HLC v2.5 - CrossbarView and Loading Screen

v2.5
Quick overview: RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView/CrossbarView (enable in settings: Allow 2D Views), JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 20 languages. Relies on Adrenaline Bubble Manager for PSP/PS1 game launching.

NEW

• CrossbarView!! (enable in settings: Allow 2D Views)
• Loading screen. Because this app has rolling cache, you'll only really see it when many entries are added to cache.

IMPROVEMENTS

• 'Download Snap' is now 'Download Background' and is now translated

index.lua is the source code. View code differences between v2.4.1 and v2.5 here (link).

HLC v2.4.1 (language pack hotfix)

v2.4.1
Quick overview: RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView (enable in settings), JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 20 languages. Relies on Adrenaline Bubble Manager for PSP/PS1 game launching.

IMPROVEMENTS

• 'Download Covers by Category' progress message is now translated. Found out why it wasn't working before: Because of an invisible symbol at the start of some translation files. More info here (link).
• Minor code cleanup.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed where theme color 'Pink' would display as theme color 'cover not found'

index.lua is the source code. View code differences between v2.4.0 and v2.4.1 here (link).

HLC v2.4 - Language Pack

v2.4
Quick overview: RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView (enable in settings), JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 20 languages. Relies on Adrenaline Bubble Manager for PSP/PS1 game launching.

NEW

• Added 10 new languages (20 total). Now supports EVERY language that the vita supports. Note: Auto-sets language on startup. The 'change language' setting is just for bug-testing now.
• Each language now has a little flag
• Added a cog icon for the settings menu. You'll see why in a later version. For now I just really wanted to get these old pull requests merged (sorry for taking so long!) and then go back to testing Adrenaline Launcher/Collections/XMB in the non-public version

BUGFIXES

• Very minor bugfix related to app title renaming (prevents an esoteric rename that prevented app launches unless you deleted cache)
• Very minor bugfix related to app title reading (now sanitizes invisible 'control' characters)
• Removed several unnecesary local variables related to setting menu spacing not needed now due to better translations, such as 'Allow view #5/#6' >>>> 'Allow 2D Views'

index.lua is the source code. View code differences between v2.3.1 and v2.4 here (link).

HLC v2.3.1 (hotfix)

v2.3.1
Quick overview: RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView (enable in settings), JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 10 languages. Relies on Adrenaline Bubble Manager for PSP/PS1 game launching.

NEW

• Added theme color 'pink' from YoDwarf's fork, here (link).
• Language will now autodetect every time the app starts up (but can no longer be manually set) to make sure that the below bugfix worked. May revert in a later version to increase startup speed. If a compatible translation file isn't found, it'll default to English.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed (hopefully) a crash related to upgrading from a version below 2.0 (such as v0.5) up to the latest version, which seemed to cause an issue related to language string format: [string"?"]:597: bad argument # 2 to 'format' (number expected, got nil)

index.lua is the source code. View code differences between v2.3.0 and v2.3.1 here (link).

HLC v2.3

(v2.2) Quick overview: RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView (enable in settings), JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 10 languages.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Minor code cleanup. May improve startup times when the option "RetroFlow: ON" is enabled.
• Grid View: Tightened the Y-axis border on categories with 12 or less entries.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed where double-replaying a game would buck off the least-recently replayed game from the 'recently played' category.
• Fixed where "RetroFlow: ON" would make it so the override animations wouldn't play in 'recently played' and 'custom' categories.
• Grid View: Fixed the very tiny jump that occured when using the touchscreen to go down from the first row.
• Grid View: Fixed a big jump that occurred when using analog sticks and touchscreen at the same time.
• Grid View: Fixed where going negative out of bounds in categories with 12 or less entries would move the camera when it shouldn't.

A few improvements and bugfixes (that are now considered stable) imported from the experimental nonpublic version v3.0 which may release very soon with support for Adrenaline Launcher as well as many cool upgrades still in bugtesting. Note: unlike RetroFlow, this app v2.3 is still using Adrenaline Manager for PSP/PS1 for its stability - though this app does support RetroArch for PS1 (if "RetroFlow: ON" is enabled) as well, just like RetroFlow does. All other categories will launch direct with the big advantage that you will never have to refresh cache after the first startup due to rolling cache.

index.lua is the source code. View what has changed in the source code since last version here (link).

HLC v2.2 - Utility Menu & Bugfixes

(v2.2) Quick overview: RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView (enable in settings), JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 10 languages.

NEW

• "Utilities" section in the start menu to access Photo Album, Browser, Trophies, etc.
• Small files (such as retro games from RetroFlow) will now display file sizes in Kilobytes (Kb) if they're too small to be measured in Megabytes (Mb)
• Swap X/O buttons is now automatic

BUGFIXES

• Fixed crash: "1438: error opening ux0:/app/PCSE00034/sce_sys/param.sfo" when you had a corrupt app installed.
• Fixed where covers had issues downloading from the start menu.
• Fixed the 3D model for N64 games being off-center in the triangle menu.
• Fixed a buggy message when trying to download a snap with Custom Backgrounds: OFF
• For Adrenaline Manager PSP/PS1 games: 1: No longer displays duplicate scanned ID. 2: Now shows proper game size.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Editted the "about"/"more information" section to be more clear about RetroFlow and adding your own custom backgrounds/music.

If you have issues or improvement ideas, please let me know. I'm currently working on to release the final update and it will be a big update. It will be a massive overhaul for the "custom category" which right now you only get 1 and it's not very set up to have RetroFlow games in it right now. Also to fix the minor audio pop, add the option for "Adrenaline Launcher", and possibly to add the option to have the last 6 categories RetroFlow has that this app doesn't (PS Mobile, SCUMMVM, MAME, MAME2003+, FBA, NeoGeo) which would slow loading times a tiny bit. Any other ideas please let me know.

index.lua is the source code

HLC v2.1

(v2.1)
Quick overview: RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView (enable in settings), JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 10 languages

Added X/O Button swap option for Japanese users, credit to yzzyx-network.

Added a pretty basic language auto-detector. If it detects Japanese the first time you boot up HexFlow Custom, it will set "swap X/O" to "ON"

Fixed a bug where the app may crash when using Grid View, referencing an unused image.

Fixed a bug where it'd lag the first launch after resetting "Recently Played: ON/OFF"

Fixed the weird flicker that would occur sometimes when exiting triangle menu.

Fixed a glitch in Grid View where if you were in a category with 4+ rows with the camera bottomed out and you were currently situated in the 2nd to last row and pressed right, it would wrongly refocus the camera to the middle.

Fixed where in the triangle menu, it would display RetroFlow entries as "homebrew". Also made it so a PS1 Retroarch game will now be labelled respectively.

Cleaned up a lot of the the code comments from v2.0

This was originally going to be a bigger update and take longer (with features such as more languages and implementing "collections" similar to actual RetroFlow), but this update has been hurried because of a really cool pull request from user "yzzyx-network" as well as the kind of important bugfixes for Grid View.

index.lua is the source code

HLC v2.0 - The RetroFlow/Grid View Update

(v2.0)
THE BIG RETROFLOW UPDATE!

Quick Overview:
RetroFlow (enable in settings), SwitchView/GridView, JIT rolling cache, 8 backgrounds, 10 languages

Finally added setting: RetroFlow ON/OFF!!! Has all the categories of RetroFlow 6.0 except: PSM,
ScummVM, MAME/MAME+, NeoGeo, and FBA... However please note it DOES support several "newer"
RetroFlow categories: RetroArch PS1, Pico-8, Dreamcast. Supports PS1/PSP without RetroFlow
(Adrenaline Manager) but doesn't support PSP Categories Lite (yet).

It will read from the data folders created by RetroFlow, but it won't create or delete any folders
or files except during cover downloads. If this is your first time using RetroFlow, it's recommended
to install the current latest version of RetroFlow, run it at least once, and follow its
installation instructions. This app uses Adrenaline Manager instead of RetroFlow's Adrenaline
Launcher because many people have issues with Adrenaline Launcher.

Cache will magically always stay up to date due to JIT Switch Generation ("Rolling Cache")
This is probably the main reason to use this app over RetroFlow.

Fixed a major bug from v1.2/v1.2.1 where sometimes if rolling cache activated, it would clear
cache instead of updating a line... You will know you had the issue if the "writing to cache"
screen showed up every time - it's not supposed to. Hopefully fixed in this version. The
"writing to cache screen" should only show up when you install a new app! If you had the bug,
startup should now be much faster. It's ~3.9 seconds with 500 games but if you enable
RetroFlow, it adds ~2 seconds.

Finally released Grid View, available from the start menu with "Allow View #5/#6", because it
has finally been optimized enough that it doesn't cause massive lag.

"Loose match" RetroFlow cover downloads... A lot of people really wanted this because of
how strict the RetroFlow naming conventions are. Example: you can download a cover for a
game called just "Super Metroid"... it will default to the USA cover.

Upgraded cover downloads by start menu a lot: skips entryes that already have covers. Added a
"Screen.waitVblankStart()" so that you can see briefly see what covers are being skipped.
Works for all categories now including homebrews that have a vita-style cover (you should
override them if so). Made download synchronous instead of asynchronous: Seems much faster.
Mass cover downloads for PSP/PS1 will now use the ID scanner, as is done in triangle menu.
Fixed where it wouldn't error out for "no wifi".

Bulletproofed cur_quick_dir, a variable used for overrides and everywhere that the code
System.doesFileExist(...) used to be (cur_quick_dir is much faster but less stable).

Drastically bulletproofed the function for increasing and decreasing category (ie: for
when you press square). It will now properly hide an existing but empty CUSTOM category.

Added a new style for "Category Button: Up/Down"

Fixed N64 spacing in flat view (experimental)... added smoothness to zoomin view and left view.
Credit to Axce for the idea but his code was not used. Currently experimenting with the best
way to add smoothness to views other than zoomin/left view.

CUSTOM category can be used similar to "collections" in RetroFlow, ex: to hold all your
"utility"-type apps. However, it needs upgraded to support RetroFlow entries... the upgrade
is currently in bugtesting. When done, you'll be able to add stuff to CUSTOM category via
the triangle menu.

Fixed where if it was the first time ever booting up, overrides wouldn't work on the first try.

Also includes the minor bugfix from v1.2.1 where some categories might not show up right
first time ever booting up.

Added a new button at the bottom of the start menu "Exit", as a kind of placeholder:
it'll be replaced by "Utilities" or "System Apps" when applicable.

The actual RetroFlow app might not register covers downloaded from this app if you have
startup scan OFF in actual RetroFlow. Ones downloaded in RetroFlow will always show up here
everytime due to rolling cache.

There is a bug relating to RetroFlow and "Return to Last-Played Game"... if you have 2
Retro games with the same filenames in DIFFERENT categories, it may pick the wrong one if the
last played category was "All"/"CUSTOM"

If you were using an experimental version, file "ux0/data/HexFlow/debugfile.dat" can be deleted.

Changed app title to "HexFlow Custom". If the old title still remains, it may have registered
as a "rename". You can reset it by scrolling to HexFlow Custom... pressing triangle... selecting
"rename"... and setting it to blank which will reset the title.

Added more bulletproofing to the code Category_Plus(), Category_Minus(), and categoryButton;
where you couldn't change category if you hacked "categoryButton" in config.dat to be an
invalid value and where the first time you hit the category button, it wouldn't register if
you hacked "showCat" in config.dat to have an invalid value (for forward compatability).

(Hopefully) fixed where a fresh install would lag for the first launch if Recently Played ON.

Minor bulletproofing/improvement: Only app folders with 9 characters imported, removes
duplicates or manually backed-up / renamed folders.

Upgraded Italian translations, credit DaRk_ViVi

New bugs:

When you exit the triangle menu, the modbox will slightly glitch out for about 1/60th of a
second or less in certain categories. You will easily miss it even if you're looking for it.

If you have 2 RetroFlow entries with the same base file name, then "return to last played",
the "recently played" category, and the "custom" category might display the wrong one. For
this reason, the "custom" category doesn't easily support RetroFlow entries. It will require
a huge overhaul to make it work correctly The "overhaul" also allows this app to use
"Collections" - one of the really great new features of actual RetroFlow 6.0... This
"overhaul" is already done but is in bugtesting currently.

index.lua is the source code

HLC v1.2.2 (hotfix)

(v1.2.2)
Fixed a newly-discovered major bug caused by a minor typo where sometimes if rolling cache activated, it would clear cache instead of updating a line. This version should be pretty rock solid!

index.lua is the source code

HLC v1.2.1 (hotfix)

(v1.2.1)
Fixed where if this was your first time installing the app, the PS1/PSP categories may have been hidden; they should show up now (unless they're empty and you go in start menu and put "Hide Empty Categories: ON").

Note: This app uses "Adrenaline Manager" for PS1/PSP because it's a lot more stable than RetroFlow's "Adrenaline Launcher"... all bubbles made in "Adrenaline Manager" will be automatically put into their proper categories - PSP or PS1 - and can download covers regardless of their file names or ID's (like RetroFlow v5.0 and above).

index.lua is the source code