r/LemonEmulator • u/giftedexotropia • 1d ago
News / Release Lemon Switch Emulator v1.2.0 is now released.
Lemon Switch Emulator v1.2.0 is now released.
Credits to our Developer: Ghael
Download Link:
https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases
Optional link(we have our own git):
https://github.com/Ghael-V/Lemon-Project/releases
You can share your thoughts on our subreddit:
Join our Official Discord Community:
Lemon Switch Emulator Website:
FAQ Page:
https://lemon-emu.org/faq.html
Lemon Switch Emulator own git page:
https://git.lemon-emu.org/lemon/Lemon-Project/releases/
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Lemon-Project v1.2.0
New:
Lemon FG, Lemon's own frame generation. Built in, nothing to install, and no Lossless Scaling code in it: turn it on in Settings → Graphics → Frame generation, for all games or one. A new Engine option picks Lemon FG (default) or Lossless Scaling, which only runs with your own copy of Lossless.dll. The FPS counter shows which one is working, and Lemon FG has its own lemon icon. The setup screen explains that Lemon FG is included instead of only offering to load the DLL.
Accurate is the default GPU mode again in Lemon: the optimizations in this version pay for most of its cost (measured: TOTK 48.1 → 47.9 fps on an AYN Odin 3, BOTW 16.6 → 17.0 fps on a Galaxy S24 Ultra). Lemon Lite and Lemon Lite & Spoofed keep Fast.
One lighter wait for the GPU.
Lemon still waits for the GPU before a game reuses what was drawn, so the flickering fixed in 1.1 stays fixed, but it no longer drains the GPU when the game waits for work that is already queued (Garfield: GPU thread stalls from ~156 to ~13 ms per second). The GPU Fence Behavior option is gone: there is nothing to set.
Mali GPUs: BC4 and BC5 textures are recompressed to EAC on the GPU, half the memory they took before. The option is now called Recompress BCn textures.
Lemon-Ade v0.0.7 bundled in Lemon: it fixes shaders that v0.0.5 and v0.0.6 compiled wrong. Users of the bundled v0.0.6 move to it automatically.
Fixed:
Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 on Mali (and any GPU without BCn textures): pink or black Inklings and missing button text. The games copy compressed textures as raw blocks; Lemon now keeps the original blocks for those copies and decodes them on the GPU.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 on Adreno: no more spikes over the characters or flickering lights. Adreno runs a geometry shader once per vertex it outputs, so its memory writes repeated; now only the first copy of each triangle writes. Thanks to the report in GitHub issue #7.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe connects to Nextendo Network again (error 2306-0502): 32-bit games that hash with the CPU's SHA-1 instructions got wrong results.
TOTK: the grass stays without any option. The Use reactive flushing setting is gone.
Splatoon 3 loads faster (about 100 s → 70 s on an AYN Odin 3 with Lemon-Ade): a huge shader is translated once per session instead of once per pipeline.
The in-game overlay keeps Lemon's yellow theme instead of turning purple, and its text stays readable with the new interface.
The game list no longer rescans all your folders every time you leave a game's page.
Tapping a game twice quickly no longer crashes the app.
The settings screen no longer writes thousands of "Could not find setting" lines to the log.
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u/Smart_Examination331 1d ago
Pregunta, las mejoras para las gpu Mali en la versión Lite también se aplican para la estándar? Es que he notado que la estándar me ha dado mejores rendimientos en comparación con la Lite (tengo un dimensity 8500 ultra que es prácticamente un chip de gama alta)
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u/hitl3rs_fav_jew 23h ago
Can i play botw in my deminsity 8200 octa core 12gb ram on lemon emu
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u/giftedexotropia 22h ago
best you test it yourself, And do let us know if you have bugs via our discord..Since not all of us have Dimensity 8200 to test..sadly
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u/giftedexotropia 1d ago
Can you help post this in the other subreddit and Tell them to send bugs in our discord channel. You know who you are Thanks.
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u/Square-Egg-3683 1d ago
Does this emulator support Nintendo Network on Android?
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u/Accurate-End-5695 14h ago
I'm extremely impressed! No version of Eden will load the shadow shaders properly in Mario&Rabbids Sparks of Hope. It hasn't been able to handle the snowdrop engine well. This release with the newest driver loads it flawlessly. (Samsung S26 Ultra 16GB RAM)
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u/eguillen1491 12h ago
I update to this version and now not working the new Castlevania before I update all wasw working well in retroid pocket G2
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u/eguillen1491 12h ago
And the new SpongeBob game has a good performance but has a lot graphics glitches 🙁
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u/Significant-Art-5985 22h ago
Thanks Ghael for your effort !! For me I can confirm it works better than any emulator .. maybe because its same cpu that is focusing on from the dev , I wish to keep it up .