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GNOME Video Arcade Changelog

What's new in GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.8

Nov 28, 2017
  • Adapting again to MAME's ever-changing XML schema.
  • MAME 0.191 exceeded GVA's internal XML element depth limit, which caused the program to abort during database construction.

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.7 (Apr 29, 2017)

  • Adapting to MAME's ever-changing XML schema. MAME 0.184 introduced a small change that broke database construction, resulting in no games listed.
  • New Translations:
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Indonesian (Kukuh Syafaat)
  • Updated Translations:
  • Danish (Alan Mortensen)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Swedish (Anders Jonsson)

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.4 (Aug 27, 2015)

  • Been awhile! This is just a bug fix release mainly to repair deterioration caused by backward-incompatible changes in recent releases of MAME and GTK3.
  • What's New:
  • The music feature on the Properties window is gone. GVA was streaming the music from arcade-history.com, but the website no longer (openly) serves those music files. I suppose this was bound to happen but it was neat while it lasted. (GStreamer is no longer a build requirement.)
  • Also removed the empty Gallery tab from the Properties window. This was a placeholder for a feature that never happened.
  • Dropped support for XMAME. Remember XMAME? Me neither.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • GNOME #704632: Switch from gnome-doc-utils to yelp-tools (reported and patched by Jeremy Bicha)
  • GNOME #704811: All available games are shown as favourite (reported by Gioele Barabucci)
  • GNOME #704860: Screensaver is not properly inhibited (reported by Gioele Barabucci)
  • GNOME #748667: Adapt to new sound options in MAME >= 0.154 (reported and patched by Emmanuel Kasper)
  • GNOME #752266: Rename /game/machine/ since 0.163 (reported by Fabrice Bellet)
  • New Translations:
  • Bosnian (Samir Ribic)
  • Greek (Dimitris Spingos)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Updated Translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
  • Chinese [simplified] (Wylmer Wang)
  • Czech (Marek ÄŒernocký)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • Polish (Piotr DrÄ…g)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
  • Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Swedish (Josef Andersson and Daniel Nylander)
  • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.0 (May 16, 2011)

  • GNOME Video Arcade 0.8.0
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  • The feature set of version 0.8.0 is identical to 0.7.1, but now uses current GNOME 3 technologies and drops several GNOME 2 era dependencies such as GConf, libunique, and dbus-glib.
  • GNOME #622933: Migrate from dbus-glib to GDBus (reported by Andre Klapper, patched by Bastien Nocera)
  • GNOME #642689: README out of date: sdlmame does not exist anymore (reported by Emmanuel Kasper)
  • GNOME #643000: Bump libwnck requirement to 2.91.6 (reported and patched by Bastien Nocera)
  • Add GenericName and make desktop file strings translatable.
  • Add to POTFILES.in. (Jordi Mallach)
  • Remove deprecated "Encoding" key from desktop file. (Jordi Mallach)
  • Remove gettext calls from all g_message() strings. (Jordi Mallach)
  • New Translations:
  • Catalan (Jordi Mallach)
  • Romanian (Lucian Adrian Grijincu)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Simplified Chinese (Yinghua Wang)
  • Updated Translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Djavan Fagundes)
  • Czech (Marek ÄŒernocký)
  • Danish (Joe Hansen)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Norwegian BokmÃ¥l (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič, Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡ič)
  • Spanish (Jorge González, Daniel Mustieles)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.7.1 (Jun 1, 2010)

  • GNOME Video Arcade now detects changes to your ROMs directory, such as adding or removing games, while its running and offers to rescan your ROM files in order to present an updated game list without having to restart the application.
  • GNOME Video Arcade is now a "single-instance" application. That means if you launch it while it's already running, it will simply present the existing window instead of creating a second window. This adds a new dependency on libunique.
  • Updated Translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Flamarion Jorge)
  • Danish (Lars Christian Jensen)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.7.0 (Mar 12, 2010)

  • In the Properties window you can now listen to music clips of the selected game. Not all games have music clips available. Requires GStreamer libraries.
  • Search entry has a "clear search" button.
  • Position of main window is remembered across sessions.
  • Size of Properties window is remembered across sessions.
  • About dialog has a link to the GNOME Video Arcade website.
  • Better error handling when data files like Catver.ini and nplayers.ini are missing or unparsable.
  • Fixed the strange resizing behavior in the Properties window. Window expanded fine but shrunk very slowly while trying to continuously word wrap the history content.
  • GTK+ requirement bumped from 2.12 to 2.18.
  • libgnome dependency is completely gone.
  • Updated Translations:
  • Czech (Marek Cernocky)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)
  • Spanish (Jorge González)

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.6.8 (Jan 24, 2010)

  • "Last Played" column, which when sorted shows the most recently played games.
  • Introduce an optional dependency on the GLib bindings for D-Bus, which is used to inhibit GNOME's screen saver from starting while playing a game in fullscreen mode.
  • Drop dependency on libglade. Use GtkBuilder instead.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • GNOME #597947: Missing no-c-format marker when string contains % (reported by Claude Paroz)
  • GNOME #598038: Remove old translation helper files (reported by Claude Paroz)
  • GNOME #605766: Non-translatable strings in the catalog (reported by Flamarion Jorge)
  • User Interface Translations:
  • Complete Czech translation by Marek Cernocky
  • Complete German translation by Mario Blättermann
  • Complete Italian translation by Diego Pierotto
  • Partial Danish translation by Lars C. Jensen and Joe Hansen
  • Partial French translation by Claude Paroz
  • Partial Greek translation by Kostas Papadimas
  • Partial Punjabi translation by A S Alam
  • Partial Slovenian translation by Matej Urbančič and Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡ič
  • Partial Spanish translation by Jorge Gonzalez and Omar Campagne
  • Partial Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander
  • Documentation Translations:
  • Complete Italian translation by Diego Pierotto
  • Partial German translation by Mario Blättermann
  • Partial Spanish translation by Jorge Gonzalez and Omar Campagne

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.6.6 (Apr 5, 2009)

  • Project moved to GitHub.
  • GNOME Video Arcade can now be configured to parse a nplayers.ini file at startup. See the README files for details. This unlocks a more descriptive tooltip for the Players column, as well as new Players (Alt.) and Players (Sim.) columns, which show the maximum number of alternating and simultaneous players (respectively) a game supports.
  • If GNOME Video Arcade is built against GTK+ 2.14 or later it will no longer link to libgnome, which is a deprecated GNOME platform library. Note the mimimum required GTK+ version is still 2.12.

New in GNOME Video Arcade 0.6.5 (Nov 21, 2008)

  • SF Bug #2314490: Segfault while scanning roms. Reported and tested by Daniel Rammelt.
  • Set the GVA_DEBUG environment variable to "io" for more detailed debugging messages during runtime.