Improvements:

• First time wizard now allows to go through PCSX2's first time wizard
• Additional file support - CHD ELF
• Try reading serial numbers from game file names
• Sub-directories in game directory folder are now also scanned
• Option to override box art size in spectabis.json
• Option to filter by all file types in game browser window

Misc:

• Updated PCSX2 plugins
• .NET Framework updated to 4.7
• Spectabis now ships with game index file
• Removed unused XInput initialization code

Notice before upgrading: This release introduces changes to how initial game configuration is handled and to avoid issues with game configuration, it's recommended to force the first time wizard (by editing or deleting spectabis.json file)

Recommended for use with PCSX2 Release v1.6.0.

Changelog: Fix scraping among others things. Read commit history. #56 Spectabis-gui: Remove old mipmap hack option #43 Enabled TLS 1.2 which fixes art scraping #50

since the last release!

News Notes

Changed stuff around the global config emuDir - https://github.com/FaithLV/Spectabis/pull/27

API Overhaul - https://github.com/FaithLV/Spectabis/pull/28

• Added additional art APIs
• Embedded API keys
• Automatic API switching and priorization

Error Logging output to file + PCSX2 directory change bug fix - https://github.com/FaithLV/Spectabis/pull/33

Fixing playtime counter only keeping track of minutes, not hours - https://github.com/FaithLV/Spectabis/pull/38

Fixing crash on startup - https://github.com/FaithLV/Spectabis/pull/39

Also updated bundled emulator plugins to dev-3033-g52da124a2

Thanks to CyberFoxHax and Michanne for caring when I didn't. <3

This release should decrease memory usage quite a lot. In a test case with 140 games, memory usage dropped from 2GB to ~100MB.

Added Discord Rich Presence!

• Improve Wiki Searching for titles with special characters
• Add playtime indicator to game tiles
• Fix some files showing up as UNKNOWN (thanks to UrbanCMC)

• "Input Settings" button in options will be disabled if using Global Controller profile
• Minor code cleanups

Fixed Issues

• When no logs files are found, Spectabis crashes
• Changing game title reloads library
• Compiling releated issues
• Resources folder is leaked into drive directory on each launch

New Features:

• Improved game directory scanning with big libraries

Improvements:

• Improved performance when changing box art images
• Improved performance when art scraping downloads and updates box art images
• Directory scanning blacklist is refreshed when the directory is changed

Fixed Issues:

• Adding certain games crashes crashes Spectabis https://github.com/Spectabis/WPF_Spectabis/issues/4
• GiantBomb API key is logged to console at certain times

As always, if you encounter any issues or have any suggestions, please head over to https://github.com/Spectabis/WPF_Spectabis/issues

Thanks!

• Improved "Directory Scanning" prompt to add games
• Option to disable automatic title detection (for people using Launchbox etc.)
• New "Windows 10 Start" tile
• Added tooltips to Settings options
• Global Controller profile
• FIXED: Video settings (and others) crash, if there is no prior configuration made in PCSX2
• Removed plugin copying from PCSX2 and entry from advanced.ini

There was an issue where Spectabis would crash whenever a new version was launched, this has been now fixed. Sorry.

To a popular request:

• Commandline support for launching game profiles instantly -profile "profile name"
• Improved commandline handling
• Minor improvements to debug console
• Refetch boxart button

Profile name = Game profile name in Spectabis

Planned next:

• Custom game executables
• Controller support
• Better handling of directory scanning
• Improved performance when loading library