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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Allen bf90bdfcc8 Update to v101r31 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - converted Emulator::Interface::Bind to Emulator::Platform
  - temporarily disabled SGB hooks
  - SMS: emulated Game Gear palette (latching word-write behavior not
    implemented yet)
  - SMS: emulated Master System 'Reset' button, Game Gear 'Start' button
  - SMS: removed reset() functionality, driven by the mappable input now
    instead
  - SMS: split interface class in two: one for Master System, one for
    Game Gear
  - SMS: emulated Game Gear video cropping to 160x144
  - PCE: started on HuC6280 CPU core—so far only registers, NOP
    instruction has been implemented

Errata:

  - Super Game Boy support is broken and thus disabled
  - if you switch between Master System and Game Gear without
    restarting, bad things happen:
      - SMS→GG, no video output on the GG
      - GG→SMS, no input on the SMS

I'm not sure what's causing the SMS\<-\>GG switch bug, having a hard
time debugging it. Help would be very much appreciated, if anyone's up
for it. Otherwise I'll keep trying to track it down on my end.
2017-01-13 12:15:45 +11:00
Tim Allen 5bdf55f08f Update to v101r25 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - SMS: emulated VDP mode 4 graphical output (background, sprites)
  - added $(windres) to icarus as well

I'm sure the VDP emulation is still really, really buggy, but
essentially I handle:

  - mode 4 rendering
  - background scrolling
  - background hscroll lock
  - background vscroll lock
  - background nametable relocation
  - sprite nametable relocation
  - sprite tiledata relocation
  - sprite 192-line y=0xd0 edge case (end sprite rendering)
  - sprite 8-pixel x-coordinate displacement
  - sprite extended size (height only in mode 4)
  - sprite overflow
  - sprite collision
  - left column masking
  - display disable
  - backdrop color
  - 192, 224, 240 height

I do not support:

  - mode 2 rendering
  - sprite zoom
  - disallowing 240 height in NTSC mode
  - PAL mode
  - probably lots more
2016-12-30 18:24:35 +11:00
Tim Allen e30780bb72 Update to v101r25 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - Makefile: added $(windres), -lpthread to Windows port
  - GBA: WAITCNT.prefetch is not writable (should fix Donkey Kong: King
    of Swing) \[endrift\]
  - SMS: fixed hcounter shift value \[hex\_usr\]
  - SMS: emulated interrupts (reset button isn't hooked up anywhere, not
    sure where to put it yet)

This WIP actually took a really long time because the documentation on
SMS interrupts was all over the place. I'm hoping I've emulated them
correctly, but I honestly have no idea. It's based off my best
understanding from four or five different sources. So it's probably
quite buggy.

However, a few interrupts fire in Sonic the Hedgehog, so that's
something to start with. Now I just have to hope I've gotten some games
far enough in that I can start seeing some data in the VDP VRAM. I need
that before I can start emulating graphics mode 4 to get some actual
screen output.

Or I can just say to hell with it and use a "Hello World" test ROM.
That'd probably be smarter.
2016-12-26 23:11:08 +11:00
Tim Allen bab2ac812a Update to v101r24 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - SMS: extended bus mapping of in/out ports: now decoding them fully
    inside ms/bus
  - SMS: moved Z80 disassembly code from processor/z80 to ms/cpu
    (cosmetic)
  - SMS: hooked up non-functional silent PSG sample generation, so I can
    cap the framerate at 60fps
  - SMS: hooked up the VDP main loop: 684 clocks/scanline, 262
    scanlines/frame (no PAL support yet)
  - SMS: emulated the VDP Vcounter and Hcounter polling ... hopefully
    it's right, as it's very bizarre
  - SMS: emulated VDP in/out ports (data read, data write, status read,
    control write, register write)
  - SMS: decoding and caching all VDP register flags (variable names
    will probably change)
  - nall: \#undef IN on Windows port (prevent compilation warning on
    processor/z80)

Watching Sonic the Hedgehog, I can definitely see some VDP register
writes going through, which is a good sign.

Probably the big thing that's needed before I can get enough into the
VDP to start showing graphics is interrupt support. And interrupts are
never fun to figure out :/

What really sucks on this front is I'm flying blind on the Z80 CPU core.
Without a working VDP, I can't run any Z80 test ROMs to look for CPU
bugs. And the CPU is certainly too buggy still to run said test ROM
anyway. I can't find any SMS emulators with trace logging from reset.
Such logs vastly accelerate tracking down CPU logic bugs, so without
them, it's going to take a lot longer.
2016-12-17 22:31:34 +11:00