A few days after the launch of V10.0-patron-1, many of you have shown us your enthusiasm and support on social networks as well as on our Discord.

Your initial feedback on V10 is very important to us: on one hand, because it proves that the project makes sense and is moving in the right direction, and on the other hand, because it helps us stabilize this version by taking into account your various configurations.

This launch has also raised some questions: will V10 be available for "non-patrons"? What does it mean to be a patron?

Being a patron means actively participating in the Recalbox project thanks to your support, your feedback on beta versions, and your suggestions on the project's evolution through dedicated channels on Discord. This support gives you access to various benefits: goodies, autoscrap via Recalbox servers, exclusive playlists, discounts with our partners, and more.

You thus become fully part of the development process of Recalbox public versions. Thanks to your involvement, these versions reach a high level of quality and stability on the majority of configurations.

The Recalbox stand at HFS where many of you came to visit us

Deploying a new version is always an important moment — for you as well as for us. Making new versions available in preview allows us to test updates on as many configurations as possible, which we couldn't do with beta testers alone.

And believe us, considering the number of reports we received on the #patrons and #patron-alpha channels about this V10 in just a few days, this process is more than useful to us: it is mandatory.

So a big thank you to our patrons, from the entire Recalbox team!

This choice to allow our users to support Recalbox via Patreon was a real leap forward for the project. It allowed the core team to free up more time for development and made several projects possible that simply wouldn't have seen the light of day without our patrons — notably the RGB Dual and RGB JAMMA.

That said, Recalbox's philosophy is and will always remain the same: to offer an open source and free retro-gaming solution for everyone. V10 will therefore be available for everyone in its final version in a few months.

To all of you: thank you for supporting us for ten years now and for sharing your retro-gaming moments with us.