Ayyyy, welcome to the UI: Actions Menu → General Improvements PR!
We are soooo back boys and girls.
This is the first PR in a series aimed at delivering the largest overhaul and set of improvements to the Actions menu yet.
This initial PR introduces smaller visual and navigation improvements as part of the broader Actions menu refresh, while also serving as the starting point for locale fracturing across the entirety of Ryujinx. As this is a series of progressive PRs, bug fixes and additional refinements will continue to be rolled out throughout the series.
### GENERAL:
* **Fractured:** A bunch of locales. The following new files, and their designations, were created:
* `MenuBar_Actions.json` - all UI-related locales for the `Actions` menu
* `MenuBar_File.json` - all UI-related locales for the `File` menu
* `Dialog_Firmware.json` - all firmware-related dialog locales
* `Dialog_Keys.json` - all keys-related dialogs locales
* `Error.json` - all error-related locales
* `StatusBar.json` - all UI-related locales for the Status Bar
**NOTE:** To keep this PR manageable, `MenuBar_File.json`, `Error.json`, and `StatusBar.json` were NOT populated with their locales. Additionally, `RenderDoc.json` was deleted and all of its locales were moved to `MenuBar_Actions.json` because all RenderDoc locales are present only in the `Actions` menu.
* **Fixed:** Some typos in `Locales.md`.
### **DEFAULT ACTIONS:**
* **Added:** File picker dialog titles for `Install Firmware` and `Install Keys`.
* `Install Firmware`: "Select an XCI file or a ZIP archive to install firmware from" and "Select a folder to install firmware from".
* `Install Keys`: "Select a KEYS file to install keys from" and "Select a folder to install keys from".
* **Improved:** `Install Firmware` and `Install Keys` submenus.
* Submenus no longer have periods before file extensions; this avoids visual issues in right‑to‑left languages matches other emulators using uppercase extensions (e.g. `Install Firmware` → `Install Firmware (.XCI or .ZIP)` is now `Install Firmware` → `Install Firmware (XCI or ZIP)`).
* Submenus no longer repeat the main menu title; they now show only the specific option, making navigation cleaner (e.g. `Install Firmware` → `Install Firmware (XCI or ZIP)` is now `Install Firmware` → `XCI or ZIP`).
* Submenus now end with an ellipsis; this follows UI conventions that signal additional user input is required (e.g. `Install Firmware` → `XCI or ZIP...`).
* **Moved:** `Manage File Types` menu and submenu.
* These menus let Windows and Linux users associate formats like .xci and .nsp with the emulator so they can be opened by double‑clicking. macOS already handles this automatically when an app supports the format.
* Since this PR focuses on the `Actions` menu, this menu and its submenus have been moved under `File`, with their locales relocated to the new `MenuBar_File.json`.
* This menu is useful but currently too vague about its purpose. A later PR will refine and clarify it.
* **Improved:** `Mii Editor`
* Removed the `Mii Editor` tooltip, as the menu was already self‑explanatory.
* The loading text for the `Mii Editor` is now locale-dynamic, instead of the previously static "miiEdit".
### **IN-GAME ACTIONS:**
* **Updated:** Menu grouping with separators (see images below)
* **Renamed:** `Resume` to `Resume Emulation` and `Pause` to `Pause Emulation`, ensuring consistency with the other options.
* **Fixed:** `Pause Emulation`/`Resume Emulation` UI Bug
* Previously, if a user paused emulation and then exited the game without closing the emulator, the next game launch would incorrectly show `Resume Emulation`, as though the new game were paused.
* **Updated:** `Scan Amiibo` and `Scan Skylander` icons to a chess rook and dragon, making them clearer and more fun than the previous cubes.
* **Added:** Shortcut for `Simulate Wake-up Message`
* Few games support it, but an in‑game shortcut still helps players who use it often.
* **Removed:** `Manage Cheats` from the menu
* `Manage Cheats` doesn't properly work in-game right now, and is removed in this PR. It will be returned to later in Part 4.
Please see the image comparisons below.
_If there are any features or changes that you wish to be implemented, please comment down below and I'll be happy to accommodate!_
Reviewed-on: https://git.ryujinx.app/projects/Ryubing/pulls/42
Did you know that the garbage collector's default settings are designed for single-threaded applications and quick start-up times? We don't care about either of these.
Configured:
- Concurrent GC (default is true) (set for clarity)
- RetainVM: segments that should be deleted are put on a standby list for future use (default is false)
- QuickJit: enabling quick JIT decreases startup time but can produce code with degraded performance characteristics; for example, the code may use more stack space, allocate more memory, and run slower. (default is true) (disabled)
- ReadyToRun: configures whether the .NET runtime uses pre-compiled code for images with available ReadyToRun data; disabling this option forces the runtime to JIT-compile framework code. (default is true) (set to false, we dont publish with this option anyway)
- TieredPGO: this setting enables dynamic (tiered) profile-guided optimization (PGO) in .NET 6 and later versions. If quick JIT is disabled but tiered compilation is enabled, only pre-compiled code participates in tiered compilation. If a method is not pre-compiled with ReadyToRun, the JIT behavior is the same as if tiered compilation were disabled.
Features:
- Set ``GCLatencyMode.Interactive`` when in-menu and emulator is paused, otherwise uses ``GCLatencyMode.LowLatency``.
- Added a new UI option in the Settings > CPU menu to toggle ``GCLatencyMode.LowLatency`` during guest runtime.
Reviewed-on: https://git.ryujinx.app/projects/Ryubing/pulls/88
Implemented a new debug log type called NetLog and added more verbose logging to the LDN service.
I'd like some feedback on what all should be logged under this category -- I'm likely going to be adding logs for sockets as well, but I want to know specifically if the logging should be more or less verbose and what would be the most helpful things to log.
Reviewed-on: https://git.ryujinx.app/projects/Ryubing/pulls/5
This PR addresses [Ryubing/Issues#345](https://github.com/Ryubing/Issues/issues/345) by fixing the Windows console hide/show path so it only acts on Ryujinx’s own console window instead of whatever window happens to be focused during startup. Previously, when Show Console was disabled, the helper could race with focus changes and end up affecting another app or shell window while leaving the console visible; this change removes that foreground-window dependency and keeps the startup behavior scoped to the Ryujinx console.
Reviewed-on: https://git.ryujinx.app/projects/Ryubing/pulls/32
