Zaparoo Frontend updates
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Zaparoo Frontend v2.1.0 is the first feature release on the rebuilt MiSTer interface. You can search your whole library from the couch and keep a search as a tile on the Hub.
Zaparoo Core v2.20.0 is out alongside it. MiSTer scripts show up as a system you can browse and launch, and artwork installed by Update All is imported for you after each media database update.
Zaparoo Frontend v2.0.0 is a rebuilt MiSTer interface. This release gets the rewrite out for feedback and testing on your setups.
If waiting put you off the old Frontend, I'd like you to try this version and tell us how it feels on your MiSTer.
Zaparoo Core v2.19.0 is already out, with artwork downloads, more MiSTer launchers, and library and launch fixes.
A recent MiSTer update introduced a newer Linux kernel that stops Zaparoo Frontend from opening. A hotfix is now available through Update All.
Zaparoo Frontend v1.3.0 and Zaparoo Core v2.17.1 are now available. Update All installs both together.
Frontend is a lot faster and has a new look, plus a Hub you can arrange yourself, a reorganized settings menu, and a MiSTer Main build that adds kiosk mode and CRT settings to the OSD. Core v2.17.1 is a patch release for problems found after v2.17.0. The two that mattered most: RetroDECK and EmuDeck games refusing to launch on Linux and SteamOS, and MiSTer arcade games counted as closed the moment they started.
Thank you to Giancarlo Erra for the paging, random picks, favorites controls, and performance work, Peter Brittain for grouping favorites by system, theypsilon for the updater improvements, and Wilfried Jeanniard for the French translation.
Zaparoo Frontend v1.2.2 and Zaparoo Core v2.15.1 are hotfix releases.
Main fixes: browsing reliability, faster cover loading, more responsive launches, and folder-based systems like PSX.
Zaparoo Frontend v1.2.1 is a hotfix release.
This update fixes an issue where enabling CRT mode would show static snow instead of the Frontend UI. If you updated to v1.2.0 and CRT mode was not usable, update to v1.2.1.
Zaparoo Frontend v1.2.0 and Zaparoo Core v2.15.0 are the next paired Zaparoo releases.
This update focuses on Frontend's new built-in MiSTer updater, a smoother CRT and browsing experience, more ways to customize your library, launchable ROM-less MiSTer cores, and local artwork scraping.
Thank you to Andrea Bogazzi for the Frontend startup and media loading performance work, and to theypsilon for developing and contributing the new built-in updater.
Zaparoo Frontend v1.1.1 and Zaparoo Core v2.14.1 are patch releases for the v1.1.0 / v2.14.0 cycle.
This update focuses on smoother browsing, fewer unnecessary cover requests, more reliable scraping, and safer media database indexing after unexpected shutdowns.
Zaparoo Frontend v1.1.0 and Zaparoo Core v2.14.0 are the next paired Zaparoo releases.
Thank you to Andrea Bogazzi for the Frontend TATE, layout, and performance work plus the Core service startup hooks, Matthew O'Gorman for player 3 and 4 coin input commands, and devilschile2 for Basque translation work.
Zaparoo Frontend v1.0.3 is available alongside Zaparoo Core v2.13.0.
Frontend v1.0.3 is the CRT release. It adds native 240p CRT output on MiSTer, a 240p-focused layout pass, list browsing, per-system launcher selection, Arcade alternates, and a batch of MiSTer fixes.
Core v2.13.0 adds MiSTer RetroAchievements launchers, MiSTer Companion scraping support, new ZapScript next-scan flows, Amstrad CPC and 3DO file support, and fixes for readers, the TUI, API clients, RetroBat, and MiSTer audio.
A big thank you to Andrea Bogazzi, BossRighteous, Tim Wilsie, and Carlos R. for their work on this release.