iiSU Alpha 0.0.7.4 - Mizu and Media

We're excited to be making iiSU Alpha 7.4 publicly available today. We're introducing a more polished look to each page and menu to allow you to more easily manage your device. The full list of changes include:

New Features

• Carousel Mode: This transforms XMB horizontally, allowing you to scroll games with wider art previews.

• Dynamic Borders: Added platform frames for game and Android artwork, with global, platform, and game-level settings, gradients, logo overlays, crop/blur framing, and artwork recentering.

• Custom UI and selection gradient colors: Allows for light and dark mode color tuning to each part of the UI.

• Recent Achievement widget: Added a Home widget for the latest account achievement, with account, loading, empty, and unavailable states.

• Cinematic browsing: Added animated title-art movement and background transitions while browsing XMB-style game lists.

• Automatic backups: Added scheduled backups, selectable destinations, manual backup, status reporting, and restore-latest actions.

• Home music library: Added eight bundled tracks, reusable custom-music imports, scheduled track selection, and shuffle.

• Custom launch commands: Added per-console Android launch-command overrides for unsupported emulator configurations.

• Per-page navigation pinning: Added separate navigation-bar pinning for Home, Apps, Platforms, Games, and RetroAchievements.

Improvements and Overhauls

• Manage Media: Redesigned the existing workflow, improved speed, and clarified source, preview, overwrite, fill-missing, delete, media-slot, and artwork-shape controls.

• Scraping: Reworked game and console scraping menus, improved resume behavior, added connection warnings, shortened manual searches, and reduced work on large libraries. IGDB was removed; ScreenScraper, SteamGridDB, and TheGamesDB remain.

• RetroAchievements library: Redesigned the RetroAchievements tab for a rich card experience. Popups now show detailed achievements data, pressing Select opens in a browser.

• Theme editor: Redesigned the existing light/dark and Home/second-screen media editor, with clearer import, delete, resolution, and optimization controls.

• App drawer: Rebuilt the existing drawer as a faster popup with recents.

• Context menus: Reorganized Game, App, Console, Platform, and Home actions into clearer groups with more consistent sizing and focus behavior.

• Collections: Rebuilt collection browsing as a focused popup, added clearer ordering labels, and improved create/delete feedback.

• Layout selection: Added light/dark previews and clearer names for Standard, Carousel, and XMB layouts.

• Artwork presentation: Improved title art, backgrounds, slideshows, multiple media slots, aspect handling, and image sharpness across browsing layouts.

• Home widgets: Improved the Android-widget picker with search, application icons, and clearer no-provider/no-match states.

• Home soundbites: Added clearer enablement and volume controls and improved handoff with Home music.

• Onboarding: Compacted the welcome flow for smaller handheld displays and clarified optional-service and folder-selection guidance.

• Library scanning: Added clearer scan-depth controls, storage issue summaries, and optional Android file-access guidance.

• Diagnostics: Improved startup problem capture, storage warnings, recovery feedback, and advanced performance reporting.

Bugfixes

• Fixed theme-video memory exhaustion, repeated playback failures, and unsafe cleanup; unusable videos now fall back to a still image.

• Preserved game libraries and artwork during temporary SD-card or storage outages and resumed normal access when storage returned.

• Fixed saved Home layouts breaking when games, applications, consoles, or folders were missing.

• Fixed folder removal corrupting unrelated Home placements.

• Fixed vertical and dual-screen item rearranging, duplicate placements, and invalid empty spaces.

• Fixed stale focus and selection after leaving games, applications, collections, and menus.

• Reduced Home scrolling stalls, long-direction-hold delays, idle memory growth, and post-navigation slowdown.

• Fixed Android widgets failing to appear, update, resize, or restore correctly.

• Fixed game and image widgets showing missing, stale, or incorrectly sized artwork.

• Fixed incorrect background selection, title/background cropping, and recentering across grid and dual-screen layouts.

• Fixed GIFs and animated backgrounds freezing, disappearing, continuing after selection changed, or showing old frames.

• Fixed gameplay and title slides failing to update correctly.

• Fixed image-related crashes caused by artwork being released while Android was still displaying it.

• Fixed “Scrape All” freezing the app and reduced stalls during large-library scraping.

• Fixed incomplete media writes and unreliable scraper continuation after interruptions.

• Fixed RetroArch launches when the configured package variant was missing by finding a compatible installed variant.

• Fixed bundled launch commands that assumed a fixed external-storage path.

• Fixed return behavior after media-only and second-screen game launches.

• Fixed game paths being overwritten while achievement hashes were generated.

• Fixed Naomi and Dreamcast arcade identification and prevented achievement artwork from being scanned as game media.

• Fixed second-screen media appearing on the wrong display and display profiles losing temporarily powered-off screens.

• Fixed lock-screen, orientation-change, and secondary-display flicker.

• Restored audio to the device's active media output and corrected music recovery after returning from games.

• Fixed nightly update detection and version comparison.

• Fixed SteamGridDB authentication failures caused by whitespace in API keys.

• Fixed several scaling issues with the HUD.