Panda3DS

0.9

• 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