Henrik RydgårdandClaude Opus 5.5 9be1d223b6 Remove MoltenVK: Metal is the backend on iOS, and the default on Macs ...

The iOS and tvOS apps no longer link the static MoltenVK (the
ios/MoltenVK submodule is gone), so Vulkan can't load there and Metal is
the only backend. Without the static case, Vulkan's functions are now
always loaded at runtime (PPSSPP_VK_STATIC is gone).

The Mac app no longer bundles libMoltenVK.dylib (ext/vulkan/macOS is
gone). Metal is the default on Apple Silicon (Intel Macs stay on
OpenGL), but Vulkan still works with a separately installed MoltenVK,
the Vulkan SDK's or Homebrew's, which is useful for comparisons. A saved
Vulkan setting falls back to the default when there's none.

The libretro cores are unchanged: they get MoltenVK from the frontend.

frametests.py's --ios and --adb default to Metal on a Mac host.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-10-19 14:58:38 +02:00

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emu-api

Document and wrap the PPSSPP "emulator:" devctls (API for homebrew)

2026-08-24 10:46:04 +02:00

android-device-testing.md

Docs: How to test an Android build on a real device

2026-10-08 18:54:46 +02:00

building.md

Add a headless armhf cross build, for testing ARM32 under qemu

2026-10-14 17:32:53 +02:00

CodeWarriorMangling.md

docs: clarify that the destructor flag 0 vs -1 is a caller-side convention

2026-08-30 00:02:14 +02:00

command-line.md

Had Claude clean up its own notes.

2026-09-15 11:21:02 -06:00

cpu-equivalence.md

VFPU: Drop the inaccurate dot product paths

2026-10-18 12:11:46 +02:00

DebuggerThreading.md

Android: Converge the GL and Vulkan lifecycles on a shared RunGraphicsLoop

2026-10-08 15:29:12 +02:00

debugging.md

Remove MoltenVK: Metal is the backend on iOS, and the default on Macs

2026-10-19 14:58:38 +02:00

dnas-patches.md

Only look for a DRM BB install package when booting a game that had one

2026-10-15 15:45:45 +02:00

frametest.md

Headless: Run on iOS as an app, and frametests.py --ios

2026-10-17 11:11:31 +02:00

HLEModules.md

Have Claude reorganize its own notes, as AGENTS.md was becoming very big.

2026-09-02 16:33:42 -06:00

kernel-hle-review.md

docs: Cover msgpipe and interrupt dispatch in the kernel review notes

2026-09-04 18:10:10 -06:00

metal-backend.md

Remove MoltenVK: Metal is the backend on iOS, and the default on Macs

2026-10-19 14:58:38 +02:00

patching-files.md

Had Claude clean up its own notes.

2026-09-15 11:21:02 -06:00

pkg_notes.md

Decrypt the NPDRM modules a PKG game update installs

2026-09-08 11:15:15 -06:00

PsarFileFormat.md

docs: describe the PSAR archive format

2026-08-21 10:01:13 +02:00

pspautotests-hardware.md

Tools: Script to connect PSPLink to WSL

2026-10-14 18:10:08 +02:00

pspautotests.md

headless: split --timeout into --timeout-wall and --timeout-emulated

2026-09-17 16:01:47 -06:00

reverse-engineering.md

docs: Tool notes for PSP runs, replays, other-arch checks and game A/B runs

2026-10-02 15:09:43 -06:00

sceAudio.md

Audio: Don't emulate a failed blocking wait leaving the channel busy for good

2026-09-29 09:19:32 -06:00

sceGe.md

GE: Nest CALLs only two deep, like the hardware

2026-10-14 00:54:01 +02:00

shader-compilation.md

Remove MoltenVK: Metal is the backend on iOS, and the default on Macs

2026-10-19 14:58:38 +02:00

SNSystemsMangling.md

Demangle: rewrite the SN Systems demangler

2026-08-29 23:44:35 +02:00

translations.md

AI-generated translation strings

2026-09-14 10:59:38 -06:00

VSHBootInvestigation.md

VSH: Drop the 6.6x alarm-category patch

2026-10-10 22:32:46 +02:00

WebSocketDebugger.md

Debugger: Add wait to game.state.load/save

2026-10-19 10:10:25 +02:00