7 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

When Epilogue announced the Retrace app for iOS and Android I was over the moon excited. In theory this meant I could archive ROMs from the GB Operator directly to my iPhone where I play the games with the Delta emulator. This meant I wouldn't need to ferry ROMs between the GB Operator to my laptop to my phone. Unfortunately I ran into two hurdles with my plan, if you were able to get Retrace to work with a pre-USB-C iPhone let me know. Upgrading the GB Operator firmware First I saw that the Retrace app required a new firmware version for the GB Operator (v10.0.10), so I set out to update the GB Operator firmware. The documentation says to use Playback, so I went to update Playback. Previously Playback was distributed as an AppImage but newer versions use Flatpak. So... I had to figure out how to install a Flatpak on Ubuntu. I did that, had the new Playback app on Ubuntu and... the firmware update notification never prompted in the app. I contacted support and learned that apparently…

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