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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Tim Allen	4c3f9b93e7	Update to v102r12 release. byuu says: Changelog: - MD/PSG: fixed 68K bus Z80 status read address location - MS, GG, MD/PSG: channels post-decrement their counters, not pre-decrement [Cydrak]¹ - MD/VDP: cache screen width registers once per scanline; screen height registers once per frame - MD/VDP: support 256-width display mode (used in Shining Force, etc) - MD/YM2612: implemented timers² - MD/YM2612: implemented 8-bit PCM DAC² - 68000: TRAP instruction should index the vector location by 32 (eg by 128 bytes), fixes Shining Force - nall: updated hex(), octal(), binary() functions to take uintmax instead of template<typename T> parameter³ ¹: this one makes an incredible difference. Sie noticed that lots of games set a period of 0, which would end up being a really long period with pre-decrement. By fixing this, noise shows up in many more games, and sounds way better in games even where it did before. You can hear extra sound on Lunar - Sanposuru Gakuen's title screen, the noise in Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive) sounds better, etc. ²: this also really helps sound. The timers allow PSG music to play back at the correct speed instead of playing back way too quickly. And the PCM DAC lets you hear a lot of drum effects, as well as the "Sega!!" sound at the start of Sonic the Hedgehog, and the infamous, "Rise from your grave!" line from Altered Beast. Still, most music on the Mega Drive comes from the FM channels, so there's still not a whole lot to listen to. I didn't implement Cydrak's $02c test register just yet. Sie wasn't 100% certain on how the extended DAC bit worked, so I'd like to play it a little conservative and get sound working, then I'll go back and add a toggle or something to enable undocumented registers, that way we can use that to detect any potential problems they might be causing. ³: unfortunately we lose support for using hex() on nall/arithmetic types. If I have a const Pair& version of the function, then the compiler gets confused on whether Natural<32> should use uintmax or const Pair&, because compilers are stupid, and you can't have explicit arguments in overloaded functions. So even though either function would work, it just decides to error out instead >_> This is actually really annoying, because I want hex() to be useful for printing out nall/crypto keys and hashes directly. But ... this change had to be made. Negative signed integers would crash programs, and that was taking out my 68000 disassembler.	2017-02-27 19:45:51 +11:00
Tim Allen	1cab2dfeb8	Update to v102r11 release. byuu says: Changelog: - MD: connected 32KB cartridge RAM up to every Genesis game under 2MB loaded¹ - MS, GG, MD: improved PSG noise channel emulation, hopefully² - MS, GG, MD: lowered PSG volume so that the lowpass doesn't clamp samples³ - MD: added read/write handlers for VRAM, VSRAM, CRAM - MD: block VRAM copy when CD4 is clear⁴ - MD: rewrote VRAM fill, VRAM copy to be byte-based⁵ - MD: VRAM fill byte set should fall through to regular data port write handler⁶ ¹: the header parsing for backup RAM is really weird. It's spaces when not used, and seems to be 0x02000001-0x02003fff for the Shining games. I don't understand why it starts at 0x02000001 instead of 0x02000000. So I'm just forcing every game to have 32KB of RAM for now. There's also special handling for ROMs > 2MB that also have RAM (Phantasy Star IV, etc) where there's a toggle to switch between ROM and RAM. For now, that's not emulated. I was hoping the Shining games would run after this, but they're still dead-locking on me :( ²: Cydrak pointed out some flaws in my attempt to implement what he had. I was having trouble understanding what he meant, so I went back and read the docs on the sound chip and tried implementing the counter the way the docs describe. Hopefully I have this right, but I don't know of any good test ROMs to make sure my noise emulation is correct. The docs say the shifted-out value goes to the output instead of the low bit of the LFSR, so I made that change as well. I think I hear the noise I'm supposed to in Sonic Marble Zone now, but it seems like it's not correct in Green Hill Zone, adding a bit of an annoying buzz to the background music. Maybe it sounds better with the YM2612, but more likely, I still screwed something up :/ ³: it's set to 50% range for both cores right now. For the MD, it will need to be 25% once YM2612 emulation is in. ⁴: technically, this deadlocks the VDP until a hard reset. I could emulate this, but for now I just don't do the VRAM copy in this case. ⁵: VSRAM fill and CRAM fill not supported in this new mode. They're technically undocumented, and I don't have good notes on how they work. I've been seeing conflicting notes on whether the VRAM fill buffer is 8-bits or 16-bits (I chose 8-bits), and on whether you write the low byte and then high byte of each words, or the high byte and then low byte (I chose the latter.) The VRAM copy improvements fix the opening text in Langrisser II, so that's great. ⁶: Langrisser II sets the transfer length to one less than needed to fill the background letter tile on the scenario overview screen. After moving to byte-sized transfers, a black pixel was getting stuck there. So effectively, VRAM fill length becomes DMA length + 1, and the first byte uses the data port so it writes a word value instead of just a byte value. Hopefully this is all correct, although it probably gets way more complicated with the VDP FIFO.	2017-02-25 22:11:46 +11:00
Tim Allen	68f04c3bb8	Update to v102r10 release. byuu says: Changelog: - removed Emulator::Interface::Capabilities¹ - MS: improved the PSG emulation a bit - MS: added cheat code support - MS: added save state support² - MD: emulated the PSG³ ¹: there's really no point to it anymore. I intend to add cheat codes to the GBA core, as well as both cheat codes and save states to the Mega Drive core. I no longer intend to emulate any new systems, so these values will always be true. Further, the GUI doesn't respond to these values to disable those features anymore ever since the hiro rewrite, so they're double useless. ²: right now, the Z80 core is using a pointer for HL-\>(IX,IY) overrides. But I can't reliably serialize pointers, so I need to convert the Z80 core to use an integer here. The save states still appear to work fine, but there's the potential for an instruction to execute incorrectly if you're incredibly unlucky, so this needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Further, I still need a way to serialize array<T, Size> objects, and I should also add nall::Boolean serialization support. ³: I don't have a system in place to share identical sound chips. But this chip is so incredibly simple that it's not really much trouble to duplicate it. Further, I can strip out the stereo sound support code from the Game Gear portion, so it's even tinier. Note that the Mega Drive only just barely uses the PSG. Not at all in Altered Beast, and only for a tiny part of the BGM music on Sonic 1, plus his jump sound effect.	2017-02-23 08:25:01 +11:00

Author

SHA1

Message

Date

Tim Allen

4c3f9b93e7

Update to v102r12 release.

byuu says:

Changelog:

  - MD/PSG: fixed 68K bus Z80 status read address location
  - MS, GG, MD/PSG: channels post-decrement their counters, not
    pre-decrement [Cydrak]¹
  - MD/VDP: cache screen width registers once per scanline; screen
    height registers once per frame
  - MD/VDP: support 256-width display mode (used in Shining Force, etc)
  - MD/YM2612: implemented timers²
  - MD/YM2612: implemented 8-bit PCM DAC²
  - 68000: TRAP instruction should index the vector location by 32 (eg
    by 128 bytes), fixes Shining Force
  - nall: updated hex(), octal(), binary() functions to take uintmax
    instead of template<typename T> parameter³

¹: this one makes an incredible difference. Sie noticed that lots of
games set a period of 0, which would end up being a really long period
with pre-decrement. By fixing this, noise shows up in many more games,
and sounds way better in games even where it did before. You can hear
extra sound on Lunar - Sanposuru Gakuen's title screen, the noise in
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive) sounds better, etc.

²: this also really helps sound. The timers allow PSG music to play
back at the correct speed instead of playing back way too quickly. And
the PCM DAC lets you hear a lot of drum effects, as well as the
"Sega!!" sound at the start of Sonic the Hedgehog, and the infamous,
"Rise from your grave!" line from Altered Beast.

Still, most music on the Mega Drive comes from the FM channels, so
there's still not a whole lot to listen to.

I didn't implement Cydrak's $02c test register just yet. Sie wasn't 100%
certain on how the extended DAC bit worked, so I'd like to play it a
little conservative and get sound working, then I'll go back and add a
toggle or something to enable undocumented registers, that way we can
use that to detect any potential problems they might be causing.

³: unfortunately we lose support for using hex() on nall/arithmetic
types. If I have a const Pair& version of the function, then the
compiler gets confused on whether Natural<32> should use uintmax or
const Pair&, because compilers are stupid, and you can't have explicit
arguments in overloaded functions. So even though either function would
work, it just decides to error out instead >_>

This is actually really annoying, because I want hex() to be useful for
printing out nall/crypto keys and hashes directly.

But ... this change had to be made. Negative signed integers would crash
programs, and that was taking out my 68000 disassembler.

2017-02-27 19:45:51 +11:00

Tim Allen

1cab2dfeb8

Update to v102r11 release.

byuu says:

Changelog:

  - MD: connected 32KB cartridge RAM up to every Genesis game under 2MB
    loaded¹
  - MS, GG, MD: improved PSG noise channel emulation, hopefully²
  - MS, GG, MD: lowered PSG volume so that the lowpass doesn't clamp
    samples³
  - MD: added read/write handlers for VRAM, VSRAM, CRAM
  - MD: block VRAM copy when CD4 is clear⁴
  - MD: rewrote VRAM fill, VRAM copy to be byte-based⁵
  - MD: VRAM fill byte set should fall through to regular data port
    write handler⁶

¹: the header parsing for backup RAM is really weird. It's spaces
when not used, and seems to be 0x02000001-0x02003fff for the Shining
games. I don't understand why it starts at 0x02000001 instead of
0x02000000. So I'm just forcing every game to have 32KB of RAM for now.
There's also special handling for ROMs > 2MB that also have RAM
(Phantasy Star IV, etc) where there's a toggle to switch between ROM and
RAM. For now, that's not emulated.

I was hoping the Shining games would run after this, but they're still
dead-locking on me :(

²: Cydrak pointed out some flaws in my attempt to implement what he
had. I was having trouble understanding what he meant, so I went back
and read the docs on the sound chip and tried implementing the counter
the way the docs describe. Hopefully I have this right, but I don't know
of any good test ROMs to make sure my noise emulation is correct. The
docs say the shifted-out value goes to the output instead of the low bit
of the LFSR, so I made that change as well.

I think I hear the noise I'm supposed to in Sonic Marble Zone now, but
it seems like it's not correct in Green Hill Zone, adding a bit of an
annoying buzz to the background music. Maybe it sounds better with the
YM2612, but more likely, I still screwed something up :/

³: it's set to 50% range for both cores right now. For the MD, it
will need to be 25% once YM2612 emulation is in.

⁴: technically, this deadlocks the VDP until a hard reset. I could
emulate this, but for now I just don't do the VRAM copy in this case.

⁵: VSRAM fill and CRAM fill not supported in this new mode. They're
technically undocumented, and I don't have good notes on how they work.
I've been seeing conflicting notes on whether the VRAM fill buffer is
8-bits or 16-bits (I chose 8-bits), and on whether you write the low
byte and then high byte of each words, or the high byte and then low
byte (I chose the latter.)

The VRAM copy improvements fix the opening text in Langrisser II, so
that's great.

⁶: Langrisser II sets the transfer length to one less than needed to
fill the background letter tile on the scenario overview screen. After
moving to byte-sized transfers, a black pixel was getting stuck there.
So effectively, VRAM fill length becomes DMA length + 1, and the first
byte uses the data port so it writes a word value instead of just a byte
value. Hopefully this is all correct, although it probably gets way more
complicated with the VDP FIFO.

2017-02-25 22:11:46 +11:00

Tim Allen

68f04c3bb8

Update to v102r10 release.

byuu says:

Changelog:

  - removed Emulator::Interface::Capabilities¹
  - MS: improved the PSG emulation a bit
  - MS: added cheat code support
  - MS: added save state support²
  - MD: emulated the PSG³

¹: there's really no point to it anymore. I intend to add cheat codes
to the GBA core, as well as both cheat codes and save states to the Mega
Drive core. I no longer intend to emulate any new systems, so these
values will always be true. Further, the GUI doesn't respond to these
values to disable those features anymore ever since the hiro rewrite, so
they're double useless.

²: right now, the Z80 core is using a pointer for HL-\>(IX,IY)
overrides. But I can't reliably serialize pointers, so I need to convert
the Z80 core to use an integer here. The save states still appear to
work fine, but there's the potential for an instruction to execute
incorrectly if you're incredibly unlucky, so this needs to be fixed as
soon as possible. Further, I still need a way to serialize
array<T, Size> objects, and I should also add nall::Boolean
serialization support.

³: I don't have a system in place to share identical sound chips. But
this chip is so incredibly simple that it's not really much trouble to
duplicate it. Further, I can strip out the stereo sound support code
from the Game Gear portion, so it's even tinier.

Note that the Mega Drive only just barely uses the PSG. Not at all in
Altered Beast, and only for a tiny part of the BGM music on Sonic 1,
plus his jump sound effect.

2017-02-23 08:25:01 +11:00

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