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Tim Allen ee7662a8be Update to v102r04 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:
  - Super Game Boy support is functional once again
  - new GameBoy::SuperGameBoyInterface class
  - system.(dmg,cgb,sgb) is now Model::(Super)GameBoy(Color) ala the PC
    Engine
  - merged WonderSwanInterface, WonderSwanColorInterface shared
    functions to WonderSwan::Interface
  - merged GameBoyInterface, GameBoyColorInterface shared functions to
    GameBoy::Interface
  - Interface::unload() now calls Interface::save() for Master System,
    Game Gear, Mega Drive, PC Engine, SuperGrafx
  - PCE: emulated PCE-CD backup RAM; stored per-game as save.ram (2KiB
    file)
      - this means you can now save your progress in games like Neutopia
      - the PCE-CD I/O registers like BRAM write protect are not
        emulated yet
  - PCE: IRQ sources now hold the IRQ line state, instead of the CPU
    holding it
      - this fixes most SuperGrafx games, which were fighting over the
        VDC IRQ line previously
  - PCE: CPU I/O $14xx should return the pending IRQ bits even if IRQs
    are disabled
  - PCE: VCE and the VDCs now synchronize to each other; fixes pixel
    widths in all games
  - PCE: greatly increased the accuracy of the VPC priority selection
    code (windows may be buggy still)
  - HuC6280: PLA, PLX, PLY should set Z, N flags; fixes many game bugs
    [Jonas Quinn]

The big thing I wanted to do was enslave the VDC(s) to the VCE. But
unfortunately, I forgot about the asynchronous DMA channels that each
VDC supports, so this isn't going to be possible I'm afraid.

In the most demanding case, Daimakaimura in-game, we're looking at 85fps
on my Xeon E3 1276v3. So ... not great, and we don't even have sound
connected yet.

We are going to have to profile and optimize this code once sound
emulation and save states are in.

Basically, think of it like this: the VCE, VDC0, and VDC1 all have the
same overhead, scheduling wise (which is the bulk of the performance
loss) as the dot-renderer for the SNES core. So it's like there's three
bsnes-accuracy PPU threads running just for video.

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Oh, just a fair warning ... the hooks for the SGB are a work in
progress.

If anyone is working on higan or a fork and want to do something similar
to it, don't use it as a template, at least not yet.

Right now, higan looks like this:

  - Emulator::Video handles the platform→videoRefresh calls
  - Emulator::Audio handles the platform→audioSample calls
  - each core hard-codes the platform→inputPoll, inputRumble calls
  - each core hard-codes calls to path, open, load to process files
  - dipSettings and notify are specialty hacks, neither are even hooked
    up right now to anything

With the SGB, it's an emulation core inside an emulation core, so
ideally you want to hook all of those functions. Emulator::Video and
Emulator::Audio aren't really abstractions over that, as the GB core
calls them and we have to special case not calling them in SGB mode.

The path, open, load can be implemented without hooks, thanks to the UI
only using one instance of Emulator::Platform for all cores. All we have
to do is override the folder path ID for the "Game Boy.sys" folder, so
that it picks "Super Game Boy.sfc/" and loads its boot ROM instead.
That's just a simple argument to GameBoy::System::load() and we're done.

dipSettings, notify and inputRumble don't matter. But we do also have to
hook inputPoll as well.

The nice idea would be for SuperFamicom::ICD2 to inherit from
Emulator::Platform and provide the desired functions that we need to
overload. After that, we'd just need the GB core to keep an abstraction
over the global Emulator::platform\* handle, to select between the UI
version and the SFC::ICD2 version.

However ... that doesn't work because of Emulator::Video and
Emulator::Audio. They would also have to gain an abstraction over
Emulator::platform\*, and even worse ... you'd have to constantly swap
between the two so that the SFC core uses the UI, and the GB core uses
the ICD2.

And so, for right now, I'm checking Model::SuperGameBoy() -> bool
everywhere, and choosing between the UI and ICD2 targets that way. And
as such, the ICD2 doesn't really need Emulator::Platform inheritance,
although it certainly could do that and just use the functions it needs.

But the SGB is even weirder, because we need additional new signals
beyond just Emulator::Platform, like joypWrite(), etc.

I'd also like to work on the Emulator::Stream for the SGB core. I don't
see why we can't have the GB core create its own stream, and let the
ICD2 just use that instead. We just have to be careful about the ICD2's
CPU soft reset function, to make sure the GB core's Stream object
remains valid. What I think that needs is a way to release an
Emulator::Stream individually, rather than calling
Emulator::Audio::reset() to do it. They are shared\_pointer objects, so
I think if I added a destructor function to remove it from
Emulator::Audio::streams, then that should work.
2017-01-26 12:06:06 +11:00
Tim Allen 186f008574 Update to v102r03 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - PCE: split VCE from VDC
  - HuC6280: changed bus from (uint21 addr) to (uint8 bank, uint13 addr)
  - added SuperGrafx emulation (adds secondary VDC, plus new VPC)

The VDC now has no concept of the actual display raster timing, and
instead is driven by Vpulse (start of frame) and Hpulse (start of
scanline) signals from the VCE. One still can't render the start of the
next scanline onto the current scanline through overly aggressive
timings, but it shouldn't be too much more difficult to allow that to
occur now. This process incurs quite a major speed hit, so low-end
systems with Atom CPUs can't run things at 60fps anymore.

The timing needs a lot of work. The pixels end up very jagged if the VCE
doesn't output batches of 2-4 pixels at a time. But this should not be a
requirement at all, so I'm not sure what's going wrong there.

Yo, Bro and the 512-width mode of TV Sports Basketball is now broken as
a result of these changes, and I'm not sure why.

To load SuperGrafx games, you're going to have to change the .pce
extensions to .sg or .sgx. Or you can manually move the games from the
PC Engine folder to the SuperGrafx folder and change the game folder
extensions. I have no way to tell the games apart. Mednafen uses CRC32
comparisons, and I may consider that since there's only five games, but
I'm not sure yet.

The only SuperGrafx game that's playable right now is Aldynes. And the
priorities are all screwed up. I don't understand how the windows or the
priorities work at all from sgxtech.txt, so ... yeah. It's pretty
broken, but it's a start.

I could really use some help with this, as I'm very lost right now with
rendering :/

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Note that the SuperGrafx is technically its own system, it's not an
add-on.

As such, I'm giving it a separate .sys folder, and a separate library.

There's debate over how to name this thing. "SuperGrafx" appears more
popular than "Super Grafx". And you might also call it the "PC Engine
SuperGrafx", but I decided to leave off the prefix so it appears more
distinct.
2017-01-24 08:18:54 +11:00
Tim Allen bdc100e123 Update to v102r02 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - I caved on the `samples[] = {0.0}` thing, but I'm very unhappy about it
      - if it's really invalid C++, then GCC needs to stop accepting it
        in strict `-std=c++14` mode
  - Emulator::Interface::Information::resettable is gone
  - Emulator::Interface::reset() is gone
  - FC, SFC, MD cores updated to remove soft reset behavior
  - split GameBoy::Interface into GameBoyInterface,
    GameBoyColorInterface
  - split WonderSwan::Interface into WonderSwanInterface,
    WonderSwanColorInterface
  - PCE: fixed off-by-one scanline error [hex_usr]
  - PCE: temporary hack to prevent crashing when VDS is set to < 2
  - hiro: Cocoa: removed (u)int(#) constants; converted (u)int(#)
    types to (u)int_(#)t types
  - icarus: replaced usage of unique with strip instead (so we don't
    mess up frameworks on macOS)
  - libco: added macOS-specific section marker [Ryphecha]

So ... the major news this time is the removal of the soft reset
behavior. This is a major!! change that results in a 100KiB diff file,
and it's very prone to accidental mistakes!! If anyone is up for
testing, or even better -- looking over the code changes between v102r01
and v102r02 and looking for any issues, please do so. Ideally we'll want
to test every NES mapper type and every SNES coprocessor type by loading
said games and power cycling to make sure the games are all cleanly
resetting. It's too big of a change for me to cover there not being any
issues on my own, but this is truly critical code, so yeah ... please
help if you can.

We technically lose a bit of hardware documentation here. The soft reset
events do all kinds of interesting things in all kinds of different
chips -- or at least they do on the SNES. This is obviously not ideal.
But in the process of removing these portions of code, I found a few
mistakes I had made previously. It simplifies resetting the system state
a lot when not trying to have all the power() functions call the reset()
functions to share partial functionality.

In the future, the goal will be to come up with a way to add back in the
soft reset behavior via keyboard binding as with the Master System core.
What's going to have to happen is that the key binding will have to send
a "reset pulse" to every emulated chip, and those chips are going to
have to act independently to power() instead of reusing functionality.
We'll get there eventually, but there's many things of vastly greater
importance to work on right now, so it'll be a while. The information
isn't lost ... we'll just have to pull it out of v102 when we are ready.

Note that I left the SNES reset vector simulation code in, even though
it's not possible to trigger, for the time being.

Also ... the Super Game Boy core is still disconnected. To be honest, it
totally slipped my mind when I released v102 that it wasn't connected
again yet. This one's going to be pretty tricky to be honest. I'm
thinking about making a third GameBoy::Interface class just for SGB, and
coming up with some way of bypassing platform-> calls when in this
mode.
2017-01-23 08:04:26 +11:00
Tim Allen c40e9754bc Update to v102r01 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - MS, MD, PCE: remove controllers from scheduler in destructor
    [hex_usr]
  - PCE: no controller should return all bits set (still causing errant
    key presses when swapping gamepads)
  - PCE: emulate MDR for hardware I/O $0800-$17ff
  - PCE: change video resolution to 1140x242
  - PCE: added tertiary background Vscroll register (secondary cache)
  - PCE: create classes out of VDC VRAM, SATB, CRAM for cleaner access
    and I/O registers
  - PCE: high bits of CRAM read should be set
  - PCE: partially emulated VCE display registers: color frequency, HDS,
    HDW, VDS, VDW
  - PCE: 32-width sprites now split to two 16-width sprites to handle
    overflow properly
  - PCE: hopefully emulated sprite zero hit correctly (it's not well
    documented, and not often used)
  - PCE: trigger line coincidence interrupts during the previous
    scanline's Hblank period
  - tomoko: raise viewport from 320x240 to 326x242 to accommodate PC
    Engine's max resolution
  - nall: workaround for Clang compilation bug that can't figure out
    that a char is an integral data type
2017-01-22 11:33:36 +11:00
Tim Allen b03563426f Update to v101r35 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:
  - PCE: added 384KB HuCard ROM mirroring mode
  - PCE: corrected D-pad polling order
  - PCE: corrected palette color ordering (GRB, not RGB -- yes,
    seriously)
  - PCE: corrected SATB DMA -- should write to SATB, not to VRAM
  - PCE: broke out Background, Sprite VDC settings to separate
    subclasses
  - PCE: emulated VDC backgrounds
  - PCE: emulated VDC sprites
  - PCE: emulated VDC sprite overflow, collision interrupts
  - HuC6280: fixed disassembler output for STi instructions
  - HuC6280: added missing LastCycle check to interrupt()
  - HuC6280: fixed BIT, CMP, CPX, CPY, TRB, TSB, TST flag testing and
    result
  - HuC6280: added extra cycle delays to the block move instructions
  - HuC6280: fixed ordering for flag set/clear instructions (happens
    after LastCycle check)
  - HuC6280: removed extra cycle from immediate instructions
  - HuC6280: fixed indirectLoad, indirectYStore absolute addressing
  - HuC6280: fixed BBR, BBS zeropage value testing
  - HuC6280: fixed stack push/pull direction

Neutopia looks okay until the main title screen, then there's some
gibberish on the bottom. The game also locks up with some gibberish once
you actually start a new game. So, still not playable just yet =(
2017-01-19 19:38:57 +11:00
Tim Allen f500426158 Update to v101r34 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - PCE: emulated gamepad polling
  - PCE: emulated CPU interrupt sources
  - PCE: emulated timer
  - PCE: smarter emulation of ST0,ST1,ST2 instructions
  - PCE: better structuring of CPU, VDP IO registers
  - PCE: connected palette generation to the interface
  - PCE: emulated basic VDC timing
  - PCE: emulated VDC Vblank, Coincidence, and DMA completion IRQs
  - PCE: emulated VRAM, SATB DMA transfers
  - PCE: emulated VDC I/O registers

Everything I've implemented today likely has lots of bugs, and is
untested for obvious reasons.

So basically, after I fix many horrendous bugs, it should now be
possible to implement the VDC and start getting graphical output.
2017-01-17 08:02:56 +11:00
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 0ad70a30f8 Update to v101r30 release.
byuu says:

Changelog:

  - SMS: added cartridge ROM/RAM mirroring (fixes Alex Kidd)
  - SMS: fixed 8x16 sprite mode (fixes Wonder Boy, Ys graphics)
  - Z80: emulated "ex (sp),hl" instruction
  - Z80: fixed INx NF (should be set instead of cleared)
  - Z80: fixed loop condition check for CPxR, INxR, LDxR, OTxR (fixes
    walking in Wonder Boy)
  - SFC: removed Debugger and sfc/debugger.hpp
  - icarus: connected MS, GG, MD importing to the scan dialog
  - PCE: added emulation skeleton to higan and icarus

At this point, Master System games are fairly highly compatible, sans
audio. Game Gear games are running, but I need to crop the resolution
and support the higher color palette that they can utilize. It's really
something else the way they handled the resolution shrink on that thing.

The last change is obviously going to be the biggest news.

I'm very well aware it's not an ideal time to start on a new emulation
core, with the MS and MD cores only just now coming to life with no
audio support.

But, for whatever reason, my heart's really set on working on the PC
Engine. I wanted to write the final higan skeleton core, and get things
ready so that whenever I'm in the mood to work on the PCE, I can do so.

The skeleton is far and away the most tedious and obnoxious part of the
emulator development, because it's basically all just lots of
boilerplate templated code, lots of new files to create, etc.

I really don't know how things are going to proceed ... but I can say
with 99.9% certainty that this will be the final brand new core ever
added to higan -- at least one written by me, that is. This was
basically the last system from my childhood that I ever cared about.
It's the last 2D system with games that I really enjoy playing. No other
system is worth dividing my efforts and reducing the quality and amount
of time to work on the systems I have.

In the future, there will be potential for FDS, Mega CD and PCE-CD
support. But those will all be add-ons, and they'll all be really
difficult and challenge the entire design of higan's UI (it's entirely
cartridge-driven at this time.) None of them will be entirely new cores
like this one.
2017-01-12 07:27:30 +11:00