I agree. I had (up until recently) been running 1.18 happily for ages.shado blackstar said:It's nice that the R4 is getting support, though it seems it has a ways to go to catch up with what the old firmware could run.
Hopefully this catches up and gets some new support. Also doesn't seem to run that well.
Admittedly I may not be trying the latest games (newest is release #3061) but all work fine, quick and stable on 1.18.
When I tried 1.23, it didn't recognise a few of my .sav files (from before) as mentioned by someone in this thread. This seems to be because they were in lowercase and the new 1.23 firmware only recognises uppercase (.SAV)!!. I had to rename them on my PC to be recognised but it had already overwritten one save file (luckily I had a backup on my PC).
The menus are sluggish and yes the font isn't as pretty but these things I could have lived with.
Unfortunately, MANY of my games crashed or failed to load....
Castlevania POR > crashes when scrolling through options on title screen (i.e changing to shop, options etc).
Castlevania POR > wouldn't load with cheats on (White Screen).
Trauma Centre 2 > fails to load (White Screen).
Ninjatown > crashed when it was saving between levels.
Super Mario 64 > failed to start from saved game (ingame) (White Screen).
These are just the ones I remember the most.
Also, whilst just a visual 'glitch', when looking through cheats for some games, there is flickering in the code which is very unnerving suggesting that it isn't very stable.
Now, I DIDN'T format my card and start from scratch, which might have solved some crashing problems, but it is far to buggy for me.
I do think it's good to see some support for the R4 but it's not really good enough for my needs. Luckily, I have a new M3i Zero due for my birthday in 12 days so I will be retiring my R4 soon anyway.