byuu says:
Changelog:
- added Cocoa target: higan can now be compiled for OS X Lion
[Cydrak, byuu]
- SNES/accuracy profile hires color blending improvements - fixes
Marvelous text [AWJ]
- fixed a slight bug in SNES/SA-1 VBR support caused by a typo
- added support for multi-pass shaders that can load external textures
(requires OpenGL 3.2+)
- added game library path (used by ananke->Import Game) to
Settings->Advanced
- system profiles, shaders and cheats database can be stored in "all
users" shared folders now (eg /usr/share on Linux)
- all configuration files are in BML format now, instead of XML (much
easier to read and edit this way)
- main window supports drag-and-drop of game folders (but not game files
/ ZIP archives)
- audio buffer clears when entering a modal loop on Windows (prevents
audio repetition with DirectSound driver)
- a substantial amount of code clean-up (probably the biggest
refactoring to date)
One highly desired target for this release was to default to the optimal
drivers instead of the safest drivers, but because AMD drivers don't
seem to like my OpenGL 3.2 driver, I've decided to postpone that. AMD
has too big a market share. Hopefully with v093 officially released, we
can get some public input on what AMD doesn't like.
In the release thread, byuu says:
The first official release of higan has been posted. higan is the
new name for bsnes, and it continues with the latter's version
numbering.
Note that as of now, bsnes still exists. It's a module distributed
inside of higan. bsnes is now specific to my SNES emulator.
Due to last minute changes to the emulator interface, and missing
support in ananke, I wasn't able to include Cydrak's Nintendo DS
emulator dasShiny in this build, but I hope to do so in the next
release.
http://code.google.com/p/higan/downloads/list
For both new and experienced users, please read the higan user guide
first:
http://byuu.org/higan/user-guide
In the v091 WIP thread, byuu says:
r15->r16:
- BS-X MaskROM handling (partial ... need to split bsx/flash away
from sfc/chip, restructure code - it requires tagging the base
cart markup for now, but it needs to parse the slotted cart
markup)
- phoenixflags / phoenixlink += -m32
- nall/sort stability
- if(input.poll(scancode[activeScancode]) == false) return;
- MSU1 / USART need to use interface->path(1)
- MSU1 needs to use Markup::Document, not XML::Document
- case-insensitive folder listings
- remove nall/emulation/system.hpp files (move to ananke)
- remove rom/ram id= checks with indexing
X have cores ask for manifest.bml (skipped for v092's release, too
big a change)
- rename compatibility profile to balanced (so people don't assume
it has better compatibility than accuracy)
byuu says:
A few issues crept up in the last release, this should take care of
them.
First, it seems that the 32-bit runtime on 64-bit versions of Windows
have 64-bit time functions; whereas true 32-bit Windows does not. This
was causing a DLL error when attempting to load bsnes v090.
Second, when there were more than 2,000 files in the same folder on
Windows, it was lagging the file browser. With OV2's help, I've fixed
that and it'll now load the list instantly.
Lastly, I've included the missing video shaders this time.
byuu says:
This release brings improved Super Game Boy emulation, the final SHA256
hashes for the DSP-(1,1B,2,3,4) and ST-(0010,0011) coprocessors, user
interface improvements, and major internal code restructuring.
Changelog (since v074):
- completely rewrote memory sub-system to support 1-byte granularity in
XML mapping
- removed Memory inheritance and MMIO class completely, any address can
be mapped to any function now
- SuperFX: removed SuperFXBus : Bus, now implemented manually
- SA-1: removed SA1Bus : Bus, now implemented manually
- entire bus mapping is now static, happens once on cartridge load
- as a result, read/write handlers now handle MMC mapping; slower
average case, far faster worst case
- namespace memory is no more, RAM arrays are stored inside the chips
they are owned by now
- GameBoy: improved CPU HALT emulation, fixes Zelda: Link's Awakening
scrolling
- GameBoy: added serial emulation (cannot connect to another GB yet),
fixes Shin Megami Tensei - Devichil
- GameBoy: improved LCD STAT emulation, fixes Sagaia
- ui: added fullscreen support (F11 key), video settings allows for
three scale settings
- ui: fixed brightness, contrast, gamma, audio volume, input frequency
values on program startup
- ui: since Qt is dead, config file becomes bsnes.cfg once again
- Super Game Boy: you can now load the BIOS without a game inserted to
see a pretty white box
- ui-gameboy: can be built without SNES components now
- libsnes: now a UI target, compile with 'make ui=ui-libsnes'
- libsnes: added WRAM, APURAM, VRAM, OAM, CGRAM access (cheat search,
etc)
- source: removed launcher/, as the Qt port is now gone
- source: Makefile restructuring to better support new ui targets
- source: lots of other internal code cleanup work
byuu says:
This release marks a major step forward, offering full low-level
emulation of all four DSP coprocessors based on the NEC uPD77C25
processor core. Many people were responsible for this milestone: Dr.
Decapitator for the actual decapping and extraction; Lord Nightmare for
the cartridges and some special analysis tools; myself, Jonas Quinn and
Cydrak for the uPD77C25 emulation; and all of the donors who raised the
necessary $1,000 for the necessary hardware and equipment needed to pull
this all off. To say thanks to the donors, I am releasing the uPD77C25
emulation core to the public domain, so that everyone can benefit from
it.
All four DSP emulations will be improved by this by way of having
realistic timing; the DSP-4 will benefit further as the high-level
emulation was incomplete and somewhat buggy; and the DSP-3 will benefit
the most as the high-levle emulation there was not complete enough to be
playable. As a result, most notably, this means bsnes v073 is the first
emulator to fully be able to play SD Gundam GX (J)!
As bsnes' primary goal is accuracy, the LLE DSP support renders the old
HLE DSP support obsolete. Ergo, I have removed the 166KB of HLE source
code, and replaced it with the uPD77C25 core, which comprises a mere
20KB of source code. As this LLE module supports save states, this also
means that for the first time, DSP-3 and DSP-4 games have save state
support.
On the other hand, this also means that to run any DSP game, you will
need the appropriate program ROM. As these are copyrighted, I cannot
distribute them nor tell you where to get them. All I can do is provide
you with the necessary filenames and hashes.
Changelog (since v072 release):
* added NEC uPD77C25 emulation core
* added low-level emulation of the DSP-1, DSP-1B, DSP-2, DSP-3, DSP-4
coprocessors
* removed high-level emulation of the DSP-n coprocessors
* added blargg's libco::ppc.c module, which is far more portable, even
running on the PS3
* added software filter support via binary plugins
* added debugger (currently Linux-only); but it is as yet unstable
* added pause shortcut
* updated mightymo's cheat code database
Tim Allen