Requested Features

AV1 Support for new AMD 7000 series and Intel GPUs

I was thinking it would be very great if we could use the new hardware acceleration form the upcoming AMD RX 7000 GPUs, that would be very efficient for low bandwith ...
Suggested by: Sandwich (12 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 30 Mar, '23 Comments: 2
Under consideration Sunshine

Add support for VP9

In a similar vein to the AV1 request, adding support for VP9 would open up another great codec option (previously used by Google Stadia, with pretty stellar latency ...
Suggested by: Dark_Arc (24 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 02 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Add pcsx2 support

pcsx2 as an alternative to retroarch
Suggested by: defenceplox (10 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 30 Sep, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration RetroArcher

Add Multi-Monitor support In Sunshine/Moonlight

Sunshine/Moonlight are in the perfect position to no only be great for gaming and fantastic cross-platform systems/OS/hardware, but could be a future viable full ...
Suggested by: Sam Zick (16 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 23 Feb, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

IPC or broadcast messge for stream start/stop

Hi, I am interested in knowing, programatically, when sunshine start/stop streaming to a client. I would like to know that because I develop an app which control the ...
Suggested by: JPersson77 (30 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 21 Feb, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Publish Flatpak to Flathub to improve discovery and provide automatic updates

Could a Flatpak build be compiled and published on Flathub's infrastructure to make discovery easier? This also allows for automatic updates. https://flathub.org/ ...
Suggested by: Calinou (04 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 03 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Add Xenia emulator

Ability to play Xbox 360 would be a great addition to RetroArcher
Suggested by: Feature Upvote Team (07 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 11 Aug, '21 Comments: 0
Planned RetroArcher

Add Xbox One and Xbox Series game streaming

Adding ability to game stream Xbox One+ games from a console would be incredible. Some of the required function is already being done in Home Assistant's Xbox integration
Suggested by: Feature Upvote Team (07 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 06 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
Planned RetroArcher

Add an option to send no video at moonlight client

As title says, it could be added by just preventing encode and send no video at all or maybe a dummy low bitrate black screen, so that it's possible to send input and ...
Suggested by: Bestfast (03 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 25 Jan, '23 Comments: 1
Under consideration Sunshine

Add Dolphin support

the Retroarch core for dolphin can be incredibly buggy. I would suggest adding Dolphin as a separate option
Suggested by: defenceplox (10 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 21 Nov, '21 Comments: 1
Under consideration RetroArcher

Improve Surround Sound Support to achieve Gamestream parity

Many Sunshine users host from a gaming PC that only has a stereo audio device. But, they stream their games to their home theater with 5.1+ channels. When using ...
Suggested by: B (22 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 23 Feb, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Add a feature for setting audio encoding quality

For example,flac or PCM lossless encoding
Suggested by: XPRAMT (22 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 23 Feb, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Add Yuzu support

Suggested by: Emmanuel (10 Jun, '21) Upvoted: 02 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration RetroArcher

NvStreamer support

NvStreamer can be used standalone for NVIDIA Graphic Card users. Which supports HDCP bypass and has lower delay overall.
Suggested by: xor-128 (01 Feb, '23) Upvoted: 24 Feb, '23 Comments: 0
Not planned Sunshine

Sunshine: Allow host to block input

As per the title says, it would be nice to be able to block the input for guests in order to make them only use keyboard or controllers (for example).
Suggested by: AsessionGuy (23 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 14 Feb, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Authentication Form

When authenticating to Sunshine, please consider rewriting the authentication to user a form rather then the current methoid. This will allow the ability for users to ...
Suggested by: Silas888 (11 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 04 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

steam deck support

Is it possible to have a steam deck support? especially on game mode ui? to effectively replace steam remote play (in which, sunshine/moonlight is better based on my ...
Suggested by: lyndonguitar (30 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 28 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Add Integrated USBIP Client

USBIP is built in to linux kernel. It allows you to share USB devices over IP, similar to VirtualHere (https://www.virtualhere.com/) software. The problem with ...
Suggested by: Reenigne Archer (28 Nov, '21) Upvoted: 18 Mar, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration RetroArcher

CTRL+C, CTRL+N by default for msvc.exe

On remote desktop use it should be the default to use the fake cursor.
Suggested by: Bikali Márk (25 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 25 Jan, '23 Comments: 1
Not planned Sunshine

Sunshine on Android (or Android TV)

Hello! Since the platform is already available in various system.. Would it be possible to create a version of the Sunshin3 for Android (or at least Android TV), ...
Suggested by: DainoMANThis (24 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 24 Jan, '23 Comments: 1
Not planned Sunshine

Rom/game manager for sunshine webui #Sunshine

I appreciate that this may be alot of work. But I think the best solution for sunshine would be a built in rom/game manager that can be used in the webui. This could ...
Suggested by: Joe (08 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 08 Jan, '23 Comments: 1
Not planned Sunshine

Moonlight Host tool integration

For GFE this was a quick and painless way to set up a connection for pc access outside of the lan. I am really hoping that Sunshine could integrate this tool as I am ...
Suggested by: lash (03 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 03 Jan, '23 Comments: 1
Not planned Sunshine

Sunshine - Option to limit network output

I stream with moonlight-tv, which is limited to a 100mbps Ethernet adapter. This is plenty for the stream bandwidth, but for whatever reason, I can only use <10mbps ...
Suggested by: Mitch (24 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 24 Dec, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Sunshine

Add support for seamlessly integration of scrapped data and standard tools like Skraper, ARRM ...

A lot of us have already a workflow for rom managemen. We use some scraper kike Skraper or ARRM to get our metadata : image, mix image, videos, box image and so on. ...
Suggested by: StudioEtrange (09 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 09 Jan, '22 Comments: 1
Not planned RetroArcher

Category or tags for games

Add the ability to categorize the games, or to give them a tag. This will make it possible for clients to filter on these attributes. Think of situation where you ...
Suggested by: Chrisism (26 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 26 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Don't require the explorer.exe process to launch an app

The use case for this is for systems where only one app is running at a time and the desktop is not needed. Right now the explorer.exe is required to be running for ...
Suggested by: Chris (24 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 24 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

When clicking on "Add New" from the applications menu...

When clicking on "Add New" from the applications menu, have an additional window pop up rather then adding below. This will make it easier to add games by working ...
Suggested by: Silas888 (11 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 11 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Move "add new" box to top of Applications page

Move "add new" box to top of Applications page. This will make it easier to add games.
Suggested by: Silas888 (11 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 11 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Sort Applications Alphabetically

Please add the ability to sort Applications alphabetically.
Suggested by: Silas888 (11 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 11 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

GSMS - Allow for .url shortcuts

Tnak you for implimenting custon directory, it works great with .lnk files. Is it possible to allow for .url shortcuts created by steam. I have noticed when launching ...
Suggested by: Joe (07 Jan, '23) Upvoted: 07 Jan, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Add v4l2 hardware acceleration for ARM

ARM single board computers like Raspberry pi and many others rely on v4l2 for harware accelerated encoding and lack any vaapi or other methods. that means that if you ...
Suggested by: Alberto (20 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 20 Dec, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Adding AMF encoding support for AMD cards on Linux host

Suggested by: djox (29 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 29 Oct, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

Build for NixOS

I'm using sunshine via flatpak on NixOS, but flatpak is not perfect and it presents a lot of problems. A native nix package would be great! ...
Suggested by: IceDBorn (30 Sep, '22) Upvoted: 30 Sep, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine

amf: Update 1.4.24 added support for new Direct Capture mode

Hi, I would like to kindly ask you to look into this new AMF update and see if you can incorporate the new API into Sunshine. More information on this separate ...
Suggested by: Coddy (15 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 15 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
Under consideration Sunshine