0.0.6 is another huge update for iiSU. This release brings a long-awaited overhaul to single screen mode! Single screen mode now has a brand new dedicated layout, looking just as beautiful as dual screen! Additionally, XMB mode is now available, showing your systems, games and roms in a beautiful vertical carousel. This update also includes a huge suite of new features, including ES-DE metadata linking, heavily improved visuals, Discord integration, in-app notifications, custom game collections, a bunch of new assets, and more! This update also fixes a lot of issues with single screen mode, so iiSU is now even more viable on single screen devices!
You can enable the new XMB mode by opening the settings in the game tab, pressing “General Layout Options” then selecting “XMB Layout” in “Consoles Layout”
Visual Overhaul
- Introduced an XMB layout for single-screen devices, displaying a vertical a carousel with systems and ROMs
- Implemented Glass Effect for certain UI elements
- Implemented background scrim opacity control
- Added support for title images to be displayed for single screen devices
- Improved single-screen continuity throughout iiSU
- Added in-app notification panel
- Redesigned context menus for better icon parity and improved background task resume support
- Heavily improved navigational stability
- New focus ring with smoother gradient
- Completely reworked onboarding for clarity and user-experience
- ROM titles now auto-clean language/region tags (e.g. “(EU)”, “(En)”)
- Improved and resolved issues with video backgrounds
Discord Integration
- Added Discord integration, allowing you to DM friends from within iiSU itself
- Discord rich presence is now supported, displaying what game you’re playing, system you’re browsing or page you’re viewing
- Added icon to show when other friends are also in iiSU from the friends menu
ES-DE Metadata Linking
- Added an option to link an ES-DE install folder to enable asset sharing - making transitioning between emulators easy!
- Note: ES-DE Linking does not duplicate media files, so any changes made in ES-DE will also sync to iiSU.
- You can still add or customise assets in iiSU whilst linking to ES-DE and it will not affect your ES-DE media
- Added the ability to pre-cache ES-DE media to almost eliminate loading times when browsing your library
Collections
- Added the ability to create custom collections
- Custom collections can be added to the home page, with custom art and system sorting
Animations + Haptics
- Heavily improved UI animations, including smooth background transitions and better movement flow
- Added animated tab transitions
- Improved transition locks
- Added haptic support to allow for more immersive navigation
- Improved dialog control for a snappier feel
Performance & Responsiveness
- Heavily improved load and wait times
- Improved onboarding times
- Shows details during onboarding to help improve clarity
- Improved scaling and adaptiveness for some UI elements
Scraping & Systems
- Over 160 brand new default system icons have been created, providing full coverage for all systems iiSU supports
- [WIP] Added some dark mode icon options (Enable in Appearance -> Theme Media)
- Automatically detects installed emulators during onboarding and when adding new consoles in app
- Added dual-folder support for consoles
- Improved onboarding navigation and launcher defaults
- System now displays the clean platform name in menus
- Refined ScreenScraper asset selection logic
- Improved ROM scraping for arcade games with MAME/FBNeo shortname support
- Emulator configs added for Sega Model 3 and PS3
- Improved fallbacks for emulator commands
Audio
- Added brand new music for onboarding menu
- Added customisable time-based background music
- Added Soundbites as an in app media option per ROM
- Fixed issues with soundbites and audio controls
Misc Features & Bug fixes
- Added option to restart onboarding at any time
- Enforced square icons in the ROM browser, unless specified otherwise
- Improved RetroAchievement handling and error handling
- Fixed a number of single screen layout and rendering issues
- Improved menu sound logic
- Fixed dual screen stability issues in the detail menu and other layout
- Improved battery icon consistency
- Added option for horizontal scrolling in grid mode
Please report any bugs or feedback at https://github.com/iisu-network/iiSU/issues
Thank you all for all the feedback so far, we can’t wait to continue striving forwards with development and getting closer to our goal!
Special big thanks to!
@SapphireRhodonite @lxsarctic @JDBrance @hyblocker @eldermonkey @theswest, Thaddeus Silva for the music and biobthe1 for the dark mode icons!