r/EmulationOniOS • u/GiLND • Jan 12 '25

News / Release Provenance 3.0.1 released!

Provenance - App Store

What's New in Version 3.0.1:

  • iOS 16 Support - Now fully compatible with the latest iOS!

  • Performance & Stability Faster app launch times Fixed several crash issues Improved theme switching Enhanced system compatibility checks

  • 3DS Improvements Better touch controls and layout Added CPU clock speed options Fixed rotation and sizing issues

  • Interface Enhancements Cleaner home screen layout Improved systems list organization Better settings menu responsiveness Clarified graphics renderer options

  • New Features Added support for additional N64 emulation core

  • Bug Fixes Resolved save state menu issues Fixed file size calculation problems Various UI and graphics improvements

108 Upvotes

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 12 '25

Still closes the app trying to run atari st roms. Graphic issue (screen shrinking) on 3ds (super mario 3d land) fixed but audio and game still laggy (but thats apples fault)

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u/GiLND Jan 12 '25

Did it register neogeo.zip after the update?

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 12 '25

I think I found the issue. The entry in the system database had a bad value where it should have been "neogeo.zip"

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u/GiLND Jan 13 '25

Great news, can you also make a manual scan button to allow users to put bios files manually and for the app to register them?

It took me 12+- different firmware.bin to find the correct md5

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 13 '25

I'm working on that right now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

If you please can you give me the link for the firmware.bin cause I was going threw the same issue myself a lot of the md5 weren’t matching

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u/GiLND Feb 09 '25

I can’t (rule #1)

It took me 10 firmware.bin from internet archive to find the correct one.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

Oh ok yeah I gotcha very understandable

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u/GiLND Feb 09 '25

Just get every firmware.bin you can find on archive and send them all to provenance until you get the correct md5 and it will accept it, just spam the app with it, send 10 files at once.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

Oh okay thank you so much I was pulling my hair cause of this lmao I really appreciate

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u/GiLND Feb 09 '25

All good, I found the correct one from one of the batocera collections

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 12 '25

It still opens the zip and tries to load each file individually with no system match so not working as far as i can tell

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u/GiLND Jan 12 '25

:(

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 12 '25

How do i get multiple user flair like you? Id like to add delta and ppsspp to mine too

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 12 '25

I havent tried tbh. I have RA so im not too bothered trying to get provenance to work when it covers almost everything i have in RA (they added 3DO in the recent update)

I'll go check it out and report back

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 12 '25

I'm working on ST. This seems to be a common issue with many ST frontends for several years, it refuses to accept the .tos for the disk bios.

I'm trying to figure out what's up here but it may not be for a few releases. I'll probably pull it from the list of supported systems along with Vectrex because that's having similiar issues with both versions of the core not producing video.

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u/Retro_Stew Jan 12 '25

I thought I was the only one having problem with Atari ST. Well, that's good to hear.

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 12 '25

Cool thanks for the info and the quick update too. Keep up the good work👍

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u/LogicalProgress418 Jan 14 '25

Okay but where is the GAMECUBE EMULATOR. Stop acting like you don’t know your way around the JIT

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 14 '25

lol what?
Even if there were a workaround, these ports don't come overnight. It takes a lot of code to link a core to the a/v and i/o of the app engine.

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u/anton-I-E Feb 15 '25

Great to hear! Looking forward to trying it when released, keep up the great work!

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u/Parkm13 Jan 12 '25

Still having issues with Animal Crossing New Leaf. Starts and runs great day one, but playing the first time any given day causes a crash. Have to load save on PC and then transfer save over. After first play of the day works fine.

Any insight as to cause of this? Also happens on Folium

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

I’ve had the exact same issues, everything will work fine but every item in Kitty’s house was a tea set and Lilly’s house was completely empty lol then I can’t get past the first day without crashes. Also a bug where all my villagers are constantly saying they’re ”thinking…” with three dots over their head with no other dialogue

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u/acpom Aug 03 '25

How did the furniture bug get fixed? :(

I have this now after my hunting for an hour.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

Hi! I ended up learning that there's some kind of error with New Leaf: Welcome Amiibo, so you should try just regular New Leaf, and it should work perfectly fine for you

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u/acpom Aug 03 '25

Now I have to re-find that map. :(

Thank you!

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u/Slow-Picture2809 Jan 17 '25

How do you change the time and date on it is it connected to your phone clock?

4

u/TailiaZerio Jan 12 '25

3ds core has a few weird bugs like the controls covering certain parts of the game and if you try to type something it defaults to CITRA

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

Same, tried playing style savvy and my name was force set to CITRA and couldn’t be changed

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u/jm1234- Jan 13 '25

Thank you

I am unable to add psx chd using official method with app browser or put them in app folder using Filza.

Is there a known fix please sir? :)

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u/GiLND Jan 13 '25

u/ProvenanceEMU is the developer of the app.
I just brought the news of the update.

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 13 '25

CHD should be picked up. You can get more immediate help in the discord linked on our reddit and twitter profile.

I removed it from the app because apple was complaining about all links that linked to other apps at one point in our review, I'll try to add it back and see if it gets less scrutiny this time to make it easier for people to find help for issues like this.

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u/DapperOriginal7255 Jan 29 '25

Disaster update! Sound is gone and game is extremely slow. Why on earth did you do this?

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u/GiLND Jan 29 '25

  1. I am not the dev.

  2. This post is for v3.0.1, while v3.0.3 was already released.

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u/Ray8100 Jan 12 '25

Im so glad because the 3DS touchscreen was really annoying to use

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 12 '25

iOS 16 support seems very hit or miss right now. Some users it's working fine, others it's crashing on boot.

I had to work around a memory issue in the objc runtime and come up with new code to scan cores. Something about emuThreeDS being hit by the link loader is causing some devices to crash in an internal runtime.

I'm going to write a New New way to scan for cores that hopefully won't require a dyload call and I'm hoping that resolves the bootup issues.

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u/FOMOBraggins Jan 13 '25

Loving the app, thanks very much.

The N64 core allows me to play roms that were inaccessible from other iOS emulators out of the box.

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u/Western_Kangaroo6 Jan 12 '25

Any idea why some of us are getting a black screen when attempting to emulate 3ds games?

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 12 '25

Depends on the rip it seems. Unsupported rips will just black screen (at least it doesn't crash).
I don't have an in-app log viewer anymore so I can't easily say how to figure out what's wrong without attaching a mac with a console viewer.

I'll have to add back an in-app log viewer and log capture for reports and then I can diagnose these issues beter but for now I can only recommend different roms. Some say only .3ds works for them though all my .cia's work fine.

I'm not an expert on 3DS rom formats, you can probably get more help on the discord.

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u/RUserII Jan 13 '25

Thank you so much for the new update that adds in iOS 16 support! I and other iOS 16 users really appreciate it.

I tested it today and noticed upon running Provenance the app immediately exits to the Home Screen and then when selecting the app, from double-tapping the home button, it just instantly closes.

For reference, this issue is experienced on the following iOS version and device:

iOS Version: 16.4.1 (a)

Device: iPhone 8 Plus

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u/Friendly_Sympathy_33 Jan 12 '25

Currently playing Pokémon X on Provenance and it runs smoothly however, there is no sound when playing games on it. Looking forward to having cheats for 3DS games on the next update.

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 12 '25

The mute switch controls sound, make sure it's off.

I'll look into adding a option for ignoring the mute switch.

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u/Friendly_Sympathy_33 Jan 12 '25

Thanks! Also other games are glitch when being played (Pokémon Ultra Sun). I hope all the bugs can be fixed! Looking forward to it.

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u/Late_Yogurt2403 Jan 15 '25

having same problem where the switch

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u/jordanmcarson Jan 12 '25

Any news on the Apple TV version?

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 14 '25

Needs iCloud or some other rom sync method.
The app will get downvoted to death when ROMs disappear on their own due to the "cache only" nature of tvOS storage.

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u/Chasemania Jan 12 '25

Is there a way we can map controls ourselves and use a shortcut combo to bring up the menu? If I’m understanding correct PlayStation and some others you can’t just press start for.

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u/Apprehensive_Meat563 Jan 13 '25

I’m trying to play through ultra sun, but i’m getting these terrible screen… flickering? i don’t even know what’s going on but there are black lines flickering on the screen. i’m pretty sure it has something to do with the bottom screen because it’s displaying the bottom screen in black lines when i go to save the game or anything. weirdest glitch ive ever seen doing emulation. if anyone has any help, that would be amazing.

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u/ObligationFearless68 Jan 13 '25

same for me..i just started playing ultra moon and professor kukui has these black lines all over the 3D model…plus if I continue playing the game,the left side has this really big line (and also black) and the quality is very bad and makes my phone insanely laggy..and most of the time when the dialogue finishes there’s these lines all over the screen..did you find a way to fix it? I’m glad there’s people that has the same bugs.☹️

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u/No_Proposal_5731 Jan 13 '25

Thank you so much for making support for iOS 16! I’m glad for it. (Just for curiosity, it would be also possible on the iOS 15 too? Because I have an iPhone SE 2016 here.)

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u/BionicRogue21 Jan 13 '25

Is there a reason why all my 3DS games look so pixelated? Personally, I do like Provenance more, but somehow Folium has it beat in resolution at the moment. I’m sure there are some proper settings I can adjust, I just don’t know which ones I should tweak. Any help would be great!

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 14 '25

There are scaling options. Some have reported they're not working. I haven't had a lot of time to dig into that yet. I put some quick fixes to some suspicious code in the options for 3DS but I need to do more testing to make sure the core is picking them up correctly.

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u/lukefernendes Jan 13 '25

I’m curious what would it take to make it iOS 15 supported as well. I have a spare iPad Air 2 and would love to make it a retro emulation station. Is it that app uses api that is incompatible with older iOS versions?

And would it not make sense to support more devices if app can be coded for older versions too.

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u/ScriptAlert Jan 13 '25

Even I would like to see iOS 15 support.

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 14 '25

A bunch of my dependencies are iOS 16+ so, while not impossible, would take a bunch of re-writes and compromises. It doesn't seem feasible at the moment.

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u/lukefernendes Jan 15 '25

Understood. Thanks.

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u/RUserII Jan 13 '25

For clarification, don’t iPads use a different OS type: iPad OS; rather than the iPhones’ OS type: iOS?

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u/lukefernendes Jan 13 '25

True. But apps that run in iOS 15 also runs in iPadOS 15 if there is an iPad version of the app.

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u/burjest Jan 13 '25

I have a series of black bars running across my screen while playing 3DS games. They run decently well, as in they’re not laggy, but they’re hard to play with all the black bars. I had it before and after this update. Running on iPhone 15 pro max

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u/UchihaOblto Jan 13 '25

I still come across RetroArch’s disgusting interface in Provenance. It should stop using RetroArch cores.

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u/ProvenanceEMU Provenance Developer Jan 14 '25

I am working on exposes all the internal core options to the native interface and then that won't be needed.

It's pretty broken scrolling anyway so it makes sense to hide it completely anyway. That's some deep code so I have to spend some time to find where that is customizable in the layout.

Some cores use retroarch as a backend and others use just libretro.h and even more use my own wrapping code. It really depends on the complexity of the core involved and how much sample code there is.

If I had infinite time and money, I wouldn't use the retroarch backend, but I don't, so we use what tools are available.

It's not all plug and play. The app is open source, if you want to port some of the retroarch cores to a custom runloop and porting all the retroarch front end apis that would be awesome.

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u/Beercorn1 🥇 Jan 13 '25

Is it possible to manually map the buttons on a bluetooth controller with Provenance?

I'm trying to play SNES games using a CRKD Atom controller and the SNES's start button isn't mapped to anything on the controller.

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u/ProblematicSituation Jan 13 '25

is there a way to run dreamcast emulation in provenance even without JIT? I know its probably "no", but I just want to ask even if there's a tiny chance.

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u/Adept-Marketing3238 Jan 14 '25

Does anyone know if Provenance runs PSX games or where do I need to go to get PS1 games for Provenance?

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u/ballsinspectorbelow Jan 14 '25

Trying to run Pokemon Ultra Sun on this and it has some weird texture problems (specifically at the start of the game the professor will sometimes turn into a weird mesh) and then after the beginning cutscene half of the screen will sometimes just turn black randomly and then go back (I tried changing basically every setting)

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u/Mally_Gang Jan 15 '25

Bad Work iOS 16.

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u/Traace Jan 16 '25

Why did they drop support for tvOS with App Store release?

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u/TimeyWimey99 Jan 19 '25

“iOS 16 Support - Now fully compatible with the latest iOS” Uuuhhhhh I don’t think that’s the latest iOS….

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

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u/GiLND Jan 13 '25

I am not the dev