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Progress Report December 2022

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

Vulkan joins the roster!

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

Progress Report June 2021

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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

Progress Report May 2021

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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

Ryujinx - Infusion of POWER & LDN 2.3 Release

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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

Patreon Goals/Vulkan Update & Progress Report April 2021

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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

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

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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 handful

Patreon Goals Update & Progress Report February 2021

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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 resulting

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

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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 [https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/pull/2006]; we expect this feature to be finalized within days. Before we dive into the

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

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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

2020 Development Recap Video, and Plans For Ryujinx in 2021

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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

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

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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 [https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/wiki/Changelog] for a full list of

September & October 2020 Progress Report

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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

Shader Cache is (Finally) Here!

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

Introducing Complete Audio Rendering Support (Amadeus)

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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.

Introducing Profiled Persistent Translation Cache

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