- The picture no longer shows corrupt textures or stray pixels at some resolutions (Rayman's backgrounds, for one): the core now draws with PSSwanStation's hardware renderer, with the PGXP, sprite filter, MMPX, line detection and true colour work carried on top of it.
- New Settings > Graphics > Legacy group with the renderer's own options: Accurate Blending, Close Gaps Between Polygons, Exact Lines, HD Texture Blocks and Dump Texture Blocks. They apply while a game is playing, and the sprite filter, round coordinates and line detection do too.
- Hold Triangle for a second in Settings to put every setting back to its default; a tap still resets just the highlighted one.
- The CPU renderer works again (it showed a black picture), and its upscale and filter settings are marked as CPU only, with sharp pixels by default.
- RetroAchievements: challenge indicators. The badges of the achievements whose challenge is up show in the top right corner while it is, and the achievements list marks them with a Challenge tag and puts them first.
- RetroAchievements: leaderboards. A Leaderboards tab in the achievements list, the live timer of an attempt in the top left corner (hardcore), and a notice with your rank and best score when it is submitted.
- RetroAchievements: a .chd disc now hashes like the uncompressed disc image, so its game and achievements load.
- Memory cards: save titles in Japanese (kana and the common kanji) show as the game wrote them instead of question marks, and the corner brackets of Resident Evil 3's titles too.
- The CD that comes out of the 3D case on the shelf now shows in the case's reflection on the floor.
- The fast forward and rewind icon is drawn over everything else while you hold the button.