For a more detailed summary, see the progress report and release announcement!
Please note that as usual, the Android version on Google Play will as usual roll out slowly over multiple days in order to catch any bad crashes early, so you may have to wait a few days before you receive the update.
Go to downloads to get it! New: There's now an official Mac build!
What's new in 1.16.6
- Fix performance issue with Vulkan descriptor set allocation (#18332)
- Smoother loading of replacement textures
- Fix the store on iOS (#18323)
- Fix problem with waves background (#18310)
- Some translation updates
- Other minor fixes
What's new in 1.16.5
- Fix for crash when changing render backend in-game
What's new in 1.16.4
- Simplify shader cache lookups on Vulkan, hopefully fixing some crashes (#18218)
- Assorted improvements to the IR JITs (#18228, #18235, #18211, more)
- Other crash and stability fixes (#18221, #18220, #18230, #18216)
- Some translation updates (#18237, more)
- Cleanups and assert fixes (#18205, #18201, #18206)
What's new in 1.16.3
- Fix crash bug and performance issue in Vulkan shader cache (#18183, #18189)
- Fix crash in icon loading in homebrew store (#18185)
- Add some memory safety check (#18184, #18194)
- Fix problem when changing backend from the Windows menu (#18182)
What's new in 1.16.2
- Fix for HTTP support on Linux on networks with shaky or incomplete IPv6 support
- Fix hang when switching UMD with RetroAchievements enabled (#18143)
- Assorted fixes for leaks and crashes (#18169, #18151)
- Fix hang when switching UMD with RetroAchievements enabled (#18143)
- Fix math bug in new IR JIT for x86 (#18165)
- Minor math optimization
-fno-math-errno(#18158) - Fix for software renderer crash
What's new in 1.16.1
- Moved RetroAchievements to the Tools tab in settings (#18127)
- Fix graphics regressions in Hot Shots Golf 2 / Everybody's Golf 2 and Final Fantasy Tactics (#18142)
- Fix hang on startup with OpenGL, that happened often if "buffer commands" was set to off.
- Fix problem with the sc instruction that broke Beats (#18133, #18140)
- Fix problem with the chat window accidentally closing on typing X (#18135)
- Fix some crashes, add some asserts and reporting hooks (#18129)
- Fix some text rendering in the software renderer (#18126)
What's new in 1.16
Special thanks to [Unknown] for the new JIT compilers, and fp64 for finally cracking the vrnd instruction.
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RetroAchievements support (#17589, #17631, many more). See RetroAchievements on ppsspp.org.
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New JIT backends:
- RISC-V, based on IR
- x86 JIT based on IR. Often faster than the existing one.
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Input fixes
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Rendering performance and fixes
- Fix flicker in WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2006 (#18009), video flicker in Naruto 2 (#18008)
- Fix bad colors in Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow menu (#17965)
- On lower-end devices, avoid "uber" shaders due to performance and driver bugs (#17449, #17922)
- Allow disabling V-sync on Android with Vulkan, more SDL platforms (#17903, #18087)
- On Vulkan, reduce input lag when "Buffer graphics commands" is set to off (#17831)
- Assorted minor perf (#17810, #17505, #17478, #17471, #17452, #17446, #17442)
- Fix shadows in MotorStorm (#17602) (not actually a rendering problem)
- Fix rendering issue in Lunar Silver Star (#17451)
- Add a cache for MakePixelsTexture, improving perf in God of War (#17534)
- Lots of software renderer improvements (#17571, #17569, #17619, #17621, #17618, #17609, ...)
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Networking
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Texture replacement fixes
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UI changes
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Cheats
- Fix loading cheat dbs on Android devices with scoped storage (#17834)
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VR (Quest, other Android VR devices)
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Other
- Fix horrible audio glitch in After Burner (#18076)
- Emulate the vrnd instruction accurately (#17506, #17549)
- Fix timing issue causing slowdowns in MLB games (#17676, #17677)
- UWP keyboard support, many other updates (#17952, #17974)
- Allow choosing the display resolution on Android again (#17473)
- Fix issue running some file types out of the Download folder on Android (#17466)