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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 state of Ryujinx’s Patreon goals and deliverables:

Amiibo Emulation - merged into the main build in March 2021.
While compatibility is now almost perfect, there are...

Progress Report July 2021

Vulkan Progress

As promised on the last month, there is now a Pull Request open with the Vulkan implementation. What that means is that the code is now public, and anyone can test it if they wish. It is not complete yet, so please do not interpret this as a feature announcement, there is still quite a lot of work to be done before it can be considered better than the OpenGL backend overall.

So let's start with where we stand today. Most of the functionality was already implement...

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 end, let’s review the state of Ryujinx’s Patreon goals and deliverables:

Amiibo Emulation - merged into the main build in March 2021. 2021-07-03 22:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress Report May 2021

Ryujinx POWER’ed up its CPU emulation this month with a far-reaching performance update delivering dramatic FPS increases, boot time reductions, and smoother gameplay on a wide variety of platforms. LDN2.3 was released simultaneously with POWER to make all those multiplayer sessions that much smoother! May 2021 also saw the arrival in the master build of the new multi-level function table as well as the long-awa...

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 had to offer for any others wanting to play their games on LDN. Miria, the input code overhaul to kill off all usage of OpenTK3, was also released this month....

Ryujinx - Meet the Team Vol. 3

Interview with Ryujinx Team Developer riperiperi

What is your software development background? How did you find out about Ryujinx?

I'm a hobbyist game developer, and I also do software engineering for a living. I found out about Ryujinx as I've been big into emulation for a while, and was linked to the first post about it on GBATEMP from the emulation subreddit. Not sure how you're meant...

Ryujinx User Profiles emulation has been merged to master!

Our second Patreon feature goal, Custom User Profiles, is now in the latest official build!

To manage user profiles: 

- Simply click on Options > Manage User Profiles.
- Profiles cannot be edited/managed while a game is running.
- The "RyuPlayer" profile is the default user which cannot be deleted, as it contains all of the original save files for your games. However, the name and picture can be changed.
- WARNING: Save data is sp...

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 of other related improvements.

The new Switch-exclusive game Bravely Default II was released at the end of February, and its status in Ryujinx progressed from “almost completely ...

Ryujinx - Meet the Team Vol. 2

Interview with Ryujinx Team Developer Thog

What is your software development & reverse engineering background? How did you find out about Ryujinx?

I started programming at the age of 11 mostly by necessity. Back then, I was in need of complementary tools to help with my experience at school without spending any euros. I continued that way for some years and picked up an interest in modding games and embedded software development later on.

Ryujinx Amiibo scan emulation has been merged to master!

The latest official build of Ryujinx (version 1.0.6788) now includes the Amiibo emulation support that was promised as a result of reaching our first Patreon goal earlier this year.

The feature's PR (pull request) landed in early February and received a great amount of feedb...

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 in, among other benefits, a significant reduction in CPU usage while using the emulator.

Before we jump into last month’s nitty-gritty, it’s time for a Patreon goals update:

Amiibo...

Ryujinx - Meet the Team Vol. 1

Interview With gdkchan, Project Founder

When did you first become interested in software development? Do you feel the same about it today or have your thoughts changed?

I first became interested when I was 9 years old. It was mostly because I used to play a lot of games (usually old stuff, at that time), and wanted to create my own. I think I still feel pretty much the same way about programming: it can be a lot of fun, and also a lot of stress. 2021-02-17 02:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress Report January 2021

We kicked off the new year with a month full of bug fixes & advancements in performance and compatibility. There were also a few key updates in the UI & applets, thanks largely to an influx of new contributors. We’re excited and encouraged to see a more active development community for the emulator, and look forward to a productive 2021!

GPU Improvements

Shooting Blindly - Implemented missing texture formats 2021-02-04 18:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post

November and December Progress Report

2020 is almost over, and we have been on a compatibility expansion and bug-fixing spree. Let's take a look at all the improvements we had over the course of the last two months!

GPU improvements:

Buffer to texture copies size fix

A bug on buffer to texture copies caused some Unreal Engine 4 games to crash. This bug was causing the emulator to copy too much data which in turn caused memory corruption, as unrelated data was being overwritten in memory. Fixin...

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

Update (2021-10-31):

This LDN version brings the numerous updates that the emulator received  in the past months, and the new Mario Party is compatible too! Now you  can enjoy playing with your friends over the Internet. Don't forget that  you need to select the Local Play option on the game  to play over the Internet with the LDN build.

For people trying LDN for the first time, don't forget to leave the  Network Passphr...

September and October 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 any graphics behind it, wouldn't render properly on the emulator. gdkchan found that the issue was a due to one of the shader instructions (XMAD) ...

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 quantum leap forward in gameplay enjoyability for end users and one that a multitude have been earnestly requesting for many months (shader cache when???).

What's the b...