Added hotfix for bug in "The Hurricanes" (happens on a real SNES)
Added scanline override for NHL '94
Added fix for entering folder names into BrowserDialog filename box
Rename hiro::Property to hiro::Attribute
Disable XChaCha20 CSPRNG on Android for now due to compilation issues
Add macOS IOKit joypad support [Sintendo]
Keep focus on the panel list when changing settings / tools panels.
Fixed Windows combo box flickering when changing panels.
Suppress Alt+F4 on Windows in fullscreen mode.
* provide actual display device names in ruby::Video::hasMonitors()
* macOS: fixed LineEdit::onChange (fixes state manager state naming)
* macOS: fixed RadioLabel height to not clip off bottom of radio icons
* macOS: fixed RadioLabel initial check states (fixed input settings
focus mode options)
* macOS: fixed TableViewItem::setSelected (fixes initial selection on
settings/tools windows)
* macOS: fixed TextEdit geometry (fixed manifest viewer)
* macOS: don't allow multiple TableViewItems to be selected in
single-selection mode
** (fixes settings/tools windows selecting multiple items via menubar
options)
* add support for TableView::onActivate(TableViewCell) to Windows, macOS
** allows the new input/hotkey mapping panels to work on Windows, macOS
* polish BrowserDialog behavior
* added CPU and SA1 overclocking support
* added fast forward speed limiting
* added option to mute during fast forwarding and rewinding
* lowered volume when not muting during FF/rewind
* reformatted settings/tools windows from tabs to lists
* moved focus settings to input settings panel
* redesigned input and hotkey settings panels to be easier to use
* fixed offscreen placement issue with path settings panel
* added hotkey combinational logic option (AND / OR mode setting)
* added search support to file browser dialog
* fixed --fullscreen command-line option
byuu says:
- bsnes: added video filters from bsnes v082
- bsnes: added ZSNES snow effect option when games paused or unloaded
(no, I'm not joking)
- bsnes: added 7-zip support (LZMA 19.00 SDK)
[Recent higan WIPs have also mentioned bsnes changes, although the higan code
no longer includes the bsnes code. These changes include:
- higan, bsnes: added EXLOROM, EXLOROM-RAM, EXHIROM mappings
- higan, bsnes: focus the viewport after leaving fullscreen exclusive
mode
- bsnes: re-added mightymo's cheat code database
- bsnes: improved make install rules for the game and cheat code
databases
- bsnes: delayed construction of hiro::Window objects to properly show
bsnes window icons
- Ed.]
byuu says:
Don't let the point release fool you, there are many significant changes in this
release. I will be keeping bsnes releases using a point system until the new
higan release is ready.
Changelog:
- GUI: added high DPI support
- GUI: fixed the state manager image preview
- Windows: added a new waveOut driver with support for dynamic rate control
- Windows: corrected the XAudio 2.1 dynamic rate control support [BearOso]
- Windows: corrected the Direct3D 9.0 fullscreen exclusive window centering
- Windows: fixed XInput controller support on Windows 10
- SFC: added high-level emulation for the DSP1, DSP2, DSP4, ST010, and Cx4
coprocessors
- SFC: fixed a slight rendering glitch in the intro to Megalomania
If the coprocessor firmware is missing, bsnes will fallback on HLE where it is
supported, which is everything other than SD Gundam GX and the two Hayazashi
Nidan Morita Shougi games.
The Windows dynamic rate control works best with Direct3D in fullscreen
exclusive mode. I recommend the waveOut driver over the XAudio 2.1 driver, as it
is not possible to target a single XAudio2 version on all Windows OS releases.
The waveOut driver should work everywhere out of the box.
Note that with DRC, the synchronization source is your monitor, so you will
want to be running at 60hz (NTSC) or 50hz (PAL). If you have an adaptive sync
monitor, you should instead use the WASAPI (exclusive) or ASIO audio driver.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- Interface::displays() -> vector<Display> → Interface::display() -> Display
- <Platform::videoRefresh(display>, ...) → <Platform::videoFrame>(...)
- <Platform::audioSample>(...) → <Platform::audioFrame>(...)
- higan, icarus: use AboutDialog class instead of ad-hoc
implementations
- about dialog is now modal, but now has a clickable website URL
- icarus: reverted if constexpr for now
- MSX: implemented basic CPU, VDP support
I took out the multiple displays support thing because it was never
really implemented fully (Emulator::Video and the GUIs both ignored it)
or used anyway. If it ends up necessary in the future, I'll worry about
it then.
There's enough MSX emulation now to run Mr. Do! without sound or input.
I'm shipping higan with C-BIOS 0.29a, although it likely won't be good
enough in the future (eg it can't do BASIC, floppy disk, or cassette
loading.) I have keyboard and (not working) AY-3-8910 support in a
different branch, so that won't take too long to implement. Main problem
is naming all the darned keyboard keys. I think I need to change
settings.bml's input mapping lines so that the key names are values
instead of node names, so that any characters can appear inside of them.
It turns out my MSX set uses .rom for the file extensions ... gods. So,
icarus can't really import them like this. I may have to re-design
icarus' importer to stop caring about the file extension and instead ask
you what kind of games you are importing. There's no way icarus can
heuristically guess what systems the images belong to, because many
systems don't have any standardized magic bytes.
I'm struggling with where to put SG-1000, SC-3000, ColecoVision, Coleco
Adam stuff. I think they need to be split to two separate higan
subfolders (sg and cv, most likely ...) The MS/GG share a very
customized and extended VDP that the other systems don't have. The Sega
and Coleco older hardware share the same TMS9918 as the MSX, yet have
very different memory maps and peripherals that I don't want to mix
together. Especially if we start getting into the computer-variants
more.
byuu says:
The biggest change was improving WonderSwan emulation. With help from
trap15, I tracked down a bug where I was checking the wrong bit for
reverse DMA transfers. Then I also emulated VTOTAL to support variable
refresh rate. Then I improved HyperVoice emulation which should be
unsigned samples in three of four modes. That got Fire Lancer running
great. I also rewrote the disassembler. The old one disassembled many
instructions completely wrong, and deviated too much from any known x86
syntax. I also emulated some of the quirks of the V30 (two-byte POP into
registers fails, SALC is just XLAT mirrored, etc) which probably don't
matter unless someone tries to run code to verify it's a NEC CPU and not
an Intel CPU, but hey, why not?
I also put more work into the MSX skeleton, but it's still just a
skeleton with no real emulation yet.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- fixed bug in Emulator::Game::Memory::operator bool()
- nall: renamed view<string> back to `string_view`
- nall:: implemented `array_view`
- Game Boy: split cartridge-specific input mappings (rumble,
accelerometer) to their own separate ports
- Game Boy: fixed MBC7 accelerometer x-axis
- icarus: Game Boy, Super Famicom, Mega Drive cores output internal
header game titles to heuristics manifests
- higan, icarus, hiro/gtk: improve viewport geometry configuration;
fixed higan crashing bug with XShm driver
- higan: connect Video::poll(),update() functionality
- hiro, ruby: several compilation / bugfixes, should get the macOS
port compiling again, hopefully [Sintendo]
- ruby/video/xshm: fix crashing bug on window resize
- a bit hacky; it's throwing BadAccess Xlib warnings, but they're
not fatal, so I am catching and ignoring them
- bsnes: removed Application::Windows::onModalChange hook that's no
longer needed [Screwtape]
byuu says:
The main thing I worked on today was emulating the MBC7 EEPROM.
And... I have many things to say about that, but not here, and not now...
The missing EEPROM support is why the accelerometer was broken. Although
it's not evidently clear that I'm emulating the actual values
incorrectly. I'll think about it and get it fixed, though.
bsnes went from ~308fps to ~328fps, and I don't even know why. Probably
something somewhere in the 140KB of changes to other things made in this
WIP.
byuu says:
The Windows port can now run the emulation while navigating menus,
moving windows, and resizing windows. The main window also doesn't try
so hard to constantly clear itself. This may leave a bit of unwelcome
residue behind in some video drivers during resize, but under most
drivers, it lets you resize without a huge amount of flickering.
On all platforms, I now also run the emulation during MessageWindow
modal events, where I didn't before.
I'm thinking we should probably mute the audio during modal periods,
since it can generate a good deal of distortion.
The tooltip timeout was increased to ten seconds.
On Windows, the enter key can now activate buttons, so you can more
quickly dismiss MessageDialog windows. This part may not actually work
... I'm in the middle of trying to get messages out of the global
`Application_windowProc` hook and into the individual `Widget_windowProc`
hooks, so I need to do some testing.
I fixed a bug where changing the input driver wouldn't immediately
reload the input/hotkey settings lists properly.
I also went from disabling the driver "Change" button when the currently
active driver is selected in the list, to instead setting it to say
"Reload", and I also added a tool tip to the input driver reload button,
advising that if you're using DirectInput or SDL, you can hit "Reload"
to rescan for hotplugged gamepads without needing to restart the
emulator. XInput and udev have auto hotswap support. If we can ever get
that into DirectInput and SDL, then I'll remove the tooltip. But
regardless, the reload functionality is nice to have for all drivers.
I'm not sure what should happen when a user changes their driver
selection while a game is loaded, gets the warning dialog, chooses not
to change it, and then closes the emulator. Currently, it will make the
change happen the next time you start the emulator. This feels a bit
unexpected, but when you change the selection without a game loaded, it
takes immediate effect. So I'm not really sure what's best here.
byuu says:
I've added tool tips to hiro for Windows, GTK, and Qt. I'm unsure how to
add them for Cocoa. I wasted am embarrassing ~14 hours implementing tool
tips from scratch on Windows, because the `TOOLTIPS_CLASS` widget just
absolutely refused to show up, no matter what I tried. As such, they're
not quite 100% native, but I would really appreciate any patch
submissions to help improve my implementation.
I added tool tips to all of the confusing settings in bsnes. And of
course, for those of you who don't like them, there's a configuration
file setting to turn them off globally.
I also improved Mega Drive handling of the Game Genie a bit, and
restructured the way the Settings class works in bsnes.
Starting now, I'm feature-freezing bsnes and higan. From this point
forward:
- polishing up and fixing bugs caused by the ruby/hiro changes
- adding DRC to XAudio2, and maybe exclusive mode to WGL
- correcting FEoEZ (English) to load and work again out of the box
Once that's done, a final beta of bsnes will go out, I'll fix any
reported bugs that I'm able to, and then v107 should be ready. This time
with higan being functional, but marked as v107 beta. v108 will restore
higan to production status again, alongside bsnes.
byuu says:
I fixed all outstanding bugs that I'm aware of, including all of the
errata I listed yesterday.
And now it's time for lots of regression testing.
After that, I need to add Talarubi's XAudio2 DRC code, and then get a
new public bsnes WIP out for final testing.
New errata: when setting an icon (nall::image) larger than a Canvas on
Windows, it's not centering the image, so you end up seeing the overscan
area in the state manager previews, and the bottom of the image gets cut
off. I also need to forcefully disable the Xlib screensaver disable
support. I think I'll remove the GUI option to bypass it as well, and
just force screensaver disable always on with Windows. I'll improve it
in the future to toggle the effect between emulator pauses.
byuu says:
Everything *should* be working again, but of course that won't
actually be the case. Here's where things stand:
- bsnes, higan, icarus, and genius compile and run fine on FreeBSD
with GTK
- ruby video and audio drivers are untested on Windows, macOS, and
Linux
- hiro is untested on macOS
- bsnes' status bar is not showing up properly with hiro/qt
- bsnes and higan's about screen is not showing up properly with
hiro/qt (1x1 window size)
- bsnes on Windows crashes often when saving states, and I'm not sure
why ... it happens inside Encode::RLE
- bsnes on Windows crashes with ruby.input.windows (unsure why)
- bsnes on Windows fails to show the verified emblem on the status bar
properly
- hiro on Windows flickers when changing tabs
To build the Windows bsnes and higan ports, use
ruby="video.gdi audio.directsound"
Compilation error logs for Linux will help me fix the inevitable list of
typos there. I can fix the typos on other platforms, I just haven't
gotten to it yet.
byuu says:
Changes to hiro will break all but the GTK target. Not that it matters
much given that the only ruby drivers that function are all on BSD
anyway.
But if you are fortunate enough to be able to run this ... you'll find
lots of polishing improvements to the bsnes GUI. I posted some
screenshots on Twitter, if anyone were interested.
byuu says:
Okay, so the WIPs-within-WIPs thing wasn't achieving its desired effect,
and it ended up causing me to have to redo some work on hiro since my
last local snapshot was of r52. So, heck it. I'll just do mostly
non-functional WIPs for a bit, and worry about the fallout years later
when I'm trying to find an emulation regression and cursing that the
WIPs aren't compiling.
I ported all of the ruby input drivers to the new syntax, as well as the
OpenAL driver. If you patch the ruby drivers for Linux with this in
mind, bsnes should compile and run there again.
Also, the bsnes program icon has returned, now that the new hiro layout
code is mature enough and I can simply add and remove the icon as a
Canvas instead of having to try and render into a viewport. The icon
shows up instantly with the main window.
byuu says:
I've completed moving all the class objects from `unique_pointer<T>` to
just T. The one exception is the Emulator::Interface instance. I can
absolutely make that a global object, but only in bsnes where there's
just the one emulation core.
I also moved all the SettingsWindow and ToolsWindow panels out to their
own global objects, and fixed a very difficult bug with GTK TabFrame
controls.
The configuration settings panel is now the emulator settings panel. And
I added some spacing between bold label sections on both the emulator
and driver settings panels.
I gave fixing ComboButtonItem my best shot, given I can't reproduce the
crash. Probably won't work, though.
Also made a very slight consistency improvement to ruby and renamed
driverName() to driver().
...
An important change ... as a result of moving bsnes to global objects,
this means that the constructors for all windows run before the
presentation window is displayed. Before this change, only the
presentation window was constructed first berore displaying it, followed
by the construction of the rest of the GUI windows.
The upside to this is that as soon as you see the main window, the GUI
is ready to go without a period where it's unresponsive.
The downside to this is it takes about 1.5 seconds to show the main
window, compared to around 0.75 seconds before.
I've no intention of changing that back. So if the startup time becomes
a problem, then we'll just have to work on optimizing hiro, so that it
can construct all the global Window objects quicker. The main way to do
that would be to not do calls to the Layout::setGeometry functions for
every widget added, and instead wait until the window is displayed. But
I don't have an easy way to do that, because you want the widget
geometry values to be sane even before the window is visible to help
size certain things.
byuu says:
These WIPs-within-WIPs are getting more and more broken ... this isn't
going the way I wanted.
But ... this time around, I've revamped the entire ruby API again, to
solve a bunch of tough problems that have always made using ruby really
clunky.
But there are *so many* ruby drivers that it's going to take a long
time to work through them all. This WIP is only going to run bsnes, and
only on FreeBSD, and only with some drivers.
hiro's Application::initialize() now calls hiro::initialize(), which you
define inside of your hiro apps. This lets you call
Application::setName(...) before anything else in hiro runs. This is
essential on Xorg to set program icons, for instance.
With the ruby rewrite and the change to hiro, I can get away from the
need to make everything in bsnes/higan pointers to objects, and can now
just declare them as regular objects.
byuu wrote:
Sigh ...
asio.hpp needs #include <nall/windows/registry.hpp>
[Since the last WIP, byuu also posted the following message. -Ed.]
ruby drivers have all been updated (but not tested outside of BSD), and
I redesigned the settings window. The driver functionality all exists on
a new "Drivers" panel, the emulator/hack settings go to a
"Configuration" panel, and the video/audio panels lose driver settings.
As does the settings menu and its synchronize options.
I want to start pushing toward a v107 release. Critically, I will need
DirectSound and ALSA to support dynamic rate control. I'd also like to
eliminate the other system manifest.bml files. I need to update the
cheat code database format, and bundle at least a few quark shaders --
although I still need to default to Direct3D on Windows.
Turbo keys would be nice, if it's not too much effort. Aside from
netplay, it's the last significant feature I'm missing.
I think for v107, higan is going to be a bit rough around the edges
compared to bsnes. And I don't think it's practical to finish the bsnes
localization support.
I'm thinking we probably want another WIP to iron out any critical
issues, but this time there should be a feature freeze with the next
WIP.
byuu says:
Sigh, I seem to be spiraling a bit here ... but the work is very
important. Hopefully I can get a solid WIP together soon. But for now...
I've integrated dynamic rate control into ruby::Audio via
setDynamic(bool) for now. It's very demanding, as you would expect. When
it's not in use, I realized the OSS driver's performance was pretty bad
due to calling write() for every sample for every channel. I implemented
a tiny 256-sample buffer and bsnes went from 290fps to 330fps on my
FreeBSD desktop. It may be possible to do the same buffering with DRC,
but for now, I'm not doing so, and adjusting the audio input frequency
on every sample.
I also added ruby::Video::setFlush(bool), which is available only in the
OpenGL drivers, and this causes glFinish() to be called after swapping
display buffers. I really couldn't think of a good name for this, "hard
GPU sync" sounds kind of silly. In my view, flush is what commits queued
events. Eg fflush(). OpenGL of course treats glFlush differently (I
really don't even know what the point of it is even after reading the
manual ...), and then has glFinish ... meh, whatever. It's
setFlush(bool) until I come up with something better. Also as expected,
this one's a big hit to performance.
To implement the DRC, I started putting helper functions into the ruby
video/audio/input core classes. And then the XVideo driver started
crashing. It took hours and hours and hours to track down the problem:
you have to clear XSetWindowAttributes to zero before calling
XCreateWindow. No amount of `--sync`, `gdb break gdk_x_error`, `-Og`,
etc will make Xlib be even remotely helpful in debugging errors like
this.
The GLX, GLX2, and XVideo drivers basically worked by chance before. If
the stack frame had the right memory cleared, it worked. Otherwise it'd
crash with BadValue, and my changing things broke that condition on the
XVideo driver. So this has been fixed in all three now.
Once XVideo was running again, I realized that non-power of two video
sizes were completely broken for the YUV formats. It took a while, but I
managed to fix all of that as well.
At this point, most of ruby is going to be broken outside of FreeBSD, as
I still need to finish updating all the drivers.
byuu says:
I stand corrected, I managed to create and even larger diff than ever.
This one weighs in at 309KiB `>__>`
I'll have to create a changelog later, I'm too tired right now to go
through all of that.
byuu says:
I failed to complete a WIP, have five of eight cores updated with some
major changes to Emulator::Interface. I'll just post a quick temporary
WIP in the off chance someone wants to look over the new interface and
comment on it.
Also implemented screen saver suppression into hiro/GTK.
I should also add ... a plan of mine is to develop target-bsnes into a
more generic user interface, with the general idea being that
target-higan is for multiple Emulator::Interface cores at the same time,
and target-bsnes is for just one Emulator::Interface core.
The idea being that if one were to compile target-bsnes with the GBA
core, it'd become bgba, for instance.
I don't plan on releasing single-core emulators like this, but ... I don't see any downsides to being more flexible.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- added `Emulator::Interface::connected(uint port) -> uint device;`
- higan, bsnes: updated emulators to use the new
Emulator::Interface::connected() function
- hiro: fixed Object::cast<T> finally
So, Emulator::Interface::connected() solves two annoying problems at the
same time.
First, on first run of the emulator when the settings file is blank, it
will retrieve the default "sane" device ID, which is usually a gamepad
for a controller port, or nothing for an expansion/extension port.
Second, if you were to select a multi-port device, like the NES Four
Score, the core will set the other port to the Four Score device as
well, and the GUIs query connected() right after any call to connect(),
so it gets updated without needing a system for the emulation core to
send messages alerting the GUI of changes.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- emulator/video,audio: various cleanups
- emulator/audio: removed reverb effect (it breaks very badly on
high-frequency systems)
- emulator/audio: the Nyquist anti-aliasing lowpass filter is now
generated automatically instead of set per-core
- at 44.1KHz output, it's set to 22KHz; at 48KHz, it's set to
22KHz; at 96KHz, it's set to 25KHz
- this filter now takes the bsnes emulation speed setting into
account
- all system/video.cpp files removed; inlined in System::power() and
Interface::set() instead
- sfc/cpu: pre-compute `HTIME` as `HTIME+1<<2` for faster comparisons of
HIRQs
- sfc/cpu: re-add check to block IRQs on the last dot of each frame
(minor speed hit)
- hiro/gtk3: fixed headers for Linux compilation finally
- hiro/gtk,qt: fixed settings.cpp logic so initial values are used
when no settings.bml file exists
- hiro/gtk: started a minor experiment to specify theming information
in settings.bml files
- nall/dsp: allow the precision type (double) to be overridden (to
float)
- nall: add some helpers for generating pre-compiled headers
- it was a failure to try using them for higan, however ...
- nall: add some helpers for reading fallback values from empty
`Markup::Node[search]` statements
Todo:
- CRITICAL: a lot of my IRQ/NMI/HDMA timing tests are failing with the
fast PPU ... need to figure out why
- space between Emulator::video functions and Emulator::audio
functions in gb/system/system.cpp
- remove Audio/Reverb/Enable from settings.bml in target-bsnes
byuu says:
The problems with the Windows and Qt4 ports have all been resolved,
although there's a fairly gross hack on a few Qt widgets to not destruct
once Application::quit() is called to avoid a double free crash (I'm
unsure where Qt is destructing the widgets internally.) The Cocoa port
compiles again at least, though it's bound to have endless problems. I
improved the Label painting in the GTK ports, which fixes the background
color on labels inside TabFrame widgets.
I've optimized the Makefile system even further.
I added a "redo state" command to bsnes, which is created whenever you
load the undo state. There are also hotkeys for both now, although I
don't think they're really something you want to map hotkeys to.
I moved the nall::Locale object inside hiro::Application, so that it can
be used to translate the BrowserDialog and MessageDialog window strings.
I improved the Super Game Boy emulation of `MLT_REQ`, fixing Pokemon
Yellow's custom border and probably more stuff.
Lots of other small fixes and improvements. Things are finally stable
once again after the harrowing layout redesign catastrophe.
Errata:
- ICD::joypID should be set to 3 on reset(). joypWrite() may as well
take uint1 instead of bool.
- hiro/Qt: remove pWindow::setMaximumSize() comment; found a
workaround for it
- nall/GNUmakefile: don't set object.path if it's already set (allow
overrides before including the file)
byuu says:
This is probably the largest code-change diff I've done in years.
I spent four days working 10-16 hours a day reworking layouts in hiro
completely.
The result is we now have TableLayout, which will allow for better
horizontal+vertical combined alignment.
Windows, GTK2, and now GTK3 are fully supported.
Windows is getting the initial window geometry wrong by a bit.
GTK2 and GTK3 work perfectly. I basically abandoned trying to detect
resize signals, and instead keep a list of all hiro windows that are
allocated, and every time the main loop runs, it will query all of them
to see if they've been resized. I'm disgusted that I have to do this,
but after fighting with GTK for years, I'm about sick of it. GTK was
doing this crazy thing where it would trigger another size-allocate
inside of a previous size-allocate, and so my layouts would be halfway
through resizing all the widgets, and then the size-allocate would kick
off another one. That would end up leaving the rest of the first layout
loop with bad widget sizes. And if I detected a second re-entry and
blocked it, then the entire window would end up with the older geometry.
I started trying to build a message queue system to allow the second
layout resize to occur after the first one completed, but this was just
too much madness, so I went with the simpler solution.
Qt4 has some geometry problems, and doesn't show tab frame layouts
properly yet.
Qt5 causes an ICE error and tanks my entire Xorg display server, so ...
something is seriously wrong there, and it's not hiro's fault. Creating
a dummy Qt5 application without even using hiro, just int main() {
TestObject object; } with object performing a dynamic\_cast to a derived
type segfaults. Memory is getting corrupted where GCC allocates the
vtables for classes, just by linking in Qt. Could be somehow related to
the -fPIC requirement that only Qt5 has ... could just be that FreeBSD
10.1 has a buggy implementation of Qt5. I don't know. It's beyond my
ability to debug, so this one's going to stay broken.
The Cocoa port is busted. I'll fix it up to compile again, but that's
about all I'm going to do.
Many optimizations mean bsnes and higan open faster. GTK2 and GTK3 both
resize windows very quickly now.
higan crashes when you load a game, so that's not good. bsnes works
though.
bsnes also has the start of a localization engine now. Still a long way
to go.
The makefiles received a rather substantial restructuring. Including the
ruby and hiro makefiles will add the necessary compilation rules for
you, which also means that moc will run for the qt4 and qt5 targets, and
windres will run for the Windows targets.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- bsnes, higan: simplified make output; reordered rules
- hiro: added Window::set(Minimum,Maximum)Size() [only implemented in
GTK+ so far]
- bsnes: only allow the window to be shrunk to the 1x multiplier size
- bsnes: refactored Integral Scaling checkbox to {Center, Scale,
Stretch} radio selection
- nall: call fflush() after nall::print() to stdout or stderr [needed
for msys2/bash]
- bsnes, higan: program/interface.cpp renamed to program/platform.cpp
- bsnes: trim ".shader/" from names in Settings→Shader menu
- bsnes: Settings→Shader menu updated on video driver changes
- bsnes: remove missing games from recent files list each time it is
updated
- bsnes: video multiplier menu generated dynamically based on largest
monitor size at program startup
- bsnes: added shrink window and center window function to video
multiplier menu
- bsnes: de-minimize presentation window when exiting fullscreen mode
or changing video multiplier
- bsnes: center the load game dialog against the presentation window
(important for multi-monitor setups)
- bsnes: screenshots are not immediate instead of delayed one frame
- bsnes: added frame advance menu option and hotkey
- bsnes: added enable cheats checkbox and hotkey; can be used to
quickly enable/disable all active cheats
Errata:
- hiro/Windows: `SW_MINIMIZED`, `SW_MAXIMIZED `=> `SW_MINIMIZE`,
`SW_MAXIMIZE`
- hiro/Windows: add pMonitor::workspace()
- hiro/Windows: add setMaximized(), setMinimized() in
pWindow::construct()
- bsnes: call setCentered() after setMaximized(false)
byuu says:
Changelog:
- sfc/ppu-fast: added hires mode 7 option (doubles the sampling rate
of mode 7 pixels to reduce aliasing)
- sfc/ppu-fast: fixed mode 7 horizontal screen flip [hex_usr]
- bsnes: added capture screenshot function and path selection
- for now, it saves as BMP. I need a deflate implementation that
won't add an external dependency for PNG
- the output resolution is from the emulator: (256 or 512)x(240 or
480 minus overscan cropping if enabled)
- it captures the NEXT output frame, not the current one ... but
it may be wise to change this behavior
- it'd be a problem if the core were to exit and an image was
captured halfway through frame rendering
- bsnes: recovery state renamed to undo state
- bsnes: added manifest viewer tool
- bsnes: mention if game has been verified or not on the status bar
message at load time
- bsnes, nall: fixed a few missing function return values
[SuperMikeMan]
- bsnes: guard more strongly against failure to load games to avoid
crashes
- hiro, ruby: various fixes for macOS [Sintendo]
- hiro/Windows: paint on `WM_ERASEBKGND` to prevent status bar
flickering at startup
- icarus: SPC7110 heuristics fixes [hex_usr]
Errata:
- sfc/ppu-fast: remove debug hires mode7 force disable comment from
PPU::power()
[The `WM_ERASEBKGND` fix was already present in the 106r44 public
beta -Ed.]
byuu says (in the public announcement):
I'm releasing a beta version of bsnes, for the purpose of gathering feedback and
ensuring that the first official release of bsnes is as solid as possible.
With the exception of dynamic rate control for automatic audio/video sync, and
no pack-in video shaders or cheat code database, it is mostly feature complete.
However, please do not form a lasting opinion of bsnes based on this beta.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- hiro/Windows: use `WS_CLIPSIBLINGS` on Label to prevent resize
drawing issues
- bsnes: correct viewport resizing
- bsnes: speed up window resizing a little bit
- bsnes: fix the cheat editor list enable checkbox
- bsnes: fix the state manager filename display in game ROM mode
- bsnes: fix the state manager save/rename/remove functionality in
game ROM mode
- bsnes: correct path searching for IPS and BPS patches in game ROM
mode
- bsnes: patch BS-X town cartridge to disable play limits
- bsnes: do not load (program,data,expansion).(rom,flash) from disk in
game pak mode
- this is required to support soft-patching and ROM hacks
- bsnes: added speed mode selection (50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, 200%);
maintains proper pitch
- bsnes: added icons to the menubar
- this is particularly useful to tell game ROMs from game paks in
the load recent game menu
- bsnes: added emblem at bottom left of status bar to indicate if a
game is verified or not
- verified means it is in the icarus verified game dump database
- the verified diamond is orange; the unverified diamond is blue
- bsnes: added an option (which defaults to off) to warn when loading
unverified games
- working around a bug in GTK, I have to use the uglier
MessageWindow instead of MessageDialog
- bsnes: added (non-functional) link to <https://doc.byuu.org/bsnes/>
to the help menu
- bsnes: added GUI setting to toggle memory auto-save feature
- bsnes: added GUI setting to toggle capturing a backup save state
when closing the emulator
- bsnes: made auto-saving states on exit an option
- bsnes: added an option to auto-load the auto-saved state on load
- basically, the two combined implements auto-resume
- bsnes: when firmware is missing, offer to take the user to the
online help documentation
- bsnes: added fast PPU option to disable the sprite limit
- increase from 32 items/line + 34 tiles/line to 128 items/line +
128 tiles/line
- technically, 1024 tiles/line are possible with 128 sprites at
64-width
- but this is just a waste of cache locality and worst-case
performance; it'll never happen
Errata:
- hiro/Windows: fallthrough on Canvas `WM_ERASEBKGND` to prevent
startup flicker
byuu says:
Changelog:
- emulator: added `Thread::setHandle(cothread_t)`
- icarus: added special heuristics support for the Tengai Maykou Zero
fan translation
- board identifier is: EXSPC7110-RAM-EPSONRTC (match on SPC7110 +
ROM size=56mbit)
- board ROM contents are: 8mbit program, 40mbit data, 8mbit
expansion (sizes are fixed)
- bsnes: show messages on game load, unload, and reset
- bsnes: added support for BS Memory and Sufami Turbo games
- bsnes: added support for region selection (Auto [default], NTSC,
PAL)
- bsnes: correct presentation window size from 223/239 to 224/240
- bsnes: add SA-1 internal RAM on cartridges with BS Memory slot
- bsnes: fixed recovery state to store inside .bsz archive
- bsnes: added support for custom manifests in both game pak and game
ROM modes
- bsnes: added icarus game database support (manifest → database →
heuristics)
- bsnes: added flexible SuperFX overclocking
- bsnes: added IPS and BPS soft-patching support to all ROM types
(sfc,smc,gb,gbc,bs,st)
- can load patches inside of ZIP archives (matches first “.ips” or
“.bps” file)
- bsnes/ppu: cache interlace/overscan/vdisp (277 → 291fps with fast
PPU)
- hiro/Windows: faster painting of Label widget on expose
- hiro/Windows: immediately apply LineEdit::setBackgroundColor changes
- hiro/Qt: inherit Window backgroundColor when one is not assigned to
Label
Errata:
- sfc/ppu-fast: remove `renderMode7Hires()` function (the body isn't in
the codebase)
- bsnes: advanced note label should probably use a lighter text color
and/or smaller font size instead of italics
I didn't test the soft-patching at all, as I don't have any patches on
my dev box. If anyone wants to test, that'd be great. The Tengai Makyou
Zero fan translation would be a great test case.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- hiro: added Label::set(Background,Foreground)Color (not implemented
on Cocoa backend)
- hiro: added (Horizontal,Vertical)Layout::setPadding()
- setMargin(m) is now an alias to setPadding({m, m, m, m})
- hiro/Windows: update Label rendering to draw to an offscreen canvas
to prevent flickering
- sfc: reverted back to 224/240-line height (from 223/239-line height
in earlier v106 WIPs)
- bsnes: new multi-segment status bar added
- bsnes: exiting fullscreen mode will resize and recenter window
- this is required; the window geometry gets all scrambled when
toggling fullscreen mode
- bsnes: updated to a new logo [Ange Albertini]
Errata:
- hiro/Windows: try to paint Label backgroundColor quicker to avoid
startup flicker
- `WM_ERASEBKGND` fallthrough to `WM_PAINT` seems to work
- hiro/Qt: use Window backgroundColor for Label when no Label
backgroundColor set
- bsnes: update size multipliers in presentation.cpp to 224/240 (main
window size is off in this WIP)
byuu says:
Changelog:
- hiro: added BrowserDialog::openObject() [match file *or* folder
by filters]
- hiro: BrowserDialog accept button is now disabled when it would
otherwise do nothing
- eg openFile without a folder to enter or file to open selected
- eg saveFile without a file name or with a file name that matches
a folder name
- bsnes: added support for gamepaks (game folders)
- bsnes: store all save states inside per-game .bsz (ZIP) archives
instead of .bst/ folders
- this reduces the number of state files from 10+ to 1; without
having folders sort before files
- hiro: both gtk2 and gtk3 now use cairo to render Canvas; supports
sx,sy [BearOso]
- higan, bsnes: fast PPU/DSP are now run-time options instead of
compile-time options
- bsnes: disable fast PPU when loading Air Strike Patrol / Desert
Fighter
- bsnes: disable fast DSP when loading Koushien 2
- bsnes: added options to advanced panel to disable fast PPU and/or
fast DSP
byuu says:
Changelog:
- ruby/video: implement onUpdate() callback to signal when redraws are
necessary
- ruby/video/GLX,GLX2,XVideo,XShm: implement onUpdate() support
- bsnes: implement Video::onUpdate() support to redraw Viewport icon
as needed
- bsnes: save RAM before ruby driver changes
- sfc/sa1: clip signed multiplication to 32-bit [Jonas Quinn]
- sfc/sa1: handle negative dividends in division [Jonas Quinn]
- hiro/gtk3: a few improvements
- bsnes: added empty stub video and audio settings panels
- bsnes: restructured advanced settings panel
- bsnes: experiment: input/hotkeys name column bolded and colored for
increased visual distinction
- bsnes: added save button to state manager
byuu says:
Changelog:
- hiro: added Qt5 support
- hiro: added GTK3 support (currently runs very poorly)
- bsnes: number of recent games and quick state slots can be changed
programmatically now
- I may expose this as a configuration file setting, but probably
not within the GUI
- nall: use -Wno-everything when compiling with Clang
- sorry, Clang's meaningless warning messages are just endless ...
byuu says:
Changelog:
- bsnes: cheat code “enabled” option changed to “enable”
- bsnes: connected “Cancel” action on add/edit cheat code window
- hiro: improved BrowserDialog::selectFolder() behavior
- can choose “Select” inside of a target folder when no items are
selected
- bsnes: implemented state manager
- bsnes: save a recovery state before loading a state, quitting, or
changing drivers
- bsnes: input settings, hotkey settings, cheat editor, state manager
entries are now batchable
- this allows bulk clearing/deleting of entries
- bsnes: cheat code list now auto-sorts alphabetically instead of
using up/down move arrows
I know most people will probably prefer to order cheat codes the way
they want, but the issue is that the state manager can't really work
this way. Each state is a file on disk. So yes, we could store a
states-manifest.bml to track the order of the states, or try to insert
numbers into the filenames and do bulk filesystem rename operations on
sorting, but then we would run into oddities when users delete state
files manually. And really, manual sorting is just clumsy. If you really
want a specific ordering, you can prefix cheats/states with numeric
indices instead.
byuu says:
Changelog:
- nall: renamed array to adaptive_array; marked it as deprecated
- nall: created new array class; which is properly static (ala
std::array) with optional bounds-checking
- sfc/ppu-fast: converted unmanaged arrays to use nall/array (no speed
penalty)
- bsnes: rewrote the cheat code editor to a new design
- nall: string class can stringify pointer types directly now, so
pointer() was removed
- nall: added array_view and pointer types (still unsure if/how I'll
use pointer)
byuu says:
Changelog:
- nall/GNUmakefile: added `openmp=(true,false)` option; can be toggled
when building higan/bsnes
- defaults to disabled on macOS, because Xcode doesn't stupidly
doesn't ship with support for it
- higan/GNUmakefile: forgot to switch target,profile back from
bsnes,fast to higan,accurate
- this is just gonna happen from time to time, sorry
- sfc/dsp: when using the fast profile, the DSP syncs per sample
instead of per clock
- should only negatively impact Koushien 2, but is a fairly
significant speedup otherwise
- sfc/ppc,ppu-fast: optimized the code a bit (ppu 130fps to 133fps)
- sfc/ppu-fast: basic vertical mosaic support (not accurate, but
should look okay hopefully)
- sfc/ppu-fast: added missing mode7 hflip support
- sfc/ppu-fast: added support to render at 256-width and/or 240-height
- gives a decent speed boost, and also allows all of the older
quark shaders to work nicely again
- it does violate the contract of Emulator::Interface, but oh
well, it works fine in the bsnes GUI
- sfc/ppu-fast: use cached CGRAM values for mode7 and sprites
- sfc/ppu-fast: use global range/time over flags in object rendering
- may not actually work as we intended since it's a race condition
even if it's only ORing the flags
- really don't want to have to make those variables atomic if I
don't have to
- sfc/ppu-fast: should fully support interlace and overscan modes now
- hiro/cocoa: updated macOS Gatekeeper disable support to work on
10.13+
- ruby: forgot to fix macOS input driver, sorry
- nall/GNUmakefile: if uname is present, then just default to rm
instead of del (fixes Msys)
Note: blur emulation option will break pretty badly in 256x240 output
mode. I'll fix it later.
byuu