iiSU Alpha 0.0.6: A really big release!

0.0.6 is another huge update for iiSU. This release brings a long-awaited overhaul to single screen mode! Single screen mode now has a brand new dedicated layout, looking just as beautiful as dual screen! Additionally, XMB mode is now available, showing your systems, games and roms in a beautiful vertical carousel. This update also includes a huge suite of new features, including ES-DE metadata linking, heavily improved visuals, Discord integration, in-app notifications, custom game collections, a bunch of new assets, and more! This update also fixes a lot of issues with single screen mode, so iiSU is now even more viable on single screen devices!

> You can enable the new XMB mode by opening the settings in the game tab, pressing “General Layout Options” then selecting “XMB Layout” in “Consoles Layout”

Download it here: https://github.com/iisu-network/iiSU/releases/tag/0.0.6

Visual Overhaul

• Introduced an XMB layout for single-screen devices, displaying a vertical a carousel with systems and ROMs

• Implemented Glass Effect for certain UI elements

• Implemented background scrim opacity control

• Added support for title images to be displayed for single screen devices

• Improved single-screen continuity throughout iiSU

• Added in-app notification panel 

• Redesigned context menus for better icon parity and improved background task resume support

• Heavily improved navigational stability

• New focus ring with smoother gradient

• Completely reworked onboarding for clarity and user-experience

• ROM titles now auto-clean language/region tags (e.g. “(EU)”, “(En)”)

Discord Integration

• Added Discord integration, allowing you to DM friends from within iiSU itself

• Discord rich presence is now supported, displaying what game you’re playing, system you’re browsing or page you’re viewing

• Added icon to show when other friends are also in iiSU from the friends menu  

ES-DE Metadata Linking

• Added an option to link an ES-DE install folder to enable asset sharing - making transitioning between emulators easy!

  • Note: ES-DE Linking does not duplicate media files, so any changes made in ES-DE will also sync to iiSU.

  • You can still add or customise assets in iiSU whilst linking to ES-DE and it will not affect your ES-DE media

• Added the ability to pre-cache ES-DE media to almost eliminate loading times when browsing your library

Collections

• Added the ability to create custom collections

• Custom collections can be added to the home page, with custom art and system sorting

Animations + Haptics

• Heavily improved UI animations, including smooth background transitions and better movement flow

• Added animated tab transitions

• Improved transition locks

• Added haptic support to allow for more immersive navigation

• Improved dialog control for a snappier feel

Performance & Responsiveness

• Heavily improved load and wait times

• Improved onboarding times

• Shows details during onboarding to help improve clarity

• Improved scaling and adaptiveness for some UI elements

Scraping & Systems

• Over 160 brand new default system icons have been created, providing full coverage for all systems iiSU supports

• [WIP] Added some dark mode icon options (Enable in Appearance -> Theme Media)

• Automatically detects installed emulators during onboarding and when adding new consoles in app

• Added dual-folder support for consoles

• Improved onboarding navigation and launcher defaults

• System now displays the clean platform name in menus

• Refined ScreenScraper asset selection logic

• Improved ROM scraping for arcade games with MAME/FBNeo shortname support

• Emulator configs added for Sega Model 3 and PS3

• Improved fallbacks for emulator commands

Audio

• Added brand new music for onboarding menu

• Added customisable time-based background music

• Added Soundbites as an in app media option per ROM

• Fixed issues with soundbites and audio controls

Misc Features & Bug fixes

• Added option to restart onboarding at any time

• Enforced square icons in the ROM browser, unless specified otherwise

• Improved RetroAchievement handling and error handling

• Fixed a number of single screen layout and rendering issues

• Improved menu sound logic

• Fixed dual screen stability issues in the detail menu and other layout

• Improved battery icon consistency

• Added option for horizontal scrolling in grid mode

Please report any bugs or feedback at https://github.com/iisu-network/iiSU/issues

Thank you all for all the feedback so far, we can’t wait to continue striving forwards with development and getting closer to our goal!

- Sapphire 💙