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Talarubi | a9571ff5b8 |
Fixed: Restore SPC7110 and S-RTC time properly
Loading and unloading the RTC is a little odd, since it's normally always powered in the first place. What we want, and what the load() functions really do, is to resync using the saved timestamps or reset it. unload() proper doesn't do anything. However, an interface refactoring after v098 reordered the above operations, and this (along with a typo, shh!) was causing the already synced time to be cleared. I've added checks so that whenever rtc.ram can't be found, load() gets called with empty arguments to initialise the defaults (like putting in a fresh battery). |
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Tim Allen | 5dbaec85a7 |
Update to v104r16 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - processor/upd96050: always potentially update S1 on ALU ops, sans NOP - theory by Lord Nightmare. I'm impartial on this one, but may as well match his design - sfc: fixed save state hang [reported by FitzRoy; fixed by Cydrak] - icarus: do not save settings.bml file when in library mode |
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Tim Allen | 6524a7181d |
Update to v104r15 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - processor/huc6280,mos6502,wdc65816: replaced abbreviated opcode names with descriptive names - nall: replaced `PLATFORM_MACOSX` define with `PLATFORM_MACOS` - icarus: added `Icarus::missing() -> string_vector` to list missing appended firmware files by name - ruby, hiro: fix macosx→macos references The processor instruction renaming was really about consistency with the other processor cores. I may still need to do this for one or two more processors. The icarus change should allow a future release of the icarus application to import games with external SNES coprocessor firmware once again. It will also allow this to be possible when used in library mode. |
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Tim Allen | b38a657192 |
Update to v104r05 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - emulator/random: new array function with more realistic RAM initializations - emulator/random: both low and high entropy register initializations now use PCG - gba/player: rumble will time out and disable after being left on for 500ms; fixes Pokemon Pinball issue - ruby/input/udev: fixed rumble effects [ma\_rysia] - sfc/system: default to low-entropy randomization of memory The low-entropy memory randomization is modeled after one of my SHVC 2/1/3 systems. It generates striped patterns in memory, using random inputs (biased to 0x00/0xff), and has a random chance of corrupting 1-2 bits of random values in the pool of memory (to prevent easy emulator detection and to match observed results on hardware.) The reasoning for using PCG on register initializations, is that I don't believe they're going to have repeating patterns like RAM does anyway. And register initializations are way more vital. I want to have the new low-entropy RAM mode tested, so at least for the next few WIPs, I've set the SNES randomization over to low-entropy. We'll have to have a long discussion and decide whether we want official releases to use high-entropy or low-entropy. Also, I figured out the cause of the Prince of Persia distortion ... I had the volume under the audio settings tab set to 200%. I didn't realize there were SNES games that clipped so easily, given how incredibly weak SNES audio is compared to every other sound source on my PC. So with no entropy or low-entropy, indeed the game now sounds just fine. I can't actually test the udev fixes, so I guess we'll see how that goes for Screwtape and ma\_rysia. |
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Tim Allen | d621136d69 |
Update to v104r04 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - higan/emulator: added new Random class with three entropy settings: none, low, and high - md/vdp: corrected Vcounter readout in interlace mode [MoD] - sfc: updated core to use the new Random class; defaults to high entropy No entropy essentially returns 0, unless the random.bias(n) function is called, in which case, it returns n. In this case, n is meant to be the "logical/ideal" default value that maximizes compatibility with games. Low entropy is a very simple entropy modeled after RAM initialization striping patterns (eg 32 0x00s, followed by 32 0xFFs, repeating throughout.) It doesn't "glitch" like real hardware does on rare occasions (parts of the pattern being broken from time to time.) It also only really returns 0 or ~0. So the entropy is indeed extremely low, and not very useful at all for detecting bugs. Over time, we can try to improve this, of course. High entropy is PCG. This replaces the older, lower-entropy and more predictable, LFSR. PCG should be more than enough for emulator randomness, while still being quite fast. Unfortunately, the bad news ... both no entropy and low entropy fix the Konami logo popping sound in Prince of Persia, but all three entropy settings still cause the distortion in-game, especially evident at the title screen. So ... this may be a more serious bug than first suspected. |
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Tim Allen | 406b6a61a5 |
Update to v103r31 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - gba/cpu: slight speedup to CPU::step() - processor/arm7tdmi: fixed about ten bugs, ST018 and GBA games are now playable once again - processor/arm: removed core from codebase - processor/v30mz: code cleanup (renamed functions; updated instruction() for consistency with other cores) It turns out on my much faster system, the new ARM7TDMI core is very slightly slower than the old one (by about 2% or so FPS.) But the CPU::step() improvement basically made it a wash. So yeah, I'm in really serious trouble with how slow my GBA core is now. Sigh. As for higan/processor ... this concludes the first phase of major cleanups and rewrites. There will always be work to do, and I have two more phases in mind. One is that a lot of the instruction disassemblers are very old. One even uses sprintf still. I'd like to modernize them all. Also, the ARM7TDMI core (and the ARM core before it) can't really disassemble because the PC address used for instruction execution is not known prior to calling instruction(), due to pipeline reload fetches that may occur inside of said function. I had a nasty hack for debugging the new core, but I'd like to come up with a clean way to allow tracing the new ARM7TDMI core. Another is that I'd still like to rename a lot of instruction function names in various cores to be more descriptive. I really liked how the LR35902 core came out there, and would like to get that level of detail in with the other cores as well. |
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Tim Allen | 1067566834 |
Update to v103r30 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - processor/arm7tdmi: completed implemented - gba/cpu, sfc/coprocessor/armdsp: use arm7tdmi instead of arm - sfc/cpu: experimental fix for newly discovered HDMA emulation issue Notes: The ARM7TDMI core crashes pretty quickly when trying to run GBA games, and I'm certain the same will be the case with the ST018. It was never all that likely I could rewrite 70KiB of code in 20 hours and have it work perfectly on the first try. So, now it's time for lots and lots of debugging. Any help would *really* be appreciated, if anyone were up for comparing the two implementations for regressions =^-^= I often have a really hard time spotting simple typos that I make. Also, the SNES HDMA fix is temporary. I would like it if testers could run through a bunch of games that are known for being tricky with HDMA (or if these aren't known to said tester, any games are fine then.) If we can confirm regressions, then we'll know the fix is either incorrect or incomplete. But if we don't find any, then it's a good sign that we're on the right path. |
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Tim Allen | 0b6f1df987 |
Update to v103r27 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - hiro/windows: set dpiAware=false, fixes icarus window sizes relative to higan window sizes - higan, icarus, hiro, ruby: add support for high resolution displays on macOS [ncbncb] - processor/lr35902-legacy: removed - processor/arm7tdmi: new processor core started; intended to one day be a replacement for processor/arm It will probably take several WIPs to get the new ARM core up and running. It's the last processor rewrite. After this, all processor cores will be up to date with all my current programming conventions. |
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Tim Allen | ff3750de4f |
Update to v103r04 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fc/apu: $4003,$4007 writes initialize duty counter to 0 instead of 7 - fc/apu: corrected duty table entries for use with decrementing duty counter - processor/spc700: emulated the behavior of cycle 3 of (x)+ instructions to not read I/O registers - specifically, this prevents reads from $fd-ff from resetting the timers, as observed on real hardware - sfc/controller: added ControllerPort class to match Mega Drive design - sfc/expansion: added ExpansionPort class to match Mega Drive design - sfc/system: removed Peripherals class - sfc/system: changed `colorburst()` to `cpuFrequency()`; added `apuFrequency()` - sfc: replaced calls to `system.region == System::Region::*` with `Region::*()` - sfc/expansion: remove thread from scheduler when device is destroyed - sfc/smp: `{read,write}Port` now use a separate 4x8-bit buffer instead of underlying APU RAM [hex\_usr] |
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Tim Allen | ecc7e899e0 |
Update to v103r01 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall/dsp: improve one pole coefficient calculations [Fatbag] - higan/audio: reworked filters to support selection of either one pole (first-order) or biquad (second-order) filters - note: the design is not stable yet; so forks should not put too much effort into synchronizing with this change yet - fc: added first-order filters as per NESdev wiki (90hz lowpass + 440hz lowpass + 14khz highpass) - fc: created separate NTSC-J and NTSC-U regions - NESdev wiki says the Japanese Famicom uses a separate audio filtering strategy, but details are fuzzy - there's also cartridge audio output being disabled on NES units; and differences with controllers - this stuff will be supported in the future, just adding the support for it now - gba: corrected serious bugs in PSG wave channel emulation [Cydrak] - note that if there are still bugs here, it's my fault - md/psg,ym2612: added first-order low-pass 2840hz filter to match VA3-VA6 Mega Drives - md/psg: lowered volume relative to the YM2612 - using 0x1400; multiple people agreed it was the closest to the hardware recordings against a VA6 - ms,md/psg: don't serialize the volume levels array - md/vdp: Hblank bit acts the same during Vblank as outside of it (it isn't always set during Vblank) - md/vdp: return isPAL in bit 0 of control port reads - tomoko: change command-line option separator from : to | - [Editor's note: This change was present in the public v103, but it's in this changelog because it was made after the v103 WIP] - higan/all: change the 20hz high-pass filters from second-order three-pass to first-order one-pass - these filters are meant to remove DC bias, but I honestly can't hear a difference with or without them - so there's really no sense wasting CPU power with an extremely powerful filter here Things I did not do: - change icarus install rule - work on 8-bit Mega Drive SRAM - work on Famicom or Mega Drive region detection heuristics in icarus My long-term dream plan is to devise a special user-configurable filtering system where you can set relative volumes and create your own list of filters (any number of them in any order at any frequency), that way people can make the systems sound however they want. Right now, the sanest place to put this information is inside the $system.sys/manifest.bml files. But that's not very user friendly, and upgrading to new versions will lose these changes if you don't copy them over manually. Of course, cluttering the GUI with a fancy filter editor is probably supreme overkill for 99% of users, so maybe that's fine. |
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Tim Allen | b73d918776 |
Update to v102r25 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - processor/arm: corrected MUL instruction timings [Jonas Quinn] - processor/wdc65816: finished phase two of the rewrite I'm really pleased with the visual results of the wdc65816 core rewrite. I was able to eliminate all of the weird `{Boolean,Natural}BitRange` templates, as well as the need to use unions/structs. Registers are now just simple `uint24` or `uint16` types (technically they're `Natural<T>` types, but then all of higan uses those), flags are now just bool types. I also eliminated all of the implicit object state inside of the core (aa, rd, dp, sp) and instead do all computations on the stack frame with local variables. Through using macros to reference the registers and individual parts of them, I was able to reduce the visual tensity of all of the instructions. And by using normal types without implicit states, I was able to eliminate about 15% of the instructions necessary, instead reusing existing ones. The final third phase of the rewrite will be to recode the disassembler. That code is probably the oldest code in all of higan right now, still using sprintf to generate the output. So it is very long overdue for a cleanup. And now for the bad news ... as with any large code cleanup, regression errors have seeped in. Currently, no games are running at all. I've left the old disassembler in for this reason: we can compare trace logs of v102r23 against trace logs of v102r25. The second there's any difference, we've spotted a buggy instruction and can correct it. With any luck, this will be the last time I ever rewrite the wdc65816 core. My style has changed wildly over the ~10 years since I wrote this core, but it's really solidifed in recent years. |
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Tim Allen | 6e8406291c |
Update to v102r24 release.
byuu says Changelog: - FC: fixed three MOS6502 regressions [hex\_usr] - GBA: return fetched instruction instead of 0 for unmapped MMIO (passes all of endrift's I/O tests) - MD: fix VDP control port read Vblank bit to test screen height instead of hard-code 240 (fixes Phantasy Star IV) - MD: swap USP,SSP when executing an exception (allows Super Street Fighter II to run; but no sprites visible yet) - MD: grant 68K access to Z80 bus on reset (fixes vdpdoc demo ROM from freezing immediately) - SFC: reads from $00-3f,80-bf:4000-43ff no longer update MDR [p4plus2] - SFC: massive, eight-hour cleanup of WDC65816 CPU core ... still not complete The big change this time around is the SFC CPU core. I've renamed everything from R65816 to WDC65816, and then went through and tried to clean up the code as much as possible. This core is so much larger than the 6502 core that I chose cleaning up the code to rewriting it. First off, I really don't care for the BitRange style functionality. It was an interesting experiment, but its fatal flaw are that the types are just bizarre, which makes them hard to pass around generically to other functions as arguments. So I went back to the list of bools for flags, and union/struct blocks for the registers. Next, I renamed all of the functions to be more descriptive: eg `op_read_idpx_w` becomes `instructionIndexedIndirectRead16`. `op_adc_b` becomes `algorithmADC8`. And so forth. I eliminated about ten instructions because they were functionally identical sans the index, so I just added a uint index=0 parameter to said functions. I added a few new ones (adjust→INC,DEC; pflag→REP,SEP) where it seemed appropriate. I cleaned up the disaster of the instruction switch table into something a whole lot more elegant without all the weird argument decoding nonsense (still need M vs X variants to avoid having to have 4-5 separate switch tables, but all the F/I flags are gone now); and made some things saner, like the flag clear/set and branch conditions, now that I have normal types for flags and registers once again. I renamed all of the memory access functions to be more descriptive to what they're doing: eg writeSP→push, readPC→fetch, writeDP→writeDirect, etc. Eliminated some of the special read/write modes that were only used in one single instruction. I started to clean up some of the actual instructions themselves, but haven't really accomplished much here. The big thing I want to do is get rid of the global state (aa, rd, iaddr, etc) and instead use local variables like I am doing with my other 65xx CPU cores now. But this will take some time ... the algorithm functions depend on rd to be set to work on them, rather than taking arguments. So I'll need to rework that. And then lastly, the disassembler is still a mess. I want to finish the CPU cleanups, and then post a new WIP, and then rewrite the disassembler after that. The reason being ... I want a WIP that can generate identical trace logs to older versions, in case the CPU cleanup causes any regressions. That way I can more easily spot the errors. Oh ... and a bit of good news. v102 was running at ~140fps on the SNES core. With the new support to suspend/resume WAI/STP, plus the internal CPU registers not updating the MDR, the framerate dropped to ~132fps. But with the CPU cleanups, performance went back to ~140fps. So, hooray. Of course, without those two other improvements, we'd have ended up at possibly ~146-148fps, but oh well. |
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Tim Allen | a4629e1f64 |
Update to v102r21 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - GBA: fixed WININ2 reads, BG3PB writes [Jonas Quinn] - R65816: added support for yielding/resuming from WAI/STP¹ - SFC: removed status.dmaCounter functionality (also fixes possible TAS desync issue) - tomoko: added support for combinatorial inputs [hex\_usr\]² - nall: fixed missing return value from Arithmetic::operator-- [Hendricks266] Now would be the time to start looking for major regressions with the new GBA PPU renderer, I suppose ... ¹: this doesn't matter for the master thread (SNES CPU), but is important for slave threads (SNES SA1). If you try to save a state and the SA1 is inside of a WAI instruction, it will get stuck there forever. This was causing attempts to create a save state in Super Bomberman - Panic Bomber W to deadlock the emulator and crash it. This is now finally fixed. Note that I still need to implement similar functionality into the Mega Drive 68K and Z80 cores. They still have the possibility of deadlocking. The SNES implementation was more a dry-run test for this new functionality. This possible crashing bug in the Mega Drive core is the major blocking bug for a new official release. ²: many, many thanks to hex\_usr for coming up with a really nice design. I mostly implemented it the exact same way, but with a few tiny differences that don't really matter (display " and ", " or " instead of " & ", " | " in the input settings windows; append → bind; assignmentName changed to displayName.) The actual functionality is identical to the old higan v094 and earlier builds. Emulated digital inputs let you combine multiple possible keys to trigger the buttons. This is OR logic, so you can map to eg keyboard.up OR gamepad.up for instance. Emulated analog inputs always sum together. Emulated rumble outputs will cause all mapped devices to rumble, which is probably not at all useful but whatever. Hotkeys use AND logic, so you have to press every key mapped to trigger them. Useful for eg Ctrl+F to trigger fullscreen. Obviously, there are cases where OR logic would be nice for hotkeys, too. Eg if you want both F11 and your gamepad's guide button to trigger the fullscreen toggle. Unfortunately, this isn't supported, and likely won't ever be in tomoko. Something I might consider is a throw switch in the configuration file to swap between AND or OR logic for hotkeys, but I'm not going to allow construction of mappings like "(Keyboard.Ctrl and Keyboard.F) or Gamepad.Guide", as that's just too complicated to code, and too complicated to make a nice GUI to set up the mappings for. |
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Tim Allen | 04072b278b |
Update to v102r16 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - Emulator::Stream now allows adding low-pass and high-pass filters dynamically - also accepts a pass# count; each pass is a second-order biquad butterworth IIR filter - Emulator::Stream no longer automatically filters out >20KHz frequencies for all streams - FC: added 20Hz high-pass filter; 20KHz low-pass filter - GB: removed simple 'magic constant' high-pass filter of unknown cutoff frequency (missed this one in the last WIP) - GB,SGB,GBC: added 20Hz high-pass filter; 20KHz low-pass filter - MS,GG,MD/PSG: added 20Hz high-pass filter; 20KHz low-pass filter - MD: added save state support (but it's completely broken for now; sorry) - MD/YM2612: fixed Voice#3 per-operator pitch support (fixes sound effects in Streets of Rage, etc) - PCE: added 20Hz high-pass filter; 20KHz low-pass filter - WS,WSC: added 20Hz high-pass filter; 20KHz low-pass filter So, the point of the low-pass filters is to remove frequencies above human hearing. If we don't do this, then resampling will introduce aliasing that results in sounds that are audible to the human ear. Which basically an annoying buzzing sound. You'll definitely hear the improvement from these in games like Mega Man 2 on the NES. Of course, these already existed before, so this WIP won't sound better than previous WIPs. The high-pass filters are a little more complicated. Their main role is to remove DC bias and help to center the audio stream. I don't understand how they do this at all, but ... that's what everyone who knows what they're talking about says, thus ... so be it. I have set all of the high-pass filters to 20Hz, which is below the limit of human hearing. Now this is where it gets really interesting ... technically, some of these systems actually cut off a lot of range. For instance, the GBA should technically use an 800Hz high-pass filter when output is done through the system's speakers. But of course, if you plug in headphones, you can hear the lower frequencies. Now 800Hz ... you definitely can hear. At that level, nearly all of the bass is stripped out and the audio is very tinny. Just like the real system. But for now, I don't want to emulate the audio being crushed that badly. I'm sticking with 20Hz everywhere since it won't negatively affect audio quality. In fact, you should not be able to hear any difference between this WIP and the previous WIP. But theoretically, DC bias should mostly be removed as a result of these new filters. It may be that we need to raise the values on some cores in the future, but I don't want to do that until we know for certain that we have to. What I can say is that compared to even older WIPs than r15 ... the removal of the simple one-pole low-pass and high-pass filters with the newer three-pass, second-order filters should result in much better attenuation (less distortion of audible frequencies.) Probably not enough to be noticeable in a blind test, though. |
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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 | bdc100e123 |
Update to v102r02 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - I caved on the `samples[] = {0.0}` thing, but I'm very unhappy about it - if it's really invalid C++, then GCC needs to stop accepting it in strict `-std=c++14` mode - Emulator::Interface::Information::resettable is gone - Emulator::Interface::reset() is gone - FC, SFC, MD cores updated to remove soft reset behavior - split GameBoy::Interface into GameBoyInterface, GameBoyColorInterface - split WonderSwan::Interface into WonderSwanInterface, WonderSwanColorInterface - PCE: fixed off-by-one scanline error [hex_usr] - PCE: temporary hack to prevent crashing when VDS is set to < 2 - hiro: Cocoa: removed (u)int(#) constants; converted (u)int(#) types to (u)int_(#)t types - icarus: replaced usage of unique with strip instead (so we don't mess up frameworks on macOS) - libco: added macOS-specific section marker [Ryphecha] So ... the major news this time is the removal of the soft reset behavior. This is a major!! change that results in a 100KiB diff file, and it's very prone to accidental mistakes!! If anyone is up for testing, or even better -- looking over the code changes between v102r01 and v102r02 and looking for any issues, please do so. Ideally we'll want to test every NES mapper type and every SNES coprocessor type by loading said games and power cycling to make sure the games are all cleanly resetting. It's too big of a change for me to cover there not being any issues on my own, but this is truly critical code, so yeah ... please help if you can. We technically lose a bit of hardware documentation here. The soft reset events do all kinds of interesting things in all kinds of different chips -- or at least they do on the SNES. This is obviously not ideal. But in the process of removing these portions of code, I found a few mistakes I had made previously. It simplifies resetting the system state a lot when not trying to have all the power() functions call the reset() functions to share partial functionality. In the future, the goal will be to come up with a way to add back in the soft reset behavior via keyboard binding as with the Master System core. What's going to have to happen is that the key binding will have to send a "reset pulse" to every emulated chip, and those chips are going to have to act independently to power() instead of reusing functionality. We'll get there eventually, but there's many things of vastly greater importance to work on right now, so it'll be a while. The information isn't lost ... we'll just have to pull it out of v102 when we are ready. Note that I left the SNES reset vector simulation code in, even though it's not possible to trigger, for the time being. Also ... the Super Game Boy core is still disconnected. To be honest, it totally slipped my mind when I released v102 that it wasn't connected again yet. This one's going to be pretty tricky to be honest. I'm thinking about making a third GameBoy::Interface class just for SGB, and coming up with some way of bypassing platform-> calls when in this mode. |
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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 | 79c83ade70 |
Update to v101r29 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - SMS: background VDP clips partial tiles on the left (math may not be right ... it's hard to reason about) - SMS: fix background VDP scroll locks - SMS: fix VDP sprite coordinates - SMS: paint black after the end of the visible display - todo: shouldn't be a brute force at the end of the main VDP loop, should happen in each rendering unit - higan: removed emulator/debugger.hpp - higan: removed privileged: access specifier - SFC: removed debugger hooks - todo: remove sfc/debugger.hpp - Z80: fixed disassembly of (fd,dd) cb (displacement) (opcode) instructions - Z80: fix to prevent interrupts from firing between ix/iy prefixes and opcodes - todo: this is a rather hacky fix that could, if exploited, crash the stack frame - Z80: fix BIT flags - Z80: fix ADD hl,reg flags - Z80: fix CPD, CPI flags - Z80: fix IND, INI flags - Z80: fix INDR, INIT loop flag check - Z80: fix OUTD, OUTI flags - Z80: fix OTDR, OTIR loop flag check |
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Tim Allen | f3e67da937 |
Update to v101r19 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - added \~130 new PAL games to icarus (courtesy of Smarthuman and aquaman) - added all three Korean-localized games to icarus - sfc: removed SuperDisc emulation (it was going nowhere) - sfc: fixed MSU1 regression where the play/repeat flags were not being cleared on track select - nall: cryptography support added; will be used to sign future databases (validation will always be optional) - minor shims to fix compilation issues due to nall changes The real magic is that we now have 25-30% of the PAL SNES library in icarus! Signing will be tricky. Obviously if I put the public key inside the higan archive, then all anyone has to do is change that public key for their own releases. And if you download from my site (which is now over HTTPS), then you don't need the signing to verify integrity. I may just put the public key on my site on my site and leave it at that, we'll see. |
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Tim Allen | c50723ef61 |
Update to v100r15 release.
byuu wrote: Aforementioned scheduler changes added. Longer explanation of why here: http://hastebin.com/raw/toxedenece Again, we really need to test this as thoroughly as possible for regressions :/ This is a really major change that affects absolutely everything: all emulation cores, all coprocessors, etc. Also added ADDX and SUB to the 68K core, which brings us just barely above 50% of the instruction encoding space completed. [Editor's note: The "aformentioned scheduler changes" were described in a previous forum post: Unfortunately, 64-bits just wasn't enough precision (we were getting misalignments ~230 times a second on 21/24MHz clocks), so I had to move to 128-bit counters. This of course doesn't exist on 32-bit architectures (and probably not on all 64-bit ones either), so for now ... higan's only going to compile on 64-bit machines until we figure something out. Maybe we offer a "lower precision" fallback for machines that lack uint128_t or something. Using the booth algorithm would be way too slow. Anyway, the precision is now 2^-96, which is roughly 10^-29. That puts us far beyond the yoctosecond. Suck it, MAME :P I'm jokingly referring to it as the byuusecond. The other 32-bits of precision allows a 1Hz clock to run up to one full second before all clocks need to be normalized to prevent overflow. I fixed a serious wobbling issue where I was using clock > other.clock for synchronization instead of clock >= other.clock; and also another aliasing issue when two threads share a common frequency, but don't run in lock-step. The latter I don't even fully understand, but I did observe it in testing. nall/serialization.hpp has been extended to support 128-bit integers, but without explicitly naming them (yay generic code), so nall will still compile on 32-bit platforms for all other applications. Speed is basically a wash now. FC's a bit slower, SFC's a bit faster. The "longer explanation" in the linked hastebin is: Okay, so the idea is that we can have an arbitrary number of oscillators. Take the SNES: - CPU/PPU clock = 21477272.727272hz - SMP/DSP clock = 24576000hz - Cartridge DSP1 clock = 8000000hz - Cartridge MSU1 clock = 44100hz - Controller Port 1 modem controller clock = 57600hz - Controller Port 2 barcode battler clock = 115200hz - Expansion Port exercise bike clock = 192000hz Is this a pathological case? Of course it is, but it's possible. The first four do exist in the wild already: see Rockman X2 MSU1 patch. Manifest files with higan let you specify any frequency you want for any component. The old trick higan used was to hold an int64 counter for each thread:thread synchronization, and adjust it like so: - if thread A steps X clocks; then clock += X * threadB.frequency - if clock >= 0; switch to threadB - if thread B steps X clocks; then clock -= X * threadA.frequency - if clock < 0; switch to threadA But there are also system configurations where one processor has to synchronize with more than one other processor. Take the Genesis: - the 68K has to sync with the Z80 and PSG and YM2612 and VDP - the Z80 has to sync with the 68K and PSG and YM2612 - the PSG has to sync with the 68K and Z80 and YM2612 Now I could do this by having an int64 clock value for every association. But these clock values would have to be outside the individual Thread class objects, and we would have to update every relationship's clock value. So the 68K would have to update the Z80, PSG, YM2612 and VDP clocks. That's four expensive 64-bit multiply-adds per clock step event instead of one. As such, we have to account for both possibilities. The only way to do this is with a single time base. We do this like so: - setup: scalar = timeBase / frequency - step: clock += scalar * clocks Once per second, we look at every thread, find the smallest clock value. Then subtract that value from all threads. This prevents the clock counters from overflowing. Unfortunately, these oscillator values are psychotic, unpredictable, and often times repeating fractions. Even with a timeBase of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one attosecond); we get rounding errors every ~16,300 synchronizations. Specifically, this happens with a CPU running at 21477273hz (rounded) and SMP running at 24576000hz. That may be good enough for most emulators, but ... you know how I am. Plus, even at the attosecond level, we're really pushing against the limits of 64-bit integers. Given the reciprocal inverse, a frequency of 1Hz (which does exist in higan!) would have a scalar that consumes 1/18th of the entire range of a uint64 on every single step. Yes, I could raise the frequency, and then step by that amount, I know. But I don't want to have weird gotchas like that in the scheduler core. Until I increase the accuracy to about 100 times greater than a yoctosecond, the rounding errors are too great. And since the only choice above 64-bit values is 128-bit values; we might as well use all the extra headroom. 2^-96 as a timebase gives me the ability to have both a 1Hz and 4GHz clock; and run them both for a full second; before an overflow event would occur. Another hastebin includes demonstration code: #include <libco/libco.h> #include <nall/nall.hpp> using namespace nall; // cothread_t mainThread = nullptr; const uint iterations = 100'000'000; const uint cpuFreq = 21477272.727272 + 0.5; const uint smpFreq = 24576000.000000 + 0.5; const uint cpuStep = 4; const uint smpStep = 5; // struct ThreadA { cothread_t handle = nullptr; uint64 frequency = 0; int64 clock = 0; auto create(auto (*entrypoint)() -> void, uint frequency) { this->handle = co_create(65536, entrypoint); this->frequency = frequency; this->clock = 0; } }; struct CPUA : ThreadA { static auto Enter() -> void; auto main() -> void; CPUA() { create(&CPUA::Enter, cpuFreq); } } cpuA; struct SMPA : ThreadA { static auto Enter() -> void; auto main() -> void; SMPA() { create(&SMPA::Enter, smpFreq); } } smpA; uint8 queueA[iterations]; uint offsetA; cothread_t resumeA = cpuA.handle; auto EnterA() -> void { offsetA = 0; co_switch(resumeA); } auto QueueA(uint value) -> void { queueA[offsetA++] = value; if(offsetA >= iterations) { resumeA = co_active(); co_switch(mainThread); } } auto CPUA::Enter() -> void { while(true) cpuA.main(); } auto CPUA::main() -> void { QueueA(1); smpA.clock -= cpuStep * smpA.frequency; if(smpA.clock < 0) co_switch(smpA.handle); } auto SMPA::Enter() -> void { while(true) smpA.main(); } auto SMPA::main() -> void { QueueA(2); smpA.clock += smpStep * cpuA.frequency; if(smpA.clock >= 0) co_switch(cpuA.handle); } // struct ThreadB { cothread_t handle = nullptr; uint128_t scalar = 0; uint128_t clock = 0; auto print128(uint128_t value) { string s; while(value) { s.append((char)('0' + value % 10)); value /= 10; } s.reverse(); print(s, "\n"); } //femtosecond (10^15) = 16306 //attosecond (10^18) = 688838 //zeptosecond (10^21) = 13712691 //yoctosecond (10^24) = 13712691 (hitting a dead-end on a rounding error causing a wobble) //byuusecond? ( 2^96) = (perfect? 79,228 times more precise than a yoctosecond) auto create(auto (*entrypoint)() -> void, uint128_t frequency) { this->handle = co_create(65536, entrypoint); uint128_t unitOfTime = 1; //for(uint n : range(29)) unitOfTime *= 10; unitOfTime <<= 96; //2^96 time units ... this->scalar = unitOfTime / frequency; print128(this->scalar); this->clock = 0; } auto step(uint128_t clocks) -> void { clock += clocks * scalar; } auto synchronize(ThreadB& thread) -> void { if(clock >= thread.clock) co_switch(thread.handle); } }; struct CPUB : ThreadB { static auto Enter() -> void; auto main() -> void; CPUB() { create(&CPUB::Enter, cpuFreq); } } cpuB; struct SMPB : ThreadB { static auto Enter() -> void; auto main() -> void; SMPB() { create(&SMPB::Enter, smpFreq); clock = 1; } } smpB; auto correct() -> void { auto minimum = min(cpuB.clock, smpB.clock); cpuB.clock -= minimum; smpB.clock -= minimum; } uint8 queueB[iterations]; uint offsetB; cothread_t resumeB = cpuB.handle; auto EnterB() -> void { correct(); offsetB = 0; co_switch(resumeB); } auto QueueB(uint value) -> void { queueB[offsetB++] = value; if(offsetB >= iterations) { resumeB = co_active(); co_switch(mainThread); } } auto CPUB::Enter() -> void { while(true) cpuB.main(); } auto CPUB::main() -> void { QueueB(1); step(cpuStep); synchronize(smpB); } auto SMPB::Enter() -> void { while(true) smpB.main(); } auto SMPB::main() -> void { QueueB(2); step(smpStep); synchronize(cpuB); } // #include <nall/main.hpp> auto nall::main(string_vector) -> void { mainThread = co_active(); uint masterCounter = 0; while(true) { print(masterCounter++, " ...\n"); auto A = clock(); EnterA(); auto B = clock(); print((double)(B - A) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC, "s\n"); auto C = clock(); EnterB(); auto D = clock(); print((double)(D - C) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC, "s\n"); for(uint n : range(iterations)) { if(queueA[n] != queueB[n]) return print("fail at ", n, "\n"); } } } ...and that's everything.] |
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Tim Allen | ca277cd5e8 |
Update to v100r14 release.
byuu says: (Windows: compile with -fpermissive to silence an annoying error. I'll fix it in the next WIP.) I completely replaced the time management system in higan and overhauled the scheduler. Before, processor threads would have "int64 clock"; and there would be a 1:1 relationship between two threads. When thread A ran for X cycles, it'd subtract X * B.Frequency from clock; and when thread B ran for Y cycles, it'd add Y * A.Frequency from clock. This worked well and allowed perfect precision; but it doesn't work when you have more complicated relationships: eg the 68K can sync to the Z80 and PSG; the Z80 to the 68K and PSG; so the PSG needs two counters. The new system instead uses a "uint64 clock" variable that represents time in attoseconds. Every time the scheduler exits, it subtracts the smallest clock count from all threads, to prevent an overflow scenario. The only real downside is that rounding errors mean that roughly every 20 minutes, we have a rounding error of one clock cycle (one 20,000,000th of a second.) However, this only applies to systems with multiple oscillators, like the SNES. And when you're in that situation ... there's no such thing as a perfect oscillator anyway. A real SNES will be thousands of times less out of spec than 1hz per 20 minutes. The advantages are pretty immense. First, we obviously can now support more complex relationships between threads. Second, we can build a much more abstracted scheduler. All of libco is now abstracted away completely, which may permit a state-machine / coroutine version of Thread in the future. We've basically gone from this: auto SMP::step(uint clocks) -> void { clock += clocks * (uint64)cpu.frequency; dsp.clock -= clocks; if(dsp.clock < 0 && !scheduler.synchronizing()) co_switch(dsp.thread); if(clock >= 0 && !scheduler.synchronizing()) co_switch(cpu.thread); } To this: auto SMP::step(uint clocks) -> void { Thread::step(clocks); synchronize(dsp); synchronize(cpu); } As you can see, we don't have to do multiple clock adjustments anymore. This is a huge win for the SNES CPU that had to update the SMP, DSP, all peripherals and all coprocessors. Likewise, we don't have to synchronize all coprocessors when one runs, now we can just synchronize the active one to the CPU. Third, when changing the frequencies of threads (think SGB speed setting modes, GBC double-speed mode, etc), it no longer causes the "int64 clock" value to be erroneous. Fourth, this results in a fairly decent speedup, mostly across the board. Aside from the GBA being mostly a wash (for unknown reasons), it's about an 8% - 12% speedup in every other emulation core. Now, all of this said ... this was an unbelievably massive change, so ... you know what that means >_> If anyone can help test all types of SNES coprocessors, and some other system games, it'd be appreciated. ---- Lastly, we have a bitchin' new about screen. It unfortunately adds ~200KiB onto the binary size, because the PNG->C++ header file transformation doesn't compress very well, and I want to keep the original resource files in with the higan archive. I might try some things to work around this file size increase in the future, but for now ... yeah, slightly larger archive sizes, sorry. The logo's a bit busted on Windows (the Label control's background transparency and alignment settings aren't working), but works well on GTK. I'll have to fix Windows before the next official release. For now, look on my Twitter feed if you want to see what it's supposed to look like. ---- EDIT: forgot about ICD2::Enter. It's doing some weird inverse run-to-save thing that I need to implement support for somehow. So, save states on the SGB core probably won't work with this WIP. |
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Tim Allen | 059347e575 |
Update to v100r07 release.
byuu says: Four and a half hours of work and ... zero new opcodes implemented. This was the best job I could do refining the effective address computations. Should have all twelve 68000 modes implemented now. Still have a billion questions about when and how I'm supposed to perform certain edge case operations, though. |
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Tim Allen | 76a8ecd32a |
Update to v100r03 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - moved Thread, Scheduler, Cheat functionality into emulator/ for all cores - start of actual Mega Drive emulation (two 68K instructions) I'm going to be rather terse on MD emulation, as it's too early for any meaningful dialogue here. |
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Tim Allen | 07995c05a5 |
Update to v100 release.
byuu says: higan has finally reached v100! I feel it's important to stress right away that this is not "version 1.00", nor is it a major milestone release. Rather than arbitrary version numbers, all of my software simply bumps version numbers by one for each official release. As such, higan v100 is simply higan's 100th release. That said, the primary focus of this release has been code clean-ups. These are always somewhat dangerous in that regressions are possible. We've tested through sixteen WIP revisions, one of which was open to the public, to try and minimize any regressions. But all the same, please report any regressions if you discover any. Changelog (since v099): FC: render during pixels 1-256 instead of 0-255 [hex_usr] FC: rewrote controller emulation code SFC: 8% speedup over the previous release thanks to PPU optimizations SFC: fixed nasty DB address wrapping regression from v099 SFC: USART developer controller removed; superseded by 21fx SFC: Super Multitap option removed from controller port 1; ports renamed 2-5 SFC: hidden option to experiment with 128KB VRAM (strictly for novelty) higan: audio volume no longer divided by number of audio streams higan: updated controller polling code to fix possible future mapping issues higan: replaced nall/stream with nall/vfs for file-loading subsystem tomoko: can now load multi-slotted games via command-line tomoko: synchronize video removed from UI; still available in the settings file tomoko, icarus: can navigate to root drive selection on Windows all: major code cleanups and refactoring (~1MB diff against v099) Note 1: the audio volume change means that SGB and MSU1 games won't lose half the volume on the SNES sounds anymore. However, if one goes overboard and drives the sound all the way to max volume with the MSU1, clamping may occur. The obvious solution is not to drive volume that high (it will vastly overpower the SNES audio, which usually never exceeds 25% volume.) Another option is to lower the volume in the audio settings panel to 50%. In general, neither is likely to ever be necessary. Note 2: the synchronize video option was hidden from the UI because it is no longer useful. With the advent of compositors, the loss of the complicated timing settings panel, support for the WonderSwan and its 75hz display, the need to emulate variable refresh rate behaviors in the Game Boy, the unfortunate latency spike and audio distortion caused by long Vsync pauses, and the arrival of adaptive sync technology ... it no longer makes sense to present this option. However, as stated, you can edit settings.bml to enable this option anyway if you insist and understand the aforementioned risks. Changelog (since v099r16 open beta): - fixed MSU1 audio sign extension - fixed compilation with SGB support disabled - icarus can now navigate to root directory - fixed compilation issues with OS X port - (hopefully) fixed label height issue with hiro that affected icarus import dialog - (mostly) fixed BS Memory, Sufami Turbo slot loading Errata: - forgot to remove the " - Slot A", " - Slot B" suffixes for Sufami Turbo slot loading - this means you have to navigate up one folder and then into Sufami Turbo/ to load games for this system - moving WonderSwan orientation controls to the device slot is causing some nastiness - can now select orientation from the main menu, but it doesn't rotate the display |
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Tim Allen | 82293c95ae |
Update to v099r14 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - (u)int(max,ptr) abbreviations removed; use _t suffix now [didn't feel like they were contributing enough to be worth it] - cleaned up nall::integer,natural,real functionality - toInteger, toNatural, toReal for parsing strings to numbers - fromInteger, fromNatural, fromReal for creating strings from numbers - (string,Markup::Node,SQL-based-classes)::(integer,natural,real) left unchanged - template<typename T> numeral(T value, long padding, char padchar) -> string for print() formatting - deduces integer,natural,real based on T ... cast the value if you want to override - there still exists binary,octal,hex,pointer for explicit print() formatting - lstring -> string_vector [but using lstring = string_vector; is declared] - would be nice to remove the using lstring eventually ... but that'd probably require 10,000 lines of changes >_> - format -> string_format [no using here; format was too ambiguous] - using integer = Integer<sizeof(int)*8>; and using natural = Natural<sizeof(uint)*8>; declared - for consistency with boolean. These three are meant for creating zero-initialized values implicitly (various uses) - R65816::io() -> idle() and SPC700::io() -> idle() [more clear; frees up struct IO {} io; naming] - SFC CPU, PPU, SMP use struct IO {} io; over struct (Status,Registers) {} (status,registers); now - still some CPU::Status status values ... they didn't really fit into IO functionality ... will have to think about this more - SFC CPU, PPU, SMP now use step() exclusively instead of addClocks() calling into step() - SFC CPU joypad1_bits, joypad2_bits were unused; killed them - SFC PPU CGRAM moved into PPU::Screen; since nothing else uses it - SFC PPU OAM moved into PPU::Object; since nothing else uses it - the raw uint8[544] array is gone. OAM::read() constructs values from the OAM::Object[512] table now - this avoids having to determine how we want to sub-divide the two OAM memory sections - this also eliminates the OAM::synchronize() functionality - probably more I'm forgetting The FPS fluctuations are driving me insane. This WIP went from 128fps to 137fps. Settled on 133.5fps for the final build. But nothing I changed should have affected performance at all. This level of fluctuation makes it damn near impossible to know whether I'm speeding things up or slowing things down with changes. |
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Tim Allen | 67457fade4 |
Update to v099r13 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - GB core code cleanup completed - GBA core code cleanup completed - some more cleanup on missed processor/arm functions/variables - fixed FC loading icarus bug - "Load ROM File" icarus functionality restored - minor code unification efforts all around (not perfect yet) - MMIO->IO - mmio.cpp->io.cpp - read,write->readIO,writeIO It's been a very long work in progress ... starting all the way back with v094r09, but the major part of the higan code cleanup is now completed! Of course, it's very important to note that this is only for the basic style: - under_score functions and variables are now camelCase - return-type function-name() are now auto function-name() -> return-type - Natural<T>/Integer<T> replace (u)intT_n types where possible - signed/unsigned are now int/uint - most of the x==true,x==false tests changed to x,!x A lot of spot improvements to consistency, simplicity and quality have gone in along the way, of course. But we'll probably never fully finishing beautifying every last line of code in the entire codebase. Still, this is a really great start. Going forward, WIP diffs should start being smaller and of higher quality once again. I know the joke is, "until my coding style changes again", but ... this was way too stressful, way too time consuming, and way too risky. I'm too old and tired now for extreme upheavel like this again. The only major change I'm slowly mulling over would be renaming the using Natural<T>/Integer<T> = (u)intT; shorthand to something that isn't as easily confused with the (u)int_t types ... but we'll see. I'll definitely continue to change small things all the time, but for the larger picture, I need to just accept the style I have and live with it. |
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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 | a816998122 |
Update to v099r10 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - higan/profile/ => higan/systems/ [temporary; unless we can't think of a better base folder name] - god-damn-better-have fixed the input polling bug - re-added command-line and drag-and-drop loading - command-line loading can now load multiple folders at once (SGB+GB game; Sufami Turbo+Slot A+Slot B; etc) - if you load just the base cart, it'll present you with a dialog to optionally load slotted cart(s) - MSU1 now goes through nall/vfs instead of directly accessing the filesystem - Famicom Cartridge, PPU cores updated to newer programming style - there's countless opportunity for BitField and .bits() in the PPU ... but I'm worried about breaking things If anyone has a working MSU1 game and can test the changes out, that'd be appreciated. I still don't have a test ROM on my dev box. I wouldn't worry too much about extensively testing the Famicom PPU changes just yet ... I'm still struggling with what to name the structs inside the classes between all of my emulators, and the BitField/.bits() changes will be much more important to test at a later date. The only use case left for Emulator::Interface::path(uint id) is for 21fx emulation. This peripheral loads a DLL/SO via LoadLibrary/dlopen, which do not have any official ways to open a file in RAM. I'm very hesitant to use the portable trick of writing the memory to a temporary file, loading it, and deleting the temporary file once done ... it's a real waste of disk activity. I might make something like vfs::file::isVirtual->bool,path()->string to get around this. But even once I do, the underlying LoadLibrary/dlopen call is still going to be direct disk access. |
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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 | 875f031182 |
Update to v099r06 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - Super Famicom core converted to use nall/vfs - excludes Super Game Boy; since that's invoked from inside the GB core This was definitely the major obstacle to test nall/vfs' applicability. Things worked out pretty great in the end. We went from 22.0KiB (cartridge) + 18.6KiB (interface) to 24.5KiB (cartridge) + 11.4KiB (interface). Or 40.7KiB to 36.0KiB. This removes a very large source of indirection. Before it was: "coprocessor <=> cartridge <=> interface" for loading and saving data, and now it's just "coprocessor <=> cartridge". And it may make sense to eventually turn this into just "cartridge -> coprocessor" by making each coprocessor class handle its own markup parsing. It's nice to have all the manifest parsing in one location (well, sans MSU1); but it's also nice for loading/unloading to be handled by each coprocessor itself. So I'll have to think longer about that one. I've also started handling Interface::save() differently. Instead of keeping track of memory IDs and filenames, and iterating through that vector of objects ... instead I now have a system that mirrors the markup parsing on loading, but handles saving instead. This was actually the reason the code size savings weren't more significant, but I like this style more. As before, it removes an extra level of indirection. So ... next up, I need to port over the GB, then GBA, then WS cores. These shouldn't take too long since they're all very simple with just ROM+RAM(+RTC) right now. Then get the SGB callbacks using vfs. Then after that, gut all the old stream stuff from nall and higan. Kill the (load,save)Request stuff, rename the load(Gamepak)Request to something simpler, and then we should be good. Anyway ... these are some huge changes. |
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Tim Allen | 44a8c5a2b4 |
Update to v099r03 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - finished cleaning up the SFC core to my new coding conventions - removed sfc/controller/usart (superseded by 21fx) - hid Synchronize Video option from the menu (still in the configuration file) Pretty much the only minor detail left is some variable names in the SA-1 core that really won't look good at all if I move to camelCase, so I'll have to rethink how I handle those. It's probably a good area to attempt using BitFields, to see how it impacts performance. But I'll do that in a test branch first. But for the most part, this should be the end of the gigantic diffs (this one was 174KiB), at least for the SFC/WS cores. Still have the FC/GB/GBA cores to clean up more fully. Assuming we don't spot any new regressions, we should be ~95% out of the woods on code cleanups breaking things. |
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Tim Allen | 9b452c9f5f |
Update to v098r17 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed Super Game Boy regression from v096r04 with bottom tile row flickering - fixed GB STAT IRQ regression from previous WIP - Altered Space is now playable - GBVideoPlayer isn't; but nobody seems to know exactly what weird hardware quirk that one relies on to work - ~3-4% speed improvement in SuperFX games by eliminating function<> callback on register assignments - most noticeable in Doom in-game; least noticeable on Yoshi's Island title screen (darn) - finished GSU core and SuperFX coprocessor code cleanups - did some more work cleaning up the LR35902 core and GB CPU code Just a fair warning: don't get your hopes up on these GB fixes. Cliffhanger now hangs completely (har har), and none of the other bugs are fixed. We pretty much did all this work just for Altered Space. So, I hope you like playing Altered Space. |
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Tim Allen | 3681961ca5 |
Update to v098r16 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - GNUmakefile: reverted $(call unique,) to $(strip) - processor/r6502: removed templates; reduces object size from 146.5kb to 107.6kb - processor/lr35902: removed templates; reduces object size from 386.2kb to 197.4kb - processor/spc700: merged op macros for switch table declarations - sfc/coprocessor/sa1: partial cleanups; flattened directory structure - sfc/coprocessor/superfx: partial cleanups; flattened directory structure - sfc/coprocessor/icd2: flattened directory structure - gb/ppu: changed behavior of STAT IRQs Major caveat! The GB/GBC STAT IRQ changes has a major bug in it somewhere that's seriously breaking most games. I'm pushing the WIP anyway, because I believe the changes to be mostly correct. I'd like to get more people looking at these changes, and also try more heavy-handed hacking and diff comparison logging between the previous WIP and this one. |
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Tim Allen | fdc41611cf |
Update to v098r14 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - improved attenuation of biquad filter by computing butterworth Q coefficients correctly (instead of using the same constant) - adding 1e-25 to each input sample into the biquad filters to try and prevent denormalization - updated normalization from [0.0 to 1.0] to [-1.0 to +1.0]; volume/reverb happen in floating-point mode now - good amount of work to make the base Emulator::Audio support any number of output channels - so that we don't have to do separate work on left/right channels; and can instead share the code for each channel - Emulator::Interface::audioSample(int16 left, int16 right); changed to: - Emulator::Interface::audioSample(double* samples, uint channels); - samples are normalized [-1.0 to +1.0] - for now at least, channels will be the value given to Emulator::Audio::reset() - fixed GUI crash on startup when audio driver is set to None I'm probably going to be updating ruby to accept normalized doubles as well; but I'm not sure if I will try and support anything other 2-channel audio output. It'll depend on how easy it is to do so; perhaps it'll be a per-driver setting. The denormalization thing is fierce. If that happens, it drops the emulator framerate from 220fps to about 20fps for Game Boy emulation. And that happens basically whenever audio output is silent. I'm probably also going to make a nall/denormal.hpp file at some point with platform-specific functionality to set the CPU state to "denormals as zero" where applicable. I'll still add the 1e-25 offset (inaudible) as another fallback. |
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Tim Allen | 839813d0f1 |
Update to v098r13 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall/dsp returns with new iir/biquad.hpp and resampler/cubic.hpp files - nall/queue.hpp added (simple ring buffer ... nall/vector wouldn't cause too many moves with FIFO) - audio streams now only buffer 20ms; so even if multiple audio streams desync, latency can never exceed 20ms - replaced blackman windwed sinc FIR hermite audio filter with transposed direct form II biquadratic sixth-order IIR butterworth filter (better attenuation of frequencies above 20KHz, faster, no need for decimation, less code) - put in experimental eight-tap echo filter (a lot better than what I had before, but still rather weak) - substantial cleanups to the SuperFX GSU processor core (slightly faster, 479KB->100KB object file, 42.7KB->33.4KB source code size, way less code duplication) We'll definitely want to test the whole SuperFX library (not many games) just to make sure there's no regressions caused by this one. Not sure what I want to do with audio processing effects yet. I've always really wanted lots of fun controls to customize audio, and now finally with this new biquad filter, I can finally start implementing real effects. For instance, an equalizer wouldn't be too complicated anymore. The new reverb effect is still a poor man's version. I need to find human readable source for implementing a comb-filter properly. I'm pretty sure I can already treat nall::queue as an all-pass filter since all that does is phase shift (fancy audio term for "delay audio"). What's really going to be hard is figuring out how to expose user-friendly settings for controlling it. It looks like you need a bunch of coprime coefficients, and I don't think casual users are going to be able to hand-enter coprime values to get the echo effect they want. I uh ... don't even know how to calculate coprime values dynamically right now >_> But we're going to have to, as they are correlated to the output sampling rate. We'll definitely want to make some audio profiles so that users can quickly select pre-configured themes that sound nice, but expose the underlying coefficients so that they can tweak stuff to their liking. This isn't just about higan, this is about me trying to learn digital signal processing, so please don't be too upset about feature creep or anything on this. Anyway ... I'm having some difficulties with my audio right now. When the reverb effect is enabled, there's a bunch of static on system reset for just a moment. But this should not be possible. nall::queue is initializing all previous reverb sample elements to 0.0. I don't understand where static is coming in from. Further, we have the same issue with both the windowed sinc and the biquad filters ... a bit of a popping sound when starting a game. Any help tracking this down would be appreciated. There's also one really annoying issue ... I can't seem to do reverb or volume adjustments with normalized samples. If I say "volume *= 0.5" in higan/audio/audio.cpp line 68, it doesn't just halve the volume, it adds a whole bunch of distortion. This makes absolutely zero sense to me. The sample values are between 0.0 (mute) and 1.0 (full volume) here, so multiplying a double by 0.5 shouldn't cause distortion. So right now, I'm doing these adjustments with less precision after denormalizing back to int16. Anyone ever see something like that? :/ |
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Tim Allen | ae5d380d06 |
Update to v098r11 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed nall/path.hpp compilation issue - fixed ruby/audio/xaudio header declaration compilation issue (again) - cleaned up xaudio2.hpp file to match my coding syntax (12.5% of the file was whitespace overkill) - added null terminator entry to nall/windows/utf8.hpp argc[] array - nall/windows/guid.hpp uses the Windows API for generating the GUID - this should stop all the bug reports where two nall users were generating GUIDs at the exact same second - fixed hiro/cocoa compilation issue with uint# types - fixed major higan/sfc Super Game Boy audio latency issue - fixed higan/sfc CPU core bug with pei, [dp], [dp]+y instructions - major cleanups to higan/processor/r65816 core - merged emulation/native-mode opcodes - use camel-case naming on memory.hpp functions - simplify address masking code for memory.hpp functions - simplify a few opcodes themselves (avoid redundant copies, etc) - rename regs.* to r.* to match modern convention of other CPU cores - removed device.order<> concept from Emulator::Interface - cores will now do the translation to make the job of the UI easier - fixed plurality naming of arrays in Emulator::Interface - example: emulator.ports[p].devices[d].inputs[i] - example: vector<Medium> media - probably more surprises Major show-stoppers to the next official release: - we need to work on GB core improvements: LY=153/0 case, multiple STAT IRQs case, GBC audio output regs, etc. - we need to re-add software cursors for light guns (Super Scope, Justifier) - after the above, we need to fix the turbo button for the Super Scope I really have no idea how I want to implement the light guns. Ideally, we'd want it in higan/video, so we can support the NES Zapper with the same code. But this isn't going to be easy, because only the SNES knows when its output is interlaced, and its resolutions can vary as {256,512}x{224,240,448,480} which requires pixel doubling that was hard-coded to the SNES-specific behavior, but isn't appropriate to be exposed in higan/video. |
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Tim Allen | 6ae0abe3d3 |
Update to v098r09 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed major nall/vector/prepend bug - renamed hiro/ListView to hiro/TableView - added new hiro/ListView control which is a simplified abstraction of hiro/TableView - updated higan's cheat database window and icarus' scan dialog to use the new ListView control - compilation works once again on all platforms (Windows, Cocoa, GTK, Qt) - the loki skeleton compiles once again (removed nall/DSP references; updated port/device ID names) Small catch: need to capture layout resize events internally in Windows to call resizeColumns. For now, just resize the icarus window to get it to use the full window width for list view items. |
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Tim Allen | 0955295475 |
Update to v098r08 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall/vector rewritten from scratch - higan/audio uses nall/vector instead of raw pointers - higan/sfc/coprocessor/sdd1 updated with new research information - ruby/video/glx and ruby/video/glx2: fuck salt glXSwapIntervalEXT! The big change here is definitely nall/vector. The Windows, OS X and Qt ports won't compile until you change some first/last strings to left/right, but GTK will compile. I'd be really grateful if anyone could stress-test nall/vector. Pretty much everything I do relies on this class. If we introduce a bug, the worst case scenario is my entire SFC game dump database gets corrupted, or the byuu.org server gets compromised. So it's really critical that we test the hell out of this right now. The S-DD1 changes mean you need to update your installation of icarus again. Also, even though the Lunar FMV never really worked on the accuracy core anyway (it didn't initialize the PPU properly), it really won't work now that we emulate the hard-limit of 16MiB for S-DD1 games. |
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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 | a2d3b8ba15 |
Update to v098r04 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - SFC: fixed behavior of 21fx $21fe register when no device is connected (must return zero) - SFC: reduced 21fx buffer size to 1024 bytes in both directions to mirror the FT232H we are using - SFC: eliminated dsp/modulo-array.hpp [1] - higan: implemented higan/video interface and migrated all cores to it [2] [1] the echo history buffer was 8-bytes, so there was no need for it at all here. Not sure what I was thinking. The BRR buffer was 12-bytes, and has very weird behavior ... but there's only a single location in the code where it actually writes to this buffer. It's much easier to just write to the buffer three times there instead of implementing an entire class just to abstract away two lines of code. This change actually boosted the speed from ~124.5fps to around ~127.5fps, but that's within the margin of error for GCC. I doubt it's actually faster this way. The DSP core could really use a ton of work. It comes from a port of blargg's spc_dsp to my coding style, but he was extremely fond of using 32-bit signed integers everywhere. There's a lot of opportunity to remove red tape masking by resizing the variables to their actual state sizes. I really need to find where I put spc_dsp6.sfc from blargg. It's a great test to verify if I've made any mistakes in my implementation that would cause regressions. Don't suppose anyone has it? [2] so again, the idea is that higan/audio and higan/video are going to sit between the emulation cores and the user interfaces. The hope is to output raw encoding data from the emulation cores without having to worry about the video display format (generally 24-bit RGB) of the host display. And also to avoid having to repeat myself with eg three separate implementations of interframe blending, and so on. Furthermore, the idea is that the user interface can configure its side of the settings, and the emulation cores can configure their sides. Thus, neither has to worry about the other end. And now we can spin off new user interfaces much easier without having to mess with all of these things. Right now, I've implemented color emulation, interframe blending and SNES horizontal color bleed. I did not implement scanlines (and interlace effects for them) yet, but I probably will at some point. Further, for right now, the WonderSwan/Color screen rotation is busted and will only show games in the horizontal orientation. Obviously this must be fixed before the next official release, but I'll want to think about how to implement it. Also, the SNES light gun pointers are missing for now. Things are a bit messy right now as I've gone through several revisions of how to handle these things, so a good house cleaning is in order once everything is feature-complete again. I need to sit down and think through how and where I want to handle things like light gun cursors, LCD icons, and maybe even rasterized text messages. And obviously ... higan/audio is still just nall::DSP's headers. I need to revamp that whole interface. I want to make it quite powerful with a true audio mixer so I can handle things like SNES+SGB+MSU1+Voicer-Kun+SNES-CD (five separate audio streams at once.) The video system has the concept of "effects" for things like color bleed and interframe blending. I want to extend on this with useful other effects, such as NTSC simulation, maybe bringing back my mini-HQ2x filter, etc. I'd also like to restore the saturation/gamma/luma adjustment sliders ... I always liked allowing people to compensate for their displays without having to change settings system-wide. Lastly, I've always wanted to see some audio effects. Although I doubt we'll ever get my dream of CoreAudio-style profiles, I'd like to get some basic equalizer settings and echo/reverb effects in there. |
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Tim Allen | 1929ad47d2 |
Update to v098r03 release.
byuu says: It took several hours, but I've rebuilt much of the SNES' bus memory mapping architecture. The new design unifies the cartridge string-based mapping ("00-3f,80-bf:8000-ffff") and internal bus.map calls. The map() function now has an accompanying unmap() function, and instead of a fixed 256 callbacks, it'll scan to find the first available slot. unmap() will free slots up when zero addresses reference a given slot. The controllers and expansion port are now both entirely dynamic. Instead of load/unload/power/reset, they only have the constructor (power/reset/load) and destructor (unload). What this means is you can now dynamically change even expansion port devices after the system is loaded. Note that this is incredibly dangerous and stupid, but ... oh well. The whole point of this was for 21fx. There's no way to change the expansion port device prior to loading a game, but if the 21fx isn't active, then the reset vector hijack won't work. Now you can load a 21fx game, change the expansion port device, and simply reset the system to active the device. The unification of design between controller port devices and expansion port devices is nice, and overall this results in a reduction of code (all of the Mapping stuff in Cartridge is gone, replaced with direct bus mapping.) And there's always the potential to expand this system more in the future now. The big missing feature right now is the ability to push/pop mappings. So if you look at how the 21fx does the reset vector, you might vomit a little bit. But ... it works. Also changed exit(0) to _exit(0) in the POSIX version of nall::execute. [The _exit(0) thing is an attempt to make higan not crash when it tries to launch icarus and it's not on $PATH. The theory is that higan forks, then the child tries to exec icarus and fails, so it exits, all the unique_ptrs clean up their resources and tell the X server to free things the parent process is still using. Calling _exit() prevents destructors from running, and seems to prevent the problem. -Ed.] |
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Tim Allen | 19e1d89f00 |
Update to v098r01 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - SFC: balanced profile removed - SFC: performance profile removed - SFC: code for handling non-threaded CPU, SMP, DSP, PPU removed - SFC: Coprocessor, Controller (and expansion port) shared Thread code merged to SFC::Cothread - Cothread here just means "Thread with CPU affinity" (couldn't think of a better name, sorry) - SFC: CPU now has vector<Thread*> coprocessors, peripherals; - this is the beginning of work to allow expansion port devices to be dynamically changed at run-time - ruby: all audio drivers default to 48000hz instead of 22050hz now if no frequency is assigned - note: the WASAPI driver can default to whatever the native frequency is; doesn't have to be 48000hz - tomoko: removed the ability to change the frequency from the UI (but it will display the frequency used) - tomoko: removed the timing settings panel - the goal is to work toward smooth video via adaptive sync - the model is broken by not being in control of the audio frequency anyway - it's further broken by PAL running at 50hz and WSC running at 75hz - it was always broken anyway by SNES interlace timing varying from progressive timing - higan: audio/ stub created (for now, it's just nall/dsp/ moved here and included as a header) - higan: video/ stub created - higan/GNUmakefile: now includes build rules for essential components (libco, emulator, audio, video) The audio changes are in preparation to merge wareya's awesome WASAPI work without the need for the nall/dsp resampler. |
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Tim Allen | 680d16561e |
Update to v097r29 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed DAS instruction (Judgment Silversword score) - fixed [VH]TMR_FREQ writes (Judgement Silversword audio after area 20) - fixed initialization of SP (fixes seven games that were hanging on startup) - added SER_STATUS and SER_DATA stubs (fixes four games that were hanging on startup) - initialized IEEP data (fixes Super Robot Taisen Compact 2 series) - note: you'll need to delete your internal.com in WonderSwan (Color).sys folders - fixed CMPS and SCAS termination condition (fixes serious bugs in four games) - set read/writeCompleted flags for EEPROM status (fixes Tetsujin 28 Gou) - major code cleanups to SFC/R65816 and SFC/CPU - mostly refactored disassembler to output strings instead of using char* buffer - unrolled all the subfolders on sfc/cpu to a single directory - corrected casing for all of sfc/cpu and a large portion of processor/r65816 I kind of went overboard on the code cleanup with this WIP. Hopefully nothing broke. Any testing one can do with the SFC accuracy core would be greatly appreciated. There's still an absolutely huge amount of work left to go, but I do want to eventually refresh the entire codebase to my current coding style, which is extremely different from stuff that's been in higan mostly untouched since ~2006 or so. It's dangerous and fickle work, but if I don't do it, then the code will be a jumbled mess of several different styles. |
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Tim Allen | 379ab6991f |
Update to v097r28 release.
byuu says: Changelog: (all WSC unless otherwise noted) - fixed LINECMP=0 interrupt case (fixes FF4 world map during airship sequence) - improved CPU timing (fixes Magical Drop flickering and FF1 battle music) - added per-frame OAM caching (fixes sprite glitchiness in Magical Drop, Riviera, etc.) - added RTC emulation (fixes Dicing Knight and Judgement Silversword) - added save state support - added cheat code support (untested because I don't know of any cheat codes that exist for this system) - icarus: can now detect games with RTC chips - SFC: bugfix to SharpRTC emulation (Dai Kaijuu Monogatari II) - ( I was adding the extra leap year day to all 12 months instead of just February ... >_< ) Note that the RTC emulation is very incomplete. It's not really documented at all, and the two games I've tried that use it never even ask you to set the date/time (so they're probably just using it to count seconds.) I'm not even sure if I've implement the level-sensitive behavior correctly (actually, now that I think about it, I need to mask the clear bit in INT_ACK for the level-sensitive interrupts ...) A bit worried about the RTC alarm, because it seems like it'll fire continuously for a full minute. Or even if you turn it off after it fires, then that doesn't seem to be lowering the line until the next second ticks on the RTC, so that likely needs to happen when changing the alarm flag. Also not sure on this RTC's weekday byte. On the SharpRTC, it actually computes this for you. Because it's not at all an easy thing to calculate yourself in 65816 or V30MZ assembler. About 40 lines of code to do it in C. For now, I'm requiring the program to calculate the value itself. Also note that there's some gibberish tiles in Judgement Silversword, sadly. Not sure what's up there, but the game's still fully playable at least. Finally, no surprise: Beat-Mania doesn't run :P |
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Tim Allen | fc7d5991ce |
Update to v097r18 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed SNES sprite priority regression from r17 - added nall/windows/guard.hpp to guard against global namespace pollution (similar to nall/xorg/guard.hpp) - almost fixed Windows compilation (still accuracy profile only, sorry) - finished porting all of gba/ppu's registers over to the new .bit,.bits format ... all GBA registers.cpp files gone now - the "processors :=" line in the target-$(ui)/GNUmakefile is no longer required - processors += added to each emulator core - duplicates are removed using the new nall/GNUmakefile's $(unique) function - SFC core can be compiled without the GB core now - "-DSFC_SUPERGAMEBOY" is required to build in SGB support now (it's set in target-tomoko/GNUmakefile) - started once again on loki (higan/target-loki/) [as before, loki is Linux/BSD only on account of needing hiro::Console] loki shouldn't be too horrendous ... I hope. I just have the base skeleton ready for now. But the code from v094r08 should be mostly copyable over to it. It's just that it's about 50KiB of incredibly tricky code that has to be just perfect, so it's not going to be quick. But at least with the skeleton, it'll be a lot easier to pick away at it as I want. Windows compilation fix: move hiro/windows/header.hpp line 18 (header guard) to line 16 instead. |
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Tim Allen | 4b29f4bad7 |
Update to v097r15 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - higan now uses Natural<Size>/Integer<Size> for its internal types - Super Famicom emulation now uses uint24 instead of uint for bus addresses (it's a 24-bit bus) - cleaned up gb/apu MMIO writes - cleaned up sfc/coprocessor/msu1 MMIO writes - ~3% speed penalty I've wanted to do that 24-bit bus thing for so long, but have always been afraid of the speed impact. It's probably going to hurt balanced/performance once they compile again, but it wasn't significant enough to harm the accuracy core's frame rate, thankfully. Only lost one frame per second. The GBA core handlers are clearly going to take a lot more work. The bit-ranges will make it substantially easier to handle, though. Lots of 32-bit registers where certain values span multiple bytes, but we have to be able to read/write at byte-granularity. |
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Tim Allen | ef65bb862a |
Update to 20160215 release.
byuu says: Got it. Wow, that didn't hurt nearly as much as I thought it was going to. Dropped from 127.5fps to 123.5fps to use Natural/Integer for (u)int(8,16,32,64). That's totally worth the cost. |