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Tim Allen
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Update to v094r09 release.
byuu says: This will easily be the biggest diff in the history of higan. And not in a good way. * target-higan and target-loki have been blown away completely * nall and ruby massively updated * phoenix replaced with hiro (pretty near a total rewrite) * target-higan restarted using hiro (just a window for now) * all emulation cores updated to compile again * installation changed to not require root privileges (installs locally) For the foreseeable future (maybe even permanently?), the new higan UI will only build under Linux/BSD with GTK+ 2.20+. Probably the most likely route for Windows/OS X will be to try and figure out how to build hiro/GTK on those platforms, as awful as that would be. The other alternative would be to produce new UIs for those platforms ... which would actually be a good opportunity to make something much more user friendly. Being that I just started on this a few hours ago, that means that for at least a few weeks, don't expect to be able to actually play any games. Right now, you can pretty much just compile the binary and that's it. It's quite possible that some nall changes didn't produce compilation errors, but will produce runtime errors. So until the UI can actually load games, we won't know if anything is broken. But we should mostly be okay. It was mostly just trim<1> -> trim changes, moving to Hash::SHA256 (much cleaner), and patching some reckless memory copy functions enough to compile. Progress isn't going to be like it was before: I'm now dividing my time much thinner between studying and other hobbies. My aim this time is not to produce a binary for everyone to play games on. Rather, it's to keep the emulator alive. I want to be able to apply critical patches again. And I would also like the base of the emulator to live on, for use in other emulator frontends that utilize higan. |
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Tim Allen
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10464b8c54 |
Update to v094 release.
byuu says: This release adds support for game libraries, and substantially improves Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulation with cycle-based renderers. Many other changes are also present. It's very important to note that this release now defaults to optimal drivers rather than safe drivers. This is particularly important if you do not have strong OpenGL 3.2 drivers. If performance is bad, go to Settings -> Configuration -> Advanced, change the video driver, and restart higan. In the rare case that you have trouble opening higan, you can edit settings.bml directly and change the setting there. The Windows safe driver is Direct3D, and the Linux safe driver is XShm. Also note that although display emulation shaders are now supported, they have not been included in this release as they are not ready yet. The support has been built-in anyway, so that they can be tested by everyone. Once refined, future releases of higan will come with built-in shaders for each emulated system that simulates the unique display characteristics of each. Changelog (since v093): - sfc: added SA-1 MDR support (fixes SD Gundam G-Next bug) - sfc: remove random/ and config/, merge to system/ with better randomization - gb: improved color emulation palette contrast - gbc: do not sort sprites by X-priority - gbc: allow transparency on BG priority pixels - gbc: VRAM DMA timing and register fixes - gbc: block invalid VRAM DMA transfer source and target addresses - gba: added LCD color emulation (without it, colors are grossly over-saturated) - gba: removed internal frame blending (use shaders to simulate motion blur if desired) - gba: added Game Boy Player support (adds joypad rumble support to supported games) - gba: SOUND_CTL_H is readable - gb/gbc: PPU renderer is now cycle-based (major accuracy improvement) - gb/gbc: OAM DMA runs in parallel with the CPU - gb/gbc: only HRAM can be accessed during OAM DMA - gb/gbc: fixed serialization of games with SRAM - gb/gbc: disallow up+down or left+right at the same time - gb/gbc: added weak hipass filter to remove DC bias - gb/gbc: STAT OAM+Hblank IRQs only trigger during active display - gb/gbc: fixed underflow in window clamping - gb/gbc/gba: audio mixes internally at 2MHz now instead of 4MHz (does not affect accuracy) - gb/gbc/gba: audio volume reduced for consistency with other systems - fc/sfc/gb/gbc/gba: cheat codes are now stored in universal, decrypted format - ethos: replaced file loader with a proper game library - ethos: added display emulation shader support - ethos: added color emulation option to video settings - ethos: program icon upgraded from 48x48 to 512x512 - ethos: settings and tools windows now use tab frames (less wasted screen space) - ethos: default to optimal (video, audio, input) drivers instead of safest drivers - ethos: input mapping system completely rewritten to support hotplugging and unique device mappings - ruby: added fixes for OpenGL 3.2 on AMD graphics cards - ruby: quark shaders now support user settings inside of manifest - ruby: quark shaders can use integral textures (allows display emulation shaders to work with raw colors) - ruby: add joypad rumble support - ruby: XInput (Xbox 360) controllers now support hotplugging - ruby: added Linux udev joypad driver with hotplug support - phoenix: fixed a rare null pointer dereference issue on Windows - port: target -std=c++11 instead of -std=gnu++11 (do not rely on GNU C++ extensions) - port: added out-of-the-box compilation support for BSD/Clang 3.3+ - port: applied a few Debian upstream patches - cheats: updated to mightymo's 2014-01-02 release; decrypted all Game Genie codes |
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Tim Allen
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fe85679321 |
Update to v093r13 release.
byuu says: This WIP removes nall/input.hpp entirely, and implements the new universal cheat format for FC/SFC/GB/GBC/SGB. GBA is going to be tricky since there's some consternation around byte/word/dword overrides. It's also not immediately obvious to me how to implement the code search in logarithmic time, due to the optional compare value. Lastly, the cheat values inside cheats.bml seem to be broken for the SFC. Likely there's a bug somewhere in the conversion process. Obviously I'll have to fix that before v094. I received no feedback on the universal cheat format. If nobody adds anything before v094, then I don't want to hear any complaining about the formatting :P |
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Tim Allen
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Update to v093r02 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall: fixed major memory leak in string class - ruby: video shaders support #define-based settings now - phoenix/GTK+: support > 256x256 icons for window / task bar / alt-tab - sfc: remove random/ and config/, merge into system/ - ethos: delete higan.png (48x48), replace with higan512.png (512x512) as new higan.png - ethos: default gamma to 100% (no color adjustment) - ethos: use "Video Shaders/Display Emulation/" instead of "Video Shaders/Emulation/" - use g++ instead of g++-4.7 (g++ -v must be >= 4.7) - use -std=c++11 instead of -std=gnu++11 - applied a few patches from Debian upstream to make their packaging job easier So because colors are normalized in GLSL, I won't be able to offer video shaders absolute color literals. We will have to perform basic color conversion inside the core. As such, the current plan is to create some sort of Emulator::Settings interface. With that, I'll connect an option for color correction, which will be on by default. For FC/SFC, that will mean gamma correction (darker / stronger colors), and for GB/GBC/GBA, it will mean simulating the weird brightness levels of the displays. I am undecided on whether to use pea soup green for the GB or not. By not doing so, it'll be easier for the display emulation shader to do it. |
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Tim Allen
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Update to v093 release.
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. |