Nextendo v1.7.9

Nextendo v1.7.9 is released. Nextendo is a fork of the open-source Ryujinx Nintendo Switch emulator. On top of Ryujinx's excellent accuracy and performance, Nextendo adds a first-class, built-in client for the Nextendo Network — a community-run replacement for the official online service — so supported games can be played online again without any manual configuration, custom hosts file, or SSL bypass on the user's part. The emulation core (CPU, GPU, audio, input, filesystem) is unchanged from upstream Ryujinx. Nextendo's additions are limited to the networking layer and the surrounding user experience.

Nextendo Changelog:
Mario Tennis Aces and ARMS join the network
Both games are now recognised by Nextendo and can be launched straight into online play.
As with every other supported title, one game version is supported at a time — ARMS
5.5.1 and Mario Tennis Aces 3.1.1, both the latest. If your copy is on an older
version, Nextendo now tells you before launch instead of letting you walk into a
connection error with no explanation.
Mario Tennis Aces picks the closest server for you
Tennis leans on peer-to-peer far more than the other titles, and players on the far side
of the world were paying for it. The game now resolves a real GeoDNS name instead of a
fixed address, so you are routed to whichever of the two live Tennis nodes is nearest —
one in Europe, one in North America. Every other game is untouched.
This is a first step, not the destination: the two nodes are separate for now, and
cross-node play is what comes next. If you would rather stay on the European node, set
NEXTENDO_TENNIS_GEODNS=0 and the previous behaviour comes back. Running your own
private server? The redirect never applies to you — your server keeps Tennis, exactly as
it keeps everything else.
Both of the above come from @CollectingW, who also set up and hosts the second node.
Splatfest data now ships with the emulator
Splatoon 3 Splatfests need a data package the console would normally receive over the
air. Until now you had to be handed that package and drop it in yourself. It is included
in this build, in portable/bcat-seed/, so a fresh install is ready for the event with
nothing to configure.
The package is included for all four Splatfest regions — Japan, the Americas, Europe and
Asia-Pacific — because the game asks for the one matching the region you picked in-game, and
that choice can only be changed once a month. Whichever you are on, the data is there.
Two consequences worth knowing. The in-app updater will not put it there for you — it
deliberately leaves your portable folder alone so it never touches your saves, keys or
settings. If you update from inside the emulator, extract this archive over your
installation afterwards to get the package. And if you are on macOS, the build has no
portable folder at all; take the separate package asset attached to this release.
Splatoon 2 no longer wipes Splatoon 3's event data
The two games share one folder for their downloaded data, and Splatoon 2 refreshed it by
deleting the whole thing before writing its own files. Anyone who installed the Splatoon
3 event package and then launched Splatoon 2 once lost it, silently — and on a fresh
install that deletion was guaranteed on the very first launch.
Splatoon 2 now removes only the folders it owns. Nothing to do on your side: existing
installations are handled correctly from the first launch after updating.
The console clock now follows your PC
Two settings are on by default from this release.
Match system time keeps the emulated console's clock on your computer's. Without it
the console clock drifts, and an event whose phases change at fixed times puts you in the
wrong one — you get the announcement while everyone else is already playing.
Ignore missing services lets a game continue when it asks for something the emulator
does not implement, instead of stopping. Several of those are called during online play
and their absence changes nothing.
Both were settings every online player ended up having to find on their own.
Discord shows the right game again
Nextendo-compatible titles appear on Discord under Ryujinx | Nextendo rather than
plain Ryujinx. ARMS and Mario Tennis Aces were missing from the list that decides this,
so they were announced as ordinary Ryujinx sessions. Fixed, and Mario Tennis Aces now
shows its real cover art.
Splatoon 3: an event logo on the title screen
During a Splatfest, the Splatoon 3 title screen can now show the event's logo instead of
the usual one. The server decides — nothing to install, nothing to toggle, and when the
event ends the title screen returns to normal on its own.
Worth saying plainly, because Splatoon 3 otherwise allows no mods at all: nothing is
added to your game. Nintendo shipped several logos inside the title screen file already;
the emulator simply serves a different one, in memory, while the game loads. Your files are
never modified and no game data is distributed. If the server says nothing, or cannot be
reached, the title screen is left completely untouched.

Download: Nextendo v1.7.9 x64
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