retroarch: upgrade to v1.18.0

[cmitu]

Upgraded RetroArch to version 1.17.0 1.18.0. You can pull from https://github.com/cmitu/RetroArch/tree/retropie-v1.18.0, which contains 1.18.0 + our patches.

Notable changes, cherry-picked from:

• https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-17-0-release/

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/commit/9e492f74c8378582bde6f115a8715ab08e945303

• Netplay

  • expanded the protocol to allow multiplayer games running on separate consoles/computers. Cores like 'Dosbox-Pure' or 'gPSP' support the new protocol.
  • add support for joining MITM servers from command line

• Cheevos

  • upgrade to v11.0

  • don’t track disc changes when achievements are disabled

  • inform user when server is unreachable

  • fix crash on first load of game with achievements with threaded video

  • Input

  • fix ghost input when setting RETROK_UNKNOWN

  • default ‘Bind Hold’ to 0 to prevent problems with controllers not resting at null state

  • don’t save mouse buttons to autoconfig

  • add a setting to allow turbo d-pad directions

  • change event detection to polling in udev_joypad

  • add option for merging ‘Hotkey Enable’ device types

  • fix input state combos including R3 and false triggers of RETROK_UNKNOWN (1.18.0)

  • add a new turbo mode, "Classic (Toggle)" (1.18.0)

  • limit axis threshold setting to sensible values (1.18.0)

  • Menu

  • fix menu analog stick navigation (1.16.0.1)

  • fix word wrapped widget length

  • fix quit on content close option

  • don’t process menu events while input is being flushed (1.16.0.2)

  • add help text to controller drivers

  • fix text scaling in 16:9 (RGUI)

  • thumbnail related fixes (missing thumbnail bar, fullscreen thumbnail flashing, sidebar focus, OZONE)

  • background images take precedence over color themes, default image opacity set the same as color theme opacity (XMB)

  • fix segmentation fault when background image is missing (XMB)

  • layout/thumbnail fixes – Thumbnail layout adjustments, Header title improvements, Handheld layout adjustments (XMB)

  • add sublabels for input bind common entries (1.18.0)

  • don't disable fast forward when entering menu (1.18.0)

  • add option to disable initial disk change (1.18.0)

  • visibility option for disk control notifications (1.18.0)

  • Video

  • use video refresh rate instead of core refresh rate for menu frame limiting

  • limit paused video refresh rate

  • enforce swap interval 1 in menu if vsync is on

  • add FinalViewportSize support to GLSL

  • change rotation type to int to maximize compatibility

  • Patching

  • add support for XDelta-formatted patches.

  • fix patching for cores that support contentless mode

  • Other

  • Frame Rest, experimental sleep feature aiming to lower CPU usage and temperature when using certain CPU hungry vsync modes

  • introduce wp_fractional_scale_v1 protocol for proper fractional scaling (Wayland)

  • update wayland-protocols version to 1.31 (Wayland)

RetroPie module changes:

RetroPie module changes:

• make iniConfig use the same parameters every time
• removed spurious ret files on _install
• set input_overlay_enable to enabled, since the default changed (to 'false') in 1.17.0. It helps overlay users that didn't explicitely set this parameter in the overlay overrides they're using.
• set sort_savestates_enable and sort_savefiles_enable to false, since in 1.18.0 RetroArch would otherwise create sub-folders under the content path folder for save states and save files (.srm) (see RA issue https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16430).

[cmitu]

Updated to 1.18.0 code and included the changelog to it. The new release is mostly bugfixes, the new features added have been added to the commit message.

[cmitu]

Set to draft since I think there's a regression somewhere w.r.t. the save state(s) path.

[cmitu]

OK, so 1.18.0 changed the save state path (happens even with our save path patch). Regression reported in https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16430.

[cmitu]

Alright, the regression is caused by a deliberate change (see the RetroArch issue opened above), that aligns the save(files/state) sorting options for the cases where the path to saves(files/states) is set to the content dir.

Saving in the content dir is the default for RetroPie, so unless we turn off the sort_savestates_enable/sort_savesfiles_enable, upgrading will 'lose' the existing save files/states since they'll be searched by RetroArch in a different location.

We'll have to disable the above mentioned options during upgrade, but users that saved the full config or reset their config before will be impacted.

EDIT: I'll amend the changes in the new branch and remove the draft status once finished.

[cmitu]

Ok, I modified the PR to include the settings of the new option, which should work with our configuration. For users that reset their configs there's not much we can do, unfortunately.

[joolswills]

Thank you. Appreciate your feeding it back to RetroArch. Will merge soon. Do we need to rebuild assets?

[cmitu]

Thank you. Appreciate your feeding it back to RetroArch. Will merge soon. Do we need to rebuild assets?

I only tried the ozone menu driver, and there were no additional assets to add. I don't think xmb got any new assets though - so I'd say no rebuild is necessary.

[joolswills]

Cheers!

[joolswills]

Cheers!