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Tim Allen c38a771f22 Update to v106r04 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall: `Markup::Node::operator[]` now uses `find()` instead of `lookup()`
    behind the scenes
  - Super Famicom: RAM memory ordering is now independent of ROM memory
    ordering
  - Super Famicom: added 19 new generic board definitions
  - icarus: improved Super Famicom heuristics generation

Not putting it in the changelog, but the SPC7110 RAM now has write
protection disabled again.

99% of games should now be playable with heuristics. The exceptions
should be:

  - 4MB LoROM games with SRAM (Ys 3, FE: Thracia 776)
  - 2MB DSP LoROM games
  - BS-X Town
  - BS-X slotted games
  - SA1 BSX slotted games
  - SPC7110 games without the RTC (Momotarou Dentetsu Happy, Super Power
    League 4)
  - SPC7110 7MB fan translation (wasn't supported earlier either)
  - ExLoROM games (wasn't supported earlier either)
  - Sufami Turbo
  - Campus Challenge '92 and Powerfest '94
  - ST010 is going to run at 15MHz instead of 11MHz
  - MSU1 (needs to be supported in higan, not icarus)

I'll add support for most of these before the release of v107.
2018-02-08 21:32:46 +11:00
Tim Allen 3d8be92550 Update to v106r3 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Super Famicom: update to newer board markup syntax
  - Super Famicom: update all mapped ROMs to be write-protected
      - errata: SPC7110 set ram.writeProtect(true), I'll fix it in the
        next WIP
  - icarus: rewrote the Super Famicom heuristics module from scratch

Instead of icarus heuristics generating higan-specific mappings, it now
generates generic board IDs that can be used by any emulator. I had
originally planned to print out real PCB ID codes here, but these board
mappings are meant to be more generic, and I don't want them to look
real. The pseudo-codes are easy to parse, for example: `DSP-LOROM-NVRAM`
for Super Mario Kart, `SUPERFX-RAM` for Doom.

I'm going to make a `Boards (Generic).bml` file that will contain mapping
definitions for every board. Until this is done, any games not in the SNES
preservation database will fail to play because the mapping information is
now missing.
2018-02-05 20:58:02 +11:00
Tim Allen 2f81b5a3e7 Update to v106r2 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Super Famicom: added support for loading manifests without embedded
    mapping information¹
  - genius: initial commit
  - various Makefile cleanups

¹: so the idea here is to try and aim for a stable manifest format,
and to allow direct transposition of icarus/genius database entries into
manifest files. The exact mechanics of how this is going to work is
currently in flux, but we'll get there.

For right now, `Super Famicom.sys` gains `boards.bml`, which is the raw
database from my board-editor tool, and higan itself tries to load
`boards.bml`, match an entry to game/board from the game's `manifest.bml`
file, and then transform it into the format currently used by higan. It
does this only when the game's `manifest.bml` file lacks a board node.
When such a board node exists, it works as previous versions of higan
did.

The only incompatible change right now is information/title is now
located at game/label. I may transition window title display to just use
the filenames instead.

Longer term, some thought is going to need to go into the format of the
`boards.bml` database itself, and at which point in the process I should
be transforming things.

Give it time, we'll refine this into something nicer.
2018-02-01 19:20:37 +11:00
Tim Allen aef8d5e962 Update to v106r1 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Z80: infinite DD/FD prefixes will no longer cause an emulator crash;
    but will still deadlock savestates
  - Z80: emulated R incrementing on M1 cycles
  - Z80: `LD a, [ir]` should update flags [hex_usr]
  - Z80: minor code cleanups
  - tomoko: added “Pause Emulation” toggle to Tools menu
      - you can still use the hotkey to pause emulation before starting
        a game if you really want to
      - this will be useful if and when I re-add trace logging to
        capture instructions from power-on
  - icarus: more PAL games added to the SNES database

I hope I've implemented R correctly. It should only increment twice on
DD,FD CB xx instructions. LDI/LDD/LDIR/LDDR should work as expected as
well. It increments once when interrupts are executed (and not maksed.)
The top bit is ignored in increments.
2017-12-27 08:11:03 +11:00
Tim Allen b55783c322 Update to v106 release.
byuu says:

Changelog (since v105tr1):

Changelog:

  - added Emulation/AutoSaveMemory/Interval setting to specify number of
    seconds between auto-saves
  - added Game Notes tool
  - added 64 new SNES PAL games to the icarus preservation database

The Games Notes tool is a new feature that gives you a blank text box to
enter notes about a game that you're playing: so you can write down
things like level select codes for games with save RAM, combo moves, or
whatever other information you'd like quick and easy access to.

This is kind of an experiment. Ideally, we'd wanna allow more
personalized information, drawings, etc. But hey, let's try it out and
see what people think.
2017-11-19 23:05:02 +11:00
Tim Allen e9d2d56df9 Update to v105r1 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - higan: readded support for soft-reset to Famicom, Super Famicom,
    Mega Drive cores (work in progress)
      - handhelds lack soft reset obviously
      - the PC Engine also lacks a physical reset button
      - the Master System's reset button acts like a gamepad button, so
        can't show up in the menu
  - Mega Drive: power cycle wasn't initializing CPU (M68K) or APU (Z80)
    RAM
  - Super Famicom: fix SPC700 opcode 0x3b regression; fixes Majuu Ou
    [Jonas Quinn]
  - Super Famicom: fix SharpRTC save regression; fixes Dai Kaijuu
    Monogatari II's real-time clock [Talarubi]
  - Super Famicom: fix EpsonRTC save regression; fixes Tengai Makyou
    Zero's real-time clock [Talarubi]
  - Super Famicom: removed `*::init()` functions, as they were never used
  - Super Famicom: removed all but two `*::load()` functions, as they
    were not used
  - higan: added option to auto-save backup RAM every five seconds
    (enabled by default)
      - this is in case the emulator crashes, or there's a power outage;
        turn it off under advanced settings if you want
  - libco: updated license from public domain to ISC, for consistency
    with nall, ruby, hiro
  - nall: Linux compiler defaults to g++; override with g++-version if
    g++ is <= 4.8
      - FreeBSD compiler default is going to remain g++49 until my dev
        box OS ships with g++ >= 4.9

Errata: I have weird RAM initialization constants, thanks to hex_usr
and onethirdxcubed for both finding this:
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php?title=CPU_power_up_state&diff=11711&oldid=11184

I'll remove this in the next WIP.
2017-11-07 09:05:54 +11:00
Talarubi 9e06857e4d Update version and license
Added LICENSE.txt and GPLv3.txt. Also updated libco documentation.

After discussion with byuu, libco gets a more specific ISC license
to match nall, ruby and hiro. higan, as clarified in LICENSE.txt,
continues to be GPL version 3 only (no "or later" clause).
2017-10-24 23:37:22 -04:00
Tim Allen f8e71b50d0 Update to v105 release.
byuu says:

This release provides several major improvements to Mega Drive emulation
which enhances compatibility a good deal. It also includes important
Super Famicom mosaic emulation improvements, plus a much-needed SuperFX
save state issue fix.

Changelog (since v104):

  - higan: many improvements to Emulator::Interface to support
    forks/frontends
  - higan: refreshed program icon
  - icarus: new program icon
  - Game Boy Advance: slight emulation speedup over v104
  - Game Boy Advance: synchronize APU FIFO updates better
  - Mega Drive: added automatic region detection [hex_usr]
  - Mega Drive: support 8-bit SRAM
  - Game Boy Advance: fixed bug when changing to THUMB mode via MSR
    [MerryMage]
  - Master System: fix bug in backdrop color and background 0 priority
    [hex_usr]
  - Mega Drive: backgrounds always update output priority bit [Cydrak]
  - Mega Drive: emulated interlaced video output
  - Mega Drive: emulated shadow/highlight mode [Cydrak]
  - Super Famicom: auto joypad polling clears the shift register when
    starting
  - Super Famicom: added new low-entropy RAM initialization mode to more
    closely match hardware
  - Game Boy Advance: rumble will now time out after being left on for
    500ms
  - ruby: improved rumble support in udev input driver [ma_rysia]
  - M68K: `move.b (a7)[+/-]` adjust a7 by two
  - M68K: illegal/lineA/lineF opcodes do not modify the stack register
  - Mega Drive: emulate VIP status bit
  - uPD7725: improved emulation of OV1/S1 flags [byuu, AWJ, Lord
    Nightmare]
  - uPD7725: improved handling of DP, RP updates [Jonas Quinn]
  - Super Famicom: improved emulation of mosaic effects in hires,
    interlace, and offset-per-tile modes [byuu, Cydrak]
  - ruby: improved Direct3D exclusive mode monitor selection [Cydrak]
  - Super Famicom: fixed save state bug affecting SuperFX games
    [Cydrak]
  - Mega Drive: added workaround for Clang compiler bug; allowing this
    core to work on macOS [Cydrak, Sintendo]
  - higan: hotkeys now also trigger when the main window lacks focus yet
    higan is set to allow input on focus loss
  - higan: fixed an edge case where `int16_t` ↔ `double` audio
    conversion could possibly result in overflows
  - higan: fixed a crash on macOS when choosing quit from the
    application menu [ncbncb]

Changelog (since the previous WIP):

  - higan: restored `make console=true`
  - tomoko: if you allow input when main window focus is lost, hotkeys
    can now be triggered without focus as well
  - hiro/cocoa: fix crash on exit from menu [ncbncb]
  - ruby: smarter `double` → `int16_t` conversion to prevent
    underflow/overflow
2017-10-07 19:49:07 +11:00
Tim Allen 9a13863adb Update to v104r17 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/m68k: fix error in disassembler [Sintendo]
  - processor/m68k: work around Clang compiler bug [Cydrak, Sintendo]

This is one of the shortest WIPs I've done, but I'm trying not to change
anything before v105.
2017-10-05 17:13:03 +11:00
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
2017-10-02 19:04:28 +11:00
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.
2017-09-29 20:36:35 +10:00
Tim Allen fbc58c70ae Update to v104r14 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Emulator::Interface::videoResolution() -\> VideoResolution renamed
    to videoInformation() -\> VideoInformation
  - added double VideoInformation::refreshRate
  - higan: added `binary := (application|library)` — set this to
    `library` to produce a dynamic link library
  - higan: removed `-march=native` for macOS application builds; and for
    all library builds
  - higan: removed `console` build flag; uncomment  `link += -mwindows`
    instead
  - nall/GNUmakefile: `macosx` platform renamed `macos`
      - still need to do this for nall/intrinsics.hpp
  - Game Gear: return region=NTSC as the only option, so that the system
    frequency is always set correctly
  - hiro/cocoa: fixed typo [Sintendo]
  - hiro/Windows: removed GetDpiForMonitor, as it's Windows 8+ only; DPI
    is no longer per-monitor aware
  - icarus: core Icarus class now has virtual functions for
    directory::create, <file::exists>, <file::copy>, <file::write>
  - icarus: Sufami Turbo can import save RAM files now
  - icarus: setting `ICARUS_LIBRARY` define will compile icarus without
    main(), GUI components
  - ruby/video/Direct3D: choose the current monitor instead of top-left
    monitor for fullscreen exclusive [Cydrak]
  - ruby/video/Direct3D: do not set `WS_EX_TOPMOST` on fullscreen
    exclusive window [Cydrak]
      - this isn't necessary for exclusive mode, and it just makes
        getting out of the application more difficult
2017-09-24 11:01:48 +10:00
Tim Allen 1ff315838e Update to v104r13 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - nall/GNUmakefile: build=release changed to -O2, build=optimize is
    now -O3
  - hiro: added Monitor::dpi(uint index) → Position [returns logical
    DPI for x, y]
      - Position is a bad name, but dpi(monitor).(x,y)() make more sense
        than .(width,height)()
  - hiro: Position, Size, Geometry, Font changed from using signed int
    to float
  - hiro: Alignment changed from using double to float
  - hiro: added skeleton (unused) Application::scale(), setScale()
    functions

Errata:

  - hiro/cocoa's Monitor::dpi() is untested. Probably will cause issues
    with macOS' automatic scaling.
  - hiro/gtk lacks a way to get both per-monitor and per-axis (x,y) DPI
    scaling
  - hiro/qt lacks a way to get per-monitor DPI scaling (Qt 5.x has this,
    but I still use Qt 4.x)
      - and just to get global DPI, hiro/qt's DPI retrieval has to use
        undocumented functions ... fun

The goal with this WIP was basically to prepare hiro for potential
automatic scaling. It'll be extremely difficult, but I'm convinced that
it must be possible if macOS can do it.

By moving from signed integers to floats for coordinates, we can now
scale and unscale without losing precision. That of course isn't the
hard part, though. The hard part is where and how to do the scaling. In
the ideal application, hiro/core and hiro/extension will handle 100% of
this, and the per-platform hiro/(cocoa,gtk,qt,windows) will not be aware
of what's going on, but ... to even make that possible, things will need
to change in every per-platform core, eg the per-platform code will have
to call a core function to change geometry, which will know about the
scaling and unscale the values back down again.

Gonna be a lot of work, but ... it's a start.
2017-09-08 16:06:21 +10:00
Tim Allen 4fb8ce2821 Update to v104r12 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - higan: URLs updated to HTTPS
  - sfc/ppu/background: use hires/interlace/mosaic-adjusted X/Y
    coordinates for offset-per-tile mode
  - sfc/ppu/background: hires mosaic seems to advance pixel counter on
    subscreen pixels
  - tomoko: added “Help→Credits” menu option (currently the page does
    not exist; should before v105)
  - tomoko: reduced volume slider from {0% - 500%} to {0% - 200%}.
    Distortion is too intense above 200%.
      - technically, I've encountered distortion at 200% as well in
        Prince of Persia for the SNES
  - nall/run/invoke: use program path for working directory
      - allows you to choose “Library→Import ROMs” from a different
        directory on the command-line

I don't know how to assign credit for the mosaic stuff. It's been a
work-in-progress with me, Cydrak, and hex_usr.

The current design should be correct, but very unpleasant. The code
desperately needs to be refactored, but my recent attempt at doing so
ended in spectacular failure.
2017-09-06 12:38:00 +10:00
Tim Allen 3dce3aa3c8 Update to v104r11 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - sfc/ppu/background: minor code cleanup and simplification
  - sfc/ppu/background: $2106 MOSAIC register was implemented
    incorrectly
  - sfc/ppu/background: fixed mosaic effects in hires mode (temporary
    fix)
  - sfc/ppu/background: fixed mosaic effects in interlace mode [Cydrak]

Errata:

  - sfc/ppu/background/background.cpp:48: should be
    `if(!mosaic.enable) {`

Turns out there is only one mosaic size, and the other four bits are
per-BG mosaic enable. This matters a lot for hires/interlace, as
mosaicSize=0 (2x2) is not the same thing as mosaicEnable=false (1x1).

Although I've now implemented this, I really don't like how my mosaic
implementation works right now. I tried to redesign the entire system,
and completely failed. So I started over from v104r10 again and instead
went with a more evolutionary improvement for now. I'll keep trying.

Also, the combination of mosaic + offset-per-tile is still sketchy, as
is mode 6 offset-per-tile. I'll get to those in the future as well.
2017-09-05 10:56:52 +10:00
Tim Allen 28060d3a69 Update to v104r10 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/upd96050: per manual errata note, SGN always uses SA1;
    never SB1 [fixes v104r09 regression]
  - processor/upd96050: new OV1/S1 calculation that doesn't require OV0
    history buffer [AWJ]
  - processor/upd96050: do not update DP in OP if DST=4 [Jonas Quinn]
  - processor/upd96050: do not update RP in OP if DST=5 [Jonas Quinn]
  - resource: recreated higan+icarus icons, higan logo as 32-bit PNGs

So higan v104r08 and earlier were 930KiB for the source tarball. After
creating new higan and icarus icons, the size jumped to 1090KiB, which
was insane for only adding one additional icon.

After digging into why, I discovered that ImageMagick defaults to
64-bit!! (16-bits per channel) PNG images when converting from SVG.
You know, for all those 16-bit per channel monitors that don't exist.
Sigh. Amazingly, nobody ever noticed this.

The logo went from 78.8KiB to 24.5KiB, which in turn also means the
generated resource.cpp shrank dramatically.

The old higan icon was 32-bit PNG, because it was created before I
installed FreeBSD and switched to ImageMagick. But the new higan icon,
plus the new icarus icon, were both 64-bit as well. And they're now
32-bit.

So the new tarball size, thanks to the logo optimization, dropped to
830KiB.

Cydrak had some really interesting results in converting higan's
resources to 8-bit palletized PNGs with the tRNS extension for alpha
transparency. It reduces the file sizes even more without much visual
fidelity loss. Eg the higan logo uses 778 colors currently, and 256
represents nearly all of it very well to the human eye. It's based off
of only two colors, the rest are all anti-aliasing. Unfortunately,
nall/image doesn't support this yet, and I didn't want to flatten the
higan logo to not have transparency, in case I ever want to change the
about screen background color.
2017-09-01 21:21:06 +10:00
Tim Allen 5352c5ab27 Update to v104r09 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/upd96050: SGN should select between (A,B).S1 flag using
    ASL opcode bit
  - processor/upd96050: use a temporary to cache new S1, then compute
    OV1 using old S1, then assign new S1
  - processor/upd96050: add SR.(siack,soack) and connect to relevant
    jump instructions (serial not implemented)
  - processor/upd96050: initialize SR properly in power() [r08
    regression]
  - icarus: improve Makefile rules [Screwtape]
  - higan: new program icon
  - icarus: new program icon
2017-08-31 23:58:54 +10:00
Tim Allen 25bda4f159 Update to v104r08 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/upd96050: code cleanups
  - processor/upd96050: improved emulation of S1/OV1 flags [thanks to
    Cydrak, Lord Nightmare]
  - tomoko/settings/audio: reduced the size of the frequency/latency
    combo boxes to show longer device driver names

Errata: I need to clear regs.sr in uPD96050::power()

Note: the S1/OV1 emulation is likely not 100% correct yet, but it's a
step in the right direction. No SNES games actually use S1/OV1, so this
shouldn't result in any issues, I'd just like to have this part of the
chip emulated correctly.
2017-08-30 13:44:51 +10:00
Tim Allen 9c25f128f9 Update to v104r07 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - md/vdp: added VIP bit to status register; fixes Cliffhanger
  - processor/m68k/disassembler: added modes 7 and 8 to LEA address
    disassembly
  - processor/m68k/disassembler: enhanced ILLEGAL to display LINEA/LINEF
    $xxx variants
  - processor/m68k: ILLEGAL/LINEA/LINEF do not modify the stack
    register; fixes Caeser no Yabou II
  - icarus/sfc: request sgb1.boot.rom and sgb2.boot.rom separately; as
    they are different
  - icarus/sfc: removed support for external firmware when loading ROM
    images

The hack to run Mega Drive Ballz 3D isn't in place, as I don't know if
it's correct, and the graphics were corrupted anyway.

The SGB boot ROM change is going to require updating the icarus database
as well. I will add that in when I start dumping more cartridges here
soon.

Finally ... I explained this already, but I'll do so here as well: I
removed icarus' support for loading SNES coprocessor firmware games with
external firmware files (eg dsp1.program.rom + dsp1.data.rom in the same
path as supermariokart.sfc, for example.)

I realize most are going to see this as an antagonizing/stubborn move
given the recent No-Intro discussion, and I won't deny that said thread
is why this came to the forefront of my mind. But on my word, I honestly
believe this was an ineffective solution for many reasons not related to
our disagreements:

 1. No-Intro distributes SNES coprocessor firmware as a merged file, eg
    "DSP1 (World).zip/DSP1 (World).bin" -- icarus can't possibly know
    about every ROM distribution set's naming conventions for firmware.
    (Right now, it appears GoodSNES and NSRT are mostly dead; but there
    may be more DATs in the future -- including my own.)
 2. Even if the user obtains the firmware and tries to rename it, it
    won't work: icarus parses manifests generated by the heuristics
    module and sees two ROM files: dsp1.program.rom and dsp1.data.rom.
    icarus cannot identify a file named dsp1.rom as containing both
    of these sub-files. Users are going to have to know how to split
    files, which there is no way to do on stock Windows. Merging files,
    however, can be done via `copy /b supermariokart.sfc+dsp1.rom
    supermariokartdsp.sfc`; - and dsp1.rom can be named whatever now.
    I am not saying this will be easy for the average user, but it's
    easier than splitting files.
 3. Separate firmware breaks icarus' database lookup. If you have
    pilotwings.sfc but without firmware, icarus will not find a match
    for it in the database lookup phase. It will then fall back on
    heuristics. The heuristics will pick DSP1B for compatibility with
    Ballz 3D which requires it. And so it will try to pull in the
    wrong firmware, and the game's intro will not work correctly.
    Furthermore, the database information will be unavailable, resulting
    in inaccurate mirroring.

So for these reasons, I have removed said support. You must now load
SNES coprocessor games into higan in one of two ways: 1) game paks with
split files; or 2) SFC images with merged firmware.

If and when No-Intro deploys a method I can actually use, I give you all
my word I will give it a fair shot and if it's reasonable, I'll support
it in icarus.
2017-08-28 22:46:14 +10:00
Tim Allen afa8ea61c5 Update to v104r06 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gba,ws: removed Thread::step() override¹
  - processor/m68k: move.b (a7)+ and move.b (a7)- adjust a7 by two, not
    by one²
  - tomoko: created new initialize(Video,Audio,Input)Driver() functions³
  - ruby/audio: split Audio::information into
    Audio::available(Devices,Frequencies,Latencies,Channels)³
  - ws: added Model::(WonderSwan,WonderSwanColor,SwanCrystal)()
    functions for consistency with other cores

¹: this should hopefully fix GBA Pokemon Pinball. Thanks to
SuperMikeMan for pointing out the underlying cause.

²: this fixes A Ressaha de Ikou, Mega Bomberman, and probably more
games.

³: this is the big change: so there was a problem with WASAPI where
you might change your device under the audio settings panel. And your
new device may not support the frequency that your old device used. This
would end up not updating the frequency, and the pitch would be
distorted.

The old Audio::information() couldn't tell you what frequencies,
latencies, or channels were available for all devices simultaneously, so
I had to split them up. The new initializeAudioDriver() function
validates you have a correct driver, or it defaults to none. Then it
validates a correct device name, or it defaults to the first entry in
the list. Then it validates a correct frequency, or defaults to the
first in the list. Then finally it validates a correct latency, or
defaults to the first in the list.

In this way ... we have a clear path now with no API changes required to
select default devices, frequencies, latencies, channel counts: they
need to be the first items in their respective lists.

So, what we need to do now is go through and for every audio driver that
enumerates devices, we need to make sure the default device gets added
to the top of the list. I'm ... not really sure how to do this with most
drivers, so this is definitely going to take some time.

Also, when you change a device, initializeAudioDriver() is called again,
so if it's a bad device, it will disable the audio driver instead of
continuing to send samples at it and hoping that the driver blocked
those API calls when it failed to initialize properly.

Now then ... since it was a decently-sized API change, it's possible
I've broken compilation of the Linux drivers, so please report any
compilation errors so that I can fix them.
2017-08-26 11:15:49 +10:00
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.
2017-08-25 00:24:34 +10:00
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.
2017-08-24 12:45:24 +10:00
Tim Allen d13f1dd9ea Update to v104r03 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - md/vdp: added full interlace emulation [byuu, Sik, Eke, Mask of
    Destiny]
  - md/vdp: fix an issue with overscan/highlight when setting was
    disabled [hex\_usr]
  - md/vdp: serialize field, and all oam/objects state
  - icarus/md: do not enable RAM unless header 0x1b0-1b1 == "RA"
    [hex\_usr]

I really can't believe how difficult the interlace support was to add. I
must have tried a hundred combinations of adjusting Y, Vscroll, tile
addressing, heights, etc. Many of the changes were a wash that improved
some things, regressed others.

In the end I ended up needing input from three different people to
implement what should have been trivial. I don't know if the Mega Drive
is just that weird, if I've declined that much in skill since the days
when I implemented SNES interlace, or if I've just never been that good.

But either way, I'm disappointed in myself for not being able to figure
either this or shadow/highlight out on my own. Yet I'm extremely
grateful to my friends for helping carry me when I get stuck.

Since it wasn't ever documented before, I'm going to try and document
the changes necessary to implement interlace mode for any future
emudevs.
2017-08-22 19:11:43 +10:00
Tim Allen 11357169a5 Update to v104r02 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - md/vdp: backgrounds always update priority bit output [Cydrak]
  - md/vdp: vcounter.d0 becomes vcounter.d8 in interlace mode 3
  - md/vdp: return field number in interlace modes from status register
  - md/vdp: rework scanline/frame counting in main loop so first frame
    won't clock to field 1 instead of field 0
  - md/vdp: add support for shadow/highlight mode; optimize to minimal
    code [Cydrak]
  - md/vdp: update outputPixel() to support interlace modes
  - sfc/cpu: auto joypad polling start should clear the shift registers;
    fixes Nuke (PD)
      - thanks to BMF54123 for this bug report
  - tomoko: if an invalid video/audio/input driver is found in the
    configuration file, it's reset to "None"
      - prevents showing the wrong driver under advanced settings; no
        longer requires possibly two reboots to fix

Note: the Mega Drive interlace mode 1 should be working fully, but I
don't know any games that use it. Interlace mode 3 (Sonic 2's two-player
mode) does not work at all yet, but this is a good start.
2017-08-22 11:09:07 +10:00
Tim Allen 366e9cebff Update to v104r01 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gba/cpu: synchronize to the PPU, not oneself, when the CPU is
    stopped
      - this bug was patched in the official v104 release; but not in
        the .tar.xz archive
  - ms/vdp: backdrop color is on the second 16-entry palette, not the
    first [hex\_usr]
  - ms/vdp: fix background color 0 priority; fixes Alex Kidd in High
    Tech World text boxes [hex\_usr]
  - tomoko: choose first option when loading files via the command-line
    [hex\_usr]
  - icarus: lo/hi RAM addressing was backwards; M68K is big endian;
    fixes save files in Sonic 3

Many thanks to hex\_usr for the Master System / Game Gear VDP fix.
That's a tricky system to get good technical information on. The fix
should be correct, but please report if you spot any regressions just in
case.
2017-08-18 22:48:29 +10:00
Tim Allen ba384a7c48 Update to v104 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - emulator/interface: removed unused Region struct
  - gba/cpu: optimized CPU::step() as much as I could for a slight
    speedup¹
  - gba/cpu: synchronize the APU better during FIFO updates
  - higan/md, icarus: add automatic region detection; make it the
    default option [hex\_usr]
      - picks NTSC-J if there's more than one match ... eventually, this
        will be a setting
  - higan/md, icarus: support all three combinations of SRAM (8-bit low,
    8-bit high, 16-bit)
  - processor/arm7tdmi: fix bug when changing to THUMB mode via MSR
    [MerryMage]
  - tomoko: redesigned crash detector to only occur once for all three
    ruby drivers
      - this will reduce disk thrashing since the configuration file
        only needs to be written out one extra time
      - technically, it's twice ... but we should've always been writing
        one out on first run in case it crashes then
  - tomoko: defaulted back to the safest ruby drivers, given the optimal
    drivers have some stability concerns

¹: minor errata: spotted a typo saying `synchronize(cpu)` when the CPU
is stopped, instead of `synchronize(ppu)`. This will be fixed in the v104
official 7zip archives.

I'm kind of rushing here but, it's really good timing for me to push out
a new official release. The blocking issues are resolved or close to it,
and we need lots of testing of the new major changes.

I'm going to consider this a semi-stable testing release and leave links
to v103 just in case.
2017-08-12 20:53:13 +10:00
Tim Allen 55f19c3e0d Update to v103r32 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Master System: merged Bus into CPU
  - Mega Drive: merged BusCPU into CPU; BusAPU into AU
  - Mega Drive: added TMSS emulation; disabled by default [hex\_usr]
      - VDP lockout not yet emulated
  - processor/arm7tdmi: renamed interrupt() to exception()
  - processor/arm7tdmi: CPSR.F (FIQ disable) flag is set on reset
  - processor/arm7tdmi: pipeline decode stage caches CPSR.T (THUMB mode)
    [MerryMage]
      - fixes `msr_tests.gba` test F
  - processor/arm7tdmi/disassembler: add PC address to left of currently
    executing instruction
  - processor/arm7tdmi: stop forcing CPSR.M (mode flags) bit 4 high (I
    don't know what really happens here)
  - processor/arm7tdmi: undefined instructions now generate Undefined
    0x4 exception
  - processor/arm7tdmi: thumbInstructionAddRegister masks PC by &~3
    instead of &~2
      - hopefully this is correct; &~2 felt very wrong
  - processor/arm7tdmi: thumbInstructionStackMultiple can use sequential
    timing for PC/LR PUSH/POP [Cydrak]
  - systems/Mega Drive.sys: added tmss.rom; enable with cpu version=1
  - tomoko: detect when a ruby video/audio/input driver crashes higan;
    disable it on next program startup

v104 blockers:

  - Mega Drive: support 8-bit SRAM (even if we don't support 16-bit;
    don't force 8-bit to 16-bit)
  - Mega Drive: add region detection support to icarus
  - ruby: add default audio device information so certain drivers won't
    default to silence out of the box
2017-08-12 02:02:09 +10:00
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.
2017-08-10 21:26:02 +10:00
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.
2017-08-09 21:11:59 +10:00
Tim Allen 559eeccc89 Update to v103r29 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/arm7tdmi: implementation all nine remaining ARM
    instructions
  - processor/arm7tdmi: implemented five more THUMB instructions
    (sixteen remain)
2017-08-08 21:51:41 +10:00
Tim Allen a72ff8b7fa Update to v103r28 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/arm7tdmi: implemented 10 of 19 ARM instructions
  - processor/arm7tdmi: implemented 1 of 22 THUMB instructions

Today's WIP was 6 hours of work, and yesterday's was 5 hours.

Half of today was just trying to come up with the design to use a
lambda-based dispatcher to map both instructions and disassembly,
similar to the 68K core. The problem is that the ARM core has 28 unique
bits, which is just far too many bits to have a full lookup table like
the 16-bit 68K core.

The thing I wanted more than anything else was to perform the opcode
bitfield decoding once, and have it decoded for both instructions and
the disassembler. It took three hours to come up with a design that
worked for the ARM half ... relying on #defines being able to pull in
other #defines that were declared and changed later after the first
one. But, I'm happy with it. The decoding is in the table building, as
it is with the 68K core. The decoding does happen at run-time on each
instruction invocation, but it has to be done.

As to the THUMB core, I can create a 64K-entry lambda table to cover all
possible encodings, and ... even though it's a cache killer, I've
decided to go for it, given the outstanding performance it obtained in
the M68K core, as well as considering that THUMB mode is far more common
in GBA games.

As to both cores ... I'm a little torn between two extremes:

On the one hand, I can condense the number of ARM/THUMB instructions
further to eliminate more redundant code. On the other, I can split them
apart to reduce the number of conditional tests needed to execute each
instruction. It's really the disassembler that makes me not want to
split them up further ... as I have to split the disassembler functions
up equally to the instruction functions. But it may be worth it if it's
a speed improvement.
2017-08-07 22:20:35 +10:00
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.
2017-08-06 23:36:26 +10:00
Tim Allen 020caa546d Update to v103r26 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - processor/lr35902: completed rewrite

I'd appreciate regression testing of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color
emulation between v103r24 and v103r26 (skip r25) if anyone wouldn't
mind.

I fixed up processor/lr35902-legacy to compile and run, so that trace
logs can be created between the two cores to find errors. I'm going to
kill processor/lr35902-legacy with the next WIP release, as well as make
changes to the trace format (add flags externally from AF; much easier
to read them that way), which will make it more difficult to do these
comparisons in the future, hence r26 may prove important later on if we
miss regressions this time.

As for the speed of the new CPU core, not too much to report ... at
least it's not slower :)

    Mega Man II: 212.5 to 214.5fps
    Shiro no Sho: 191.5 to 191.5fps
    Oracle of Ages: 182.5 to 190.5fps
2017-08-06 09:13:26 +10:00
Tim Allen c2975e6898 Update to v103r25 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb/cpu: force STAT mode to 0 when LCD is disabled (fixes Pokemon
    Pinball, etc)
  - gb/ppu: when LCD is disabled, require at least one-frame wait to
    re-enable, display white during this time
      - todo: should step by a scanline at a time: worst-case is an
        extra 99% of a frame to enable again
  - gba/ppu: cache tilemap lookups and attribute parsing
      - it's more accurate because the GBA wouldn't read this for every
        pixel
      - but unfortunately, this didn't provide any speedup at all ...
        sigh
  - ruby/audio/alsa: fixed const issue with free()
  - ruby/video/cgl: removed `glDisable(GL_ALPHA_TEST)` [deprecated]
  - ruby/video/cgl: removed `glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D)` [unnecessary as
    we use shaders]
  - processor/lr35902: started rewrite¹

¹: so, the Game Boy and Game Boy Color cores will be completely
broken for at least the next two or three WIPs.

The old LR35902 was complete garbage, written in early 2011. So I'm
rewriting it to provide a massive cleanup and consistency with other
processor cores, especially the Z80 core.

I've got about 85% of the main instructions implemented, and then I have
to do the CB instructions. The CB instructions are easier because
they're mostly just a small number of opcodes in many small variations,
but it'll still be tedious.
2017-08-04 23:05:12 +10:00
Tim Allen 571760c747 Update to v103r24 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb/mbc6: mapper is now functional, but Net de Get has some text
    corruption¹
  - gb/mbc7: mapper is now functional²
  - gb/cpu: HDMA syncs other components after each byte transfer now
  - gb/ppu: LY,LX forced to zero when LCDC.d7 is lowered (eg disabled),
    not when it's raised (eg enabled)
  - gb/ppu: the LCD does not run at all when LCDC.d7 is clear³
      - fixes graphical corruption between scene transitions in Legend
        of Zelda - Oracle of Ages
      - thanks to Cydrak, Shonumi, gekkio for their input on the cause
        of this issue
  - md/controller: renamed "Gamepad" to "Control Pad" per official
    terminology
  - md/controller: added "Fighting Pad" (6-button controller) emulation
    [hex\_usr]
  - processor/m68k: fixed TAS to set data.d7 when
    EA.mode==DataRegisterDirect; fixes Asterix
  - hiro/windows: removed carriage returns from mouse.cpp and
    desktop.cpp
  - ruby/audio/alsa: added device driver selection [SuperMikeMan]
  - ruby/audio/ao: set format.matrix=nullptr to prevent a crash on some
    systems [SuperMikeMan]
  - ruby/video/cgl: rename term() to terminate() to fix a crash on macOS
    [Sintendo]

¹: The observation that this mapper split $4000-7fff into two banks
came from MAME's implementation. But their implementation was quite
broken and incomplete, so I didn't actually use any of it. The
observation that this mapper split $a000-bfff into two banks came from
Tauwasser, and I did directly use that information, plus the knowledge
that $0400/$0800 are the RAM bank select registers.

The text corruption is due to a race condition with timing. The game is
transferring font letters via HDMA, but the game code ends up setting
the bank# with the font a bit too late after the HDMA has already
occurred. I'm not sure how to fix this ... as a whole, I assumed my Game
Boy timing was pretty good, but apparently it's not that good.

²: The entire design of this mapper comes from endrift's notes.
endrift gets full credit for higan being able to emulate this mapper.
Note that the accelerometer implementation is still not tested, and
probably won't work right until I tweak the sensitivity a lot.

³: So the fun part of this is ... it breaks the strict 60fps rate of
the Game Boy. This was always inevitable: certain timing conditions can
stretch frames, too. But this is pretty much an absolute deal breaker
for something like Vsync timing. This pretty much requires adaptive sync
to run well without audio stuttering during the transition.

There's currently one very important detail missing: when the LCD is
turned off, presumably the image on the screen fades to white. I do not
know how long this process takes, or how to really go about emulating
it. Right now as an incomplete patch, I'm simply leaving the last
displayed image on the screen until the LCD is turned on again. But I
will have to output white, as well as add code to break out of the
emulation loop periodically when the LCD is left off eg indefinitely, or
bad things would happen. I'll work something out and then implement.

Another detail is I'm not sure how long it takes for the LCD to start
rendering again once enabled. Right now, it's immediate. I've heard it's
as long as 1/60th of a second, but that really seems incredibly
excessive? I'd like to know at least a reasonably well-supported
estimate before I implement that.
2017-08-04 23:05:06 +10:00
Tim Allen 7022d1aa51 Update to v103r23 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb: added accelerometer X-axis, Y-Axis inputs¹
  - gb: added rumble input¹
  - gb/mbc5: added rumble support²
  - gb/mbc6: added skeleton driver, but it doesn't boot Net de Get
  - gb/mbc7: added mostly complete driver (only missing EEPROM), but it
    doesn't boot Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
  - gb/tama: added leap year assignment
  - tomoko: fixed macOS compilation [MerryMage]
  - hiro/cocoa: fix table cell redrawing on updates and automatic column
    resizing [ncbncb]
  - hiro/cocoa: fix some weird issue with clicking table view checkboxes
    on Retina displays [ncbncb]
  - icarus: enhance Game Boy heuristics³
  - nall: fix three missing return statements [Jonas Quinn]
  - ruby: hopefully fixed all compilation errors reported by Screwtape
    et al⁴

¹: because there's no concept of a controller for cartridge inputs,
I'm attaching to the base platform for now. An idea I had was to make
separate ports for each cartridge type ... but this would duplicate the
rumble input between MBC5 and MBC7. And would also be less discoverable.
But it would be more clean in that users wouldn't think the Game Boy
hardware had this functionality. I'll think about it.

²: it probably won't work yet. Rumble isn't documented anywhere, but
I dug through an emulator named GEST and discovered that it seems to use
bit 3 of the RAM bank select to be rumble. I don't know if it sets the
bit for rumbling, then clears when finished, or if it sets it and then
after a few milliseconds it stops rumbling. I couldn't test on my
FreeBSD box because SDL 1.2 doesn't support rumble, udev doesn't exist
on FreeBSD, and nobody has ever posted any working code for how to use
evdev (or whatever it's called) on FreeBSD.

³: I'm still thinking about specifying the MBC7 RAM as EEPROM, since
it's not really static RAM.

⁴: if possible, please test all drivers if you can. I want to ensure
they're all working. Especially let me know if the following work:
macOS: input.carbon Linux: audio.pulseaudiosimple, audio.ao (libao)

If I can confirm these are working, I'm going to then remove them from
being included with stock higan builds.

I'm also considering dropping SDL video on Linux/BSD. XShm is much
faster and supports blurring. I may also drop SDL input on Linux, since
udev works better. That will free a dependency on SDL 1.2 for building
higan. FreeBSD is still going to need it for joypad support, however.
2017-07-30 23:00:31 +10:00
Tim Allen e1223366a7 Update to v103r22 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - ruby: ported all remaining drivers to new API¹
  - ruby/wasapi: fix for dropping one sample per period [SuperMikeMan]
  - gb: emulated most of the TAMA RTC; but RTC state is still volatile²

¹: the new ports are:

  - audio/{directsound, alsa, pulseaudio, pulseaudiosimple, ao}
  - input/{udev, quartz, carbon}

It's pretty much guaranteed many of them will have compilation errors.
Please paste the error logs and I'll try to fix them up. It may take a
WIP or two to get there.

It's also possible things broke from the updates. If so, I could use
help comparing the old file to the new file, looking for mistakes, since
I can't test on these platforms apart from audio/directsound.

Please report working drivers in this list, so we can mark them off the
list. I'll need both macOS and Linux testers.

audio/directsound.cpp:112:

    if(DirectSoundCreate(0, &_interface, 0) != DS_OK) return terminate(), false;

²: once I get this working, I'll add load/save support for the RTC
values. For now, the RTC data will be lost when you close the emulator.

Right now, you can set the date/time in real-time mode, and when you
start the game, the time will be correct, and the time will tick
forward. Note that it runs off emulated time instead of actual real
time, so if you fast-forward to 300%, one minute will be 20 seconds.

The really big limitation right now is that when you exit the game, and
restart it, and resume a new game, the hour spot gets corrupted, and
this seems to instantly kill your pet. Fun. This is crazy because the
commands the game sends to the TAMA interface are identical between
starting a new game and getting in-game versus loading a game.

It's likely going to require disassembling the game's code and seeing
what in the hell it's doing, but I am extremely bad at LR35092 assembly.
Hopefully endrift can help here :|
2017-07-28 21:42:24 +10:00
Tim Allen 80841deaa5 Update to v103r21 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb: added TAMA emulation [thanks to endrift for the initial notes]
  - gb: save RTC memory to disk (MBC3 doesn't write to said memory yet;
    TAMA doesn't emulate it yet)
  - gb: expect MMM01 boot loader to be at end of ROM instead of start
  - gb: store MBC2 save RAM as 256-bytes (512x4-bit) instead of
    512-bytes (with padding)
  - gb: major cleanups to every cartridge mapper; moved to Mapper class
    instead of MMIO class
  - gb: don't serialize all mapper states with every save state; only
    serialize the active mapper
  - gb: serialize RAM even if a battery isn't present¹
  - gb/cartridge: removed unnecessary code; refactored other code to
    eliminate duplication of functions
  - icarus: improve GB(C) heuristics generation to not include filenames
    for cartridges without battery backup
  - icarus: remove incorrect rearrangement of MMM01 ROM data
  - md/vdp: fix CRAM reads -- fixes Sonic Spinball colors [hex\_usr]
  - tomoko: hide the main higan window when entering fullscreen
    exclusive mode; helps with multi-monitor setups
  - tomoko: destroy ruby drivers before calling Application::quit()
    [Screwtape]
  - libco: add settings.h and defines to fiber, ucontext [Screwtape]

¹: this is one of those crystal clear indications that nobody's
actually playing the higan DMG/CGB cores, or at least not with save
states. This was a major mistake.

Note: I can't find any official documentation that `GL_ALPHA_TEST` was
removed from OpenGL 3.2. Since it's not hurting anything except showing
some warnings in debug mode, I'm just going to leave it there for now.
2017-07-26 22:42:06 +10:00
Tim Allen d5c09c9ab1 Update to v103r20 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - ruby/audio/xaudio2: ported to new ruby API
  - ruby/video/cgl: ported to new ruby API (untested, won't compile)
  - ruby/video/directdraw: ported to new ruby API
  - ruby/video/gdi: ported to new ruby API
  - ruby/video/glx: ported to new ruby API
  - ruby/video/wgl: ported to new ruby API
  - ruby/video/opengl: code cleanups

The macOS CGL driver is sure to have compilation errors. If someone will
post the compilation error log, I can hopefully fix it in one or two
iterations of WIPs.

I am unable to test the Xorg GLX driver, because my FreeBSD desktop
video card drivers do not support OpenGL 3.2. If the driver doesn't
work, I'm going to need help tracking down what broke from the older
releases.

The real fun is still yet to come ... all the Linux-only drivers, where
I don't have a single Linux machine to test with.

Todo:

  - libco/fiber
  - libco/ucontext (I should really just delete this)
  - tomoko: hide main UI window when in exclusive fullscreen mode
2017-07-24 15:23:40 +10:00
Tim Allen 8be474b0ac Update to v103r19 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: Application::onMain assigned at end of Program::Program()
    [Screwtape]¹
  - libco: add `#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500` to fix compilation of sjlj.c
    [Screwtape]
  - ruby/audio/openal: fixed device driver string list enumeration
  - ruby/audio/wasapi: changing device re-initializes the driver now
  - ruby/audio/wasapi: probably a pointless change, but don't fill the
    buffer beyond the queue size with silence
  - ruby/video/xvideo: renamed from ruby/video/xv
  - ruby/video/xvideo: check to see if `XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY` exists
    before setting it [SuperMikeMan]
  - ruby/video/xvideo: align buffer sizes to be evenly divisible by four
    [SuperMikeMan]
  - ruby/video/xvideo: fail nicely without crashing (hopefully)
  - ruby/video/xvideo: add support for YV12 and I420 12-bit planar YUV
    formats²

¹: prevents crashes when drivers fail to initialize from running the
main loop that polls input drivers before the input driver is
initialized (or fails to initialize itself.) Some drivers still don't
block their main functions when initialization fails, so they will still
crash, but I'll work to fix them.

²: this was a **major** pain in the ass, heh. You only get one chroma
sample for every four luma samples, so the color reproduction is even
worse than UYVY and YUYV (which is two to four chroma to luma.) Further,
the planar format took forever to figure out. Apparently it doesn't care
what portion of the image you specify in XvShmPutImage, it expects you
to use the buffer dimensions to locate the U and V portions of the data.

This is probably the most thorough X-Video driver in existence now.

Notes:

  - forgot to rename the configuration settings dialog window title to
    just "Settings"
2017-07-23 19:18:16 +10:00
Tim Allen 284e4c043e Update to v103r18 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: improved handling of changing audio devices on the audio
    settings panel
  - ruby/audio/wasapi: added device enumeration and selection support¹
  - ruby/audio/wasapi: release property store handle from audio device
  - ruby/audio/wasapi: fix exclusive mode buffer filling
  - ruby/video/glx2: ported to new API -- tested and confirmed working
    great²
  - ruby/video/sdl: fixed initialization -- tested and confirmed working
    on FreeBSD now³
  - ruby/video/xv: ported to new API -- tested and mostly working great,
    sans fullscreen mode⁴

Errata:

  - accidentally changed "Driver Settings" label to "Driver" on the
    audio settings tab because I deleted the line and forgot the
    "Settings" part
  - need to use "return initialize();" from setDevice() in the WASAPI
    driver, instead of "return true;", so device selection is currently
    not functioning in this WIP for said driver

¹: for now, this will likely end up selecting the first available
endpoint device, which is probably wrong. I need to come up with a
system to expose good 'default values' when selecting new audio drivers,
or changing audio device settings.

²: glx2 is a fallback driver for system with only OpenGL 2.0 and no
OpenGL 3.2 drivers, such as FreeBSD 10.1 with AMD graphics cards.

³: although I really should track down why InputManager::poll() is
crashing the emulator when Video::ready() returns false ...

⁴: really bizarrely, when entering fullscreen mode, it looks like the
image was a triangle strip, and the bottom right triange is missing, and
the top left triangle skews the entire image into it. I'm suspecting
this is a Radeon driver bug when trying to create a 2560x1600 X-Video
surface. The glitch persists when exiting fullscreen, too.

If anyone can test the X-Video driver on their Linux/BSD system, it'd be
appreciated. If it's just my video card, I'll ignore it. If not,
hopefully someone can find the cause of the issue :|
2017-07-20 21:52:47 +10:00
Tim Allen 0b4e7fb5a5 Update to v103r17 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: re-hid the video sync option¹
  - tomoko: removed " Settings" duplication on all the individual
    settings tab options
  - ruby/audio/wasapi: finished port to new syntax; adapted to an
    event-driven model; support 32-bit integral audio²
  - ruby/video/sdl: ported to new syntax; disabled driver on FreeBSD³

¹: still contemplating a synchronize submenu of {none, video, audio},
but ... the fact that video can't work on PAL, WonderSwan games is a
real limitation for it

²: this driver actually received a ton of work. There's also a new
ring-buffer queue, and I added special handling for when exclusive mode
fails because the latency requested is lower than the hardware can
support. It'll pick the closest latency to the minimum that is possible
in this case.

On my Audigy Rx, the results for non-exclusive mode are the same. For
exclusive mode, the framerate drops from 60fps to ~50fps for smaller
buffers, and ~55fps for larger buffers (no matter how big, it never hits
60fps.) This is a lot better than before where it was hitting ~15fps,
but unfortunately it's the best I can do.

The event system used by WASAPI is really stupid. It just uses SetEvent
at some arbitrary time, and you have to query to see how many samples
it's waiting on. This makes it unknowable how many samples we should
buffer before calling `WaitForSingleObject(INFINITE)`, and it's also
unclear how we should handle cases where there's more samples available
than our queue has: either we can fill it with zeroes, or we can write
less samples. The former should prevent audio looping effects when
running too slowly, whereas the latter could potentially be too
ambitious when the audio could've recovered from a minor stall.

It's shocking to me how there's as many ways to send audio to a sound
card as there are sound card APIs, when all that's needed is a simple
double buffer and a callback event from another thread to do it right.
It's also terrifying how unbelievably shitty nearly all sound card
drivers apparently are.

Also, I don't know if cards can output an actual 24-bit mode with three
byte audio samples, or if they always just take 32-bit samples and
ignore the lower 8-bits. Whatever, it's all nonsense for the final
output to be >16-bits anyway (hi, `double[]` input from ruby.)

³: unfortunately, this driver always crashes on FreeBSD (even before
the rewrite), so I'll need someone on Linux to test it and make sure it
actually works. I'll also need testing for a lot of the other drivers as
well, once they're ported over (I don't have X-video, PulseAudio, ALSA,
or udev.)

Note that I forgot to set `_ready=true` at the end of `initialize()`,
and `_ready=false` in `terminate()`, but it shouldn't actually matter
beyond showing you a false warning message on startup about it failing
to initialize.
2017-07-19 23:14:00 +10:00
Tim Allen f87c6b7ecb Update to v103r16 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - emulator/audio: added the ability to change the output frequency at
    run-time without emulator reset
  - tomoko: display video synchronize option again¹
  - tomoko: Settings→Configuration expanded to Settings→{Video,
    Audio, Input, Hotkey, Advanced} Settings²
  - tomoko: fix default population of audio settings tab
  - ruby: Audio::frequency is a double now (to match both
    Emulator::Audio and ASIO)³
  - tomoko: changing the audio device will repopulate the frequency and
    latency lists
  - tomoko: changing the audio frequency can now be done in real-time
  - ruby/audio/asio: added missing device() information, so devices can
    be changed now
  - ruby/audio/openal: ported to new API; added device selection support
  - ruby/audio/wasapi: ported to new API, but did not test yet (it's
    assuredly still broken)⁴

¹: I'm uneasy about this ... but, I guess if people want to disable
audio and just have smooth scrolling video ... so be it. With
Screwtape's documentation, hopefully that'll help people understand that
video synchronization always breaks audio synchronization. I may change
this to a child menu that lets you pick between {no synchronization,
video synchronization, audio synchronization} as a radio selection.

²: given how much more useful the video and audio tabs are now, I
felt that four extra menu items were worth saving a click and going
right to the tab you want. This also matches the behavior of the Tools
menu displaying all tool options and taking you directly to each tab.
This is kind of a hard change to get used to ... but I think it's for
the better.

³: kind of stupid because I've never seen a hardware sound card where
floor(frequency) != frequency, but whatever. Yay consistency.

⁴: I'm going to move it to be event-driven, and try to support 24-bit
sample formats if possible. Who knows which cards that'll fix and which
cards that'll break. I may end up making multiple WASAPI drivers so
people can find one that actually works for them. We'll see.
2017-07-17 20:32:36 +10:00
Tim Allen 4129630d97 Update to v103r15 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - ruby: rewrote the API interfaces for Video, Audio, Input
  - ruby/audio: can now select the number of output channels (not useful
    to higan, sorry)
  - ruby/asio: various improvements
  - tomoko: audio settings panel can now select separate audio devices
    (for ASIO, OSS so far)
  - tomoko: audio settings panel frequency and latency lists are
    dynamically populated now

Note: due to the ruby API rewrite, most drivers will not compile. Right
now, the following work:

  - video: Direct3D, XShm
  - audio: ASIO, OSS
  - input: Windows, SDL, Xlib

It takes a really long time to rewrite these (six hours to do the
above), so it's going to be a while before we're back at 100%
functionality again.

Errata:

  - ASIO needs device(), setDevice()
  - need to call setDevice() at program startup to populate
    frequency/latency settings properly
  - changing the device and/or frequency needs to update the emulator
    resampler rates

The really hard part is going to be the last one: the only way to change
the emulator frequency is to flush all the audio streams and then
recompute all the coefficients for the resamplers. If this is called
during emulation, all audio streams will be erased and thus no sound
will be output. I'll most likely be forced to simply ignore
device/frequency changes until the user loads another game. It is at
least possible to toggle the latency dynamically.
2017-07-17 15:11:18 +10:00
Tim Allen 17697317d4 Update to v103r14 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: by popular choice, default to adaptive mode on new installs
  - hiro/windows: fix bug that was preventing the escape key from
    closing some dialog windows
  - nall/registry: use "\\\\" as separator instead of "/" ... because
    some registry keys contain "/" in them >_>
  - ruby: add ASIO driver stub (so far it can only initialize and grab
    the driver name/version information)
2017-07-15 22:00:20 +10:00
Tim Allen ed5ec58595 Update to v103r13 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gb/interface: fix Game Boy Color extension to be "gbc" and not "gb"
    [hex\_usr]
  - ms/interface: move Master System hardware controls below controller
    ports
  - sfc/ppu: improve latching behavior of BGnHOFS registers (not
    hardware verified) [AWJ]
  - tomoko/input: rework port/device mapping to support non-sequential
    ports and devices¹
      - todo: should add move() to inputDevice.mappings.append and
        inputPort.devices.append
      - note: there's a weird GCC 4.9 bug with brace initialization of
        InputEmulator; have to assign each field separately
  - tomoko: all windows sans the main presentation window can be
    dismissed with the escape key
  - icarus: the single file selection dialog ("Load ROM Image...") can
    be dismissed with the escape key
  - tomoko: do not pause emulation when FocusLoss/Pause is set during
    exclusive fullscreen mode
  - hiro/(windows,gtk,qt): implemented Window::setDismissable() function
    (missing from cocoa port, sorry)
  - nall/string: fixed printing of largest possible negative numbers (eg
    `INT_MIN`) [Sintendo]
      - only took eight months! :D

¹: When I tried to move the Master System hardware port below the
controller ports, I ran into a world of pain.

The input settings list expects every item in the
`InputEmulator<InputPort<InputDevice<InputMapping>>>>` arrays to be
populated with valid results. But these would be sparsely populated
based on the port and device IDs from inside higan. And that is done so
that the Interface::inputPoll can have O(1) lookup of ports and devices.
This worked because all the port and device IDs were sequential (they
left no gaps in the maps upon creating the lists.)

Unfortunately by changing the expectation of port ID to how it appears
in the list, inputs would not poll correctly. By leaving them alone and
just moving Hardware to the third position, the Game Gear would be
missing port IDs of 0 and 1 (the controller ports of the Master System).
Even by trying to make separate MasterSystemHardware and
GameGearHardware ports, things still fractured when the devices were no
longer contigious.

I got pretty sick of this and just decided to give up on O(1)
port/device lookup, and moved to O(n) lookup. It only knocked the
framerate down by maybe one frame per second, enough to be in the margin
of error. Inputs aren't polled *that* often for loops that usually
terminate after 1-2 cycles to be too detrimental to performance.

So the new input system now allows non-sequential port and device IDs.

Remember that I killed input IDs a while back. There's never any reason
for those to need IDs ... it was easier to just order the inputs in the
order you want to see them in the user interface. So the input lookup is
still O(1). Only now, everything's safer and I return a
maybe<InputMapping&>, and won't crash out the program trying to use a
mapping that isn't found for some reason.

Errata: the escape key isn't working on the browser/message dialogs on
Windows, because of course nothing can ever just be easy and work for
me. If anyone else wouldn't mind looking into that, I'd greatly
appreciate it.

Having the `WM_KEYDOWN` test inside the main `Application_sharedProc`, it
seems to not respond to the escape key on modal dialogs. If I put the
`WM_KEYDOWN` test in the main window proc, then it doesn't seem to get
called for `VK_ESCAPE` at all, and doesn't get called period for modal
windows. So I'm at a loss and it's past 4AM here >_>
2017-07-12 18:24:27 +10:00
Tim Allen 434e303ffb Update to v103r12 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - ruby/video: cleaned up Direct3D9 driver and fixed catastrophic
    memory leak
  - ruby/video: added fullscreen exclusive mode support to the Direct3D9
    driver¹
  - ruby/video: minor cosmetic code cleanups to various drivers
  - tomoko: added support to always allow input when in fullscreen
    exclusive mode
  - tomoko: fixed window to not remove resizability flag when exiting
    fullscreen mode

¹: I am assuming that exclusive mode will try to capture the primary
monitor. I don't know what will happen in multi-monitor setups, however,
as I don't use such a setup here.

Also, I am using `D3DPRESENT_DISCARD` instead of `D3DPRESENT_FLIP`. I'm
not sure if this will prove better or worse, but I've heard it will
waste less memory, and having a BackBufferCount of 1 should still result
in page flipping anyway. The difference is supposedly just that you
can't rely on the back buffer being a valid copy of the previous frame
like you can with FLIP.

Lastly, if you want Vsync, you can edit the configuration file to enable
that, and then turn off audio sync.

Errata: "pause emulation when focus is lost" is not working with
exclusive mode. I need to add a check to never auto-pause when in
exclusive mode. Thanks to bun for catching that one.
2017-07-09 12:23:17 +10:00
Tim Allen ee982f098a Update to v103r11 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: removed "Settings→Video Emulation→Overscan Mask" setting¹
  - tomoko: remove a few unnecessary calls to resizeViewport on startup
  - tomoko: only resize main window from video settings when in adaptive
    or toggling adaptive mode²
  - hiro/windows: add `SWP_NOACTIVATE` flag to prevent focus stealing on
    resizing invisible windows³
  - hiro/windows: suppress spurious API-generated `onSize()` callback
    when calling `setVisible()`

¹: it just seemed like bad design to default to overscan masking
being disabled with overscan masks of 8 horizontal, 8 vertical out of
the box. Users would adjust the sliders and not see anything happening.
Instead, I've set the default masks to zero. If you want to turn off
overscan masking, simply slide those to zero again.

²: I figure the only way we're going to be able to fairly evaluate
Screwtape's suggestion is to try it both ways. And I will admit, I kind
of like the way this works as well ... a lot more so than I thought I
would, so I think it was a great suggestion. Still, now's the time if
people have strong opinions on this. Be sure to try both r10 and r11 to
compare. Barring no other feedback, I'm going to keep it this way.

³: this fixes the blinking of the main window on startup.

Screwtape, thanks again for the improvement suggestions. At this point
though, I am not using a tiling window manager. If you are able to patch
hiro/gtk and/or hiro/qt (I mostly use GTK) to work with tiling window
managers better, I wouldn't mind applying said patches, so long as they
don't break things on my own Xfce desktop with xfwm4.

Also, I noticed one issue with Xfce ... if the window is maximized and I
try to call `Window::setSize()`, it's not actually removing the maximize
flag. We'll need to look into how to add that to GTK, but I don't think
it's a huge issue. A similar glitch happens on windows where the icon
still reflects being maximized, but it does actually shrink, it just
sticks to the top left corner of the screen. So this isn't really a
critical bug, but would be extra polish.
2017-07-08 11:02:01 +10:00
Tim Allen cbbf5ec114 Update to v103r10 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - tomoko: video scaling options are now resolutions in the
    configuration file, eg "640x480", "960x720", "1280x960"
  - tomoko: main window is now always resizable instead of fixed width
    (also supports maximizing)
  - tomoko: added support for non-integral scaling in windowed mode
  - tomoko: made the quick/managed state messaging more consistent
  - tomoko: hide "Find Codes ..." button from the cheat editor window if
    the cheat database is not present
  - tomoko: per-game cheats.bml file now goes into the higan/ subfolder
    instead of the root folder

So the way the new video system works is you have the following options
on the video settings panel:

Windowed mode: { Aspect correction, Integral scaling, Adaptive }

Fullscreen mode: { Aspect correction, Integral scaling } (and one day,
hopefully Exclusive will be added here)

Whenever you adjust the overscan masking, or you change any of the
windowed or fullscreen mode settings, or you choose a different video
scale from the main menu, or you load a new game, or you unload a game,
or you rotate the display of an emulated system, the resizeViewport
logic will be invoked. This logic will remember the last option you
chose for video scale, and base the new window size on that value as an
upper limit of the new window size.

If you are in windowed mode and have adaptive enabled, it will shrink
the window to fit the contents of the emulated system's video output.
Otherwise, if you are not in integral scaling mode, it will scale the
video as large as possible to fit into the video scaled size you have
selected. Otherwise, it will perform an integral scale and center the
video inside of the viewport.

If you are in fullscreen mode, it's much the same, only there is no
adaptive mode.

A major problem with Xorg is that it's basically impossible to change
the resizability attribute of a window post-creation. You can do it, but
all kinds of crazy issues start popping up. Like if you toggle
fullscreen, then you'll find that the window won't grow past a certain
fairly small size that it's already at, and cannot be shrunk. And the
multipliers will stop expanding the window as large as they should. And
sometimes the UI elements won't be placed in the correct position, or
the video will draw over them. It's a big mess. So I have to keep the
main window always resizable. Also, note that this is not a limitation
of hiro. It's just totally broken in Xorg itself. No amount of fiddling
has ever allowed this to work reliably for me on either GTK+ 2 or Qt 4.

So what this means is ... the adaptive mode window is also resizable.
What happens here is, whenever you drag the corners of the main window
to resize it, or toggle the maximize window button, higan will bypass
the video scale resizing code and instead act as though the adaptive
scaling mode were disabled. So if integral scaling is checked, it'll
begin scaling in integral mode. Otherwise, it'll begin scaling in
non-integral mode.

And because of this flexibility, it no longer made sense for the video
scale menu to be a radio box. I know, it sucks to not see what the
active selection is anymore, but ... say you set the scale to small,
then you accidentally resized the window a little, but want it snapped
back to the proper small resolution dimensions. If it were a radio item,
you couldn't reselect the same option again, because it's already active
and events don't propagate in said case. By turning them into regular
menu options, the video scale menu can be used to restore window sizing.

Errata:

On Windows, the main window blinks a few times on first load. The fix
for that is a safeguard in the video settings code, roughly like so ...
but note you'd need to make a few other changes for this to work against
v103r10:

    auto VideoSettings::updateViewport(bool firstRun) -> void {
      settings["Video/Overscan/Horizontal"].setValue(horizontalMaskSlider.position());
      settings["Video/Overscan/Vertical"].setValue(verticalMaskSlider.position());
      settings["Video/Windowed/AspectCorrection"].setValue(windowedModeAspectCorrection.checked());
      settings["Video/Windowed/IntegralScaling"].setValue(windowedModeIntegralScaling.checked());
      settings["Video/Windowed/AdaptiveSizing"].setValue(windowedModeAdaptiveSizing.checked());
      settings["Video/Fullscreen/AspectCorrection"].setValue(fullscreenModeAspectCorrection.checked());
      settings["Video/Fullscreen/IntegralScaling"].setValue(fullscreenModeIntegralScaling.checked());
      horizontalMaskValue.setText({horizontalMaskSlider.position()});
      verticalMaskValue.setText({verticalMaskSlider.position()});
      if(!firstRun) presentation->resizeViewport();
    }

That'll get it down to one blink, as with v103 official. Not sure I can
eliminate that one extra blink.

I forgot to remove the setResizable toggle on fullscreen mode exit. On
Windows, the main window will end up unresizable after toggling
fullscreen. I missed that one because like I said, toggling resizability
is totally broken on Xorg. You can fix that with the below change:

    auto Presentation::toggleFullScreen() -> void {
      if(!fullScreen()) {
        menuBar.setVisible(false);
        statusBar.setVisible(false);
      //setResizable(true);
        setFullScreen(true);
        if(!input->acquired()) input->acquire();
      } else {
        if(input->acquired()) input->release();
        setFullScreen(false);
      //setResizable(false);
        menuBar.setVisible(true);
        statusBar.setVisible(settings["UserInterface/ShowStatusBar"].boolean());
      }
      resizeViewport();
    }

Windows is stealing focus on calls to resizeViewport(), so we need to
deal with that somehow ...

I'm not really concerned about the behavior of shrinking the viewport
below the smallest multiplier for a given system. It might make sense to
snap it to the window size and forego all other scaling, but honestly
... meh. I don't really care. Nobody sane is going to play like that.
2017-07-07 13:38:46 +10:00
Tim Allen 7af270aa59 Update to v103r09 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - gba/apu: fixed wave RAM nibble ordering (fixes audio in Castlevania,
    PocketNES)
  - emulator: restructured video information to just a single
    videoResolution() → VideoResolution function
      - returns "projected size" (between 160x144 and 320x240)
      - "internal buffer size" (up to 1280x480)
      - returns aspect correction multiplier that is to be applied to
        the width field
          - the value could be < 1.0 to handle systems with taller
            pixels; although higan doesn't emulate such a system
  - tomoko: all calculations for scaling and overscan masking are done
    by the GUI now
  - tomoko: aspect correction can be enabled in either windowed or
    fullscreen mode separately; moved to Video settings panel
  - tomoko: video scaling multipliers (against 320x240) can now me
    modified from the default (2,3,4) via the configuration file
      - use this as a really barebones way of supporting high DPI
        monitors; although the GUI elements won't scale nicely
      - if you set a value less than two, or greater than your
        resolution divided by 320x240, it's your own fault when things
        blow up. I'm not babysitting anyone with advanced config-file
        only options.
  - tomoko: added new adaptive windowed mode
      - when enabled, the window will shrink to eliminate any black
        borders when loading a game or changing video settings. The
        window will not reposition itself.
  - tomoko: added new adaptive fullscreen mode
      - when enabled, the integral scaling will be disabled for
        fullscreen mode, forcing the video to fill at least one
        direction of the video monitor completely.

I expect we will be bikeshedding for the next month on how to describe
the new video options, where they should appear in the GUI, changes
people want, etc ... but suffice to say, I'm happy with the
functionality, so I don't intend to make changes to -what- things do,
but I will entertain better ways to name things.
2017-07-06 18:29:12 +10:00