Bug fixes

• CD based games: Fix for games in subfolders not launching (Dreamcast, PC Engine CD, Sega CD, TurboGrafx CD).
• TurboGrafx CD: File extension filters added.
• Recently played games: Fixed syncing of covers, favourites and renaming games with the main categories.

Note

• Please rescan the games for the bug fixes to take effect.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes.

Bug fixes

• Fix for the RetroFlow Adrenaline launcher bubble not installing during setup.
• Adrenaline setup: Some files were not copying correctly.
• Fixed footer text positoning on the 'Customize game order' screen.
• Updated VitaDB URL in guide section.

Improvements

• Better Spanish translations, thanks to Johnepo.
• Better handling of preflight message dialogues.

Special thanks

• Thanks to Titi Clash for identifying the Adrenaline issues and testing the fixes.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes.

New Features

DSVita Support

• The default and recommended ROM directory is ux0:data/dsvita.
• To configure game settings in DSVita, press triangle on the game a couple of times in RetroFlow, and select "Configure game in DSVita".
• You may need to re-select your startup game start category as a new system has been added.

User Interface

• Holding the D-pad can now be used to scroll quickly through games and menus.
• Battery charging icon added.
• Smooth scrolling added to the horizontal 2D flat cover view.

Game Images

• PSP: New artwork setting to 'Extract PSP backgrounds'. When enabled, PSP game background images will be taken from ISO and CSO files and shown instead of game screenshots.
• Vita: Missing game background images and app icons are now copied to the appmeta folder and displayed on demand.
• Homebrew: More background images are displayed for homebrew apps using their bg.png or bg0.png files.
• PICO-8: Game backgrounds are now created on demand using the cart image.

Random Game Selection

• Press D-pad Up when viewing games, or if viewing games in the list view press D-pad Right, then select 'Random Game'.
• The game won't launch automatically, so you can select another random game until you see something you want to play.

Improvements

• Faster loading time.
• Faster game scanning (the first scan may be a little slow, after that it will be faster).
• Single cover/background downloads with CRC on don’t trigger a full artwork download anymore as CRC file calculations are now native.
• Better file sizes on game information screen (improved units, cleaner decimals, and rounding).
• Vita and Homebrew app version numbers aren't read from the cache anymore, so the app version number on the game information screen is always up-to-date.

Removed

• ONElua functions: RetroFlow now uses its own custom build of Lua Player Plus for PSVITA. Thanks and credit to the Lua Player Plus Vita plus team, Rinnegatamante, and also cy33hc for vita launcher and copyicons. The experience of using the app should feel a lot more seamless as previous external functions are now native.
• 'Extract PS Vita backgrounds' and 'Extract PICO-8 backgrounds': these are now native and on demand, no setting needed.
• Legacy artwork downloader from the original HexFlow: My downloader is faster and more visual.

Installation

Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Downgrading

If you encounter errors when downgrading, please rename or delete or these folders and files:
ux0:/data/RetroFlow/CACHE
ux0:/data/RetroFlow/TITLES
ux0:/data/RetroFlow/recently_played.lua

Help and FAQ

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes.

Edit:

• Download updated to use the v8.0.1 hotfix

Bug fixes

• List view bug fix, where some games in mixed categories would not launch with a notification that the game wasn't installed.
• PSTV bug fix where the PS4 link app was not being included in the system apps.
• Fixed script error 533 category nil value.

Improvements

• Updated German translations, thanks to andiweli.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where some PSP eboot games were not being shown.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes

New

• Added system apps category.
• System apps added to the jump-to-category menu (DPad Up when viewing games).

Notes on the System apps

• Enabled by default but can be turned off in category settings.
• After installation, you may need to select your startup category again.
• Some apps will open but not automatically start, the launch commands for these apps are unknown.
• System apps will not appear in the 'All games' or 'Recently played' categories, it didn't make sense to show them there.

Improvements

• N64 and SNES box spacing improved for one of the category views.
• PSP homebrew is now listed in the PSP category rather than PSX.
• Improved method for detecting whether a game is a PSP, PSP Homebrew or PSX game, using SFO category field rather than using title ID's.

Bug fixes

• Fixed PSP / PSX bubbles showing in the homebrew category when bubbles were created using a newer version of Adrenaline Bubble Manager.
• Fixed error 'global cached_table_xxx nil error'.
• Fixed error when removing the last game from a custom collection, the empty collection is now removed.
• Fixed single cover download for neo geo pocket color when CRC is turned off.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes

New

• New option to customise the order of games in collections.
  To change the order, go to 'Other settings > Edit collections > Customise game order'.
  Any new games added to a collection with custom sorting will be added at the end of the list. You can reset to alphabetical (Default) order using the triangle button.

Improvements

• Launch preflight added. Checks added for missing emulators and games, a message will appear if the required emulator is not installed, or if a game is missing and a rescan is needed.
• Fixed cover aspect ratio for Japanese GB, GBC and GBA games.
  If you have already downloaded squashed artwork, delete the covers, rescan, then download covers again.
• For Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages the pagination string order has been changed from 'x of y' to 'y of x'.

Bug fixes

• Fixed error when trying to read corrupt sfo files. Games with corrupt sfo files are skipped and not added.
• Fixed error 'pspdb global = nil" caused by corrupt locally cached title files.
• Fixed issue where background images for some games would not be found if the filename contained certain special characters.
• Fixed issue with the edit collections menu: Button inputs are now blocked when no collections are available.
• Fixed issue when renaming a game to just "-".

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes

Bug fixes

• Fixed an error when changing the startup category. If no custom collections were created it would cause an error.
• Thanks to BlackSheepBoy69 for the fix.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Nightly build

• See the nightly build for a preview of new features and bug fixes

Bug fixes

• CRC artwork downloads - Better error handling.
• CRC artwork downloads - Hopefully better memory management for large files to prevent running out of memory.
• Better method for identifying Adrenaline bubbles, some homebrew were previously incorrectly being filtered out.
• Bug fix for homebrew/vita apps missing the short title.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.

Improvements

• Tidier game titles: Square brackets such as "[!]" are now removed from game names.

Bug fixes

• Artwork download: Fixed artwork scraping for disc-based systems. (Rescan your games for this fix to take effect).

• Artwork download: Excluded 7z from the CRC checks as 7z cannot be checked. Previously it was being read into memory causing errors.

• When renaming a game or collection, menu inputs are now blocked whilst the keyboard is active.

• Fixed error message when renaming or hiding a game when 'Show homebrew' was set to off.

• Better error handling when importing cached files, added validation before loading.

Installation

• Please read and follow the installation and setup guide.

Help and FAQ's

• Please see the FAQ's page.