What's new in Flycast 2.3
Mar 17, 2024
- What's New:
- Battle Cable support
- SystemSP hopper games: kingyo, manpuku, shateki, magicpop, unomedal, puyomedal, ochaken and westdmrg
- Club Kart card reader support
- Gamepad dead zone and saturation settings
- Switch: touchscreen and joycon rumble support, bug fixes, performance improvements
- HID barcode scanner support for card games (Mushi King, Dinosaur King, Love & Berry)
- Fixed Games:
- Initial D v2/v3
- Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
- Confidential Mission
- The Maze of the Kings
- Spikers Battle
- NBA Showtime
- NHL 2K2
- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
- Monkey Ball
- Crackin'DJ 1 and 2
- F355 (Naomi)
- Samurai Shodown VI
- Shenmue
- Test Drive Le Mans
- Sakura Taisen 3
- Death Crimson 2
- Force Five
- NHL 2K2
- Shakatto Tambourine
- Xtreme Sports
- Blue Stinger
- RevolveR
- Kaen Seibo
- Nittere Shiki! Mirai Yosou Studio
- Shakatto Tambourine Arcade
New in Flycast 2.2 (Oct 29, 2023)
- What's New:
- Naomi F355 multiboard
- Sega SystemSP emulation
- Virtua Fighter 4 RFID card support. VF.Net emulation server
- Naomi touchscreen (Manic Panic Ghosts, Touch de Uno 1 & 2, Touch de zunou)
- Hopper for Kick'4'Cash, Shootout Pool and Club Kart Prize
- F355 Deluxe and Touch de Uno 1 & 2 printer
- Sega Driving Simulator
- Android Scoped Storage
- SH4 under/overclock option
- Mushiking series
- Naomi Alien Front worldwide ranking server
- NetDIMM 3.7 networking high-level emulation
- Racing Controller, Fishing Controller, Maracas, Densha de Go controller, Pop'n'Music Controller (@AltoRetrato)
- Real time Video Routing for streamers (@vkedwardli)
- SystemSP RFID chip emulation: Dinosaur King, Love & Berry
- Dreamcast 32 MB RAM option (@cepawiel)
- What's Improved:
- Support for Windows CE games on 32-bit x86 arch
- Hotkeys for Save and Load State
- Force feedback info netcast to Boomlangnz's FFB plugin: F355, 18 Wheeler, Club Kart, King of Route 66
- Use a gamepad with arcade lightgun games
- Per-game VMU A1 option
- Improved detection of Windows CE games
- Latin-1 and Asian fonts support in HLE BIOS
- Video centering support (San Francisco Rush 2049, Street Fighter III - 3rd strike, Metropolis Street Racer)
- Daytona USA networking
- Eldorado Gate 4 to 7 compatibility
- Implement dithering in Full Framebuffer Emulation mode
- Upgrade dependencies, build improvements, and more thanks to @scribam
- And many, many, many bug fixes thanks to @kihato and all bug reporters
New in Flycast 2.1 (Feb 16, 2023)
- Full framebuffer emulation (Densha de Go 2, homebrew)
- Linux AppImage builds
- Automatic crash reporting with Sentry
- Broadcast arcade digital outputs (lights, force feedback) over the network
- Android keyboard support
- Various GDB fixes and improvements, CPU graphs, Profiler
New in Flycast 2.0 (Aug 29, 2022)
- Naomi 2 support
- Card reader emulation (Initial D)
- Better Naomi networking. Network support for club kart, initial D, king of route 66
- Maximum Speed cabinet linking emulation
- Auto configuration of Naomi EEPROM (region, cabinet type, free play, etc.)
- Naomi widescreen cheats
- macOS: breakpad support
- Native Depth Interpolation option fixes many rendering issues with AMD GPUs
New in Flycast 1.3 (Apr 9, 2022)
- GGPO netplay
- UWP/Xbox support
- New DirectX 11 renderer
- New & improved input configuration, per-game inputs
- Single-threaded mode
- Lua bindings
- VMU beep support
- GameShark cheat codes
- Vulkan support on macOS
- Support for 120+ Hz monitors (Vulkan, DX9, DX11)
New in Flycast 1.2 (Dec 17, 2021)
- iOS support
- Nintendo Switch support
- New Libretro core
- DirectX 9: Support for VSync
- Open GL: Support for high refresh rate monitors (120+ Hz)
- Support for Windows CE games on 32-bit ARM platforms
- Crash reporting system (breakpad)
New in Flycast 1.1 (Aug 30, 2021)
- New DirectX9 renderer
- RawInput driver for multiple lightguns, mice and keyboards
- Savestate slots. Auto-load/save state at startup/exit
- Separate dreamcast/arcade control mapping profiles
New in Flycast 1.0 (Jul 14, 2021)
- Maple: better vmu I/O error handling.