iiSU Alpha 0.0.5 - Scrapers and Stylization
A new release featuring scraping from sources like ScreenScraper and SteamGridDB, as well a host of customizations with a new UI to manage them!
Ver. 5 is the biggest iiSU update yet!
This release includes a huge UI overhaul to match the concepts, better Dual Screen handling, and a ton of quality-of-life improvements.
Highlights
- New scraping sources, including SteamGridDB and ScreenScraper
- Much faster loading times + smoother navigation across the app
- Background tasks (scraping, hashing, data creation) now run while you keep using iiSU
- Custom ROM names (rename ROMs individually)
- Improved “Jump Back Into Game” (shows scraped media when available)
- Added emulator support: pico8-android, M64Plus FZ Pro + fixed GameNative support
- RetroAchievements login fix
UI
- Updated UI closer to the original design concepts + redesigned options menu
- New custom iiSU font
- Redesigned context menus
- Rearrange + resize icons (Home + Console pages)
- Per-screen icon sizing + selectively enable/disable external display elements
- Slideshows supported with `slide_*` media
Dual-Screen
- More robust and dynamic dual-screen handling
- Better device identification + correct top/bottom launching
- AYN Thor improvements (requires firmware V1.0.0.360+)
- PocketDS improvements (iiSU can launch from the top screen)
- Navigation fixes for PocketDS + OneX Sugar
Single-Screen
- Unified single-screen menus with the DS
- "Standard" mode is now default, as we continue to work on the XMB menu and other visuals for the next release
Scraping
- New sources: IGDB, ScreenScraper, SteamGridDB, TheGamesDB
- Selective per-ROM scraping (mix media from multiple sources)
- In-app Asset Manager (add custom boxart inside iiSU)
- Region + language selection
- More robust scraping overall
Thanks to everyone testing and reporting issues!
