This update brings a native Cart Studio built into slot. for Android, labels from slot.'s own database, cheats and new shaders.
What's New
- Native Cart Studio — Cart Studio is now built directly into slot. for Android. Press X on a cartridge to change its label (Real Label, Logo Only, Search label, or your own picture), shell colour, finish and shape. START → Cart Studio shows every cartridge of a system: L1 / R1 change the system, L2 / R2 jump between letters, Y saves all changes. It replaces the web Cart Studio.
- Our own label database — Labels now come from slot. for Android's own database, art.slot-android.app, for every system, rom hacks included. ScreenScraper only fills in what it doesn't have yet.
- Cheats — RetroArch's cheat database is built in for the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, NES, Super Nintendo and Mega Drive. Open Cheats in the game menu.
- LCD Effect — Matt Akins' Pixel Transparency and Sunlight Shimmer on the Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance.
- New shaders — Dot Matrix on the Game Boy. crt-easymode, crt-hyllian, SABR, Super Eagle and xBR-lv2 on the NES, Super Nintendo and Mega Drive.
- Dither Blending — Mega Drive dithering blends as it did on a TV.
- Status Bar — Clock and battery at the top or bottom, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in one row, apps All, Running or Off, New installs show the clock and battery at the top.
- Screenshot hotkey — Set it in Settings → Controls → Hotkeys. Screenshots go to Pictures/Screenshots. (#86)
- Scan progress — The first library scan shows a progress bar and a count; Refresh Library shows its progress top right. (#102)
- Interface — Settings → General is now Interface. With the Shelf wallpaper, choose which shelf each wallpaper goes to.
- Console slots — The NES, Famicom, Super Nintendo and Mega Drive slots fit their cartridges.
Fixed
- Pokémon: Save and Eject no longer fails after loading a save state made before the first in-game save. (#103)
- An older auto-state no longer resumes over a newer in-game save.
- A clear cartridge's lid no longer lifts with the board drawn on it.
- Simpletex shows its paper texture again.
Installation
Install the APK below over your existing version: your games, saves and settings are kept. On 2.0 and 2.1, slot. also offers this update from START → About. On 1.3, install this APK by hand once.
Credits
An unofficial Android port of slot. by Brandon Kowalski and contributors. Overlays by Watomsk. Pixel Transparency and Sunlight Shimmer by Matt Akins and GDAPT by Sp00kyFox, used with their authors' permission. Cheats from libretro-database (CC BY-SA 4.0). Emulation by mGBA, gpSP, Gambatte, FCEUmm, Nestopia, Snes9x, bsnes, Genesis Plus GX and PicoDrive. Labels from ScreenScraper.
Licensed under GPL-3.0.