Zaxnes v0.5.0 is released. Zaxnes is a free, GPL-3.0 NES emulator that renders games in 3D: each frame's tiles and sprites are turned into extruded 3D objects, placed in a scene and drawn with a real camera, lighting and shadows. A 3D profile describes, per game, which patterns become which geometry, and carries Lua scripts that drive the scene while the game plays.

Zaxnes changelog:
Zaxnes is an independent project, not affiliated with Geod Studio or Nintendo.
Highlights
3dSen 2.0 and 2.1 compatibility. Profiles from 3dSen 2.0 and 2.1 import and play, with what the new versions brought: reflections, bend, the new camera and Lua features.
A real NES emulator, not just a gimmick. Mapper support goes from 85 to 144, and AccuracyCoin from 89 to 128 tests out of 147. More accuracy work is coming in the next releases.
New widescreen hacks: Kirby's Adventure and Faxanadu. Every regional version of each. Faxanadu already has its 3D profile in this release; Kirby's is on the way.
Smooth scrolling at 120 Hz (experimental). On a 120 Hz screen, the playfield is drawn between two emulated frames, from the run-ahead.
RetroArch shaders. Slang shaders (through librashader) on the Vulkan / DirectX 12 renderer: CRT, scanlines, LCD, Mega Bezel TV frames. A pack of presets is built in, separately for 2D and 3D. Available on Android too.
Editor mode for 3D profiles (work in progress). An AI-assisted editor: it gives an AI agent a harness through a local MCP server, and a prompt ready to copy and paste. Expect more on it in the next release.
Also in this release
Savestates now load with or without a widescreen hack, and turning the widescreen on or off during a game switches at once for those games.
Run-ahead up to 10 frames, per game.
New audio output: lower latency, fewer crackles.
Vertical sync on and frame rate following the display, by default.
Windows: the package is now portable. Its data goes to a userdata folder next to zaxnes.exe, which starts empty: to keep the data of a previous version, copy the content of %LOCALAPPDATA%\Zaxnes into it, or delete portable.txt to keep using %LOCALAPPDATA%\Zaxnes. When you update, move your userdata folder to the new version.
Android: rollback, the Back button opens the game menu, shaders on the main options page.
Many fixes.
3D profiles
Two 3D profiles made for Zaxnes now come with it: Faxanadu (USA) and Metal Force (Korea). They are inside the program, on every platform, and go into your profiles at the first start. They are kept apart from the Zaxnes sources: https://github.com/nixxou/zaxnes_3dn

Download: Zaxnes v0.5.0
Source: Here