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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 GoalsAmiibo Emulation - merged into the main build in March 2021. While compatibility is now

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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 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 released simultaneously with POWER to

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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

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Update on Patreon Goals/Vulkan & Progress Report March 2021- A Month of Unreal™ Improvements

Ryujinx wrapped up Q1 and put a snazzy bowtie on it with an absolute avalanche of graphical bug fixes for some of your favorite games, and a significant increase in compatibility & stability in games utilizing Unreal Engine 4, thanks to the introduction of Texture Groups/Texture Dependencies and a

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Patreon Goals Update & Progress Report February 2021

Progress Report February 2021 We are well into Q1 and have once again been burning the midnight oil to crank out bug fixes, optimizations, and quality of life improvements for end users. February also saw the release of Haydn: Part 1, a complete re-implementation of the audout & audin functionality

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First Patreon Goal Feature—Amiibo Emulation—is Here & the January 2021 Progress Report

As promised after reaching the Patreon goal last month, Amiibo emulation has arrived! While not yet in the main build, anyone is free to test Ryujinx's Amiibo emulation now; we expect this feature to be finalized within days. Before we dive into the progress report, it's time for a quick

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First Patreon Goal Met, and November & December 2020 Progress Report

2021 is finally here, and we spent last year's final months on a compatibility expansion and bug-fixing spree. But before we take a look at all the improvements that finished out the year, we want to take a moment to celebrate and say thank you to everyone who helped us

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2020 Development Recap Video, and Plans For Ryujinx in 2021

Before we jump into the big recap showing off everything we accomplished this year, we'd like to take a moment to ask for your help to take Ryujinx development to the next level! As 2020 drew to a close, the Ryujinx Team collectively discovered that in order to implement the

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Introducing LDN2 - Now Featuring LAN Mode Interconnectivity with Switch Consoles!

Update (2021-05-24): There's no better time to release a new Ryujinx LDN build than right now! Newly infused with POWER, LDN2.3 benefits from all updates to master that occurred since the previous LDN release. See the changelog for a full list of master updates since LDN2.2 (which was

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September & October 2020 Progress Report

We saw quite a few graphical improvements in September and October, so let's take a look! GPU emulation improvements:XMAD bug: We had a long-standing issue on Super Mario Odyssey where the dithering patterns that show up on as transparency on objects close to the camera, commonly used to reveal

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Shader Cache is (Finally) Here!

Ryujinx has seen incredible progress over the course of 2020, but so far one particular feature has remained glaringly absent: a disk-based shader cache. That changes today with our latest update: project code name Salieri! While not a core function of emulation, this feature's addition to the emulator is a

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July/August Progress Report

August is over, and like July, it was packed with great updates. Let's take a look at the improvements that Ryujinx received these last two months!

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Local Wireless Technical Walkthrough

A technical deep dive into how Ryujinx became the first Switch emulator to implement “local wireless” multiplayer support!

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Introducing Complete Audio Rendering Support (Amadeus)

Originally the first Switch emulator to deliver working audio output. Now, two years later, Ryujinx introduces Amadeus, the first complete implementation of the Switch audio renderer functions.

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Introducing Support for In-Game Videos (NVDEC)

We are excited to announce that Ryujinx now supports an important feature previously absent from Switch emulation: in-game video cut-scenes, made possible with NVDEC emulation.

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Introducing Resolution Scaling

Over the last month, we've been quietly working away at some valuable new features for Ryujinx. Today, we're proud to announce resolution scaling support is now merged into Ryujinx master!

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Spring 2020 Progress Report

It's been awhile since our last progress report, and we apologize for the long delay, but today we want to show some nice improvements we had in the past few months. These include advancements in compatibility, graphical fixes, and more!

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Introducing Profiled Persistent Translation Cache

We are proud to announce a new feature today in Ryujinx: the Profiled Persistent Translation Cache (PPTC) What is the Profiled Persistent Translation Cache? In a nutshell, this feature caches translated functions so that they do not need to be translated every time the game loads. This results in a