and one for the RG351V!

If you download the incorrect image for your device, it will not boot! If you are unsure, use the the following links:
New Installations (.img.gz): RG351P/M | RG351V
Upgrades (place in games/update): RG351P/M | RG351V

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