3dJelly changelog

Added

• Added a search feature
• Added Polish language support.
• Added Indonesian language support.
• Added Turkish language support.
• Added Swedish language support.
• Added localized search, settings, browsing, playback status, error, and bottom-screen playback text for new languages.

Changed

• Improved playback overlay handling for Latin diacritics so translated titles and status text avoid question marks where possible.
• Updated app-reported version to 0.4.2.

Fixed

• Fixed browse artwork fitting so show and poster previews better cover their frame without small top or bottom bars.
• Fixed playback status badges for Polish, Indonesian, Turkish, and Swedish loading, error, and stopped messages.

Notes

The focus is now on plugins

3dJelly now supports a total of 17 languages

Added

• Added Afrikaans, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese language support.
• Added native Korean/Hangul text rendering.
• Added Simplified and Traditional Chinese system-font support for normal UI text.
• Added compact playback-screen glyph support for Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
• Added configurable bottom-screen dimming during video playback, with timer options and a Never setting.

Changed

• Reworked translations into separate JSON files with a generated C translation table.
• Improved the language selector with a larger modal, scroll window, current-language marker, and clearer controls.
• Improved Japanese playback UI text so bottom-screen controls and status labels use native Japanese.

Fixed

• Fixed ampersands rendering as question marks in playback text.
• Fixed Japanese language label rendering after adding Chinese font support.
• Fixed Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese playback status labels showing missing or fallback characters.

Notes

• 3dJelly now supports 13 languages.
• Some translations are new and may need community feedback, especially text that is too long for the 3DS screen.
• Playback is still experimental, especially at higher quality settings on Old 3DS. 3dJelly has not been tested on a new 3ds.

## Added

• Added a Settings screen opened with Y from browsing screens.
• Added settings for default quality, playback mode, stream buffer preference, server URL, and username.
• Added actions to clear saved login data, reset server/user data, and reset playback defaults.
• Added configurable audio sample rates for 240p and 240HQ playback.
• Added automatic next-episode playback when an episode ends.
• Added a top-screen next-episode countdown with A to play next immediately and B to cancel.
• Added English, Spanish, and Japanese language support.
• Added a stacked language selector with native labels: English, Español, and 日本語.

Changed

• Moved Setup access on the Libraries screen to B.
• Changed the Language setting from inline cycling to a selector menu.
• Removed the experimental 240M1 quality mode from user-selectable settings.
• Kept 144p audio at 22050 Hz while allowing higher audio rates for 240p and 240HQ.

Fixed

• Fixed episodes replaying the last few seconds after reaching the end.
• Fixed near-end MJPEG/H.264 stream closes being treated as reconnects.
• Fix login redirects for public Jellyfin servers Issue #7, by @ClammyMantis488
• Fixed the language selector drawing behind Settings text.
• Fixed Japanese playback status badges not recognizing Japanese loading, error, and stopped states.

Notes

• Japanese support is new and should be considered early. Please report any text that does not fit or any translation issues.
• Playback is still experimental, especially at higher quality settings on Old 3DS.

3dJelly v0.3.0

This release focuses on Old 3DS playback stability, buffering, and new playback controls.

Added

• Added encrypted saved password and token storage.
• Added L/R video scrubbing with accelerated hold-to-skip behavior.
• Added top-screen seek progress overlay.
• Added experimental 240M1 MPEG-1/MP2 playback mode for Old 3DS testing. This mode may be kept, changed, or removed depending on further testing.
• Added deeper stream buffering with startup prebuffering.

Changed

• Changed playback quality switching to D-pad left/right so L/R can be used for scrubbing.
• Improved bottom-screen playback controls for seek, quality, and volume.
• Improved Old 3DS MJPEG playback performance and catch-up behavior.
• Lowered normal Old 3DS 240p MJPEG bitrate from 820 kbps to 720 kbps for stability.
• Added threaded stream reading so network reads are less likely to block playback.
• Optimized MJPEG frame presentation by flushing only the top video framebuffer.

Fixed

• Added stream-open retries and reconnect-from-current-position behavior after MJPEG stream interruptions.
• Improved handling of saved credential decrypt failures.

Notes

• 240M1 is experimental. It may work better than MJPEG on some Old 3DS setups, but it is still being tested.
• Playback is still experimental on Old 3DS hardware.

3dJelly v0.2.1

Incremental stability release focused on Old 3DS playback, audio behavior, and large Jellyfin library browsing.

Changes

• Added Old 3DS specific quality options, including 240HQ.
• Improved 144p and 240p bitrate targets for better image quality.
• Improved audio stability during MJPEG playback.
• Added boosted-volume limiting and NDSP soft clipping to reduce harsh clipping on loud audio.
• Saved D-pad volume between videos and app restarts.
• Optimized MJPEG/AVI playback parsing, audio queue handling, JPEG color conversion, and fullscreen 400x240 frame drawing.
• Fixed large libraries, seasons, and folders being cut off by adding paged Jellyfin item loading.
• Increased browse capacity for large folders.
• Improved playback bottom-screen title wrapping for long titles.

Assets

• 3dJelly.cia for installable 3DS title builds.
• 3dJelly.3dsx for Homebrew Launcher builds.
• 3dJelly.smdh metadata/icon file.
• Source archives are generated automatically by GitHub.

3dJelly v0.2.0

This release focuses on making playback controls and Jellyfin transcoding more reliable on Nintendo 3DS hardware and emulators.

Added

• Working in-playback quality switching with L/R.
• Fresh Jellyfin playback sessions when changing quality, so the server actually rebuilds the transcode.
• Current-position resume when changing quality.
• Higher-resolution quality popup showing requested and actual decoded stream size.
• Improved bottom-screen playback controls and UI.
• Better volume and mute controls during playback.

Fixed

• B during video returns directly to the previous screen instead of the playback setup screen.
• Library/item filtering now avoids showing media not actually in your server.
• Bottom-screen playback UI no longer flashes as aggressively during updates.
• Improved text rendering for punctuation and accented characters.
• Fixed HOME-button close behavior that left app stuck closing in a loop.

Notes

• 144p and 240p are still the best targets for Old 3DS.
• 360p and 480p may be slow depending on hardware, emulator, server speed, and the media being transcoded.
• For Homebrew Launcher use, download both 3dJelly.3dsx and 3dJelly.smdh.
• Source archives are attached automatically by GitHub.

Full changes: https://github.com/8-bitStudio/3d-jelly/compare/v0.1.2...v0.2.0
Key playback switching commit: https://github.com/8-bitStudio/3d-jelly/commit/9a2d363

First 3dJelly release!