Ryujinx

Progress Report December 2022

Happy New Year! We hope you all had a festive end to a truly incredible year. So much ground has been covered each and every month of 2022, and December wasn’t about to break that trend. Performance improvements, fewer black-screening games and some upstreaming work for macOS littered the

Progress Report November 2022

Wow. What a month. November is not typically this eventful, but sometimes a little spice is exactly what the Doctor ordered. LDN being introduced to the number 3, macOS meeting a graphically demanding program, and Ryujinx facing its final adversary… the cardinal direction, North! All-in-all we’ve had a busy

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The Impossible Port: MacOS

Let's cut to the chase: macOS and Apple Silicon support (including older Intel Macs, although your mileage may vary)!  Even with all the hurdles, roadblocks and brick walls put in our way, we're finally back on Mac! And back in style! With the launch of a new entry in the

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Introducing LDN3 - Now featuring ldn_mitm support!

It's been nearly two years since the initial release of LDN2, the second iteration of our core LDN functionality, which added LAN connectivity with Nintendo Switch consoles in supported titles. Two years of stability, performance and feature improvements shifted the landscape all the way to our previous release: LDN2.5.

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Progress Report October 2022

Just like the nine months before it; October has slid gently into the rearview mirror and, by our estimates, shouldn’t be closer than it appears for at least another year. NieR, Persona, Bayonetta, and a new contender for the coveted “why did this get a sequel?” award: Mario + Rabbids!

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Progress Report September 2022

September's report? You’re trying to tell me we just hit the 75% mark on the year? Madness. This month marked not only the turn from summer to autumn and some major world events but, most importantly of course, the launch of Splatoon 3. With the holiday season fast approaching,

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Progress Report August 2022

Another month rolls by the wayside and that means another progress report from your favorite Nintendo Switch emulator, nay, favorite piece of software ever developed. It’s hard work being this humble let us tell you. To dispense with the pleasantries, what can you expect to read below? We’ve

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Progress Report July 2022

What a year huh? Captain, it’s only August. So much happened in July that it felt infinitely longer than a measly 31 days. A new Xenoblade, Digimon (yep all 5 of you), patreon goals finally coming to fruition; we truly had a month to remember. So what do we

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Vulkan joins the roster!

July 31st 2022 marks the one-year anniversary of the hotly anticipated test release of Vulkan and now, finally, the time has arrived. One year of testing, nearly 40,000 lines of code and over 700 reports spanning 122 people have brought us here and we are so ready to tell

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Progress Report June 2022

Half-way through 2022 already and time sure flies when we have some good games to play! Speaking of games, some real bangers were released this month and we’re happy to say that most of them work, either out of the box or with some small workarounds. Despite coming from

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Progress Report May 2022

What brings together retro gaming, modding tools and .NET UI creation frameworks? If you answered “the Ryujinx May Progress Report” then give yourself a medal; if not then you owe us a box of cookies. Some nice ones! Before we get down to business and into the meat of the

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Progress Report April 2022

April… a month deriving from the Latin word ‘aperire’ or ‘to open’. How does this relate to Switch emulation? You can probably think of a few metaphors, but honestly I just thought it sounded kinda interesting. This month we’re covering some major changes and also a pretty meaty section

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Progress Report March 2022

Here we are once more at the end of Q1 and progressing steadily toward the halfway mark of 2022! This month saw improvements to almost every aspect of Ryujinx, a new console is loose which got the emulation community all of a flutter and some killer new releases that, guess

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Progress Report February 2022

February has gone and left us all too soon once again. Who thought that 28 days was enough to make it a worthwhile month? But rest assured what the month lacked in days our development team more than paid back in the avalanche of improvements, fixes, additions and ongoing project

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Progress Report January 2022

New year, new month, and new progress! We hope everyone has been enjoying the new year as much as we have. 2022 has been quite the adventure already with a brand new main series Pokémon title, Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Alongside that big release we’ve been working hard with the

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Progress Report December 2021

Happy new year everyone! Ryujinx wrapped up the final month of 2021 with a blizzard of bug fixes, GPU improvements, HLE updates, code cleanup, N64 emulation(!) and finally, general system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience. Patreon Goals: Amiibo Emulation - merged into the main build in March 2021.

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Progress Report November 2021

November was a brilliant month for Ryujinx and Nintendo game fans alike. We saw some shining GPU improvements and HLE updates and an update to our .NET version. Nintendo game fans saw the long-awaited release of Shin Megami Tensei V and also remakes of the classic DS-era Pokémon games re-released

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Progress Report October 2021

The spooky month of October brought some amazing releases like Metroid Dread, Mario Party Superstars, and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. All of which worked day one, thanks to the absolute avalanche of graphical bug fixes for all these new wonderful games and some incredible kernel improvements across the

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Progress Report September 2021

The month of September brought dozens of bolstering improvements including significant performance improvements, bug fixes, HLE improvements, and GPU improvements. There have also been significant improvements to something we teased a few months ago! Patreon Goals Amiibo Emulation - merged into the main build in March 2021. While compatibility is

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Progress Report August 2021

We’re off and about in August which brought a rumbling of bug fixes, HLE improvements, and GPU improvements, and not to mention multithreaded shader compilation! Vulkan has also seen an incredible amount of improvements in the past month. But before plunging into the deep end, let’s review the

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Progress Report July 2021

We’re off and running in Q3 and already there have been dozens of bug fixes, performance optimizations, and quality of life improvements for end users. The month of July also brought a refactoring of the GPU 3D engine not only making the code behave closer to the original hardware

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Progress Report June 2021

June brought with it scads of graphics optimizations, bug fixes, some quality-of-life GUI enhancements, and a nice bump in overall game compatibility. Project No Name also landed, providing native Mii applet support, marking the first time a Switch system applet has been successfully emulated! But before plunging into the deep

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Progress Report May 2021

Ryujinx POWER’ed up its CPU emulation [https://blog.ryujinx.org/ryujinx-power/] in May, making waves with a far-reaching performance update and becoming the first Switch emulator to implement "fastmem". This delivers dramatic FPS increases, boot time reductions, and smoother gameplay on a wide variety of platforms. LDN2.3 was

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Ryujinx - Infusion of POWER & LDN 2.3 Release

For much of recent memory Ryujinx has been widely known as a highly compatible, feature-rich emulator with one caveat: without a high-end PC, many first-party games simply ran too slowly to be considered playable. We aim to change all that with today's major overhaul of the emulator's memory management, (absurdly

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Patreon Goals/Vulkan Update & Progress Report April 2021

LDN2.2, Miria (input re-implementation), and Custom User Profiles, oh my! LDN2.2 was released this month with specific performance enhancements making Monster Hunter Rise a much more playable experience while also providing internet multiplayer for those wanting to hunt together, and a true-up to all the latest improvements master