General update! 2021-05-04

I've got a few short term project that piled up, so development is going a bit slower than usual; sorry about that! On the other hand, I haven't received new major bug reports about the latest versions, so I'll nominate them to Alpha 15! You can read a list of all changes since 14 here: https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend/releases/tag/alpha15.

There are also two very minor updates since the last weekly update:

Android: Updated the app icon to support adaptive launchers LaunchBox: Added support for game sort names

There's also an important notice if you're updating from stable: Windows shortcuts and Linux symlinks weren't properly resolved everywhere before; if you have games like that as favorite, you might notice some of them no longer marked as such. If necessary, you can edit the list of favorites manually, they are listed in a text file called favorites.txt in your config directory (see https://pegasus-frontend.org/docs/user-guide/config-dirs/).

Linux news: The APT repository site, where the Debian package is hosted, closes down this summer; in case you're interested in maintaining one, feel free to drop by in this issue: https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend/issues/202. As for Flatpak, the update will be out in about half an hour.

AlexandreBonneau created this issue in mmatyas/pegasus-frontend open Create a Debian package for easy installation #202

Thanks guys. I will remove it in the next release, unless someone stops by within the next week with compelling arguments to keep it.

MAME2003+ was always about taking the base MAME78 core and backporting new game support plus many fixes and improvements
from later MAME releases, the core sees many new commits everyday but i wanna focus on a couple of noteworthy happenings

Contra

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A recent fix was just added where as the bullet and rolling mines now behave correctly on the 3D sections of the game
now rather than simply always ending up on the right of the screen regardless of where your character is they now
correctly target you directly as it would have been the case when playing it back in the day down your local.

It's harder now as a result but no gains without some pains :)

Turbo Out Run

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You can now play Turbo Outrun in this core but however since MAME2003+ does not have a M68K CPU which can
decrypt the FD1094 Sega protection, we're hacking around this by making the original MAME78 Turbo Out Run
romsets use some pre-decrypted roms.

As a rule do the following and merge these romsets to create a working version a dat will help you right enough...........

toutrun.zip + toutrund = working
toutrun3.zip + toutrun3d = working

I've already added the Contra fix and another which sorts the missing road layer in Hang-On so it's now playable in
the MAME2003 core, but since those who deem themselves to be in charge of MAME2003 do not want to see the roms
changed then i'll just leave Turbo Out Run in a broken and non working state for that core.

Hii ! i would love to help out and create the rest of the images
please contact me via email or Instagram @taialt97 taialt97@gmail.com

@ruckage

@adambegood

I saw the thread of this game, it was nice to do the "fix".
Perhaps I will play it sometime.

It's late but I should have created this one a week or two ago.

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Loving those European DS cases. Really nice finds on those CIB Game Boy Games, especially Super Ghouls'N Ghosts!

@wildfire it's your theme-mod ready for download? Looks awesome .Thanks.

@nesfredo I did not create any logos, and I re-used one of the empty backgrounds that already existed. Can look at making logos and backgrounds at a later point.

@screech

Hi, cery strange issue..
I can't scrape anymore samsho4.
Every time i try to scrape it the program crash.
I scraped with mame, neo geo, but always the same result.
I'm on newer version of uxs..
This appen with only this rom, for now..

I have fixed the automated build and the latest version is available for download again. Sorry for the delay.

It appears the TI-99 logo in this theme (regular and metadata versions) is still showing as the TRS-80 logo. The TFT version of the theme does have the proper TI-99 logo. I'm not sure if this theme is still updated but just thought I'd mention as it’s a fantastic theme.

@daanv98 glad you got it working, happy i could help out

@UDb23 Thank you! Sorry I took so long to respond. I've been so busy working.

@nismo , Hi there! I'm absolute noob and I'm not a native english speaker, so please be patient with me! I'm using the ES portable build from herb fargus on windows 10 and I'm realy interested in the mentioned launcher which would make my Retro Gaming Experience much more enyoable! Any chance to get this launcher somewhere here in the forum?

@johnodon That controller layout looks great. Are you willing to share that image?

@sdhoigt Donkey Kong II Jumpman Returns is playable in MAME2003+ as i added support for it several years back

@bmovieben OK, from your code-output i can see you are on a RaspberryPi - so that Method won't work... Also i don't understand why you try it the hard way by compiling yourself when there's a straightforward, easy to use solution for pi users provided in the opening post...

@luckyluca It's probably AGA games (the graphics standard in A1200). Amiga games are, for the most part, compatible across units such as A500, A600 and A1200. But the games that require AGA requires an A1200 or other Amiga system with that chipset.

@lipebello just can't wait for that! Being a fan of your awesome work and following your social media for a while, you rock!

By the way, are you planning to release a Rock n' Roll based theme or just having fun teasing us? =D