Name: Parallel Launcher
Author: Matt Pharoah

<p>Parallel Launcher is an emulator launcher that aims to make playing N64 games, both retail and homebrew, as simple and as accessible as possible. Parallel Launcher uses the RetroArch emulator, but replaces its confusing menus and controller setup with a much simpler user interface. It also features optional integration with romhacking.com.</p>
    

Parallel Launcher

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            <li>Fixed a crash on Windows when trying to automatically import a PJ64 save file if the internal rom name is neither valid Shift-JIS nor valid UTF-8</li>
            <li>Improved parsing of internal rom names to ensure that the parsed result is always a valid UTF-8 string even if the internal rom name is not correctly encoded</li>
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            <li>Fixed a major regression that prevented RHDC hacks with star layouts from being downloaded in Parallel Launcher</li>
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            <li>Fixed issues loading roms with non-ASCII characters in their filename on Windows</li>
            <li>Fixed inability to import PJ64 save files on Windows if the internal rom name contains Japanese characters</li>
            <li>Parallel Launcher now checks for star layout updates when launching a rom using the Play Now button on the RHDC website</li>
            <li>Resetting your RetroArch config in Parallel Launcher settings will now also purge the shader cache</li>
            <li>Fixed audio crackling on some systems when playing on a monitor with a refresh rate higher than 60Hz</li>
            <li>Fixed a crash if the stored RHDC credentials somehow become corrupted</li>
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            <li>Added Fixed Shuffle and Random Shuffle sorting methods to the RHDC view</li>
            <li>Fixed a crash when launching roms or going to controller configuration if the SDL driver helper is missing</li>
            <li>Fixed an oversight where Parallel Launcher would always disable video shaders on startup</li>
            <li>Fixed default controller profile for the Gamecube having incorrect mappings on SDL</li>
            <li>Fixed the star layout tester and save file editor not being resizable</li>
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Parallel Launcher

Modern N64 Emulator

Changes in version v7.5.3

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