1.2.80 [JUST FOR WRITING THE CHANGELOG, DO NOT MERGE]

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Significant changes include:
Embedded Compatibility List viewer (by @GreemDev),
Migration to .NET 9 (by @marco-carvalho),
The Experimental Metal Backend (by @IsaacMarovitz, work repurposed, rebased, and merged in by @GreemDev),
Ability to read/write amiibo .bin files (by @Jacobwasbeast),
Unified locales (by @LotP1),
Headless in Avalonia (by @GreemDev), and
Swedish localization (by @yeager)

Merged PRs in this release (in the order they were merged):
#198, #348, #391, #412, #296, #420, #422, #424, #427, #430, #432, #415, #418, #441, #447, #446, #450, #440, #448, #469, #460, #428, #444, #470, #472, #471, #465, #461, #475, #480, #481, #497, #507, #505, #517, #515, #519, #203, #524, #502, #489, #503, #531

UI:

• Fix for updates not being autoloaded
  • Closes Game Updates Not Auto Loading #379
• Compatibility List Viewer
  • You can access this via Help > Open Compatibility List. You can search for games you're interested in, and it only shows the games you actually own by default.
• Headless in Avalonia
  • There is no longer a dedicated headless/nogui build. It's now integrated directly into the standard Avalonia build.
  • This was done to reduce confusion on what file to download, while also still allowing the users who use headless to continue using it.
    • There's even the ability to inherit your main Ryujinx's config, input settings & last used emulated Switch profile!
  • You can access headless Ryujinx by invoking Ryujinx via the command line with the first argument being --no-gui or nogui. The following should then be your old Headless script content, additionally with --use-main-config for the config inheritance mentioned above.
• Play Time in the UI now caps out at showing hours. It shows seconds at the least. If less than a second it will act like it was never played.
• You can now click on the Title IDs of games in the UI and they will be copied to your clipboard.
• There is now a button in settings you can click which will resync the time in Ryujinx to match your system's.
  • Note that this is not an active setting, it just sets the time to the current time. It can still fall out of sync.
• Discord RPC:
  • Added Goat Simulator 3 asset image

I18N:

• Russian translation update (ru_Ru locale update #450)
• Entire Swedish translation (Updated Swedish translation in new format #446)
• Korean translation updates (Korean translation update #422, Korean translation update #465, Update Korean translation #502)
• Norwegian translation update (Update Norwegian Translation #418, Update Norwegian Translation #503)
• French translation update (UI: Added missing french locales/Translated french locales #415)
• Simplified Chinese translation update (Updated zh-CN translation #440)
• Italian translation update (Update Italian translation #489)

Graphics:

• Experimental Metal Backend
  • The label "experimental" is not for show! More games don't work than do.
  • If you're on an ARM Mac and want to get the best out of Metal without trial & error, set the graphics backend to Auto.
  • Using Auto on a Mac will use Vulkan for most games, and use Metal on the games it's known to work better than Vulkan + MoltenVK in.
• Vulkan
  • Resolve Image Usage Validation Error (Resolve Image Usage Validation Error #296)

HLE:

• Stub IHidServer SetGestureOutputRanges (HLE: Stub IHidServer SetGestureOutputRanges #524)
  • Lets the new Donkey Kong game, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, boot.
• Throw a more descriptive error when the loaded processes doesn't contain a process with key _latestPid (likely missing Firmware).

Infra:

• Various NuGet package updates (Various NuGet package updates #203)
• Update the mac release script to use LLVM 17 (infra: Update to LLVM 17 #519)

Nerd Zone:

• Removed a lot of manual observable properties in many ViewModels and replaced them with the CommunityToolkit.Mvvm ObservableProperty autogenerated ones to reduce the size of the view model files.
• Use UnmanagedCallersOnly for ARMeilleure delegates.
• The repeated <Border>s in MainStatusBarView have been turned into a reusable Avalonia Control: MiniVerticalSeparator
• ConfigurationState migration is now defined in a map of version => migrator function; to reduce code duplication.
• DiscordIntegrationModule now changes the current playing game state based on when TitleIds.CurrentApplication changes; instead of directly being invoked when a change is needed.
• Removed Ryujinx.UI.Common: it existed because previously the project had 2 different UI layers you could use; GTK and Avalonia. We only support Avalonia now and will probably never support another framework.
• The logic for launching an applet, such as miiEdit, has been abstracted into a utility class called AppletMetadata.
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