Release Notes

What's new?

• RG351MP is now supported in addition to RG351P/RG351M/RG351V
  NOTE: some standalone emulators have not yet been fully adapted for the RG351MP, means controls may not work
• Pre-Configured Bezels Support: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Pokemon Mini, WonderSwan, Neo Geo Pocket and Supervision by default (see Wiki for details)
  • Configure/customize bezels (decorations) within Emulation Station.
  • Can override to use a specific system/game bezel
  • Overlays like: 'shadow' and 'grid' can be separately enabled/disabled - support for custom overlays.
  • Custom bezel support. Features supported by default bezel can all be used by custom bezels - including UI configuration
• Online updates have been re-enabled
  NOTE: you must still manually update to this release (.tar update or fresh .img.gz install)
  • 'beta' builds are created daily if there are changes. Works with online updates through the 'beta' channel.
• Enabled EmulationStation Save State Manager, manage/launch your saved games directly from EmulationStation
• Configuration of filters and shaders within EmulationStation
• Cloud Save Sync - new tool to allow saving/restoring saves from the cloud (uses rclone)
• PCSX-Rearmed rumble now includes weak rumble
• Added RetroRun configurable options via ES menu, hotkeys for FPS/screenshot identical to the RetroArch mapping
• Added Default 4:3 Theme - Art-Book with support for all systems
• Added GZDoom as main Doom system emulator (features full OpenGL ES acceleration)
• Added Build engine system with Raze emulator for Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior, Exhumed, NAM and WW2 GI (based on GZDoom tech)
• Added Drastic emulator without package download
• Added Mupen64plus standalone emulator
• Added native OpenBOR
• Added QuickNES core (NES, Famicom)
• Added Gearcoleco core (ColecoVision, requires colecovision.rom BIOS file)
• Added SMS Plus GX core (ColecoVision, requires BIOS.col BIOS file)
• Added FreeChaF core (Fairchild Channel F)
• Added Quasi88 core (NEC PC-88)
• Added X1 Millennium core (Sharp X1)
• Added SuFami Turbo as separate system
• Added MAME - Current core (0.237 rom set)
• Added FBAlpha 2019 core (0.2.97.44 rom set), in return unlisted fba4arm core was removed
• Added ScreenScraper support for pico-8 and ports
• Added PSX - m3u generator script
• Added 351Files single panel filemanager
• Updated themes (including downloadable themes) to support all systems

What has changed?

• Updated RetroArch to v1.9.13
• Updated most Libretro cores and standalone emulators to their latest version
• Removed CPS-1, CPS-2, CPS-3 systems please use the fbneo folder for these roms and enable automatic collections (https://351elec.de/FAQ#cps)
• Disable rumble that occurs during boot-up.
• EasyRPG core supports now compressed game folders with .zip and .easyrpg extension
• Added support for extended Retroachievements leaderboards options
• Improved game startup time (about 10-20% faster)
• RG351V usability improvements (works with RG351MP as well)
  • Volume buttons can now be 'held down' to continue changing volume.
  • Brightness can be adjusted with Fn + Vol up/down (RG351V) R3 + Vol up/down (RG351MP). Can also be 'held down' to continue changing brightness.
• Hostname is configurable via network settings
  • Samba share is synced with hostname and accessible via \\<hostname>\
• Brightness can be adjusted lower than before
• EmulationStation menu has been reworked to remove many unused/non-working options.
  • "Smooth Games" option in EmulationStation has changed to Bilinear Filtering to match retroarch
  • "libretro" cores are now called "retroarch" for clarity
• Improved DinguxCommander dual panel filemanager for RG351V
• Guru Meditation Error now shows more pertenant info through text_viewer
• Improved font sizes for console
• V mounts card of P/M as games if in slot 2
• Increase swapfile size
• Post-update script is now also run on 'restore'. Makes restoring from older backups less error prone
• Controls are no longer hard coded in retroarch.cfg. Instead, retroarch autoconfig is used. This makes the differing controls between M/P/V and MP easier to manage
• Tools moved to first in EmulationStation systems order
• Improved lzdoom overall performance

Things to do after an upgrade:

• Bezels now show up in screensavers for enabled systems (random video/slideshow). If you don't want this behavior, please turn off the Decorations for the screensaver (ES -> Main Menu -> UI Settings -> Screensaver Settings -> Decorations -> None)
• If you have created a custom es_systems configuration in the past and changed any <emulator> elements, you will need to make sure you are using retroarch instead of libretro as the emulator name

Fixes:

• Fixed RetroArch scaling factors for glui and ozone menu drivers so the text appears properly sized.
  NOTE: you may need to reset your scaling factor if you previously increased the value above 1.00 (menu_scale_factor in retroarch.cfg)
• Screensaver no longer restarts after sleep (#451)
• RG351V:
  • Restart while charging now works without getting stuck on charging screen
  • Fix incorrect CPU clock speed reported
  • Fix issue where unplugging/plugging in headphones during sleep could cause headphones/speakers to be out of sync
  • Display is running now with 60Hz
• Rumble works in:
  • Gambatte, PokeMini, px68k, TyrQuake
• Removed VBA-Next emulation core for GB/GBC as VBA-Next never supported GB/GBC
• Fixed color GBC/SGB Color Settings for Gambatte (#538)
• Fixed theme deletion not working (#392)
• Fixed Vectrex default screen ratio to 3/4 instead of 4/3
• Fixed some SDL issues
• Fixed lzdoom / ecwolf config reset bug
• Fixed Battery Icon blur on 4:3 devices
• Fixed wrongly assigned RetroRun key mappings (#499)

IMPORTANT NOTE: There are three different images below, one for the RG351P/M, RG351V and RG351MP!

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 | RG351MP
Upgrades (place in /storage/roms/update): RG351P/M | RG351V | RG351MP