September 2025: Components, Components, Components!

Lots of development focused RetroDECK 0.10.0b news.

The RetroDECK Team have been hard at work stirring the development cauldron.

Highlights

Switched from Patreon to OpenCollective
ImCoKeMaN & PortMaster Team - Added more ports
RetroDECK 0.10.0b - Status
New Components Under Development
Storage folder
Lahrs folder Icons

Note: We have switched from Patreon to OpenCollective

We already did the stealth switch months ago.

But in short OpenCollective is more akin to our values then Patreon.

The Patreon is still open, but our plans are to migrate fully later and close it.

Read more here: Donations & Licenses

ImCoKeMaN & PortMaster Team - Added more ports

Community member ImCoKeMaN have helped the PortMaster Team getting more X86_64 ports available and thus they are in RetroDECK.

So far about 30 new ports have been added.

We give ImCoKeMaN and the PortMaster Team our biggest thanks.

RetroDECK 0.10.0b - Status

RetroDECK 0.10.0b is advancing under the “Project Neo” umbrella, that we first talked about in June.

We’re still addressing component‑specific issues, so the final release will take additional time and no ETAs. We’re rebuilding large portions of the application and its build pipeline from the ground up-making this effort feel more like RetroDECK II or RetroDECK Neo, which explains the name.

We are doing a mix of:

Adding new and old components to the new architecture and make them run.
Updating configuration files for each component to align with the new structure.
Adapt all Configurator Tools, framework and functions.
Conduct extensive testing and bug‑fixing.
Writing documentation for the wiki.

New Components Under Development

We’re experimenting with several components simultaneously, thanks the the new component system.

RetroDECK Team Comment: The final scope of what will be included in 0.10.0b is not set yet. Some will be deferred to later updates.

Ares

Ares is a Multi‑emulator that is an alternative to RetroArch for those that want to use that instead.

Azahar

Nintendo 3DS emulator Azahar.

Dosbox‑X

Standalone DOS and Windows 9x emulator Dosbox‑X.

EKA2L1

N‑Gage, N‑Gage II, and Symbian devices emulator EKA2L1.

Flycast

Standalone emulator Flycast for the SEGA Dreamcast.

Gargoyle

Interactive‑Fiction player Gargoyle (used primarily as a Infocom Z-machine emulator inside RetroDECK).

It supports a wide range of interpreters: AdvSys, Agility, Alan 2/3, Bocfel, Git, Glulxe, Hugo, JACL, Level 9, Magnetic, Scare, ScottFree, TADS 2/3.

Hypseus Singe

LaserDisc arcade emulator Hypseus Singe.

KEGS

Apple IIgs emulator KEGS.

Lindbergh Loader

SEGA Lindbergh arcade emulator Lindbergh Loader .

Mudlet

Mudlet the MUD client / Engine.

RetroDECK Team Comment: You will be able to directly connect to specific mud servers as seperate games in ES-DE with usermade .mud files.

OpenBOR

Engine for OpenBOR games.

RetroDECK Team Comment: We have tried to add it before but it never did work quite right. But it works now with with usermade .bor or .openbor files.

RAZE

Build‑engine based engine RAZE derived from ZDOOM (supports Duke Nukem, Redneck Rampage, Blood, etc.).

Ryubing

Ryujinx fork Ryubing.

RetroDECK Team Comment: Replacement for the semi‑broken Ryujinx legacy build. The old Ryujinx will be removed.

ScummVM‑SA

Full standalone version of the ScummVM engine.

ShadPS4

PlayStation 4 emulator ShadPS4.

SimCoupe

SAM Coupé emulator SimCoupe.

SuperModel

Sega Model 3 arcade emulator SuperModel.

VPinballX

Virtual pinball engine (VP/VPin) VPinballX.

RetroDECK Team Comment: If you have experience configuring VPinballX, please reach out to the team-we’d love your input on optimal settings.

XRoar

Dragon 32, Dragon 64, Tano Dragon, Tandy CoCo 1 & 2 emulator XRoar.

Anything Else You Are Working On?

Storage folder

We are planning at least one new core‑system folder under retrodeck/ called storage.

The goal of the folder will house several types of misc user added data and expose some folders from the components there for ease of aceess.

These are our toughts so far:

Expose DLC / Updates Installations Paths - For the components that have that.
Expose Plugins Paths - Plugin folders that are not game mods.
Expose Other Assets - Some components like MAME have several folders that can be put here like: gameover, ends, flyers and more.
DLC / Updates Storage - A place where to put loose files.
Workable Writable Space - Temporary or persistent writable areas (e.g., for the DOSBox‑X sandbox).

RetroDECK Team Note: This probably will not might not make it into 0.10.0b. The exact structure of the folder will evolve as we gather feedback and identify further use‑cases.

Lahrs folder Icons

The goal is that we in RetroDeck 0.10.0b ship community mod Lahrs custom folder icons for every RetroDeck folder.

They will be enabled by default and the new icons should appear automatically after the update.

There are plans to make a Configurator Tool to turn them on or off.

RetroDECK Team Note: We thank Lahrs for his tremendous effort creating specific icons for each folder.

When?!

Mr. A User:
"Holy moley, RetroDECK Team! When can we get this update?"

RetroDECK Team:
"Well, as usual we give no ETA and we still have quite a bit to go."

Mr. A User:
"Fine… will all other components be updated as well with the update?"

RetroDECK Team:
"Yes."

Mrs. A User:
"Is there anything we can do to help?"

RetroDECK Team:
"All contributions are always welcome. 
If you want to help out with:

- Development 
- Testing
- Community
- Other things

Feel free to do so, even if you're just curious on what is under the hood."