Release Notes for Recalbox

Recalbox 9.0-Pulstar

News

• Add RetroFlag GPi2W case support with only Raspberry Pi Zero2 board
• Add Raspberry Pi Touch Display case support for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4
• Add support for 4k video in Kodi for Raspberry Pi 4
• New bluetooth system
  • Audio devices can be paired in sound settings
  • Joysticks and joypads will be automatically paired on first boot
  • New background pairing, letting new devices pair for 5 minutes
• Add 'Z-Machine' emulator with new core frotz
• Add 'Philips VG5000' emulator (RB5000, a new Recalbox's emulator based on DCVG5K)
• Add 'Macintosh' emulator with new core libretro-MinivMac (RPi3/RPi4/XU4/OGS/PC)
• Add 'C64' Vice standalone emulator 3.6.1
• Add game Pong Recalbox Edition by Studio 40A on Gameboy
• Add demo Astebros (Neofid studio) on Megadrive
• Add 240p theme as default for GPiCase 1
• Add Playstation core libretro-pcsx-rearmed for OGA/OGS
• Add new category 'Demoscene' in tic80 games downloader.
• Add support for nVidia Prime Offloading (for computers with both iGPU and nVidia GPU)
• Recalbox RGB Dual:
  • Add multiple resolution calibration screen
  • Add HDMI priority option in recalbox rgb dual to switch between Scart and HDMI
  • Add neogeocd, picodrive and pcsx rearmed, cores for rrgbd
  • Add snes9x2002, 2005, 2010 and bsnes support for rrgbd
  • Add region selection for satellaview, sufami, amiga 600, amiga 1200
  • Add fceumm core support for nes and fds
  • Fix rtype resolution for 31kHz
  • Add new arcade game support for 15kHz.
  • Add mupen64plus glide64mk2 support
  • Add multiple PAL/NTSC modes
  • Add 240p@120Hz frontend resolution for 31kHz screens
  • Add kodi resolution menu selection and dynamic resolution for CRT
  • Add new Kodi theme for 240p/480i resolutions
• Add H/W video decoding for Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 3 & Pi zero 2

Improvements

• Add the possibility to sort games by release date.
• Enhance shader support by setting multi-threaded renderer when shader enabled
• Improve metadata storage, using far less memory for huge game collections
• Bump libretro pcsx-rearmed
• Bump libretro gong
• Bump libretro fuse & add new supported file extensions
• Bump libretro bluemsx
• Bump libretro neocd
• Bump libretro race
• Bump libretro uae4arm
• Bump bebeem
• Bump retro8
• Update of the theme for the X68000 system
• Add support for BCM20702, BCM20703, BCM43142 bluetooth chipsets
• Bump libretro gPSP
• Bump libretro genesisplusgxwide
• Bump libretro Beetle Lynx
• Bump libretro Opera
• Bump libretro fbneo
• Bump libretro uae
• Bump libretro dosbox-pure
• Improve AppleIIGS configurator & add eXoAppleIIGS config support
• Bump libretro-mesen

Fixes

• Fix resolution selection in frontend for Raspberry Pi 4/400/3/Zero2 (KMS)
• Fix crash libretro pcsx-rearmed for x64
• Add .wia file extension for Gamecube and Wii + .gcz for Wii.
• Fix pad 8bitdo Pro 2 mode D (Android)
• Fix bad overlay showing when save on exit is enabled on retroarch
• Fix support for Ultimarc IPAC 2
• Fix internal scraper saving path before actual media
• Fix resolution selection in frontend for Raspberry Pi 4/400/3/Zero2 (KMS)
• Controllers recognized as Xbox in Dolphin (GC/Wii) have their hotkeys working
• Fix pause menu in the game for libretro pcsx_rearmed