==============

Version 3.26.0

==============

* playstation: Detect games whose executable isn't at the root of the

disc.

* Bugs fixed:

787396 playstation: Tekken 3 not detected anymore

* Translation updates:

Finnish

Hungarian

===============

Version 3.25.92

===============

* Allow users to use any of their gamepads with integrated games by

configuring their gamepads against the de-facto standard one. This is

implemented via a wizard in the preferences page.

* Add a dependency on librsvg-2.0.

* Bugs fixed:

780754 Let users setup their gamepads

* Translation updates:

Catalan

Croatian

Czech

Finnish

French

German

Indonesian

Italian

Polish

Serbian

Spanish

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Version 3.25.4

==============

* The way the games collection is built has been completely reworked to

replace the GameSource types generating Game objects from any way of

the implementation's choice by the trio of UriSource, UriGameFactory

and GameCollection. UriSource generate URIs from any way of the

implementation's choice, UriGameFactory generate Game objects from

URIs and GameCollection acting as a glue between the two. This new

flexibility in the creation of the games collection helped to simplify

the way many game types were defined and helped to introduce new game

sources to the collection.

* Game URIs can now be passed as command line arguments, allowing your

game files to be opened with Games from your file manager. The game

will be automatically started by doing so.

* Add a "Add game files" button to the collection view, allowing you to

add game files from the collection view to the collection.

* Game resources passed via the command line or the "Add game files"

button are stored in a database and restored when starting the

application. This allows Games to see your games even if its game

resources detection mechanisms failed.

* Introduction of RetroSimpleType to replace many very similar plugins

by this simple and easier to maintain generic implementation of the

Libretro based game types.

* Supported games:

- Add support for Atari Lynx, MS-DOS, WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color

games.

- Improve the detection of PlayStation discs by parsing them as an

emulator would instead of using lucky guessing the location of the

required information in the disc.

- Don't display desktop games setting the NoDisplay or Hidden keys.

* Gamepad:

- Port the gamepad handling system from Vala to C to avoid using Vala's

preprocessor as it is poorly handled by the autotools, resulting in

broken tarballs.

- Make gamepads send events similar to GdkEvent.

- Replace the custom input types by the Linux event codes.

* UI:

- Use the more appropriate GtkMessageDialog instead of GtkDialog for

most of the existing custom dialogs.

- Refine the look of MediaSelector, using checkmarks to denote the

currently used media.

- Use theme relative colors for the games collection.

- Drop a useless sorting invalidation in CollectionIconView, which

makes the game collection loads a bit faster.

* Improved logging of the Libretro cores by using the Core.log() signal

with the retro_g_log() function which have been introduced in

retro-gtk recently. This will log messages from the Libretro core with

the core's name as the log domain instead of GNOME Games.

* Improve the parameters passed to the grep command to avoid injections.

* Bump retro-gtk to 0.12.

* Bump tracker-sparql to 2.0.

* Bugs fixed:

782952 Using grep in Games do not work with a filename --ignore-case

771631 Use GtkMessageDialog when appropriate

773881 Games takes too long to load the games list

775255 playstation: Add some missing boot offsets

779128 games does not follow global themes

779924 gnome-games crash with SIGSEGV in retro_core_set_callbacks()

780295 Games displays desktop games with NoDisplay=true

780318 gnome-games 3.24.0.1 tarball missing files

780320 Double-clicking on a ROM should launch gnome-games

780714 ui: deprecation warning during cursor creation.

780778 Improve media selector

780920 Plugging more than 2 gamepads orderly will always lead to a segmentation fault.

781036 Licensing cleanup

781334 Untie game resource detection and game object creation

781572 Produced tarballs break the Vala preprocessor

781610 [flatpak] Beetle/Mednafen TurboGrafxCD core cannot find BIOS

781864 utils: Check null values

781886 Assertion 'cookie > 0' failed

782295 GameCollection should completely take care off the collection

782504 retro-gtk: Improve Libretro core logging

782549 Bugs in #781572 porting to C

782611 gamepad: Simplify the gamepad system

782772 retro: Libretro cores should have an appropriate save directory

782824 ui: Allow to add games manually

783067 Games should list Atari Lynx games

783068 Games should list WonderSwan [Color] games

783070 Games should support adding MS-DOS games

783111 plugins: Refactor plugins registering one MIME type per platform

783319 refactor: Expose game IDs and media IDs

783927 Allow more events to be recognized as axes

784334 [flatpak] Incorrect Sega CD firmware checksums in Picodrive description file

* Translation updates:

Brazilian Portuguese

Croatian

Czech

Friulian

German

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Korean

Polish

Spanish

Swedish

==============

Version 3.24.0

==============

* Make distcheck produce .xz tarballs by default

* Add the Flatpak build manifest for the PicoDrive extension

* Add metadata to the produced screenshots

* Bugs fixed:

769833 Add metadata to screenshots

779987 release tarballs don't have generated files

* Translation updates:

French

German

Hungarian

Italian

Serbian

===============

Version 3.23.92

===============

* Add the Flatpak build manifest with the following Libretro cores:

- bsnes_balanced

- gambatte

- mednafen_ngp

- mednafen_pce_fast

- nestopia

- pcsx_rearmed

* Look for Libretro cores recursively into directories

* Fix some typos

* Move the Flatpak manifest to

- Move the

* Bugs fixed:

779403 flatpak: Migrate the flatpak-builder manifest from gnome-apps-nightly to gnome-games

779780 Typos in translatable strings

* Translation updates:

Brazilian Portuguese

Catalan

Finnish

Friulian

Polish

Serbian

Swedish

===============

Version 3.23.91

===============

* UI:

- Allow to have smooth or sharp video output on retro games

- Add more explicative error messages

- Remember the size of the application window

- Remember the maximized state of the application window

- Remember the fullscreen state of the retro games

- Prevent a useless empty button to be displayed on the error page

- Prevent keyboard shortcuts to set the window fullscreen when not allowed

- Fix keyboard navigation in the game collection

* Retro:

- Check the presence of mandatory firmwares

* List standalone Libretro games

* Bugs fixed:

777371 Support standalone Libretro games

777987 Allow to have a sharp video output

778236 Offer to auto switch to fullscreen when starting a game

778744 Check required firmwares are present

778773 Explain the user why running a game failed

778774 Empty button visible in the error page

779095 ui: Remember the size, position and state of the window

* Translation updates:

Finnish

French

Italian

Polish

Serbian

Spanish

===============

Version 3.23.90

===============

* UI:

- Show a spinner notification when loading games

- Smooth out the collection icons arrangement

- Hide menubar when the app menu is disabled

- Check there is a media set before updating it

* Retro:

- Support Libretro cores having a Libretro Core Descriptor

- Auto-detect Libretro cores supporting serialization

- Be more tolerant with serialization sizes to follow Libretro rules

- Allow Libretro cores to load firmwares in ~/.config/gnome-games

* Add support for FDS games

* Avoid some valid Game Boy games to not be detected

* Bugs fixed:

770783 [nes] Serialization/deserialisation fails

771683 Duplicate menu to set AppMenu to be displayed in the application window

771771 Rename symbolic icon to org.gnome.Games-symbolic.svg

772118 Assertion MediaSet != NULL failed

773882 No way to know when Games looks for games

773950 Smoother dynamic cover placement when resizing the window

777482 retro-gobject: Remove unused private code

777755 retro: Get whether the core supports snapshoting directly from it

777777 Game Boy games not detected

778317 Gnome-games should provide support to Famicom Disk System games

778446 Support the Libretro Core Descriptor format

778447 No well defined place for Libretro cores to look for firmwares

* Translation updates:

Brazilian Portuguese

Catalan

Czech

Finnish

German

Polish

Portuguese

Slovak

Spanish

==============

Version 3.22.0

==============

* Inhibition:

- Inhibit blank screen on idle when playing a game

- Inhibit session closing when playing a game

* Prevent the media selector button to show up when it shouldn't

* Look for local covers for Mega-CD and PC-Engine CD-ROM²

* Detect more Mega Drive and PlayStation games

* Bugs fixed:

769968 Screensaver kicks in while playing

771360 mega-drive: Mega-CD games should look for local covers

771361 pc-engine: CD-ROM² games should look for local covers

771511 mega-drive: Some games are not detected

771512 grilo: Critical errors caused by wrong 'return_if_fail'

771513 ui: Media selector sometimes visible on 'Unable to run game' page

771514 playstation: Some discs have their BOOT header at 0xA9F98

* Translation updates:

Czech

French

Hungarian

Polish

===============

Version 3.21.92

===============

* Pause and resume on focus change:

- Avoid micro pauses when the shell takes the focus for an instant

- Avoid resuming the game when there is a transient dialog

* PlayStation:

- Set the correct gamepad type to the games depending on their support

- Detect discs with a lowercase disc ID

- Get covers from TheGamesDB.net

- Ensure discs are in the correct order

* Bugs fixed:

770192 playstation: Some games requires a non-analog gamepad

770426 Moving the "Resume" dialog unpauses the game

770625 The application is named 'gnome-games' and doesn't have its icon in the GCC sound panel

770626 playstation: Games with a lowercase ID not detected

770780 CDs in wrong order

770781 No covers for PSX games

* Translation updates:

Finnish

French

Portuguese

Slovenian

===============

Version 3.21.91

===============

* Improve using Games as a Flatpak

* UI:

- Add fullscreen support

- Toggle fullscreen with Ctrl+F or F11

- Retore the window with Escape

- Support covers named similarly to the game file

- Support covers allongside the game named as cover.* or folder.*

- Pause the game when the window is unfocused

- Resume the game when the window is focused

- Hide search bar out of collection view

- Refactor the resume dialog

- Prompt what to do on game resuming failure

- Reduce UI freezes when parsing MAME games

- Display game loading errors in an error page rather than an info box

* Gamepads:

- Can build without gamepad support

- Can build without udev (use a gamepad discovery fallback)

- Support gamepads without a mapping but sending proper gamepad events

- Read mappings from the user's config directory

- Fix the value of some mishandled axes

* Add support for:

- Game Boy Color

- Game Gear

- Mega-CD/Sega CD

- Mega-CD 32X/Sega CD 32X

- Mega Drive 32X/Sega 32X

- PC-Engine CD-ROM²

- PlayStation

- Sega Pico

- SG-1000

* PlayStation:

- Display the correct title for known games

- Support known games with multiple discs

- Use the disc's title rather than its number when available

* Bugs fixed:

GitHub 94 List PlayStation games

GitHub 174 Sometimes steam games installed not in path reported by registry.vdf

GitHub 308 Search bar slowly disappear when running game

GitHub 309 Ability to add custom gamepad mappings

GitHub 311 Should Always reset the Libretro core when starting a game

GitHub 312 Refactor the UI code

GitHub 313 gamepads: A wrong mapping can make the application crash

GitHub 314 Internationalize error messages

GitHub 315 Can't run Mega Drive games even with plugin installed

GitHub 318 Extract cue sheets handling out of Sega Saturn plugin

GitHub 319 Refactor headers file reading

GitHub 322 Accessing cue sheet track with an invalid index segfaults

GitHub 326 Make it possible to run multi-source games

769318 retro: Support gamepad rumble

769329 ui: Add fullscreen support

769345 playstation: PlayStationHeader doesn't give a correct disc ID

769438 ui: Add a keyboard shortcut to trigger fullscreen

769439 refactor: Move generic type implementations to their own directory

769444 build: Allow to build with $builddir != $srcdir

769468 master-system: Support Game Gear

769472 master-system: Support SG-1000

769473 mega-drive: Support Mega Drive 32X

769474 mega-drive: Support Mega-CD

769475 mega-drive: Support Sega Pico

769496 pc-engine: Suport PC-Engine CD games

769638 769638

769647 build: Rename icons from gnome-games to org.gnome.Games

769676 ui: Look for covers alongside the game files

769678 retro: Support libretro cores distributed with a .info

769801 Tell the user nicely when a ROM isn't supported

769825 grilo: Fix errors when without internet access

769829 Use libsoup instead of gvfs to download the covers

769832 Blocks on startup

769836 gamepads: Support gamepads properly mapped in the kernel

769844 gnome-games: Fix compile time errors

769909 Fix module path checking

769924 Improve the resume dialog

769963 ui: Useless TrackerGameSource in Application.load_game_list()

769904 gamepad: Add fallback support for gamepads without udev

769938 Handle failures when resuming a game

769993 Why a cancellable when quitting the game?

770004 Drop the runners when quitting a game

770011 Pause the runner when the window doesn't have focus

770142 [Alt+Tab]ing back to the application doesn't resume the game.

770468 gamepad: Several annoying bugs

770491 Critical error "Source ID was not found when attempting to remove it"

770492 ui: Cursor hidden after leaving fullscreen

769495 game-boy: Support Game Boy Color

770470 playstation: Some valid games don't have a BOOT header

770471 playstation: Support .bin.ecm games

* Translation updates:

Brazilian Portuguese

Czech

German

Hungarian

Polish

Portuguese

Serbian

Spanish

==============

Version 3.21.4

==============

* Allow to use some gamepads on retro games.

* Get covers from:

- TheGamesDB.net for most games

- the Steam store for Steam Games

* Display covers in the thumbnail for:

- Amiga

- Atari 2600

- Atari 7800

- Dreamcast

- Game Boy

- Game Boy Advance

- Game Cube

- Master System

- Mega Drive

- Neo Geo Pocket

- NES

- Nintendo 64

- Nintendo DS

- PC-Engine

- Sega Saturn

- SNES

- Steam

- Wii

- WiiWare

* Double the thumbnail size to better appreaciate covers.

* Bugs fixed:

301 Drawing multiple covers is very slow

302 Display the games' cover

303 Add gamepad support

304 Split result handling from game creation

* Translation updates:

Indonesian

Slovak

==============

Version 3.21.2

==============

* Prompt the user when quitting a game that can't be restored

* Add support for:

- Atari 2600

- Atari 7800

* Add icons for:

- LÖVE

- Nintendo DS

* Fix the theming to the latest GTK+

* Use filename as the SNES game title source

* Bugs fixed:

109 List Atari 2600 games

160 Some SNES titles are badly rendered

238 SNES games titles are ugly/unusable

259 Warn before quitting a game

263 List Atari 7800 games

275 Refactor MIME type queries

276 Rename *UID classes to *Uid

278 Use URIs in RetroRunne

282 Typo in translatable string

283 Adding simple game types should be trivial

285 Simplify the existing simple game formats

288 Quitting app while running Retro game don't save

289 Refactor icon handling

290 Display LÖVE games' own icons

291 Display Nintendo DS games' own icons

292 Remove custom game types

293 Remove SteamRunner

294 The theme is broken

* Translation updates:

Brazilian Portuguese

Chinese (China)

Czech

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Polish

Serbian

Spanish

Swedish

===============

Version 3.20.0

===============

No changes since 3.19.92

===============

Version 3.19.92

===============

* Add support for:

- MAME

- Neo-Geo Pocket

* Add the expected Retro module name to its 'not found' error message

* Check whether a Tracker cursor represents a game

* Fix the Amiga MIME-type

* UI:

- Enable the error info bar label to wrap

- Trigger search in collection view by typing

* Bugs fixed:

82 Error messages too wide

103 List Neo Geo Pocket games

113 List arcade games

114 Add search by starting typing

167 Useless error when plugin is missing

250 Remove barely used 'module_path' and 'game_path' attributes

257 Lots of useless warnings in tracker-game-source

260 Can't list amiga games

267 Search prevent games to be played with keyboard

* Translation updates:

Spanish

===============

Version 3.19.90

===============

* Lower logging level of message notifying the lack of a Steam install

* Split RunError into specialized errors

* Steam:

- Support registry files containing empty strings

- Support game manifests using "appID" instead of "appid"

* Desktop:

- Check the validity of DesktopAppInfo before using it

* Tracker:

- Check the existence of a file before trying to parse it

* Plugins:

- Add a plugin system allowing to extend supported game types

- Port code handling the currently supported game types to plugins

- Show the available plugins in the 'Preferences' window

* Add an 'About' dialog

* Allow i18n

* Bugs fixed:

162 Is jhbuild.modules still needed?

165 app_info != NULL errors

166 Can't list Steam games warning

169 Steam games not detected due to casing mismatch.

170 Steam registry warns about unexpected token '}'.

178 Lots of Tracker "Couldn't read file" errors

185 Add a plugin system to support more game types

189 RunError is too wide and should be splited

191 Move desktop support into its own plugin

192 Move Steam support into its own plugin

193 Move SNES support into its own plugin

196 Move NES support into its own plugin

199 Move Game Boy support into its own plugin

200 Move Game Boy Advance support into its own plugin

201 Move Nintendo DS support into its own plugin

202 Move Nintendo 64 support into its own plugin

203 Move Game Cube support into its own plugin

204 Move Wii support into its own plugin

205 Move Wii Ware support into its own plugin

206 Move PC-Engine support into its own plugin

207 Move Master System support into its own plugin

208 Move Mega Drive support into its own plugin

209 Move Sega Saturn support into its own plugin

210 Move Dreamcast support into its own plugin

211 Move Amiga support into its own plugin

212 Move DOOM support into its own plugin

213 Move LÖVE support into its own plugin

223 Missing Wii Vala files

224 Missing PC-Engine Vala files

237 The application should be translated

240 Add an About dialog

241 Show the available plugins

* Translation updates:

French

==============

Version 3.18.0

==============

This is the first preview release of Games.

Being that this is such an early release, we'd really appreciate it if you

took the time to file bugs as you find them or to suggest features.

Features

--------

* User interface

- Offer an icon view of the collection.

- Add a way to search for a game by its title.

- Sort games in the collection by their title.

* Listed games

- Desktop games

- Steam games

- LÖVE engine games

- Doom engine games

- NES/Famicom games

- SNES/Super Famicom games

- Nintendo 64 games

- Game Cube games

- Wii games

- WiiWare games

- Game Boy/Game Boy Color games

- Game Boy Advance games

- Nintendo DS games

- Master System games

- Mega Drive/Genesis/32X games

- Sega Saturn games

- Dreamcast games

- Game Gear games

- PC-Engine games

* Blacklisted games

- Blacklist non-games desktop entries, such as gaming console emulators

or game engines desktop entries.

- Blacklist Steam games desktop entries, so they don't appear twice.

* Runnable games

- Desktop games

- Steam games

- LÖVE engine games

- NES/Famicom games (requires retro-plugins-nes)

- SNES/Super Famicom games (requires retro-plugins-snes)

- Game Boy/Game Boy Color games (requires retro-plugins-game-boy)

- PC-Engine games (requires retro-plugins-pce)

* Retro games

- Save and load the in-game saves of Retro based games.

- Save the state of Retro based games to propose the user to take a its

game where he left it off.

- Add keyboard support to Retro based games by forwarding the key strokes

to the runner.