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It's been a while since I announced new titles that now work in Mikage, so I figured I'd make up for that by announcing a big one ;) Super Mario 3D Land is now functionally playable! Yes, you read that right - it gets past the title screen, plays back the

Compatibility improvements and fixed rendering glitches aside: What good is an emulator if everything is a slideshow? I promised to tackle the framerate issues a while ago, and the first major step towards doing so has now been completed: An AArch64 JIT. This may come as a surprise, but I

It's this time of the month again! If you haven't seen yet, I uploaded a new gameplay video showing off Cave Story 3D earlier this month. But of course I didn't stop there, and in fact this month we got another title working in Mikage. Steel Diver: Sub Wars enters

Another month, another update - let's see what December had in it for us :) New Games!The big news comes first: Mikage runs another game, Cave Story 3D! Turns out after a couple of small additions and the fixes mentioned later, this game pretty much just worked out of the

After the long-winded build up over the last months, we're finally seeing some work on the emulator core itself again. Lo and behold, there's progress on support for more games, and a new alpha release on the horizon! New titles going in-game: Nano Assault and Bravely Default!I already teased

Reunited with an old friend: Software rendering is back!Back when we started development on Citra, all graphics emulation was done using a software renderer: All rendering was done purely on the host CPU and hence is incredibly slow, since it doesn't even attempt to use graphics acceleration. The reason

It's time for a quick update on development progress again! But first, let me announce I'll be moving away from a weekly update cycle from now on. I became clear that a weekly schedule pushes development too much towards short-term progress that don't pay off well in the long run

Another game made it to the title screen: Super Mario 3D Land! As usual, achieving this was "just" a matter of fixing the right things. In this case, a corner case in DMAs wasn't implemented (transfer sizes not aligned to 4 bytes). Implementing this case and stubbing the MIC module

Another week, another update - making steady progress, and I've got some new pictures to show! Extdata (used by a lot of games) is fully supported now: As it turned out, implementing this was straightforward based on the existing save data code.Games that create a lot of threads would