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RetroPie 4.5 is released

Jools — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:50:02 +0000

After some delays due to recent issues we are pleased to announce RetroPie 4.5.

This version does NOT work on the recently released Raspberry Pi 4. We are currently working on support for this.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: It has come to our attention that composite out is broken on this release. See https://retropie.org.uk/2019/07/composite-out-broken-on-retropie-4-5/ for further details.

RetroPie 4.5 for the Raspberry Pi is based on Raspbian Stretch. This may be our last image based on Stretch as it looks as though the Raspberry Pi foundation are now concentrating their efforts on the recently released Raspbian Buster. Some parts of RetroPie already work on Buster on the Raspberry Pi 1/2 and 3 but it’s not officially supported yet.

We held off on making this release due to a Raspbian kernel update which broke pairing of Sony Bluetooth devices. We have worked around this on the Raspberry Pi images by installing more recent firmware/kernel packages from the Buster distribution.

Please see the changelog below for more information on the changes since RetroPie 4.4.

You can download a 4.5 image from https://retropie.org.uk/download/. For first installs please follow the Installation Instructions.

You can also install RetroPie on top of an existing Raspbian Stretch set up, or on top of Ubuntu on a PC/Odroid-C1/C2/XU3/XU4. Links to the relevant instructions can be found on the Download area.

If you want to support the project, donations are always appreciated and can be made on our Donation Page. The main developer Jools Wills also has a Patreon page up at https://www.patreon.com/retropie.

Changes since 4.4

Dropped Raspbian/Debian Jessie support
Raspberry Pi 3 A+ support (via Stretch firmware update)
Many new es themes added
Added Skyscraper (Scraper for Emulation Station game lists)
RetroArch updated to v1.7.6
Amiberry (Amiga emulator) updated to v2.25, including support for launching whdload and CD32 titles from ES.
Jzintv (Intellivision emulator) updated to 20181225 release
atari800 – updated to v4.0.0
Mupen64plus – updated to latest version (GlideN64 stability and compatibility improved), as well as other changes.
Fuse (ZX Spectrum emulator) updated to v1.5.7
ZEsarUX (ZX Spectrum emulator) updated to v7
advmame (Advance MAME arcade emulator) – updated to v3.9
Fixed building of quake3 for RPI.
Added love-0.10.2 (2d Game Engine) for compatibility with older games.
Dosbox updated to SVN r4194 including joystick fix for 360 controllers.
CGenius – updated to v2.3.1
lr-flycast (libretro Dreamcast emulator) – renamed from lr-reicast and enabled for arm platforms including the RPI.
reicast – Switched to updated upstream repository – the latest code includes bugfixes and improvements including better game compatibility as well as our RPI fixes.
lr-ppsspp – switched to upstream repository for latest version
lr-fbneo (Arcade and console emulator) – renamed from lr-fblpha – lots of improvements including neo geo cd support, and optional cyclone 68k core for better performance on slower devices for some games.The emulator can now be selected as an alternate emulator for Sega Genesis/Mastersystem/SG-1000, PC-Engine, MSX, ColecoVision and ZXSpectrum.
Fixes and updates to many libretro cores
Kodi updated to the 18 “Leia” release (only available in Raspbian Stretch)
Improvements/fixes to joystick control in runcommand launch menu
Fixes / Improvements to bluetooth pairing
Added sixaxis driver – better DualShock 3 controller support with full bluetooth coexistence
- Third-party (Shanwan/Gasia) controller support via customhidsony & custombluez drivers
lr-mame2014 renamed to lr-mame2015
Emulationstation – updated to v2.8.4 which includes:
- 2 new scrapers added for the TheGamesDB and ScreenScraper. Also many bugfixes and improvements including:
  - Gridview support now in main version
  - Hide MAME bios files by default
  - Graphical / rendering fixes
  - Loading progress
  - Allow using analog sticks for navigation
  - More flexible audio configuration
  - Lots of code refactoring, bugfixes and performance improvements, including removing boost libraries making compilation faster (and code smaller).
  - Search and load artwork based on ROM name (image and video)
  - Experimental scripting support, triggered by events.

Added new experimental modules
- moonlight – NVIDIA GameStream client
- steamlink – Steam Link streaming client for Raspberry Pi 3
- jumpnbump – multiplayer platform game
- mysticmine – open source indie game
- bombermaaan – Classic bomberman game
- lr-superflappybirds – Multiplayer Flappy Bird Clone
- lr-scummvm – libretro version of scummvm (Allows playing of many classic point and click adventures)
- lr-x1 – Sharp X1 libretro core
- lr-redream – Dreamcast emulator
- lr-pokemini – Pokemon Mini emulator
- lr-81 – Sinclair ZX81 emulator
- lr-quasi88 – NEC PC-8801 emulator
- splitwolf – 2-4 player split-screen Wolfenstein 3D / Spear of Destiny port
- lr-mupen64plus-next – a new WIP Libretro core which aims to improve upon the existing lr-mupen64plus core.

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RetroPie 4.0 is released

Jools — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 01:38:04 +0000

RetroPie 4.0 has arrived and with it come some major improvements to the software. It is now more modular than ever, and allows emulators and ports to be easily added and removed. There are also updates to included emulators, as well as improvements to the set-up tools to make configuration even easier.

Highlights of this release include (full changelog below) :

Improved management of RetroPie components.
Better N64 emulation.
Improvements to configuration of Xbox/8Bitdo gamepad
Analogue support in lr-mame2003 and correct aspect ratios for games.
Splashscreen/Carbon Emulation Station theme updates.

You can download a 4.0 image from: https://retropie.org.uk/download/. If updating from a previous version you should make a backup first, update the RetroPie-Setup script, then choose Update all installed packages.

Installation Instructions can be found at https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation. Users of RetroPie v3.x can upgrade to the latest version by following the upgrade instructions on the Wiki.

You can also install RetroPie on top of an existing Raspbian set up, or on top of Ubuntu on a PC/Odroid-C1. Links to the relevant instructions can be found on the Download area.

NOTE: Some people have been having trouble with the XBox/XBox 360 controller driver xboxdrv on the current Raspbian Kernel. To work around this we now include the latest xpad kernel driver with the image (it is available from the Packages -> Drivers menu for those upgrading). The included xpad has been patched to map the Xbox 360 triggers to buttons, so they work out of the box with Emulation Station, without the need for xboxdrv.

Big thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release. Thanks also to our excellent web hosts Mythic-Beasts who are sponsoring us with our hosting. The performance and connection speed is great. We highly recommend them if you need a decent hosting solution backed by expert support.

Changes since 3.8.1:

Setup script improvements:
- Added the ability to install/update and remove packages.
- Added help docs to the setup script.
Renamed mednafen emulators to beetle to match upstream libretro repositories.
Renaming of ES input configuration which was causing confusion for shoulder/trigger inputs.
Much faster Emulation Station start-up in gamelist only mode.
Updated Xpad driver included with “trigger to button” enabled, so mapping of Xbox 360 / Logitech trigger buttons is easier.
Input configuration script to set up player 1 automatically on pifba and pisnes.
Configuration Editor can now help you configure player gamepad order for libretro emulators.
Updated PSP emulators ppsspp and lr-ppsspp with a fix for the pausing during play.
Autostart improvements: boot to kodi option added – (exiting kodi will take you back to emulationstation).
Improvements to mupen64plus Glide64 video plugin, which is now the default.
Added new libretro emulator based on mupen64 – lr-glupen64.
lr-mame2003 updates – support for mice/analogue joystick support. Fixed aspect ratio issues.
Updates to various other emulators including reicast, lr-fceumm, lr-nestopia, lr-snes9x-next and the RetroArch frontend.
SDL2 dispmanx scaling, so SDL2 software can render to a lower resolution and be scaled in hardware. This enhances performance on mupen64plus for example, without having to change the video mode.
Improvements to the Bluetooth module, including the ability to try and reconnect to devices in the background, and an option to switch off our mapping hack for 8bitdo, so devices with a newer firmware will map correctly for RetroArch. Fix pairing with Android phones.
Splashscreen improvements: New default splashscreen and a new splashscreen repository with additional splashscreens.
Support for configs/all/runcommand-onstart.sh configs/all/runcommand-onend.sh user scripts
New experimental modules:
- TRS-80 emulator sdltrs.
- TI-99/4A emulator ti99sim.
- Oric 1/Atmos emulator Oricutron.
- Dinothawr (lr-dinothawr – standalone libretro puzzle game).
- lr-mame2014 (Late 2014/Early 2015 version of MAME – uses 0.159 romset)
- Alternate Virtual Gamepad by sbidolach.
Various other bug fixes and improvements.

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RetroPie

Jools — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 13:05:03 +0000

RetroPie-Setup is a shell script to setup the Raspberry Pi with several emulators, various cores, and EmulationStation as graphical front end (It also can be installed on a PC running Ubuntu and has some support for the Odroid C1). Bootable pre-made images are available from https://retropie.org.uk/ for those that want a ready to go system.

I am one of the main developers working on RetroPie and work alongside other contributors, who help with the code, graphics, documentation, and tutorials. The project also has a very helpful user base helping out over at the RetroPie forum, as well as contributing to the Documentation.

The main code for RetroPie can be found on GitHub – https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

History of my involvement

On October 30th 2012, Pimoroni launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Picade – a small table top arcade cabinet for a Raspberry Pi (or other small computer/board). In June 2014 I received my Picade and installed a Raspberry Pi in it. I had previously looked around at available software and had come across the RetroPie project, which was an automated set of scripts to pull together an easy to use emulation system on top of Raspbian.

Although decent at the time, it lacked some features I wanted, and I had some ideas for improvements. I started contributing in July 2014, and have been actively working on it since then. A list of changes/new features can be found in the RetroPie docs – https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Changelogs/

Links:

Official website and forum – https://retropie.org.uk/
GitHub development – https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

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XBMC4Xbox – Media player software

Jools — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:28:47 +0000

From the XBMC4Xbox Wiki:

XBMC4Xbox (which was the original part of the XBMC project – now known as Kodi – and formerly named Xbox Media Center) is a free and open source media player software made solely for the first-generation Xbox video-game console. Other than the audio / video playback and media center functionality of XBMC4Xbox, it also has the ability to catalog and launch original Xbox games, and homebrew applications such as console emulators from the Xbox’s built-in harddrive.

XBMC4Xbox is a third-party developer spin-off project of XBMC for Xbox, with still active development and support of the Xbox. This project was created as a fork of XBMC for Xbox as a separate project to continue having a version of XBMC for the Xbox hardware platform, and was initially started by a few members from the original XBMC project in order to fully breakout the removed Xbox branch support from the official XBMC project and let it continue as a totally separate project, which was announced on the 27 of May 2010.

I currently maintain the code base, and run the XBMC4Xbox website and forum over at http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/. In October 2014 we released v3.5 with a v3.5.1 with a few fixes being released on the 31st May 2015.

These days there are lots of low-cost options for running Kodi (formerly XBMC) such as the Raspberry Pi, but XBMC4Xbox is still used by people, and there are still a few thousand XBMC4Xbox machines connected to the net (taken from the newsfeed stats) and perhaps more being used as standalone units. For SD content the XBMC4Xbox still makes a decent player and the hardware can be picked up cheaply. The original Xbox can also be used for emulation, and of course for playing Xbox games

History of my involvement

Back in 2009/2010 I started looking at a few issues with XBMC on the original Xbox. At that point the Xbox version of the project was not being actively maintained by the main team, but one user called Arnova was still backporting patches and looking after it. The project officially split from the main XBMC project in May 2010, renamed to XBMC4Xbox to distinguish itself from upstream and I joined up to work on improving the player code.

At that time there was a 3rd party forum set up by someone which we decided to use to communicate with the userbase, but unfortunately it was not maintained well, and one day just disappeared from the Internet.

On July 12th 2012, I launched a new website for the project. We were able to recover some of the blog content, and the wiki was rebuilt from the official XBMC wiki – with much thanks to Team XBMC at the time for providing us with dumps. At this point in time Arnova had moved on, and was working mostly on the official XBMC project, so I took over as the core developer and continued development.

Links:

XBMC4XBox Main Site – http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/
XBMC4Xbox on Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC4Xbox

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Changelog

Jools — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:19:56 +0000

Changelog

Xubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty)

v1.6 (02/02/2017)

Kernel 3.2.84
Package Roll-ups
OpenSSH enabled on the Xubuntu image

v1.5 (04/06/2016)

Kernel 3.2.80
Kodi 16.1
Package Rollups

v1.4 (01/12/2015)

Kernel 3.2.74
Kodi 15.2
Package Rollups

v1.3 (28/08/2015)

Kernel 3.2.71
Kodi 15.1
Package Rollups

v1.2 (31/05/2015)

Some package changes/pinning to fix some dependency issues
Includes Kodi 14.2 (With the Re-touched skin)
Kernel 3.2.69
Use r8168-dkms from Ubuntu repository
Package Rollups

v1.1 (01/11/2014)

Package rollups (includes XBMC 13.2).
Kernel 3.2.64.

v1.0 (22/05/2014)

Initial release.

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RetroPie 2.5.0 is released

Jools — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 12:00:37 +0000

Version 2.5.0

Updated to latest firmware to support Raspberry Pi 2 (TM)
Usb rom service should now be working
updated all binaries
mupen64plus is out of experimental
added gpu_mem_1024 to config.txt
removed overclocking settings
simplified rom folder permissions
removed ignore_safe_mode as safe mode is removed since march 2014

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 is released

Jools — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:35 +0000

After more than a year’s work since v3.3, we are very pleased to announce XBMC4Xbox version v3.5. A large number of new features and improvements have been made since v3.3, including the integration of Python 2.7, improved video playback, updates to the skinning engine, scraper fixes, and plenty of bug fixes.

Key improvements:

Python 2.7 & API improvements

Python support in XBMC4Xbox has been overhauled, with the out of date Python 2.4 replaced with Python 2.7. This update, along with the addition of some missing API functions brings much better compatibility with Kodi (Formerly XBMC) plugins. The Addons4Xbox installer has also been updated, allowing many plugins written for Kodi to work right out of the box. The Python 2.7 update also brings performance improvements, and comes with fully working libraries for sqlite3, and SSL amongst others.

DVDPlayer updates

DVDPlayer (The main video player in XBMC4Xbox) has received numerous changes, including having the FFMpeg core libraries updated to v1.2.8 which brings a variety of new codecs, bug-fixes, and optimisations from the previous 0.10.x version. The libraries used for DVD navigation have also been updated which should bring better compatibility with problematic DVD menus.

Scraper fixes and clean-ups

We had a lot of broken and unmaintained scrapers with the previously version of XBMC4Xbox. With the 3.5 release only a few are included, but they are all maintained and working. We have scrapers for themoviedb.org, thetvdb.com as well as theaudiodb.com for music. Please do support and contribute to these open database projects, as the content and results are only as good as the information people have contributed.

PAPlayer updates

PAPlayer (the core audio player in XBMC4Xbox) has received some updates since the last version of XBMC4Xbox. DVDPlayer’s FFMpeg libraries are now used for decoding of some audio formats which means some of the old out of date libraries we used previously are no longer needed. This simplifies maintenance, and brings with it better performance and compatibility. The FFMpeg libraries are now used for OGG, FLAC, AAC, AC3,and DTS.

Skinning improvements

A variety of improvements have been backported from Kodi for the skin engine. This allows skins and features for Kodi to be more easily implemented. Thanks to the skin developers who requested changes/features and helped with testing. We currently ship with the same selection of skins as with v3.3 – Confluence Lite, Confluence, Project Mayhem III, and the PM3HD skin, but more can be found on the skin development section of our forum (such as the excellent Xbox Extended skin from Dom).

New branding

Thanks to SwedishGojira we now have our own project branding – our new XBMC4Xbox logo is used on our project site as well as for the XBMC4Xbox boot-up splash. Since the renaming of XBMC to Kodi, there has been some discussion regarding our name. I can confirm we are keeping the name XBMC4Xbox for our project. Changing it now would just introduce more confusion.

Transifex integration

Thanks to Kodi and their useful tools for handling translations, we are now using the on-line service Transifex to manage translations for the project. This means anyone who wants to help improve translations can now go and sign up over at https://www.transifex.com/organization/xbmc4xbox and start translating the software to their favourite language via the easy to use web interface. The updated translations can then be merged back into the XBMC4Xbox code base by us.

Bug fixes

There have been many bug fixes around the software with around 44 issues on the bugtracker resolved/fixed as well as more reported via the forum. Thanks to all those that have reported bugs, provided fixes & patches, and helped with testing.

Thanks

As well as the key features above, many other changes have been made with a lot of backported features and fixes from Kodi. Thanks to Team Kodi for creating our favourite media center software Thanks also to all those who help and contribute to our project and forum.

If you enjoy using XBMC4Xbox and want to show your support for the ongoing development please consider making a donation to the project. Please also do join in the discussions over at our Forum.

Obtaining XBMC4Xbox

See the development page for links to the source code and the SVN repository. For binary builds, read the information on the download page. For those that want to build from source, 3.5 is tagged here: https://svn.exotica.org.uk:8443/xbmc4xbox/tags/3.5/.

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 is released

Jools — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:43:15 +0000

Key improvements:

Python 2.7 & API improvements

DVDPlayer updates

Scraper fixes and clean-ups

PAPlayer updates

Skinning improvements

New branding

Transifex integration

Bug fixes

Thanks

If you enjoy using XBMC4Xbox and want to show your support for the ongoing development please consider making a donation to the project. Please also do join in the discussions over at our Forum.

Obtaining XBMC4Xbox

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XBMC4Xbox Remote 2.9.9 for Android

Jools — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:35 +0000

Changes:

v2.9.9 (Sun, 21 Sep 2014):
- New: Main > Programs:
  – Apps / Games / Emulators;
  – available to premium only;
- Mod: Main > Touchpad:
  – available to all;
- New: Analytics > Versions;
v2.9.8 (Sun, 13 Jul 2014):
- Fix: Crashes on Android 2.1 & 2.2
v2.9.7 (Fri, 4 Jul 2014):
- Fix: Cannot share / play “youtu.be” URLs (thanks sahib12);
- Fix: Widget > Currently playing thumbnail (thanks AwesomeNurd);
- Fix: Movies > Files > cannot play video files (thanks Fastlane);
- Fix: Crashes on Android 3.2
- New: Commands > Screenshots
v2.9.6 (Sun, 19 Jan 2014):
- Main :
  – Remember last used XBMC4Xbox;
  – Allow to delete XBMC4Xbox entry (from “edit” dialog);
- Main > Network Scan
  – Allow to cancel scan;
  – Update entry with same MAC address (instead of adding new one);

For guides on how to configure & use, see more at:
https://sites.google.com/site/xbmc4xboxremoteandroid/

For support / feedback / suggestions use this forum thread:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=203

Download from:

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XBMC4Xbox Remote 2.9.9 for Android

Jools — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:57:29 +0000

Changes:

v2.9.9 (Sun, 21 Sep 2014):
- New: Main > Programs:
  – Apps / Games / Emulators;
  – available to premium only;
- Mod: Main > Touchpad:
  – available to all;
- New: Analytics > Versions;
v2.9.8 (Sun, 13 Jul 2014):
- Fix: Crashes on Android 2.1 & 2.2
v2.9.7 (Fri, 4 Jul 2014):
- Fix: Cannot share / play “youtu.be” URLs (thanks sahib12);
- Fix: Widget > Currently playing thumbnail (thanks AwesomeNurd);
- Fix: Movies > Files > cannot play video files (thanks Fastlane);
- Fix: Crashes on Android 3.2
- New: Commands > Screenshots
v2.9.6 (Sun, 19 Jan 2014):
- Main :
  – Remember last used XBMC4Xbox;
  – Allow to delete XBMC4Xbox entry (from “edit” dialog);
- Main > Network Scan
  – Allow to cancel scan;
  – Update entry with same MAC address (instead of adding new one);

For guides on how to configure & use, see more at:
https://sites.google.com/site/xbmc4xboxremoteandroid/

For support / feedback / suggestions use this forum thread:
https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=203

Download from:

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 RC2 is out

Jools — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:35 +0000

Unfortunately RTMP streaming was broken in RC1 due so it’s time for another release – XBMC4Xbox 3.5 RC2. It also gives us the opportunity to show off the new branding before the final 3.5 release.

Changes since 3.5 RC1 include:

Fix for the RTMP streaming issue.
Updates to PolarSSL, librtmp and libcurl as well as the Curl VFS.
Update FFmpeg Libraries to 1.2.8.
Update translations from Transifex.
Added missing hard disk / DVD information on Confluence Lite system info page.
New splash screen / branding.

More changes have been included than we expected after the initial release candidate. This is due to some updates that were planned before, but got overlooked, as well as some fixes for problems reported by users. Thanks to everyone who tested 3.5 RC1 and reported back to us. In addition our PolarSSL was rather out of date, so it made sense to rebuild librtmp and libcurl against a newer version (and update them in the process) . Thanks to Sean for reminding me to pull in the Transifex translation updates.

We finally have a new branding/logo design – massive thanks to SwedishGojira for his work on this. The logo is already being used on this site, but you can also find it on the new XBMC4Xbox splash screen. Hope you like it – we do!

For those building from source, 3.5-rc2 is tagged in SVN at https://svn.exotica.org.uk:8443/xbmc4xbox/tags/3.5-rc2

The new XBMC4Xbox splash

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 RC2 is out

Jools — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:37:50 +0000

Changes since 3.5 RC1 include:

Fix for the RTMP streaming issue.
Updates to PolarSSL, librtmp and libcurl as well as the Curl VFS.
Update FFmpeg Libraries to 1.2.8.
Update translations from Transifex.
Added missing hard disk / DVD information on Confluence Lite system info page.
New splash screen / branding.

For those building from source, 3.5-rc2 is tagged in SVN at https://svn.exotica.org.uk:8443/xbmc4xbox/tags/3.5-rc2

The new XBMC4Xbox splash

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 RC1 is released

Jools — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:35 +0000

It has been some months since 3.5 Beta 4 – a little longer than planned, however many fixes have been made since then, and we are now very close to the 3.5 release. If no major problems are found, XBMC4Xbox 3.5 final will be made in the next week or two. Please do test out this release candidate as it will be the last chance to get any changes/bugfixes in before 3.5.

Changes since Beta 4 include:

Removal of all the defunct and broken scrapers, fixing up some problems with the imdb/tmdb scrapers and adding a new default music scraper that uses the http://theaudiodb.com API.
FFMpeg/DVDPlayer updates from XBMC.
Updated Python to 2.7.8 and added some missing Python API functions from XBMC.
Fix for browsing library when network is not connected.
Improvements/fixes from XBMC for ID3/Tag parsing, CD Ripping, and Playlists.
Updates to the included Addons4Xbox installer.

For further information you can refer to recent commits from the Redmine Repository Browser.

Thanks to Dan Dar3, brentdc42, and psyko_chewbacca for contributions/bug fixes and all those who help out on the forum.

For those building from source, 3.5-rc1 is tagged on SVN at https://svn.exotica.org.uk:8443/xbmc4xbox/tags/3.5-rc1

[EDIT] Unfortunately RC1 has a problem with RTMP streams. I will be pushing out a RC2 soon with a fix. Apologies.

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 RC1 is released

Jools — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:44:45 +0000

Changes since Beta 4 include:

Removal of all the defunct and broken scrapers, fixing up some problems with the imdb/tmdb scrapers and adding a new default music scraper that uses the http://theaudiodb.com API.
FFMpeg/DVDPlayer updates from XBMC.
Updated Python to 2.7.8 and added some missing Python API functions from XBMC.
Fix for browsing library when network is not connected.
Improvements/fixes from XBMC for ID3/Tag parsing, CD Ripping, and Playlists.
Updates to the included Addons4Xbox installer.

For further information you can refer to recent commits from the Redmine Repository Browser.

Thanks to Dan Dar3, brentdc42, and psyko_chewbacca for contributions/bug fixes and all those who help out on the forum.

For those building from source, 3.5-rc1 is tagged on SVN at https://svn.exotica.org.uk:8443/xbmc4xbox/tags/3.5-rc1

[EDIT] Unfortunately RC1 has a problem with RTMP streams. I will be pushing out a RC2 soon with a fix. Apologies.

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The last Beta ? XBMC4Xbox 3.5 Beta 4 is released

Jools — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:35 +0000

Due to some recent changes, and a few more issues reported and fixed, we decided to push out another beta.

XBMC4Xbox Beta 4 is out, which includes the following changes:

Fixed string encoding issue on system information screen.
Fixed some cases where XBMC addons would fail due to our strict type checking – now automatically convert parameters for listitem’s to the correct type where possible.
Additional Python API infolabels / infotags.

Should there be no more major issues, we hope the final release is just around the corner

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The last Beta ? XBMC4Xbox 3.5 Beta 4 is released

Jools — Thu, 15 May 2014 18:46:58 +0000

Due to some recent changes, and a few more issues reported and fixed, we decided to push out another beta.

XBMC4Xbox Beta 4 is out, which includes the following changes:

Fixed string encoding issue on system information screen.
Fixed some cases where XBMC addons would fail due to our strict type checking – now automatically convert parameters for listitem’s to the correct type where possible.
Additional Python API infolabels / infotags.

Should there be no more major issues, we hope the final release is just around the corner

If you enjoy using XBMC4Xbox and want to show your support for the ongoing development please consider making a donation to the project. Please also do join in the discussions over at our Forum.

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 Beta 3 is out

Jools — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:35 +0000

After a few more months of development, we are very pleased to announce the release of XBMC4Xbox Beta 3. We are getting very close to a final release of 3.5 now, and hopefully if there are no major issues, 3.5 could be out in a matter of a week or two.

Changes since the last beta release include:

Python 2.7.6 with some stability improvements.
Much improved Addons4Xbox installer, with better dependency handling, meaning many addons designed for XBMC can now be installed and work out of the box. It should also run somewhat faster due to less logging, and the better use of local caching.
FFmpeg Libraries updated to 1.2.5
Added support for .po files for language strings and updated translations using Transifex and XBMC‘s excellent toolset for handling them. Users can now join in and help translate the project into their favourite languages. More details below.
PAPlayer codec improvements
Many other bug fixes and improvements

Thanks to XBMC and their useful tools for handling translations, we are now using the online service http://www.transifex.com to manage translations for the project. This means anyone who wants to help improve translations can now go and sign up over at https://www.transifex.com/organization/xbmc4xbox and start translating the software to their favourite language via the easy to use web interface. The updated translation can then be merged back into the XBMC4Xbox code base by us.

Massive thanks to all those who have contributed, from reporting bugs over at the bugtracker, to those that help out with the forum and answering users’ questions.

Finally we would like to congratulate XBMC for their release of the latest version of XBMC – XBMC 13 Gotham – our favourite media player for Linux, Windows, Android, and IOS. You can read all about it over at their blog – http://xbmc.org/xbmc-13-0-gotham-rises/. Awesome work – and we have certainly merged a few of your improvements back into our code base. Thanks

If you enjoy using XBMC4Xbox and want to show your support for the ongoing development please consider making a donation to the project. Please also do join in the discussions over at our Forum.

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XBMC4Xbox 3.5 Beta 3 is out

Jools — Sat, 10 May 2014 02:31:40 +0000

Changes since the last beta release include:

Python 2.7.6 with some stability improvements.
Much improved Addons4Xbox installer, with better dependency handling, meaning many addons designed for XBMC can now be installed and work out of the box. It should also run somewhat faster due to less logging, and the better use of local caching.
FFmpeg Libraries updated to 1.2.5
Added support for .po files for language strings and updated translations using Transifex and XBMC‘s excellent toolset for handling them. Users can now join in and help translate the project into their favourite languages. More details below.
PAPlayer codec improvements
Many other bug fixes and improvements

Massive thanks to all those who have contributed, from reporting bugs over at the bugtracker, to those that help out with the forum and answering users’ questions.

If you enjoy using XBMC4Xbox and want to show your support for the ongoing development please consider making a donation to the project. Please also do join in the discussions over at our Forum.

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Music Collection Updates

Jools — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

At the end of last year http://asma.atari.org/ released v3.7 of its Atari SAP Music Archive bringing the collection to a total of 5016 tunes! ExoticA provides a mirror of the archive as well as a web interface for searching and browsing. This has now been updated, and can be used to stream the music as ogg or mp3 without the need for a specialised player.

We also run a mirror of the Modland music collection. Our mirror is now up to date again after Modland moved home, and some changes have been made to the web interface we offer for it, including switching to XMP for playback of some of the multichannel module formats. With this change some additional (mostly PC) tracker formats can now be streamed as ogg/mp3 including – Digibooster Pro, Digitrakker, Epic Megagames MASI, Farandole Composer, Graoumf Tracker, Imago Orpheus, Liquid Tracker, Multitracker, Octalyser, Polytracker, TCB Tracker, Ultratracker and X-Tracker. Note the support and accuracy of this can vary between tracker – further information regarding XMP can be found at http://xmp.sourceforge.net/. These changes also affect the XBMC frontend – http://addons.xbmc.org/show/plugin.audio.modland/ – which allows streaming of tunes from Modland direct to your HTPC. The Modland addon for XBMC is available from the official XBMC Repository.

UnExoticA had a small update back in January with the addition of the music from two recent Amiga games – Solid Gold and Putty Squad. Thanks to Codetapper for providing these rips.

Finally I would like to thank Ronaldvd for his many contributions to the wiki over the past couple of years, including important corrections, structural cleanups and improvements. You have made a massive difference, and your help is always appreciated. Cheers :)

Links:

http://asma.atari.org/ – Official ASMA site
http://xmp.sourceforge.net/ – Extended Module Player website.
http://www.xbmc.org – XBMC Media Center – Open Source Home Theatre Software

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XBMC4Xbox Remote 2.9.5 for Android

Jools — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:11:35 +0000

Changelog:

v2.9.5 (Sun, 12 Jan 2014):
- Main:
  – better use of space on large screens / landscape mode;
- Movies, Music, Addons, System Info, Analytics, Feeds:
  – horizontal swiping between tabs (“Library” tabs require edge swiping)
- Translation :
  – French, Spanish (first draft)
- Technology changes (ActionBarCompat, Picasso, OkHttp);
v2.9.4 (Sun, 1 Dec 2013):
- TV Episodes :
  – fill entire horizontal space (collapsible);
  – display fanart background;
- Media Send :
  – YouTube filter too broad (listed for URLs that could not be handled);
  – allow to send other media URLs (HTTP, audio + video);
v2.9.3 (Fri, 29 Nov 2013) :
- Main:
  – ability to add new XBMC4Xbox entries (spinner);
- Movies > Library:
  – group movies by first letter (collapsible);
  – fill entire horizontal space;
- Analytics :
  – show country flags;
v2.9.2 (Sun, 3 Nov 2013):
- Crashing at startup or missing premium features
v2.9.1 (Sat, 2 Nov 2013):
- Widget – home / lock screen:
  – full functionality to premium only;
v2.9.0 (Sat, 12 Oct 2013):
- Touchpad:
  – full functionality available to premium only;
- Feeds:
  – highlight new entries;
- Wi-Fi Hotspot (in-car) scenario (thanks to sealeysonic);

For guides on how to configure & use, see more at:
https://sites.google.com/site/xbmc4xboxremoteandroid/

For support / feedback / suggestions use this forum thread:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=203

Download from:

Google Play (store)

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XBMC4Xbox Remote 2.9.5 for Android

Jools — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:41:16 +0000

Changelog:

v2.9.5 (Sun, 12 Jan 2014):
- Main:
  – better use of space on large screens / landscape mode;
- Movies, Music, Addons, System Info, Analytics, Feeds:
  – horizontal swiping between tabs (“Library” tabs require edge swiping)
- Translation :
  – French, Spanish (first draft)
- Technology changes (ActionBarCompat, Picasso, OkHttp);
v2.9.4 (Sun, 1 Dec 2013):
- TV Episodes :
  – fill entire horizontal space (collapsible);
  – display fanart background;
- Media Send :
  – YouTube filter too broad (listed for URLs that could not be handled);
  – allow to send other media URLs (HTTP, audio + video);
v2.9.3 (Fri, 29 Nov 2013) :
- Main:
  – ability to add new XBMC4Xbox entries (spinner);
- Movies > Library:
  – group movies by first letter (collapsible);
  – fill entire horizontal space;
- Analytics :
  – show country flags;
v2.9.2 (Sun, 3 Nov 2013):
- Crashing at startup or missing premium features
v2.9.1 (Sat, 2 Nov 2013):
- Widget – home / lock screen:
  – full functionality to premium only;
v2.9.0 (Sat, 12 Oct 2013):
- Touchpad:
  – full functionality available to premium only;
- Feeds:
  – highlight new entries;
- Wi-Fi Hotspot (in-car) scenario (thanks to sealeysonic);

For guides on how to configure & use, see more at:
https://sites.google.com/site/xbmc4xboxremoteandroid/

For support / feedback / suggestions use this forum thread:
https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=203

Download from:

Google Play (store)

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