Azahar 2126.1 Alpha 1

[OpenSauce04]

⚠️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.

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Azahar 2126.0-alpha1 Changelog

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• Save states are now locked to the version of Azahar that they were created with. | @PabloMK7 core: Prevent loading savestates from different versions #2394
  • Attempting to load a save state from a different Azahar version will now display an error message explaining this restriction, and will also display the version of Azahar that the save state was originally created with, recommending temporarily downgrading to retrieve progress using the in-game save functionality if necessary.
  • This does not limit save state usage compared to previous behaviour. Before this change, loading a save state from a previous version of Azahar would just crash the emulator. This change now gracefully shows a message instead.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible for texture surfaces to be deleted while in use, especially at larger internal resolution settings. | @Wunkolo video_core: Fix texture runtime garbage collection #2407
  • This change fixes Vulkan related crashes in many different games and situations. Most notably, when starting missions in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
• The highest available internal resolution scaling setting has been increased from 10x (4000x2400) to 18x (7200x4320). | @72374 feat: Offer settings for up to 324 times the original resolution ("18x") #1906
• Implemented a fix for a crash in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze when using the Vulkan renderer due to inaccurate handling of the rasterizer cull mode being set to an unusual value. | @PabloMK7 video_core: Add missing cull mode type #2396
• Fixed an issue which caused excessive lag in the character select screen for Super Smash Bros 4. | @PabloMK7 video_core: Fix some pica command handling issues #2412
• Fixed an issue which caused excessive lag in Mini Mario & Friends: Amiibo Challenge when walking on diagonal surfaces. | @PabloMK7 video_core: Fix some pica command handling issues #2412
• Fixed a regression which caused the 3DS friends menu to crash when opened. | @PabloMK7 video_core: Fix some pica command handling issues #2412
• Implemented optimizations to GPU command list processing which save 0.5-1ms of processing time per frame on average. | @PabloMK7 video_core: Improve cmd list processing (lut + batch + vectorize) #2318
• Implement geometry shader output register banking, which fixes a lot of SEGA 3D Classics games without the need of per-game patches. | @PabloMK7 video_core: Implement shader output register banking #2338
  • The mentioned games still present other rendering issues that need to be fixed in future versions of the emulator.
• Fix floating point denormal accuracy, which fixes various rendering issues in several games. | @Wunkolo pica: Fix floating point denormal accuracy #2350
• Fixed an issue where the 3DS Internet Browser would freeze due to incorrect core rescheduling behaviour. | @PabloMK7 core: Fix core reschedule order #2370
• Implemented an improvement to emulated audio handling which fixes crackling sounds which an audio source's volume is changed. @Grayforz2468 audio_core: hle: Add volume ramping to the HLE DSP backend #2409
  • Most notable example is the Home Menu no longer having crackling music.
• Fixed an issue in the Vulkan renderer related to the handling of disabled cubemap texture units. | @Wunkolo renderer_vk: Fix disabled cubemap texture units #2406
  • This brings over a fix which was previously applied to the OpenGL renderer in a previous update.
• Fixed an invalid memory access issue related to uds beacons. May fix undiscovered issues in certain multiplayer games. | @PabloMK7 core: Fix uds beacon payload size calculation #2403

Windows (MXE)

• Fixed crash which could occur when trying to launch any app with the Vulkan renderer while using the MXE build. | @OpenSauce04 Adjustments to accommodate move to LLVM-based MXE build environment #2392
• Fixed an issue where frame pacing could be inconsistent when using the MXE build. | @OpenSauce04 Adjustments to accommodate move to LLVM-based MXE build environment #2392

Desktop

• The minimum motion control sensitivity value has been reduced from 0.01 to 0.001. | @ParadiseOfMagic Lower minimum sensitivity to 0.001(fix #1153) #2383

Linux

• Implemented a measure to help avoid having a missing application icon with certain desktop environment setups. | @Kyuyrii Adding StartupWMClass #1727

Android

• Upgraded target Android SDK from Android 15 (35) to Android 17 (37). | @OpenSauce04 android: Target Android 17 SDK (37) + Update Gradle to 8.14.5 #2416
• Fixed various edge-case crashes related to surface handling which could occur at game boot, during screen rotation, during app suspension, or during save state loading. | @PabloMK7 android: Add locks around surface creation and destruction #2425
• Fixed an issue where debug builds of Azahar on Android would instantly crash due to a logic error relating to configuration validation. | @PabloMK7 android: Fix config ini validation #2398
• Fixed an issue where, if a 3DS application closed itself or encountered a fatal error and the user selected "Abort", the emulator would crash instead of returning to the application menu. | @PabloMK7 android: Fix crash due to nullptr dereference #2399

macOS

• Enabled Liquid Glass interface elements on macOS 26. | @OpenSauce04 Bump bundled Qt to 6.10.3 + Enable Liquid Glass interface on macOS 26 #2429
• Fixed an issue when using macOS 27 where connecting to local network devices such as a real 3DS would always fail (e.g. Artic Base, system files setup). | @OpenSauce04 macos: Fix local network connections not working correctly (Artic Base, system file setup, etc) #2428

libretro

• "Stereoscopic 3D Mode" and "Stereoscopic 3D Depth" settings are now available for the libretro core. | @XenuIsWatching libretro: expose render_3d/factor_3d core options #2339

Technical

• The MXE build is now compiled using an LLVM+Clang based build environment, replacing the previous GCC-based stack. | @OpenSauce04 Adjustments to accommodate move to LLVM-based MXE build environment #2392
  • Huge thanks to @kleisauke, who for about a year and a half has been thanklessly maintaining an unofficial LLVM MXE plugin in a GitHub repository with only a single star. Without their work, making this happen would have taken much longer than it did.
• Added copyright years to all source code license headers. | @PabloMK7 Add copyright year to license header #2415
• Implemented a workaround for a current compiler bug in MSVC. | @PabloMK7 core: Fix yet another MSVC compiler bug #2410
• Added a new CMake option CITRA_ADDRESS_SANITIZE. | @PabloMK7 cmake: Add address sanitize option #2402

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