Retrom v0.4 Released - Fullscreen mode w/ initial gamepad support

21 Noviembre 2024 at 00:46

Hey all, I'm here to update everyone on Retrom's most recent major release! Since last time there are two major changes to note:

Fullscreen mode! Now Retrom is easily used in couch gaming environments and feels great on handhelds!
1. Initial gamepad support should properly render glyphs for just about any XBox controllers and/or DualShock controllers. There are bound to be some missing pieces here, so please reach out to report faulty/missing controller mappings on github or discord.
Emulator configurations are now saved in the service and shared across client devices -- no more needing to configure the same profiles for the same emulators on each and every one of your devices.
1. Per-client configuration items, like the path to the emulator executable, have been extracted into their own configuration section for clarity.

Learn more about Retrom on the GitHub repo, or join the budding discord community

Does this work as a launcher like LaunchBox / EmulationStation, or is this more of a rom download front end?
- Retrom is composed of two parts, the service and the client(s). The service manages all data in a centralized fashion, on a NAS or home-server or anything really. All metadata, game and platform information lives there. All modifications are persisted there. The clients (any number of them) then connect to this service and render the metadata, and allow you to "install" the games you have in your library. Think of installing games on steam, as a reference. You will need to point Retrom to your pre-existing emulators -- it does not ship with its own. Once you have your emulators configured, you can launch installed games via them. You can quite literally think of Retrom as your own personal, self-hosted steam-for-emulated-games.
How does “installing” work? I’ve been on the lookout for a rom manager that will store all of my games on my unraid server and then transfer them over to my pc when I want to play them.
- It would be synonymous with installing games on steam across various client devices ( e.g. gaming PC, living room couch gaming PC, handheld gaming device, macbook for on the go ). When you "install" a game in Retrom, it downloads the files from the service as they are, and then you can launch them locally via configured emulators. Uninstalling simply deletes the local copy, and you can always re-install later on.