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Tim Allen 9c25f128f9 Update to v104r07 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - md/vdp: added VIP bit to status register; fixes Cliffhanger
  - processor/m68k/disassembler: added modes 7 and 8 to LEA address
    disassembly
  - processor/m68k/disassembler: enhanced ILLEGAL to display LINEA/LINEF
    $xxx variants
  - processor/m68k: ILLEGAL/LINEA/LINEF do not modify the stack
    register; fixes Caeser no Yabou II
  - icarus/sfc: request sgb1.boot.rom and sgb2.boot.rom separately; as
    they are different
  - icarus/sfc: removed support for external firmware when loading ROM
    images

The hack to run Mega Drive Ballz 3D isn't in place, as I don't know if
it's correct, and the graphics were corrupted anyway.

The SGB boot ROM change is going to require updating the icarus database
as well. I will add that in when I start dumping more cartridges here
soon.

Finally ... I explained this already, but I'll do so here as well: I
removed icarus' support for loading SNES coprocessor firmware games with
external firmware files (eg dsp1.program.rom + dsp1.data.rom in the same
path as supermariokart.sfc, for example.)

I realize most are going to see this as an antagonizing/stubborn move
given the recent No-Intro discussion, and I won't deny that said thread
is why this came to the forefront of my mind. But on my word, I honestly
believe this was an ineffective solution for many reasons not related to
our disagreements:

 1. No-Intro distributes SNES coprocessor firmware as a merged file, eg
    "DSP1 (World).zip/DSP1 (World).bin" -- icarus can't possibly know
    about every ROM distribution set's naming conventions for firmware.
    (Right now, it appears GoodSNES and NSRT are mostly dead; but there
    may be more DATs in the future -- including my own.)
 2. Even if the user obtains the firmware and tries to rename it, it
    won't work: icarus parses manifests generated by the heuristics
    module and sees two ROM files: dsp1.program.rom and dsp1.data.rom.
    icarus cannot identify a file named dsp1.rom as containing both
    of these sub-files. Users are going to have to know how to split
    files, which there is no way to do on stock Windows. Merging files,
    however, can be done via `copy /b supermariokart.sfc+dsp1.rom
    supermariokartdsp.sfc`; - and dsp1.rom can be named whatever now.
    I am not saying this will be easy for the average user, but it's
    easier than splitting files.
 3. Separate firmware breaks icarus' database lookup. If you have
    pilotwings.sfc but without firmware, icarus will not find a match
    for it in the database lookup phase. It will then fall back on
    heuristics. The heuristics will pick DSP1B for compatibility with
    Ballz 3D which requires it. And so it will try to pull in the
    wrong firmware, and the game's intro will not work correctly.
    Furthermore, the database information will be unavailable, resulting
    in inaccurate mirroring.

So for these reasons, I have removed said support. You must now load
SNES coprocessor games into higan in one of two ways: 1) game paks with
split files; or 2) SFC images with merged firmware.

If and when No-Intro deploys a method I can actually use, I give you all
my word I will give it a fair shot and if it's reasonable, I'll support
it in icarus.
2017-08-28 22:46:14 +10:00
Tim Allen 07995c05a5 Update to v100 release.
byuu says:

higan has finally reached v100!

I feel it's important to stress right away that this is not "version
1.00", nor is it a major milestone release. Rather than arbitrary version
numbers, all of my software simply bumps version numbers by one for each
official release. As such, higan v100 is simply higan's 100th release.

That said, the primary focus of this release has been code
clean-ups. These are always somewhat dangerous in that regressions are
possible. We've tested through sixteen WIP revisions, one of which was
open to the public, to try and minimize any regressions. But all the same,
please report any regressions if you discover any.

Changelog (since v099):
FC: render during pixels 1-256 instead of 0-255 [hex_usr]
FC: rewrote controller emulation code
SFC: 8% speedup over the previous release thanks to PPU optimizations
SFC: fixed nasty DB address wrapping regression from v099
SFC: USART developer controller removed; superseded by 21fx
SFC: Super Multitap option removed from controller port 1; ports
    renamed 2-5
SFC: hidden option to experiment with 128KB VRAM (strictly for novelty)
higan: audio volume no longer divided by number of audio streams
higan: updated controller polling code to fix possible future mapping
    issues
higan: replaced nall/stream with nall/vfs for file-loading subsystem
tomoko: can now load multi-slotted games via command-line
tomoko: synchronize video removed from UI; still available in the
    settings file
tomoko, icarus: can navigate to root drive selection on Windows
all: major code cleanups and refactoring (~1MB diff against v099)

Note 1: the audio volume change means that SGB and MSU1 games won't
lose half the volume on the SNES sounds anymore. However, if one goes
overboard and drives the sound all the way to max volume with the MSU1,
clamping may occur. The obvious solution is not to drive volume that high
(it will vastly overpower the SNES audio, which usually never exceeds
25% volume.) Another option is to lower the volume in the audio settings
panel to 50%. In general, neither is likely to ever be necessary.

Note 2: the synchronize video option was hidden from the UI because it
is no longer useful. With the advent of compositors, the loss of the
complicated timing settings panel, support for the WonderSwan and its
75hz display, the need to emulate variable refresh rate behaviors in the
Game Boy, the unfortunate latency spike and audio distortion caused by
long Vsync pauses, and the arrival of adaptive sync technology ... it
no longer makes sense to present this option. However, as stated, you
can edit settings.bml to enable this option anyway if you insist and
understand the aforementioned risks.

Changelog (since v099r16 open beta):

- fixed MSU1 audio sign extension
- fixed compilation with SGB support disabled
- icarus can now navigate to root directory
- fixed compilation issues with OS X port
- (hopefully) fixed label height issue with hiro that affected icarus
  import dialog
- (mostly) fixed BS Memory, Sufami Turbo slot loading

Errata:

- forgot to remove the " - Slot A", " - Slot B" suffixes for Sufami
  Turbo slot loading
  - this means you have to navigate up one folder and then into Sufami
    Turbo/ to load games for this system
- moving WonderSwan orientation controls to the device slot is causing
  some nastiness
  - can now select orientation from the main menu, but it doesn't rotate
    the display
2016-07-08 22:04:59 +10:00
Tim Allen 0955295475 Update to v098r08 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:
- nall/vector rewritten from scratch
- higan/audio uses nall/vector instead of raw pointers
- higan/sfc/coprocessor/sdd1 updated with new research information
- ruby/video/glx and ruby/video/glx2: fuck salt glXSwapIntervalEXT!

The big change here is definitely nall/vector. The Windows, OS X and Qt
ports won't compile until you change some first/last strings to
left/right, but GTK will compile.

I'd be really grateful if anyone could stress-test nall/vector. Pretty
much everything I do relies on this class. If we introduce a bug, the
worst case scenario is my entire SFC game dump database gets corrupted,
or the byuu.org server gets compromised. So it's really critical that we
test the hell out of this right now.

The S-DD1 changes mean you need to update your installation of icarus
again. Also, even though the Lunar FMV never really worked on the
accuracy core anyway (it didn't initialize the PPU properly), it really
won't work now that we emulate the hard-limit of 16MiB for S-DD1 games.
2016-05-02 19:57:04 +10:00
Tim Allen 0d0af39b44 Update to v097r14 release.
byuu says:

This is a few days old, but oh well.

This WIP changes nall,hiro,ruby,icarus back to (u)int(8,16,32,64)_t.

I'm slowly pushing for (u)int(8,16,32,64) to use my custom
Integer<Size>/Natural<Size> classes instead. But it's going to be one
hell of a struggle to get that into higan.
2016-02-16 20:11:58 +11:00
Tim Allen 32a95a9761 Update to v097r12 release.
byuu says:

Nothing WS-related this time.

First, I fixed expansion port device mapping. On first load, it was
mapping the expansion port device too late, so it ended up not taking
effect. I had to spin out the logic for that into
Program::connectDevices(). This was proving to be quite annoying while
testing eBoot (SNES-Hook simulation.)

Second, I fixed the audio->set(Frequency, Latency) functions to take
(uint) parameters from the configuration file, so the weird behavior
around changing settings in the audio panel should hopefully be gone
now.

Third, I rewrote the interface->load,unload functions to call into the
(Emulator)::System::load,unload functions. And I have those call out to
Cartridge::load,unload. Before, this was inverted, and Cartridge::load()
was invoking System::load(), which I felt was kind of backward.

The Super Game Boy really didn't like this change, however. And it took
me a few hours to power through it. Before, I had the Game Boy core
dummying out all the interface->(load,save)Request calls, and having the
SNES core make them for it. This is because the folder paths and IDs
will be different between the two cores.

I've redesigned things so that ICD2's Emulator::Interface overloads
loadRequest and saveRequest, and translates the requests into new
requests for the SuperFamicom core. This allows the Game Boy code to do
its own loading for everything without a bunch of Super Game Boy special
casing, and without any awkwardness around powering on with no cartridge
inserted.

This also lets the SNES side of things simply call into higher-level
GameBoy::interface->load,save(id, stream) functions instead of stabbing
at the raw underlying state inside of various Game Boy core emulation
classes. So things are a lot better abstracted now.
2016-02-08 14:17:59 +11:00
Tim Allen 605a8aa3e9 Update to v097r05 release.
byuu says:

More V30MZ implemented, a lot more to go.

icarus now supports importing WS and WSC games. It expects them to have
the correct file extension, same for GB and GBC.

> Ugh, apparently HiDPI icarus doesn't let you press the check boxes.

I set the flag value in the plist to false for now. Forgot to do it for
higan, but hopefully I won't forget before release.
2016-01-30 17:40:35 +11:00