casual-gamer8001/ryusak

RyuSAK is a desktop application that helps manage installs of the Ryujinx and Ryubing emulators. This particular repository is a community-maintained fork of the original RyuSAK project, continuing development after the original was discontinued. The app lets you point it at one or more emulator data folders, so you can manage multiple separate emulator installs from a single interface. Once connected, it shows your game library in one place, and lets you set custom titles and cover art for each game, as well as hide duplicate or unknown entries so the list stays tidy. One of the main features is shader cache management: RyuSAK can download, share, and merge shader caches through a community backend, and it understands the metadata for different cache formats depending on which emulator variant you are using. It also displays compatibility information for Ryubing, and can install supported mods from GameBanana directly into the emulator's mods folder. When a mod cannot be installed automatically and safely, RyuSAK gives clear instructions for doing it manually instead. This community build intentionally removes the product key and firmware download and install features that existed in the original project, along with community save downloads, which the maintainer says will be revisited later. For Windows users, installation is done through a setup wizard that offers either a standard install, which stores settings in your Windows user profile, or a portable install, which keeps everything in a folder next to the program's executable. Anyone wanting to build the project themselves needs Node.js and Git installed, after which the usual npm commands handle installing dependencies, running a local build, and packaging a Windows release.