iiSU Alpha 0.0.7 - A Fresh New Look

One of the main focuses of this release is a Home Menu Overhaul! Personalise the home menu to your heart’s content with a series of brand new widgets, try out WiiSU mode, bringing a brand new look to a classic menu type.

This update also comes with a huge variety of other new features, including a visual overhaul to all menus, a global search menu, improved animations, and an app drawer.

This update is huge for people with lower-powered devices, too. iiSU now implements a completely new rendering engine, allowing for incredibly fast speeds!

We look forward to your feedback!

Visuals:

• Added glass-style context menu buttons, surface primitives, and refined focus visuals

• Added more font options, and weighting

• Cal Sans is now the new default font

• Restyled notifications, task panels, Discord friends, and context menus around newer visual system

• Improved Domino-style Animations for entering/exiting consoles, and swapping screens on a dual screen device

• Added Title Swivel option

Home Menu Overhaul:

• Rebuilt Home around new renderer for smoother focus, lower recomposition, and stability

• Added WiiSU-style Home layout with horizontal pages, peeking neighbors, and page aware item placement

• Added Android Widget support

• Added Image/GIF Widget

• Added Achievements summary Widget

• Added Playtime Activity Widget

• Added “Been a While” Widget to randomly choose between the last 5-15 games the user has launched

• Added Web Widget to embed websites / html files inside of widgets, allowing for infinite customisation

• Added “recenter artwork” option for valid widgets

• Added the ability to resize ROMs/Apps in Home

• Reworked Reorder system, with undo button

• Added Home layout snapshots, persistent empty slots, fill gaps actions, unique top/bottom screen layouts

XMB and ROM Browsing:

• Moved ROM grids, XMB, detail panels, media loading, input, and layout behavior into new renderer

• Overhauled ROM browsing with reusable grid and XMB

• Added smoother XMB/grid movement with improved caching, title/hero priming, right stick navigation, repeat scrolling, and domino-style animation

• Added richer visual states including Trophy/RA indicators, ES-DE loading overlays, hidden/item hints, and custom artwork sizing

• Improved category navigation, viewport restoration, page-end scrolling, and large library loading behavior

Onboarding:

• Reworked onboarding into a clearer setup flow, with optional extras before initially booting iiSU

• Added onboarding coverage for WiiSU, theme, browsing style, asset storage, ROM folders, detected consoles, Retroachievements, scrapers, ES-DE, RomM, Discord, notifications, and appearance.

• Added first boot metadata/starter pack sync

• Improved onboarding task recovery for asset preparation, scraping, and RA hash generation

Media:

• Added multi scrape across IGDB, Screenscraper, SteamGridDB, and TheGamesDB with unified match sorting

• Added SteamGridDB Home icon scraping with previews and batch Home icon scraping

• Added media cache controls with stats, refresh, clear, regenerate, and cached image toggles

• Added media warmup/loading policies to reduce heavy image work during navigation

ES-DE, RomM and Library Sources:

• Added ES-DE metadata loading states, and card-level loading badges

• Improved ES-DE system/media matching across regional and family variants

• Added SAF permission recovery to RomM downloads

Collections:

• Reworked collection surfaces with detail navigation handoff

• Added RomM collection sync and RomM collection toggle management

• Improved collection media handoff, navigation, and detail routing

Discord:

• Expanded Discord chat with media previews, including Discord-hosted media and Tenor links

• Added chat message copy support

• Improved friends panel layout with cleaner friend tiles

• Improved Discord rich presence for browsing, game launch, restore, and pending launch sites

Retroachievements:

• Added deeper RA integration with ROM mapping by hash, title, cached details, and RomM IDs

• Added RA context panels, Home widgets, ROM detail entry points, cached previews, and native RA icons

• Added dual-display detail projection with Score, overview, and media

• Added softcore progress display with a toggle

• Added user controls for RA lookup cache and generated hash cache

• Improved artwork matching

Audio, Haptics, and Motion:

• Reworked theme music playback with bundled custom file support and cleaner looping

• Expanded soundbite support for apps, platforms, ROMs, and detail surfaces

• Replaced haptics toggle with feedback levels

• Improved navigation sound and haptic behavior so feedback follows real focus movement

• Added smoother page slides, browsing crossfades, transition locks, and motion tuning

Emulator and Platform Support:

• Expanded and improved emulator support, including aPS3e/PS3, Sega Model 3, Vita3K, melonDS variants, Azahar/Lime3DS, X1 Box, X360 Mobile, aX360e, NetherSX2 Turnip, and Pizza Boy variants.

• Added platform pack import from ZIPs with layered icon/title/background assets.

• Added platform pack listing, ordering, deletion, and priority-based asset lookup.

• Added PS Vita title ID mapping and .psvita file generation.

• Added manual import for emulator config files with validation and rollback.

Performance/Launch:

• New renderer for smooth navigation and less frame drops

• Optimized Home startup/render paths, grid loading, and cached media

• Improved direct launch, external URL launch, and display routing

• Improved external display restore, dual display focus recovery, bottom screen launch retention, and display swap behavior

• Improved title sanitization for clearer ROM names

• Added log exports (Please add these to bug reports!)

Misc Features:

• Added Global Search for ROMs, consoles, apps, collections, folders, and categories - brought up with L + R.

• Added configurable launcher shortcuts and right-stick quick-navigation

• Added low power mode

• Added app language settings and broad localized coverage for Spanish and Chinese

• Added an app drawer accessible with B on a top level page

• Added platform packs with ZIP import

• Added android games in main ROM/Category surfaces

• Added system detection for time format

Thanks to PuzzylPiece for their font Console Sans!

This update is available in-app, or on our GitHub releases page.