WIP melonDS for Switch

Strange, L savestates but it shouldnt be crashing. I thought I fixed the savestate crashes, but I guess not. Next update will have L and R open an ingame menu instead so it should be safe from crashing either way.

By the way, next update will come later today

 

Alright, here it is! melonDS 0.7.1 for Switch. From now on I'll be trying to keep version numbers consistent with core melonDS, but if I have to make a Switch-specific update I'll indicate that in the version somehow.

Here's a changelog from the last version:
-New OpenGL-based UI made to look like a native Switch application
-Added the ability to quit the application with the + button from the file browser
-Added the missing options from core melonDS, including the rest of the screen layouts
-Added an in-game pause menu where you can save/load states, change options, or return to the file browser (press L or R to access)

So yeah, this is the UI release. It's also the release where I'll be taking it out of pre-release status, seeing as pretty much all of the features I wanted to add are finished. No, most games still aren't full speed. 0.8 will bring a hardware renderer which will take care of that.

I'll update the OP with new screenshots and such, so check that out if you're interested.

As @StapleButter said before, 0.7.1 is sort of a testing release for the new timings. If you find any issues with games behaving strange, please report them. I did include a temporary fix for some of the issues that have already been discovered, though.

Oh, @OkazakiTheOtaku, if it's not too much trouble could you update the .nsp forwarder to redirect to /switch/melonds/melonds.nro instead of /switch/melonds.nro? I think it makes more sense to have the .nro in there, seeing as that's where the BIOS files are, and also the new romlist.bin file from 0.7.1. That's also how I'll be packaging the releases from now on, in a .zip with the .nro at that location. Thanks!

 

Whoops, that's not good. Scrolling doesn't work at all? I'll look into it and release a hotfix.

 

Ah derp, I accidentally used the number of items in the options menu for the number of items in the files menu. Easy fix. Redownload and it should be fixed.

 

The savestate system was updated between this release and the last release, and as such compatability was broken. For some reason if you try to load an incompatible savestate the emulator will be unable to save or load states until you restart it. It's annoying, but it's better than crashing the system, which is what would happen before. As a general rule, don't rely on savestates, especially across emulator versions. But I will look into the issue of them not working after a failed load. This release has a few minor issues; I also discovered that audio output is still bad in docked mode, even though it sounds fine in handheld. Hopefully I'll have these issues fixed for the next release.

 

melonDS does have a RetroArch core. I actually uploaded a Switch build a while ago, lost somewhere in one of the RetroArch threads. It ran like crap and it didn't support touch, so I made my own port. There's much more freedom this way, and I can do stuff specifically for melonDS, like optimizations and such. Even before overclocking this port ran much better than the RetroArch core, so you can imagine it was pretty bad. They seem to have threading disabled too, which doesn't help.

 

Yeah, theres definitely some optimization that needs to be done. I have a few ideas for it. For now, I just wanted to get rid of the ugly text UI as soon as possible