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Heads up — this one's French-language content, but sharing here since it covers useful info for the wider community.

Recalbox's next Recal'Talk (Patron-exclusive Discord voice call) is set for Friday, July 24 at 9 PM CET. Topics include:

- 10.1 status — already in alpha on the Patron channel, packed with enough new stuff it could've been called "11"

- 10.0.8 recap — solid performance gains on Pi5 2GB

- Broader perf improvements hitting Pi4, Pi3, and other boards too, with a nice boost for Naomi 2 and Model 3 arcade emulation

- GunCon 2 now supports 31kHz displays

- Much of this optimization work came out of development on the Recalbox JVS hardware.

- Casual, low-key format — no strict agenda, just an open Q&A vibe with the team.

Good news for arcade and fighting game fans — Recalbox just added official support for the Fightstick R10 Pro (with built-in spinner and trackball) and the R9. Just plug it in and Recalbox auto-detects the stick, adapting the config on the fly depending on the game you launch. No manual mapping needed.

Available now in 10.0.8.

Full details on Blog.

The Recalbox JVS was born from a simple ambition: to offer a solution capable of bringing JVS arcade cabinets back to life, in the same spirit that has always driven Recalbox, just as we previously did with the RGB JAMMA. What the community has just demonstrated is that this passion was shared by far more people than we could have imagined.

Recalbox 10.0.8 just dropped after weeks of testing with our Patreon community, and the headline feature is a big one: massive RAM optimization.

The Pi5 2GB is now the recommended board for Recalbox, delivering performance similar to the 4GB (the 8GB never gave any real gain for Recalbox anyway). It's now the model we sell in the shop, replacing the 4GB.

We stress-tested this with heavy themes (Nex-Pixel, Pop'N'Art) and massive scraped game lists — 230,000 to 560,000 games, all systems active. RAM usage in both the frontend and in-game is cut by more than half. Smoother menus, stable 60 FPS, full library support on the 2GB board.

Bonus: Pi4, Pi3, handhelds, and GPi Case also benefit from this optimization, though they're capped by their own hardware limits.

No new features/systems in this one — it's a pure comfort/performance update, but a meaningful one given how much RAM prices have climbed lately. The 2GB board costs roughly half the 4GB, so this is a real win for accessibility.

Fans of brick breakers and vector arcade games are in for a treat: Beudbeud has just released a brand-new open-source project, the Arduino Arcade Spinner, a DIY spinner designed to be 100% compatible with Recalbox 10—no configuration required.

Long before modern gamepads became the standard, iconic arcade machines such as Arkanoid and Tempest relied on a spinner: a rotary controller that offered far more precise and natural control than a joystick or gamepad.

Recalbox 10.0.7 just landed, and the headline feature is a serious optimization pass for the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB.

Thanks to graphics memory optimizations and an updated bootloader, the Pi5 2GB now performs on par with the 4GB model — meaning it's officially our recommended Pi5 variant for running Recalbox. For reference, the 8GB model never showed any real performance gain over the 4GB for emulation purposes anyway.

We tested with heavy themes (Nex-Pixel, Pop'N'Art) and massive scraped game libraries (230k–560k games) across all systems enabled, so this isn't a "should work fine" claim — it's been pushed hard. Bonus: Pi4, Pi3, handhelds, and the GPi Case also benefit from these optimizations, though they remain more limited since they're outside the Pi5 architecture.

With RAM prices climbing lately, being able to recommend the cheaper 2GB board without a performance trade-off felt like a meaningful update to ship, even without new features this time around — those are coming in 10.1, which is already live on our Alpha channel for Patrons.

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, has died at the age of 69 in the crash of a light aircraft in La Baule on Friday, June 19. The news resonates deeply with us: an entire chapter of French video game history has come to an end.

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Claude Guillemot belonged to a generation of entrepreneurs who helped bring French video games onto the world stage at a time when few would have bet on such an ambition. For us in the Recalbox community, who grew up with these games and the hardware associated with them, this is also a small part of our own story being remembered today.

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Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

Hey everyone,

A few days ago we officially announced the Recalbox JVS at HFS Summer 2026 — a Raspberry Pi 5 HAT that brings your JVS arcade cabinets (Vewlix, NoirCab, Naomi, Lindbergh, Racecab, Guncab…) back to life with the full Recalbox library. Five cables, plug and play, done.

If you missed the live stream, the replay is now up on YouTube (subtitle EN ok ;)
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YydlQ2AjC0A

The Kickstarter is live and we've already hit 2x our funding goal — super grateful for all the support. Still time to back it if you're interested!

👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/recalbox/recalbox-jvs

Any questions? Come chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/recalbox

Hey r/recalbox! We've been watching this community grow for a while — and it's about time we showed up properly. The official Recalbox team is now here, and we'll be using this space to share news, updates and everything happening around the project. We're glad to finally be in the room with you. Stay tuned.