Features

• Cheat support
  • Download cheats during library scans
  • Add custom Action Replay codes
  • Enable and disable cheats per game
• Per-game settings for internal resolution and preprocessing shader effects
• Screenshots page in game details to browse and delete captures
• Library cleanup to remove missing games and discs
  • Removed games retain their play data for restoration on a later scan
• In-app file and folder picker with controller navigation
• Automatic update check and new release notifications
• Option to select GPU or software rendering

Fixes

• Fix startup recovery paths that could skip initialization or overwrite the library
• Prevent crashes when upscaled frames exceed the maximum supported image size
• Release gameplay GPU buffers when returning to the library
• Fix the details screen briefly showing the previous game’s achievement progress when quickly switching between games
• Fix the empty library button opening the wrong settings section

Changes

• Reorganize game details into Overview, Cheats, Settings, and Screenshots pages
• Scale the UI and fonts with the window size, replacing the font size setting
• Screenshots capture only the game picture, excluding overlays and black bars
• Improve screenshot naming and move image encoding off the rendering thread
• Require a second press to confirm permanent deletions
• Remove the Disable Analog Stick input option
• Always suppress RetroAchievements unknown emulator warning

Writeup and summary

Announcement. Includes an overview of the major changes.

Features

• GPU Rendering
  • Metal (macOS)
  • DX12 (Windows)
  • Vulkan (Linux
• Internal resolution upscaling (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x)

Fixes

• Performance improvements around rendering
• Colors have been corrected
• Minor rendering fixes

Changes

• macOS now enables game mode
• Saves from previous versions are not compatible

Writeup and summary

Announcement. Includes overview of how rendering was implemented and performance metrics.

Changes

• Minor rendering fixes
• Bump desktop module version

Changes

Refactor SH2 to stepped per instruction instead of stepped per cycle. Improves performance. Additional accuracy of stepping per cycle was not being utilized.

Expand platform and controller support for rumble.

Fixes

• Goshed was called in a tight loop when it should only be called after a few ms as a yield

Changes

• Minor performance turning

Game Fixes

• ef55537 - DUKE NUK'EM (MK-81071)
• ce1bfb6 - PANZER DRAGOON ZWEI (MK-81022)
• 68d5ab7 - MEGAMAN X4 (T-1219H) | BATSUGUN (T-20605G) | RADIANT S.G (T-32902G)
• 2136e0c - MEGAMAN X4 (T-1219H)
• 405cba7 - ASTRA SUPERSTARS (T-1521G)
• 2928f79 - DAYTONA USA CIRCUIT EDITION (GS-9100)
• f6b1076 - INITIAL D (T-25503G)

Features

• Support 2 player in the UI
• Support controller profiles in the UI
• Support rumble via erumble files
  • Auto downloaded from repo on library scan

Writeup and summary

Bringing Rumble to Saturn Games. Includes list of initial batch of games with rumble.

Fixes

• Fix milti index audio tracks not properly using the index
• Fix incorrect handling of vdp2 rgb bit 15 handling

Modeling

• Memory cart override so Die Hard Trilogy can be set to no cart. Otherwise, it can't run

Fixes for specific games:

• 7bdb7ab - XMEN-COTA (T-8108H)
• 9604f7d - XMEN-COTA (T-8108H)
• 8f3e5a4 - MARVEL SUPER HEROES VS. STREET FIGHTER (T-1238G)
• ab8ba13 - SPACE JAM (T-8125H)
• b64fb71 - SPACE JAM (T-8125H)
• 05d3013 - VATLVA (T-31501G), FALCOM CLASSICS (T-31503G | CD-2/2)
• 6b9ba34 - VATLVA (T-31501G)
• da38db2 - Die Hard Trilogy (T-16103H)
• 75209c3 - Die Hard Trilogy (T-16103H)

MPEG

• Testing and fixes for MPEG rendering for a variety of games
  • MOON CRADLE (T-9109G)
  • FALCOM CLASSICS (T-31503G | CD-2/2
  • GUNGRIFFON - THE EURASIAN CONFLICT (T-4502G)
  • SAKURA CLUB (GS-9134)
• Enhance restoring save states to allow clean rewind in the GUI

HLE BIOS

• Fixes for BUP
• Fixes for setting up the SH-2 slave CPU

Additional Fixes

• Various fixes for multiple games
• SH-2 cache fixes
• Increase game compatibility