0.53.0 is out🎉

This release is a big step forward towards version 1.0.
20 of the 33 supported systems are pre configured and 15 of them are bundled now.
This helps to make emuze a much more unified and console like experience.

To achieve this i had to build an appimage for one of my favorite emulators ares, which was released in v142 lately.
On top of this i decided to make ares the default emulator for n64 games, because it is much more accurate then RMG.

In the last release i had to bundle an older version of Dolphin, because the sdl library i was using was outdated and resulted in gamepad mapping problems with the latest dolphin version and the Steam Deck. I had to fork this lib to achive compatibility again and now the latest version of Dolphin is bundled.

Mednafen is not just the best Sega Saturn Emulator out there, it handles PC Engine CD realy well too. Therefore i wanted to pre configure these systems for quite a while and oh boy this was a lot of work, but now it is done. Please let me know if you find some remaining bugs with it.

Hands down: DuckStation is the best PlayStation emulator. It is feature rich with upscaling and PGP correction, CHD support and so much more and is probably the most accurate PlayStation emulator on top of all this.
Last year the license was changed and with this it is not allowed anymore to bundle nor pre configure DuckStation.
But bundling and pre configuring is my main goal for v1.0 so i decided to bundle the last version of DuckStation that was released under GPL3. Therefore DuckStation will not be updated in emuze anymore and treated as Legacy for the forseeable future.

For the next release i would like to pre configure Mame and bundle some more systems.

Please let me know what you think of it in the emuze discord.

Features

• pre configure Mednafen
• map keyboard if no controller is connected on Mednafen
• map keyboard if no controller is connected on Ryujinx
• map keyboard if no controller is connected on ares
• set ares as the default emulator for N64. You can switch back to RMG with the command line option --rmgN64 if your system struggles to handle 60vps
• forward fullscreen to Mednafen if fullscreen is active in emuze
• optimize volume balance on pc engine cd games
• optimize loading animation
• show message if no roms or system folders were found
• add command line option --help to show the available command line options

Updates / Bundles

• update bundled Ryujinx to v1.2.81
• update bundled Dolphin to v2412
• bundle ares v142
• bundle DuckStation v0.1-7371. Due to licensing changes DuckStation will no longer receive updates in emuze

Bug Fixes

• prevent keyboard presses in emuze while playing a game
• fix missing audio with mednafen on linux
• fix dolphin gamepad mapping for more then 1 player