mupen64plus (1.99.4+1) unstable; urgency=low mupen64plus was converted from a complete monolithic emulator to a modular architecture [1] to create a more portable core. Therefore, the core is now a library and not a GUI with included emulation cores. The mupen64plus distribution only provides some basic plugins, a reference console frontend and the core library. Additional third party frontends [2] are necessary to get a GUI or special functionality like configuration dialogs. Otherwise the new configuration registry file "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/mupen64plus.cfg has to be edited by hand to change the settings. The input plugin provides an auto-configuration of input devices to help the users getting their joysticks and gamepads to work without editing the configuration registry. Many joysticks aren't known yet, but it is still possible to change the settings manually [3]. It is recommended to forward the new settings to the mupen64plus developers to get them included in future releases. Old settings aren't converted to the new configuration registry, but old savestates from mupen64plus >= 1.5+dfsg1-2 should work without any problems. Pre-2.0 plugins aren't supported by the emulation core due to a complete changed plugin api. [1] http://www.emutalk.net/threads/50098-New-release-Mupen64Plus-v1.99.1 [2] http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins [3] http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/ControllerSetup -- Sven Eckelmann Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:54:44 +0200 mupen64plus (1.5+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=low The used paths in which mupen64plus saves its data for every user was changed to be compliant to the XDG Base Directory Specification[1]. To use the previously generated configuration and data files, they must be moved to the new directories. mupen64plus.conf has to be adjusted slightly to point to find the new directory to save the rombrowser cache. This can be done in some simple steps, but be sure that you have a backup of the files inside $HOME/.mupen64plus # mkdir -p "$HOME"/.config/mupen64plus/ # mkdir -p "$HOME"/.local/share/mupen64plus/ # mkdir -p "$HOME"/.cache/mupen64plus/ # mv "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/*.conf "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/*.cfg \ "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/*.ini "$HOME"/.config/mupen64plus/ # mv "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/save "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/screenshots \ "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/hires_texture "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/texture_dump \ "$HOME"/.local/share/mupen64plus/ # mv "$HOME"/.mupen64plus/rombrowser.cache "$HOME"/.cache/mupen64plus/ # sed -i "s/.*RomCacheFile\\s*=.*//" \ "$HOME"/.config/mupen64plus/mupen64plus.conf [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html -- Sven Eckelmann Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:18:45 +0200