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Tim Allen | 571760c747 |
Update to v103r24 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - gb/mbc6: mapper is now functional, but Net de Get has some text corruption¹ - gb/mbc7: mapper is now functional² - gb/cpu: HDMA syncs other components after each byte transfer now - gb/ppu: LY,LX forced to zero when LCDC.d7 is lowered (eg disabled), not when it's raised (eg enabled) - gb/ppu: the LCD does not run at all when LCDC.d7 is clear³ - fixes graphical corruption between scene transitions in Legend of Zelda - Oracle of Ages - thanks to Cydrak, Shonumi, gekkio for their input on the cause of this issue - md/controller: renamed "Gamepad" to "Control Pad" per official terminology - md/controller: added "Fighting Pad" (6-button controller) emulation [hex\_usr] - processor/m68k: fixed TAS to set data.d7 when EA.mode==DataRegisterDirect; fixes Asterix - hiro/windows: removed carriage returns from mouse.cpp and desktop.cpp - ruby/audio/alsa: added device driver selection [SuperMikeMan] - ruby/audio/ao: set format.matrix=nullptr to prevent a crash on some systems [SuperMikeMan] - ruby/video/cgl: rename term() to terminate() to fix a crash on macOS [Sintendo] ¹: The observation that this mapper split $4000-7fff into two banks came from MAME's implementation. But their implementation was quite broken and incomplete, so I didn't actually use any of it. The observation that this mapper split $a000-bfff into two banks came from Tauwasser, and I did directly use that information, plus the knowledge that $0400/$0800 are the RAM bank select registers. The text corruption is due to a race condition with timing. The game is transferring font letters via HDMA, but the game code ends up setting the bank# with the font a bit too late after the HDMA has already occurred. I'm not sure how to fix this ... as a whole, I assumed my Game Boy timing was pretty good, but apparently it's not that good. ²: The entire design of this mapper comes from endrift's notes. endrift gets full credit for higan being able to emulate this mapper. Note that the accelerometer implementation is still not tested, and probably won't work right until I tweak the sensitivity a lot. ³: So the fun part of this is ... it breaks the strict 60fps rate of the Game Boy. This was always inevitable: certain timing conditions can stretch frames, too. But this is pretty much an absolute deal breaker for something like Vsync timing. This pretty much requires adaptive sync to run well without audio stuttering during the transition. There's currently one very important detail missing: when the LCD is turned off, presumably the image on the screen fades to white. I do not know how long this process takes, or how to really go about emulating it. Right now as an incomplete patch, I'm simply leaving the last displayed image on the screen until the LCD is turned on again. But I will have to output white, as well as add code to break out of the emulation loop periodically when the LCD is left off eg indefinitely, or bad things would happen. I'll work something out and then implement. Another detail is I'm not sure how long it takes for the LCD to start rendering again once enabled. Right now, it's immediate. I've heard it's as long as 1/60th of a second, but that really seems incredibly excessive? I'd like to know at least a reasonably well-supported estimate before I implement that. |
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Tim Allen | 7022d1aa51 |
Update to v103r23 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - gb: added accelerometer X-axis, Y-Axis inputs¹ - gb: added rumble input¹ - gb/mbc5: added rumble support² - gb/mbc6: added skeleton driver, but it doesn't boot Net de Get - gb/mbc7: added mostly complete driver (only missing EEPROM), but it doesn't boot Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble - gb/tama: added leap year assignment - tomoko: fixed macOS compilation [MerryMage] - hiro/cocoa: fix table cell redrawing on updates and automatic column resizing [ncbncb] - hiro/cocoa: fix some weird issue with clicking table view checkboxes on Retina displays [ncbncb] - icarus: enhance Game Boy heuristics³ - nall: fix three missing return statements [Jonas Quinn] - ruby: hopefully fixed all compilation errors reported by Screwtape et al⁴ ¹: because there's no concept of a controller for cartridge inputs, I'm attaching to the base platform for now. An idea I had was to make separate ports for each cartridge type ... but this would duplicate the rumble input between MBC5 and MBC7. And would also be less discoverable. But it would be more clean in that users wouldn't think the Game Boy hardware had this functionality. I'll think about it. ²: it probably won't work yet. Rumble isn't documented anywhere, but I dug through an emulator named GEST and discovered that it seems to use bit 3 of the RAM bank select to be rumble. I don't know if it sets the bit for rumbling, then clears when finished, or if it sets it and then after a few milliseconds it stops rumbling. I couldn't test on my FreeBSD box because SDL 1.2 doesn't support rumble, udev doesn't exist on FreeBSD, and nobody has ever posted any working code for how to use evdev (or whatever it's called) on FreeBSD. ³: I'm still thinking about specifying the MBC7 RAM as EEPROM, since it's not really static RAM. ⁴: if possible, please test all drivers if you can. I want to ensure they're all working. Especially let me know if the following work: macOS: input.carbon Linux: audio.pulseaudiosimple, audio.ao (libao) If I can confirm these are working, I'm going to then remove them from being included with stock higan builds. I'm also considering dropping SDL video on Linux/BSD. XShm is much faster and supports blurring. I may also drop SDL input on Linux, since udev works better. That will free a dependency on SDL 1.2 for building higan. FreeBSD is still going to need it for joypad support, however. |
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Tim Allen | e1223366a7 |
Update to v103r22 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - ruby: ported all remaining drivers to new API¹ - ruby/wasapi: fix for dropping one sample per period [SuperMikeMan] - gb: emulated most of the TAMA RTC; but RTC state is still volatile² ¹: the new ports are: - audio/{directsound, alsa, pulseaudio, pulseaudiosimple, ao} - input/{udev, quartz, carbon} It's pretty much guaranteed many of them will have compilation errors. Please paste the error logs and I'll try to fix them up. It may take a WIP or two to get there. It's also possible things broke from the updates. If so, I could use help comparing the old file to the new file, looking for mistakes, since I can't test on these platforms apart from audio/directsound. Please report working drivers in this list, so we can mark them off the list. I'll need both macOS and Linux testers. audio/directsound.cpp:112: if(DirectSoundCreate(0, &_interface, 0) != DS_OK) return terminate(), false; ²: once I get this working, I'll add load/save support for the RTC values. For now, the RTC data will be lost when you close the emulator. Right now, you can set the date/time in real-time mode, and when you start the game, the time will be correct, and the time will tick forward. Note that it runs off emulated time instead of actual real time, so if you fast-forward to 300%, one minute will be 20 seconds. The really big limitation right now is that when you exit the game, and restart it, and resume a new game, the hour spot gets corrupted, and this seems to instantly kill your pet. Fun. This is crazy because the commands the game sends to the TAMA interface are identical between starting a new game and getting in-game versus loading a game. It's likely going to require disassembling the game's code and seeing what in the hell it's doing, but I am extremely bad at LR35092 assembly. Hopefully endrift can help here :| |
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Tim Allen | 80841deaa5 |
Update to v103r21 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - gb: added TAMA emulation [thanks to endrift for the initial notes] - gb: save RTC memory to disk (MBC3 doesn't write to said memory yet; TAMA doesn't emulate it yet) - gb: expect MMM01 boot loader to be at end of ROM instead of start - gb: store MBC2 save RAM as 256-bytes (512x4-bit) instead of 512-bytes (with padding) - gb: major cleanups to every cartridge mapper; moved to Mapper class instead of MMIO class - gb: don't serialize all mapper states with every save state; only serialize the active mapper - gb: serialize RAM even if a battery isn't present¹ - gb/cartridge: removed unnecessary code; refactored other code to eliminate duplication of functions - icarus: improve GB(C) heuristics generation to not include filenames for cartridges without battery backup - icarus: remove incorrect rearrangement of MMM01 ROM data - md/vdp: fix CRAM reads -- fixes Sonic Spinball colors [hex\_usr] - tomoko: hide the main higan window when entering fullscreen exclusive mode; helps with multi-monitor setups - tomoko: destroy ruby drivers before calling Application::quit() [Screwtape] - libco: add settings.h and defines to fiber, ucontext [Screwtape] ¹: this is one of those crystal clear indications that nobody's actually playing the higan DMG/CGB cores, or at least not with save states. This was a major mistake. Note: I can't find any official documentation that `GL_ALPHA_TEST` was removed from OpenGL 3.2. Since it's not hurting anything except showing some warnings in debug mode, I'm just going to leave it there for now. |
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Tim Allen | 8476f35153 |
Update to v102r28 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - higan: `Emulator::<Platform::load>()` now returns a struct containing both a path ID and a string option - higan: `Emulator::<Platform::load>()` now takes an optional final argument of string options - fc: added PAL emulation (finally, only took six years) - md: added PAL emulation - md: fixed address parameter to `VDP::Sprite::write()`; fixes missing sprites in Super Street Fighter II - md: emulated HIRQ counter; fixes many games - Super Street Fighter II - status bar - Altered Beast - status bar - Sonic the Hedgehog - Labyrinth Zone - water effect - etc. - ms: added PAL emulation - sfc: added the ability to override the default region auto-detection - sfc: removed "system.region" override setting from `Super Famicom.sys` - tomoko: added options list to game folder load dialog window - tomoko: added the ability to specify game folder load options on the command-line So, basically ... Sega forced a change with the way region detection works. You end up with games that can run on multiple regions, and the content changes accordingly. Bare Knuckle in NTSC-J mode will become Streets of Rage in NTSC-U mode. Some games can even run in both NTSC and PAL mode. In my view, there should be a separate ROM for each region a game was released in, even if the ROM content were identical. But unfortunately that's not how things were done by anyone else. So to support this, the higan load dialog now has a drop-down at the bottom-right, where you can choose the region to load games from. On the SNES, it defaults to "Auto", which will pull the region setting from the manifest, or fall back on NTSC. On the Mega Drive ... unfortunately, I can't auto-detect the region from the ROM header. $1f0 is supposed to contain a string like "JUE", but instead you get games like Maui Mallard that put an "A" there, and other such nonsense. Sega was far more lax than Nintendo with the ROM header validity. So for now at least, you have to manually select your region every time you play a Mega Drive game, thus you have "NTSC-J", "NTSC-U", and "PAL". The same goes for the Master System for the same reason, but there's only "NTSC" and "PAL" here. I'm not sure if games have a way to detect domestic vs international consoles. And for now ... the Famicom is the same as well, with no auto-detection. I'd sincerely hope iNES has a header bit for the region, but I didn't bother with updating icarus to support that yet. The way to pass these parameters on the command-line is to prefix the game path with "option:", so for example: higan "PAL:/path/to/Sonic the Hedgehog (USA, Europe).md" If you don't provide a prefix, it uses the default (NTSC-J, NTSC, or Auto.) Obviously, it's not possible to pass parameters with drag-and-drop, so you will always get the default option in said case. |
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Tim Allen | ee7662a8be |
Update to v102r04 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - Super Game Boy support is functional once again - new GameBoy::SuperGameBoyInterface class - system.(dmg,cgb,sgb) is now Model::(Super)GameBoy(Color) ala the PC Engine - merged WonderSwanInterface, WonderSwanColorInterface shared functions to WonderSwan::Interface - merged GameBoyInterface, GameBoyColorInterface shared functions to GameBoy::Interface - Interface::unload() now calls Interface::save() for Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, PC Engine, SuperGrafx - PCE: emulated PCE-CD backup RAM; stored per-game as save.ram (2KiB file) - this means you can now save your progress in games like Neutopia - the PCE-CD I/O registers like BRAM write protect are not emulated yet - PCE: IRQ sources now hold the IRQ line state, instead of the CPU holding it - this fixes most SuperGrafx games, which were fighting over the VDC IRQ line previously - PCE: CPU I/O $14xx should return the pending IRQ bits even if IRQs are disabled - PCE: VCE and the VDCs now synchronize to each other; fixes pixel widths in all games - PCE: greatly increased the accuracy of the VPC priority selection code (windows may be buggy still) - HuC6280: PLA, PLX, PLY should set Z, N flags; fixes many game bugs [Jonas Quinn] The big thing I wanted to do was enslave the VDC(s) to the VCE. But unfortunately, I forgot about the asynchronous DMA channels that each VDC supports, so this isn't going to be possible I'm afraid. In the most demanding case, Daimakaimura in-game, we're looking at 85fps on my Xeon E3 1276v3. So ... not great, and we don't even have sound connected yet. We are going to have to profile and optimize this code once sound emulation and save states are in. Basically, think of it like this: the VCE, VDC0, and VDC1 all have the same overhead, scheduling wise (which is the bulk of the performance loss) as the dot-renderer for the SNES core. So it's like there's three bsnes-accuracy PPU threads running just for video. ----- Oh, just a fair warning ... the hooks for the SGB are a work in progress. If anyone is working on higan or a fork and want to do something similar to it, don't use it as a template, at least not yet. Right now, higan looks like this: - Emulator::Video handles the platform→videoRefresh calls - Emulator::Audio handles the platform→audioSample calls - each core hard-codes the platform→inputPoll, inputRumble calls - each core hard-codes calls to path, open, load to process files - dipSettings and notify are specialty hacks, neither are even hooked up right now to anything With the SGB, it's an emulation core inside an emulation core, so ideally you want to hook all of those functions. Emulator::Video and Emulator::Audio aren't really abstractions over that, as the GB core calls them and we have to special case not calling them in SGB mode. The path, open, load can be implemented without hooks, thanks to the UI only using one instance of Emulator::Platform for all cores. All we have to do is override the folder path ID for the "Game Boy.sys" folder, so that it picks "Super Game Boy.sfc/" and loads its boot ROM instead. That's just a simple argument to GameBoy::System::load() and we're done. dipSettings, notify and inputRumble don't matter. But we do also have to hook inputPoll as well. The nice idea would be for SuperFamicom::ICD2 to inherit from Emulator::Platform and provide the desired functions that we need to overload. After that, we'd just need the GB core to keep an abstraction over the global Emulator::platform\* handle, to select between the UI version and the SFC::ICD2 version. However ... that doesn't work because of Emulator::Video and Emulator::Audio. They would also have to gain an abstraction over Emulator::platform\*, and even worse ... you'd have to constantly swap between the two so that the SFC core uses the UI, and the GB core uses the ICD2. And so, for right now, I'm checking Model::SuperGameBoy() -> bool everywhere, and choosing between the UI and ICD2 targets that way. And as such, the ICD2 doesn't really need Emulator::Platform inheritance, although it certainly could do that and just use the functions it needs. But the SGB is even weirder, because we need additional new signals beyond just Emulator::Platform, like joypWrite(), etc. I'd also like to work on the Emulator::Stream for the SGB core. I don't see why we can't have the GB core create its own stream, and let the ICD2 just use that instead. We just have to be careful about the ICD2's CPU soft reset function, to make sure the GB core's Stream object remains valid. What I think that needs is a way to release an Emulator::Stream individually, rather than calling Emulator::Audio::reset() to do it. They are shared\_pointer objects, so I think if I added a destructor function to remove it from Emulator::Audio::streams, then that should work. |
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Tim Allen | bf90bdfcc8 |
Update to v101r31 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - converted Emulator::Interface::Bind to Emulator::Platform - temporarily disabled SGB hooks - SMS: emulated Game Gear palette (latching word-write behavior not implemented yet) - SMS: emulated Master System 'Reset' button, Game Gear 'Start' button - SMS: removed reset() functionality, driven by the mappable input now instead - SMS: split interface class in two: one for Master System, one for Game Gear - SMS: emulated Game Gear video cropping to 160x144 - PCE: started on HuC6280 CPU core—so far only registers, NOP instruction has been implemented Errata: - Super Game Boy support is broken and thus disabled - if you switch between Master System and Game Gear without restarting, bad things happen: - SMS→GG, no video output on the GG - GG→SMS, no input on the SMS I'm not sure what's causing the SMS\<-\>GG switch bug, having a hard time debugging it. Help would be very much appreciated, if anyone's up for it. Otherwise I'll keep trying to track it down on my end. |
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Tim Allen | 7a68059f78 |
Update to v099r12 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed FC AxROM / VRC7 regression - BitField split to BooleanBitField/NaturalBitField (in preparation for IntegerBitField) - BitFieldReference removed - GB CPU cleaned up - GB Cartridge + Mappers cleaned up - SFC CGRAM is now emulated as uint15[256] instead of uint[512] - sfc/ppu/memory.cpp no longer needed; removed - purged SFC Debugger hooks for now (some of the operator[] calls were bypassing them anyway) Unfortunately, for reasons that defy all semblance of logic, the CGRAM change caused a slight speed hit. As have the last few changes. We're now down to around 129.5fps compared to 123.fps for v099 and 134.5fps at our peak (v099r01-r02). I really like the style I came up with for the Game Boy mappers to settle the purpose(ROM,RAM) vs (rom,ram)Purpose naming convention. If I ever get around to redoing the NES mappers, that's likely the approach I'll take. |
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Tim Allen | 3a9c7c6843 |
Update to v099r09 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - Emulator::Interface::Medium::bootable removed - Emulator::Interface::load(bool required) argument removed [File::Required makes no sense on a folder] - Super Famicom.sys now has user-configurable properties (CPU,PPU1,PPU2 version; PPU1 VRAM size, Region override) - old nall/property removed completely - volatile flags supported on coprocessor RAM files now (still not in icarus, though) - (hopefully) fixed SNES Multitap support (needs testing) - fixed an OAM tiledata range clipping limit in 128KiB VRAM mode (doesn't fix Yoshi's Island, sadly) - (hopefully, again) fixed the input polling bug hex_usr reported - re-added dialog box for when File::Required files are missing - really cool: if you're missing a boot ROM, BIOS ROM, or IPL ROM, it warns you immediately - you don't have to select a game before seeing the error message anymore - fixed cheats.bml load/save location |
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Tim Allen | f48b332c83 |
Update to v099r08 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall/vfs work 100% completed; even SGB games load now - emulation cores now call load() for the base cartridges as well - updated port/device handling; portmask is gone; device ID bug should be resolved now - SNES controller port 1 multitap option was removed - added support for 128KiB SNES PPU VRAM (for now, edit sfc/ppu/ppu.hpp VRAM::size=0x10000; to enable) Overall, nall/vfs was a huge success!! We've substantially reduced the amount of boilerplate code everywhere, while still allowing (even easier than before) support for RAM-based game loading/saving. All of nall/stream is dead and buried. I am considering removing Emulator::Interface::Medium::id and/or bootable flag. Or at least, doing something different with it. The values for the non-bootable GB/BS/ST entries duplicate the ID that is supposed to be unique. They are for GB/GBC and WS/WSC. Maybe I'll use this as the hardware revision selection ID, and then gut non-bootable options. There's really no reason for that to be there. I think at one point I was using it to generate library tabs for non-bootable systems, but we don't do that anymore anyway. Emulator::Interface::load() may not need the required flag anymore ... it doesn't really do anything right now anyway. I have a few reasons for having the cores load the base cartridge. Most importantly, it is going to enable a special mode for the WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color in the future. If we ever get the IPLROMs dumped ... it's possible to boot these systems with no games inserted to set user profile information and such. There are also other systems that may accept being booted without a cartridge. To reach this state, you would load a game and then cancel the load dialog. Right now, this results in games not loading. The second reason is this prevents nasty crashes when loading fails. So if you're missing a required manifest, the emulator won't die a violent death anymore. It's able to back out at any point. The third reason is consistency: loading the base cartridge works the same as the slot cartridges. The fourth reason is Emulator::Interface::open(uint pathID) values. Before, the GB, SB, GBC modes were IDs 1,2,3 respectively. This complicated things because you had to pass the correct ID. But now instead, Emulator::Interface::load() returns maybe<uint> that is nothing when no game is selected, and a pathID for a valid game. And now open() can take this ID to access this game's folder contents. The downside, which is temporary, is that command-line loading is currently broken. But I do intend on restoring it. In fact, I want to do better than before and allow multi-cart booting from the command-line by specifying the base cartridge and then slot cartridges. The idea should be pretty simple: keep a queue of pending filenames that we fill from the command-line and/or drag-and-drop operations on the main window, and then empty out the queue or prompt for load dialogs from the UI when booting a system. This also might be a bit more unorthodox compared to the traditional emulator design of "loadGame(filename)", but ... oh well. It's easy enough still. The port/device changes are fun. We simplified things quite a bit. The portmask stuff is gone entirely. While ports and devices keep IDs, this is really just sugar-coating so UIs can use for(auto& port : emulator->ports) and access port.id; rather than having to use for(auto n : range(emulator->ports)) { auto& port = emulator->ports[n]; ... }; but they should otherwise generally be identical to the order they appear in their respective ranges. Still, don't rely on that. Input::id is gone. There was no point since we also got rid of the nasty Input::order vector. Since I was in here, I went ahead and caved on the pedantics and renamed Input::guid to Input::userData. I removed the SNES controller port 1 multitap option. Basically, the only game that uses this is N-warp Daisakusen and, no offense to d4s, it's not really a good game anyway. It's just a quick demo to show 8-players on the SNES. But in the UI, all it does is confuse people into wasting time mapping a controller they're never going to use, and they're going to wonder which port to use. If more compelling use cases for 8-players comes about, we can reconsider this. I left all the code to support this in place, so all you have to do is uncomment one line to enable it again. We now have dsnes emulation! :D If you change PPU::VRAM::size to 0x10000 (words), then you should now have 128KiB of VRAM. Even better, it serializes the used-VRAM size, so your save states shouldn't crash on you if you swap between the two (though if you try this, you're nuts.) Note that this option does break commercial software. Yoshi's Island in particular. This game is setting A15 on some PPU register writes, but not on others. The end result of this is things break horribly in-game. Also, this option is causing a very tiny speed hit for obvious reasons with the variable masking value (I'm even using size-1 for now.) Given how niche this is, I may just leave it a compile-time constant to avoid the overhead cost. Otherwise, if we keep the option, then it'll go into Super Famicom.sys/manifest.bml ... I'll flesh that out in the near-future. ---- Finally, some fun for my OCD ... my monitor suddenly cut out on me in the middle of working on this WIP, about six hours in of non-stop work. Had to hit a bunch of ctrl+alt+fN commands (among other things) and trying to log in headless on another TTY to do issue commands, trying to recover the display. Finally power cycled the monitor and it came back up. So all my typing ended up going to who knows where. Usually this sort of thing terrifies me enough that I scrap a WIP and start over to ensure I didn't screw anything up during the crashed screen when hitting keys randomly. Obviously, everything compiles and appears to work fine. And I know it's extremely paranoid, but OCD isn't logical, so ... I'm going to go over every line of the 100KiB r07->r08 diff looking for any corruption/errors/whatever. ---- Review finished. r08 diff review notes: - fc/controller/gamepad/gamepad.cpp: use uint device = ID::Device::Gamepad; not id = ...; - gb/cartridge/cartridge.hpp: remove redundant uint _pathID; (in Information::pathID already) - gb/cartridge/cartridge.hpp: pull sha256 inside Information - sfc/cartridge/load/cpp: add " - Slot (A,B)" to interface->load("Sufami Turbo"); to be more descriptive - sfc/controller/gamepad/gamepad.cpp: use uint device = ID::Device::Gamepad; not id = ...; - sfc/interface/interface.cpp: remove n variable from the Multitap device input generation loop (now unused) - sfc/interface/interface.hpp: put struct Port above struct Device like the other classes - ui-tomoko: cheats.bml is reading from/writing to mediumPaths(0) [system folder instead of game folder] - ui-tomoko: instead of mediumPaths(1) - call emulator->metadataPathID() or something like that |
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Tim Allen | ccd8878d75 |
Update to v099r07 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - (hopefully) fixed BS Memory and Sufami Turbo slot loading - ported GB, GBA, WS cores to use nall/vfs - completely removed loadRequest, saveRequest functionality from Emulator::Interface and ui-tomoko - loadRequest(folder) is now load(folder) - save states now use a shared Emulator::SerializerVersion string - whenever this is bumped, all older states will break; but this makes bumping state versions way easier - also, the version string makes it a lot easier to identify compatibility windows for save states - SNES PPU now uses uint16 vram[32768] for memory accesses [hex_usr] NOTE: Super Game Boy loading is currently broken, and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it :/ The file loading handoff was -really- complicated, and so I'm kind of at a loss ... so for now, don't try it. Everything else should theoretically work, so please report any bugs you find. So, this is pretty much it. I'd be very curious to hear feedback from people who objected to the old nall/stream design, whether they are happy with the new file loading system or think it could use further improvements. The 16-bit VRAM turned out to be a wash on performance (roughly the same as before. 1fps slower on Zelda 3, 1fps faster on Yoshi's Island.) The main reason for this was because Yoshi's Island was breaking horribly until I changed the vramRead, vramWrite functions to take uint15 instead of uint16. I suspect the issue is we're using uint16s in some areas now that need to be uint15, and this game is setting the VRAM address to 0x8000+, causing us to go out of bounds on memory accesses. But ... I want to go ahead and do something cute for fun, and just because we can ... and this new interface is so incredibly perfect for it!! I want to support an SNES unit with 128KiB of VRAM. Not out of the box, but as a fun little tweakable thing. The SNES was clearly designed to support that, they just didn't use big enough VRAM chips, and left one of the lines disconnected. So ... let's connect it anyway! In the end, if we design it right, the only code difference should be one area where we mask by 15-bits instead of by 16-bits. |
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Tim Allen | 20ac95ee49 |
Update to v098r15 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - removed template usage from processor/spc700; cleaned up many function names and the switch table - object size: 176.8kb => 127.3kb - source code size: 43.5kb => 37.0kb - fixed processor/r65816 BRK/COP vector regression [hex_usr] - corrected HuC3 unmapped RAM read value; fixes Robopon [endrift] - cosmetic: simplified the butterworth constant calculation [Wolfram|Alpha] The SPC700 core changes took forever, about three hours of work. Only the LR35902 and R6502 still need their template functions removed. The point of this is that it doesn't cause any speed penalty to do so, and it results in smaller binary sizes and faster compilation times. |
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Tim Allen | 7cdae5195a |
Update to v098r07 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - GB: support modeSelect and RAM for MBC1M (Momotarou Collection) - audio: implemented native resampling support into Emulator::Stream - audio: removed nall::DSP completely Unfortunately, the new resampler didn't turn out quite as fast as I had hoped. The final hermite resampling added some overhead; and I had to bump up the kernel count to 500 from 400 to get the buzzing to go away on my main PC. I think that's due to it running at 48000hz output instead of 44100hz output, maybe? Compared to Ryphecha's: (NES) Mega Man 2: 167fps -> 166fps (GB) Mega Man II: 224fps -> 200fps (WSC) Riviera: 143fps -> 151fps Odd that the WS/WSC ends up faster while the DMG/CGB ends up slower. But this knocks 922 lines down to 146 lines. The only files left in all of higan not written (or rewritten) by me are ruby/xaudio2.h and libco/ppc.c |
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Tim Allen | e2ee6689a0 |
Update to v098r06 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - emulation cores now refresh video from host thread instead of cothreads (fix AMD crash) - SFC: fixed another bug with leap year months in SharpRTC emulation - SFC: cleaned up camelCase on function names for armdsp,epsonrtc,hitachidsp,mcc,nss,sharprtc classes - GB: added MBC1M emulation (requires manually setting mapper=MBC1M in manifest.bml for now, sorry) - audio: implemented Emulator::Audio mixer and effects processor - audio: implemented Emulator::Stream interface - it is now possible to have more than two audio streams: eg SNES + SGB + MSU1 + Voicer-Kun (eventually) - audio: added reverb delay + reverb level settings; exposed balance configuration in UI - video: reworked palette generation to re-enable saturation, gamma, luminance adjustments - higan/emulator.cpp is gone since there was nothing left in it I know you guys are going to say the color adjust/balance/reverb stuff is pointless. And indeed it mostly is. But I like the idea of allowing some fun special effects and configurability that isn't system-wide. Note: there seems to be some kind of added audio lag in the SGB emulation now, and I don't really understand why. The code should be effectively identical to what I had before. The only main thing is that I'm sampling things to 48000hz instead of 32040hz before mixing. There's no point where I'm intentionally introducing added latency though. I'm kind of stumped, so if anyone wouldn't mind taking a look at it, it'd be much appreciated :/ I don't have an MSU1 test ROM, but the latency issue may affect MSU1 as well, and that would be very bad. |
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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. |
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Tim Allen | 653bb378ee |
Update to v096r03 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed icarus to save settings properly - fixed higan's full screen toggle on OS X - increased "Add Codes" button width to avoid text clipping - implemented cocoa/canvas.cpp - added 1s delay after mapping inputs before re-enabling the window (wasn't actually necessary, but already added it) - fixed setEnabled(false) on Cocoa's ListView and TextEdit widgets - updated nall::programpath() to use GetModuleFileName on Windows - GB: system uses open collector logic, so unmapped reads return 0xFF, not 0x00 (passes blargg's cpu_instrs again) [gekkio] |
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Tim Allen | 47d4bd4d81 |
Update to v096r01 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - restructured the project and removed a whole bunch of old/dead directives from higan/GNUmakefile - huge amounts of work on hiro/cocoa (compiles but ~70% of the functionality is commented out) - fixed a masking error in my ARM CPU disassembler [Lioncash] - SFC: decided to change board cic=(411,413) back to board region=(ntsc,pal) ... the former was too obtuse If you rename Boolean (it's a problem with an include from ruby, not from hiro) and disable all the ruby drivers, you can compile an OS X binary, but obviously it's not going to do anything. It's a boring WIP, I just wanted to push out the project structure change now at the start of this WIP cycle. |
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Tim Allen | 4e2eb23835 |
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. |
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Tim Allen | 29ea5bd599 |
Update to v092r09 release.
byuu says: This will be another massive diff from the previous version. All of higan was updated to use the new foo& bar syntax, and I also updated switch statements to be consistent as well (but not in the disassemblers, was starting to get an RSI just from what I already did.) phoenix/{windows, cocoa, qt} need to be updated to use "string foo" instead of "const string& foo", and after that, the major diffs should be finished. This archive is the first time I'm posting my copy-on-write, size+capacity nall::string class, so any feedback on that is welcome as well. |
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Tim Allen | bbc33fe05f |
Update to higan v092r01, ananke v02r01 and purify v03r01 releases.
byuu says: higan changelog: - compiler is set to g++-4.7, subst(cc,++) rule is gone, C files compile with $(compiler) -x c - make throws an error when you specify an invalid profile or compile on an unsupported platform (instead of hanging forever) - added unverified.png to resources (causes too big of a speed hit to actually check for folder/unverified file ... so disabled for now) - fixed default browser paths for Game Boy, Sufami Turbo and BS-X Satellaview (have to delete paths.cfg to see this) - browser home button seeks to configpath()/higan/library.cfg - settings->driver is now settings->advanced, and it adds game library path setting and profile information - emulation cores now load manifest files internally, manifest.bml is not required for a game folder to be recognized by higan as such - BS-X Satellaview and Sufami Turbo slot cartridge handling moved out of sfc/chip and into sfc/slot - Video::StartFullScreen only sets fullscreen when a game is specified on the command-line purify and ananke changelog: - library output path shown in purify window - added button to change library path - squelch firmware warning windows to prevent multi-threading crash, but only via purify (they show up in higan still) |
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Tim Allen | 032e924495 |
Update to v092 release.
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) |
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Tim Allen | d59ae34e12 |
Update to higan v091r14 and ananke v00r03 releases.
byuu says: higan changelog: - generates title displayed in emulator window by asking the core - core builds title solely from "information/title" ... if it's not there, you don't get a title at all - sub-system load menu is gone ... since there are multiple revisions of the SGB, this never really worked well anyway - to load an SGB, BS-X or ST cartridge, load the base cartridge first - "File->Load Game" moved to "Load->Import Game" ... may cause a bit of confusion to new users, but I don't like having a single-item menu, we'll just have to explain it to new users - browser window redone to look like ananke - home button here goes to ~/Emulation rather than just ~ like ananke, since this is the home of game folders - game folder icon is now the executable icon for the Tango theme (orange diamond), meant to represent a complete game rather than a game file or archive ananke changelog: - outputs GBC games to "Game Boy Color/" instead of "Game Boy/" - adds the file basename to "information/title" Known issues: - using ananke to load a GB game trips the Super Famicom SGB mode and fails (need to make the full-path auto-detection ignore non-bootable systems) - need to dump and test some BS-X media before releasing - ananke lacks BS-X Satellaview cartridge support - v092 isn't going to let you retarget the ananke/higan game folder path of ~/Emulation, you will have to wait for a future version if that bothers you so greatly [Later, after the v092 release, byuu posted this additional changelog: - kill laevateinn - add title() - add bootable, remove load - combine file, library - combine [][][] paths - fix SFC subtype handling XML->BML - update file browser to use buttons - update file browser keyboard handling - update system XML->BML - fix sufami turbo hashing - remove Cartridge::manifest ] |
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Tim Allen | ab345ff20c |
Update to v091r09 release.
[r07 and r08 were not posted to the WIP thread. -Ed.] byuu says: I'd appreciate it if you guys wouldn't mind testing out the database functionality. Save this file as database.bml (remove the date) inside ~/.config/higan/Super Famicom.sfc/ or %APPDATA%/higan/Super Famicom.sfc/ http://byuu.org/snes/database/database_2012-10-21.bml Now load any of the 20 games in the database from the file dialog. They need to be named *.sfc, have no copier header, and have firmware appended (for Mario Kart only so far.) If anyone actually does test it, please let me know how it goes for you and what you think. Note that future versions of higan will have the database.bml file included with the release. |
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Tim Allen | ef746bbda4 |
Update to v091r05 release.
[No prior releases were posted to the WIP thread. -Ed.] byuu says: Super Famicom mapping system has been reworked as discussed with the mask= changes. offset becomes base, mode is gone. Also added support for comma-separated fields in the address fields, to reduce the number of map lines needed. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <cartridge region="NTSC"> <superfx revision="2"> <rom name="program.rom" size="0x200000"/> <ram name="save.rwm" size="0x8000"/> <map id="io" address="00-3f,80-bf:3000-32ff"/> <map id="rom" address="00-3f:8000-ffff" mask="0x8000"/> <map id="rom" address="40-5f:0000-ffff"/> <map id="ram" address="00-3f,80-bf:6000-7fff" size="0x2000"/> <map id="ram" address="70-71:0000-ffff"/> </superfx> </cartridge> Or in BML: cartridge region=NTSC superfx revision=2 rom name=program.rom size=0x200000 ram name=save.rwm size=0x8000 map id=io address=00-3f,80-bf:3000-32ff map id=rom address=00-3f:8000-ffff mask=0x8000 map id=rom address=40-5f:0000-ffff map id=ram address=00-3f,80-bf:6000-7fff size=0x2000 map id=ram address=70-71:0000-ffff As a result of the changes, old mappings will no longer work. The above XML example will run Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Otherwise, you'll have to write your own. All that's left now is to work some sort of database mapping system in, so I can start dumping carts en masse. The NES changes that FitzRoy asked for are mostly in as well. Also, part of the reason I haven't released a WIP ... but fuck it, I'm not going to wait forever to post a new WIP. I've added a skeleton driver to emulate Campus Challenge '92 and Powerfest '94. There's no actual emulation, except for the stuff I can glean from looking at the pictures of the board. It has a DSP-1 (so SR/DR registers), four ROMs that map in and out, RAM, etc. I've also added preliminary mapping to upload high scores to a website, but obviously I need the ROMs first. |
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Tim Allen | 94b2538af5 |
Update to higan v091 release.
byuu says: Basically just a project rename, with s/bsnes/higan and the new icon from lowkee added in. It won't compile on Windows because I forgot to update the resource.rc file, and a path transform command isn't working on Windows. It was really just meant as a starting point, so that v091 WIPs can flow starting from .00 with the new name (it overshadows bsnes v091, so publicly speaking this "shouldn't exist" and will probably be deleted from Google Code when v092 is ready.) |