Category: Homebrew

RetroDECK – RetroDECK 0.10.7b

🚨 RetroDECK 0.10.7b is here — and it’s packed with retro magic! 🎮✨

The latest unofficial build (still pending Flathub publish) brings some seriously exciting upgrades for your Linux-based retro rig — especially if you’re rocking a Steam Deck, HTPC, or PC console. Here’s the lowdown:

🔹 Easter Egg Hunt! 🥚

Hidden surprises added — keep an eye out during your next boot-up…

🔹 Triforce Arcade Support 🕹️

Yes, Mario Kart Arcade GP, Virtua Striker 4, and more are now playable via Dolphin — finally!

🔹 ES-DE Theme Polish 🎨

Custom art for PrimeHack, empty folder placeholders, and smoother visual integration.

🔹 Emulator Overhaul ⚙️

Dolphin, PPSSPP & RPCS3 configs were overhauled — reset your configs after updating!

Also fixed: missing Steam Deck OLED borders and RPCS3 firmware install issues.

🔹 All Major Emulators Updated 🔄

As of 2026-03-24: Dolphin, PPSSPP, RPCS3, DuckStation, RetroArch, VITA3K, Cemu, PCSX2, MAME, GZDoom + more — all bumped to latest stable versions.

⚠️ Heads up!

• This build is not yet on Flathub — stick to GitHub releases at your own risk.
• Always upgrade via Flathub once live to avoid breakage.

🔗 Full details: RetroDECK Wiki

📦 Grab it (carefully!): GitHub Releases

Happy hacking, retrowarriors! 🕹️🐧🔥

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FATXplorer News – Celebrating 20 years of Xbox 360

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hekate – hekate v6.5.2 & Nyx v1.9.2

🚨 HEKATE v6.5.2 & NYX v1.9.2 ARE HERE — BIGGEST UPDATE YET! 🚨

Your Swiss Army Knife just got a serious upgrade! 🔧🎮

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✅ HOS 22.0.0 Support — Finally!

• Full compatibility with Horizon OS v22+ (but you’ll need the latest Atmosphère PR 👉 Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere#2748
• 🧠 HOS Auto Memory Size Control: `Setmemmode=1` unlocks full 8GB RAM on newer Switches (previously capped at 4GB!)

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🎨 Nyx GUI Gets a Glow-Up!**

• 🌈 Full Color Theme Support — Customize any color via sliders in `Nyx Settings > Color Theme`
• 🌟 8GB Switches now show `*` next to version — at a glance!
• 🐣 Updated Easter egg (find it… if you dare 😏)
• 🔍 Better eMMC info + BKOPS (Maintenance OPs) support
• 🖥️ OEM LCD 7″ Display & Touch info added (OLED models)
• 🛠️ Fixed partitioning off-by-one error & long boot entry scrolling

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⚙️ Under the Hood — BDK Improvements**

• 🔄 Standardized return codes: `0 = No Error` everywhere
• 🔌 I2C refactored: faster, supports up to 32B RX / 20B TX, lower power draw
• 📦 Modules now only use 256 pages (saves ~64KB RAM per module!)
• 💾 Added missing T210 1GB (8GB config) SDRAM timings
• 📡 BM92T & PINMUX fixes — cleaner USB/I2C pin handling

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📦 Partition Manager — Smarter & More Flexible**

• Supports L4T Linux (Ubuntu Bionic 3.4.0+), Android 10/11 or 13/14+
• 💡 Bonus: Even if you don’t use emuMMC/Linux, reformatting SD to FAT32 (via Partition Manager) gives optimal performance — many tools skip this!
• Works with exFAT → FAT32 conversions too 🔄

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📥 How to Update (Super Easy!)**

1. Drop `bootloader/` into SD root → merge/replace

2. Keep your existing configs & payloads — no cleanup needed!

3. `bootloader/update.bin` auto-updates hekate if newer

4. Optional: Flash `hekate_ctcaer_x.x.x.bin` to RCM for PC/device updates

💡 Windows UMS Tip: Run `nyx_usb_max_rate__run_only_once_per_windows_pc.reg` once per PC for max USB throughput! (Linux/macOS users: already optimized 🎉)

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🔥 Grab it now and unlock the full potential of your Switch — CFW, Android, Linux, payloads… all from one boot menu!

🔗 GitHub – hekate | 📦 Nyx GUI

Stay patched, stay powered! 🛠️⚡

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Update All MiSTer – UpdateAll_2026-03-27_21.48.09

🚨 Update Alert for Homebrew Enthusiasts! 🚨

`Update All MiSTer` just dropped v2026-03-27_21.48.09 — and it’s a quiet but mighty upgrade! 🛠️

🔹 New/Updated Script: `dont_download2.sh`

→ Better smart logic for skipping unnecessary or broken downloads. Less wasted bandwidth, more time playing! 🚫⬇️

🔹 Automated Release

→ Built and deployed via GitHub Actions (yep, the bot’s alive and kicking 🤖✨)

🔹 Still Fully MiSTer-Focused

→ Works with all your favorite FPGA cores, distributions (JTCORES? Coin-Op? Yep!), and tools — just smoother.

💡 Pro Tip: If the GitHub release page is acting up (we’ve all been there 😅), check commit `889f2ae` directly for the nitty-gritty diffs.

Grab it via Downloader, script install, or PC Launcher — and keep your MiSTer fresh! 🕹️💾

Let us know how it runs!

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Tater – Tater v68

🚨 Tater v68 — “The Awakening” is LIVE! 🥔👁️

Homebrewers, your local AI just got seriously smarter — and it’s finally aware of the world around it. Here’s what’s new in this massive upgrade:

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🧠 Awareness Core — The Brain Upgrade

• Replaced clunky automation with a real nervous system for your smart home 🧠⚡
• Now actively observes, understands, and acts on real-world events — not just static triggers
• ✅ Requires Home Assistant (no HA = no awareness… yet 👀)

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📡 Real-World Event Awareness

Tater now monitors:

• 📸 Cameras & doorbells → with AI-powered snapshot descriptions
• 🚪 Entry sensors (doors, windows, garage) → open/close tracking
• ⏱️ Smart filtering + cooldowns (bye-bye, spam storms 🚫🌪️)
• 🔊 TTS + notifications — fully configurable across HA services & media players

→ Less noise. More signal.

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📝 Briefs 2.0 — Info with Vibe

• Weather + events + zen + Alan Watts-style greetings 😄
• Per-brief tuning & character limits for HA text entities

→ Tater doesn’t just inform… it sets the mood.

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🎨 UI Overhaul — See What Tater Sees

• Events tab front & center (duh!)
• Card layout + pagination
• Cleaner popups/settings

→ You get a window into Tater’s awareness 🪟

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⚙️ Hydra Engine Improvements

• Fully stateless planning loop → no more half-finished flows 🔄
• `ASK_USER` now ends cleanly → next reply = fresh run

→ Think. Act. Done.

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🎯 Smarter Routing & Fixes

• Config/system requests go straight to tools — fewer hallucinations, more done
• Unified notifier system for Discord/IRC/etc.
• Mobile scrolling + multi-task polish

→ Everything just feels tighter.

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> Tater used to wait for you. Now it notices things — and acts on them.

You didn’t just upgrade Tater…

You woke it up. 👁️土豆

Ready to install? 🛠️ Let me know if you want migration notes or a quick-start guide!

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OpenGamepadUI – v0.45.0

Hey Homebrew crew! 🎮✨

Open Gamepad UI v0.45.0 just dropped — and it’s a lean, mean, retro-friendly update!

🔧 Under the Hood:

• Updated Rust dependencies to stay smooth with Rust 1.94.x — no more build hiccups! 🛠️
• Cleaned up the build pipeline for devs (especially those using newer toolchains).

🌍 New Language Support:

• 🇷🇺 Full Russian localization is now live! 🎉 More players can enjoy OGUI in their native tongue — spasibo to the translators!

✅ No breaking changes, so existing setups stay happy.

Perfect for devs, tinkerers, and Russian-speaking retro fans alike!

Check it out — the future of gamepad-first launchers is getting even better. 🚀

[Link to release / repo]

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Altmount – v0.1.0

🚨 AltMount v0.1.0 is here—and it’s a massive leap forward! 🚀

For those who’ve been living in the Usenet shadows: AltMount turns your NZB/Usenet downloads into a seamless WebDAV file system—so you can stream, mount, or automate like it’s just another folder on your machine. And wow, this release? It’s packed.

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🌟 What’s New & Why You Care**

✅ PostgreSQL support — finally! Scale your library without SQLite bottlenecks.

✅ Self-updating Docker images — one-click upgrades, no more manual pulls 🔄

✅ Stremio native addon + Prowlarr auto-search — drop AltMount into your media stack and let it just work 📺

✅ Directory Watcher — auto-import NZBs as they drop in a folder ✨

✅ Nested RAR/7z extraction (with fallback!) — no more manual unpacking 📦

✅ Blu-ray ISO >4GB streaming — yep, even those massive discs now play smooth 🎬

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⚡ Speed & Stability Overhauls**

• 6x importer tweaks (prefetch upped to 10!)
• Segment caching + lazy loading = lighter memory footprint 🧠
• FUSE mounts optimized for Linux (1MB I/O, no mutexes!) 🐢
• Fixed dozens of leaks (UsenetReader, stream tracker, NZB fs)
• Security hardened: JWT secrets, CORS, path traversal, auth pages 🛡️

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🧪 Health Checks & Repair Tools**

• Auto-repair logic + hybrid verification mode 🔍
• Metadata integrity checks + automatic backups 🗃️
• Say goodbye to false-positive orphan deletions ❌
• Library sync now scales for huge collections ⏱️

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🖥️ UI That Doesn’t Suck**

• Modern redesign (Queue, Health, Files, Import) 🌙
• Mobile-responsive + DaisyUI theme picker 📱
• Activity Hub dashboard with real-time metrics 📊
• Search in import queue, live log viewer (SSE), and helpful tooltips 🧭

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🔌 Better Integrations**

• SABnzbd queue control (pause/resume, categories) 📡
• SOCKS5 proxy for NNTP providers
• Rclone tweaks (`–links`, cache cleanup, disk space)
• PAR2 merging + yEnc header fixes 📦
• Full OpenAPI 3.0 spec + interactive explorer 🧾

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🐞 Bug Fixes (So Many…)**

• Mount hangs, panics on segment-less NZBs, race conditions — gone
• “Closed pipe”, use-after-free, nil pointer derefs — squashed
• ARR webhooks no longer deleting your files by accident 🙅‍♂️
• NZB filename collisions, symlinks, fallback logic — all fixed

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🙌 Shoutouts to New Contributors!**

Big thanks to @drondeseries, @DrMxrcy, @hansmok, @wrxco & @piefke84 — your first PRs made this possible! 🎉

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📚 Docs & Dev Love

• Cleaner codebase, Go idioms modernized
• Linting, dead code cleanup, CI improvements
• Better docs + timestamped dev tags

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Bottom line: AltMount v0.1.0 is production-ready — and it’s ready to supercharge your retro gaming

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WiiUDownloader – v2.84

🚨 WiiUDownloader v2.84 is live! 🚨

Hey Homebrew crew — big update drops for WiiUDownloader! Here’s what’s shaking up this release:

🔹 Dependency bump — Under-the-hood upgrades for better stability, security, and performance. Think of it as a tune-up 🛠️

🔹 ✅ New “Support on Ko-Fi” toggle — Want to show off your gratitude (or hide the prompt)? Now you can control it right in-app!

🔹 📣 Discord reminder — Still haven’t joined the WiiUDownloader Discord? Pop in for help, tips, memes, and community vibes!

🔹 📘 Fresh usage guide — Whether you’re new or rusty, the updated WiiUDownloader Usage Guide is your new best friend.

🔹 ❤️ Support the dev — If this tool’s saved you hours (or just made your retro journey smoother), consider tossing a Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/wiudownloader

Happy downloading, and keep those homebrew dreams alive! 🎮✨

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Switchfin – Switchfin 0.8.3

🚨 Homebrewers, gather ‘round! 🚨

Switchfin v0.8.3 is live, and it’s packing some sweet polish + fixes for your Jellyfin streaming adventures! 🎬✨

Here’s what’s new in this drop:

🔹 🛠️ Fixed & Stabilized

• Home Tab now shows a retry dialog if loading fails — no more stuck screens!
• Crashes from `null` `SeriesId` in JSON? Gone. (Thank you, robust parsing!)

🔹 💻 Optimized for All Platforms

• Device ID & name generation now plays nice with Linux (no more weird defaults 🙌).
• Font loading’s smoother on desktop — sharper UI, less eye strain!

🔹 🎬 Bonus Feature Alert!

• 🎥 Bonus video view added to the Series Tab — perfect for extras, behind-the-scenes, or that bonus episode you’ve been saving.

All the usual reliability upgrades, plus a few quality-of-life wins 🎮

Grab it on your Switch, PS4, Vita, or desktop — and keep streaming like a pro! 🛠️💾

#Homebrew #Jellyfin #RetroGaming #SwitchFin

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WiiUDownloader – v2.83

🚨 WiiUDownloader v2.83 is live! 🚨

Hey homebrew crew — grab your controllers and fire up the latest update for WiiUDownloader! Here’s what’s fresh in v2.83:

🔹 Stability Boost — Fixed another pesky random crash during downloads (thanks for reporting, Issue #180 👏). Downloads should feel smoother and more reliable now.

🔹 Community Hub Open! 🎉 The official Wii U Downloader Discord server is now live — come hang out, ask questions, share your downloads, or just geek out with fellow retro devs and tinkerers.

🔹 New Usage Guide 📘 — Whether you’re new or just need a refresher, the updated guide walks you through setup, browsing, decrypting, and more — no guesswork needed.

🔹 Support the Cause ☕ — Want to keep the magic going? Consider tossing a tip on Ko-Fi — every coffee (and pixel) helps!

Grab the update, fire up your Wii U downloads, and happy hacking! 🕹️💻✨

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