eightyone, exel-hence and sugarbox2 live in Recalbox's own package repos
and no other platform ships them. eightyone's pin v1.2 is the tag Recalbox
10.1.1 builds while v1.3 is out, so it is held; exel-hence is held on v0.9.
sugarbox2's built tag v1.5 is token-gated and stays on the public v0.9.
Read from the signed Starboard-v0.40.0.apk (sha256 e03173ee, the
digest GitHub records, same signing certificate as v0.23.0). The rootfs
flow is unchanged apart from class names. The runtime release is now
starboard-rootfs-20261020.3 (586984114 bytes, sha256 883f1800), and its
.sha256 sidecar is published and matches, so the app checks the hash.
Runtimes now live in Starboard/libs on shared storage, bound into the
rootfs, the ES-DE sync no longer writes es_systems.xml, and the APK adds
libSDL2_dlopen, libSDL2_pysdl2, libsb_libguard and libsb_xhelper.
The 2.2n libemucore.so differs from 2.1 only in its three version
strings, so every offset and the three patched instructions hold. 2.2n
ships a new GameIndex.yaml, cheats_ws.zip and cheats_ni.zip (sizes and
hashes updated) and adds the network adapter to its settings pages.
Every other bundled asset is byte identical. The fourth instruction the
build script patches at 0x81b264 after the release is not in the package.
RetroBat, the only platform that runs RAINE, installs raine.7z whose
raine.exe reports 0.97.5 and was built on 16 March 2025, the bump its
CHANGELOG.md records at line 176. Upstream tagged 0.97.6b since. The
mass pin advance had moved the profile to master. It goes back to
8e25d5d, the last commit before that build, with the refs written for it.
The peripheral option is option(${opt_name} ... ON) at CMakeLists.txt:541;
the notes and the mouse card cited 538, a blank line one above it already
at the old pin.
Two commits: replay headers carry PowerPCFrequency and RefreshRate, and a Windows link fix. Bundled files unchanged. Site source paths follow the super3 and supermodel-dojo pins.
The solarus2 package's libsolarus.dll reports Solarus 2.0.0 (49d1d46), tag v2.0.0+cicd1, which differs from v2.0.0 only in .gitlab-ci.yml. Site source paths follow the new pins of this batch.
Arcade sessions now pick the board BIOS per game (FindArcadeBiosFor, BiosTools.cpp:331-419), naming a third board, Sony COH-H A-000-010. Adds the RAISR upscaler filters and the bundled Conquest card. Shipped hashes follow the 2.9 APK and AppImage; the libretro patches.zip hash is dropped, the build fetches the latest release.
The default core is now hakuX, an HLE kernel that needs no firmware, so the MCPX, flash and disk images are only required by the xemu core. The Chihiro driver is now built: Chihiro BIOS, media board flash and the three baseboard EEPROMs are read beside the flash image. SDL3 replaces SDL2, so the user mapping file is gamepad_map.txt.
FDS content is now also recognised by its fwNES header or side marker (lib.rs:2225-2244). disksys.rom is unchanged: 8192 bytes from the system directory, no hash.
The Android build now runs libretro SwanStation instead of psxe. Its importer accepts only 512 KB images whose MD5 is in a 25-entry table (Ps1BiosProbe.java:29-55), so the agnostic scph1001.bin entry becomes those 25 identified images. psxe now refuses sizes other than 512 KB and 1 MB (psx/dev/bios.c:44-49).
Starter tables are now .vpz folder packs, segment textures load a -cov.png coverage atlas beside them, table music falls back to the folders 10.8 searched (ScriptGlobalTable.cpp:120-148) and a Windows-only BAM plugin is staged. The build fetches pinmame d5e1921 now (platforms/config.sh:11): container sets unchanged, cited lines remapped.
The default branch 'rebased' is force-pushed GroovyMAME on MAME master, and ac85e94 no longer exists on it. Releases are cut from groovymame0289: gm0289sr222f is 953db38, the revision the refs and the mame0289 upstream pin describe. source_branch now names it.
Line shifts only in the ROM loader. The keyboard art, my_soft and copier citations now name the find_sharedfile calls (menu_items.c:22030, 22051, 32650; menu_items_storage.c:667-669); the old lines were blank or unrelated at the previous pin too.
Sound Canvas models are now looked up only inside the Nuked-SC55.clap library (src/midi/soundcanvas.cpp:77-93), and a generic clap MIDI device runs a user-named plugin (src/midi/clap.cpp:52-82). ROM files and hashes unchanged.
1.4.0 boots a single-game package by its own .smf and, in the Emscripten build, writes saves to the frontend save directory (save_manager.rs:33-48, api.rs:194-197). Still no file outside the game package.
Upstream 6641863 also accepts 8.bin, E.bin and e.bin, and the Emscripten build looks beside the content (crates/bbkemu-libretro/src/lib.rs:191-218). Same two files, same model directory.
Release 0.6.0 (80cdb6d) adds a COH-3002C handler that reads coh3002c.zip (arcade_machine_handler.cpp:290-319). ROM loading moved to arcade_rom_loader.cpp, which also matches a member by size and CRC32, reads .7z sets and falls back to parent archives; konamigv.7z is read when konamigv.zip is absent.
Upstream stopped shipping WHDLoad, JST and the skick346 RTB files: the standalone build now fetches them from whdload.de and Aminet (skick346.lha pinned by SHA-256 at src/osdep/amiberry.cpp:12265). AmiQuit became host-quit, boot-data.zip changed, and three RTB files the download extracts (kick37175.A500, kick36143.A3000, kick39106.A1200) are added with hashes taken from the pinned archive.
Upstream registered the Aleck64 PIF BIOS as a NOT_A_DRIVER set at src/drivers/aleck64.c:776, loading pifdata.bin. The pin moves from the force-pushed dcf44cc to 8167047.
The Vulkan renderer merge (75 commits): no ROM loading change. The CMakeLists.txt organization and app name definitions moved down six lines (647-648).
183 upstream commits. Ultima's data_archive.cpp was folded into Common::load_engine_data, which opens ultima.dat and checks its version.txt the same way (common/engine_data.cpp:273-279). No dists/ or gui/ file changed, so the bundled hashes hold. Adds japanesemacfonts.dat, which the Mac GUI reads for Japanese fonts and ScummVM does not ship.
The fork rebased on trzy 1481545 (Src/Version.h:32 now 0.3a-1481545-mm); the two commits touch tilegen timings, the PowerPC core and the GUI only. upstream_commit follows to 1481545. The 11726c4 release archives carry the same Games.xml, Music.xml and crosshair bitmaps. RetroPie builds the main branch tip on x86, so the pin follows HEAD; the ROCKNIX arm build stays a note, with the version it prints.
Abdessamad Derraz