Today version 3.0.0 of Magic Sorter software has been released! If you are familiar with semantic versioning, this means only one thing: new big changes are coming! Usually these changes are included in the release notes on the touchscreen, but there are so many details that we needed to create a blog post.
Added support for Flesh and Blood!
It took a while, but finally Flesh and Blood has been added to the list of supported games. If you follow us on social media, you'll remember that we did some (very successfully) tests few months ago:
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Funnily enough, the recognition system was able to deliver great accuracy out of the box, the time spent to build our own engine is finally paying off. So why it took so much? Well, recognition is just a small part of the whole system: there's a lot of other stuff that needs to be developed: getting the new images, metadata, handle edge cases etc etc.
Speaking of which, Flesh and Blood support is in an early stage, so there will some hiccups. The good thing is that we can learn from those mistakes and polish up the final product. Since everything happens on the cloud, those changes will be automatically delivered without the need to install anything.
Improved detection on MTG cards
At the begining there were reprints. Then the promo arrived, followed by alternative arts, secret lair's, extended arts etc etc. Wizards went berserk on creating new images for the same card, for the joy of card sorters.
Now things will get better! In newer cards Magic Sorter will look for the extra info in the lower corner (so triple check they're included in the photo!) and extra all the info in it.
Once again this feature is in its early stages, but it will improve with time.
Added support for sleeved cards
Sometimes you deal with naked cards, sometimes you deal with sleeved cards. Removing sleeves from all of them is a pain and a loss of time, until now! In each package you'll find a special suction cup that will handle those pesky sleeves, either they're Dragon Shield, perfect sleeves or penny sleeves!
"But what if I already have a machine?" Worry not! We can always ship you an update.
Added support for Crystal Commerce
People asked for support with Crystal Commerce platform. We got in touch with them. We delivered it. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Speed improvements
Finally, a large refactoring of the whole server part lead to improved performances. Or, in other words, we added a ton of new checks and improvements under the hood, without affecting response time.