Panda3DS

Note: This release is now outdated and many things have been fixed since it was made. Get a recent build from https://panda3ds.com/download -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After a long while, it's time for a new release. The changelog is enormous so I'll focus on the more important stuff (new UI, audio support, better Android performance, libretro core, ...)🥳 I also promise the next release won't take as long to come out (oops). Make sure to get the Qt builds if you want to try out the new desktop UI!  ## What's Changed * Mostly complete HLE audio (Enable audio via the audio settings to try it out) * Includes support for AAC audio, and other goodies such as the ability to boost audio volume above 100% * Much better performance on Android, comfortably running fullspeed on a lot of phones * Desktop UI rework * New configuration menu with most emulator settings + UI configuration settings * Support for translations (At the time of writing this there's English, Greek, Spanish, Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese) * Cheats UI, Scripting UI, ROM patching UI, some debug UI widgets for dumping game filesystems & DSP firmware, ... * Fixed resizing the window on both SDL and Qt, added support for optionally remembering window size & position * Qt frontend now supports controllers (SDL already did) * New Qt UI themes (Cream, Greetings Cat) * Official Libretro core * You can download it in the Retroarch UI after enabling support for "Experimental Cores" * Lots of GPU emulation work and fixes * New fragment shader generation backend heavily reduces GPU usage * New shader decompiler heavily reduces both CPU & GPU usage, making the emulator orders of magnitude faster on phones and lower end laptops/PCs. * Metal API GPU backend for Apple devices (Currently only supported on the SDL build of the emulator) * Fog emulation * Proper lighting emulation * x64 and arm64 shader JIT improvements * Fixed various rendering errors & crashes (Try toggling the "Accelerate shaders" option in case a game doesn't work) * Implemented missing GPU registers (Eg VSH_OUTMAP_MASK) * ... * Added support for gyroscope and accelerometer ("motion controls") * Supported on desktop when the user has a compatible controller * Supported on Android by moving your phone * Android * Much improved performance, the emulator is now properly usable on many phones. * Audio support, motion support, encrypted games support... * Support for configuring 3DS screen layout * More emulator settings exposed via the UI * Store Access Framework (SAF) support * Use Material for parts of the UI * MacOS builds are now universal (ie include both an arm64 and x64 binary) * Improves performance on arm64 Macs, ie "Apple Silicon", as the emulator no longer runs under Rosetta. * Fixed various bugs and crashes that would occur when loading encrypted games. * Also added support for decrypting games that require seeddb.bin, provided the user has seeddb.bin in the correct path. * Added support for decrypting games in the Android backend. User can provide aes_keys.txt and seeddb.bin via the settings UI. * Lots of emulation fixes * Improved audio emulation, games have audio and will no longer hang due to needing more of the audio DSP implemented (For example in Pokemon X/Y, Pokemon ORAS, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates To Infinity, TLoZ: A Link Between Worlds, Professor Layton, ...). * Improved filesystem emulation, fixes a lot of OS apps (3DS Sound, Face Raiders, AR cards, ...), homebrew (Anemone3DS) and retail games (Luigi's Mansion) * Improved camera emulation (but still not supporting proper camera captures): Games will no longer hang due to camera not being implemented * Added support for the Software Keyboard & Mii Selector applets, games will no longer hang when they ask the user to select a mii or enter their name. * CRO fixes (Pokemon games no longer randomly crash, other than Sun/Moon and US/UM which need one last thing implemented) * Kernel fixes * Y2R fixes * Home Menu related fixes for the future * Various optimizations: * Added scheduler for scheduling emulator events * Handwritten SSE/NEON code for faster GPU & DSP emulation * Added idle skipping * ... * Lua: * Expose more emulator functions to the scripting API * Expose libuv * Miscellaneous fixes * Fixed system volume slider not working on Android. * Fix touchscreen emulation not working on Qt. * Fix Android APKs being huge due to not being properly stripped * Fix emulator hanging on devices where audio couldn't be initialized * ... Full changelog: https://github.com/wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS/compare/v0.8...v0.9

Wake up honey, new Panda3DS release just dropped and the changelog is so big I apparently can't autogenerate it. More games working, first release including Android builds, new desktop UI (Labeled Qt below, as opposed to the original SDL frontend which is just a window), and more

Periodic release cause it's been a while since the last one and there'll be a lot of changes for Qt/Android/etc frontends soon, so it's best to make one now New features: - Lua scripting support - Work-in-progress GUI using Qt (Not included in this release, but will start shipping builds as soon as possible) - Compatibility fixes (Fixes various games and some OS apps. Various improvements in the BOSS, FS, NS, CFG, and more services, shader emulation fixes, etc) - There's now a website: https://panda3ds.com/ - Support for portable builds (Save data and such is in the emulator folder when enabled rather than being in %APPDATA% or the Linux/Mac equivalents) - Fix Android compilation for future Pandroid app - Fix shader bugs that may have broken the app on some drivers - Hydra multi-system emulator core soon - Other stuff I'm forgetting