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Tim Allen | 059347e575 |
Update to v100r07 release.
byuu says: Four and a half hours of work and ... zero new opcodes implemented. This was the best job I could do refining the effective address computations. Should have all twelve 68000 modes implemented now. Still have a billion questions about when and how I'm supposed to perform certain edge case operations, though. |
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Tim Allen | 0d6a09f9f8 |
Update to v100r06 release.
byuu says: Up to ten 68K instructions out of somewhere between 61 and 88, depending upon which PDF you look at. Of course, some of them aren't 100% completed yet, either. Lots of craziness with MOVEM, and BCC has a BSR variant that needs stack push/pop functions. This WIP actually took over eight hours to make, going through every possible permutation on how to design the core itself. The updated design now builds both the instruction decoder+dispatcher and the disassembler decoder into the same main loop during M68K's constructor. The special cases are also really psychotic on this processor, and I'm afraid of missing something via the fallthrough cases. So instead, I'm ordering the instructions alphabetically, and including exclusion cases to ignore binding invalid cases. If I end up remapping an existing register, then it'll throw a run-time assertion at program startup. I wanted very much to get rid of struct EA (EffectiveAddress), but it's too difficult to keep track of the internal effective address without it. So I split out the size to a separate parameter, since every opcode only has one size parameter, and otherwise it was getting duplicated in opcodes that take two EAs, and was also awkward with the flag testing. It's a bit more typing, but I feel it's more clean this way. Overall, I'm really worried this is going to be too slow. I don't want to turn the EA stuff into templates, because that will massively bloat out compilation times and object sizes, and will also need a special DSL preprocessor since C++ doesn't have a static for loop. I can definitely optimize a lot of EA's address/read/write functions away once the core is completed, but it's never going to hold a candle to a templatized 68K core. ---- Forgot to include the SA-1 regression fix. I always remember immediately after I upload and archive the WIP. Will try to get that in next time, I guess. |
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Tim Allen | b72f35a13e |
Update to v100r05 release.
byuu says: Alright, I'm definitely going to need to find some people willing to tolerate my questions on this chip, so I'm going to go ahead and announce I'm working on this I guess. This core is way too big for a surprise like the NES and WS cores were. It'll probably even span multiple v10x releases before it's even ready. |
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Tim Allen | 1c0ef793fe |
Update to v100r04 release.
byuu says: I now have enough of three instructions implemented to get through the first four instructions in Sonic the Hedgehog. But they're far from complete. The very first instruction uses EA addressing, which is similar to x86's ModRM in terms of how disgustingly complex it is. And it also accesses Z80 control registers, which obviously isn't going to do anything yet. The slow speed was me being stupid again. It's not 7.6MHz per frame, it's 7.67MHz per second. So yeah, speed is so far acceptable again. But we'll see how things go as I keep emulating more. The 68K decode is not pretty at all. |
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Tim Allen | 76a8ecd32a |
Update to v100r03 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - moved Thread, Scheduler, Cheat functionality into emulator/ for all cores - start of actual Mega Drive emulation (two 68K instructions) I'm going to be rather terse on MD emulation, as it's too early for any meaningful dialogue here. |
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Tim Allen | 3dd1aa9c1b |
Update to v100r02 release.
byuu says: Sigh ... I'm really not a good person. I'm inherently selfish. My responsibility and obligation right now is to work on loki, and then on the Tengai Makyou Zero translation, and then on improving the Famicom emulation. And yet ... it's not what I really want to do. That shouldn't matter; I should work on my responsibilities first. Instead, I'm going to be a greedy, self-centered asshole, and work on what I really want to instead. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm sure this will make a few people happy, and probably upset even more people. I'm also making zero guarantees that this ever gets finished. As always, I wish I could keep these things secret, so if I fail / give up, I could just drop it with no shame. But I would have to cut everyone out of the WIP process completely to make it happen. So, here goes ... This WIP adds the initial skeleton for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulation. God help us. (minor note: apparently the new extension for Mega Drive games is .md, neat. That's what I chose for the folders too. I thought it was .smd, so that'll be fixed in icarus for the next WIP.) (aside: this is why I wanted to get v100 out. I didn't want this code in a skeleton state in v100's source. Nor did I want really broken emulation, which the first release is sure to be, tarring said release.) ... So, basically, I've been ruminating on the legacy I want to leave behind with higan. 3D systems are just plain out. I'm never going to support them. They're too complex for my abilities, and they would run too slowly with my design style. I'm not willing to compromise my design ideals. And I would never want to play a 3D game system at native 240p/480i resolution ... but 1080p+ upscaling is not accurate, so that's a conflict I want to avoid entirely. It's also never going to emulate computer systems (X68K, PC-98, FM-Towns, etc) because holy shit that would completely destroy me. It's also never going emulate arcade machines. So I think of higan as a collection of 2D emulators for consoles and handhelds. I've gone over every major 2D gaming system there is, looking for ones with games I actually care about and enjoy. And I basically have five of those systems supported already. Looking at the remaining list, I see only three systems left that I have any interest in whatsoever: PC-Engine, Master System, Mega Drive. Again, I'm not in any way committing to emulating any of these, but ... if I had all of those in higan, I think I'd be content to really, truly, finally stop writing more emulators for the rest of my life. And so I decided to tackle the most difficult system first. If I'm successful, the Z80 core should cover a lot of the work on the SMS. And the HuC6280 should land somewhere between the NES and SNES in terms of difficulty ... closer to the NES. The systems that just don't appeal to me at all, which I will never touch, include, but are not limited to: * Atari 2600/5200/7800 * Lynx * Jaguar * Vectrex * Colecovision * Commodore 64 * Neo-Geo * Neo-Geo Pocket / Color * Virtual Boy * Super A'can * 32X * CD-i * etc, etc, etc. And really, even if something were mildly interesting in there ... we have to stop. I can't scale infinitely. I'm already way past my limit, but I'm doing this anyway. Too many cores bloats everything and kills quality on everything. I don't want higan to become MESS v2. I don't know what I'll do about the Famicom Disk System, PC-Engine CD, and Mega CD. I don't think I'll be able to achieve 60fps emulating the Mega CD, even if I tried to. I don't know what's going to happen here with even the Mega Drive. Maybe I'll get driven crazy with the documentation and quit. Maybe it'll end up being too complicated and I'll quit. Maybe the emulation will end up way too slow and I'll give up. Maybe it'll take me seven years to get any games playable at all. Maybe Steve Snake, AamirM and Mike Pavone will pool money to hire a hitman to come after me. Who knows. But this is what I want to do, so ... here goes nothing. |
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Tim Allen | 88c79e56a0 |
Update to v100r01 release.
[This version, with the internal version number changed back to "v100", replaced the original v100 source archive on byuu.org soon after v100's release, because it fixes important bugs in that version. --Ed] byuu says: Changelog: - fixed default paths for Sufami Turbo slotted games - moved WonderSwan orientation controls to the port rather than the device - I do like hex_usr's idea here; but that'll need more consideration; so this is a temporary fix - added new debugger interface (see the public topic for more on that) |
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Tim Allen | 07995c05a5 |
Update to v100 release.
byuu says: higan has finally reached v100! I feel it's important to stress right away that this is not "version 1.00", nor is it a major milestone release. Rather than arbitrary version numbers, all of my software simply bumps version numbers by one for each official release. As such, higan v100 is simply higan's 100th release. That said, the primary focus of this release has been code clean-ups. These are always somewhat dangerous in that regressions are possible. We've tested through sixteen WIP revisions, one of which was open to the public, to try and minimize any regressions. But all the same, please report any regressions if you discover any. Changelog (since v099): FC: render during pixels 1-256 instead of 0-255 [hex_usr] FC: rewrote controller emulation code SFC: 8% speedup over the previous release thanks to PPU optimizations SFC: fixed nasty DB address wrapping regression from v099 SFC: USART developer controller removed; superseded by 21fx SFC: Super Multitap option removed from controller port 1; ports renamed 2-5 SFC: hidden option to experiment with 128KB VRAM (strictly for novelty) higan: audio volume no longer divided by number of audio streams higan: updated controller polling code to fix possible future mapping issues higan: replaced nall/stream with nall/vfs for file-loading subsystem tomoko: can now load multi-slotted games via command-line tomoko: synchronize video removed from UI; still available in the settings file tomoko, icarus: can navigate to root drive selection on Windows all: major code cleanups and refactoring (~1MB diff against v099) Note 1: the audio volume change means that SGB and MSU1 games won't lose half the volume on the SNES sounds anymore. However, if one goes overboard and drives the sound all the way to max volume with the MSU1, clamping may occur. The obvious solution is not to drive volume that high (it will vastly overpower the SNES audio, which usually never exceeds 25% volume.) Another option is to lower the volume in the audio settings panel to 50%. In general, neither is likely to ever be necessary. Note 2: the synchronize video option was hidden from the UI because it is no longer useful. With the advent of compositors, the loss of the complicated timing settings panel, support for the WonderSwan and its 75hz display, the need to emulate variable refresh rate behaviors in the Game Boy, the unfortunate latency spike and audio distortion caused by long Vsync pauses, and the arrival of adaptive sync technology ... it no longer makes sense to present this option. However, as stated, you can edit settings.bml to enable this option anyway if you insist and understand the aforementioned risks. Changelog (since v099r16 open beta): - fixed MSU1 audio sign extension - fixed compilation with SGB support disabled - icarus can now navigate to root directory - fixed compilation issues with OS X port - (hopefully) fixed label height issue with hiro that affected icarus import dialog - (mostly) fixed BS Memory, Sufami Turbo slot loading Errata: - forgot to remove the " - Slot A", " - Slot B" suffixes for Sufami Turbo slot loading - this means you have to navigate up one folder and then into Sufami Turbo/ to load games for this system - moving WonderSwan orientation controls to the device slot is causing some nastiness - can now select orientation from the main menu, but it doesn't rotate the display |
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Tim Allen | 13ad9644a2 |
Update to v099r16 release (public beta).
byuu says: Changelog: - hiro: BrowserDialog can navigate up to drive selection on Windows - nall: (file,path,dir,base,prefix,suffix)name => Location::(file,path,dir,base,prefix,suffix) - higan/tomoko: rename audio filter label from "Sinc" to "IIR - Biquad" - higan/tomoko: allow loading files via icarus on the command-line once again - higan/tomoko: (begrudging) quick hack to fix presentation window focus on startup - higan/audio: don't divide output audio volume by number of streams - processor/r65816: fix a regression in (read,write)DB; fixes Taz-Mania - fixed compilation regressions on Windows and Linux I'm happy with where we are at with code cleanups and stability, so I'd like to release v100. But even though I'm not assigning any special significance to this version, we should probably test it more thoroughly first. |
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Tim Allen | 8d5cc0c35e |
Update to v099r15 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall::lstring -> nall::string_vector - added IntegerBitField<type, lo, hi> -- hopefully it works correctly... - Multitap 1-4 -> Super Multitap 2-5 - fixed SFC PPU CGRAM read regression - huge amounts of SFC PPU IO register cleanups -- .bits really is lovely - re-added the read/write(VRAM,OAM,CGRAM) helpers for the SFC PPU - but they're now optimized to the realities of the PPU (16-bit data sizes / no address parameter / where appropriate) - basically used to get the active-display overrides in a unified place; but also reduces duplicate code in (read,write)IO |
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Tim Allen | 82293c95ae |
Update to v099r14 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - (u)int(max,ptr) abbreviations removed; use _t suffix now [didn't feel like they were contributing enough to be worth it] - cleaned up nall::integer,natural,real functionality - toInteger, toNatural, toReal for parsing strings to numbers - fromInteger, fromNatural, fromReal for creating strings from numbers - (string,Markup::Node,SQL-based-classes)::(integer,natural,real) left unchanged - template<typename T> numeral(T value, long padding, char padchar) -> string for print() formatting - deduces integer,natural,real based on T ... cast the value if you want to override - there still exists binary,octal,hex,pointer for explicit print() formatting - lstring -> string_vector [but using lstring = string_vector; is declared] - would be nice to remove the using lstring eventually ... but that'd probably require 10,000 lines of changes >_> - format -> string_format [no using here; format was too ambiguous] - using integer = Integer<sizeof(int)*8>; and using natural = Natural<sizeof(uint)*8>; declared - for consistency with boolean. These three are meant for creating zero-initialized values implicitly (various uses) - R65816::io() -> idle() and SPC700::io() -> idle() [more clear; frees up struct IO {} io; naming] - SFC CPU, PPU, SMP use struct IO {} io; over struct (Status,Registers) {} (status,registers); now - still some CPU::Status status values ... they didn't really fit into IO functionality ... will have to think about this more - SFC CPU, PPU, SMP now use step() exclusively instead of addClocks() calling into step() - SFC CPU joypad1_bits, joypad2_bits were unused; killed them - SFC PPU CGRAM moved into PPU::Screen; since nothing else uses it - SFC PPU OAM moved into PPU::Object; since nothing else uses it - the raw uint8[544] array is gone. OAM::read() constructs values from the OAM::Object[512] table now - this avoids having to determine how we want to sub-divide the two OAM memory sections - this also eliminates the OAM::synchronize() functionality - probably more I'm forgetting The FPS fluctuations are driving me insane. This WIP went from 128fps to 137fps. Settled on 133.5fps for the final build. But nothing I changed should have affected performance at all. This level of fluctuation makes it damn near impossible to know whether I'm speeding things up or slowing things down with changes. |
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Tim Allen | 67457fade4 |
Update to v099r13 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - GB core code cleanup completed - GBA core code cleanup completed - some more cleanup on missed processor/arm functions/variables - fixed FC loading icarus bug - "Load ROM File" icarus functionality restored - minor code unification efforts all around (not perfect yet) - MMIO->IO - mmio.cpp->io.cpp - read,write->readIO,writeIO It's been a very long work in progress ... starting all the way back with v094r09, but the major part of the higan code cleanup is now completed! Of course, it's very important to note that this is only for the basic style: - under_score functions and variables are now camelCase - return-type function-name() are now auto function-name() -> return-type - Natural<T>/Integer<T> replace (u)intT_n types where possible - signed/unsigned are now int/uint - most of the x==true,x==false tests changed to x,!x A lot of spot improvements to consistency, simplicity and quality have gone in along the way, of course. But we'll probably never fully finishing beautifying every last line of code in the entire codebase. Still, this is a really great start. Going forward, WIP diffs should start being smaller and of higher quality once again. I know the joke is, "until my coding style changes again", but ... this was way too stressful, way too time consuming, and way too risky. I'm too old and tired now for extreme upheavel like this again. The only major change I'm slowly mulling over would be renaming the using Natural<T>/Integer<T> = (u)intT; shorthand to something that isn't as easily confused with the (u)int_t types ... but we'll see. I'll definitely continue to change small things all the time, but for the larger picture, I need to just accept the style I have and live with it. |
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Tim Allen | 7a68059f78 |
Update to v099r12 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed FC AxROM / VRC7 regression - BitField split to BooleanBitField/NaturalBitField (in preparation for IntegerBitField) - BitFieldReference removed - GB CPU cleaned up - GB Cartridge + Mappers cleaned up - SFC CGRAM is now emulated as uint15[256] instead of uint[512] - sfc/ppu/memory.cpp no longer needed; removed - purged SFC Debugger hooks for now (some of the operator[] calls were bypassing them anyway) Unfortunately, for reasons that defy all semblance of logic, the CGRAM change caused a slight speed hit. As have the last few changes. We're now down to around 129.5fps compared to 123.fps for v099 and 134.5fps at our peak (v099r01-r02). I really like the style I came up with for the Game Boy mappers to settle the purpose(ROM,RAM) vs (rom,ram)Purpose naming convention. If I ever get around to redoing the NES mappers, that's likely the approach I'll take. |
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Tim Allen | 3e807946b8 |
Update to v099r11 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - NES PPU core updated to use BitFields (absolutely massive improvement in code readability) - NES APU core updated to new coding style - NES cartridge/board and cartridge/chip updated to new coding style - pushed NES PPU rendering one dot forward (doesn't fix King's Quest V yet, sadly) - fixed SNES PPU BG tilemask for 128KiB VRAM mode (doesn't fix Yoshi's Island, though) So ... I kind of went overboard with the fc/cartridge changes. This WIP diff is 185KiB >_> I didn't realize it was going to be as big a task as it was, but once I started everything broke in a chain reaction, so I had to do it all at once. There's a massive chance we've broken a bunch of NES things. Any typos in this WIP are going to be absolutely insidious to track down =( But ... supposing I pulled it off, this means the Famicom core is now fully converted to the new coding style as well. That leaves only the GB and GBA cores. Once those are finished, then we'll finally be free of these gigantic hellspawn diffs. |
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Tim Allen | a816998122 |
Update to v099r10 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - higan/profile/ => higan/systems/ [temporary; unless we can't think of a better base folder name] - god-damn-better-have fixed the input polling bug - re-added command-line and drag-and-drop loading - command-line loading can now load multiple folders at once (SGB+GB game; Sufami Turbo+Slot A+Slot B; etc) - if you load just the base cart, it'll present you with a dialog to optionally load slotted cart(s) - MSU1 now goes through nall/vfs instead of directly accessing the filesystem - Famicom Cartridge, PPU cores updated to newer programming style - there's countless opportunity for BitField and .bits() in the PPU ... but I'm worried about breaking things If anyone has a working MSU1 game and can test the changes out, that'd be appreciated. I still don't have a test ROM on my dev box. I wouldn't worry too much about extensively testing the Famicom PPU changes just yet ... I'm still struggling with what to name the structs inside the classes between all of my emulators, and the BitField/.bits() changes will be much more important to test at a later date. The only use case left for Emulator::Interface::path(uint id) is for 21fx emulation. This peripheral loads a DLL/SO via LoadLibrary/dlopen, which do not have any official ways to open a file in RAM. I'm very hesitant to use the portable trick of writing the memory to a temporary file, loading it, and deleting the temporary file once done ... it's a real waste of disk activity. I might make something like vfs::file::isVirtual->bool,path()->string to get around this. But even once I do, the underlying LoadLibrary/dlopen call is still going to be direct disk access. |
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Tim Allen | 3a9c7c6843 |
Update to v099r09 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - Emulator::Interface::Medium::bootable removed - Emulator::Interface::load(bool required) argument removed [File::Required makes no sense on a folder] - Super Famicom.sys now has user-configurable properties (CPU,PPU1,PPU2 version; PPU1 VRAM size, Region override) - old nall/property removed completely - volatile flags supported on coprocessor RAM files now (still not in icarus, though) - (hopefully) fixed SNES Multitap support (needs testing) - fixed an OAM tiledata range clipping limit in 128KiB VRAM mode (doesn't fix Yoshi's Island, sadly) - (hopefully, again) fixed the input polling bug hex_usr reported - re-added dialog box for when File::Required files are missing - really cool: if you're missing a boot ROM, BIOS ROM, or IPL ROM, it warns you immediately - you don't have to select a game before seeing the error message anymore - fixed cheats.bml load/save location |
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Tim Allen | f48b332c83 |
Update to v099r08 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall/vfs work 100% completed; even SGB games load now - emulation cores now call load() for the base cartridges as well - updated port/device handling; portmask is gone; device ID bug should be resolved now - SNES controller port 1 multitap option was removed - added support for 128KiB SNES PPU VRAM (for now, edit sfc/ppu/ppu.hpp VRAM::size=0x10000; to enable) Overall, nall/vfs was a huge success!! We've substantially reduced the amount of boilerplate code everywhere, while still allowing (even easier than before) support for RAM-based game loading/saving. All of nall/stream is dead and buried. I am considering removing Emulator::Interface::Medium::id and/or bootable flag. Or at least, doing something different with it. The values for the non-bootable GB/BS/ST entries duplicate the ID that is supposed to be unique. They are for GB/GBC and WS/WSC. Maybe I'll use this as the hardware revision selection ID, and then gut non-bootable options. There's really no reason for that to be there. I think at one point I was using it to generate library tabs for non-bootable systems, but we don't do that anymore anyway. Emulator::Interface::load() may not need the required flag anymore ... it doesn't really do anything right now anyway. I have a few reasons for having the cores load the base cartridge. Most importantly, it is going to enable a special mode for the WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color in the future. If we ever get the IPLROMs dumped ... it's possible to boot these systems with no games inserted to set user profile information and such. There are also other systems that may accept being booted without a cartridge. To reach this state, you would load a game and then cancel the load dialog. Right now, this results in games not loading. The second reason is this prevents nasty crashes when loading fails. So if you're missing a required manifest, the emulator won't die a violent death anymore. It's able to back out at any point. The third reason is consistency: loading the base cartridge works the same as the slot cartridges. The fourth reason is Emulator::Interface::open(uint pathID) values. Before, the GB, SB, GBC modes were IDs 1,2,3 respectively. This complicated things because you had to pass the correct ID. But now instead, Emulator::Interface::load() returns maybe<uint> that is nothing when no game is selected, and a pathID for a valid game. And now open() can take this ID to access this game's folder contents. The downside, which is temporary, is that command-line loading is currently broken. But I do intend on restoring it. In fact, I want to do better than before and allow multi-cart booting from the command-line by specifying the base cartridge and then slot cartridges. The idea should be pretty simple: keep a queue of pending filenames that we fill from the command-line and/or drag-and-drop operations on the main window, and then empty out the queue or prompt for load dialogs from the UI when booting a system. This also might be a bit more unorthodox compared to the traditional emulator design of "loadGame(filename)", but ... oh well. It's easy enough still. The port/device changes are fun. We simplified things quite a bit. The portmask stuff is gone entirely. While ports and devices keep IDs, this is really just sugar-coating so UIs can use for(auto& port : emulator->ports) and access port.id; rather than having to use for(auto n : range(emulator->ports)) { auto& port = emulator->ports[n]; ... }; but they should otherwise generally be identical to the order they appear in their respective ranges. Still, don't rely on that. Input::id is gone. There was no point since we also got rid of the nasty Input::order vector. Since I was in here, I went ahead and caved on the pedantics and renamed Input::guid to Input::userData. I removed the SNES controller port 1 multitap option. Basically, the only game that uses this is N-warp Daisakusen and, no offense to d4s, it's not really a good game anyway. It's just a quick demo to show 8-players on the SNES. But in the UI, all it does is confuse people into wasting time mapping a controller they're never going to use, and they're going to wonder which port to use. If more compelling use cases for 8-players comes about, we can reconsider this. I left all the code to support this in place, so all you have to do is uncomment one line to enable it again. We now have dsnes emulation! :D If you change PPU::VRAM::size to 0x10000 (words), then you should now have 128KiB of VRAM. Even better, it serializes the used-VRAM size, so your save states shouldn't crash on you if you swap between the two (though if you try this, you're nuts.) Note that this option does break commercial software. Yoshi's Island in particular. This game is setting A15 on some PPU register writes, but not on others. The end result of this is things break horribly in-game. Also, this option is causing a very tiny speed hit for obvious reasons with the variable masking value (I'm even using size-1 for now.) Given how niche this is, I may just leave it a compile-time constant to avoid the overhead cost. Otherwise, if we keep the option, then it'll go into Super Famicom.sys/manifest.bml ... I'll flesh that out in the near-future. ---- Finally, some fun for my OCD ... my monitor suddenly cut out on me in the middle of working on this WIP, about six hours in of non-stop work. Had to hit a bunch of ctrl+alt+fN commands (among other things) and trying to log in headless on another TTY to do issue commands, trying to recover the display. Finally power cycled the monitor and it came back up. So all my typing ended up going to who knows where. Usually this sort of thing terrifies me enough that I scrap a WIP and start over to ensure I didn't screw anything up during the crashed screen when hitting keys randomly. Obviously, everything compiles and appears to work fine. And I know it's extremely paranoid, but OCD isn't logical, so ... I'm going to go over every line of the 100KiB r07->r08 diff looking for any corruption/errors/whatever. ---- Review finished. r08 diff review notes: - fc/controller/gamepad/gamepad.cpp: use uint device = ID::Device::Gamepad; not id = ...; - gb/cartridge/cartridge.hpp: remove redundant uint _pathID; (in Information::pathID already) - gb/cartridge/cartridge.hpp: pull sha256 inside Information - sfc/cartridge/load/cpp: add " - Slot (A,B)" to interface->load("Sufami Turbo"); to be more descriptive - sfc/controller/gamepad/gamepad.cpp: use uint device = ID::Device::Gamepad; not id = ...; - sfc/interface/interface.cpp: remove n variable from the Multitap device input generation loop (now unused) - sfc/interface/interface.hpp: put struct Port above struct Device like the other classes - ui-tomoko: cheats.bml is reading from/writing to mediumPaths(0) [system folder instead of game folder] - ui-tomoko: instead of mediumPaths(1) - call emulator->metadataPathID() or something like that |
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Tim Allen | ccd8878d75 |
Update to v099r07 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - (hopefully) fixed BS Memory and Sufami Turbo slot loading - ported GB, GBA, WS cores to use nall/vfs - completely removed loadRequest, saveRequest functionality from Emulator::Interface and ui-tomoko - loadRequest(folder) is now load(folder) - save states now use a shared Emulator::SerializerVersion string - whenever this is bumped, all older states will break; but this makes bumping state versions way easier - also, the version string makes it a lot easier to identify compatibility windows for save states - SNES PPU now uses uint16 vram[32768] for memory accesses [hex_usr] NOTE: Super Game Boy loading is currently broken, and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it :/ The file loading handoff was -really- complicated, and so I'm kind of at a loss ... so for now, don't try it. Everything else should theoretically work, so please report any bugs you find. So, this is pretty much it. I'd be very curious to hear feedback from people who objected to the old nall/stream design, whether they are happy with the new file loading system or think it could use further improvements. The 16-bit VRAM turned out to be a wash on performance (roughly the same as before. 1fps slower on Zelda 3, 1fps faster on Yoshi's Island.) The main reason for this was because Yoshi's Island was breaking horribly until I changed the vramRead, vramWrite functions to take uint15 instead of uint16. I suspect the issue is we're using uint16s in some areas now that need to be uint15, and this game is setting the VRAM address to 0x8000+, causing us to go out of bounds on memory accesses. But ... I want to go ahead and do something cute for fun, and just because we can ... and this new interface is so incredibly perfect for it!! I want to support an SNES unit with 128KiB of VRAM. Not out of the box, but as a fun little tweakable thing. The SNES was clearly designed to support that, they just didn't use big enough VRAM chips, and left one of the lines disconnected. So ... let's connect it anyway! In the end, if we design it right, the only code difference should be one area where we mask by 15-bits instead of by 16-bits. |
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Tim Allen | 875f031182 |
Update to v099r06 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - Super Famicom core converted to use nall/vfs - excludes Super Game Boy; since that's invoked from inside the GB core This was definitely the major obstacle to test nall/vfs' applicability. Things worked out pretty great in the end. We went from 22.0KiB (cartridge) + 18.6KiB (interface) to 24.5KiB (cartridge) + 11.4KiB (interface). Or 40.7KiB to 36.0KiB. This removes a very large source of indirection. Before it was: "coprocessor <=> cartridge <=> interface" for loading and saving data, and now it's just "coprocessor <=> cartridge". And it may make sense to eventually turn this into just "cartridge -> coprocessor" by making each coprocessor class handle its own markup parsing. It's nice to have all the manifest parsing in one location (well, sans MSU1); but it's also nice for loading/unloading to be handled by each coprocessor itself. So I'll have to think longer about that one. I've also started handling Interface::save() differently. Instead of keeping track of memory IDs and filenames, and iterating through that vector of objects ... instead I now have a system that mirrors the markup parsing on loading, but handles saving instead. This was actually the reason the code size savings weren't more significant, but I like this style more. As before, it removes an extra level of indirection. So ... next up, I need to port over the GB, then GBA, then WS cores. These shouldn't take too long since they're all very simple with just ROM+RAM(+RTC) right now. Then get the SGB callbacks using vfs. Then after that, gut all the old stream stuff from nall and higan. Kill the (load,save)Request stuff, rename the load(Gamepak)Request to something simpler, and then we should be good. Anyway ... these are some huge changes. |
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Tim Allen | f04d9d58f5 |
Update to v099r05 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - added nall/vfs - converted Famicom core to use nall/vfs interface instead of nall/stream interface |
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Tim Allen | 40abcfc4a5 |
Update to v099r04 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - lots of code cleanups to processor/r6502 (the switch.cpp file is only halfway done ...) - lots of code cleanups to fc/cpu - removed fc/input - implemented fc/controller hex_usr, you may not like this, but I want to keep the controller port and expansion port interface separate, like I do with the SNES. I realize the NES' is used more for controllers, and the SNES' more for hardware expansions, but ... they're not compatible pinouts and you can't really connect one to the other. Right now, I've only implemented the controller portion. I'll have to get to the peripheral portion later. Also, the gamepad implementation there now may be wrong. It's based off the Super Famicom version obviously. I'm not sure if the Famicom has different behavior with latching $4016 writes, or not. But, it works in Mega Man II, so it's a start. Everyone, be sure to remap your controls, and then set port 1 -> gamepad after loading your first Famicom game with the new WIP. |
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Tim Allen | 44a8c5a2b4 |
Update to v099r03 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - finished cleaning up the SFC core to my new coding conventions - removed sfc/controller/usart (superseded by 21fx) - hid Synchronize Video option from the menu (still in the configuration file) Pretty much the only minor detail left is some variable names in the SA-1 core that really won't look good at all if I move to camelCase, so I'll have to rethink how I handle those. It's probably a good area to attempt using BitFields, to see how it impacts performance. But I'll do that in a test branch first. But for the most part, this should be the end of the gigantic diffs (this one was 174KiB), at least for the SFC/WS cores. Still have the FC/GB/GBA cores to clean up more fully. Assuming we don't spot any new regressions, we should be ~95% out of the woods on code cleanups breaking things. |
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Tim Allen | f1a80075fa |
Update to v099r02 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - renamed sfc/ppu/sprite (OAM oam;) to sfc/ppu/object (Object obj;) [hex_usr] - renamed sfc/ppu's memory {vram, oam, cgram} to just vram, oam, cgram - fixed addr&=~1 regression [hex_usr] - fixed 8bpp tiledata regression [hex_usr] |
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Tim Allen | ae5b4c3bb3 |
Update to v099r01 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - massive cleanups and optimizations on the PPU core - ~9% speedup over v099 official This is pretty much it for the low-hanging fruit of speeding up higan. Any more gains from this point will be extremely hard-fought, unfortunately. |
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Tim Allen | c074c6e064 |
Update to v099 release.
byuu says: Time for a new release. There are a few important emulation improvements and a few new features; but for the most part, this release focuses on major code refactoring, the details of which I will mostly spare you. The major change is that, as of v099, the SNES balanced and performance cores have been removed from higan. Basically, in addition to my five other emulation cores, these were too much of a burden to maintain. And they've come along as far as I was able to develop them. If you need to use these cores, please use these two from the v098 release. I'm very well aware that ~80% of the people using higan for SNES emulation were using the two removed profiles. But they simply had to go. Hopefully in the future, we can compensate for their loss by increasing the performance of the accuracy core. Changelog (since v098): SFC: balanced profile removed SFC: performance profile removed SFC: expansion port devices can now be changed during gameplay (atlhough you shouldn't) SFC: fixed bug in SharpRTC leap year calculations SFC: emulated new research findings for the S-DD1 coprocessor SFC: fixed CPU emulation-mode wrapping bug with pei, [dp], [dp]+y instructions [AWJ] SFC: fixed Super Game Boy bug that caused the bottom tile-row to flicker in games GB: added MBC1M (multi-cart) mapper; icarus can't detect these so manual manifests are needed for now GB: corrected return value when HuC3 unmapped RAM is read; fixes Robopon [endrift] GB: improved STAT IRQ emulation; fixes Altered Space, etc [endrift, gekkio] GB: partial emulation of DMG STAT write IRQ bug; fixes Legend of Zerd, Road Rash, etc nall: execute() fix, for some Linux platforms that had trouble detecting icarus nall: new BitField class; which allows for simplifying flag/register emulation in various cores ruby: added Windows WASAPI audio driver (experimental) ruby: remove attempts to call glSwapIntervalEXT (fixes crashing on some Linux systems) ui: timing settings panel removed video: restored saturation, gamma, luminance settings video: added new post-emulation sprite system; light gun cursors are now higher-resolution audio: new resampler (6th-order Butterworth biquad IIR); quite a bit faster than the old one audio: added optional basic reverb filter (for fun) higan: refresh video outside cooperative threads (workaround for shoddy code in AMD graphics drivers) higan: individual emulation cores no longer have unique names higan: really substantial code refactoring; 43% reduction in binary size Off the bat, here are the known bugs: hiro/Windows: focus stealing bug on startup. Needs to be fixed in hiro, not with a cheap hack to tomoko. higan/SFC: some of the coprocessors are saving some volatile memory to disk. Completely harmless, but still needs to be fixed. ruby/WASAPI: some sound cards have a lot of issues with the current driver (eg FitzRoy's). We need to find a clean way to fix this before it can be made the default driver. Which would be a huge win because the latency improvements are substantial, and in exclusive mode, WASAPI allows G-sync to work very well. [From the v099 WIP thread, here's the changelog since v098r19: - GB: don't force mode 1 during force-blank; fixes v098r16 regression with many Game Boy games - GB: only perform the STAT write IRQ bug during vblank, not hblank (still not hardware accurate, though) -Ed.] |
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Tim Allen | 50420e3dd2 |
Update to v098r19 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - added nall/bit-field.hpp - updated all CPU cores (sans LR35902 due to some complexities) to use BitFields instead of bools - updated as many CPU cores as I could to use BitFields instead of union { struct { uint8_t ... }; }; pairs The speed changes are mostly a wash for this. In some instances, I noticed a ~2-3% speedup (eg SNES emulation), and in others a 2-3% slowdown (eg Famicom emulation.) It's within the margin of error, so it's safe to say it has no impact. This does give us a lot of new useful things, however: - no more manual reconstruction of flag values from lots of left shifts and ORs - no more manual deconstruction of flag values from lots of ANDs - ability to get completely free aliases to flag groups (eg GSU can provide alt2, alt1 and also alt (which is alt2,alt1 combined) - removes the need for the nasty order_lsbN macro hack (eventually will make higan 100% endian independent) - saves us from insane compilers that try and do nasty things with alignment on union-structs - saves us from insane compilers that try to store bit-field bits in reverse order - will allow some really novel new use cases (I'm planning an instant-decode ARM opcode function, for instance.) - reduces code size (we can serialize flag registers in one line instead of one for each flag) However, I probably won't use it for super critical code that's constantly reading out register values (eg PPU MMIO registers.) I think there we would end up with a performance penalty. |
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Tim Allen | b08449215a |
Update to v098r18 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - hiro: fixed the BrowserDialog column resizing when navigating to new folders (prevents clipping of filenames) - note: this is kind of a quick-fix; but I have a good idea how to do the proper fix now - nall: added BitField<T, Lo, Hi> class - note: not yet working on the SFC CPU class; need to go at it with a debugger to find out what's happening - GB: emulated DMG/SGB STAT IRQ bug; fixes Zerd no Densetsu and Road Rash (won't fix anything else; don't get hopes up) |
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Tim Allen | 9b452c9f5f |
Update to v098r17 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed Super Game Boy regression from v096r04 with bottom tile row flickering - fixed GB STAT IRQ regression from previous WIP - Altered Space is now playable - GBVideoPlayer isn't; but nobody seems to know exactly what weird hardware quirk that one relies on to work - ~3-4% speed improvement in SuperFX games by eliminating function<> callback on register assignments - most noticeable in Doom in-game; least noticeable on Yoshi's Island title screen (darn) - finished GSU core and SuperFX coprocessor code cleanups - did some more work cleaning up the LR35902 core and GB CPU code Just a fair warning: don't get your hopes up on these GB fixes. Cliffhanger now hangs completely (har har), and none of the other bugs are fixed. We pretty much did all this work just for Altered Space. So, I hope you like playing Altered Space. |
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Tim Allen | 3681961ca5 |
Update to v098r16 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - GNUmakefile: reverted $(call unique,) to $(strip) - processor/r6502: removed templates; reduces object size from 146.5kb to 107.6kb - processor/lr35902: removed templates; reduces object size from 386.2kb to 197.4kb - processor/spc700: merged op macros for switch table declarations - sfc/coprocessor/sa1: partial cleanups; flattened directory structure - sfc/coprocessor/superfx: partial cleanups; flattened directory structure - sfc/coprocessor/icd2: flattened directory structure - gb/ppu: changed behavior of STAT IRQs Major caveat! The GB/GBC STAT IRQ changes has a major bug in it somewhere that's seriously breaking most games. I'm pushing the WIP anyway, because I believe the changes to be mostly correct. I'd like to get more people looking at these changes, and also try more heavy-handed hacking and diff comparison logging between the previous WIP and this one. |
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Tim Allen | 20ac95ee49 |
Update to v098r15 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - removed template usage from processor/spc700; cleaned up many function names and the switch table - object size: 176.8kb => 127.3kb - source code size: 43.5kb => 37.0kb - fixed processor/r65816 BRK/COP vector regression [hex_usr] - corrected HuC3 unmapped RAM read value; fixes Robopon [endrift] - cosmetic: simplified the butterworth constant calculation [Wolfram|Alpha] The SPC700 core changes took forever, about three hours of work. Only the LR35902 and R6502 still need their template functions removed. The point of this is that it doesn't cause any speed penalty to do so, and it results in smaller binary sizes and faster compilation times. |
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Tim Allen | fdc41611cf |
Update to v098r14 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - improved attenuation of biquad filter by computing butterworth Q coefficients correctly (instead of using the same constant) - adding 1e-25 to each input sample into the biquad filters to try and prevent denormalization - updated normalization from [0.0 to 1.0] to [-1.0 to +1.0]; volume/reverb happen in floating-point mode now - good amount of work to make the base Emulator::Audio support any number of output channels - so that we don't have to do separate work on left/right channels; and can instead share the code for each channel - Emulator::Interface::audioSample(int16 left, int16 right); changed to: - Emulator::Interface::audioSample(double* samples, uint channels); - samples are normalized [-1.0 to +1.0] - for now at least, channels will be the value given to Emulator::Audio::reset() - fixed GUI crash on startup when audio driver is set to None I'm probably going to be updating ruby to accept normalized doubles as well; but I'm not sure if I will try and support anything other 2-channel audio output. It'll depend on how easy it is to do so; perhaps it'll be a per-driver setting. The denormalization thing is fierce. If that happens, it drops the emulator framerate from 220fps to about 20fps for Game Boy emulation. And that happens basically whenever audio output is silent. I'm probably also going to make a nall/denormal.hpp file at some point with platform-specific functionality to set the CPU state to "denormals as zero" where applicable. I'll still add the 1e-25 offset (inaudible) as another fallback. |
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Tim Allen | 839813d0f1 |
Update to v098r13 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall/dsp returns with new iir/biquad.hpp and resampler/cubic.hpp files - nall/queue.hpp added (simple ring buffer ... nall/vector wouldn't cause too many moves with FIFO) - audio streams now only buffer 20ms; so even if multiple audio streams desync, latency can never exceed 20ms - replaced blackman windwed sinc FIR hermite audio filter with transposed direct form II biquadratic sixth-order IIR butterworth filter (better attenuation of frequencies above 20KHz, faster, no need for decimation, less code) - put in experimental eight-tap echo filter (a lot better than what I had before, but still rather weak) - substantial cleanups to the SuperFX GSU processor core (slightly faster, 479KB->100KB object file, 42.7KB->33.4KB source code size, way less code duplication) We'll definitely want to test the whole SuperFX library (not many games) just to make sure there's no regressions caused by this one. Not sure what I want to do with audio processing effects yet. I've always really wanted lots of fun controls to customize audio, and now finally with this new biquad filter, I can finally start implementing real effects. For instance, an equalizer wouldn't be too complicated anymore. The new reverb effect is still a poor man's version. I need to find human readable source for implementing a comb-filter properly. I'm pretty sure I can already treat nall::queue as an all-pass filter since all that does is phase shift (fancy audio term for "delay audio"). What's really going to be hard is figuring out how to expose user-friendly settings for controlling it. It looks like you need a bunch of coprime coefficients, and I don't think casual users are going to be able to hand-enter coprime values to get the echo effect they want. I uh ... don't even know how to calculate coprime values dynamically right now >_> But we're going to have to, as they are correlated to the output sampling rate. We'll definitely want to make some audio profiles so that users can quickly select pre-configured themes that sound nice, but expose the underlying coefficients so that they can tweak stuff to their liking. This isn't just about higan, this is about me trying to learn digital signal processing, so please don't be too upset about feature creep or anything on this. Anyway ... I'm having some difficulties with my audio right now. When the reverb effect is enabled, there's a bunch of static on system reset for just a moment. But this should not be possible. nall::queue is initializing all previous reverb sample elements to 0.0. I don't understand where static is coming in from. Further, we have the same issue with both the windowed sinc and the biquad filters ... a bit of a popping sound when starting a game. Any help tracking this down would be appreciated. There's also one really annoying issue ... I can't seem to do reverb or volume adjustments with normalized samples. If I say "volume *= 0.5" in higan/audio/audio.cpp line 68, it doesn't just halve the volume, it adds a whole bunch of distortion. This makes absolutely zero sense to me. The sample values are between 0.0 (mute) and 1.0 (full volume) here, so multiplying a double by 0.5 shouldn't cause distortion. So right now, I'm doing these adjustments with less precision after denormalizing back to int16. Anyone ever see something like that? :/ |
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Tim Allen | 7f3cfa17b9 |
Update to v098r12 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - higan/video: added support for Emulator::Sprite - higan/resource: a new system for accessing embedded binary files inside the emulation cores; holds the sprites - higan/sfc/superscope,justifier: re-enabled display of crosshairs - higan/sfc/superscope: fixed turbo toggle (also shows different crosshair color when in turbo mode) - higan/sfc/ppu: always outputs at 512x480 resolution now - causes a slight speed-hit from ~127fps to ~125fps; - but allows high-resolution 32x32 cursors that look way better; - also avoids the need to implement sprite scaling logic Right now, the PPU code to always output at 480-height is a really gross hack. Don't worry, I'll make that nicer before release. Also, superscope.cpp and justifier.cpp are built around a 256x240 screen. But since we now have 512x480, we can make the cursor's movement much smoother by doubling the resolution on both axes. The actual games won't see any accuracy improvements when firing the light guns, but the cursors will animate nicer so I think it's still worth it. I'll work on that before the next release as well. The current 32x32 cursors are nicer, but we can do better now with full 24-bit color. So feel free to submit alternatives. I'll probably reject them, but you can always try :D The sprites don't support alpha blending, just color keying (0x00000000 = transparent; anything else is 0xff......). We can revisit that later if necessary. The way I have it designed, the only files that do anything with Emulator::Sprite at all are the superscope and justifier folders. I didn't have to add any hooks anywhere else. Rendering the sprite is a lot cleaner than the old code, too. |
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Tim Allen | ae5d380d06 |
Update to v098r11 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed nall/path.hpp compilation issue - fixed ruby/audio/xaudio header declaration compilation issue (again) - cleaned up xaudio2.hpp file to match my coding syntax (12.5% of the file was whitespace overkill) - added null terminator entry to nall/windows/utf8.hpp argc[] array - nall/windows/guid.hpp uses the Windows API for generating the GUID - this should stop all the bug reports where two nall users were generating GUIDs at the exact same second - fixed hiro/cocoa compilation issue with uint# types - fixed major higan/sfc Super Game Boy audio latency issue - fixed higan/sfc CPU core bug with pei, [dp], [dp]+y instructions - major cleanups to higan/processor/r65816 core - merged emulation/native-mode opcodes - use camel-case naming on memory.hpp functions - simplify address masking code for memory.hpp functions - simplify a few opcodes themselves (avoid redundant copies, etc) - rename regs.* to r.* to match modern convention of other CPU cores - removed device.order<> concept from Emulator::Interface - cores will now do the translation to make the job of the UI easier - fixed plurality naming of arrays in Emulator::Interface - example: emulator.ports[p].devices[d].inputs[i] - example: vector<Medium> media - probably more surprises Major show-stoppers to the next official release: - we need to work on GB core improvements: LY=153/0 case, multiple STAT IRQs case, GBC audio output regs, etc. - we need to re-add software cursors for light guns (Super Scope, Justifier) - after the above, we need to fix the turbo button for the Super Scope I really have no idea how I want to implement the light guns. Ideally, we'd want it in higan/video, so we can support the NES Zapper with the same code. But this isn't going to be easy, because only the SNES knows when its output is interlaced, and its resolutions can vary as {256,512}x{224,240,448,480} which requires pixel doubling that was hard-coded to the SNES-specific behavior, but isn't appropriate to be exposed in higan/video. |
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Tim Allen | 3ebc77c148 |
Update to v098r10 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - synchronized tomoko, loki, icarus with extensive changes to nall (118KiB diff) |
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Tim Allen | 6ae0abe3d3 |
Update to v098r09 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed major nall/vector/prepend bug - renamed hiro/ListView to hiro/TableView - added new hiro/ListView control which is a simplified abstraction of hiro/TableView - updated higan's cheat database window and icarus' scan dialog to use the new ListView control - compilation works once again on all platforms (Windows, Cocoa, GTK, Qt) - the loki skeleton compiles once again (removed nall/DSP references; updated port/device ID names) Small catch: need to capture layout resize events internally in Windows to call resizeColumns. For now, just resize the icarus window to get it to use the full window width for list view items. |
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Tim Allen | 0955295475 |
Update to v098r08 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - nall/vector rewritten from scratch - higan/audio uses nall/vector instead of raw pointers - higan/sfc/coprocessor/sdd1 updated with new research information - ruby/video/glx and ruby/video/glx2: fuck salt glXSwapIntervalEXT! The big change here is definitely nall/vector. The Windows, OS X and Qt ports won't compile until you change some first/last strings to left/right, but GTK will compile. I'd be really grateful if anyone could stress-test nall/vector. Pretty much everything I do relies on this class. If we introduce a bug, the worst case scenario is my entire SFC game dump database gets corrupted, or the byuu.org server gets compromised. So it's really critical that we test the hell out of this right now. The S-DD1 changes mean you need to update your installation of icarus again. Also, even though the Lunar FMV never really worked on the accuracy core anyway (it didn't initialize the PPU properly), it really won't work now that we emulate the hard-limit of 16MiB for S-DD1 games. |
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Tim Allen | 7cdae5195a |
Update to v098r07 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - GB: support modeSelect and RAM for MBC1M (Momotarou Collection) - audio: implemented native resampling support into Emulator::Stream - audio: removed nall::DSP completely Unfortunately, the new resampler didn't turn out quite as fast as I had hoped. The final hermite resampling added some overhead; and I had to bump up the kernel count to 500 from 400 to get the buzzing to go away on my main PC. I think that's due to it running at 48000hz output instead of 44100hz output, maybe? Compared to Ryphecha's: (NES) Mega Man 2: 167fps -> 166fps (GB) Mega Man II: 224fps -> 200fps (WSC) Riviera: 143fps -> 151fps Odd that the WS/WSC ends up faster while the DMG/CGB ends up slower. But this knocks 922 lines down to 146 lines. The only files left in all of higan not written (or rewritten) by me are ruby/xaudio2.h and libco/ppc.c |
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Tim Allen | e2ee6689a0 |
Update to v098r06 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - emulation cores now refresh video from host thread instead of cothreads (fix AMD crash) - SFC: fixed another bug with leap year months in SharpRTC emulation - SFC: cleaned up camelCase on function names for armdsp,epsonrtc,hitachidsp,mcc,nss,sharprtc classes - GB: added MBC1M emulation (requires manually setting mapper=MBC1M in manifest.bml for now, sorry) - audio: implemented Emulator::Audio mixer and effects processor - audio: implemented Emulator::Stream interface - it is now possible to have more than two audio streams: eg SNES + SGB + MSU1 + Voicer-Kun (eventually) - audio: added reverb delay + reverb level settings; exposed balance configuration in UI - video: reworked palette generation to re-enable saturation, gamma, luminance adjustments - higan/emulator.cpp is gone since there was nothing left in it I know you guys are going to say the color adjust/balance/reverb stuff is pointless. And indeed it mostly is. But I like the idea of allowing some fun special effects and configurability that isn't system-wide. Note: there seems to be some kind of added audio lag in the SGB emulation now, and I don't really understand why. The code should be effectively identical to what I had before. The only main thing is that I'm sampling things to 48000hz instead of 32040hz before mixing. There's no point where I'm intentionally introducing added latency though. I'm kind of stumped, so if anyone wouldn't mind taking a look at it, it'd be much appreciated :/ I don't have an MSU1 test ROM, but the latency issue may affect MSU1 as well, and that would be very bad. |
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Tim Allen | 55e507d5df |
Update to v098r05 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - WS/WSC: re-added support for screen rotation (code is inside WS core) - ruby: changed sample(uint16_t left, uint16_t right) to sample(int16_t left, int16_t right); - requires casting to uint prior to shifting in each driver, but I felt it was misleading to use uint16_t just to avoid that - ruby: WASAPI is now built in by default; has wareya's improvements, and now supports latency adjust - tomoko: audio settings panel has new "Exclusive Mode" checkbox for WASAPI driver only - note: although the setting *does* take effect in real-time, I'd suggest restarting the emulator after changing it - tomoko: audio latency can now be set to 0ms (which in reality means "the minimum supported by the driver") - all: increased cothread size from 512KiB to 2MiB to see if it fixes bullshit AMD driver crashes - this appears to cause a slight speed penalty due to cache locality going down between threads, though |
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Tim Allen | a2d3b8ba15 |
Update to v098r04 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - SFC: fixed behavior of 21fx $21fe register when no device is connected (must return zero) - SFC: reduced 21fx buffer size to 1024 bytes in both directions to mirror the FT232H we are using - SFC: eliminated dsp/modulo-array.hpp [1] - higan: implemented higan/video interface and migrated all cores to it [2] [1] the echo history buffer was 8-bytes, so there was no need for it at all here. Not sure what I was thinking. The BRR buffer was 12-bytes, and has very weird behavior ... but there's only a single location in the code where it actually writes to this buffer. It's much easier to just write to the buffer three times there instead of implementing an entire class just to abstract away two lines of code. This change actually boosted the speed from ~124.5fps to around ~127.5fps, but that's within the margin of error for GCC. I doubt it's actually faster this way. The DSP core could really use a ton of work. It comes from a port of blargg's spc_dsp to my coding style, but he was extremely fond of using 32-bit signed integers everywhere. There's a lot of opportunity to remove red tape masking by resizing the variables to their actual state sizes. I really need to find where I put spc_dsp6.sfc from blargg. It's a great test to verify if I've made any mistakes in my implementation that would cause regressions. Don't suppose anyone has it? [2] so again, the idea is that higan/audio and higan/video are going to sit between the emulation cores and the user interfaces. The hope is to output raw encoding data from the emulation cores without having to worry about the video display format (generally 24-bit RGB) of the host display. And also to avoid having to repeat myself with eg three separate implementations of interframe blending, and so on. Furthermore, the idea is that the user interface can configure its side of the settings, and the emulation cores can configure their sides. Thus, neither has to worry about the other end. And now we can spin off new user interfaces much easier without having to mess with all of these things. Right now, I've implemented color emulation, interframe blending and SNES horizontal color bleed. I did not implement scanlines (and interlace effects for them) yet, but I probably will at some point. Further, for right now, the WonderSwan/Color screen rotation is busted and will only show games in the horizontal orientation. Obviously this must be fixed before the next official release, but I'll want to think about how to implement it. Also, the SNES light gun pointers are missing for now. Things are a bit messy right now as I've gone through several revisions of how to handle these things, so a good house cleaning is in order once everything is feature-complete again. I need to sit down and think through how and where I want to handle things like light gun cursors, LCD icons, and maybe even rasterized text messages. And obviously ... higan/audio is still just nall::DSP's headers. I need to revamp that whole interface. I want to make it quite powerful with a true audio mixer so I can handle things like SNES+SGB+MSU1+Voicer-Kun+SNES-CD (five separate audio streams at once.) The video system has the concept of "effects" for things like color bleed and interframe blending. I want to extend on this with useful other effects, such as NTSC simulation, maybe bringing back my mini-HQ2x filter, etc. I'd also like to restore the saturation/gamma/luma adjustment sliders ... I always liked allowing people to compensate for their displays without having to change settings system-wide. Lastly, I've always wanted to see some audio effects. Although I doubt we'll ever get my dream of CoreAudio-style profiles, I'd like to get some basic equalizer settings and echo/reverb effects in there. |
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Tim Allen | 1929ad47d2 |
Update to v098r03 release.
byuu says: It took several hours, but I've rebuilt much of the SNES' bus memory mapping architecture. The new design unifies the cartridge string-based mapping ("00-3f,80-bf:8000-ffff") and internal bus.map calls. The map() function now has an accompanying unmap() function, and instead of a fixed 256 callbacks, it'll scan to find the first available slot. unmap() will free slots up when zero addresses reference a given slot. The controllers and expansion port are now both entirely dynamic. Instead of load/unload/power/reset, they only have the constructor (power/reset/load) and destructor (unload). What this means is you can now dynamically change even expansion port devices after the system is loaded. Note that this is incredibly dangerous and stupid, but ... oh well. The whole point of this was for 21fx. There's no way to change the expansion port device prior to loading a game, but if the 21fx isn't active, then the reset vector hijack won't work. Now you can load a 21fx game, change the expansion port device, and simply reset the system to active the device. The unification of design between controller port devices and expansion port devices is nice, and overall this results in a reduction of code (all of the Mapping stuff in Cartridge is gone, replaced with direct bus mapping.) And there's always the potential to expand this system more in the future now. The big missing feature right now is the ability to push/pop mappings. So if you look at how the 21fx does the reset vector, you might vomit a little bit. But ... it works. Also changed exit(0) to _exit(0) in the POSIX version of nall::execute. [The _exit(0) thing is an attempt to make higan not crash when it tries to launch icarus and it's not on $PATH. The theory is that higan forks, then the child tries to exec icarus and fails, so it exits, all the unique_ptrs clean up their resources and tell the X server to free things the parent process is still using. Calling _exit() prevents destructors from running, and seems to prevent the problem. -Ed.] |
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Tim Allen | 7403e69307 |
Update to v098r02 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - SFC: fixed a regression on auto joypad polling due to missing parentheses - SFC: exported new PPU::vdisp() const -> uint; function [1] - SFC: merged PPU MMIO functions into the read/write handles (as I previously did for the CPU) - higan: removed individual emulator core names (bnes, bsnes, bgb, bgba, bws) [2] Forgot: - to remove /tomoko from the about dialog [1] note that technically I was relying on the cached, per-frame overscan setting when the CPU and light guns were polling the number of active display scanlines per frame. This was technically incorrect as you can change this value mid-frame and it'll kick in. I've never seen any game toggle overscan every frame, we only know about this because anomie tested this a long time ago. So, nothing should break, but ... you know how the SNES is. You can't even look at the code without something breaking, so I figured I'd mention it >_> [2] I'll probably keep referring to the SNES core as bsnes anyway. I don't mind if you guys use the b<system> names as shorthand. The simplification is mostly to make the branding easier. |
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Tim Allen | 19e1d89f00 |
Update to v098r01 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - SFC: balanced profile removed - SFC: performance profile removed - SFC: code for handling non-threaded CPU, SMP, DSP, PPU removed - SFC: Coprocessor, Controller (and expansion port) shared Thread code merged to SFC::Cothread - Cothread here just means "Thread with CPU affinity" (couldn't think of a better name, sorry) - SFC: CPU now has vector<Thread*> coprocessors, peripherals; - this is the beginning of work to allow expansion port devices to be dynamically changed at run-time - ruby: all audio drivers default to 48000hz instead of 22050hz now if no frequency is assigned - note: the WASAPI driver can default to whatever the native frequency is; doesn't have to be 48000hz - tomoko: removed the ability to change the frequency from the UI (but it will display the frequency used) - tomoko: removed the timing settings panel - the goal is to work toward smooth video via adaptive sync - the model is broken by not being in control of the audio frequency anyway - it's further broken by PAL running at 50hz and WSC running at 75hz - it was always broken anyway by SNES interlace timing varying from progressive timing - higan: audio/ stub created (for now, it's just nall/dsp/ moved here and included as a header) - higan: video/ stub created - higan/GNUmakefile: now includes build rules for essential components (libco, emulator, audio, video) The audio changes are in preparation to merge wareya's awesome WASAPI work without the need for the nall/dsp resampler. |
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Tim Allen | aff00506c5 |
Update to v098 hotfix release.
byuu says: There was a minor SNES input regression spotted very shortly after release. |
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Tim Allen | e846c83d47 |
Update to v098 release.
byuu says: This release most notably adds WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color emulation. It is also the final release that will include the balanced and performance profiles for bsnes. Changelog (since v097): - higan: added WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color emulation - higan: simplified the coooperative-thread schedulers for all emulation cores - higan: moved from native (u)int[8,16,32,64]_t types to Natural<T>/Integer<T> classes - higan: major cleanups to the Makefiles; including auto-selection of processor cores - loki: very barebones skeleton in place now; does absolutely nothing - these allow the removal of huge amounts of manual bit-twiddling with more readable alternatives - FC: fixed PPU OAM reads (mask the correct bits when writing) [hex_usr] - SFC: fixed expansion port device mapping on game load - SFC: reworked the way SGB games were loaded -* SFC core can now be compiled without GB core (and thus without SGB support) - SFC: added Super Disc expansion port device (although it's just a non-functional skeleton so far) - SFC: bugfix to SharpRTC emulation regarding leap year extra day counts (Dai Kaijuu Monogatari II) - SFC: major code cleanups to the CPU core and the R65816 processor base class - SFC: added 21fx emulation (not the old 21fx that became MSu1; reusing the name for a new idea) - basic idea is to move the serial USART to the expansion port along with a reset vector hijack - SFC: emulate reset vector pushing PC onto the stack on system soft reset - GB: pass gekkio's if_ie_registers and boot_hwio-G test ROMs - GBA: reworked all handling of MMIO functions: removed the get/set class functions - nall: improved edge case return values for (basename,pathname,dirname,...) - ruby: fixed ~AudioXAudio2() typo (now calls destructor on exit) - ruby: if DirectSoundCreate fails (no sound device present), return false from init instead of crashing - tomoko: added "All" option to filetype dropdown for ROM loading - allows loading GBC games in SGB mode - tomoko: locate() updated to search multiple paths [2] - tomoko: fixed some oddities when changing the audio frequency/latency settings - icarus: can now work with WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color games Note 1: 90% of the changelog for this release was related to the WonderSwan emulation being in development. Doesn't make a lot of sense to post about fixes since the code didn't exist publicly prior to this release. |
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Tim Allen | 06d44b4878 |
Update to v097r32 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - bsnes-accuracy emulates reset vector properly[1] - bsnes-balanced compiles once more - bsnes-performance compiles once more The balanced and performance profiles are fixed for the last time. They will be removed for v098r01. Please test this WIP as much as you can. I intend to release v098 soon. I know save states are a little unstable for the WS/WSC, but they work well enough for a release. If I can't figure it out soon, I'm going to post v098 anyway. [1] this one's been a really long time coming, but ... one of the bugs I found when I translated Tekkaman Blade was that my translation patch would crash every now and again when you hit the reset button on a real SNES, but it always worked upon power on. Turns out that while power-on initializes the stack register to $01ff, reset does things a little bit differently. Reset actually triggers the reset interrupt vector after putting the CPU into emulation mode, but it doesn't initialize the stack pointer. The net effect is that the stack high byte is set to $01, and the low byte is left as it was. And then the reset vector runs, which pushes the low 16-bits of the program counter, plus the processor flags, onto the stack frame. So you can actually tell where the game was at when the system was reset ... sort of. It's a really weird behavior to be sure. But here's the catch: say you're hacking a game, and so you hook the reset vector with jsl showMyTranslationCreditsSplashScreen, and inside this new subroutine, you then perform whatever bytes you hijacked, and then initialize the stack frame to go about your business drawing the screen, and when you're done, you return via rtl. Generally, this works fine. But if S={0100, 0101, or 0102}, then the stack will wrap due to being in emulation mode at reset. So it will write to {0100, 01ff, 01fe}. But now in your subroutine, you enable native mode. So when you return from your subroutine hijack, it reads the return address from {01ff, 0200, 0201} instead of the expected {01ff, 0100, 0101}. Thus, you get an invalid address back, and you "return" to the wrong location, and your program dies. The odds of this happening depend on how the game handles S, but generally speaking, it's a ~1:85 chance. By emulating this behavior, I'll likely expose this bug in many ROM hacks that do splash screen hooks like this, including my own Tekkaman Blade translation. And it's also very possible that there are commercial games that screw this up as well. But, it's what the real system does. So if any crashes start happening as of this WIP upon resetting the game, well ... it'd happen on real hardware, too. |
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Tim Allen | 25eaaa82f4 |
Update to v097r31 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - WS: fixed sprite window clipping (again) - WS: don't set IRQ status bits of IRQ enable bits are clear - SFC: signed/unsigned -> int/uint for DSP core - SFC: removed eBoot - SFC: added 21fx (not the same as the old precursor to MSU1; just reusing the name) Note: XI Little doesn't seem to be fixed after all ... but the other three are. So I guess we're at 13 bugs :( And holy shit that music when you choose a menu option is one of the worst sounds I've ever heard in my life >_< |
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Tim Allen | 2d83300235 |
Update to v097r30 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed sprite window attribute bit (Final Fantasy, Tekken Card Challenge, etc) - rewrote renderer to support 2bpp color mode (Dark Eyes, Dokodemo Hamster, Flash Koibito-kun, etc) |
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Tim Allen | 680d16561e |
Update to v097r29 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - fixed DAS instruction (Judgment Silversword score) - fixed [VH]TMR_FREQ writes (Judgement Silversword audio after area 20) - fixed initialization of SP (fixes seven games that were hanging on startup) - added SER_STATUS and SER_DATA stubs (fixes four games that were hanging on startup) - initialized IEEP data (fixes Super Robot Taisen Compact 2 series) - note: you'll need to delete your internal.com in WonderSwan (Color).sys folders - fixed CMPS and SCAS termination condition (fixes serious bugs in four games) - set read/writeCompleted flags for EEPROM status (fixes Tetsujin 28 Gou) - major code cleanups to SFC/R65816 and SFC/CPU - mostly refactored disassembler to output strings instead of using char* buffer - unrolled all the subfolders on sfc/cpu to a single directory - corrected casing for all of sfc/cpu and a large portion of processor/r65816 I kind of went overboard on the code cleanup with this WIP. Hopefully nothing broke. Any testing one can do with the SFC accuracy core would be greatly appreciated. There's still an absolutely huge amount of work left to go, but I do want to eventually refresh the entire codebase to my current coding style, which is extremely different from stuff that's been in higan mostly untouched since ~2006 or so. It's dangerous and fickle work, but if I don't do it, then the code will be a jumbled mess of several different styles. |