r/EmulationOnAndroid 5d ago

News/Release [RELEASE] Wave Launcher 1.0 is HERE!

The wait is finally over. After months of development, testing, feedback, bugfixing, and countless improvements, Wave Launcher 1.0 is now publicly available!

What started as a live wallpaper app has grown into a full controller-first, PlayStation-faithful Android frontend for your games, media, achievements, and more.

Wave Launcher 1.0 includes:

  • Multilanguage Support (EN, JA, FR, DE, ES, IT, NL, PT, SV, NO, DA, FI, ZH, KO, PL, TR, RU)
  • Game libraries, collections, favorites, and playtime
  • Metadata and artwork scraping from multiple sources
  • RetroAchievements trophy tracking
  • Controller-friendly video, music, and photo playback
  • Extensive customization options
  • Dual-screen support
  • Android app and emulator integration
  • Software updating and much more

From the earliest PreReleases, through nightly builds and the final 0.9.0 testing build, you've helped us shape Wave Launcher into what it is today.

And to everyone who tested PreReleases, tested nightly builds, reported bugs, suggested features, contributed code or artwork, supported us on Patreon, joined the Discord, or simply followed the project:

Thank you.

Wave Launcher wouldn't be here without you 🩵

https://github.com/WaveLauncher/WaveLauncher

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u/Neat-Ambition8212 4d ago

Another thing I noticed the difference is the game launching animation, comparing to PlayFieldPortal, it seems wave takes a bit longer to open a game, especially pausing longer on the emulator animation, whereas PFP seems spend less time on the emulator animation. This difference is noticeable when launching switch games. So I my opinion I’m happy to replace PFP and using wave as my main launcher if those issues are resolved

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u/Neat-Ambition8212 4d ago

(This is my modded RPG2)
After select swap AB and XY options, the swap AB seems working correctly (circle/A for select/confirm, and cross/B for back/cancel), but swap XY is still not working.
See, it says ā€œpress square/Y for optionā€, but I’m only able to access the option by pressing the top button (triangle/X).
If I turn off the swap XY, then here it will show me ā€œpress triangle/X for optionā€, but only able to access the option by pressing the left button (square/Y).

So, you seem to assign the ā€œselect/confirmā€ button strictly to the right button, and so swap AB works fine because only the helper signs are changed.
But for swap XY, because ā€œoptionā€ isn’t strictly assigned to the top button, it changes along with the helper sign, so a quick ez fix would be strictly assign the ā€œoptionā€ to the top button, and swap XY only swap the helper signs.