BizHawk/Dist/changelog.txt

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1.11.5 (in progress)
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*EmuHawk
**Improve OSD watches
**Add polar coordinates to VirtualPad analog controls
**Save and load named config files manually
**Add "store movie working data on disk instead of RAM" option to permit creation of hours-long movies
**Allow multiple concurrent ExternalTools
**Add Movie Save As menu function
**Default window zooms now configurable per platform
**Assorted usability improvements to Lua console, ram watch, ram search, firmwares config
**Fix #561 - xpad rightstick unresponsive
**Cheats
***Add comparison
***Multiline codes support
***GBA: Support Action Replay MAX, Slide codes
**Tastudio
***Too many improvements to count, this tool is under hot development. **TODO** but feos or adelikat may want to take a stab at the high level features
***Many efforts to reduce out-of-memory crashes
**Basic Bot **TODO** anything else?
***Support comparison values
**Lua
***add emu.setislagframe
***Forms: Allow scrollbars on textbox
***Support script auto hot-reloading
***Add movie.save, client.displaymessages
***Fix #488 - Sandbox current directory better
***Fix #547 - Allow "#aarrggbb" as Color parameter to forms.setproperty
***Fix #565 - bugs in lua's memorysavestate apis
*NES
**Better support for JAM/KIL opcode
**Properly support unif board 42in1ResetSwitch
**Support Tracer for QuickNES
**Bugfixes to NSF player
*PSX
**Support memory callbacks
**Support "determine lag from GPU frames" to mimic PCSXRR
*GBA
**Update to mgba 0.4.0
**Fix #563 0 Combined WRAM not working in mGBA
*Other cores:
**N64: Better defaults for DK64
**GB/GBC: Add layer toggles
**SMS: Flag SG-1000 movies
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1.11.4
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*EmuHawk
**Add libretro player, compatible with selected cores (check wiki)
**Add External Tool system for c#-based tool plugins
**Support Code-Data Logger for GB/GBC, SMS/GG, SNES, and Genesis
**Cheat Dialog: Fix flakiness in value-editing
**Add custom exception display box, so exception info can be clipboarded out
**Improve main OSD font
**Validate user shaders at selection time
**Support user custom AR selection
**Add --load-state commandline
**Fix --fullscreen and fullscreenOnLoad options
**Streamline editing RAM Watches
**Tidy main form context menu
**Add more options for U+D/L+R forbid/mutex
**Fix Ram Search, Ram Watch, Cheats recent file lists
**Fix ffmpeg path for AV writer broken a couple of releases ago
**Add menu command to record avi skipping av writer selection
**Remember codec selection between program sessions
**Fix toolbox
**Improvements to Retro shader compatibility
**Several Hex Editor usability enhancements
**DispMethod D3D: Stop FP precision conflicts with lua scripts
**DispMethod D3D: More leniency in compilation of optional shaders (so it's able to run on more low spec systems)
**Fix #525 - Memorywatch hex textbox now remembers values across memdomain switches
**Fix #526 - Hex editor repainting fails and garbage rendering
**Fix #535 - domain list does not update when changing cores
**Fix #537 - Annoyance with "always on top"
**Fix #541 - Heavy CPU usage when emulation is paused
**Fix #546 - Incorrect Lua Documentation
**Cheats
***Add GameShark converter for N64, GB/GBC, Saturn, GBA, PSX
***Add Action Replay converter for SMS, SNES, Genesis, GBA
***Add Game Genie converter for Genesis, SNES, GG, NES
**Tastudio
***Color stated frames on WasLag too
***Don't truncate LagLog if the branch's one is shorter, but input is the same
***Clean up garbage lua text and drawings in branches
***Default scroll speed to 3
***Put branch states to a separate greenzone file
***Save/load TasSession variables (current frame and branch) in .tasproj
***Fix scrolling when loading a branch
***Account for mouse speed when advancing/rewinding
***Fix ALT+ hotkeys
***Update columns on every file load
***ScreenshotControl tweaks and fixes
***UserText in branches, available from lua and menu, is printed in ScreenshotControl
***Add GUI buttons to branch view and marker view
***Rightclick selects rows in branch and marker views
***Hotkeys and shortcuts for input view and branch view
***Add seeking progressbar
***Saving progressbar reports progress gradually
***Allow going to frame 0 for savestate-anchored movies
***Fix #515 - Save and load column settings in projects
***Fix #520 - An item with the same key has already been added
***Fix #504 - TAStudio opened several thousand Set Markers dialogs
**Basic Bot
***Monospaced input display
***Get smarter
**Lua
**Add two new fonts (gens/snes9x and fceux) and text rendering options
**Fix gameExtraPadding coordinate translation
**Fix (or at least temporarily banish) floating point math errors when running n64
**Add CloseEmulatorWithCode (for returning exe process return code from script)
**Clarify script pause/stop state in UI and logic
**Autoload recent scripts (unless there's a recent session to autoload)
**Fix forms.destroyall() and call it when lua console closes
**Fix error in sizing of lua draw buffers with SetGameExtraPadding (and probably ClientExtraPadding) use
**Add gui.defaultTextBackground
**Fix #538 - Ability to pass memory domain to memory read/write functions
*PSX
**Fix #530 "AV Resizing shows black screen with PSX"
*SNES
**Fix crashes in GFX debugger (including fix #529)
**Recommend proper SNES PAR
**Build dlls without msvcrt14 dependencies (to run on more systems)
**Fix several cheat bugs
**Fix #134 - Add option to disable "force determinism", aka, turn off `savestate every frame`, for reduced reliability and greater speed.
*Genesis
**Add missing scrollbars in VDP viewer
**Fix #543 (support up to 32MB roms)
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1.11.3
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*Released October 14, 2015
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/bizhawk/files/BizHawk/BizHawk-1.11.3.zip/download|Windows binary]
*[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/commit/105cd1c|Revision 105cd1c]
*C64
**Add tape loading, settings menu, and lots of bugfixes
*Lua
**Add client.SetClientExtraPadding; fix client.SetGameExtraPadding window scaling
**Add client.GetSoundOn and client.SetSoundOn
*PSX
**Repair lag counter
**Fix massively broken controller config dialog which was making controllers seem effectively disconnected or malfunctiony
*EmuHawk
**Fix Direct3D display method sleep/ctrl+alt+del crashes
**Fix built-in shaders
**Reduce shader level requirements for basic d3d display method functionality
**Fix Ram Search/Ram Watch recent files menu
**Import PJM and PXM movies
**Sequentially number screenshots taken in the same second without crashing after the 3rd one
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1.11.2
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*Released October 10, 2015
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/bizhawk/files/BizHawk/BizHawk-1.11.2.zip/download|Windows binary]
*[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/commit/a44cf5a|Revision a44cf5a]
*PSXHawk
**Update to mednafen 0.9.38.7
**Support 0-2 pads/shocks and 0-2 memcards
**Fix loading of some .psf files
**Add overscan clipping and deinterlacer options
**Fix resolution management and PAR stuff for some PAL modes
**Support .xml disc bundling tool as alternative to .m3u
**Save PAL information in movies, and fix reported PAL movie times
**Fix #460 - overlapping OSD elements
**Support mednafen's emulation of disc error correction (optionally) and graceful sector-out-of-bounds reading
*N64
**Compatibility hack for Jabo vs some Intel GPUs on Windows8+
*SNES
**Handle interlaced modes differently
*mGBA
**Fix #507 - Add "Combined WRAM" memory domain
*GBHawk
**Add LY to trace log
*NESHawk
**Improve .unf loading (header parsing, Open ROM dialog, vram inference logic) and support more UNIF boards
**Add ines mappers: 6, 51, 53, 90, 136, 147, 202, 204, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 216, 235, 244, 17; fix mappers 31, 60, 79, 91, 164, 243, 245, 119, 90, 197
**Support many misc ROMs that are bad/over dumps, wrong/unusual header info, having trainers
**Auto-select region from iNESv2 header
**Fix some graphical corruptions in the PPU for Dragon Warrior 4 and others
**Support 512-entry palettes (QuickNES too)
*GPGX
**Handle AR/resolution-changing more correctly and add option to pad screen out to prevent window resizes
**Fix #494 - cheat decoder unhooked
*EmuHawk
**Direct3D Display Method support
**New Tool: Basic Bot
**Make throttle vs unthrottled vs frame advance behaviour better and add 400% speedlevel
**Add toggles for screen and hud display for true maximum turbo performance
**Add option to suppress double-click fullscreen toggling behaviour
**Don't reorder cheats list when editing cheats
**Fix some crashes on Play Movie dialog
**Support IPCKeyInput (for automation from external program)
**Support xbox pad guide button
**Sequentially number screenshots taken in the same second
**Finetune hotkey config dialog
**Leniency fixes to cue loading
**Make on-screen watches position editable
**Fix crash when minimizing window in gdi+ display method
**Fix some bugs in gdi+ display method with screenshots and prescaling
**Aboutbox more gitified
**Fix #461 - Repair autofire patterns
**Fix #477 - Support key input over IPC for automation
**Fix #490 - Ampersands in hex editor flakeout
**Fix #493 - Add option to hide OSD messages
**Fix #491 - Tool window sizes get whacked out sometimes
**Movies
***Ability to create/load SaveRam-anchored movies
***Ability to import movies from commandline
***Fix out of memory when using the Play Movie dialog
**Tastudio
***Add Branches feature
***Fix rerecord counting
***Various UI improvements and bug fixes
***Ability to move markers by alt+click dragging them
***Fix various out of memory and other greenzone crashes
***Hide Power and Reset columns by default.
***Optional icons for states and markers.
***Support creating a savestate anchored movie from another savestate anchored movie
***Support creating a new movie from current saveram
**Lua
***Fix graphics rendering in GDI+ mode
***Add client.exit() and client.SetGameExtraPadding
***Add movie.startsfromsavestate() and movie.startsfromsaveram(), movie.getheader(), movie.getcomments(), and movie.getsubtitles()
***Add memorysavestate library for making and loading savestates in memory, with save, load, remove, and clearall methods
***Fix bizstring.split() (make 1-based)
***Fix crashes removing callbacks
***Fix #469 - forms.newform() : add an onclosed callback optional parameter
***Fix #463 - memory.readbyterange off-by-one
***Fix #498 - fix quicknes lua rendering being offset incorrectly sometimes
**Hex Editor
***When saving memory domains to file, account for roms in archives
***Fix some UI scrambling on memory domain change / data size changing
***Fix ampersand escaping output
***Change copy/paste behaviour and add 'export' option to all generally make more sense.
***Fix #481 - keep scroll bar position when resetting the current rom as opposed to changing to a new one
**Cheats
***Refresh list when toggling the status of a cheat
***Fix up open and save file dialog file/directory logic
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1.11.1
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