Community News
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RANews.
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Developer Harassment
As a community, we value respect and constructive feedback. However, we have noticed an increase in disrespectful and personal attack messages towards our community members, especially towards our developers in response to achievement set revisions. We understand these revisions can be frustrating for some users, but we want to reiterate why revisions are an integral part of this community.
Revisions are done to add more incentive to revisit old games and experience everything it has to offer. In the early years of RA, sets were often barren with only simple progression or in some cases even missing some. Others might have parts covered but are still missing big chunks of content that some people may not even have known existed until the set was released.
Do not use our site or discord to harass our developers, regardless of if they’re still active or not.
For more information on our community guidelines and expectations, see our Code of Conduct.
RA Minecraft
RetroAchievement now has an official Minecraft server where you build anything you want in the most popular sandbox game ever created.
The server can be accessed at: mc.retroachievements.org:25588
If you would like access to the server please contact:
Scott, 
SporyTike, 
luchaos or 
BatFastardJordy
Jr Developer Graduates
ToastLover
AuburnRDM
Current Stats: 11 Developers have graduated in 2023 so far
Developer Compliance
Code of Conduct Updates
Approval and Claims section updated and combined to clarify which approvals are needed under which cases. Most cases are functionally the same as before. The main change is a clarification to when subset claims can be set as a free “own revision” claim. The new table format should hopefully cover all cases.
Set Approvals
- ~Hack~ Need for Speed: Carbon [Drift Mode]
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time [Subset - All Battle Trophies]
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow [Subset - NOSOUL_NOUSE] approved for DQ18
- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PlayStation Portable) [Subset - Skill Mastery] approved for DQ18
- Bomberman Max: Ain Version [Subset - Max Charabom Levels]
- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link [Subset - Level-1 Runs]
- Mr. Driller: Drill till you Drop [Subset - All Gold Medals]
- Super Mario 64 [Subset - Lazy Lakitu]
Set Denials
- Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow Rumor Subset
- Super Mario 64 Mirror Mode Subset
- Pokemon HeartGold Version | Pokemon SoulSilver Version Little Cup Challenge
Reauthors
Additional Updates
- Deadly Wang icon updated to be site appropriate
- Kid Klown in Night Mayor World | Mickey Mouse III: Yume Fuusen merged into single entry
- Achievements moved from Pac-Man World 2 into Pac-Man World 2 [Subset - Sue’s Arcade]
Site Updates
RAWeb v2.9.0
- Redesigned sidebar links on home page by @luchaos in #1334
- Redesigned statistics section on home page by @wescopeland in #1354
- Redesigned login widget by @wescopeland in #1363
- Add option to disable mature content warning from warning page by @wescopeland in #1370
- Add Contact Us page by @Jamiras in #1362
- Show author names on individual achievements when viewing Unofficial achievements for a game by @wescopeland in #1394
- Use monospace on code notes page by @wescopeland in #1378
- Use paginator on inbox/outbox by @EmoonX in #1374
- Disable tooltips on touch screens by @wescopeland in #1367
- Fix wrapping for memory addresses when flag present by @wescopeland in #1377
- Fix wrapping for long strings in active players widget by @wescopeland in #1375
- Fix wrapping for long strings in forums by @wescopeland in #1368
- Fix broken header row on expiring claims by @wescopeland in #1379
- Fix sending message to Followed user attempting to send message to self by @wescopeland in #1380
- Fix first rank displayed when viewing followed users leaderboard by @Jamiras in #1366
- Improve performance loading active players widget by @wescopeland in #1391
RAWeb v2.10.0
- Add support for guide URLs on game page by @wescopeland in #1408
- Add hubs to Game navbar, update Community navbar by @televandalist in #1352
- Add basic point pluralization to achievement tooltips by @wescopeland in #1412
- Add validation to web api user summary and recently played games by @luchaos in #1402
- Exclude sets for rollout consoles from new sets widget on main page by @Jamiras in #1409
- Round the corners on stats boxes by @wescopeland in #1407
- Fix mobile tooltips on Android only by @wescopeland in #1411
RAWeb v2.11.0
- perf(settings): remediate freeze from reset progress list by @wescopeland in #1422 #1422
- feat(game): require game icons to be 96x96 pixels by @wescopeland in #1423 #1423
- feat(home): update RAPodcast url by @wescopeland in #1426 #1426
- fix(layout): update sitenav Hardest Achievements url by @wescopeland in #1424 #1424
- feat(game): change copy for linked hashes by @wescopeland in #1428 #1428
Emulator Updates
RAIntegration v1.2
For players:
- Multiple active leaderboards with the same value definition will only show one tracker
- Added progress indicator widget
- Whenever a measured achievement’s progress changes, shows that progress onscreen for a couple of seconds
For developers:
- Add pointer finder dialog
- Allows users to identify important memory across multiple save states and have the tool attempt to locate any values that differ by the offsets between states.
- Does not directly handle multiple levels of pointers, but the process can be repeated once a nested pointer is found at multiple addresses.
- Add aligned search types for 16-bit BE and 32-bit BE
- Change wording on achievement unlock popup for local and modified achievements
- Double-clicking address in bookmarks window will now open inspector if its not already open
- Indirect note fields are now readonly, instead of disabled
- Fix character input in grid editors when integrated with WinForms (BizHawk)
- Fix deadlock canceling publish notes
- Fix crash typing in memory viewer when cursor is offscreen
- Fix warning about memory addresses when core doesn’t expose all regions
- Fix serialization of new leaderboard values using old format
- Fix intermittent flicker of memory view when moving to/from addresses with local notes
- Fix calculations using floats in SubSource
- Fix popups remaining open after emulator indicates game was closed
- Warn when using echo/mirror/kernel RAM
- Warn about redundancy between MeasuredIf and non-MeasuredIf conditions
DevQuest
DevQuest Awards
 [DevQuest 001] Ticket Massacre |
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 suspect15 |
Excessiveiser
Bryan1150
 [DevQuest 002-II] Retro Renovator II |
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 TheMysticalOne |
 Metal Slug Advance (Game Boy Advance) |
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 Dick Tracy (Mega Drive) |
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 Firepower (SNES) |
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 [DevQuest 005] Trigger Happy |
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| suspect15 |
 [DevQuest 006] The Unwanted |
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 Bilalscape12 |
 Spy Hunter (ColecoVision) |
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 MelodyAsh |
 SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2: Expand Edition (Neo Geo Pocket) |
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 [DevQuest 007] Most Wanted |
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 Jamiras |
 Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Nintendo DS) |
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 [DevQuest 008] World Traveler |
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 Falcus |
 Frame Gride (Dreamcast) |
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 TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Dai Maou (NES) |
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 [DevQuest 010] It Takes Two |
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 StingX2 |
 Sega Smash Pack: Volume 1 (Dreamcast) |
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 Batman: Return of the Joker (Game Boy) |
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 [DevQuest 011] The Genesis of RA |
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 Sines |
 Lord Monarch: Tokoton Sentou Densetsu (Mega Drive) | |
 [DevQuest 012] Hacker's Habit |
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| Sines |
 ~Hack~ Golden Sun: Dawn of Djinn (Game Boy Advance) | |
 ~Hack~ Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Persephone (Game Boy Advance) |
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 [DevQuest 013] complete.me |
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| suspect15 |
 Super Punch-Out!! (SNES) |
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 Baseball Stars 2 (Arcade) |
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 Top Gear (SNES) |
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 [DevQuest 014] Laudable Leaderboards |
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| suspect15 |
 [DevQuest 016] Wish This Set |
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 ThatAmericanSlacker |
 Ikaruga (Dreamcast) |
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Brandovsky
Blazekickn
ladynadiad
siouxerskate
Delmaru
Snow
Vet Developer Progress
 Vet Dev III
Has been an active developer for at least two years |
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 xnaivx |