Emulators for Mac recent improvements

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  • rpcs3

    PS3 emulator/debugger

  • https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/12456 - Updated MoltenVK

  • ares

    ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation.

  • SIMD Arm64 optimizations https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/pull/661

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • xenia

    Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

  • https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/issues/596 - Mac OS Discussion .

  • yuzu

    Discontinued Nintendo Switch emulator

  • https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/pull/8113 - Makes it buildable on Mac but devs seem to be waiting on Xcode to improve. MoltenVK still needs to improve a lot

  • MoltenVK

    MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.

  • https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/issues/1628 - tellowkrinkle of PCSX2 and Dolphin Metal fame has submitted a bug report with MoltenVK about an issue greatly reducing the framerate in some games. This being a MoltenVK fix has the potential to affect other apps also.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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