Enable it as it does not freeze. This provides an audio backend that
can report its buffer status, allowing auto frame skip to work on cores
that support it.
Do not build or include alsathread as it results in choppy audio.
Similarly, leave tinyalsa disabled as it plays back at a higher pitch
and is also choppy.
Change the default sample rate to 32000Hz as the previous default of
32730Hz is derived from the 3DS.
* Added newlib changes
* Add action to launch PPSSPP simulator
* Remove legacy config for the stack and heap
* Add pthread
* Simplify kernel_functions and improve references to HAVE_KERNEL_PRX
* Add some flags
* Improve audio init/deinit
* Improve exit by clicking home
* Add CI for PSP1
* Update PSP.yml
* Fix old osx condition
Current code assumes that osx < 10.12 is equivalent to ppc osx. It's not
true as Leopard x86 is still < 10.12 but not ppc. As xcode compiles fat
binaries it includes osx x86 and compilation fails.
* Disable crtswitchres when no c++11 is available
Crtswitchres altually needs c++11. Since it's not that important to make
it compatible with lower c++, just disable if no c++11 is available
* Don't use firstObject on old Mac OS X.
It was introduced in 10.6, so on old ones just implement it ourselves
* Compile osx-ppc frontend
* osx-ppc: Build a fat binary
On 10.6 i386 xcode apparently refuses to build a pure ppc.
Settle for a fat binary.
* Netplay Stuff
## PROTOCOL FALLBACK
In order to support older clients a protocol fallback system was introduced.
The host will no longer send its header automatically after a TCP connection is established, instead, it awaits for the client to send his before determining which protocol this connection is going to operate on.
Netplay has now two protocols, a low protocol and a high protocol; the low protocol is the minimum protocol it supports, while the high protocol is the highest protocol it can operate on.
To fully support older clients, a hack was necessary: sending the high protocol in the unused client's header salt field, while keeping the protocol field to the low protocol. Without this hack we would only be able to support older clients if a newer client was the host.
Any future system can make use of this system by checking connection->netplay_protocol, which is available for both the client and host.
## NETPLAY CHAT
Starting with protocol 6, netplay chat is available through the new NETPLAY_CMD_PLAYER_CHAT command.
Limitations of the command code, which causes a disconnection on unknown commands, makes this system not possible on protocol 5.
Protocol 5 connections can neither send nor receive chat, but other netplay operations are unaffected.
Clients send chat as a string to the server, and it's the server's sole responsability to relay chat messages.
As of now, sending chat uses RetroArch's input menu, while the display of on-screen chat uses a widget overlay and RetroArch's notifications as a fallback.
If a new overlay and/or input system is desired, no backwards compatibility changes need to be made.
Only clients in playing mode (as opposed to spectating mode) can send and receive chat.
## SETTINGS SHARING
Some settings are better used when both host and clients share the same configuration.
As of protocol 6, the following settings will be shared from host to clients (without altering a client's configuration file): input latency frames and allow pausing.
## NETPLAY TUNNEL/MITM
With the current MITM system being defunct (at least as of 1.9.X), a new system was in order to solve most if not all of the problems with the current system.
This new system uses a tunneling approach, which is similar to most VPN and tunneling services around.
Tunnel commands:
RATS[unique id] (RetroArch Tunnel Session) - 16 bytes -> When this command is sent with a zeroed unique id, the tunnel server interprets this as a netplay host wanting to create a new session, in this case, the same command is returned to the host, but now with its unique session id. When a client needs to connect to a host, this command is sent with the unique session id of the host, causing the tunnel server to send a RATL command to the host.
RATL[unique id] (RetroArch Tunnel Link) - 16 bytes -> The tunnel server sends this command to the host when a client wants to connect to the host. Once the host receives this command, it establishes a new connection to the tunnel server, sending this command together with the client's unique id through this new connection, causing the tunnel server to link this connection to the connection of the client.
RATP (RetroArch Tunnel Ping) - 4 bytes -> The tunnel server sends this command to verify that the host, whom the session belongs to, is still around. The host replies with the same command. A session is closed if the tunnel server can not verify that the host is alive.
Operations:
Host -> Instead of listening and accepting connections, it connects to the tunnel server, requests a new session and then monitor this connection for new linking requests. Once a request is received, it establishes a new connection to the tunnel server for linking with a client. The tunnel server's address and port are obtained by querying the lobby server. The host will publish its session id together with the rest of its info to the lobby server.
Client -> It connects to the tunnel server and then sends the session id of the host it wants to connect to. A host's session id is obtained from the json data sent by the lobby server.
Improvements (from current MITM system):
No longer a risk of TCP port exhaustion; we only use one port now at the tunnel server.
Very little cpu usage. About 95% net I/O bound now.
Future backwards compatible with any and all changes to netplay as it no longer runs any netplay logic at MITM servers.
No longer operates the host in client mode, which was a source of many of the current problems.
Cleaner and more maintainable system and code.
Notable functions:
netplay_mitm_query -> Grabs the tunnel's address and port from the lobby server.
init_tcp_socket -> Handles the creation and operation mode of the TCP socket based on whether it's host, host+MITM or client.
handle_mitm_connection -> Creates and completes linking connections and replies to ping commands (only 1 of each per call to not affect performance).
## MISC
Ping Limiter: If a client's estimated latency to the server is higher than this value, connection will be dropped just before finishing the netplay handshake.
Ping Counter: A ping counter (similar to the FPS one) can be shown in the bottom right corner of the screen, if you are connected to a host.
LAN Discovery: Refactored and moved to its own "Refresh Netplay LAN List" button.
## FIXES
Many minor fixes to the current netplay implementation are also included.
* Remove NETPLAY_TEST_BUILD
* Add intrinsic NEON versions for float_to_s16/s16_to_float courtesy
of davidgfnet
* Define -DDONT_WANT_ARM_OPTIMIZATIONS for resampler sinc - this should
default to intrinsic versions
* Default to ARM NEON intrinsic codepath and make the ASM codepaths
optional by defining HAVE_ARM_NEON_ASM_OPTIMIZATIONS
* (Pkg/apple/Android) Take out ASM files being compiled in
Previously we would wait on the condition variable even in the non-blocking case.
This improves fast-forward performance massively and brings JACK in line
with other backends in that regard.
Set USE_CTRULIB_2=1 to build with libctru 2.0. When unset, this code
is compatible with the older toolchain.
Some 2.0 changes addressed rare problems in earlier versions:
- Save / restore stack pointer for init / exit
Otherwise, it could be outside of the range we deallocate.
- Run aptMainLoop in the audio driver to react correctly to sleep events
Other changes for 2.0:
- Remove ninjhax1 -- requires outdated APIs that have been removed
- Switch from __sync_arbiter to syncArbitrateAddress
- Use implicit gxCmdBuf
- Use gpuPresentBuffer for double buffering
- turn blocking variable into nonblocking in line with other audio drivers
- blocking codepath would do numerous conditional checks on
w->buffer, w->exclusive, w->blocking during a loop iteration - get rid
of this
- add tvOS target
- support code signing tvOS cores by adding an argument to the code signing cores script
- use NSCachesDirectory for the documents directory
- add some mfi controller handling logic to set non-game controllers to the last index to avoid interfering with operation
- autodetect mfi controller for apple tv on startup - added autodetect to hid joypad
- added a webserver to transfer files for tvOS
- xcode: clean up project, remove unused folders
- remove HAVE_MATERIALUI setting for tvos build, make it use XMB as default
- added retroarch app icon courtesy of @MrJs
- added auto-detect of mfi controller for apple tv
XAudio 2.7 was part of the old DirectX SDKs. XAudio 2.8+ is part of the
Windows OS itself (starting from Windows 8). Since UWP lets you access
only libraries that are built-in to the OS, the headers had to be
upgraded to the newer version to get audio support working.
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