December 2024: Right Clicking Caroling
It's the last month the year!
The team wishes everyone a happy winter season and happy holidays.
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Highlights
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Thanks Lx32, MonkeyX and dottormac
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Development - 0.9.0b Status updates
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Framework
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PortMaster Integration
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Steam ROM Manager (SRM) Integration
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Godot Configurator
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What is left for 0.9.0b release?
Thanks Lx32, MonkeyX and dottormac
Special thanks to former RetroDECK Team members Lx32, MonkeyX and dottormac for their contributions. They are now RetroDECK Alumni with special roles on Discord.
Life can sometimes pull us away from contributing to open source projects. We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to:
- dottormac for their significant help with early testing of RetroDECK.
- Lx32 for focusing on the SRM implementation, and for his earlier work on BoilR to finally add games to Steam.
- MonkeyX for his contributions to the Godot Configurator and more.
We wish them a happy journey ahead and for those who just got into entrepreneurship ventures we hope for a big success.
Keep in touch, Itakatta! 🤌🍕🍝🍌🤌 ❤️
Open with RetroDECK - New function
On the Linux Desktop (or desktop mode), we added the option to open and run various files directly with RetroDECK.
In these examples, we will use the Little Medusa - Demo a .nes file called LittleMedusa_8bitdemo.nes from Mega Cat Studios.
Example 1: The Game Inside the Correct Roms Folder
In this example, the LittleMedusa_8bitdemo.nes file is inside the retrodeck/roms/nes folder.
When you click on it, RetroDECK opens it with the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, and the game starts.
RetroDECK knows that because you opened it from the /roms/nes folder, the game must correspond to that system.
Example 2: The Game Outside the Roms Folder
In this example, the LittleMedusa_8bitdemo.nes file is not inside the retrodeck/roms/nes folder but in the download folder.
When clicked, RetroDECK will prompt a dialog window asking which system the file belongs to and then run it.
Framework
- RetroDECK can now pick up logged-in Steam profiles for systems like SRM.
- Several light manifest pipeline issues resolved.
- More logs piped into the central retrodeck.log.
PortMaster Integration
- No reported issues; it works as expected in cooker. ✅
Steam ROM Manager (SRM) Integration
- SRM is now working with your Steam username and syncing your favorite games to Steam. ✅
We know how you feel:
Godot Configurator
- More menus and buttons added.
- Added the ability to launch SRM for tweaking settings or images.
What is left for 0.9.0b release?
- Emulators/Components updates and resolving any issues.
- Minor tweaks and bugfixes.
- Godot Configurator - some missing tools from the Legacy Configurator still need to be implemented.
- Godot Configurator - design improvements (this might take more time and we might need to push Godot to a new version).
But as always anything is subject to change.
That is all for now
There are more things we are working on, but you will see them in future blog updates!
Thanks everyone!
//The RetroDECK Team