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Leaderboards Added to Yaba Sanshiro on MobileLeaderboards have been added to the Android and iOS versions of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro, giving players a way to compare their fastest times in a pair of games via the emulator’s website. Only two games, Sonic R and Sega Rally Championship, are set up to work with the new leaderboard feature, which perhaps indicates that developer Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto needs to set up individual games in a bespoke manner. The system requires users to link their Discord accounts to the emulator to use their usernames and profile pictures.  DevMiyax announced on his Discord server June 4 that the leaderboards were added with the newly released version 1.17.6. Accompanying it was a graphic showing how to use the leaderboard for Sega Rally. The leaderboard page itself also describes how to use the feature: Sign in. You can also link your Discord account so that your Discord username appears on the leaderboard. Start the game. Choose either SEGA Rally or SEGA Rally Plus (tested on MK-81207, GS-9047, GS-9116). Select “Time Attack” mode. Choose your car. Select a course. Any of Desert, Forest, or Mountain is fine. Set the lap count to “3 LAPS”. Start the race. Finish the race. If it’s your personal best, your new score will be recorded on the leaderboard. If you reach 1st place, your achievement will be announced in the Discord channel.The free Android version is here while the paid “Pro” version, which adds some extra features for US$5, is here . The paid iOS version was updated to 1.17.6 as well, but the free iOS version is still on version 1.17.2 from late April and lacks leaderboards. Version 1.17.6 also brings optimizations to the rendering pipeline that DevMiyax said makes Sega Rally more playable even on lower-end devices. “As a result, we’ve achieved approximately 1.13 times faster processing speed,” he said in the description of a video showing off the improvements on a Retroid Pocket Classic handheld: The leaderboard feature first became available for beta testing in late April with support only for Sonic R, whose leaderboard can be found here .  In a blog post April 29, DevMiyax said he wanted to add leaderboards because they’re one of the reasons he loves sim racing games so much. “Every time I cross the finish line, I’m ranked on a global leaderboard — and that experience is thrilling and motivating,” he said. “Growing up, retro games didn’t have online leaderboards. That’s why I wanted to bring that modern experience to retro gaming.” In the post, he said he plans on supporting more games in the future such as Daytona USA. The Android version of Yaba Sanshiro got an update just a couple months ago to give a new look to its game list and a new way of reviewing games within the app. The last time SHIRO! reported on the iOS version was in March when it got Action Replay cheat codes and cloud saves. Yaba Sanshiro began development in late 2015 as a fork of Yabause, an emulator that is no longer actively worked on, to bring it to Android devices. A PC version was released about a year later that’s been occasionally updated alongside the Android version — most recently, it was updated in February . Its name was changed to Yaba Sanshiro 2 in April 2021 after Google blacklisted the original app for including Action Replay cheats. The emulator wasn’t approved for the Apple App Store until August last year when Apple changed its policy regarding game emulators.
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