NOTE FOR NEW USERS: This release is now outdated, you can get the latest version always at https://panda3ds.com/download.html

Wake up honey, new Panda3DS release just dropped and the changelog is so big I apparently can't autogenerate it.

More games working, first release including Android builds, new desktop UI (Labeled Qt below, as opposed to the original SDL frontend which is just a window), and more

Periodic release cause it's been a while since the last one and there'll be a lot of changes for Qt/Android/etc frontends soon, so it's best to make one now

New features:

• Lua scripting support
• Work-in-progress GUI using Qt (Not included in this release, but will start shipping builds as soon as possible)
• Compatibility fixes (Fixes various games and some OS apps. Various improvements in the BOSS, FS, NS, CFG, and more services, shader emulation fixes, etc)
• There's now a website: https://panda3ds.com/
• Support for portable builds (Save data and such is in the emulator folder when enabled rather than being in %APPDATA% or the Linux/Mac equivalents)
• Fix Android compilation for future Pandroid app
• Fix shader bugs that may have broken the app on some drivers
• Hydra multi-system emulator core soon
• Other stuff I'm forgetting

1 year since the first commit in the repo! This time I'm going to skip the formalities and just show some of what @noumidev and I have in store for you in this new update :p (Thanks @UDXS for the propaganda photoshop)

Happy pandiversary!

OK now the boring stuff

• Added SD card support
• Added CRO support
• Preliminary Amiibo work
• Initial CSND implementation (Gets various older homebrew such as minicraft working)
• Add SystemSaveData support (Gets OS apps like Mii Maker, Download Play, Activity Log, etc working)
• More FS work
• Fix graphical bugs in games that use invalid textures such as Pokemon X (feat @GPUCode)
• Various HLE work here and there
• More...

• Compatibility fixes
• Graphics fixes
• 3DSX format support
• Linux AppImage support
• Custom red-panda-themed mii faces
• More work on applet support, Vulkan, and so on

Making a stable release before I merge the SD card PR

Many more games working! Much wow.

• Much better compatibility due to lots of emulation fixes
• Graphics fixes (Proper-ish screens!)
• Performance fixes
• Better user experience (hotkey support, drag n drop, and more)
• Optional Discord RPC
• MacOS app bundles!
• Sort of working Linux builds this time
• more

Shout out to everyone who contributed to this release.

First preview release of the emulator!