VERSION 1.1.30 (August 9, 2024)

What's New?

I wanted to put out a relatively small update now in order to start up a good habit and routine of working on RESET and putting out new updates regularly.

This update is adding the .emu emulators that are missing, especially the much requested Saturn.emu!

On a personal note, I have been able to get past a period of my life where I was taking care of a lot of personal health issues. I'm living a healthier life, developed healthy habits, and I have more time and energy to devote time every week to working on RESET Collection development!

I hope all of you are enjoying your summer and getting in a lot of retro gaming! My current plan is to play a game that I haven't played since it was released when I was a teenager. I will be diving into Chrono Trigger in order to follow along with my favorite video gaming podcast Get Played! They are playing it as part of their 'We Play You Play' where they pick a game and play it to discuss on an episode at the end of the month. If you have never heard of the Get Played! podcast, you should check it out and treat yourself to a fantastic video gaming podcast!

Take care, friends!

And remember...

VIDEO GAMES IS LIFE!

Features and Improvements

• Add the Saturn.emu, Swan.emu, and Lynx.emu emulators.

VERSION 1.1.27 (July 10, 2023)

What's New?

I'm very excited to announce that RESET Collection is the first emulation frontend to use an AI image generator natively to create and download AI-generated images!

Using an AI image generator from within RESET Collection is early-stage and experimental. You will be accessing the Microsoft AI Image Generator through a Web View within the RESET Collection app. You will then need to log into your Microsoft account, after which you will be able to create and download AI generated images.

Because this is early-stage, there might be some quirks and bugs to fix. If you are stuck on a blank white web page when signing into your Microsoft account, please restart RESET Collection and try again. You may also see a RESET Collection dialog asking you to restart the app giving you an easy way to try again. Once you have signed into your account, I have found that you no longer run into issues loading web pages.

I look forward to seeing what AI images you create and set up in your collections! Please share your images, tips on writing prompts, and your favorite prompts on the RESET Collection Discord. You can find a link to it here:

https://github.com/ResetCollection/support/wiki/RESET-Collection

But that's not all!

You can now also search for and download images for your systems and games using Yahoo Image Search.

To do all of this, go to your system or game's menu and select: 'New image search and download'

Make sure to long press or long touch on 'AI by Microsoft' in order to log in and create AI generated images. And also long press or long touch on 'Yahoo Images' in order to enter a custom search query!

I designed this 'New image search and download' feature to be an intuitive and painless process! I hope it helps you easily find new images all from within your frontend instead of having to download externally on a PC and import them into your device. Please share your feedback on what improvements you would like to see!

And in addition to all of this, you are also going to notice that system artwork now scrape with different images. You can browse these new images by going to your system menu > New image search and download > Scraper.

And lastly, you will now see that images load with a slight yet delightful animation! If you don't want the animation, you can disable this within the settings menu.

Enjoy! And remember...

VIDEO GAMES IS LIFE!

Features and Improvements

• Create and download AI generated images from within RESET Collection!
• Browse for new images using the Yahoo Image Search Engine and download them straight into your collection!
• System artwork now downloads from a new source. You can see new images by going to the System menu > New image search and download > Scraper
• Updates to support the latest versions of: My Boy!, My OldBoy!, Duckstation, and ePSXe
• You can now set banner artwork for all games.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where YouTube videos would not play when a banner is displaying.
• Some other bug fixes.

VERSION 1.1.26 (March 26, 2023)

What's New?

Thank you for all of the feedback and love you have sent my way for the addition of boot videos and background music!

I'm also very impressed by the custom artwork so many of you are creating and sharing with the community!

This release allows you to now use .gif files for your artwork, background music playlist support, updates to support the latest versions of DraStic, Dolphin, and the Robert Broglia .emu emulators including Snes9x, and some bug fixes.

Enjoy! And remember...

VIDEO GAMES IS LIFE!

Features and Improvements

• You can now use .gif files for game artwork!
• You can play the .mp3 files you added as a playlist!
• Updates to support the latest versions of DraStic, Dolphin, and the Robert Broglia .emu emulators including Snes9x

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused system video snap to play over boot video.

VERSION 1.1.21 (July 19, 2022)

What's New?

I am excited to finally get this release out!

RESET Collection can now be set as your device's home launcher! NICE!

You can also now see all of your games for a system in a grid view. Just click on the system's box art when you are in the view games mode, and you will then be taken to a screen displaying all of the games of that system in a grid view. HOT!

What's more, when you are viewing your games in the grid view, you can now long press on a game to bring up the game menu! SO CONVENIENT!

You'll also notice that the menu items such as search, settings, and add new system have been moved! They will now display after you hit back while on the 'view all systems' screen. And now on the games screen, you will notice that scrolling down or up will wrap you back to the beginning or end of your system/games list. CH-CH-CHANGES!

And one last thing: You can now save your preferred orientation! The options are landscape, portrait, reverse landscape, and reverse portrait. Find this option under 'Settings'.

Thank you all for continuing to support RESET Collection!

And remember...

VIDEO GAMES IS LIFE!

• Added support to set RESET Collection as your device's home launcher
• Added 'view all games in a system' screen
• Added ability to bring up the game menu from the search games and view all games in a system screens
• Moved menu items. Now accessed by hitting back button on 'view all systems' screen
• Add ability to save your preferred screen orientation

VERSION 1.1.20 (June 6, 2022)

What's New?

This update brings some fixes and new emulators!

And remember...

VIDEO GAMES IS LIFE!

Features and Improvements

• Added ROM launching support for Citra MMJ! You can now launch a game to Citra MMJ from RESET instead of only opening the app.
• Added Dolphin for Handheld emulator for Retroid Pocket 2+ users.
• Added the RetroArch core PUAE 2021.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed NAS support on Android 11 and above Android TV devices. (I only tested this on the Shield TV running Shield Experience 9. Please contact me if there are any issues with NAS access)
• MasterGear should now work on Android 11+ devices.
• VGBAnext should now work on Android 11+ devices.

VERSION 1.1.19 (March 1, 2022)

What's New?

This is a small update to fix a couple of bugs.

VIDEO GAMES IS LIFE!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where ROM extensions were being ignored when adding ROM files, which was causing all files in a ROM folder to be added as a game
• Add RetroArch app detection instead of config file detection to fix issue found in Z Fold3

VERSION 1.1.18 (February 18, 2022)

What's New?

Hello! Javier here, developer of RESET Collection!

This is the Android 12 update!

What this means is that RESET Collection will now work with emulators that target Android 11 and above. RESET Collection will also conform to the new 'Scoped Storage' requirements that were introduced with Android 11. This is required in order to be able to continue to release updated versions of RESET Collection to the Google Play Store.

"There are some extra steps that are now necessary in order to set up launching ROMs to these emulators. But RESET will do its best to help you complete this! When you first attempt to launch a game with one of these emulators, a dialog will display that will give you some helpful info and provide a link to a guide I created."

You can always find these guides on the wiki:\nhttps://github.com/ResetCollection/support/wiki

Some of you have also reported that the Dreamcast emulator redream no longer launches correctly from RESET. I've also added an info dialog and guide for getting redream to work with RESET Collection. Check it out!

Oh... and one more thing...

From the bottom of my middle-aged, sentimental, nostalgia-ridden heart, I would like to thank you very much for being a RESET Collection user, and also for being so patient as I worked on this update!

And I would also like to wish you all a belated Happy New Year and Chinese New Year! May you, your family, and your loved ones have much joy, prosperity, and health as we say goodbye to 2021 and LET'S GOOOO to 2022!!

Now let's play some retro games!

VIDEO GAMES IS LIFE!

As always, if you need to discuss any issues (or just chat with me and the RESET community!), please join the RESET Collection Discord! You can find a link to it at http://resetcollection.com

Features & Improvements

• Added AetherSX2 PS2 emulator support
• Target Android version 12
• Added support for emulators using scoped storage (M64Plus, PPSSPP, AetherSX2, Dolphin, Snes9x EX+, all of the *.emu emulators)
• Added dialog helpers/support with links to guides to help users with newer versions of apps such as redream, M64Plus, PPSSPP, and AetherSX2
• Added many cores! Including MAME - Current' RetroArch core and many more!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue some were experiencing where emulators were not being set for all games in a system
• Fixed issue where there could be a crash when displaying a folder with thousands of files
• Fixed some bugs and crashes experienced when downloading images
• Fixed issue with launching Classicboy Lite

VERSION 1.1.14 (October 18, 2021)

What's New?

This update adds the ability to easily set the artwork images (box art, logo, backdrop) and video snaps for all games in a system through a bulk set feature!

For more information on how to do this, you can find a guide in the RESET instructions manual! To get to the instructions manual, just go to the top menu Settings > Read RESET instructions manual.

You can also get to the guide on the first dialog screen when you start the set artwork for all games process. Just go to the system menu for any system by long pressing/tapping on the box art of a system and then choosing 'Set artwork/video snap for all games'. You'll then see an option to 'SHOW INSTRUCTIONS'.

As always, if you need to discuss any issues (or just chat with me and the RESET community!), please join the RESET Collection Discord! You can find a link to it at http://resetcollection.com

Features & Improvements

• Added the ability to set artwork and video snaps for all games in a system through a bulk set feature!

VERSION 1.1.13 (October 4, 2021)

What's New?

!!! This is an emergency fix for some users out there that were unable to download any of the scraped images to their devices !!!

There are some other issues I will be addressing in a future update, but I needed to get this update out as it was completely ruining the scraping experience of a number of the users out there!

As always, if you need to discuss any issues (or just chat with me and the RESET community!), please join the RESET Collection Discord! You can find a link to it at http://resetcollection.com

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where users were not able to download any of the scraped system and game images.

VERSION 1.1.12 (September 29, 2021)

What's New?

In this release you now have the ability to switch the box art for all of the games in any of your collections to 2D or to 3D all at once!

To do this, go to the system menu by long pressing on the system box art, and then choose 'Set all game box art to 2D' or 'Set all game box art to 3D.' You will next have the option to select a preferred region for your box art. RESET will set any box art that matches this region if it is available.

Note that this will only work with box art that was downloaded using the scraper in RESET.

Features & Improvements

• Added 'Set all game box art to 2D' and 'Set all game box art to 3D' options!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue that caused top menu option items to not be focusable when left and right option items are out of screen bounds.

VERSION 1.1.11 (September 14, 2021)

Features & Improvements

• Added search games feature! Just look for the big search icon in the top menu!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where Retroid Pocket 2 gpSP core wouldn't display for Retroid Pocket 2 devices running LineageOS.

VERSION 1.1.10 (September 4, 2021)

Features & Improvements

• Added Play Random Game feature
• Made improvements to image load times
• Improved experience when deleting a game

New Emulators and Cores

• Added Dolphin MMJR2
• Added support for Retroid Pocket 2 gpSP RetroArch core, and added Hatari and melonDS cores

VERSION 1.1.08 (August 12, 2021)

Features & Improvements

• Added a System Select screen. To bring up the system select screen, just hit the back button on your game controller, tap the back button on the device touchscreen, or do a multi-touch tap with two fingers.

New Emulators and Cores

• Added more MAME RetroArch cores

VERSION 1.1.06 (April 7, 2021)

New Emulators and Cores

• Flycast for Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, and Atomiswave
• FPse64 for Sony Playstation
• Dolphin MMJR for Nintendo GameCube and Wii
• Yaba Sanshiro Pro 2 for Sega Saturn
• RetroArch: mGBA core for Nintendo Game Boy Color and Game Boy
• RetroArch: Snes9x 2005 Plus core for SNES
• RetroArch: Dolphin core for Nintendo GameCube and Wii
• RetroArch: Gearsystem core for Sega Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000
• RetroArch: Race core for Neo Geo Pocket and Pocket Color
• RetroArch: Beetle Cygne core for WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue that did not allow users to fix broken ROM filepaths (such as when a ROM directory is renamed or moved).

VERSION 1.1.04 (December 4, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added ability to play local video files, or "Video Snaps"! Please check the guide for instruction son how to do this by going to Settings > Show video file (video snap) guide.
• Added the DuckStation emulator and RetroArch core. Please note that currently using the DuckStation emulator for your ROM will only launch the DuckStation app and will not begin the game. You will have to navigate to the game from within the DuckStation app. Launching a ROM from RESET will be supported as soon as the DuckStation devs add this feature.
• Added the Mupen64Plus AE V3 Alpha (paulscode.com version) emulator.

VERSION 1.1.03 (November 7, 2020)

Bug Fixes

• This new version (1.1.03) fixes a pretty major bug found in 1.1.02 that caused many games to be hidden!
• Also fixed issue where custom images couldn't be saved to a system's image library.

VERSION 1.1.02 (November 6, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Updated scraping and image download logic. Users with very large ROM sets should no longer see a very long wait and load time when adding new ROMs.
• Made improvements to image download compression. Added 'Low resolution' as an option that is perfect for devices with small screens.
• Added a 'Continue downloading images that failed to save' option in Settings menu to allow you to download any images that were interrupted during the download image process.
• Adding the .nomedia file to 'Pictures/reset_collection/' folder so that images do not show up in Samsung's image Gallery.

Bug Fixes

• Game & Watch games can now be scraped.
• Fixed issue where games would not be added when choosing the option to not scrape game data and images.
• Fixed issue that caused duplicate or out of order collections.

VERSION 1.1.01 (August 31, 2020)

Bug Fixes

• Retroid Pocket devices should now display the external SD card as an available directory for downloading images. To change image download directory, go to 'Settings > Image download folder location.' If you don't know what a Retroid Pocket is, do yourself a favor and look up 'Retroid Pocket 2' or go to http://www.goretroid.com and check out the Retroid Pocket 2, a TOTALLY RADICAL handheld RETRO device!

VERSION 1.1.00 (August 25, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added ability to lock orientation!
• New systems: Pokémon Mini, Neo Geo CD, Atomiswave
• New emulators: PCE.emu for TurboGrafx CD, Pizza Boy (Free versions), ClassicBoy
• Update to logo, splash screen, and main backdrop!
• You can now remove games from your play history!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where correct emulator was not showing when setting a new emulator for all games in a system.
• Updating the emulator for a single game will not kick the user back to the beginning of the games list.

VERSION 1.0.19 (June 25, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added portrait orientation support!
• Updating the emulator of a game will keep you in place and not take you back to the system item at the beginning of the games list
• 'neogeo.zip' BIOS files will now be ignored when adding ROMs

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where video will auto play in system's backdrop when going from a game with a YouTube video to the system
• Fixed some crashes when going to the menu of empty 'Last played' and 'Favorites' collections

VERSION 1.0.18 (June 14, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added Android native games as a system! Go to 'Add a New System' and choose 'Android' to get started! Please note that RESET is using the Play Store as the scraping source, so if the game does not exist on the Play Store, then images and game data will not be scraped.
• RESET can now detect when you turn the device, thus letting you flip the landscape orientation. Sorry, no portrait mode yet, but that will come soon(ish).

Bug Fixes

• Improved a database call during scraping that may solve issue with very long scrape times some users are experiencing.
• Fixed issue on some devices where RESET would crash on exiting app using the Back button

VERSION 1.0.16 (May 27, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added Citra Emulator (The Play Store version!). **NOTE: The Citra Emulator doesn't support launching a ROM from a frontend. Selecting a game will launch the Citra app, but you will have to launch your game from the emulator. Launching a ROM from RESET will be supported as soon as the Citra devs add this feature.
• Added DamonPS2 Emulators. **NOTE: The DamonoPS2 Emulators don't support launching a ROM from a frontend. Selecting a game will launch the DamonPS2 app, but you will have to launch your game from the emulator. Launching a ROM from RESET will be supported as soon as the DamonPS2 devs add this feature.
• You can now easily see what emulator is set for your game by checking the top of that game's game menu.

VERSION 1.0.15 (May 13, 2020)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where updates to system descriptions were not being displayed.
• Fixed issue that caused some users' updates to selected art to not save (such as updated box art would not save after restarting app)

VERSION 1.0.14 (May 5, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added support for mounted network storage! From now on any network storage device mounted to the '/storage/' directory of your Android device will show in the same directory level as internal and external drives.
• Added RetroArch cores: Commodore 64: VICE x64 fast; Commodore 64: VICE x64sc accurate; NES: Mesen; SNES: Mesen-S; SNES: BSNES HD; 3DO: Opera

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where RESET Collection will crash when launching an emulator that is no longer installed on device. Now a dialog will inform you when an emulator that isn't installed has been attempted to launch a ROM.

VERSION 1.0.13 (April 16, 2020)

Bug Fixes

• Fixing issue where RESET would not detect that the 64-bit version of RetroArch was installed on the device
• Last played collection will now actually display games by last played (instead of sorted alphabetically)

VERSION 1.0.12 (April 12, 2020)

Bug Fixes

• Fixing issues and crashes caused when the device is not connected to the internet!
• There is an issue with banners that I wasn't quite able to recreate, but since this was reported as only happening when there was no internet connection, I believe the latest update also fixes this issue. If not, please contact me. THANK YOU all for your patience with these issues that are found!

VERSION 1.0.11 (April 11, 2020)

Bug Fixes

• Fixing a crash some users experienced when opening Settings on devices with external storage. Seems this issue can be caused when a previously connected shared storage is unavailable. However, I'm not able to fully recreate on my devices, so if any users are still experiencing this issue when opening Settings, please contact me! THANK YOU!

VERSION 1.0.10 (April 2, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added "Image download folder location" setting! This will allow you to select from some options for which folder to save downloaded images to. If you have an external storage connected, there will be an option to save to a RESET Collection app data folder on the external storage. You can find this setting under "Image Download Settings" in the Settings top menu or in the scraping settings window when you're adding a new system.
• Added a couple of NEC PC Engine cores for TurboGrafx 16 and CD.
• Added the Play Store version of SuperRetro16.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where RESET wasn't allowing Sega SG-1000 system to be added.

VERSION 1.0.08 (March 23, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added autoplay game video tutorial to the tutorial guides.
• NOTE ON VIDEO PLAYBACK: You can add/change the video used for the video autoplay of a game by going to that game's menu and selecting 'Update YouTube video ID'. If you remove the video ID and save it while the field is blank, then no video will play for that game (this is a way to individually disable video playback for a game). You can universally disable video autoplay by going to Settings > Autoplay game videos.

VERSION 1.0.07 (March 22, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added video autoplay! Some of the games that you've scraped already have a gameplay video URL saved, so when you select a game now, a video will autoplay after a few seconds. Use L2 or Left Trigger to rewind video and R2 or Right Trigger to skip forward. This function can be turned off by going to Settings > Autoplay game videos.
• Added back up data/restore data function! Back up data (to create or to set up RESET on another device). Restore data (to set up the database for RESET on this device from a backup file)
• Added Sega Naomi as a system.
• Added Mupen64Plus FZ Pro emulator
• Added RetroArch PicoDrive core as an option for Sega CD games

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some bugs that were causing occasional crashes on launch for some users.

VERSION 1.0.06 (February 25, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Added the 'Beetle Saturn' and 'Yaba Sanshiro' Sega Saturn cores for RetroArch

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Dolphin MMJ not launching issue
• Fixed bug that caused some multi-disc games to terminate game-adding process

VERSION 1.0.05 (February 18, 2020)

Features & Improvements

• Games that were not matched correctly during scraping can now be fixed! Simply go to the game menu of the game you want to fix, select 'Fix game match,' and start typing in the name of the game. A list of matching games will populate below. Select the correct game, and on the next dialog select 'FIX MATCH'
• Added Nintendo 3DS as a system and the Citra MMJ emulator. **NOTE: Citra MMJ doesn't support launching a ROM from a frontend. Selecting a game will launch the Citra app. Launching a ROM will be supported as soon as the Citra devs add this feature.
• Added Final Burn Neo RetroArch core for Arcade!! Shout out to sunbichu! Hope it works ;)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Neo Geo and Neo Geo Pocket support issues.
• Fixed an issue that some devices were experiencing which didn't allow the app to complete the initial data set-up (This was a pretty bad bug... Sorry to those affected!!)