slot. for KONKR Pocket Advance becomes slot. for Android. The app is now simply called slot., it adapts to any Android handheld, and the NES, Super Nintendo and Genesis join the Game Boy family.
What's New
- NES, Super Nintendo and Genesis — Their own shelves, console slots and cartridge shells, including the Famicom, Japanese Genesis and EA carts.
- Two cores per home console — FCEUmm or Nestopia, Snes9x or bsnes, Genesis Plus GX or PicoDrive. Press SELECT on a cartridge to choose.
- Automatic labels — NES, Super Nintendo and Genesis carts get their real scanned labels from ScreenScraper, automatically or in Cart Studio.
- RetroAchievements — On NES, Super Nintendo (with Snes9x) and Genesis, online and offline.
- Home console multiplayer — Two-player netplay over local Wi-Fi: player 1 on the Host, player 2 on the Join console.
- CRT shaders — zfast-crt (default), fakelottes, crt-aperture, GDV Trinitron, CRT Geom Deluxe and crt-pi.
- Fits every Android handheld — The interface fits any screen, from square to widescreen, at native resolution.
- Defaults per handheld — Screen size, overlays and frame pacing start with the right settings for each device.
- slot. button — The Retroid Pocket's centre button is the slot. cap. On every handheld, SELECT + X opens the in-game menu and SELECT + START saves and ejects the cartridge.
- New Multiplayer screen — Each console has in its own connector: Link Cable, Wireless Adapter or controller ports.
- Direct Game Boy cable — On mGBA, the two Game Boys are connected directly: trades and battles are faster and more reliable, including on Game Boy Color.
- Automatic resync — If the two consoles drift apart, slot. brings both back to the same moment.
- Share Core Saves on every system — Renamed from Share Saves. Switch a game to its other core and keep your in-game save.
- Pixel AA — Clean pixels at non-integer scales, now lighter on the GPU.
- Simpletex LCD — A new LCD shader for GB, GBC and GBA. LCD3x is now their default.
- Overlays for every system — Watomsk's overlays for GB, GBC, GBA, NES, Super Nintendo and Genesis, fitted to each screen.
- New Game Boy palette — TWB64 028 "Game.com Ver." is the default on mGBA and Gambatte.
- Sharper artwork — Cartridges, slot bars, bezels and button art drawn at up to 3x.
- Slot bars and wallpaper — Dark, Light or Original slot bars, and a Shelf wallpaper that follows the current shelf.
- Real cartridge colours — Classic NES Series and Famicom Mini carts, Donkey Kong Land and European Pokémon Pinball.
- Boktai — The Sun setting gets an AUTO mode that follows the time of day.
- New shortcuts — SELECT + Up / Down changes the screen size, SELECT + Left / Right the Run-Ahead.
- Faster library — The scan skips ES-DE folders of systems slot. doesn't run, and labels are fetched faster.
Fixed
- Save states are shared with RetroArch both ways, and Gambatte states convert between RetroArch core versions.
- More reliable Gambatte Link over Wi-Fi.
- The game menu's Color Correction and GBC Shader rows work again.
- Holding Up / Down to jump letters no longer leaves the shelf blank.
- No more stray tiles when a Game Boy screen turns back on on mGBA.
- On narrow screens, the battery and clock no longer touch the edges.
Installation
Install the APK below over your existing version: your games, saves and settings are kept. On 1.3.4, slot. also offers this update from START → About.
Credits
An unofficial Android port of slot. by Brandon Kowalski and contributors. Overlays by Watomsk. Emulation by mGBA, gpSP, Gambatte, FCEUmm, Nestopia, Snes9x, bsnes, Genesis Plus GX and PicoDrive. Labels from ScreenScraper.
Licensed under GPL-3.0.