bsnes/icarus/heuristics/mega-drive.cpp

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namespace Heuristics {
Update to v100r02 release. byuu says: Sigh ... I'm really not a good person. I'm inherently selfish. My responsibility and obligation right now is to work on loki, and then on the Tengai Makyou Zero translation, and then on improving the Famicom emulation. And yet ... it's not what I really want to do. That shouldn't matter; I should work on my responsibilities first. Instead, I'm going to be a greedy, self-centered asshole, and work on what I really want to instead. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm sure this will make a few people happy, and probably upset even more people. I'm also making zero guarantees that this ever gets finished. As always, I wish I could keep these things secret, so if I fail / give up, I could just drop it with no shame. But I would have to cut everyone out of the WIP process completely to make it happen. So, here goes ... This WIP adds the initial skeleton for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulation. God help us. (minor note: apparently the new extension for Mega Drive games is .md, neat. That's what I chose for the folders too. I thought it was .smd, so that'll be fixed in icarus for the next WIP.) (aside: this is why I wanted to get v100 out. I didn't want this code in a skeleton state in v100's source. Nor did I want really broken emulation, which the first release is sure to be, tarring said release.) ... So, basically, I've been ruminating on the legacy I want to leave behind with higan. 3D systems are just plain out. I'm never going to support them. They're too complex for my abilities, and they would run too slowly with my design style. I'm not willing to compromise my design ideals. And I would never want to play a 3D game system at native 240p/480i resolution ... but 1080p+ upscaling is not accurate, so that's a conflict I want to avoid entirely. It's also never going to emulate computer systems (X68K, PC-98, FM-Towns, etc) because holy shit that would completely destroy me. It's also never going emulate arcade machines. So I think of higan as a collection of 2D emulators for consoles and handhelds. I've gone over every major 2D gaming system there is, looking for ones with games I actually care about and enjoy. And I basically have five of those systems supported already. Looking at the remaining list, I see only three systems left that I have any interest in whatsoever: PC-Engine, Master System, Mega Drive. Again, I'm not in any way committing to emulating any of these, but ... if I had all of those in higan, I think I'd be content to really, truly, finally stop writing more emulators for the rest of my life. And so I decided to tackle the most difficult system first. If I'm successful, the Z80 core should cover a lot of the work on the SMS. And the HuC6280 should land somewhere between the NES and SNES in terms of difficulty ... closer to the NES. The systems that just don't appeal to me at all, which I will never touch, include, but are not limited to: * Atari 2600/5200/7800 * Lynx * Jaguar * Vectrex * Colecovision * Commodore 64 * Neo-Geo * Neo-Geo Pocket / Color * Virtual Boy * Super A'can * 32X * CD-i * etc, etc, etc. And really, even if something were mildly interesting in there ... we have to stop. I can't scale infinitely. I'm already way past my limit, but I'm doing this anyway. Too many cores bloats everything and kills quality on everything. I don't want higan to become MESS v2. I don't know what I'll do about the Famicom Disk System, PC-Engine CD, and Mega CD. I don't think I'll be able to achieve 60fps emulating the Mega CD, even if I tried to. I don't know what's going to happen here with even the Mega Drive. Maybe I'll get driven crazy with the documentation and quit. Maybe it'll end up being too complicated and I'll quit. Maybe the emulation will end up way too slow and I'll give up. Maybe it'll take me seven years to get any games playable at all. Maybe Steve Snake, AamirM and Mike Pavone will pool money to hire a hitman to come after me. Who knows. But this is what I want to do, so ... here goes nothing.
2016-07-09 04:21:37 +00:00
struct MegaDrive {
MegaDrive(vector<uint8_t>& data, string location);
explicit operator bool() const;
auto manifest() const -> string;
Update to v100r02 release. byuu says: Sigh ... I'm really not a good person. I'm inherently selfish. My responsibility and obligation right now is to work on loki, and then on the Tengai Makyou Zero translation, and then on improving the Famicom emulation. And yet ... it's not what I really want to do. That shouldn't matter; I should work on my responsibilities first. Instead, I'm going to be a greedy, self-centered asshole, and work on what I really want to instead. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm sure this will make a few people happy, and probably upset even more people. I'm also making zero guarantees that this ever gets finished. As always, I wish I could keep these things secret, so if I fail / give up, I could just drop it with no shame. But I would have to cut everyone out of the WIP process completely to make it happen. So, here goes ... This WIP adds the initial skeleton for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulation. God help us. (minor note: apparently the new extension for Mega Drive games is .md, neat. That's what I chose for the folders too. I thought it was .smd, so that'll be fixed in icarus for the next WIP.) (aside: this is why I wanted to get v100 out. I didn't want this code in a skeleton state in v100's source. Nor did I want really broken emulation, which the first release is sure to be, tarring said release.) ... So, basically, I've been ruminating on the legacy I want to leave behind with higan. 3D systems are just plain out. I'm never going to support them. They're too complex for my abilities, and they would run too slowly with my design style. I'm not willing to compromise my design ideals. And I would never want to play a 3D game system at native 240p/480i resolution ... but 1080p+ upscaling is not accurate, so that's a conflict I want to avoid entirely. It's also never going to emulate computer systems (X68K, PC-98, FM-Towns, etc) because holy shit that would completely destroy me. It's also never going emulate arcade machines. So I think of higan as a collection of 2D emulators for consoles and handhelds. I've gone over every major 2D gaming system there is, looking for ones with games I actually care about and enjoy. And I basically have five of those systems supported already. Looking at the remaining list, I see only three systems left that I have any interest in whatsoever: PC-Engine, Master System, Mega Drive. Again, I'm not in any way committing to emulating any of these, but ... if I had all of those in higan, I think I'd be content to really, truly, finally stop writing more emulators for the rest of my life. And so I decided to tackle the most difficult system first. If I'm successful, the Z80 core should cover a lot of the work on the SMS. And the HuC6280 should land somewhere between the NES and SNES in terms of difficulty ... closer to the NES. The systems that just don't appeal to me at all, which I will never touch, include, but are not limited to: * Atari 2600/5200/7800 * Lynx * Jaguar * Vectrex * Colecovision * Commodore 64 * Neo-Geo * Neo-Geo Pocket / Color * Virtual Boy * Super A'can * 32X * CD-i * etc, etc, etc. And really, even if something were mildly interesting in there ... we have to stop. I can't scale infinitely. I'm already way past my limit, but I'm doing this anyway. Too many cores bloats everything and kills quality on everything. I don't want higan to become MESS v2. I don't know what I'll do about the Famicom Disk System, PC-Engine CD, and Mega CD. I don't think I'll be able to achieve 60fps emulating the Mega CD, even if I tried to. I don't know what's going to happen here with even the Mega Drive. Maybe I'll get driven crazy with the documentation and quit. Maybe it'll end up being too complicated and I'll quit. Maybe the emulation will end up way too slow and I'll give up. Maybe it'll take me seven years to get any games playable at all. Maybe Steve Snake, AamirM and Mike Pavone will pool money to hire a hitman to come after me. Who knows. But this is what I want to do, so ... here goes nothing.
2016-07-09 04:21:37 +00:00
private:
vector<uint8_t>& data;
string location;
Update to v100r02 release. byuu says: Sigh ... I'm really not a good person. I'm inherently selfish. My responsibility and obligation right now is to work on loki, and then on the Tengai Makyou Zero translation, and then on improving the Famicom emulation. And yet ... it's not what I really want to do. That shouldn't matter; I should work on my responsibilities first. Instead, I'm going to be a greedy, self-centered asshole, and work on what I really want to instead. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm sure this will make a few people happy, and probably upset even more people. I'm also making zero guarantees that this ever gets finished. As always, I wish I could keep these things secret, so if I fail / give up, I could just drop it with no shame. But I would have to cut everyone out of the WIP process completely to make it happen. So, here goes ... This WIP adds the initial skeleton for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulation. God help us. (minor note: apparently the new extension for Mega Drive games is .md, neat. That's what I chose for the folders too. I thought it was .smd, so that'll be fixed in icarus for the next WIP.) (aside: this is why I wanted to get v100 out. I didn't want this code in a skeleton state in v100's source. Nor did I want really broken emulation, which the first release is sure to be, tarring said release.) ... So, basically, I've been ruminating on the legacy I want to leave behind with higan. 3D systems are just plain out. I'm never going to support them. They're too complex for my abilities, and they would run too slowly with my design style. I'm not willing to compromise my design ideals. And I would never want to play a 3D game system at native 240p/480i resolution ... but 1080p+ upscaling is not accurate, so that's a conflict I want to avoid entirely. It's also never going to emulate computer systems (X68K, PC-98, FM-Towns, etc) because holy shit that would completely destroy me. It's also never going emulate arcade machines. So I think of higan as a collection of 2D emulators for consoles and handhelds. I've gone over every major 2D gaming system there is, looking for ones with games I actually care about and enjoy. And I basically have five of those systems supported already. Looking at the remaining list, I see only three systems left that I have any interest in whatsoever: PC-Engine, Master System, Mega Drive. Again, I'm not in any way committing to emulating any of these, but ... if I had all of those in higan, I think I'd be content to really, truly, finally stop writing more emulators for the rest of my life. And so I decided to tackle the most difficult system first. If I'm successful, the Z80 core should cover a lot of the work on the SMS. And the HuC6280 should land somewhere between the NES and SNES in terms of difficulty ... closer to the NES. The systems that just don't appeal to me at all, which I will never touch, include, but are not limited to: * Atari 2600/5200/7800 * Lynx * Jaguar * Vectrex * Colecovision * Commodore 64 * Neo-Geo * Neo-Geo Pocket / Color * Virtual Boy * Super A'can * 32X * CD-i * etc, etc, etc. And really, even if something were mildly interesting in there ... we have to stop. I can't scale infinitely. I'm already way past my limit, but I'm doing this anyway. Too many cores bloats everything and kills quality on everything. I don't want higan to become MESS v2. I don't know what I'll do about the Famicom Disk System, PC-Engine CD, and Mega CD. I don't think I'll be able to achieve 60fps emulating the Mega CD, even if I tried to. I don't know what's going to happen here with even the Mega Drive. Maybe I'll get driven crazy with the documentation and quit. Maybe it'll end up being too complicated and I'll quit. Maybe the emulation will end up way too slow and I'll give up. Maybe it'll take me seven years to get any games playable at all. Maybe Steve Snake, AamirM and Mike Pavone will pool money to hire a hitman to come after me. Who knows. But this is what I want to do, so ... here goes nothing.
2016-07-09 04:21:37 +00:00
};
MegaDrive::MegaDrive(vector<uint8_t>& data, string location) : data(data), location(location) {
}
MegaDrive::operator bool() const {
return data.size() >= 0x200;
}
auto MegaDrive::manifest() const -> string {
if(!operator bool()) return {};
Update to v102r17 release. byuu says: Changelog: - GBA: process audio at 2MHz instead of 32KHz¹ - MD: do not allow the 68K to stop the Z80, unless it has been granted bus access first - MD: do not reset bus requested/granted signals when the 68K resets the Z80 - the above two fix The Lost Vikings - MD: clean up the bus address decoding to be more readable - MD: add support for a13000-a130ff (#TIME) region; pass to cartridge I/O² - MD: emulate SRAM mapping used by >16mbit games; bank mapping used by >32mbit games³ - MD: add 'reset pending' flag so that loading save states won't reload 68K PC, SP registers - this fixes save state support ... mostly⁴ - MD: if DMA is not enabled, do not allow CD5 to be set [Cydrak] - this fixes in-game graphics for Ristar. Title screen still corrupted on first run - MD: detect and break sprite lists that form an infinite loop [Cydrak] - this fixes the emulator from dead-locking on certain games - MD: add DC offset to sign DAC PCM samples [Cydrak] - this improves audio in Sonic 3 - MD: 68K TAS has a hardware bug that prevents writing the result back to RAM - this fixes Gargoyles - MD: 68K TRAP should not change CPU interrupt level - this fixes Shining Force II, Shining in the Darkness, etc - icarus: better SRAM heuristics for Mega Drive games Todo: - need to serialize the new cartridge ramEnable, ramWritable, bank variables ¹: so technically, the GBA has its FIFO queue (raw PCM), plus a GB chipset. The GB audio runs at 2MHz. However, I was being lazy and running the sequencer 64 times in a row, thus decimating the audio to 32KHz. But simply discarding 63 out of every 64 samples resorts in muddier sound with more static in it. However ... increasing the audio thread processing intensity 64-fold, and requiring heavy-duty three-chain lowpass and highpass filters is not cheap. For this bump in sound quality, we're eating a loss of about 30% of previous performance. Also note that the GB audio emulation in the GBA core still lacks many of the improvements made to the GB core. I was hoping to complete the GB enhancements, but it seems like I'm never going to pass blargg's psychotic edge case tests. So, first I want to clean up the GB audio to my current coding standards, and then I'll port that over to the GBA, which should further increase sound quality. At that point, it sound exceed mGBA's audio quality (due to the ridiculously high sampling rate and strong-attenuation audio filtering.) ²: word writes are probably not handled correctly ... but games are only supposed to do byte writes here. ³: the SRAM mapping is used by games like "Story of Thor" and "Phantasy Star IV." Unfortunately, the former wasn't released in the US and is region protected. So you'll need to change the NTSU to NTSCJ in md/system/system.cpp in order to boot it. But it does work nicely now. The write protection bit is cleared in the game, and then it fails to write to SRAM (soooooooo many games with SRAM write protection do this), so for now I've had to disable checking that bit. Phantasy Star IV has a US release, but sadly the game doesn't boot yet. Hitting some other bug. The bank mapping is pretty much just for the 40mbit Super Street Fighter game. It shows the Sega and Capcom logos now, but is hitting yet another bug and deadlocking. For now, I emulate the SRAM/bank mapping registers on all cartridges, and set sane defaults. So long as games don't write to $a130XX, they should all continue to work. But obviously, we need to get to a point where higan/icarus can selectively enable these registers on a per-game basis. ⁴: so, the Mega Drive has various ways to lock a chip until another chip releases it. The VDP can lock the 68K, the 68K can lock the Z80, etc. If this happens when you save a state, it'll dead-lock the emulator. So that's obviously a problem that needs to be fixed. The fix will be nasty ... basically, bypassing the dead-lock, creating a miniature, one-instruction-long race condition. Extremely unlikely to cause any issues in practice (it's only a little worse than the SNES CPU/SMP desync), but ... there's nothing I can do about it. So you'll have to take it or leave it. But yeah, for now, save states may lock up the emulator. I need to add code to break the loops when in the process of creating a save state still.
2017-03-10 10:23:29 +00:00
string ramMode = "none";
Update to v102r17 release. byuu says: Changelog: - GBA: process audio at 2MHz instead of 32KHz¹ - MD: do not allow the 68K to stop the Z80, unless it has been granted bus access first - MD: do not reset bus requested/granted signals when the 68K resets the Z80 - the above two fix The Lost Vikings - MD: clean up the bus address decoding to be more readable - MD: add support for a13000-a130ff (#TIME) region; pass to cartridge I/O² - MD: emulate SRAM mapping used by >16mbit games; bank mapping used by >32mbit games³ - MD: add 'reset pending' flag so that loading save states won't reload 68K PC, SP registers - this fixes save state support ... mostly⁴ - MD: if DMA is not enabled, do not allow CD5 to be set [Cydrak] - this fixes in-game graphics for Ristar. Title screen still corrupted on first run - MD: detect and break sprite lists that form an infinite loop [Cydrak] - this fixes the emulator from dead-locking on certain games - MD: add DC offset to sign DAC PCM samples [Cydrak] - this improves audio in Sonic 3 - MD: 68K TAS has a hardware bug that prevents writing the result back to RAM - this fixes Gargoyles - MD: 68K TRAP should not change CPU interrupt level - this fixes Shining Force II, Shining in the Darkness, etc - icarus: better SRAM heuristics for Mega Drive games Todo: - need to serialize the new cartridge ramEnable, ramWritable, bank variables ¹: so technically, the GBA has its FIFO queue (raw PCM), plus a GB chipset. The GB audio runs at 2MHz. However, I was being lazy and running the sequencer 64 times in a row, thus decimating the audio to 32KHz. But simply discarding 63 out of every 64 samples resorts in muddier sound with more static in it. However ... increasing the audio thread processing intensity 64-fold, and requiring heavy-duty three-chain lowpass and highpass filters is not cheap. For this bump in sound quality, we're eating a loss of about 30% of previous performance. Also note that the GB audio emulation in the GBA core still lacks many of the improvements made to the GB core. I was hoping to complete the GB enhancements, but it seems like I'm never going to pass blargg's psychotic edge case tests. So, first I want to clean up the GB audio to my current coding standards, and then I'll port that over to the GBA, which should further increase sound quality. At that point, it sound exceed mGBA's audio quality (due to the ridiculously high sampling rate and strong-attenuation audio filtering.) ²: word writes are probably not handled correctly ... but games are only supposed to do byte writes here. ³: the SRAM mapping is used by games like "Story of Thor" and "Phantasy Star IV." Unfortunately, the former wasn't released in the US and is region protected. So you'll need to change the NTSU to NTSCJ in md/system/system.cpp in order to boot it. But it does work nicely now. The write protection bit is cleared in the game, and then it fails to write to SRAM (soooooooo many games with SRAM write protection do this), so for now I've had to disable checking that bit. Phantasy Star IV has a US release, but sadly the game doesn't boot yet. Hitting some other bug. The bank mapping is pretty much just for the 40mbit Super Street Fighter game. It shows the Sega and Capcom logos now, but is hitting yet another bug and deadlocking. For now, I emulate the SRAM/bank mapping registers on all cartridges, and set sane defaults. So long as games don't write to $a130XX, they should all continue to work. But obviously, we need to get to a point where higan/icarus can selectively enable these registers on a per-game basis. ⁴: so, the Mega Drive has various ways to lock a chip until another chip releases it. The VDP can lock the 68K, the 68K can lock the Z80, etc. If this happens when you save a state, it'll dead-lock the emulator. So that's obviously a problem that needs to be fixed. The fix will be nasty ... basically, bypassing the dead-lock, creating a miniature, one-instruction-long race condition. Extremely unlikely to cause any issues in practice (it's only a little worse than the SNES CPU/SMP desync), but ... there's nothing I can do about it. So you'll have to take it or leave it. But yeah, for now, save states may lock up the emulator. I need to add code to break the loops when in the process of creating a save state still.
2017-03-10 10:23:29 +00:00
uint32_t ramFrom = 0;
ramFrom |= data[0x01b4] << 24;
ramFrom |= data[0x01b5] << 16;
ramFrom |= data[0x01b6] << 8;
ramFrom |= data[0x01b7] << 0;
uint32_t ramTo = 0;
ramTo |= data[0x01b8] << 24;
ramTo |= data[0x01b9] << 16;
ramTo |= data[0x01ba] << 8;
ramTo |= data[0x01bb] << 0;
if(!(ramFrom & 1) && !(ramTo & 1)) ramMode = "hi";
if( (ramFrom & 1) && (ramTo & 1)) ramMode = "lo";
if(!(ramFrom & 1) && (ramTo & 1)) ramMode = "word";
if(data[0x01b0] != 'R' || data[0x01b1] != 'A') ramMode = "none";
uint32_t ramSize = ramTo - ramFrom + 1;
if(ramMode == "hi") ramSize = (ramTo >> 1) - (ramFrom >> 1) + 1;
if(ramMode == "lo") ramSize = (ramTo >> 1) - (ramFrom >> 1) + 1;
if(ramMode == "word") ramSize = ramTo - ramFrom + 1;
if(ramMode != "none") ramSize = bit::round(min(0x20000, ramSize));
if(ramMode == "none") ramSize = 0;
string_vector regions;
string region = slice((const char*)&data[0x1f0], 0, 16).trimRight(" ");
if(!regions) {
if(region == "JAPAN" ) regions.append("NTSC-J");
if(region == "EUROPE") regions.append("PAL");
}
if(!regions) {
if(region.find("J")) regions.append("NTSC-J");
if(region.find("U")) regions.append("NTSC-U");
if(region.find("E")) regions.append("PAL");
if(region.find("W")) regions.append("NTSC-J", "NTSC-U", "PAL");
}
if(!regions && region.size() == 1) {
uint8_t field = region.hex();
if(field & 0x01) regions.append("NTSC-J");
if(field & 0x04) regions.append("NTSC-U");
if(field & 0x08) regions.append("PAL");
}
if(!regions) {
regions.append("NTSC-J");
}
Update to v102r17 release. byuu says: Changelog: - GBA: process audio at 2MHz instead of 32KHz¹ - MD: do not allow the 68K to stop the Z80, unless it has been granted bus access first - MD: do not reset bus requested/granted signals when the 68K resets the Z80 - the above two fix The Lost Vikings - MD: clean up the bus address decoding to be more readable - MD: add support for a13000-a130ff (#TIME) region; pass to cartridge I/O² - MD: emulate SRAM mapping used by >16mbit games; bank mapping used by >32mbit games³ - MD: add 'reset pending' flag so that loading save states won't reload 68K PC, SP registers - this fixes save state support ... mostly⁴ - MD: if DMA is not enabled, do not allow CD5 to be set [Cydrak] - this fixes in-game graphics for Ristar. Title screen still corrupted on first run - MD: detect and break sprite lists that form an infinite loop [Cydrak] - this fixes the emulator from dead-locking on certain games - MD: add DC offset to sign DAC PCM samples [Cydrak] - this improves audio in Sonic 3 - MD: 68K TAS has a hardware bug that prevents writing the result back to RAM - this fixes Gargoyles - MD: 68K TRAP should not change CPU interrupt level - this fixes Shining Force II, Shining in the Darkness, etc - icarus: better SRAM heuristics for Mega Drive games Todo: - need to serialize the new cartridge ramEnable, ramWritable, bank variables ¹: so technically, the GBA has its FIFO queue (raw PCM), plus a GB chipset. The GB audio runs at 2MHz. However, I was being lazy and running the sequencer 64 times in a row, thus decimating the audio to 32KHz. But simply discarding 63 out of every 64 samples resorts in muddier sound with more static in it. However ... increasing the audio thread processing intensity 64-fold, and requiring heavy-duty three-chain lowpass and highpass filters is not cheap. For this bump in sound quality, we're eating a loss of about 30% of previous performance. Also note that the GB audio emulation in the GBA core still lacks many of the improvements made to the GB core. I was hoping to complete the GB enhancements, but it seems like I'm never going to pass blargg's psychotic edge case tests. So, first I want to clean up the GB audio to my current coding standards, and then I'll port that over to the GBA, which should further increase sound quality. At that point, it sound exceed mGBA's audio quality (due to the ridiculously high sampling rate and strong-attenuation audio filtering.) ²: word writes are probably not handled correctly ... but games are only supposed to do byte writes here. ³: the SRAM mapping is used by games like "Story of Thor" and "Phantasy Star IV." Unfortunately, the former wasn't released in the US and is region protected. So you'll need to change the NTSU to NTSCJ in md/system/system.cpp in order to boot it. But it does work nicely now. The write protection bit is cleared in the game, and then it fails to write to SRAM (soooooooo many games with SRAM write protection do this), so for now I've had to disable checking that bit. Phantasy Star IV has a US release, but sadly the game doesn't boot yet. Hitting some other bug. The bank mapping is pretty much just for the 40mbit Super Street Fighter game. It shows the Sega and Capcom logos now, but is hitting yet another bug and deadlocking. For now, I emulate the SRAM/bank mapping registers on all cartridges, and set sane defaults. So long as games don't write to $a130XX, they should all continue to work. But obviously, we need to get to a point where higan/icarus can selectively enable these registers on a per-game basis. ⁴: so, the Mega Drive has various ways to lock a chip until another chip releases it. The VDP can lock the 68K, the 68K can lock the Z80, etc. If this happens when you save a state, it'll dead-lock the emulator. So that's obviously a problem that needs to be fixed. The fix will be nasty ... basically, bypassing the dead-lock, creating a miniature, one-instruction-long race condition. Extremely unlikely to cause any issues in practice (it's only a little worse than the SNES CPU/SMP desync), but ... there's nothing I can do about it. So you'll have to take it or leave it. But yeah, for now, save states may lock up the emulator. I need to add code to break the loops when in the process of creating a save state still.
2017-03-10 10:23:29 +00:00
string output;
output.append("game\n");
output.append(" sha256: ", Hash::SHA256(data).digest(), "\n");
output.append(" label: ", Location::prefix(location), "\n");
output.append(" name: ", Location::prefix(location), "\n");
output.append(" region: ", regions.left(), "\n");
output.append(" board\n");
output.append(Memory{}.type("ROM").size(data.size()).content("Program").text());
if(ramSize && ramMode != "none") {
output.append(Memory{}.type("RAM").size(ramSize).content("Save").text());
output.append(" mode: ", ramMode, "\n");
output.append(" offset: 0x", hex(ramFrom), "\n");
}
return output;
}
Update to v100r02 release. byuu says: Sigh ... I'm really not a good person. I'm inherently selfish. My responsibility and obligation right now is to work on loki, and then on the Tengai Makyou Zero translation, and then on improving the Famicom emulation. And yet ... it's not what I really want to do. That shouldn't matter; I should work on my responsibilities first. Instead, I'm going to be a greedy, self-centered asshole, and work on what I really want to instead. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm sure this will make a few people happy, and probably upset even more people. I'm also making zero guarantees that this ever gets finished. As always, I wish I could keep these things secret, so if I fail / give up, I could just drop it with no shame. But I would have to cut everyone out of the WIP process completely to make it happen. So, here goes ... This WIP adds the initial skeleton for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulation. God help us. (minor note: apparently the new extension for Mega Drive games is .md, neat. That's what I chose for the folders too. I thought it was .smd, so that'll be fixed in icarus for the next WIP.) (aside: this is why I wanted to get v100 out. I didn't want this code in a skeleton state in v100's source. Nor did I want really broken emulation, which the first release is sure to be, tarring said release.) ... So, basically, I've been ruminating on the legacy I want to leave behind with higan. 3D systems are just plain out. I'm never going to support them. They're too complex for my abilities, and they would run too slowly with my design style. I'm not willing to compromise my design ideals. And I would never want to play a 3D game system at native 240p/480i resolution ... but 1080p+ upscaling is not accurate, so that's a conflict I want to avoid entirely. It's also never going to emulate computer systems (X68K, PC-98, FM-Towns, etc) because holy shit that would completely destroy me. It's also never going emulate arcade machines. So I think of higan as a collection of 2D emulators for consoles and handhelds. I've gone over every major 2D gaming system there is, looking for ones with games I actually care about and enjoy. And I basically have five of those systems supported already. Looking at the remaining list, I see only three systems left that I have any interest in whatsoever: PC-Engine, Master System, Mega Drive. Again, I'm not in any way committing to emulating any of these, but ... if I had all of those in higan, I think I'd be content to really, truly, finally stop writing more emulators for the rest of my life. And so I decided to tackle the most difficult system first. If I'm successful, the Z80 core should cover a lot of the work on the SMS. And the HuC6280 should land somewhere between the NES and SNES in terms of difficulty ... closer to the NES. The systems that just don't appeal to me at all, which I will never touch, include, but are not limited to: * Atari 2600/5200/7800 * Lynx * Jaguar * Vectrex * Colecovision * Commodore 64 * Neo-Geo * Neo-Geo Pocket / Color * Virtual Boy * Super A'can * 32X * CD-i * etc, etc, etc. And really, even if something were mildly interesting in there ... we have to stop. I can't scale infinitely. I'm already way past my limit, but I'm doing this anyway. Too many cores bloats everything and kills quality on everything. I don't want higan to become MESS v2. I don't know what I'll do about the Famicom Disk System, PC-Engine CD, and Mega CD. I don't think I'll be able to achieve 60fps emulating the Mega CD, even if I tried to. I don't know what's going to happen here with even the Mega Drive. Maybe I'll get driven crazy with the documentation and quit. Maybe it'll end up being too complicated and I'll quit. Maybe the emulation will end up way too slow and I'll give up. Maybe it'll take me seven years to get any games playable at all. Maybe Steve Snake, AamirM and Mike Pavone will pool money to hire a hitman to come after me. Who knows. But this is what I want to do, so ... here goes nothing.
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