RetroX 3 is out now!! Yes, this version is a milestone that deserves its own version number! Apart from having the new Collections feature, all the UI for Mobile and standard TV mode has been improved… a lot. This version also includes three new themes, one is the built in RetroX theme that matches the
I wanted to share some thoughts about the recent bad news of LaunchBox for Android being discontinued. I’ve read their forum post and wow, what they describe is exactly what I have been dealing with Android all these years while developing RetroX for it. I decided to write this post before some questions arrive, reading
From 2.9.0 you can just grab any controller and start playing. Another player is joining? Just grab another controller, press a button and start playing. ONLY if your gamepad has a weird configuration you may need to teach RetroX how your button works (map the buttons). The good thing is that you only need to do
One of the features that people have requested since the beginning of RetroX is the support for cheats. RetroArch and many MAME emulators have this feature included so a lot of people take it for granted, now RetroX has joined the club. As always, RetroX makes it really easy to enable cheats for your games,
This is important: We found a problem with recent Android Oreo updates: The system allowed RetroX to install one or two emulators then stopped installing anything else. The behaviour that you can see is that RetroX will prepare to install an emulator and then it does nothing, or sometimes the install window is seen on
A new feature has been added to RetroX to allow using different user interfaces for the same application, this is known as Themes. The main focus of RetroX has always been to make playing retro games the as easy as possible, just select one game and RetroX will do the best it can to run
The Oreo release of Android broke several emulators and most of them have been fixed up to this date, but one particular exception is the Amiga emulator (UAE2All2) which will require more time to fix, or as an alternative, be replaced by a new emulator. Some fixes in Oreo made some hidden bugs become evident
Retro gaming in new TV sets always have the problem of not using the full screen. Personally I don’t like to stretch the image but at the same time I don’t like to have the empty spaces / black bars at the sides. Some emulators put an image to cover the black area but that
In the last weeks we have been making progressive steps to be more open to our users, like publishing our emulator porting libraries in github and allowing users to create their own themes, but we believed that we could do more. So, since today we have opened a forum to hear from you!! In our forums you can
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about why other frontends are so popular while they are only “front-ends”. Don’t take me wrong, I know that they have a lot of work behind, but I honestly think that RetroX is way ahead of most Android frontends in terms of ease of use and features. Only that