slot. for Android — v2.4.0

The Anbernic RG Rotate is the star of this update: slot. for Android now fits its square screen, its buttons and its rotating screen, with covers to choose when you close it. This update also gives slot. a new look, with four themes and a wallpaper for each shelf.

What's New

• Anbernic RG Rotate — slot. now fits the RG Rotate's square screen and its buttons:
  • The middle button works like the slot. cap: tap to insert or open the game menu, double-tap for the Save State Switcher, hold to save and eject.
  • Closing the screen shows a cover of your choice, set in Settings → Handheld:
    • while playing: Inserted Cart, Full Cart or Last Frame;
    • with no game: Drifting Shelf, Last Played, Random Cart, Black, Digital Clock or Analog Clock.
  • Game Info adds Now Playing, the game's title and the time played to the cover while playing.
  • After a while, slot. dims the screen, then puts the RG Rotate to sleep (Dim After, Sleep After, Sleep When Closed). Opening it takes you straight back to your game.
  • See the setup below for the best experience.
• A new look — Every menu has been redrawn: a softer anthracite background, a rounded selection bar, the page's path above its title, and long pages that scroll smoothly. The same style now covers Cart Studio, the Library, RomM, Apps and the RetroAchievements pages.
• Four themes — Settings → Interface → Theme: Dark (default), OLED (true black), Light and Original (each console's slot in its own colours). The theme now dresses every page, and the shelves take matching colours.
• A wallpaper for each shelf — Settings → Interface → Wallpaper: pick a shelf, then its wallpaper. A shelf without its own shows the General one. With None, the shelf shows the theme's colour.
• C and Z buttons — On six-button handhelds such as the Retroid Pocket Classic 6-button, the pad's C and Z buttons can play the Mega Drive's C and Z. On other systems, a C / Z row in Systems → Controls gives them a shortcut such as Save / Load or Turbo. Thanks to yunake (#108).
• Faster menus — L1 / R1 jump a screen up or down in long menus (L2 / R2 in Cheats).
• Long names — A setting value or cheat name too long for its row now scrolls when you select it, instead of being shrunk or cut.
• Screen menu in game — It now shows three rows at a time, so more of the game stays in view while you change the picture.
• Games keep the screen on — While a game is running, Android no longer turns the screen off.

Fixed

• A second launch of slot. (from another launcher, for example) no longer opens a second copy, which made every game fail with "Couldn't start". Thanks to yunake for tracking it down (#109).
• On the RG Rotate, the screen no longer starts upside down, and the Apps page no longer turns a quarter.
• The About page fits narrow and square screens: the label is printed at full size instead of shrunk.
• Light theme: the Mega Drive slot is drawn in light greys like the other consoles.
• RomM and RetroAchievements sign-in pages: the button hints fit narrow screens and the text no longer gets cut.
• Apps: holding a direction no longer keeps scrolling on its own.

RG Rotate setup

For the best experience with slot., set these on your RG Rotate:

1. Settings → Security → Screen lock → Swipe
2. Settings → Handheld Game Console Settings → Rotate Setting → Slide out Setting → Wake Up and Unlock
3. Settings → Handheld Game Console Settings → Rotate Setting → Slide into Setting → No Operation
4. Quick Settings (swipe down twice from the top) → Direction following system → On
5. Settings → Handheld Game Console Settings → Quick Launcher → slot.

Then in slot.: START → Settings → Handheld → Sleep When Closed → ON, and allow the permission Android asks for.

More in the RG Rotate guide.

Installation

Install the APK below over your existing version: your games, saves and settings are kept. On 2.0 and later, 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. Thanks to yunake for the contributions in this release. Overlays by Watomsk. Pixel Transparency and Sunlight Shimmer by Matt Akins and GDAPT by Sp00kyFox, used with their authors' permission. crt-royale by TroggleMonkey. Anime4K by bloc97, FSR by AMD. 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. Works with RomM.

Licensed under GPL-3.0.