iiSU Alpha 0.0.4

[SapphireRhodonite]

iiSU DS Alpha 0.0.4

This public alpha focuses on metadata scraping, navigation polish, UI stability, and fixing many issues reported in Alpha 0.0.3.
It lays down solid foundations for future features while significantly improving day-to-day usability.

If you want a walkthrough of this new version of iiSU, you can check this video:
https://youtu.be/1rRvcO639Gg

Documentation to help you set up the current build of iiSU will follow shortly!

New Features

Metadata & Scraper

• Introduced a new, generic ScraperEngine for metadata fetching.
• New IGDB integration with:
  • Search results and clearer user feedback.
  • Custom search queries per ROM.
  • Option to skip games that already have media.
  • Ability to fetch metadata for all consoles.
  • Option to show more IGDB matches during selection.
• Configurable asset storage location.
• Manual clearing and re-fetching of metadata.
• Progress indicators and improved logging during scraping.

RetroAchievements

• More reliable ROM hashing and status refresh.
• Manual hash generation and data refresh per ROM.
• Faster startup by loading cached hashes.
• Better achievement focus handling and navigation.
• Improved Jump Back integration and recently played behavior.

Welcome Screen & Setup

• New first-time user welcome flow.
• Recursive ROM scanning during setup.
• RetroAchievements login and optional hash generation during first setup.
• Quick Access setup included.
• Clearer steps, previews, and recovery handling.

Customization & Themes Guide

• Full custom theme support (backgrounds, images, videos).
• Dark mode variants for custom themes.
• Option to disable theme videos.
• Custom background images.
• Per-tab and per-ROM artwork zoom and alignment options.
• Option to prefer RetroAchievements icons over other artwork.

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Improvements

UI & Navigation

• Major improvements to D-pad and grid navigation.
• Better focus handling across Home, ROM Browser, and context menus.
• Faster and smoother scrolling in large ROM libraries.
• Improved context menu clarity and responsiveness.
• Improved dual-screen handling, including Thor-style devices.

Performance & Stability

• Deferred artwork loading to improve scrolling performance.
• Smarter asset prefetching and caching.
• More robust handling of empty folders and edge cases.
• Improved emulator detection, filtering, and command handling.
• General performance optimizations across the launcher.

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Fixes

• Fixed multiple focus loss and back-navigation issues.
• Fixed incorrect RetroAchievements status updates.
• Fixed ROM browser state resets when changing categories.
• Fixed tab migration and asset migration edge cases.
• Fixed controller input inconsistencies and button handling.
• Improved stability when switching tabs, screens, and layouts.

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Notes

This release is mainly about stability, polish, and long-term foundations.
The next development cycle will continue focusing on more scraping options, single screen mode and remaining reported issues.

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This discussion was created from the release iiSU Alpha 0.0.4.