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Retro-Go 1.43 (2024-09-02)

  • All: Added ZIP support (large 4MB+ GBC roms not supported unfortunately)
  • Launcher: Added menu option to pre-compute all CRC32s (for cover art)
  • Launcher: Officially support name-based cover art (eg: /covers/nes/game name.png)
  • Launcher: Improved responsiveness when cover art/save preview is enabled
  • Launcher: Added network status/details in wifi dialog

Retro-Go 1.42 (2024-06-05)

  • PCE: Fixed out-of-bounds VCE regs access (Crash in Raiden, probably others)
  • NES: Fixed panic in some games (Snow Brothers, Chip'n'Dale, probably others)
  • Launcher: Fixed stability issues when cycling through all tabs

Retro-Go 1.41 (2024-04-16)

  • MSX: Added fMSX emulator
  • COL: Added virtual keyboard so that more games work
  • COL: Fixed savestates not working
  • All: Improved scaling; you can now zoom to any size you want!
  • All: Eliminated battery icon flicker
  • All: Added overclock option in the debug menu (need feedback before making it permanent)

Retro-Go 1.40 (2024-02-27)

  • NES: Added sound emulation to mapper 19 (Pacman Championship Edition)
  • NES: Added 2KB CHR support to mapper 64 (Rolling Thunder)
  • NES: Fixed Battletoads (now works past level 2 but there's still occasional jitter)
  • NES: Fixed Battletoads Double Dragon (freezing)
  • NES: Fixed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 (HUD jumping around in level 2)
  • NES: Fixed other minor glitching in mapper 4 (MMC3) games
  • NES: Fixed text garbled in Gun-Nac
  • COL: Added palette selector (also for SG-1000)
  • COL: Added support for SGM
  • All: Added support for custom scaling dimensions
  • All: Added border support (to replace black bars when not using full screen scaling)
  • All: Fixed savestate wouldn't be loaded on next boot after saving
  • All: Fixed partial screen updating sometimes caused artifacts
  • Launcher: Long file names are now working correctly (though still not recommended)

Retro-Go 1.39 (2023-??-??)

  • Launcher: Reject names that are too long instead of being weird
  • Theming support is now tested and documented
  • Added DAC pinout for ODROID-GO

Retro-Go 1.38.1 (2023-04-02)

  • GBC: Added switch to disable RTC sync with system time
  • Launcher: Fixed crash when files without extensions were present

Retro-Go 1.38 (2023-03-28)

  • GBC: Added support for MBC30 (For Pokemon Crystal romhacks)
  • Launcher: Added a new scroll behavior (Options -> Scroll mode)

Retro-Go 1.37 (2022-12-30)

  • SNES: Fixed controls menu labels
  • GEN: Small performance improvement
  • Launcher: Added tool to download updates

Retro-Go 1.36.3 (2022-12-14)

  • SNES: Fixed freeze in controls menu (hopefully for real this time...)

Retro-Go 1.36.2 (2022-12-07)

  • SNES: Fixed crash in controls menu
  • Launcher: Start wifi access point

Retro-Go 1.36.1 (2022-11-29)

  • Fixed MRGC/esplay builds

Retro-Go 1.36 (2022-11-28)

  • GBC: Fixed Pokemon Trading Card Game
  • SNES: Added support for ROMs with extra headers
  • SNES: Added low pass filter toggle
  • GEN: Added support for interleaved ROMs
  • Lynx: Changed samplerate to fix some audio issues
  • Launcher: Fixed recently played list
  • Wifi and WebUI improvements
  • Improved recovery mode reliability

Retro-Go 1.35 (2022-10-18)

  • SNES: New Snes9x port (based on 2005 version) with sound!
  • GEN: Improved compatibility (updated from bzhxx's upstream)
  • GW: Added Game & Watch emulator by bzhxx
  • Lynx: Fixed crash when opening options menu
  • Launcher: Added web file manager
  • Launcher: Added network time sync
  • Launcher: Increased max filename length to ~72 characters
  • All: Fixed some crash recovery issues
  • Releases are now built with esp-idf 4.3

Retro-Go 1.34 (2022-09-18)

  • SNES: Fixed crash when opening menu
  • NES: Implemented mapper 185
  • PCE: Fixed crash when quitting emulator
  • PCE: Improved stability and compatibility
  • GBC: Fixed Resident Evil Gaiden not showing test (thanks to ddrsoul)
  • All: Improved SD Card compatibility

Retro-Go 1.33 (2022-08-01)

  • Added Genesis/Megadrive emulator
  • Added multiple save state support (per game)
  • DOOM: Added IWAD selector when launching a mod (PWAD)
  • Launcher: Fixed buttons not responding during CRC32...

Retro-Go 1.32.1 (2022-05-21)

  • Launcher: Fixed savestate screenshot using the wrong file name (#13)

Retro-Go 1.32 (2022-04-27)

  • Launcher: Added subfolder navigation (there are still some sorting issues)
  • Launcher: Improved responsiveness when covers are enabled but not installed
  • All: Speedup mode improvements: More granularity, added 0.5x mode, working audio, DOOM is now supported
  • All: Moved saves on retro-go to be in line with other devices (a notice will be displayed on first boot)
  • All: Added .img generator, to use with esptool.py
  • All: Pressing start+select will open options menu (on devices with no option button)

Retro-Go 1.31.1 (2022-03-08)

  • All: Fixed sound on MRGC-G32

Retro-Go 1.31 (2022-02-15)

  • Launcher: Fixed occasional crash when changing tab
  • GBC: Fixed high cpu usage / slowdowns
  • GBC: Fixed RTC format in SRAM
  • All: Fixed crash when changing audio sink in game
  • All: Fixed occasional settings reset if a panic occurred while a key held down
  • All: Improved panic handling, more detailed crash.log

Retro-Go 1.30 (2022-02-02)

  • NES: Fixed Lagrange Point
  • NES: Added support for a few untested mappers
  • NES: State files are now smaller (faster load/save)
  • PCE: Many sprites issues fixed by Macs75
  • PCE: New save state format (incompatible with old saves, but extensible going forward...)
  • Added key repetition in dialogs (when holding an arrow key, for example)
  • We now have continuous integration thanks to tomzx

Retro-Go 1.29.1 (2021-12-23)

  • Fixed settings not remembered per emulator
  • Fixed recent/favorites should be cleared on settings reset
  • Added back "Reboot to firmware" in about dialog
  • Fixed other minor bugs

Retro-Go 1.29 (2021-12-20)

  • Launcher: New look and feel
  • NES: Show when NSF is playing
  • DOOM: Added Toggle Map in the DOOM menu
  • DOOM: Fixed issues affecting the MRGC-G32 (sound and image)
  • Replaced LuPng/zlib with lodepng

Retro-Go 1.28 (2021-11-23)

  • GBC: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong (and probably others)
  • GBC: Fixed SRAM saving not working correctly (thanks to Jarrad Edwards!)
  • NES: Added basic NSF support
  • NES: Added support for mapper 30
  • SMS: Performance improvement
  • DOOM: New PrBoom port included. (DOOM I, II, SIGIL, and Freedoom work well but occasional OOM crashes remain)
  • Launcher: Got rid of the occasional SPI mutex error
  • MRGC G32 (GBC) is now fully supported (Hopefully)

Retro-Go 1.27.2 (2021-10-13)

  • SMS: Enabled SG-1000 support
  • GBC: Hide palette option when running GBC game
  • Launcher: Adapt cover art size to screen resolution
  • Fixed multiple display corruption issues with dialogs

Retro-Go 1.27 (2021-09-27)

  • NES: Implemented mappers 76 and 206
  • NES: Optimized mappers 9 and 10
  • GBC: Fixed Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong
  • Minor menu reorganization
  • First alpha build for MRGC-G32 (GBC) devices

Retro-Go 1.26.3 (2021-08-29)

  • Fixed typo resulting in corrupt PNG decoding

Retro-Go 1.26.2 (2021-08-25)

  • PCE: Performance improvement
  • GBC: Performance improvement
  • GBC: Fixed score not shown in Donkey Kong
  • Launcher: Improved PNG support
  • All: Replaced miniz by zlib which should resolves all save-related crashes

Retro-Go 1.26.1 (2021-07-31)

  • Launcher: Fixed subdirectory display (again)

Retro-Go 1.26 (2021-07-29)

  • GBC: Experimental BIOS support (put your files in /bios/gb_bios.bin /bios/gbc_bios.bin)
  • NES: Added Mesen roms database to patch wrong headers
  • All: Option to disable partial screen updating (it seems to cause glitches for some people)
  • Launcher: Option to enable/disable any tab
  • Launcher: Fixed subdirectory display
  • Launcher: Fixed sorting bugs
  • Launcher: Recently played list
  • Dev: Now able to build on esp-idf 4.1 and 4.2

Retro-Go 1.25.3 (2021-05-30)

This is a bug fix release that fixes the following issues:

  • Occasional crash when saving a game
  • Corrupted or missing save screenshot
  • Menu dialog sometimes cut off with big fonts (now can scroll)
  • Games in subfolders now shown in the launcher (still no sub navigation but everything will be listed at least)

Retro-Go 1.25.1 (2021-04-28)

  • Fixed: dialog multiline text mangling one character
  • Fixed: font selection not wrapping around correctly
  • Fixed: occasional crash when saving state (it might still crash but the save will at least finish first)

Retro-Go 1.25 (2021-04-11)

  • All: Proportional fonts support with correct alignment
  • All: Crash log is now saved to the SD Card if possible. Please share it if you encounter a non-obvious crash.
  • All: The settings format has changed to allow more flexibility (some of your settings will be lost, sorry!)
  • GG/COL/SMS: Now have independent settings, you can set different filters and scaling per console!
  • Launcher: Idle CRC32 caching, just let your GO sit for a while to never see "CRC32..." again!
  • Launcher: Improved responsiveness

Retro-Go 1.24 (2021-02-26)

  • NES: Implemented Mapper 19 IRQ counter (fixes Pacman Championship Edition (still sound issues))
  • NES: Significant performance improvement in some games
  • NEX: Fixed Ninja Gaiden 3
  • PCE: Fixed a rare crash when saving state on large games
  • PCE: Added option to force 8bit audio
  • GBC: Emulation is now running closer to real speed (60fps instead of 59, real is 59.7)
  • GBC: Fixed Kirby Dreamland 2
  • GBC: Fixed Fatass
  • GBC: Fixed the harsh flicker when starting some games
  • GBC: Hopefully improved how SRAM is handled
  • SNES: Save states now working
  • SNES: Fixed wrong colours in some games
  • SNES: Choice of controls style
  • SNES: 24Mbit ROMs support
  • SNES: Performance improvements (still very slow)
  • ALL: Fixed dialog sometimes crashing when pressing the wrong button
  • ALL: Show emulation speed in status bar instead of just FPS
  • ALL: Added soft reset option
  • ALL: Enabled exFAT support
  • ALL: Debug menu is now easier to access (currently pretty useless): press start when main menu is open
  • ALL: Option to use LED to show disk activity (also fairly useless)

Note: You should backup your GBC saves before trying this build.

(See 1.19 to download cover art.)

Retro-Go 1.23 (2021-01-19)

  • GBC: Fixed palette and rtc not always reset correctly
  • GBC: Fixed uninitialized values when loading/saving states (fixes minor glitches)
  • NES: Compatibility improvement (fixes Dragon Warrior IV)
  • SMS and GBC and NES: Small performance improvements and misc. bug fixes
  • SNES: First preview! (Please don't report bugs, it is not playable yet)

Retro-Go 1.22 (2020-12-31)

  • GBC: Significant performance improvement (greatly improves Mario Tennis, Super Mario Land DX, Radikal Bikers, and more)
  • GB: Fixed Link's Awakening glitch
  • PCE: Small performance improvement

Retro-Go 1.21.1 (2020-12-26)

  • PCE: Improved emulation accuracy and performance
  • PCE: DDA emulation now mostly works (sound effects, voices)
  • PCE: Option to crop overscan
  • NES: Small performance improvement
  • Launcher: A screenshot of your saved game will be shown if no cover found (configurable, not available in PCE yet)
  • Tuned the auto frame skipping to reduce stutter in Pokemon

Retro-Go 1.20.2 (2020-11-02)

  • PCE: Fixed missing enemy sprites in Bonk
  • PCE: Audio should be better in games like Bonk
  • GBC: SRAM always generated when saving state and file now compatible with VisualBoyAdvance

Retro-Go 1.20.1 (2020-11-01)

  • PCE: Workaround for glitch in Splatterhouse (CRC D00CA74F)
  • PCE: Fixed cropping offset for high res games
  • PCE: Greatly improved performance for all games

Retro-Go 1.19 (2020-10-01)

  • LYNX: Rotation support
  • LYNX: Added cover art
  • ALL: New "medium" font size
  • ALL: Slightly faster boot

Also some internal changes:

  • SMS: Refactored the z80 emulation for more performance and smaller code size
  • GBC: Misc cleanup for smaller code size
  • ALL: Python build scripts, mkfw and gcc are no longer necessary
  • ALL: Implemented a basic profiler based on GCC function instrumentation

Retro-Go 1.18 (2020-08-24)

  • RETRO: Favourites support (let me know if it can be improved)
  • RETRO: Fixed misc navigation bugs
  • NES: New MMC1 implementation to improve compatibility (eg: Dragon Warrior 4 now boots but crashes for other reason)
  • NES: Battletoads "fixed" (workaround. still glitches, but it seems playable)
  • GBC: Fixed garbled tiles in some games (eg: Speedy Gonzalez)
  • PCE: Fixed horizontal lines in some games
  • SMS/GG: Improved performance, 25% less frameskip
  • ALL: Fixed stutter when changing a setting (on slow SD Card)
  • ALL: Better panic handling that might show the crash reason now

2020-08-01

  • NES: Compatibility hack to fix glitches in Zen Intergalactic, Power Blade, Kirby, SMB3
  • NES: Fixed volume issues above level 5
  • Launcher: Misc UI improvements
  • Settings are now stored on the SD card
  • Retro-Go is now compiled with esp-idf 4.0

2020-06-29

  • Added file property dialog (press B)
  • Minor UI tweaks
  • Fixed crash on some devices when the battery is full or charging
  • Fixed stuttering in GB/GBC emulation
  • Fixed most scaling issues (some games still have horizontal bars in PCE)

2020-06-13

  • NES: Fixed palette not applied
  • NES: Fixed some bugs with auto crop
  • PCE: Fixed US encoded roms
  • PCE: Fixed Legend of Hero Tonma
  • PCE: Fixed scaling bug causing black screen in many games (eg Salamander)
  • PCE: Implemented Street Fighter 2 mapper
  • Lynx: Lynx is now playable (rotation support still missing)

2020-05-30

  • NES: New option to detect and crop the blank leftmost column in some games (eg SMB3)
  • NES: Implemented Mapper 193 (War in the Gulf)
  • NES: Fixed shadows in Aussie Rules Footy
  • NES: Fixed games relying on 32K banks
  • NES: Fixed more Chinese bootlegs
  • NES: Improved sound on PAL games (speed is still a bit off in some games)
  • NES: New save/load code that will soon be compatible with saves from popular emulators
  • GB: Fixed Donkey Kong statistics not showing (Game-specific hack)
  • GBC: Fixed Fushigi no Dungeon - Fuurai no Shiren GB2 text not showing (Game-specific hack)
  • PCE: Cover art improved
  • All: Saves are now atomic, an interruption while saving (crash/battery/sd error/etc) will no longer corrupt your save file
  • All: Battery and FPS indicators when you open in-game menu
  • All: Option to select startup app (always launcher vs last used game)
  • All: Firmware size is back to a mere 2.56MB (including PCE and Lynx!)

2020-05-04

  • PCE: Improved performance, all tested games run at 100% speed with higher refresh rate
  • PCE: Save states fully implemented
  • NES: Enabled support for mappers 41, 42, 46, 50, 73, 93, 160, 229 (bootlegs/multicarts)
  • NES: Implemented mappers 162 and 163 (A dozen of Nanjing games)
  • Smaller firmware size (3.5 to 3MB)

2020-04-27

  • PC Engine emulation!
  • Colecovision no longer needs a BIOS
  • Smaller binary sizes (though the .fw is padded to the same as before)
  • License is now GPL2 for all components in the project
  • NES: Option to disable overscan
  • GB: DMG GREEN palette by 8xpdh
  • GB: GBC's game-specific colorization support
  • GB: Option to save/load SRAM automatically (careful: causes stuttering in many games)

Known issues:

  • Save states support in PCE is experimental. Loading is also manual only (start a game -> Reload).

2020-03-20

  • NES: PAL games support
  • NES: Fixed Cheetahmen 2 (Impl. Mapper 228)
  • GB: Fixed Altered Space 3-D Adventure
  • GB: Fixed Faceball 2000
  • GB: Performance improvement

2020-03-13

  • NES: Color palette support (FirebrandX)
  • NES: Option to disable sprite limit (sprite flicker)
  • NES: Fixed SMB3 (Broken in 2020-03-10)
  • NES: Fixed The Simpsons (Broken in 2020-03-10)
  • NES: Fixed Owlia (Broken in 2020-02-29-exp)
  • NES: Fixed Castlevania III (It's playable but there are issues) (Never worked before)
  • NES: Fixed Choplifter (Never worked before)
  • All: Fixed filter alignment issue (mostly visible in GB)

2020-03-10

  • New: Bilinear filtering available for all emulators
  • Launcher: Fix SPI conflicts that froze the application
  • NES: Fix crash during save/load in some games
  • GBC: Fixed Worms Armageddon
  • GBC: Fixed Metal Gear Solid
  • NES: Fixed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle III
  • NES: Fixed Felix the Cat
  • NES: Fixed Tetris 2 + Bombliss
  • Misc bug fixes

2020-02-23

  • Display code optimization with 5-10% FPS throughput increase
  • Friendlier in-game fatal errors that allow to return to launcher
  • Many bug fixes

2020-02-19

  • GB/GBC: More of the ROM is preloaded to fix stuttering in some games
  • GB/GBC: Now using partial screen updates, allowing 60fps in many games
  • Turbo speed support in all emulators
  • Removed interlacing. The replacement method looks better (or at least equal) and works for all three systems
  • Launcher: File extensions are now hidden

2020-02-11

  • New scaling options
  • 8MB GBC game support
  • Significant size reduction
  • Bug fixes

2020-02-05

  • Fixed Game Gear aspect ratio
  • PNG support for cover art
  • Option to reduce cover art loading delay
  • Experimental ZIP support for NES/SMS/GG ROMS

2020-02-01

  • Initial release