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Quiver Launcher 4.0.0-beta.4
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Downloads

On Windows, extract the zip anywhere and run QuiverLauncher.exe. It updates itself from there. An installer is also listed under Assets below, but the zip is the one we recommend.

If you're already on an earlier 4.0.0 beta, Quiver offers this update by itself. The exception is a Flatpak installed through Discover or another software center: run flatpak install --user --bundle once with this release's file, and it updates itself from then on.

Quiver Launcher 4.0.0-beta.4

The fourth beta of Quiver Launcher 4. It sets up your own copy of a game for the ports that need one, lets you keep apps in more than one folder (sorted by console if you like), and changes Get into Add, then Install.

Your own copy of a game

Many ports play your own copy of the original game: a ROM, a disc image or a data folder. Quiver can now set that up for you.

Not every listing has this yet. It works for the apps marked Easy setup, about 240 so far, and more are added as their setups are filled in. For the rest, set up your copy as the app's README says.

  • Easy setup: apps marked Easy setup in Browse tell Quiver which game files they need. Filters → Setup shows only those.
  • Play sets it up first. For an app that still needs your copy, Play opens a setup window. Quiver looks in your game folders, lists the files that look like the game first, and checks your copy against known good dumps. If it's the wrong one, it tells you why (an archive, a compressed image, a different dump…). Then it puts the copy where the game expects it, or passes it to the game when it starts.
  • Tell Quiver where your games are, in Settings → Game copies, by console. Quiver only looks in those folders. If you haven't set one, the setup window asks for it. The first-run setup now asks too, on Where are your games?
  • A chip by Play shows your copy once it's set up. Click it to change the copy. Play without it is always there.

Apps folders

  • More than one apps folder. Settings → Apps folder lists every folder your apps are in, including Quiver Launcher 3's, with how many apps and how much free space each has.
  • Changing the apps folder no longer moves everything. You can keep your apps where they are, or move them.
  • Moving is safe. Apps on another drive are copied and checked before the original is deleted. An app that can't move stays whole where it was, and Quiver tells you which and why. If Quiver is closed partway through a move, it picks up where it was on the next start.
  • Choose each app's folder: Install to… and Move to… are in the app's menu and on its On this computer tab. Ask where to install each app in Settings makes every Install ask first.
  • Folders by console (off by default): Put new apps in a folder for their console, in Settings → Apps folder, puts new apps in Ports\N64, Ports\PS2, Emulators, Tools and so on. A button sorts the apps you already have.
  • Reinstalling over a Quiver Launcher 3 install works now, and uninstalling one removes its files.

Browse and the library

  • Add, then Install. A catalog app's main button is now Add, which puts it in your library without downloading. Install then takes its place. On a controller, X adds and X again installs.
  • Pick several consoles, project types and platforms at once in Browse and the library, as on the website. The filters are now checklists.
  • Card size is a slider in the library's View options.
  • Apps that aren't installed are greyed in the library's grid. Grey out apps that aren't installed in View options or Settings → Library turns it off.
  • Manually managed apps: the library's new Managed by filter shows the apps Quiver manages, or the ones you added from your computer. Playlists can use it too.
  • Game cards have a menu, with One card for each game on, and the version arrow in Ways to play works.
  • Sidebar rows line up: every row's icon is the same size.

App pages

  • Report a problem sits beside an app's buttons. It sends a correction to the app's maintainers, as on the website. You need to be signed in. When it's been looked at, Quiver tells you, with the maintainer's reply, in the library and under Announcements.
  • Failed downloads say why in one line, such as "GitHub isn't answering right now (error 504). Try again in a few minutes.", with Locate existing install… beside Try again.

Discord

  • Discord shows what you're playing from Quiver, with its picture and how long you've played. You can turn it off in Settings → General.

Fixes

  • Windows programs that need administrator rights now ask for them, as a double click does, rather than failing to start.
  • When Play can't find an app's program, you can choose it yourself with Choose its program…. Quiver also finds .bat and .cmd programs on Windows.
  • A failed uninstall no longer leaves a folder Quiver won't install into again.
  • Android: an app removed in Android's settings shows Install again instead of Play. Installing an older version over a newer one says so in plain words. A crash on older Android devices (WebView 92 and earlier) is fixed.
  • On a phone, swiping across the featured apps in Browse steps through them.

Usage data and privacy

  • Quiver now sends more usage data, if you've allowed it. This includes your OS version, how Quiver was installed, which apps and versions are on this computer (once a day), how long you played, and which kinds of controllers you use. It still sends no paths, no names of apps you added yourself and no GitHub token.
  • You can turn it off in Settings. What's sent.

Known limits

  • Easy setup covers about 240 catalog apps so far. More are added as their setups are filled in.
  • Your own copy isn't set up on Android or iOS yet.
  • New text in the other languages was machine-translated. Fixes from native speakers are very welcome.

Testing notes

Please try setting up your own copy of a game, moving apps between folders (and between drives), and the console folders. Tell us how it went on Discord or in Issues.

Thanks to Veggies for the Managed by filter, to adhdandy for greying out apps that aren't installed, to Deozaan for lining up the sidebar, and to everyone testing the beta.

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