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Multiple System Emulator - WinArcadia v34.0 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 15 February 2025

What's New:

CD2650: added "Settings|Input|Queue keystrokes?" option.
"Settings|Sounds|Ambient sounds?" now plays disk drive noises.
Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

VTech V.Smile Emulator - veesem - Updated

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 15 February 2025

What's New:

V.Smile: support CSB2 dual ROMs by default, add flag for Art Studio RAM

Mupen64plus Frontend - Rosalie's Mupen GUI v0.7.4 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 15 February 2025

What's New:

Fix covers in JPEG format not loading on windows since v0.7.3
Fix RMG not inhibiting the screensaver during emulation
Fix not having supported archives listed when opening 64DD Disks through 'Open Combo'
Fix RMG-Audio spamming the log with sample warnings
Add captions to all file and directory dialogs
Improve logging when retrieving OpenGL context fails

PlayStation Emulator - DuckStation (Rolling Release) - Updated

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 15 February 2025

What's New:

Make .bin loader track length match .cue
Add hash to OnGameChanged
Avoid additional stat() call loading subchannel
Improve PBP load error reporting
06b0218: GPU/HW: Split transparent draws if dual-source blend unsupported (Stenzek)
Clear display texture on fatal error
Don't panic on unknown register read
Update to SDL3 3.2.4
Fix possible crash when rescanning game list
Fix setting-altering patches not applying on startup
Add 'Ignore' field to file format
07f9730: update the Simple-Chinese Translation to latest.
Update glyph ranges
4ce48ab: GPU/HW: Fix incorrect source rect for page replacements
Show disabled code count when HC/safe mode is active
Improve summary popup
c1f8a52: Spanish (Spain) translation update 2025-02-09
Dezaemon Plus Select 100 does not support analog mode
788b9cd: Update the Simple-Chinese translation to latest.
3eed0d0: CI/Flatpak: Don't strip SDL3 libraries
Fix overlapping widgets in macro trigger shift-click
Use display name for a couple of recommended value
2876713: Update the Simple-Chinese translation to latest.
f6e8ebe: Updating Swedish translation (100%)
36d5708: GPU/HW: Fall back to replacements from first disc
Fix incorrect recommended value
Reapply frame end codes immediately on reload
cd89f62: Atualização Português do Brasil
Apply SDL3 joystick patch
Rewrite to support axis input
f90fdf6: Update the Simple-Chinese translation to latest.
Correctly unset host page size if set via cache
Fix prerotated presenting with OpenGL
Fix incorrect texture format for A1BGR5
Fix Wcast-function-type-mismatch
Vectorize RGBA8 conversion and add A1BGR5
Fix flipped images in OpenGL
Fix black screen when changing options while paused
Fix missing vibration binding for NegConRumble
Fix abort on slow compile in big picture
Update glyph ranges
Bump to LLVM/clang 19
More Wcast-function-type-mismatch fixes
Fix possible unaligned movaps
Fix setting-altering game patch behaviour

Nintendo 64 Emulator - DaedalusX64-vitaGL v20250215.2 - Released

Details: Category: PlayStation Vita; Published: 15 February 2025

What's New:

Force single threaded garbage collector on vitaGL.
Set texunits on Modern renderer only if they actually exist in shader code.

Amstrad CPC Emulator - Caprice32 - Updated

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 15 February 2025

What's New

Nintendo 3DS Emulator - Borked3DS v2025.02.14 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 15 February 2025

What's New:

Bugs Fixed

The MacOS build does not launch properly (x86_64 and AArch64).
Rotating the display in Android may result in a crash.
The Android app may not launch correctly on Android 9-11.
Regression: Launching the Home Menu may not work correctly in Android (NOTE: If it still doesn't work after upgrading to this release, you may need to re-download the System Files or clear out your User Folder and then re-download).
Regression: There may have been some minor missing textures when using OpenGL.
Borked3DS now builds with gcc-12 on Bookworm-based Raspberry Pi (or similar aarch64) devices (NOTE: It may still not run properly regardless; this is still being looked at).
Android: Using oboe api as an input device now works correctly.

New Features

Migration from glad to glad2 libraries.
Most existing vector math is now accelerated using SIMD operations and compiler intrinsics. This may result in improved performance. Minimum hardware requirements are NEON support for AArch64 and SSE2+ support for x86_64 (SSE4+ or AVX+ recommended), which is pretty much any modern machine so it probably doesn't disqualify much regardless. This feature has only been minimally tested, so feel free to chime in with your experiences in the Discussions forum. As always, Pull Requests with fixes or improvements are always welcome.

What's Changed

Adding Swedish translation
Fix various GCC warnings and errors
Android (refactor): Improve null safety and fix rotation
video_core: Optimize vector math with SIMD instructions and compiler intrinsics
MacOS: Fix external MoltenVK bundling
externals: Update glad 0.1.36 to glad2 v2.0.8 by
CMakeLists.txt: Prefer bundled dependencies over system installed versions by default
Vulkan: v1.4.304.1
audio_core: Implement oboe_input device
InputOverlay.kt: Revert null safety checks
EmulationFragment.kt: Restore game icon loader
Android: Migrate from using WindowInsetsController to WindowInsetsControllerCompat
Update to Xbyak v7.23+
Optimize SIMD vector math instructions
vector_math.h: Avoid strict aliasing violations and use safer memory operations

Third-Party Updates

Android: Gradle 8.12.1
Android: Kotlin 2.1.10
Android: NDK r28
aqtinstall 3.20
QT 6.8.2 (all Desktop builds)
Vulkan Memory Allocator v3.2.1
Migrate from glad 0.1.36 to glad2 v2.0.8
Vulkan: v1.4.304.1 support
SDL 2.32.0
xbyak v7.23.1
Other minor dependency updates for Desktop and Android

(MAME) Apple II Emulator Frontend - Ample 0.274 - Added

Details: Category: Mac; Published: 14 February 2025

A slightly more user-friendly front-end for using MAME as an Apple II emulator. Requires Mac OS X 10.11+

HP Calculator Emulator - Plus42 v1.2.4 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 14 February 2025

What's New:

* Equations can now be embedded in programs, using X2LINE or EQN→STO→PRGM. Equation lines can be plain, which means they push the equation object onto the stack, or they can be EVAL lines, which evaluate the equation in place. Equation lines can be toggled between plain and EVAL lines using the EVAL
function in PRGM mode.
* The CUSTOM menu didn't stick reliably, due to a bug introduced in 1.2. Fixed.

(MAME) Languages.ini v0.274 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 14 February 2025

What's New:

Added 0.274 sets.

(MAME) History.dat v2.74a - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 14 February 2025

What's New:

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Nintendo 64 Emulator - Gopher64 v1.0.6 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 14 February 2025

What's New:

Bump clap from 4.5.28 to 4.5.29
fix PAL aspect ratio
PAL aspect ratio adjustment
don't modify cart.rom
add a way to show internal FPS
dynamically calculate speed limit frequency
fix rsp reserved commands
add some sdl window flags
only try to assign enabled controllers

HP Calculator Emulator - Free42 v3.2.2 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 14 February 2025

What's New:

* The CUSTOM menu didn't stick reliably, due to a bug introduced in 3.2. Fixed.

(MAME) CatList.ini, CatVer.ini, Genre.ini & Mature.ini v0.274 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 14 February 2025

What's New:

Aligned files to MAME 0.274

MS-DOS Player v2025/2/13 - Released

Details: Category: Windows; Published: 13 February 2025

What's New:

Fix INT 10h, AH=12h, BL=30h

Multiple System Emulator - jgenesis v0.9.0 - Released

Details: Category: Multiple Platform; Published: 13 February 2025

What's New:

Revamped low-pass filter options for Genesis / Sega CD / 32X that should be significantly more accurate to actual hardware than the v0.8.3 settings
Improved audio quality for all emulated systems via much higher-quality audio resampling
A rather large number of bugfixes for Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, SMS, Game Gear, SNES, Game Boy [Color]
Major bugfixes for Linux AppImage builds in Wayland
Save state files are now internally compressed using zstd, which should reduce save state file size by 70-80% in most cases
Basic CPU + CD-ROM drive overclocking options for Sega CD, which have fairly low compatibility but do help in some games