Update to bsnes v023r01? release.

Alright, I've posted the new WIP.

             Changelog:
             - CGRAM fix for WWF Super Wrestlemania
             - Updated to blargg's snes_ntsc library to version 0.2.2
             - Added ST and ST dual cart loading menu options (*)
             - Redesigned the video mode configuration panel a bit --
let me know what you think (**)

 (*) - You have to set path.bios to an -absolute- path, ./ is
currently broken and I need to fix that. So, set it to eg
"c:/path/to/bsnes/bios" where stbios.bin is inside that folder.
             (**) - The video menu obviously doesn't do anything, it's
just there for design advice / suggestions for now.

 You'll notice the icon is gone. This is because I built this version
with MinGW 4, and I'm not sure how to add the icon to MinGW apps.
You'll also notice it's ~6% faster on Core 2 processors as a result.

 The 16% speedup was only when PGO was enabled. But I can't enable
that, because it causes bsnes to crash randomly. GCC gets too risky
with its optimizations and ends up generating bad code (the GCC manual
states as much, I'm not just trying to blame problems in my app on GCC
here.)

 So, 6% is the best speedup we can do for now. Compare to v0.023
official if you like. You probably won't see the speedup on older
processors like the Pentium IV.

 EDIT: it seems like that MinGW vsnprintf problem is based on DLL
files on the local computer. Probably the MS VisualC runtime files.
The WIP works fine on my home PC (WinXP Pro), but not on my work PC
(Win2k). I'm going to have to stick with Visual C++ builds until I am
able to completely remove all sprintf-style calls from the emulator.

 If you get an error about memory at 0xffffffff which cannot be read,
you know why. Try building with Visual C++ if you have it, or maybe
there's some way to upgrade libc DLLs that the app is binding to.
Whatever DLL has vsnprintf is the one that needs to be updated, if at
all possible.

             Here's what the video config screen looks like at the
moment.

             [image]

 I tried putting the text at the top, that way there won't be any odd
gaps between the text and combo box dropdown, due to different sized
fonts on different platforms.

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