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 del...
2021-09-06 04:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2021-08-04 01:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2021-07-03 22:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 mu...
2021-06-02 06:24:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 o...
2021-05-02 02:26:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 t...
2021-04-27 21:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 i...
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.
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 witho...
2021-03-24 15:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The latest official build of Ryujinx (version 1.0.6788) now includes the Amiibo emulation support that was promised as a result of reac...
2021-03-18 22:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2021-03-01 22:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ti...
2021-02-17 02:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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 202...
2021-02-04 18:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
Buffer to texture copies size fix
A bug on buffer to texture copies caused some Unreal Engine 4 games to crash. Th...
2020-12-31 16:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 gam...
We saw quite a few graphical improvements in September and October, so let's take a look!
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 rev...
2020-12-02 20:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2020-11-12 23:19:55 +0000 UTC View Post
August is already over, and like July, it was packed with great updates. Let's take a look at all the improvements that Ryujinx received these last two months!
Support for inline index buffer data:
Inline index buffers are basically index buffers that are sent to the GPU directly on the comma...
2020-09-03 02:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This version is outdated, you can find the new build version on this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/introducing-ldn2-45268370
Ryujinx celebrates another groundbreaking feature release by becoming the first...
Today we're pleased to release Amadeus, our big audio rewrite, written by Thog, that fixes sound issues on many games!
This brings a big improvement to many games that makes use of the switch audio renderer. Mario Kart 8 is no longer a cacophony of dissonant sounds, Splatoon 2 no longer hangs on the intro with a looping sound effect, Perso...
2020-08-18 02:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
GPU emulation improvements: 2020-06-26 21:46:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a video showcasing our newest feature, the Profiled Persistent Translation Cache, comparing the boot times in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!
We would like to once again thank everyone for all their support! Considerable efforts have been put into developing big features recently, and as a result we've fallen short of the mark in providing tim...
2020-06-19 14:32:54 +0000 UTC View PostWe are proud to announce a new feature today in Ryujinx: the Profiled Persistent Translation Cache (PPTC)
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 significan...
2020-06-16 18:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I decided to try fixing a bug that has been present for quite some time in Mega Man 11. But this time, I also decided to share the process that I use to find and fix those issues.
First, let's start with the tools. If you have ever attempted...
2020-04-09 23:25:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Another month has passed, and another batch of bugs were fixed. Today we will take a look at some of the improvements that Ryujinx received lately.
GPU emulation improvements:
In the previous post, we discussed 32-bit suppor...
2020-04-04 01:47:10 +0000 UTC View Post
EDITED 05/02/2020: We are proud to announce that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now playable on the latest builds! check it out here
EDITED...
2020-03-24 00:25:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Whaaat, a Patreon progress report?
That's right! We will be releasing progress reports for patrons now! You can think as a way to thank you for your support. The plan is making monthly progress reports, and seasonal progress reports that will be released to the public, and will be pretty much a condensed version of those smaller progress r...
2020-03-02 20:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons, we know that we don't post that much Patreon-specific content and we promise to improve that soon.
Since we opened the Patreon one and a half years ago, Ryujinx has improved a lot thanks to your support!
In fact, in additio...
2020-02-21 01:05:17 +0000 UTC View Post