MelonDS 1.1

[Felipe]

This release adds DSP HLE, support for importing cheats, BSD builds, and several other bugfixes.

• 3D: use 32-bit division in software renderer (Arisotura)
• fix 8-bit NO$GBA debug register writes (FrankHB)
• fix save type for Legacy of Ys - Books I and II (CasualPokePlayer)
• ROM info dialog: make DS banner more accurate (Rayyan)
• DSi: add DSP HLE, DSP audio, mic input (Arisotura, CasualPokePlayer)
• make input system thread-safe (fixes random multiplayer crash) (Arisotura)
• CI: various vcpkg improvements (Nadia)
• JIT/x64: ensure writable code memory after alloc (Rayyan)
• JIT: add support for PaX MPROTECT on NetBSD (Rayyan)
• JIT: handle W^X codemem in fault handler (Rayyan)
• SD/MMC: fix crash when accessing port with no device connected (Arisotura)
• gdb stub: fix reading wrong code for vCont packet (jonko0493)
• CI: add OpenBSD CI (Izder456)
• DLDI: fix log2(size) in driver header (Arisotura)
• camera: fix CAM_MCNT reset behavior (Arisotura)
• CI: add x64 FreeBSD and NetBSD CI (Rayyan)
• audio: add high-quality resampling with blip-buf (Nadia)
• 3D: fix UB in software renderer when drawing polygons with linear interpolation and Z-buffering (Arisotura)
• AR: add extra D400000x data processing opcodes (Arisotura)
• Qt6: use new way to access the native display/window on X11/Wayland (Nadia)
• nix: update inputs and add dev shell Qt wrapper workaround (Nadia)
• DSi: add support for the main RAM size register, with hack to work around loader crash (Arisotura)
• AR: add support for importing cheats from usrcheat.dat, improve UI (Arisotura)
• fix UI glitchiness under Wayland when OpenGL is used (Arisotura, thanks PCSX2 team)
• fix minor Thumb BLX immediate bugs (Jakly)
• update xxHash to 0.8.3 (JordanTheToaster)
• reduce frontend audio buffer size to 512, fix audio sync (Nadia)
• fix bug that could randomly break audio output (Arisotura)
• compute renderer: implement tile size scaling to alleviate glitches at high resolutions (FireNX70)
• SPU: fix uninitialized variable causing potential crash (Nadia)
• add support for building melonDS on Windows without MinGW (Nadia)
• JIT: add OpenBSD compatibility (Izder456)

Downloads - melonDS

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

So far it's a big and important update to the famous Nintendo DS emulator.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

I don't understand melon ds why is so lag on my computer my computer handle GameCube and wii and why no my ds.

 

[Heinzu]

It's great that this emulator still exists. I used it years ago, but somehow it disappeared into obscurity. But it's nice that it's being further developed.

 

[RageBurner]

I don't understand melon ds why is so lag on my computer my computer handle GameCube and wii and why no my ds.

Possibly because it's accuracy focused and more demanding than one would expect.