Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-05-b4c0731...KytyPS5-2026-11-05-a0268f1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-05-23ed47e...KytyPS5-2026-11-05-b4c0731

Corresponding commit: 359a0e3a78b5b06c5557469c940999e141ae57d2 Vita3K Build: 4272

Changes

• [Base] Fix non-ASCII package file names crashing on macOS and Linux (074d3f0)
• [Base] Fix the slow autorelease pool warning printing garbage (9527d46)
• [UI] Fix the render area filling half the window when a title starts (e105ad9)
• [Build] Keep frame pointers in Release builds (58f4bd8)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/aa961b5...074d3f0

Commits

• Update machine translations (Stenzek)
• Update to 20261105 (Stenzek)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-05-1b7ea36...KytyPS5-2026-11-05-23ed47e

Full Changelog: v.0.21.0...98ef621

Automatic daily build of nx2 at e736dfd.

Changes since the previous daily build

• Revert "buffer_cache: size native storage buffers from the mapping only in DL…" (4bc1ede493)
• kernel: Fix OOT startup by implementing WaitIfEqual64 (b6706b0c29)
• pls coderabit, pls (2814b15174)
• buffer_cache: size native storage buffers from the mapping only in DLSS passes (3c131fb692)
• pls final fix (578d88b67c)
• final fixes (97db036789)
• fixes (5016e217b8)
• Update .github/workflows/release.yml (91b74512ee)
• docs: removed unnecessary docs (21cfc42c97)
• feat: implemented coderabbit suggestions (d31066ee04)
• added some todos (97d3d9dec9)
• ci: whole new ci, needs a lot of review, this is draft (689d08400b)
• buffer_cache: keep native storage bindings in one device range (979d652d90)
• yuzu, video_core: always use the game's own DLSS where it can run (3c45b94cae)
• buffer_cache: size native compute storage buffers from the mapping (2e12e0def5)
• shader_recompiler: don't require PT in UISETP bits 68-71 (adacbaae7b)
• game_list: surface the NUP display version in the tooltip (35cde43095)
• refactor: remove unused variable is_intel_anv from Device constructor (d6efc8ef08)
• test: enhance StubEnvironment with additional methods for shader testing (4b1a1823ea)
• nup_container: treat a contentless ExeFS as absent (9279b24e4c)
• ci: remove fork-only local build workflow (d2f6956a1a)
• shader: correct H0_NH1 mixed-sign half source (662545c5b0)
• shader: fix H0_NH1 mixed-sign native half source (77952c8d8c)
• core: detect NUP platform from the update ExeFS (24c9b2b0ba)
• kepler_compute: emulate tensor programs only for Donkey Kong Bananza (fef7d2fc6c)
• kepler_compute: emulate all of Donkey Kong Bananza's tensor programs (721b189bb7)
• kepler_compute: emulate tensor programs that no upscale stands in for (3944c47805)
• nx2: count the presents that return before their frame is done (204ae115e4)
• nx2: wait for each of Donkey Kong Bananza's frames (6a22450d82)
• set: correct the Polish language code (551fa99a99)

Linux

The AppImage is self-contained (needs glibc 2.39 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch): make it executable with chmod +x and run it. The tar.gz uses your system libraries, so Qt 6 and the usual libraries must be installed.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-05-219bd64...KytyPS5-2026-11-05-1b7ea36

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-05-07e87b9...KytyPS5-2026-11-05-219bd64

Changes

• [XAM] Patch the dashboard to start indie games without a Live sign-in (aa961b5)
• [XAM] Implement XdfLaunchNewImageFromCache (f4b5f3c)
• [UI] Ship the dashboard patch with the bundled patches (6ab2bc9)
• [Patcher] Merge bundled patch files with their saved copies (211696a)
• [Patcher] Fix a patch file without patches crashing the loader (dc20b5d)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/7d3298b...aa961b5

Changes

• [VFS] Fix SVOD mounts opening every fragment and reading entries piecemeal (7d3298b)
• [UI] Fix the game list missing the dashboard's icon (291c72d)
• [XAM] Handle the Live service request the dashboard polls (00411a9)
• [XAM] Stub the web instrumentation exports the dashboard calls (d6df251)
• [XAM] Implement XamUserFlushLogonQueue (552aa4b)
• [XAM] Fix the dashboard setting a content thumbnail from garbage (12c686d)
• [XAM] Implement XamContentGetLocalizedString (f0d98ff)
• [VFS] Fix file handle leak when opening an XContent package fails (7708da9)
• [XAM] Fix the dashboard mounting library games that have no package (f637c86)
• [UI] Fix the toolbar profile missing sign-ins from imgui (a31686b)
• [XAM] Fix the sign-in dialog reporting only the slots chosen (5bd324f)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/e89d8be...7d3298b

Changes

• [Base] Fix opening URLs and folders on Linux going through a shell (e89d8be)
• [UI] Fix Clear Icon leaving the personal picture behind (4d00834)
• [XAM] Fix the dashboard missing profile pictures stored in one size (53867d7)
• [UI] Fix the profiles menu missing personal pictures (233bdb0)
• Merge commit '838850fed' into edge (10d3d57)
• [XAM] Fix the dashboard seeing cloud storage as on in slots 1-3 (fd39da5)
• Merge commit 'afecab890' into edge (2f279ae)
• [Kernel] Default MmAllocatePhysicalMemoryEx to read/write access (838850f)
• [HID] Fix Windows keyboard modifier state (455b988)
• [XAM/INFO] Handle null module names in GetModuleHandleA (6842939)
• [UI] Highlight signed in profiles in profiles menu (a0e0308)
• [UI] Show gamerpics for signed out profiles in profiles menu (d7a973d)
• [Base] Load SDL2 by its runtime soname on Linux (a60f068)
• [Base] Use SDL_OpenURL to open URLs and folders on Linux (83457ac)
• [UI] Marshal Linux GTK paint requests onto the UI thread (7eee59e)
• [XAM/USER] Implement XamUserRead/WriteUserPreference (afecab8)
• [XAM/INPUT] Report empty keystroke queue while UI is active (96ce1ac)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/6dcbd53...e89d8be

Changes

• [CPU] Test MMIO loads and stores through both access paths (6dcbd53)
• Merge commit '44e6489cf' into edge (4cb4f25)
• [A64] Fix MMIO loads without a byte swap reading reversed values (d739588)
• Merge commit 'f448664b6' into edge (3140b5b)
• [Testing] Copy libdl.dll with the MinGW binutils runtime DLLs (44e6489)
• [x64] Reverse MMIO reads for loads without a byte swap (7ef6c64)
• [XCrypt] - Implement XeCryptBnQw_Copy, XeCryptBnQwNeModInv, XeCryptBnQwNeModMul (f448664)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/a88d0d8...6dcbd53

Changes

• [Tools] Add xamgen corpus for XapiFormatTimeOut and WaitForSingleObjectEx (a88d0d8)
• [XAM] Fix WaitForSingleObjectEx never timing out and failing every wait (bdbd822)
• Merge commit '892064b92' into edge (d2d3641)
• Merge commit '1d8489b44e08f1e85e69a746f24b0d17a0dd6fe8' into edge (1be1dd6)
• [Kernel] Return all 64 bits from qword_result_t exports (892064b)
• [Build] Find vswhere with NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath set (4794be5)
• [XAM] Fix user flags & stub XamUserIsGuest (48b318a)
• [Vulkan] Only write back memexport bytes the draw changed (1d8489b)
• [D3D12] Only write back memexport bytes the draw changed (0bfc8fa)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/3b00bbd...a88d0d8

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-4c890e9...KytyPS5-2026-11-05-07e87b9

Changes

• Merge commit '57cddf7d2939b52ed91344718b9afbf4870f4087' into edge (3b00bbd)
• [XCrypt] Leave a partial last block alone in XeCryptAesCbc (57cddf7)
• [XCrypt] Fix the MD5 and AES state layouts and XeKeysGetKey (4cce0f2)
• [XCrypt] Free the MD5 context in the MD5 exports (72c2afa)
• [XCrypt] Build XeCryptHmacSha from the HMAC-SHA exports (67ec7f9)
• [XCrypt] Report key sizes and fail invalid reads in XeKeysGetKey (18131c7)
• [XCrypt] Implement XeCryptBnQwBeSigFormat (251ff46)
• [XCrypt] Implement XeCryptBnDwLePkcs1Format and XeCryptBnDwLePkcs1Verify (fc2aa25)
• [XCrypt] Implement XeCryptRotSumSha (f5ab892)
• [XCrypt] Fix bignum division in XeCryptBnQwNeRsaPubCrypt (fd59b72)
• [XCrypt] Replace crypto_utils with the XeCrypt exports (6e5216e)
• [XCrypt] Implement XeCryptHmacMd5 (b1ad202)
• [XCrypt] Implement XeCryptHmacShaVerify (0f5f851)
• [XCrypt] Implement XeCryptDesCbc (7d4c9df)
• [XCrypt] Implement XeCryptSha256 (feac104)
• [XCrypt] Return random bytes from XeCryptRandom (a42d9da)
• [XCrypt] Fix XeCryptDesParity for bytes with bit 0 set (32ca640)
• [XCrypt] Read the SHA-512 state in XeCryptSha512Final (4e7e1da)
• [XCrypt] Truncate long keys in XeCryptHmacSha (facfad0)
• [XCrypt] Pad the whole block in XeCryptHmacShaInit (9f5eb37)
• [XCrypt] Use the key size in XeCryptRc4Key (90f20c3)
• [XAM] - Implemented XamGetOnlineCountryFeatures (b71ddd7)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/4b1c010...3b00bbd

Changes

• [UI] Translate the system update download and cover art strings (4b1c010)
• [UI] Show cover art in the game list (ca54991)
• [XAM] Show box art in the dashboard (046c630)
• [UI] Add Tools > Download Cover Art (f072456)
• [UI] Download and install the system update (48a5697)
• [UI] Download through wxWebRequest (93b1329)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/e9a7e47...4b1c010

What's Changed

• controller: do not send light bar colours to mono-LED pads (ASTRO BOT) by @Nawid3333 in https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/pull/2116

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-23d0db3...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-4c890e9

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-a7e14aa...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-fe847be

Release candidate of 0.1.0. Please test it and report problems before the final release.

• Initial release candidate

Linux

The AppImage is self-contained (needs glibc 2.39 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch): make it executable with chmod +x and run it. The tar.gz uses your system libraries, so Qt 6 and the usual libraries must be installed.

Windows

Windows packages are in-place zip files: extract and run eglantine.exe, or eden-cli.exe from a terminal.

macOS

What's Changed

• kernel: export sceKernelDeleteTimerEvent (Gran Turismo 7) by @NevesHenry in https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/pull/2107

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-91c5820...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-a7e14aa

• 66df2b4 Merge pull request #14983 from JosJuice/driver-sf-speedhack — jordan-woyak
• f4b9fae Revert "GameINI: Add patches to limit internal framerate in Driver: San Francisco." — JosJuice
• 584366c Merge pull request #14794 from JosJuice/android-title-database — JosJuice
• 112e1a4 Merge pull request #14404 from sepalani/tri-close — JosJuice

Citron Upstream Commit: a37026c

This build is based on the latest Citron emulator source code from the upstream repository.

Build Details:

• Platform: Linux (x86_64, x86_64_v3, aarch64)
• Format: AppImage + tar.zst packages
• Build Type: Nightly with optimizations
• Date: 2026-11-04

Changes

• [Kernel] Default MmAllocatePhysicalMemoryEx to read/write access (838850f)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/455b988...838850f

• GS:VK: Set dirty texture when switching to feedback loop layout.

• Deps: Use Github releases for SDL3 downloads

What's changed

Two compatibility fixes (Switch 2 titles packed as NUP, and Intel/Mesa graphics), one shader fix, and test/CI cleanup.

• Switch 2 titles packed as NUP are classified correctly again (#512, fixes #504) — platform detection now prefers the newest update's ExeFS, like AppLoader_NUP, and only falls back to the base when the update has no ExeFS. Previously, a NUP whose base ExeFS is empty was detected through that empty directory, so a Switch 2 title came up with the Switch 1 memory layout and guest clock: a guest-memory exception and a boot stuck at 0 FPS. Mario Kart World 1.8.0 (update 917504) now selects the automatic 12 GiB layout and the 31.25 MHz clock and reaches the title screen at roughly 30 FPS, from the same empty-base NUP.
• The NUP packer no longer writes empty exefs/romfs directories — a contentless ExeFS is treated as absent both when packing and when reading a container (GetExeFSDir returns nothing for it), and exefs/romfs are only recorded when they actually contain files. RomFS-only updates keep working through the base fallback.
• Intel banding fixed on Mesa ANV (#469) — conditional barriers were being stripped on ANV, and on Intel the shader recompiler deletes barriers inside loops and branches, so a compute shader sharing data between warps read stale shared memory. In Mario Kart World 1.8.0 this showed up as a banding pattern over the whole image on an ARC 390. Barriers are now only stripped for Intel's proprietary Windows driver, so the Windows reports in #130 and #66 take the same path.
• Shader: H0_NH1 mixed-sign half source — it now swaps the packed FP16 halves before negating the new low half, instead of negating only the upper component. Programs using it previously failed with "native half mixed-sign source mode" and were skipped.
• Tests — global_address_tracking gained a stub shader environment, so the test target builds again after its outdated GlobalMemoryToStorageBuffer-era call.
• CI — the fork-only local build workflow was removed.

Known limitation of the NUP fix: a full race and long-session stability were not tested; the platform-classification checks and a boot to the Mario Kart World title screen were.

Changes since build-206 (c54bc22…d6efc8e), full compare.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-b2f40c6...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-91c5820

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-0735fd3...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-b2f40c6

Changes

• [3PP] Update wxWidgets to 26a3fe7bd (e9a7e47)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/447e6e2...e9a7e47

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-65fd1f6...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-56b01bc

Changes

• [HID] Fix Windows keyboard modifier state (455b988)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/6842939...455b988

What's changed

Build 206 is a one-fix release: Polish was handed to games as a language code they don't recognise, so every title that supports Polish fell back to Japanese.

• Polish now selects Polish instead of Japanese (#505, fixes #451) — the LanguageCode constant for Polish encoded its two characters in the wrong order (lp instead of pl). Titles look the value up against known language codes, found no match, and used their fallback — Japanese. The constant is now the NUL-terminated pl string in the same byte order as th, en-US and zh-Hans.
• Confirmed fixed — Mario Kart World (update 1.8) and Donkey Kong Bananza (update 3.1) with Europe region and Polish selected in system configuration; both now display Polish. Any other title that asks for the Polish language code is fixed by the same change.
• Nothing else changed — no graphics, audio, input or compatibility work since build 205. If you don't play games in Polish, there is no reason to update from build 205.

The change

-    PL = 0x000000000000706C,
+    PL = 0x0000000000006C70,

LanguageCode is a little-endian u64 holding NUL-terminated ASCII. 0x6C70 reads out as p, l, \0; the old value read l, p, \0 and matched no known language.

Changes since build-205 (5cad158…c54bc22), full compare.

Automatic build of nx2 at c54bc2289bfffda7fa3cc4c3a8cf522d84a10fd4.

Linux

Linux packages come as an AppImage (self-contained, needs glibc 2.39 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch) and a tar.gz (uses your system libraries, so Qt 6 and the usual libraries must be installed).

What's changed

Donkey Kong Bananza's purple screen, freezes and rubberbanding are fixed.

• Freezes, crashes and rubberbanding (#506, #392) — a present waits for that frame's GPU fence so the game can't overwrite data the GPU thread hasn't read yet. Since 690f80e15f that wait was skipped as soon as a GPU channel was suspended on a semaphore, and Donkey Kong Bananza's channels suspend on each other every frame, so the game always ran a frame ahead and read back stale commands. Donkey Kong Bananza now waits for each of its frames; EDEN_NX2_FRAMES_AHEAD still overrides it and other games are unchanged (Mario Kart World keeps running a frame ahead).
• Purple screen (#506, #459) — the game runs tensor-core shaders that are not part of DLSS, and Eglantine only emulated that math for a game's DLSS, so the image they feed was never written. Those programs are now always emulated for Donkey Kong Bananza, and only for it: upscaling networks (Kirby Air Riders, Fortune's Weave's DLSS) keep the quick bilinear stand-in.
• Present stats — the stats line now counts how many of the last 600 presents returned before their frame was done.
• Cost — waiting for each frame costs speed where the GPU thread is busy: in the mines a frame goes from ~19 ms to ~30 ms because game and GPU thread take turns instead of overlapping. Elsewhere it holds 60 fps.

Changes since build-204 (01dda0f…5cad158), full compare.

Automatic build of nx2 at 5cad1588350a6edef11f6302dcf747dc7dffa8df.

Linux

Linux packages come as an AppImage (self-contained, needs glibc 2.39 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch) and a tar.gz (uses your system libraries, so Qt 6 and the usual libraries must be installed).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-94094c6...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-65fd1f6

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-04-3b0a78a...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-94094c6

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KytyPS5/KytyPS5/compare/KytyPS5-2026-11-03-eecd982...KytyPS5-2026-11-04-3b0a78a

Changes

• [App] Fix nameless games showing as File Corrupted or a title id (447e6e2)
• [VFS] Fix a bad package display string throwing (306e682)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/5d7e99b...447e6e2

Changes

• [Base] Share the case-insensitive host file lookup (5d7e99b)
• [XAM] Implement XamContentOpenFileInternal (3a81820)
• [Kernel] Fix XeFu titles hanging after the boot animation (0fd1953)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/b65dd25...5d7e99b

What's changed

Mario Tennis Fever's controller glyphs render as icons instead of question marks.

• ? controller glyphs fixed in Mario Tennis Fever (#481) — the game looks up the + and − icons (U+E0EF, U+E0F0) in the standard shared font, and the Open Sans stand-in has no button glyphs, so it drew ?. The 24 button glyphs from yuzu's stand-in extension font are now merged into the standard font, scaled to cap height.
• The built-in font is now Open Sans (Apache 2.0) combined with yuzu's glyphs (GPL-2.0-or-later).
• Needs the build 196 font fixes to be visible.

Changes since build-203 (179b5af…01dda0f), full compare.

Automatic build of nx2 at 01dda0f47d86d791959f892b9b1dfac9721aaac8.

Linux

Linux packages come as an AppImage (self-contained, needs glibc 2.39 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch) and a tar.gz (uses your system libraries, so Qt 6 and the usual libraries must be installed).

Windows

Windows packages are in-place zip files: extract and run eglantine.exe, or eden-cli.exe from a terminal.

What's changed

One revert: the chunked-texture-upload change from build 202 device-lost Mario Kart World on AMD, so it is gone.

• Mario Kart World on AMD no longer loses the device at the title screen (#496, #499) — texture_cache no longer finishes the scheduler in the middle of a chunked image upload. A bisect put that commit on the title-screen device loss, and a tester boots with it reverted. The cost is that staging memory is not reused between chunks of one upload.
• Everything else from build 202 is unchanged.

Changes since build-202 (8615d8d…179b5af), full compare.

Automatic build of nx2 at 179b5afb50819945bdaadd739748d5f87633b0a5.

Linux

Linux packages come as an AppImage (self-contained, needs glibc 2.39 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch) and a tar.gz (uses your system libraries, so Qt 6 and the usual libraries must be installed).

Windows

Windows packages are in-place zip files: extract and run eglantine.exe, or eden-cli.exe from a terminal.

What's changed

The Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment fix set, batched Vulkan submissions, a large batch of shader-recompiler lowerings, and the six-axis / Mii BuildRandom fixes ported from nx2-experimental.

• Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment plays through its fights (#494) — command lists keep their submit-time copy across semaphore waits (dma_pusher), each pending fence download tracks its own ranges, GPU-written bytes on a page are downloaded before a CPU write claims it, draws with a garbage vertex or index count are skipped instead of losing the device, and an unmapped texture buffer gets a placeholder instead of aborting.
• Faster fights on the split GPU thread (#494) — fences, command-list copies after compute dispatches and FlushCommands are batched within 500 µs (EDEN_NX2_FENCE_FLUSH_US), and a thread that needs a batched submission asks the GPU back thread for it. Queue submissions in Hyrule fights drop from ~22,000/s to ~1,100/s, and heavy stretches go from a 31–37 fps median to 46–49.
• Shader recompiler (#494) — new lowerings for guarded USHF/UIADD3, LEA.HI with a constant, G+B TLD, 8/16-bit LDL/STL, STS with a uniform base, UMOV into any uniform register, UISETP with an accumulate predicate, FSETP with a uniform operand, I2F from signed 8/16-bit sources, IMNMX with an immediate wider than 20 bits and SHF.L.U32.HI without .W; plus more Switch 2 conversion/load forms and all generic attribute components.
• AMD / RADV crash fix — pipeline creation no longer assumes VK_EXT_mesh_shader exists, which fixes crashes on RADV.
• Donkey Kong Bananza — the terrain fixes and HMMA emulation are enabled by default again, and more of the game's indirect and native geometry forms are translated.
• Mii — BuildRandom reads age, gender and race as 32-bit words and picks from the random table in the right order (#495).
• HID — the six-axis IC information reports non-zero sensor ranges, so motion controllers are described correctly (#495).
• Frontend stability — the game list stays disabled during the startup scan, and directory iteration no longer uses the throwing overloads, removing a class of scan crashes.

Changes since build-196 (0d86405…8615d8d), full compare.

What's changed

Switch 2 built-in font data is handed to titles correctly (which is what unblocks Mario Tennis Fever's missing text), thread startup no longer stalls on a single core, and Vulkan can honour the CPU inner-invalidation skip.

• Mario Tennis Fever: missing text fixed (#393) — Switch 2 built-in font lookups now return each font's real offset inside the shared font memory, and a font that failed to load is reported as missing instead of as a bogus region. This is also the prerequisite for the +/− glyph fix in build 204.
• Thread startup — svcStartThread takes the single-core path when multicore is disabled, and treats a thread already current on the target core as preempting itself. Starting a thread no longer yields for up to 5 ms waiting for a context switch that cannot happen.
• Vulkan — RasterizerVulkan::InnerInvalidation now honours the skip_cpu_inner_invalidation setting instead of walking every sequence on each invalidation (#237).

Changes since build-194 (09e539a…0d86405), full compare.

Automatic build of nx2 at 0d86405bd1836f01d708abcdecc564465864a8cd.

Linux

Linux packages come as an AppImage (self-contained, needs glibc 2.39 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13, Arch) and a tar.gz (uses your system libraries, so Qt 6 and the usual libraries must be installed).

What's new in this build

Build 194 of nx2 (09e539a) is a batch merge — 145 files, +6,843/−695, 40 merges — and four games move:

• Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave now runs its own DLSS network as translated shaders instead of the FSR 3.1 stand-in, with a health check that falls back the moment the output stops making sense.
• Mario Tennis Fever gets its text back, stops hanging at boot, stops having its geometry shaders refused, and stops losing the device three seconds into its first court.
• Fast Fusion gets its track floor, minimap and sky back, and stops hanging at 0 fps while a race loads.
• Pokopia's sky renders on the Steam Deck.

Around them: two Mario Kart World frame-pacing options, a shipped nx2_switches.txt of tuned Switch 2 defaults, and a wide performance and correctness batch.

Builds 190–193 have no release: 190 and 191 failed, 192 and 193 were cancelled when a newer push arrived, and only this final run published.

In short

• The game's own DLSS (Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave): new Graphics setting Use the game's own DLSS, on by default. Its 13-pass network runs on your GPU; NVIDIA DLSS (if you turn it on) is tried first, then the game's own network, then AMD FSR 3.1. A status line under the checkbox says what is drawing right now and why.
• Mario Tennis Fever: missing text and wrong font fixed, boot hang fixed, geometry shaders no longer refused, and a framebuffer created with the wrong layer count — which wrote ~2 MiB past its allocation and lost the device — fixed. The kernel also gives the client's core the run it needs before an HLE reply wakes it, which this game's boot depends on.
• Fast Fusion: more Ampere instruction forms lowered (the floor's I2F.S16, TLD.SCR.LZ with a uniform handle, SHFL.DOWN, WARPSYNC, SUST.P.R and more), the sky's depth size query built after its descriptor is known, and G8R24 mapped to D24_UNORM_S8_UINT. The GPU-split hang while loading a race is fixed too: the front no longer reads command pages the back has not marked GPU-written yet.
• Pokopia: the black sky on the Steam Deck is fixed (guarded ULEA, with #387's author credited), and more compute forms (LEA, SHF, UIADD3, DEPBAR, USHF) lower, so almost all of its shaders stop being rejected. Photographs in game are still black — separate issue.

Changes

• [XAM/INFO] Handle null module names in GetModuleHandleA (6842939)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/a0e0308...6842939

Nightly build of commit 07677aa500.

Changelog

• [bcat] Verify delivery cache file names as file names (AI-assisted) (#4625) 07677aa500
  • PR #4625 merged on 2026-11-03 by Dmr77680
• [docs] fix contributing link in README (#4629) fa03b58f04
  • PR #4629 merged on 2026-11-03 by project516

Packages

Targets

Each build is optimized for a specific architecture and uses a specific compiler.

• aarch64/arm64: For devices that use the armv8-a instruction set; e.g. Snapdragon X, all Android devices, and Apple Silicon Macs.
• amd64: For devices that use the amd64 (aka x86_64) instruction set; this is exclusively used by Intel and AMD CPUs and is only found on desktops.
• v3: For devices that use the x86_64-v3 instruction set or newer; this is found on Ryzen, Intel 4th Generation (Haswell), and newer.

PGO

PGO builds usually perform ~10-30% better than standard builds, and are thus generally recommended for all users.

Linux

Linux packages are distributed via AppImage. zsync files are provided for easier updating, such as via AM.

What's new in this build

Build 189 of nx2 (7adcecc) is build 188 plus two fixes in the shader compiler for Switch 2 ("native") shaders — and they are what makes the NVIDIA DLSS path that build 187 enabled actually work in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.

With DLSS on, that game's network used to produce NaN by its second frame: half of one layer's output was never written, the encoder's skip connections never reached the decoder, and the upscaled image and its history froze. Both causes are fixed here.

10 files, +216/−24. A shader that hits neither case compiles exactly as before, and with the network off (FSR 3.1) the same scenes measure identical.

In short

• What was wrong: when a Switch 2 shader reads or writes a "native" global through a pointer taken from a constant buffer, the compiler rewrites the access into a storage-buffer access on the buffer it thinks the pointer names. Two ways that guess went wrong: an address assigned under a predicate is a phi of two pointers, and only the first was used, so the other path's stores fell outside the chosen buffer and were dropped; and a pointer sitting in an 8-byte slot (0x168, 0x188, 0x208, …) was matched against the NVN test, which only accepts 16-byte-aligned slots between 0x100 and 0x700, so it picked a different slot — an input to the address arithmetic, a dimension, a stride or a neighbouring pointer — and rebased the access onto that buffer.
• In Fortune's Weave: four programs of its DLSS network had 50–58 of the second kind each. The encoder layers' skip-connection outputs never arrived, so the decoder layers read zeros, the recurrent state filled with NaN after the second frame, and the last pass kept showing the previous history — the title screen's clock stood still.
• The fix: for native programs every candidate pointer the address can come from is collected (following additions, selects, phis and CompositeExtract). One candidate is used directly; with several, all of them are bound, the access stays global, and the SPIR-V global-memory functions pick the closest base at or below the address; with none, the old NVN search runs as before.

What's new in this build

Build 188 of nx2 (79c4f82) is build 187 plus the NUP editor: a .nup can now be unpacked back into a loose dump, and its metadata — name, icon, version, publisher and per-language names — can be edited in place, from the game list or from the command line. It fixes #385.

19 files, +2,593/−26, and none of it is emulation: games run exactly as they do in build 187. What changed is what you can do with the dumps themselves.

In short

• Dump NUP… — right-click a .nup in the game list and it is extracted back into base/, updates/<version>/ and dlc/<titleid>/<n>/, with a progress window and a cancel button. The default output is a folder named after the archive, next to it.
• Edit NUP Metadata… — change the title, publisher, version, icon and per-language names of an existing .nup in place, with a progress window. Only the fields you touch are rewritten; the packages' contents are copied untouched.
• Find Icon Online — in the metadata editor, pulls a square icon from switchiconshowdown.com, with SteamGridDB as a fallback when you supply a free API key. The whole search has a 10-second deadline and can be cancelled.
• Command line — --unpack-nup <file.nup> [<out_dir>] and --edit-nup <file.nup> --nup-name … --nup-icon … --nup-version … --nup-publisher … --clear-nup-name/--clear-nup-icon/--clear-nup-version/--clear-nup-publisher, both in --help.
• Safer by default — an existing non-empty output folder is never overwritten or cleaned away, and a metadata edit replaces the archive atomically.
• Menu order — Dump NUP… sits above Dump RomFS, and Edit NUP Metadata… above Configure Game.
• Smaller thing you will notice: a .nup packed from a dump whose metadata was never filled in now shows the dump's name and icon in the list instead of an empty entry.

Dump NUP: unpacking back into a loose dump

Right-clicking a .nup in the game list now offers Dump NUP… (only for actual .nup archives — a loose dump has no such entry). It writes the same layout a .nup packs from:

• a container with updates and DLC becomes base/, updates/<version>/ and dlc/<titleid>/<n>/;
• a base-only container is written bare, without the base/ wrapper, so it round-trips into the layout it came from.

What's new in this build

Build 187 of nx2 (14d4c4e) is build 181 plus five changes, and the headline is real this time: NVIDIA DLSS works in the Windows MSVC download. The Graphics tab has a new Use NVIDIA DLSS in place of a game's DLSS setting, which hands a game's DLSS evaluation to NVIDIA's upscaler on a GeForce RTX card instead of running Eglantine's FSR 3.1 replacement.

Also in: the -pgo downloads are trained on Eglantine's own profile instead of Eden's (the fix for "the PGO build is slower than the normal one" on Switch 2 titles), the AMD black-texture regression from the sparse-tile change is reverted, the AppImage carries its build number, and the README and PR template were cleaned up.

In short

• NVIDIA DLSS — eglantine-windows-x86_64.zip (MSVC) only. Off by default. When on, a game's DLSS evaluation goes to NVIDIA DLSS with the same inputs (colour, depth, motion vectors, jitter); when DLSS cannot run, FSR 3.1 still takes over from the next frame.
• Where it is not: the Windows -pgo zip is a MinGW build and does not have it (it has never been built with MinGW), and neither do the Linux or macOS downloads. In this build you cannot have both PGO and DLSS on Windows — the DLSS zip is the standard MSVC one.
• First run: nothing of NVIDIA's is bundled. Open Graphics, tick the setting, and the panel under it reports whether the Streamline loader and DLSS were found. Download from NVIDIA fetches only the needed files out of NVIDIA's Streamline 2.14.16 release (about 1 MB for the loader, 32 MB with DLSS, out of a 276 MB zip) after showing the licence texts, checking each file's CRC and signature before saving it to the user folder's streamline folder.
• PGO builds fixed: both -pgo builds now use this repository's eglantine.profdata instead of Eden's Switch 1 eden.profdata. On an RTX 4070 laptop, Mario Kart World's attract demo ran 17–24 fps in the old Windows PGO zip against ~47 in the standard build of the same commit; on the new profile the PGO build matches the standard one (30 vs 32 fps in the same pass).

What's new in this build

Build 183 of nx2-experimental (1521742) is the catch-up merge: nx2 is merged into the experimental line for the first time since build 130 (#455), so this is build 178's two fixes plus everything the nx2 line shipped in builds 135 through 181. Against build 178 that is 173 commits, 49 of them merges, 205 files, +26,166/−2,491.

It is the first release that is a superset of both lines: all of build 181, plus the two fixes from build 163 (Switch Sports and random Miis) that nx2 still does not have.

In short

• Games, new on this line: the ja_JP UI translation; Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment drawing gameplay again; Splatoon Raiders' shadows, reticle and steam; Mario Tennis Fever's stadium; Donkey Kong Bananza through its cutscenes and without its startup crash; Pokopia's first frame and its render-pass splits on tiled GPUs; Mario Kart World's trees, its 1.8.0 NSP launch, its present stall and its stale command lists; Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave with real AMD FSR 3.1 instead of the DLSS stand-in; GPU-decoded movies no longer green; LAN Play through a room; rumble in Switch 2 titles.
• The two build-163 fixes are still here: Nintendo Switch Sports gets past "Play with a Single Controller" (error 2162-0001), and random Miis are built with the age, gender and race that were asked for.
• Tooling, new on this line: the Convert to NUP… dialog with metadata and a progress window, faster loose-dump scanning and launching, Convert to NUP keeping the dump's folder layout, renamed downloads, eglantine-cli --help/--version exiting 0, the Arch eglantine-git PKGBUILD, the corrected contributing guide and PR template, the new issue forms, the Wayland plugins in the Linux AppImages, and the per-draw GPU-thread work in the descriptor table.
• Hardware: Coffee Lake-era Intel CPUs that report no crystal frequency keep the OS clock instead of the measured TSC (the i5-9400F launch crash).
• Defaults changed in build 158: ScaleForce with FXAA and handheld mode are on by default. If you carry a configuration from build 130, check those.

What's new in this build

Build 181 of nx2 (f347ae0) is build 177 plus four changes: the Linux AppImages now carry Qt's Wayland platform plugins, so they start on a Wayland-only desktop (#298); the repository has real issue forms; the tests target builds again; and a push that only touches src/tests no longer queues a seven-platform release build.

No emulator code changed, so no game behaves differently from build 177 and there is nothing to retest.

In short

• Linux AppImage — Wayland: libqwayland-egl.so and libqwayland-generic.so, with their client graphics and shell integrations, are bundled in all four Linux AppImages. On a Wayland-only system the AppImage used to abort with Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" and Available platform plugins are: xcb (#447, addresses #298).
• Issue forms: the single bug report is replaced by crash, game bug, visual bug and UI bug forms, and a workflow labels each new issue by game, GPU vendor and operating system (#433).
• Tests build again: two src/tests fixes — a sign-compare error in the socket proxy test and the GetPointer hook the descriptor table test's mocks were missing.
• CI: src/tests/** is now excluded from the release workflow's path filter. This is the change that made up the withdrawn build 179, and it is in this build.
• Not here: Android APKs (the publishing was reverted in build 175) and the NVIDIA DLSS work — that landed after this build, and it is not in these binaries either.

Linux AppImage: Qt's Wayland plugins are bundled now

An AppImage built before this one shipped Qt's xcb platform plugin only, so on a desktop with no X server — pure Wayland, no XWayland — Qt had no platform to start on:

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized.
Available platform plugins are: xcb.
Aborted (core dumped)

linuxdeploy's Qt plugin is now asked for the Wayland platform plugins and their client graphics and shell integrations (EXTRA_QT_MODULES=waylandcompositor, EXTRA_PLATFORM_PLUGINS='libqwayland-egl.so;libqwayland-generic.so'). The Qt installation the build already uses contains them, so the AppImage grows by their size and nothing else is downloaded or linked.

• GameDB: Add missing JP-codes & Fix few game titles.

Changes

• [Kernel] Return to the game list when dash powers off (b65dd25)
• [UI] Add a boot_to_dashboard cvar (4956db3)
• [XAM] Implement XamLookupCommonStringByIndex (26860a0)
• [XAM] Read XUIZ v3 packages and XUIS v2 string tables (f8968ff)
• [CPU] Fix resource-only XEX modules failing to load (62c9ddc)
• [Emulator] Ensure tray open/closed status is properly handled in dash (0fc5a8e)
• [HID] Fix SDL controllers repeating a released button (92e0483)
• [Kernel] Stop kernel_state.h pulling in the xam managers (8a77653)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/20d0b78...b65dd25

• df4bd44 Merge pull request #14972 from jordan-woyak/paren-init-aggregate — jordan-woyak

Nightly build of commit 8d29148afe.

Changelog

• [desktop] Bump minimum Qt to 6.6 (#4628) 8d29148afe
  • PR #4628 merged on 2026-11-03 by crueter
• [desktop] Prefer X11, but allow Wayland (with a warning) (#4579) 9c3bdeffc0
  • PR #4579 merged on 2026-11-02 by crueter
• [dist, android] Update translations from Transifex for Nov 02 (#4626) 060026dc2d
  • PR #4626 merged on 2026-11-02 by Eden CI
• [android, docs] Update recommended drivers, Fix Android build Guide and Fix X link. (#4617) 92f54a034a
  • PR #4617 merged on 2026-11-02 by Bix

Packages

Targets

Each build is optimized for a specific architecture and uses a specific compiler.

• aarch64/arm64: For devices that use the armv8-a instruction set; e.g. Snapdragon X, all Android devices, and Apple Silicon Macs.
• amd64: For devices that use the amd64 (aka x86_64) instruction set; this is exclusively used by Intel and AMD CPUs and is only found on desktops.
• v3: For devices that use the x86_64-v3 instruction set or newer; this is found on Ryzen, Intel 4th Generation (Haswell), and newer.

PGO

PGO builds usually perform ~10-30% better than standard builds, and are thus generally recommended for all users.

Linux

Linux packages are distributed via AppImage. zsync files are provided for easier updating, such as via AM.

Changes

• [UI] Highlight signed in profiles in profiles menu (a0e0308)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/d7a973d...a0e0308

Changes

• [UI] Show gamerpics for signed out profiles in profiles menu (d7a973d)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/a60f068...d7a973d

Changes

• [Base] Load SDL2 by its runtime soname on Linux (a60f068)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/83457ac...a60f068

Changes

• [Base] Use SDL_OpenURL to open URLs and folders on Linux (83457ac)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/7eee59e...83457ac

Changes

• [UI] Marshal Linux GTK paint requests onto the UI thread (7eee59e)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/afecab8...7eee59e

• e8c4246 Merge pull request #14510 from Ma-Rang/pr/gecko-bind-error — jordan-woyak
• a0ed231 Merge pull request #14975 from JoshuaVandaele/flathub-manifest — jordan-woyak
• 2833c12 Flatpak: Do not set the flathub::manifest tag — JoshuaVandaele
• 18190eb EXI: Show on-screen error when USB Gecko fails to bind — Ma-Rang
• d182533 Merge pull request #14916 from iwubcode/vertex_manager_draw_refactor — jordan-woyak
• adf85af Merge pull request #14941 from debug687/patch-1 — jordan-woyak
• d08bdde Common/TypeUtils: Remove missing __cpp_aggregate_paren_init feature workaround. — jordan-woyak
• faae54e Core/Debugger: Clean up emplace_back calls with use of "parenthesized initialization of aggregates". — jordan-woyak

Pull Requests

• #3147 - CONTRIBUTING.md: Add 'Good First Issue' guidance (@mborgerson)
• #3138 - nv2a: Use rgba swizzles for color values in generated GLSL (@DatenpflegeNordHL)
• #3146 - meson: Bump VulkanMemoryAllocator to v3.5.0 (@xemu-robot)
• #3133 - Fix missing dirty bitmap on render and image blit (@abaire)
• #3128 - nv2a: Remove erroneous signed conversion for SZ_R6G5B5 textures (@abaire)

Issues Fixed

• #3115 - Update GLSL swizzles dealing with color to use rgba instead of xyzw
• #859 - The Godfather The Game: graphical issue
• #1951 - 007 From Russia With Love: Distortion artefact
• #3126 - R6G5B5 texture format is erroneously treated as signed

Affected Titles

The following titles had issues fixed in this release:

• 007: From Russia with Love (#1951)
• The Godfather (#859)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/xemu-project/xemu/compare/v0.8.139...6095054b7d02dfac25fdc4a8ba9300358046e860

Changes

• [XAM/USER] Implement XamUserRead/WriteUserPreference (afecab8)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/96ce1ac...afecab8

Hotfix .2 replaces the broken .1 tester build.

• Fixed normal startup looking in the temporary .NET extraction cache instead of beside the executable. NXI Core is now discovered without special launch arguments.
• Fixed the protected Switch 1 JIT crashing on duplicate CPU delegate-table keys. Required lookup names remain stable; implementations remain encrypted.
• Corrected release metadata so the frontend's strict installation verification accepts the package.
• Rebuilt the core with a thread-safe GPU cleanup queue, fixing a reproduced stop/shutdown race.

Download the entire Windows or Proton ZIP and extract it into a new folder. Replace the complete application package, including its cores folder. Do not replace only the EXE. Existing settings and saves stay in their user-data location.

Validation includes final-ZIP extraction to a new path with spaces/Unicode, starting from outside the application folder, without --install-root. Core discovery, worker verification, game frames and clean shutdown are checked. The CPU delegate table matches all 166 original entries; the GPU cleanup stress check executes all 32,000 callbacks once. All 28 protected modules pass the static decompiler check.

Proton archive installation/reinstallation is tested under Ubuntu WSL; SteamOS/Bazzite gameplay remains unqualified. Pokopia character graphics remain broken, and protection adds overhead. The bundled TOTK timing module is excluded. No games, keys, firmware or saves are included. Required dependency notices/sources are attached. This remains an experimental prerelease.

Final Windows ZIP checks (no installation override):

• Metroid Prime 4: 3,567 presented frames, no application errors, clean shutdown.
• Pokopia: 1,773 presented frames, no application errors, clean shutdown.
• TOTK: 974 presented frames, no application errors, clean shutdown.
• Brand-new profile: core discovered and verified without keys/firmware installed.

SHA-256:

8a5eea368dd81458d61b4e4825e16fc9085179fdc524b47f5a509210d11b6803  NX-Infinity-1.1.0-test.20261102.2-Windows-x64.zip
19e7246ad9f072069c0f342445f093e97bb5d719b45989f4d800ed7f7dba784e  NX-Infinity-1.1.0-test.20261102.2-Proton-x64.zip
1c1ea24b7f8cbf19617cf12a2c5adfc959f851f2357d7a0f3092da74bfa45582  NX-Infinity-1.1.0-test.20261102.2-Third-Party-Sources.zip

SUPERSEDED: this build is broken. Download hotfix .2, extract the complete package into a new folder, and replace this version.

BROKEN BUILD: normal startup can report the core missing and prevent games launching. A replacement is being tested. Please do not use this download.

Current work is available for testing on Windows x64 and Linux through Proton.

Includes the current launcher and NXI core, experimental Switch 2 work, cheats/mods, PokeTool, avatars and updated Proton setup.

• Windows: extract the entire Windows ZIP into a new folder, then open NX Infinity.exe.
• Proton / SteamOS / Bazzite: extract the Proton ZIP, then run bash Install-NX-Infinity.sh in Desktop Mode. The first launch downloads the Proton runtime. See linux/README.md inside the ZIP for Steam Game Mode setup.
• Known issues: Pokopia launches, but character graphics are still broken. Protection adds performance overhead. SteamOS/Bazzite gameplay and physical controller, audio and suspend/resume checks still need testers.
• Protection: all 28 first-party modules use strong obfuscation and encrypted method sections, checked with ILSpy. Debug symbols and internal maps/reports are stripped.
• Checks: final Windows game test presented 2,867 frames with no application or Vulkan errors and a clean shutdown. Worker protocol matched the original. Protected runtime fixtures and 56 Linux installer/package tests passed. These checks do not qualify every feature or game.

The bundled TOTK timing module is omitted. Required third-party notices are retained; FFmpeg and OpenAL sources are attached separately. No games, keys, firmware or saves are included. This prerelease does not replace the stable auto-update release.

Send testers the Windows or Proton ZIP. The third-party source ZIP contains dependency sources only. Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt and the matching .sha256 files.

The final Proton ZIP also passed an actual install/reinstall check under Ubuntu WSL: all 365 manifest files matched, and the existing prefix was retained.

SHA-256:

1b54397638b895e331cd149748ca08ce74ead2ac9007940af06b77d1caa5bc23  NX-Infinity-1.1.0-test.20261102.1-Windows-x64.zip
06c11653839c9264c580321ebb3bc63b2fe164ca633dc18c63f7c04215904e8c  NX-Infinity-1.1.0-test.20261102.1-Proton-x64.zip

This is a nightly release built from the latest commit. Before you use these builds, make sure to backup your data, especially the save states!

Save states are constantly evolving and are only guaranteed to be compatible on stable (numbered) releases. The file format may be changed without notice, so be careful when using save states from nightly releases.

You can find the changelog for this build here.

[!NOTE] Nightly builds include experimental and in-development features that may not work properly. When reporting issues, make sure to include the version number (Help > About > Copy version).

[!IMPORTANT] It is recommended to install the latest GPU drivers in order to use Direct3D or Vulkan:

• Nvidia: Find your GPU here or use the Nvidia App to update drivers automatically
• AMD: Find your GPU or CPU here or use the download buttons at the top to update drivers automatically
• Intel: Find your GPU or CPU here

Windows users: install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package (x86_64 installer, AArch64/ARM64 installer) before running the emulator. This is mandatory to avoid crashes on startup.

macOS users: follow these instructions to allow Ymir to run on your system. Ymir is signed with an ad-hoc certificate, flagging it as unverified.

Linux users: if you choose to install the Flatpak version, make sure to grant Ymir permission to access the filesystem or your disc images won't load properly.

Changes

• [UI] Let the dashboard play discs put in through its tray (db0e09c)
• [XAM] Implement reading a title's name and icon from its SPA (902db50)
• [Kernel] Implement XeCryptAesCreateKeySchedule and XeCryptAesCbcDecrypt (00f7fce)
• [Kernel] Implement XexTransformImageKey (93a9534)
• [Kernel] Fix the DVD tray reporting open as closed (2890686)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/f17accd...db0e09c

Changes

• [VFS] Report host disk's capacity and free space for host path devices (f17accd)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/96df390...f17accd

Changes

• [Emulator] Fix dashboards asking for xam's resources before xam loads (96df390)
• [Emulator] Fix titles launched from a package missing the system fonts (f41b865)

Full changelog: https://github.com/has207/xenia-edge/compare/03a539b...96df390

Zaxnes 0.4.2

Independent project, not affiliated with Geod Studio or Nintendo. NES is a trademark of Nintendo.

A demo game included, and Zaxnes on Android.

FlappyZaxNes: a demo game, with its 3D profile and widescreen

Zaxnes now includes the demo of a simple game, FlappyZaxNes, with its own 3D profile and widescreen, so that you can get an idea of how the emulator works without having to unlock profiles in 3dSen.

• A NES game made for Zaxnes, after Flappy NES by filipemd (GPL-3.0): a city scrolling behind the pipes, music, and from the tenth pipe on, pipes that go up and down.
• At the first start, its ROM is put in your ROM folder and its profile in your profiles, tied together: pick FlappyZaxNes in the ROM list and play. Delete them and they stay deleted, until a new version of Zaxnes brings a new version of the game.
• Its widescreen is a hack pack like the other games' (the pipes' caps and the clouds shown in the margins); it is documented in rust/docs/hacks/flappyzaxnes/WIDESCREEN-HACK.md.

Android

• A first APK for Android tablets and handhelds (64-bit ARM, Android 7.0 or later), with the console interface: a gamepad, or a transparent touch pad (shown always, never, or only without a gamepad).
• Outside a game a finger scrolls the lists and taps the menus; in a game, with the camera unlocked, one finger turns the camera and two fingers zoom. The touch pad also has 2D/3D, recentre and a camera lock.
• The system keyboard types the RetroAchievements sign-in.
• Your files go in the app's own folder, Android/data/io.github.nixxou.zaxnes/files (roms, profiles, saves, states, movies): no permission is needed.

Console interface (handhelds, Android, F1 on the desktop)

• Advanced options: the settings of the desktop window's Video, Camera, Light and Emulation tabs, stepped with the pad.
• The ROM list's X hint reads "3D Profile"; choosing a profile keeps it for the ROM and goes back to the list, where A plays.
• On handhelds and Android the experimental Lua paths are on by default.

Downloads

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564 / PPSA21567 / PPSA21568) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

Nightly build of commit 7a6d055094.

Changelog

• [desktop] queue FirstFrameDisplayed to fix loading screen race (#4536) 7a6d055094
  • PR #4536 merged on 2026-11-01 by crueter
• [common] use handrolled string utility conversions instead of wstring codecvt (#3773) c6fa5c1f77
  • PR #3773 merged on 2026-11-01 by lizzie
• [macos, net] add sysctl(RT_xx)-fetched network interfaces (#3656) 2c40328a23
  • PR #3656 merged on 2026-11-01 by lizzie
• [fs] use mmap() to read files using VM/pagefaults for higher throughput (#3151) 41b6807f12
  • PR #3151 merged on 2026-11-01 by lizzie
• [dynarmic] Remove redundant configure struct (#4485) 2bec66c092
  • PR #4485 merged on 2026-11-01 by lizzie
• [dynarmic] Remove redundant constant pool ops (#4516) be972d7fdc
  • PR #4516 merged on 2026-11-01 by lizzie
• [dist] reoptimize assets, and add svg optimization (#4537) 972860ac8f
  • PR #4537 merged on 2026-11-01 by crueter
• [shader_recompiler, renderer_vulkan] draw sprites whose texture handle comes from a vertex attribute (#4566) 3d3ed4b7d1
  • Committed on 2026-11-01 by PavelBARABANOV
• [docs] fix link to AI and LLM Usage in docs/README.md (#4618) be21ccce25

• 833d8c0 Merge pull request #14704 from JoshuaVandaele/mathutils-23 — JMC47
• e6ed144 Merge pull request #14006 from jordan-woyak/speaker-accuracy — JMC47
• 86d5548 Merge pull request #14596 from CySlaytor/master — iwubcode
• 56076f4 feat(retroachievements): implement achievement notification sounds — CySlaytor

⚠️Important Alpha Information⚠️

As an alpha release, this build is not yet considered stable.

This prerelease is intended for users to test upcoming features, allowing the community to provide feedback before they are distributed in a stable release. Users interested in testing bleeding-edge software are encouraged to test out this build to help us catch any issues we may have missed during development.

If you are unwilling to tolerate potential issues, it may be better to wait for the next stable release.

Azahar 2127.0 Alpha 4

Android

• Added per-application settings. | @DavidRGriswold, @Producdevity #1856, #2698
  • Mimics the desktop behaviour of being able to configure emulated applications independently.
  • Can be accessed by long pressing the application from the application list.
• Implemented the use of the ADPF API to hint the OS of CPU work bursts. | @PabloMK7 #2706
  • Improves performance on most Android devices, with a 15% performance boost observed on a Mali device.
• Skip hidden dot files/folders when scanning for applications. | @wilu222 #2362

All

• Reduced several audio, frame and input latency sources on all platforms. | @PabloMK7 #2700, #2706
  • Improves audio, frame and input latency by 1-2 frames in some cases.
  • Makes audio time stretching disabled by default.
  • Adds a setting to disable audio effects for the cubeb backend (Windows only).
  • The pull requests descriptions go into more detail on what exactly changed.
• Added free camera support. | @PabloMK7 #2723
  • Uses the RPC server to submit free camera commands to the emulator from an external script.
  • A python script is provided in the dist folder that contains a global free camera implementation, controllable using a controller.
  • Due to the way the 3DS GPU works, per-application implementations are still the prefered way to do free camera.
• Added configurable battery state. | @Wunkolo #2513, @PabloMK7 #2743, @DavidRGriswold #2738
  • Allows setting the emulated system battery to a fixed percentage and charging state, or use the host system battery state.
  • Makes the emulated notification LED blink red when the battery is critical.
• Added a turbo (hold) hotkey. | @DavidRGriswold #1969
  • Not to be confused with the existing turbo hotkey, which is a toggle.
• Fixed savestates not working with LLE modules enabled. | @PabloMK7 #2730

OpenCDi v0.2.0 - Release Notes

OpenCDi v0.2.0 represents a major architectural milestone. This release replaces the legacy monolithic windowing system with a modern cross-platform frontend (winit + softbuffer), introduces a headless automated testing harness (harness.exe), resolves in-game audio stuttering across the entire software library (Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Link: The Faces of Evil, Escape from Cyber City), synchronizes gunshots in FMV rail shooters (Mad Dog 2), refines MPEG-1 / DVC video decoding, and adds custom NVRAM file support via CLI.

Highlights and Key Changes in v0.2.0

1. Cross-Platform Windowing & Modern Frontend (winit + softbuffer)

• Migrated from minifb to winit (0.30) and softbuffer (0.4.8).
• Native Linux Support (X11 & Wayland): OpenCDi now builds and runs natively on modern Linux distributions (such as Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch) without requiring Wine or Windows GUI emulation, resolving Linux build failures.
• Foundation for macOS / Apple Silicon: Gated platform-specific Win32 APIs, enabling native POSIX / ARM64 compilation.
• Enhanced Window Controls: Added RetroArch-style shortcuts:
  • F11 / Alt+Enter: Fullscreen toggle
  • P: Pause / Resume emulation
  • Space (hold): Fast-forward
  • F8: Save Screenshot (PPM)
  • F12: Save Screenshot (BMP)
  • F5 / H: Restart Console (Reset)
  • Esc: Quit

2. Headless Machine Test Harness (harness.exe)

• Extracted the core machine execution loop into an independent module (Machine::run_frame).
• Introduces harness.exe for automated batch testing, frame comparison, and audio verification without requiring a window or audio device.
• Supports scripted input playback and peek reads without CPU side-effects.

3. Complete Elimination of Audio Stuttering in Zelda Games

• CDIC ADPCM Soundmap Architecture (Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon / Link: The Faces of Evil): In Zelda games, music is synthesized via CDIC Sound Maps rather than streamed disc sectors.
• Fixed handling of CDIC register 0x3FFA (ZBUF / AUDCTL): buffer reactivation now preserves ADPCM predictor filter states, eliminating harsh DC offset pops and dropouts.
• Continuous soundmap playback avoids premature termination between buffer reloads.

Added

• On-screen keyboard for games' text input dialogs (sceImeDialog), drawn over the game: type on the keyboard (Enter accepts, Esc cancels) or use the controller (D-pad and Cross on the keys, Circle cancels, Triangle space, Square delete, L1 / R1 move the caret, L2 shift, R2 or Options accept), or click the keys. The game's pads read released while it is shown, and buttons still held when it (or the in-game menu) closes reach the game only after they are released. Before, the dialog was accepted at once with a default text (Demon's Souls' character name). Runs without a window, scripted runs and input recordings and replays still finish the dialog by themselves; RPS5E_IME_HEADLESS=1 does so with a window too.

Changed

• Play mode no longer waits for shaders at all: a draw whose pipeline is still compiling is skipped from the first frame and drawn from the frame its pipeline is ready (the per-frame wait of 3 ms is now 0, --compile-wait); a pipeline the pipeline cache already holds is made on the spot instead of being skipped (RPS5E_INLINE_PROBE). Draws that write memory, draws without render targets and compute dispatches still wait, since the game and later GPU work read what they write.
• The saved shader list of a game is built in the background while the game runs (on all compile workers, with "Building the shader cache: done / total" in the corner) instead of before the game starts; --prewarm-wait (RPS5E_PREWARM_WAIT=1) keeps the old behaviour. Tests and input replays still build it first.
• Compiles are ordered by need: the shaders a draw or dispatch needs now, then the saved list, then the compile lookahead's guesses; an eighth of the compile workers is kept free for the shaders needed now.
• The compile lookahead also reads the command buffers already queued after the current one, on every GPU queue, and reads past flips and conditional commands (RPS5E_LOOKAHEAD_QUEUED, RPS5E_LOOKAHEAD_GUESS); the GPU command thread starts it whenever it meets a new compute program (RPS5E_LOOKAHEAD_EAGER), so it also works while draws are recorded on their own thread, where it found nothing before.

Zaxnes 0.4.1

Independent project, not affiliated with Geod Studio or Nintendo. NES is a trademark of Nintendo.

Widescreen fixes.

Ninja Gaiden III

• The enemies, lanterns and items the game places on the screen when the camera reaches them now wait in the margins, where they will appear, instead of popping in at the edge of the 4:3 picture.
• The desert of 2-1: the rock platforms no longer vanish from the margins and the sand no longer goes out of step with the screen.
• Past the ends of an area, where the game has nothing to show, the margins stay black, cut straight, instead of repeating its edge (boss rooms, ends of levels).
• Cut scenes no longer show their portrait and text a second time in the margins.
• New testing aids, off by default, in the USA and Japanese packs: Invincible, and Level select (Select during play goes on from the next checkpoint).

Super Mario Bros. 3

• The world map keeps its frame whole, with black margins.
• A piranha plant coming out of a pipe in the margins is hidden by the pipe, as on the screen.

All games

• In the widescreen margins, a sprite behind the background hides the sprites of lower priority there, as the NES does.
• The margin decoders read the nametables with the mirroring each row was drawn with (a game that switches it during the frame showed the wrong tiles in the margins).
• With Pause the 3D in 2D: the 2D view keeps its widescreen margins, and the colour beside the picture is the game's backdrop, not grey.

Downloads

No ROM and no game profile is included. Bring your own ROMs; for 3D, a .3dn profile per game (if you own 3dSen, File > Import from 3dSen… copies the profiles of your installation). Without a profile, a game runs in 2D or with the default 3D geometry. See HOWTO-RUN.md for the command line.

Licences

• GS: Fix OOB memory accesses when loading replacement textures

Changes

• [XAM/INPUT] Report empty keystroke queue while UI is active (96ce1ac)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/44e6489...96ce1ac

Automated SharpEmu v0.0.7-pulse build for commit 791a053.

Changes since v0.0.6-mono

• [scripts/release.py] fix utf-8 (0896ef68)
• [readme] update screenshots (c6d304cc)
• [GPU] Let a fill pattern without a length word span the whole pattern (4ec21480)
• [GPU] Recognize indexed four-word pattern fills (a95444f4)
• [SpirvTranslator] Read and write thread-addressed LDS spills through slot variables (14d68762)
• [SpirvTranslator] Keep constant-base thread-addressed LDS spills out of the private LDS array (54756cff)
• [Diagnostics] Report the writer of synchronized native color metadata (2e23a3a3)
• [Diagnostics] Show more frames in GPU wait sites (fb3d2325)
• [Diagnostics] Raise the GPU interval query and key limits (ec8f2ea1)
• [Diagnostics] Report the heaviest GPU interval (ff7f3974)
• [Tests] Cover indexed pattern fills and thread-addressed LDS slots (685dbae6)
• [Loader] Apply selected XML patches to loaded game images (540365e9)
• [GUI] Manage game patches in a localized selection window (71e3f277)
• [Loader] Support typed values and pattern-based game patches (2d438a59)

Zaxnes 0.4.0

Independent project, not affiliated with Geod Studio or Nintendo. NES is a trademark of Nintendo.

New

• Widescreen. Games made for it, or patched for it, draw past the 256 pixels of the NES picture, in 2D and in 3D. Built-in widescreen hacks for Zelda II, Mega Man 1 to 6, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden III, Adventure Island, Excitebike, Final Fantasy, Blaster Master, Metroid and Metal Force (Korea), each in a plain and an advanced mode (objects and enemies shown in the margins). The hacks are found by the ROM's signatures, so other builds (Europe, Japan) of these games are covered where a pack exists. A WideScreen & Hacks screen per game shows how well the ROM fits, part by part, and offers each hack's options (No slowdown, Invincible, level select where the game has one).
• RetroAchievements (softcore): sign in from the options, unlocks, challenges, progress and the list of a game's achievements, on the desktop and on handhelds.
• Console mode on the desktop (F1 or Home): the handheld interface with the mouse, the keyboard or a pad; the desktop now opens on its ROM list.
• Options per game over the global ones (render scale, shadows, palette, overscan, catch-up, Lua options...).
• NES colour palettes: the palettes of the main emulators (Mesen's by default, FCEUX, Nestopia, FirebrandX, Sony CXA, PVM...), for all games or per game.
• Remove sprite limit: Disabled / Always / Smart (default; Smart keeps the limit where a game relies on it, as Mesen does).
• Overscan per side, for NTSC and PAL games, per game, cut (Fit) or cropped (Resize).
• Movies: record, play back and annotate.
• Save states with a thumbnail, a state screen on handhelds, and saves, states and movies named after the ROM.
• Vulkan and DirectX 12 on the desktop (Graphics API option); OpenGL stays the default.
• The 2D view is always seen head on; turning the camera pulls it like a rubber band, then switches to 3D.
• Mapper 156 (Metal Force, Korea).

Faster

• Emulation core: about 12-16 % faster (sound and cartridge reads), the same to the cycle and the sample.
• Widescreen pictures composed three times faster; the 3D conversion of widescreen games back to its normal cost.
• Rendering: fewer GPU stalls on handheld GPUs (opaque surfaces without discard, palette converted once per frame), the same pictures.

OpenCDi v0.1.9 - Release Notes

OpenCDi v0.1.9 is now available for Windows (x64). This release introduces full Save States and Load States, persistent console memory (NVRAM), exclusive input device handling (eliminating mouse and gamepad signal conflicts), real-time audio pacing without stuttering, and hardware-level emulation fixes for DVC and MCD-212 video controllers.

Additionally, this release integrates a prominent tester feedback entry point directly on the main menu bar to facilitate bug reporting and community testing.

Importance of the Tester Feedback System

The Philips CD-i catalog is technically diverse, featuring proprietary multimedia engines, custom OS-9 file formats, and varying MPEG/ADPCM stream configurations across titles. Comprehensive community feedback is crucial to discovering title-specific regressions, audio timing glitches, and edge cases.

To streamline this process, the Send Feedback (F1) button is now placed directly on the top-level menu bar, accessible with a single click or by pressing F1 at any time during emulation. This connects directly to the dedicated tester feedback portal:

https://cdi-tester-feedback.pages.dev/

Testers are encouraged to report:

• Boot freezes or games that halt at specific screens.
• Visual corruption, incorrect color blending, or broken transitions.
• Audio stuttering, channel drift, or synchronization loss.
• Controller, button mapping, or mouse cursor anomalies.

Every submission provides reproducible data that accelerates investigation and targeted hardware fixes.

Key Features and Changes in v0.1.9

1. Save States and Load States (Slots 1 - 5)

• Added full emulation state serialization across 5 dedicated slots.
• Keyboard shortcuts:
  • F6: Quick Save State (Slot 1)
  • F7: Quick Load State (Slot 1)
• Accessible through the menu via File -> Save State to Slot and File -> Load State from Slot.
• Captures an atomic snapshot of the entire machine: SCC68070 CPU registers and memory, MCD-212 VRAM and CLUT palettes, CDIC and ADPCM audio state, 68HC05 Slave microcontroller, and DVC MPEG-1 hardware registers.

2. Persistent Console Memory (NVRAM MK48T08)

• Game saves and preferences stored in the console's internal non-volatile memory (battery-backed MK48T08 SRAM) are now persistently saved to disk across sessions.

• 4fb368c VideoBackends / VideoCommon: split draw calls into separate commit and render steps — iwubcode
• 613db73 Merge pull request #14958 from bmdhacks/mali-custom-driver — JosJuice
• c4856ea Merge pull request #14878 from vhoxha08/add-global-hotkeys-android — JosJuice
• 78a8ab4 Merge pull request #14947 from scatterflower/unaligned-store-fix — JosJuice
• 2986290 Merge pull request #14944 from Sintendo/arm64-mfspr-sxtw — JosJuice
• 4707515 Merge pull request #14943 from Sintendo/vertex-arm64 — JosJuice
• 97b33a2 Merge pull request #14928 from JosJuice/neon-texture-decoder — JosJuice
• 3ba9b97 Merge pull request #14930 from jordan-woyak/dev-dolphin-determinism — JosJuice
• 3474634 Merge pull request #14903 from brad0/elf_aux_info_check — JosJuice
• 1f30867 Merge pull request #14782 from tygyh/Core/Use-lerp-and-midpoint — iwubcode
• dd5a544 Merge pull request #14964 from jordan-woyak/scrollable-ppconfig-window — jordan-woyak

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564 / PPSA21567 / PPSA21568) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

• 3rdparty: Update LZMA/7zipSDK to 26.05

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564 / PPSA21567 / PPSA21568) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

Copperline 1.1.0 is the first feature release of the 1.x series. Hard drives can now run at the speed of the period drives each Amiga shipped with. The MMU-less 68EC030, 68EC040 and 68EC060 are new CPU choices. The JIT is much faster on fast-RAM code and heavy disk I/O, and has a new "fastest" speed. A500 CIA, interrupt and bus timing are corrected against measurements of a real A500. It also includes every fix made on the 1.x branch since 1.0.1.

Before upgrading

• Netplay peers must all run 1.1.0. Players and spectators need the same build.
• Recreate RetroArch save states after updating the core. The core's states carry a build fingerprint that includes the release version.
• Desktop save states from 1.0.x still load. The CIA chunks are migrated to their new layout. A resumed 1.0.x state continues under the corrected timing, so it can drift from what 1.0.x would have produced (a factory A500 state from 1.0.1 still renders byte-identical frames). States saved by 1.1.0 do not load in 1.0.x, which reports that the state comes from a newer Copperline.
• Emulated timing has moved. The CIA, interrupt and bus corrections change when some events happen on every machine. Headless scripts and --expect-screenshot images tuned to an exact frame may need new timestamps or new captures.
• A copperline.toml beside the executable now boots on its own. Startup checks --config, then ./copperline.toml, then a copperline.toml beside the executable (or beside Copperline.app, or beside the .AppImage), then the saved default. If you keep a file with that name there, it now takes over from the saved default. --factory skips it.
• Relative media paths are also looked for in the [paths] media folders. The working directory is still tried first, so every path that worked before finds the same file.
• The bundled AROS ROM leaves 1,776 bytes less free memory when a program starts.
• Going back to 1.0.x: 1.0.x refuses configuration files that use the new keys and values: [cpu] speed, the 68EC030, 68EC040 and 68EC060 models, the drive timing and spin_up keys, and [[drive_profile]] tables.

Period hard-drive timing

Until now every hard-disk transfer finished within the access that started it. timing = "period" on [ide], [scsi] or [lide] (or --hd-timing period) models the drive each machine shipped with instead, so a hard-disk Amiga loads, boots and benchmarks at that drive's speed:

| Machine | Drive |

Changes

• [Testing] Copy libdl.dll with the MinGW binutils runtime DLLs (44e6489)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/7ef6c64...44e6489

Changes

• [x64] Reverse MMIO reads for loads without a byte swap (7ef6c64)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/f448664...7ef6c64

Fixed

• Frame captures (RPS5E_CAPTURE_FRAMES) of GTA V replay again instead of hanging the GPU. While a capture recorded, GPU results copied straight into guest memory were later taken for CPU writes and recorded; the replay wrote them over its own GPU results, which differ where GPU work orders its atomics differently, and the mixed ray-tracing tree sent a shader into an endless loop. GPU results now reach guest memory through copies the capture sees while it records.
• Silent Hill 2 (Remake) no longer hangs the GPU after START GAME. A small compute write (a 4-byte counter in reused transient memory) at an address where a render target once kept its fast-clear metadata was taken for a metadata clear, which overwrote the counter and left a GPU loop running for billions of iterations; only writes that cover a whole metadata slice count as clears now (RPS5E_WHOLE_METADATA_WRITES).
• Silent Hill 2 (Remake): the ray-tracing acceleration-structure build after START GAME no longer loops forever on the GPU. Compute shaders whose buffer record count comes from a value computed at run time (here an atomic counter read back with v_readfirstlane) were skipped, so the sort before the tree build never ran; they are translated now (RPS5E_RUNTIME_BUFFER_RECORDS). The game loads and reaches "PRESS ANY BUTTON TO PLAY".
• Silent Hill 2 (Remake) no longer freezes on the loading screen after START GAME (about one run in six). sceAudioOut2ContextPush in blocking mode returned with the context queue still full, so sceAudioOut2ContextGetQueueLevel right after it reported no free grain; Wwise renders only the free grains and pushes only rendered ones, so its audio thread stopped, and the garbage collector waited forever for an audio bank to unload while holding the loading screen's lock. A blocking push now returns once the queue has room for the next grain.
• Silent Hill 2 (Remake): the picture after START GAME is no longer black; the opening cutscene and the lookout are drawn. Unreal Engine 5 clears the compression keys of its render targets with a small compute kernel that loads the clear code from a constant buffer; the emulator runs that kernel as a plain memory fill and read the code as out of range (it counted the buffer's records as bytes instead of 16-byte units), so the separate-translucency target was cleared to transparent black instead of (0, 0, 0, 1) and the anti-aliasing pass multiplied the whole scene by 0.

New Contributors

• @KarthikeyaAnna made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/7966
• @DoubleAAGuy made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8732
• @Unkown607 made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8095
• @MayankManas made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8249
• @Nejilu made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8757
• @aarushkha made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8554
• @adhimiw made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8240
• @ags-arnab made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8805
• @christophermonterocortes-cr made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8843
• @NoOverflow made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8471
• @FitzVB made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/2528
• @mossyanwar made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/9234
• @DangerChamp made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/6645
• @ynkmyz233 made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8956
• @Joacoorandom made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/9534
• @DProkos made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8561
• @THEBIGTOMMY13DEV made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8902
• @3mro777o made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/7517
• @THEGABOALE made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/9955
• @taovuokko made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/9801
• @bcortezf made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/5965
• @enfuego27826 made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8942
• @sivasdeadknight made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/9854
• @Kapy2003 made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/10372
• @ZSWolt made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8306
• @lulebo made their first contribution in https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5/pull/8664

• ImGui: Add visual vibration intensity indicator to OSD

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564 / PPSA21567 / PPSA21568) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

• 2c6a598 Merge pull request #14866 from SuperSamus/efb-to-texture-clear-byte — iwubcode
• 9c2e4af DolphinQt: Make individual tabs of PostProcessingConfigWindow scrollable for shaders with too many settings to fit on the screen. — jordan-woyak

Changes

• [XCrypt] - Implement XeCryptBnQw_Copy, XeCryptBnQwNeModInv, XeCryptBnQwNeModMul (f448664)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/892064b...f448664

• Debugger improvements

Changes

• [Kernel] Return all 64 bits from qword_result_t exports (892064b)
• [Build] Find vswhere with NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath set (4794be5)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/48b318a...892064b

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564 / PPSA21567 / PPSA21568) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564 / PPSA21567 / PPSA21568) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

Another week another release . There are ton of changes , so why not ?

Core

• Properly check where an input came from for digital->analog input smoothing
• cpu_patches: Work around Rosetta 2 mistranslating negated scalar compares
• file_sys: Report stable file identities in stat and fstat
• Allow file type identification for '/addcont' path
• emulator: stop clearing temporary data on boot
• Add PT_SCE_MODULE_PARAM case
• cpu_patches: Fix JIT patching at addresses outside any module
• core: Fix MemoryManager::Free unmapping past the released rang
• file_sys: don't abort when a guest path goes through a regular file
• use VMA pointers instead of copies in TryWriteBacking
• cpu_patches: Workaround Rosetta 2 crash on VMASKMOVPS/PD
• Handle ELF metadata and toolchain comments program headers
• common: reuse one high-resolution waitable timer per thread in AccurateSleep
• Don't abort when optional ELF metadata segments can't be read
• cpu_patches: Fix register clobbering in Rosetta 2 VMASKMOV workaround
• renderdoc: Add library name for macOS
• renderdoc: Add alternate path for macOS
• lru_cache: Fix early stop in ForEachItemBelow
• Avoid deadlock when Shutdown is re-entered on the same thread
• Check if elf info is initialized when shutting down

Libraries

• kernel: Implement I/O event queue APIs with Core::Net integration
• kernel: fail rmdir on non-empty directories with ENOTEMPTY
• app_content: Implement sceAppContentTemporaryDataMount
• kernel: Try lock without wait in timed mutex if deadline has passed
• usbd: Implement libSceUsbStorage HLE for virtual USB media access
• http: allowing headers with surrounding whitespace
• kernel, rtc: Fix timezone and DST calculation
• music: Implement libSceMusicPlayerService HLE
• videodec2: Drain pending frames and wrap in RAII
• usbstorage: Correct OrbisUsbStorageDeviceInfo layout and population
• app_content: Implement sceAppContentAddcontUnmount
• app_content: Implement TemporaryData mount and unmount
• np_auth rewrite
• Ajm: Auto-detect and safely parse RIFF headers for ATRAC9
• libSceVoice: stub a disconnected microphone to fix BO2 and BO3 hangs
• net: report recv_queue_length in sceNetGetSockInfo
• kernel: Register missing filesystem symbols and fix /dev/null device
• kernel: return ENOENT from mkdir when the parent does not exist
• kernel: return EBADF when writing to a file opened read-only

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564 / PPSA21567 / PPSA21568) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

New in this release -

1. Built-in Decouple

Decouple is now built into the emulator for Astro Bot (any version and region) and Astro's Playroom. It finds the game's timing code itself, so you don't need the patch file or a button combo. It uses the v3 smoothing and the 1/20 s delta-time cap. The patch file's Decouple and the mods that need it (frame-limiter sleep, precise frame caps, delta-time caps) are skipped while it's on, so use the launcher's Frame rate limit instead. Playroom is smoother too, and no longer runs at double speed above Vblank 60. The console shows Decouple: built-in one on. "KYTY_ASTRO_DECOUPLE": "0", goes back to the patch file.

2. No more slow motion at level starts

The "[Fix] Bot rescue" mod is now skipped. Its hooks fire when you enter and leave a level, not on rescues, so it was switching Decouple off mid-stage. Rescues work fine without it.

3. Real DLSS/FSR upscaling in Astro's Playroom

Before, DLSS/FSR only anti-aliased Playroom at the render resolution. Now they upscale the scene to the full output size, with the game's own effects (bloom, particles) kept on top. 540p works too, upscaled 3x and stretched the rest of the way. The HUD is drawn at the render resolution for now: sharp at 1080p and above, a little soft at 720p.

4. More Astro Bot versions supported

The built-in render resolution and the "too many objects" crash fix now work on:

• 01.007.000, the disc / unpatched version (thanks to moooohung, PR #3)
• other versions, found by what the code does and only patched when there's exactly one match
• the Asian edition (PPSA21568), alongside US and EU

If you're on anything other than 01.018, please post your console's fixed render resolution ... and command buffers x2 ... lines (or the not applied / not found line).

5. Gyro

The gyro is centred from the start: the resting offset is saved per controller. There's also a new re-centre key (F9 by default, set in the launcher).

6. Fixes from moooohung (PR #2)

Korean and Japanese text no longer shows as ?, and FSR frame generation now works without FSR upscaling.

| | What it does | GPU | Platforms |

PS5PCEM 0.3.6

This release collects 71 commits after 0.3.5, including merged contributor history, plus release preparation. It introduces the experimental native DirectX 12 renderer, ZAR loading/extraction, launcher FPS limits and motion sensor input, alongside Vulkan performance, graphics, audio and save fixes.

Downloads

• Windows x64: portable ZIP and per-user installer. The three applications and installer carry SHA-256 Authenticode signatures and timestamps using the same Artur Strazewicz / PS5PCEM certificate as 0.3.5. The certificate is self-signed; Windows/SmartScreen can still warn.
• Linux x64: .deb, .rpm, .pacman and .AppImage, with the native GTK 3 launcher, game-run and pkgextractor. See the Linux guide.
• SHA256SUMS.txt covers all six packages. Linux packages do not use Windows Authenticode signatures.

The CPU baseline remains x86-64-v3 (AVX2/BMI2/FMA). Vulkan remains the default renderer on both platforms. DirectX 12 is Windows-only and experimental. Windows packages include the pinned Microsoft DXC compiler, DXIL validator and license notices; keep these DLLs beside the executables. Linux requires glibc 2.31+, Linux 5.11+ with FSGSBASE/Syscall User Dispatch, GTK 3, X11/XWayland, Vulkan 1.2 and PulseAudio or PipeWire's PulseAudio service. The AppImage uses these system libraries. Games, firmware, keys, saves and shader caches are not included.

Native DirectX 12

The Windows library and Settings now offer Vulkan / DirectX 12. This is a native D3D12/DXGI backend, not a Vulkan translation layer. Unsupported work is reported explicitly; it neither silently switches APIs nor skips draws and reports them as successfully rendered.

• Shared RDNA2 translation feeds SPIRV-Cross HLSL, Shader Model 5.1 and DXC Shader Model 6 wave shaders. Shader/PSO caches retain compiled programs.
• Indexed, instanced, bounded indirect, triangle-fan and rectangle draws; NGG passthrough routing, linked varyings, scalar buffers, blend state, depth/stencil attachments, HTILE expansion and mixed multiple render targets.
• Tiled surfaces, BC textures, video sampling, packed RGBA4444, RGBA16F and R16_UNORM; cube/2D-array textures, mip chains, 3D volume sampling and anisotropic filtering. DMA transfers now populate uploaded font atlases.
• Checked fragment loops reject exhausted shader execution instead of

I can't reliably test any other platform since I'm only on windows, and WSL usually has inaccuracies, but the source is there if you want to convert it to linux

experimental switch 2 integration for eden

needs a lot of fixes but its something to start with, some mesh is missing due to unimplemented shaders

Source: branch eden-nx2. Built the way Eden's own CI builds Windows releases (clang-cl, Release, static Qt).

Download

Windows (x64): Eden-Windows-nx2-2026-10-29-amd64-msvc-standard.zip, containing both apps:

• eden.exe: the normal Eden app. Open the game with File > Load File and pick exefs\main inside the game folder.
• eden-cli.exe: the command-line version: eden-cli.exe -g "C:\path\to\game folder\exefs\main".

Requirements: Windows 10/11 64-bit, the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64), and a Vulkan GPU with 8 GB+ VRAM and 16 GB+ RAM.

Eden is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Coder787-source/KytyPlus/compare/v5.6...v5.7

• a8fc326 Vulkan: Allow custom drivers on Mali devices — bmdhacks

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Coder787-source/KytyPlus/compare/v5.5...v5.6

• GameDB: TXR DRIFT 2 Fixes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Coder787-source/KytyPlus/compare/v5.4...v5.5

Added

• Games run straight from disk images of game dumps, without extracting them: exFAT images (.exfat, also inside an MBR or GPT partition), .ffpfsc containers (a PS5 PFS image holding a compressed exFAT image) and UFS2 images (.ffpkg dumps made on the console). The game folder is found anywhere inside the image.
• The launcher lists .exfat and .ffpfsc files with their title, version and icon, and its file pickers accept them; info-pkg and install-pkg read them too.
• PS5 fake packages ("\x7FFIH" packages made in plain-text mode) run straight from the .pkg, without extracting them: the Kraken-compressed game image is decoded on demand, and the package's metadata (title, version, icon, sce_sys/param.json) is read from it. info-pkg and the launcher show them; PS5 retail packages are still reported as encrypted. Silent Hill 2 (Remake) starts from its 48 GB package and reaches the main menu and the New Game settings at about 1 fps; it can still crash right after the start screen (with RPS5E_LABELS_AT_EOP=through it does not), and loading a new game stalls.
• Kraken-compressed PFSC files (the PS5 per-file compression) are read; other PS5 compression formats are reported as unsupported instead of failing to read.
• imports, info and load on a package read its eboot.bin instead of loading the whole package file.
• libSceNpAuthAuthorizedAppDialog (open, status, result, close), libSceHttp2 WebSockets (offline: requests fail as without a network), sceSaveDataPrepareForTransferring, libSceTextToSpeech2 Speak/Close/Terminate, and the libc thread-destructor calls _sceLibcInternalThreadDtors and _sceLibcInternalForceTlsDestructor.

Fixed

• Minecraft no longer crashes right at start: system libraries now provide their data objects (the IPv6 addresses in6addr_any, in6addr_loopback and the others of libSceNet) with real memory. Minecraft reaches the menus and gameplay.
• libSceNpAuth checks its arguments in the console's order and returns its error codes (invalid argument, invalid size, signed out) without writing the outputs on failure.
• Thread-local destructors run the way the console runs them: newest first, in up to four passes, and only while their module is still loaded.

This release candidate completes support for the cheat instructions implemented by Eden's DMNT engine and improves cheat-file parsing and process targeting.

This is a pre-release for testing before v0.1.1. Feedback and reproducible bug reports are welcome. It includes all improvements from rc1 through rc7.

What's new since rc7

• Extended cheat instructions: implemented register comparisons, register save/restore operations and masks, persistent static registers, process pause/resume, and debug logging, with all operand and addressing forms supported by Eden.
• Cheat execution: corrected nested if/else handling, loop decoding, arithmetic behavior, and handling of truncated or unknown instructions. Controller input is sampled once per execution so multiple button conditions see the same input state.
• Cheat files and process targeting: fixed parsing of names containing Unicode symbols or accents. Memory operations and pause/resume now target the process identified by the cheat metadata, with a cached non-owning process reference.
• Regression coverage: 24 cheat-engine tests pass, covering instruction execution, memory widths, pointer chains, branches, loops, register persistence, parsing, and process selection. All 96 tests selected by the memory test filter pass.
• Linux packaging: Debian package versions are now derived from the release tag.

Known limitations

All instructions supported by the compared Eden DMNT engine are implemented. This does not guarantee that every third-party cheat works: cheats must match the game's build ID and use valid addresses. The Wonder 99 Lives regression passes against synthetic memory; its effect during gameplay still needs confirmation. End-to-end compatibility with third-party injected CheatVM modules remains unverified.

The full core test suite still has existing failures and a scheduler-test hang. This release does not resolve every freeze, black-screen issue, or audio glitch. Multi-program game compatibility remains experimental, and the native Metal backend on macOS remains alpha.

Downloads

On Windows, choose the installer or extract the standalone ZIP. Windows packages are available first; macOS and Linux download links will become available as their packages are uploaded.

This release candidate fixes several cheat-engine decoding errors, adds missing process-memory service calls, and addresses an applet command that caused some game to abort.

This is a pre-release for testing before v0.1.1. Feedback and reproducible bug reports are welcome. It includes all improvements from rc1 through rc6.

What's new since rc6

• Cheat execution: corrected data widths, register selection, immediate values, and pointer-chain offsets. These errors could prevent loaded cheats from taking effect.
• Process-memory services: wired SetProcessMemoryPermission, MapProcessMemory, and UnmapProcessMemory into both ARM64 and ARM32 system-call dispatch. Aligned permission handling and validation order with Eden, with tests for writable aliases, unmapping, and error handling. This addresses missing calls needed by injected cheat modules; end-to-end compatibility with third-party CheatVM modules is not yet verified.
• Applet compatibility: added Eden's success response for ILibraryAppletAccessor command 90. Also implemented GetLibraryAppletInfo to return the child applet's identity and mode.
• Windows interface: fixed missing checkmark icons on the OK and Apply buttons in per-game configuration.

Known limitations

The cheat engine is not yet fully compatible with every instruction. The Wonder cheat regression passes against synthetic memory; confirmation of its effect during gameplay is still needed. Extended cheat instructions require further work.

Focused regression tests pass, but the full core test suite still has existing failures and a scheduler-test hang. This release does not resolve every freeze, black-screen issue, or audio glitch. Multi-program game compatibility remains experimental, and the native Metal backend on macOS remains alpha.

Downloads

On Windows, choose the installer or extract the standalone ZIP. Windows packages are available first; macOS and Linux download links will become available as their packages are uploaded.

Added

• Display resolution setting (720p, 1080p or 2160p) in the launcher, the "Run with..." dialog, --display-resolution and RPS5E_DISPLAY_RESOLUTION: games that ask the console for the TV's resolution are told the chosen one, as a PS5 on that TV would answer; the default stays 2160p.
• PlayGo: scePlayGoRequestOptionalChunk, scePlayGoGetRequiredDisc, scePlayGoRequestNextChunk, scePlayGoSnapshot and scePlayGoSetInstallSpeed2 are implemented. The library now tracks its initialized and open-handle state (NOT_INITIALIZED, ALREADY_INITIALIZED, BAD_HANDLE after close), remembers the install speed that was set, and answers a chunk-id count query made without a list buffer.

Performance

• GTA V in the city: the longest stalls are much shorter (about 2.5 s instead of 10 s) and driving stutters far less. The frame rate in the city is still low (about 7 fps now that the ray-traced reflections are drawn) and far from playable.
• Wave64 compute shaders on 32-wide GPUs (NVIDIA): lane stacks and register spills stay in registers, ballots share one exchange, and programs from 16 VGPRs run split; the ray traversal of GTA V takes about a third of its former GPU time.
• A CPU read of a descriptor the GPU wrote waits only for the copy that brought that word to memory, not for all queued GPU work.
• Texture uploads that do not fit the full staging ring read guest memory directly (the stall when GTA V enters the city: about 4 s → 1.5 s).
• Ray-tracing shaders read BVH nodes with vector loads: the ray traversal of GTA V is about 8 % faster.

Fixed

• GTA V: car paint, mirrors and wheel rims no longer look pink or magenta, and the square patches in car reflections are gone. The pass that shades ray-traced reflections never ran, so its magenta placeholders stayed in the picture.
• GTA V: no more grey dots, dotted trails and smears on signs, cars and characters. A render target the game clears with a "single colour" DCC clear was never cleared, so old depth values piled up and broke depth of field.
• Windows: shader and pipeline caches are kept in %LOCALAPPDATA%\rps5e; before, they needed HOME and were missing without it.
• PS5_HLE_TRACE with a relative path writes to that path instead of a fixed file in /tmp.
• Default keyboard layout: the left and right halves of the touch pad are on Z and X (they had no key).

• GS:Debug: Fix stat names in draw stat dumping.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Coder787-source/KytyPlus/compare/v5.1...v5.4

Changes

• [XCrypt] Leave a partial last block alone in XeCryptAesCbc (57cddf7)
• [XCrypt] Fix the MD5 and AES state layouts and XeKeysGetKey (4cce0f2)

Full changelog: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/compare/72c2afa...57cddf7

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

New in this release -

1. Continuous gyro calibration

What it does: whenever the controller has been still for half a second (barely rotating, with gravity steady), the emulator learns the gyro’s resting offset and removes it from every reading. That covers both the rotation speed the game reads and the orientation the emulator works out from it, so aim and tilt should stop creeping sideways. When it adjusts: the first estimate is ready after about a second of stillness. After that it adjusts slowly, so it follows the sensor warming up but doesn’t eat intentional slow movements. Each controller learns its own offset. What you’ll see: the console prints Gyro calibration: resting offset x, y, z degrees/s removed ... once it has learned the offset, so you’ll see your controller’s actual drift figure. "KYTY_GYRO_CALIBRATION": "0", turns it off.

This fixes the gyro drifting out of sync in Astro Bot

2.Minor Housekeeping

Re-ordered some elements of the launcher.

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display >

Fixed

• ASTRO BOT: tile-shaped holes, black sky and ghost images left from earlier frames (#1).
• Torn frames in videos played through AvPlayer (ASTRO BOT intro).
• Demon's Souls: a crash with an endless memory fault after a CPU write raced the GPU image cache.

NX Infinity v1 is here.

an entirely remade Switch themed Desktop + HOME UI, built on a fork of the Ryujinx core through Kenji-NX with extensive repairs and performance improvements. credit to the original teams and to sakasakiking for Dune's design origins.

what's in v1:

• HD landscape backgrounds from metadata. game covers stay on the tiles.
• smoother HOME controller movement, better stick handling and stable focus.
• MP4 graphics defaults at 1.5× resolution and 16× filtering.
• Low-end GPU and Minimum load modes, including per-game settings.
• shader and texture-tracking repairs, faster repeat launches and a cached library at startup.
• controller reconnect and touchscreen pointer controls.
• themes, avatars, save tools and local translation options.

Windows: download NX-Infinity-v1.0.0-win-x64.zip, extract it and open NX Infinity.exe.

Linux / Proton: download NX-Infinity-v1.0.0-linux-proton-x64.zip, extract it and run Install-NX-Infinity.sh. The application files match the Windows package byte for byte. Python 3.11+, Vulkan drivers and internet access are needed for first setup.

The release includes checksums, the audit receipt and Defender scan results. Windows startup and the updated UI checks pass. Proton installation, reinstall and save-prefix preservation pass under Ubuntu WSL.

MP4 still stutters. Linux desktop gameplay and 3D All-Stars touch interaction need more testing. Test notes.

developer: COYE / coye2

dev team testers: IL DENTE PROIBITO and ShadowEddyx12. thank you for helping get this out.

Full changelog · Credits · Support me on Ko-fi

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Coder787-source/KytyPlus/compare/KytyPlus-2026-10-26-636bc95...KytyPlus-2026-10-26-e560633

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Coder787-source/KytyPlus/compare/v5.1...KytyPlus-2026-10-26-636bc95

KytyPlus v5.1

Two changes aimed at the same class of failure: running out of graphics memory, and a shader that a Mac driver simply refuses to build.

Making room for a large texture (issue #17)

• A cached texture is now evicted to fit a new one, instead of the allocation being refused. The periodic collector was gated on usage thresholds and freed at most 10, 20 or 40 images per pass, so a title asking for one big allocation at a scene transition could be refused while hundreds of stale textures sat in the cache. Inserting an image now checks what the device reports as free, and evicts least-recently-used textures until the request fits with headroom.
• The headroom is deliberate. The driver still needs memory for its own page tables and staging, so the target is not the last byte of the heap; aiming at that trades this failure for a worse one later in the same frame.
• The previous release could only trim buffers from this point, because image creation happens while the texture cache lock is held and calling the collector from there would have deadlocked. The eviction now runs where the lock is already held, which is what makes it possible at all.
• This is still containment. If nothing is reclaimable the run ends as before, and nothing here explains why memory fills up. On an 8 GB card a title that genuinely needs more will now thrash rather than abort, which gets further but is not a fix.

Apple Silicon: vertex shaders that use lane operations (issue #18)

• Metal cannot compile a subgroup operation into a vertex, tessellation or geometry function at all - not a missing feature, a hard refusal - and a Unity title on an M1 was dying at pipeline creation because the recompiler emitted gl_SubgroupInvocationID and friends there. Those stages now emit as a wave of one lane: the lane index is zero, a shuffle returns the value in hand, a ballot reports only the invoking lane, and the subgroup barrier is dropped.
• Pixel and compute shaders are unchanged, since Metal supports subgroups in both. Windows and Linux are unaffected by construction - the fallback is compiled in only for Apple.
• This is a degradation, not an emulation. A title that genuinely exchanges data between vertex invocations will render incorrectly where it used to stop running. That is the only option Metal leaves, and rendering something is the better failure.

Known issues

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

What's new in build 18

Silky-smooth frame times on G-Sync / FreeSync displays Set Present mode: Immediate with Smooth frame pacing ticked. A late frame is now shown the moment it's ready instead of being doubled, so frame times stay remarkably even. In a busy Astro Bot level (Sky Garden) the visible hitches dropped from 97 a minute to 7, and the slowest 1% of frames went from 33 ms to 23 ms.

Then pick a Vblank frequency your PC holds even in the busiest levels: a steady lower rate feels far smoother than a higher one that keeps dipping. Tester's setup (RTX 5080), smooth all the way through: Vblank 40, Frame generation 2x, Frame rate limit 80, Immediate, Smooth frame pacing, G-Sync on.

Fixed: slow motion with frame generation With Smooth frame pacing on, frames that took a little too long to present (most often with DLSS-G 3x) cost the game vblanks, so Astro Bot could drop into slow motion until the next load. The game now gets every vblank on time, at 2x, 3x and 4x.

Also since build 17

• 960x540 and 1280x720 render resolutions for both Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom (launcher: Render resolution, no patch needed)
• Playroom no longer runs too fast with Immediate + Smooth frame pacing
• FSR 3.1 frame generation on Linux and macOS (new, untested on real hardware)

Without a variable-refresh display, keep Present mode on FIFO. Astro's Playroom: keep Vblank at 60. Full notes, setup and known issues below.

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

Emulation

• SELF/ELF loading of decrypted games and modules, relocation and import linking; the game's own modules (libc.prx, middleware) run natively.
• Native execution of guest x86-64 code with patched fs: TLS access; AMD-only instructions emulated or patched on Intel CPUs.
• HLE system libraries: kernel (memory, threads, synchronisation, files, events, sockets), libc, AGC GPU driver and command processor, video out, audio (AudioOut, AJM, Ngs2, ATRAC9, MP3), AvPlayer and video decoding (FFmpeg), pad, user and system services, save data, trophies, fonts, IME, SSL, HTTP, PlayGo and more.
• GPU: PM4 command processing on Vulkan 1.3, RDNA shader recompiler to SPIR-V, image cache with aliasing and CPU write tracking, BC decompression, mesh-shader primitive paths, HDR10 output.
• Fake PKG, PFS and PFSC containers: info, install and direct run.
• Windows build (x86_64-pc-windows-gnu) besides Linux.

Launcher and usability

• Launcher (rps5e): game library with folders, packages, covers, search, grid and list views; per-game emulator settings; run logs.
• Controls: keyboard, mouse and SDL3 controllers with press-to-bind, global bindings with per-game input profiles, up to 4 players, DualSense adaptive triggers, light bar, touch pad and motion.
• In-game menu (F1 / PS button): controls with the DualSense picture, graphics, audio and system settings.
• Shader precompilation before the game starts, with progress; portable per-game shader cache export and import (CLI and launcher).
• Input recording and replay (--record-input, --replay-input, scripts/input-test.sh).
• Report issue: a prefilled GitHub issue (game, versions, OS, GPU, log tail) from the game menu and after a crash.
• Performance overlay (F10), frame dumps, GPU frame capture and replay.
• Application icon in the windows and in the Windows executables; Linux desktop entry installed by make install.

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling, FSR frame generation and the render resolution).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS frame generation for Astro Bot

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds NVIDIA DLSS frame generation (DLSS-G) and, new and experimental, DLSS upscaling (DLSS super resolution) to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564). Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

Frame generation only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's inputs; in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it).
• An NVIDIA RTX 40 or RTX 50 graphics card and a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42).
• NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.

2. Download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).

3. In the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder named exactly streamline and copy into it the files from the Streamline zip's bin\x64 folder (the files themselves; the development subfolder is not needed).

   KytyPS5-AstroBot-DLSSG\
   ├── kyty_emulator.exe
   ├── kyty_launcher.exe
   ├── ...
   └── streamline\
       ├── sl.interposer.dll
       ├── sl.common.dll
       ├── sl.dlss_g.dll
       ├── sl.reflex.dll
       ├── sl.pcl.dll
       ├── nvngx_dlssg.dll
       └── ...
   

4. Turn NVIDIA Smooth Motion off for kyty_emulator.exe in the NVIDIA App (the two clash).

5. Start Astro Bot from the launcher as usual.

Checking it works

The emulator's console window shows, in order:

Frame generation: Streamline loaded from ...\streamline (1 generated frame(s) per frame)
Frame generation: Streamline offers DLSS-G with this GPU, driver and Windows
Frame generation: Vulkan is loaded from sl.interposer.dll (Streamline's interposer, as needed)
Frame generation: DLSS-G ready (1 generated frame(s) per frame); it turns on in the game's 3D view

• Deps/gha: Bump mathieudutour/github-tag-action from 6.2 to 7 in the ci-deps group across 1 directory

• GameList/Settings: Add indicators for per-game settings

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS and FSR for Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds frame generation and modern upscaling to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564) and Astro's Playroom (PPSA01325):

Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

All of this only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's or Playroom's inputs (depth, motion vectors and camera); in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it), for frame generation.
• DLSS-G and DLSS upscaling: an NVIDIA RTX card (RTX 40 or 50 for frame generation) with a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42), and NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).
• FSR upscaling and FSR frame generation: any GPU. Nothing to download: AMD's amd_fidelityfx_vk.dll (FidelityFX SDK v1.1.4, MIT licence) is included next to the emulator.
• Linux / macOS: see below (FSR upscaling and render resolution only).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.
2. For DLSS only: download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).
3. For DLSS only: in the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder named exactly streamline and copy into it the files from the Streamline zip's bin\x64 folder

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS frame generation for Astro Bot

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds NVIDIA DLSS frame generation (DLSS-G) and, new and experimental, DLSS upscaling (DLSS super resolution) to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564). Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

Frame generation only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's inputs; in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it).
• An NVIDIA RTX 40 or RTX 50 graphics card and a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42).
• NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.

2. Download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).

3. In the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder named exactly streamline and copy into it the files from the Streamline zip's bin\x64 folder (the files themselves; the development subfolder is not needed).

   KytyPS5-AstroBot-DLSSG\
   ├── kyty_emulator.exe
   ├── kyty_launcher.exe
   ├── ...
   └── streamline\
       ├── sl.interposer.dll
       ├── sl.common.dll
       ├── sl.dlss_g.dll
       ├── sl.reflex.dll
       ├── sl.pcl.dll
       ├── nvngx_dlssg.dll
       └── ...
   

4. Turn NVIDIA Smooth Motion off for kyty_emulator.exe in the NVIDIA App (the two clash).

5. Start Astro Bot from the launcher as usual.

Checking it works

The emulator's console window shows, in order:

Frame generation: Streamline loaded from ...\streamline (1 generated frame(s) per frame)
Frame generation: Streamline offers DLSS-G with this GPU, driver and Windows
Frame generation: Vulkan is loaded from sl.interposer.dll (Streamline's interposer, as needed)
Frame generation: DLSS-G ready (1 generated frame(s) per frame); it turns on in the game's 3D view

KytyPS5 (Jetsku U59) with DLSS frame generation for Astro Bot

An experimental, unofficial test build of Jetsku/KytyPS5 that adds NVIDIA DLSS frame generation (DLSS-G) and, new and experimental, DLSS upscaling (DLSS super resolution) to ASTRO BOT (PPSA21564). Everything else is Jetsku's U59 int21 release (24 October 2026).

Frame generation only switches on where it finds Astro Bot's inputs; in other games it stays off. With the streamline folder present Streamline still sits between the emulator and the driver, so if another game misbehaves with this build, set KYTY_FRAMEGEN=0 or remove the folder.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling on (Settings > System > Display > Graphics > Advanced graphics settings; restart after changing it).
• An NVIDIA RTX 40 or RTX 50 graphics card and a recent driver (tested: RTX 5080, 617.42).
• NVIDIA's Streamline v2.14.1 runtime files (not included, see below).

Setup

1. Download this release's zip and unzip it into a new folder.

2. Download NVIDIA Streamline v2.14.1: https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/Streamline/releases/tag/v2.14.1 - pick streamline-sdk-v2.14.1.zip (not the aarch64/arm64ec ones).

3. In the unzipped emulator folder, next to kyty_emulator.exe, make a folder named exactly streamline and copy into it the files from the Streamline zip's bin\x64 folder (the files themselves; the development subfolder is not needed).

   KytyPS5-AstroBot-DLSSG\
   ├── kyty_emulator.exe
   ├── kyty_launcher.exe
   ├── ...
   └── streamline\
       ├── sl.interposer.dll
       ├── sl.common.dll
       ├── sl.dlss_g.dll
       ├── sl.reflex.dll
       ├── sl.pcl.dll
       ├── nvngx_dlssg.dll
       └── ...
   

4. Turn NVIDIA Smooth Motion off for kyty_emulator.exe in the NVIDIA App (the two clash).

5. Start Astro Bot from the launcher as usual.

Checking it works

The emulator's console window shows, in order:

Frame generation: Streamline loaded from ...\streamline (1 generated frame(s) per frame)
Frame generation: Streamline offers DLSS-G with this GPU, driver and Windows
Frame generation: Vulkan is loaded from sl.interposer.dll (Streamline's interposer, as needed)
Frame generation: DLSS-G ready (1 generated frame(s) per frame); it turns on in the game's 3D view

• 3eb30c7 Merge pull request #14939 from SuperSamus/ppc-analyst-no-strncmp — AdmiralCurtiss
• edce789 Merge pull request #14853 from SuperSamus/jit-trampoline-info-optimize — JosJuice
• f8e6bed Merge pull request #14952 from jordan-woyak/common-thread-remove-unused — JosJuice
• fa108cf Common/Thread: Remove unused non-Windows INFINITE macro. — jordan-woyak
• d7c0fde Common/Thread: Remove unused SwitchCurrentThread function. — jordan-woyak

OpenCDi v0.1.8 – Release Notes

Welcome to OpenCDi v0.1.8! This release brings major quality-of-life enhancements to the user interface, including a custom application icon, a recent disc image history, direct physical optical CD-ROM drive support, and key hardware fixes for the Digital Video Cartridge (DVC / MPEG-1) and MCD-212 Display Controller.

Highlights in v0.1.8

1. Custom Application Icon

• Native PE Resource: OpenCDi now features an embedded high-resolution application icon compiled directly into the Windows executable via winres.
• Desktop & Taskbar Integration: The icon is displayed natively in Windows File Explorer, on the application window title bar, and in the taskbar.

2. Recent Disc Images History (Up to 10 Discs)

• Fast 1-Click Reload: Added a new File → Recent Disc Images submenu listing the last 10 loaded disc images with rapid keyboard accelerators (&1 through &0).
• Persistent Storage: Disc history is saved automatically to opencdi_recent.txt and dynamically updates at runtime when opening, hot-swapping, or resetting games.
• History Management: Includes a dedicated Clear Recent Images History menu option.

3. Physical Optical CD-ROM Drive Support

• Play Real Discs: Automatically scans and detects host optical drives (CD-ROM / DVD-ROM).
• Native Menu Options: Directly boot real CD-i discs from your PC drive (Boot Real Disc (D:) & Restart) or hot-swap multi-disc games on the fly without console restart.

4. Digital Video Cartridge (DVC / CL450 MPEG-1) Fixes

• Frame Persistence in DRAM: Eliminated premature black frames and visual blinking at stream boundaries. Real CD-i DVC hardware retains the last decoded frame in DRAM until the next picture is ready.
• Death Cutscene Blanking Fix: Resolved premature FMV window closing on player deaths in titles like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.
• CL450 Register Safety: Guarded host driver registers (0x02 and 0x04) from being overwritten by the decoder; video sequence geometry is now properly mapped to registers 0x52 and 0x54.
• Unified Stream Demuxing: Implemented simultaneous video draining from both FMV and FMA demux buffers.

5. Philips/Motorola MCD-212 Display Controller

• DCP Register Latching: Fixed access to the Display Command Pointer (DCP) registers at offsets 0x0A and 0x1A according to official MCD-212 hardware specifications.

Commits

• 1b79c8b44 Deps: Update to 20261010
• 6a9c29604 Achievements: Extract bucket names out of FullscreenUI
• e468c8084 Achievements: Separate login and credential saving steps
• 3856bf0c3 SettingsInterface: Guard against copying to self
• 8af1da4fc Threading: Add WaitFor() to ConditionVariable
• fdb7e8f7b GameDatabase: Sort disc sets by save title
• 363da8d4f GameList: Don't persist cache map between refreshes
• deaa4a44b GameList: Allow use of external SettingsInterface
• 43cf72faa GameList: Synchronize settings between FullscreenUI and Qt
• b8ce9b4df System: Provide content details to OnSystemStarted()
• de2dd2b68 StringUtil: Fix possible integer overflow in EncodeAndAppendUTF8()
• aa03edcd1 Settings: Add a dedicated key for overlays
• 594155010 Settings: Don't copy controller type to game
• bd44b2a43 Core: Don't reset folders when resetting settings
• 03f731681 FileSystem: Backport additional helper functions
• 1b123c397 FileSystem: Make OpenSharedCFile() wrap OpenCFile() on non-Windows
• 84d511d18 FileSystem: Add error parameter to FTell64()
• 230b4788c FileSystem: Extract find result sorting to function
• 98c25ab78 FileSystem: Use shared file open for ReadBinaryFile/ReadFileToString
• 7d618a582 FileSystem: More RVO optimizations
• f20b39bd0 FileSystem: Add more ReadFileToString() overloads
• a6a22baff CPU/Recompiler: Respect load delays when swapping NOP slots
• 10525f926 CPU/Recompiler: Cancel pending loads on self moves
• 19d507707 CPU/Recompiler: Keep link-register delay slots in order
• 95102c364 CPU/Recompiler: Dispatch interpreter fallback exceptions
• cc6f410b0 CPU/Recompiler: Trap constant signed arithmetic overflow
• 00adf511d CPU/Recompiler: Preserve pending loads on memory exceptions
• 96c75771c CPU/Recompiler: Correct misaligned indirect jump exceptions
• c714922a5 CPU/Recompiler: Fix ARM32 VIXL debug builds
• 501fe22ed CPU/Recompiler: Mask constant variable shift counts on ARM
• 05c811f4e CPU/Recompiler: Truncate ARM64 multiplication results in LO
• b224f7a8e CPU/Recompiler: Decode ARM32 load exceptions from r0
• 63cbd900d CPU/Recompiler: Align ARM32 backpatch thunk calls
• 22a3b0674 CPU/Recompiler: Use 32-bit ARM64 fastmem LUT indices
• 38651d400 CPU/Recompiler: Handle large ARM64 backpatch cycle counts
• 5b37f3d91 SPU: Fast-path ADPCM blocks without predictors
• 16fa96940 SPU: Skip reverb output filtering at zero volume
• fd8574a84 SPU: Pack reverb FIR coefficients into 16-bit lanes

• 786d91d PPCAnalyst: Avoid using strncmp — SuperSamus
• e3063ce IOS/DolphinDevice: Enable some requests with WantsDeterminism rather than disabling them all. — jordan-woyak
• 22b581c Merge pull request #14940 from jordan-woyak/CoreTimingTest-fix — jordan-woyak
• b5f580e Merge pull request #14946 from OatmealDome/revert-win-std-chrono — iwubcode
• f22dd86 VertexLoaderARM64: Optimize RGBA6666 — Sintendo
• 9c60ba9 VertexLoaderARM64: Optimize RGB565 — Sintendo
• c12121f Merge pull request #14917 from jordan-woyak/skylanders-common-aes — JosJuice
• 2798f68 PowerPC/MMU: Use effective address for special-case unaligned stores — scatterflower

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.

• OSD: Add dedicated shader comp setting

• IOP Jit: Fix memory breakpoints

Zaxnes 0.3.0

Independent project, not affiliated with Geod Studio or Nintendo. NES is a trademark of Nintendo.

New

• Rewritten in Rust. Same emulator, same profiles, same Lua API, same pictures, now one small native program with no .NET runtime. The C# version (0.1.0, 0.2.0) is kept on the archive-dotnetversion branch.
• Linux x86_64 build (any distribution with glibc 2.31 or newer and SDL2).
• Handhelds through PortMaster (aarch64: Anbernic H700 devices such as the RG40XXV, on muOS, Knulli or ROCKNIX), with an interface made for the pad:
  • A/B are the NES A/B; X resets the camera; Y switches 2D/3D, held it shows the game in 2D from the front; L1/R1 zoom; R2 fast-forwards; L2 held keeps the camera angle and zoom, a short press puts them back.
  • In the game list, X assigns any profile to a ROM, the closest titles first; the choice is kept per ROM.
• Region from the ROM by default: a ROM whose header says PAL runs at 50 Hz.
• New options: Optimized Lua (faster profile scripts), Scripts in parallel with the drawing (Off / Auto / Always: the next frame's scripts run on another CPU core; needs Optimized Lua), Automatic resolution (the render scale follows the GPU time), Performance measures (frame profiler in the log, off by default).

Fixed

• Zelda II: the bed and other objects whose script reads the previous frame are no longer drawn out of place.

Downloads

No ROM and no game profile is included. Bring your own ROMs; for 3D, a .3dn profile per game (if you own 3dSen, File > Import from 3dSen… copies the profiles of your installation). Without a profile, a game runs in 2D or with the default 3D geometry. See HOWTO-RUN.md for the command line.

Licences

GPL-3.0 (LICENSE). Part of the 3D conversion engine is adapted from 3DNes_Engine (Geod Studio, GPL-3.0). Third-party libraries are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md, assets in ASSETS-LICENSES.md: everything shown or played is produced by the program's own code.

KytyPlus v5.0

One fix, and it is a compatibility one: PS5 packages no longer abort during installation on titles whose filesystem metadata is not the last thing in the package.

Package installation (issue #20)

• Gran Turismo 7's package failed before listing a single file. The installer reported Invalid package range: offset=25FC1FD8031, length=3FFDC, total=1F27EE0000 — a read 2.6 TB past the end of a 134 GB package. The offset was never the problem; the position it came from was.
• How the position is chosen was the bug. The package layout lists one boundary per file, and the installer took the highest boundary that was 64 KiB-aligned and treated it as the start of the game's filesystem. That granularity is finer than the mount is served in: blocks are 256 KiB, so a boundary 128 KiB inside a block is a file tail, not a superblock. Decoding a file tail is what produced the impossible offset.
• The position is now proven by decoding it, not guessed. Candidates are required to sit on a real block boundary and are tried from the top down until one yields an actual PS5 filesystem superblock, which is the position every later read depends on. Up to 512 candidates are tried; each is a single block decode, so a package that resolves on the first candidate costs what it used to.
• Failures now say which record broke. A block address that lands outside the package reports the records that produced it — the run record, its raw bits, the gap and the accumulated offset — instead of a bare range check that cannot be compared between two packages. Running the extractor with KYTY_NAPS_TRACE=1 additionally reports the outer filesystem's flags, including whether a package is encrypted, and the layout header's table sizes.

Known issues

• This is verified not to regress the one PS5 package we can test here — it resolves at the same position on the first candidate and extracts every file — but Gran Turismo 7 itself has not been installed by us, and we will not ask anyone to send a dump. If a package's compressed-block addressing also breaks at that size, installation will now fail later, with a message that names the records, so the next report is actionable rather than a dead end.
• Encrypted PS5 packages still cannot be installed. That is unchanged and not fixable here:

KytyPlus v4.9

Two follow-ups to last release: Apple Silicon no longer aborts during startup, and a refused texture allocation gets one more attempt before the run ends.

Apple Silicon startup (issue #18)

• v4.8 could not start on an M1 at all. Requiring the AGC driver DMEM at a fixed guest address was the right instinct but the wrong mechanism: macOS runs the x86_64 build under Rosetta, which reserves that range, so the mapping failed outright and the emulator aborted in driver startup before a single frame. Last release's MoltenVK fix had already gotten those machines as far as this, so v4.8 shipped a regression for them.
• The preferred address is now a preference, not a demand. It is requested as a fixed mapping first, and if the kernel cannot honor it the returned address is used instead — with the driver's binding table derived from wherever it actually landed rather than from the constant, which is what made the original assertion necessary in the first place. When that happens the log says so, naming both addresses.
• Windows is unaffected: verified there that the preferred address is still granted, so the addresses the driver writes are identical to before.

Texture allocation under memory pressure (issue #17)

• A refused image no longer ends the run on the first attempt. Demon's Souls was dying in vkCreateImage with ErrorOutOfDeviceMemory on a 2048x2048, 12-level BC1 texture — about 2.7 MB. A request that small failing means the device was already full, not that the request was unreasonable, so the buffer cache is now trimmed and the creation retried once.
• The buffer cache only, deliberately. Image creation happens while callers hold the texture cache lock, so evicting textures from there would have deadlocked instead of helping.
• This is containment, not a cure. If nothing is reclaimable the run still ends, and it does not explain why memory fills up in the first place.

Known issues

• Device-memory exhaustion remains the open problem, and it now spans titles: this same release window has seen it at image creation and at vkQueueSubmit. The retry paths log a heap dump when they trigger, so the next reports should show how close to budget these machines actually were.
• Apple Silicon startup past this point is unconfirmed by us — no one here has M1 hardware to test on, and block-compressed texture support is a likely next obstacle.

• 5ef181b Revert "msvc: use std::chrono for GetLocalTimeSinceJan1970" — OatmealDome