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Tim Allen | 7af270aa59 |
Update to v103r09 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - gba/apu: fixed wave RAM nibble ordering (fixes audio in Castlevania, PocketNES) - emulator: restructured video information to just a single videoResolution() → VideoResolution function - returns "projected size" (between 160x144 and 320x240) - "internal buffer size" (up to 1280x480) - returns aspect correction multiplier that is to be applied to the width field - the value could be < 1.0 to handle systems with taller pixels; although higan doesn't emulate such a system - tomoko: all calculations for scaling and overscan masking are done by the GUI now - tomoko: aspect correction can be enabled in either windowed or fullscreen mode separately; moved to Video settings panel - tomoko: video scaling multipliers (against 320x240) can now me modified from the default (2,3,4) via the configuration file - use this as a really barebones way of supporting high DPI monitors; although the GUI elements won't scale nicely - if you set a value less than two, or greater than your resolution divided by 320x240, it's your own fault when things blow up. I'm not babysitting anyone with advanced config-file only options. - tomoko: added new adaptive windowed mode - when enabled, the window will shrink to eliminate any black borders when loading a game or changing video settings. The window will not reposition itself. - tomoko: added new adaptive fullscreen mode - when enabled, the integral scaling will be disabled for fullscreen mode, forcing the video to fill at least one direction of the video monitor completely. I expect we will be bikeshedding for the next month on how to describe the new video options, where they should appear in the GUI, changes people want, etc ... but suffice to say, I'm happy with the functionality, so I don't intend to make changes to -what- things do, but I will entertain better ways to name things. |
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Tim Allen | 191a71b291 |
Update to v103r08 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - emulator: improved aspect correction accuracy by using floating-point calculations - emulator: added videoCrop() function, extended videoSize() to take cropping parameters¹ - tomoko: the overscan masking function will now actually resize the viewport² - gba/cpu: fixed two-cycle delay on triggering DMAs; not running DMAs when the CPU is stopped - md/vdp: center video when overscan is disabled - pce/vce: resize video output from 1140x240 to 1120x240 - tomoko: resize window scaling from 326x240 to 320x240 - tomoko: changed save slot naming and status bar messages to indicate quick states vs managed states - tomoko: added increment/decrement quick state hotkeys - tomoko: save/load quick state hotkeys now save to slots 1-5 instead of always to 0 - tomoko: increased overscan range from 0-16 to 0-24 (in case you want to mask the Master System to 240x192) ¹: the idea here was to decouple raw pixels from overscan masking. Overscan was actually horrifically broken before. The Famicom outputs at 256x240, the Super Famicom at 512x480, and the Mega Drive at 1280x480. Before, a horizontal overscan mask of 8 would not reduce the Super Famicom or Mega Drive by nearly as much as the Famicom. WIth the new videoCrop() function, the internals of pixel size distortions can be handled by each individual core. ²: furthermore, by taking optional cropping information in videoSize(), games can scale even larger into the viewport window. So for example, before the Super Famicom could only scale to 1536x1440. But by cropping the vertical resolution by 6 (228p effectively, still more than NTSC can even show), I can now scale to 1792x1596. And wiht aspect correction, that becomes a perfect 8:7 ratio of 2048x1596, giving me perfectly crisp pixels without linear interpolation being required. Errata: for some reason, when I save a new managed state with the SFC core, the default description is being set to a string of what looks to be hex numbers. I found the cause ... I'll fix this in the next release. Note: I'd also like to hide the "find codes..." button if cheats.bml isn't present, as well as update the SMP TEST register comment from smp/timing.cpp |
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Tim Allen | 8af3e4a6e2 |
Update to v102r22 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - higan: Emulator::Interface::videoSize() renamed to videoResolution() - higan: Emulator::Interface::rtcsync() renamed to rtcSynchronize() - higan: added video display rotation support to Video - GBA: substantially improved audio mixing - fixed bug with FIFO 50%/100% volume setting - now properly using SOUNDBIAS amplitude to control output frequencies - reduced quantization noise - corrected relative volumes between PSG and FIFO channels - both PSG and FIFO values cached based on amplitude; resulting in cleaner PCM samples - treating PSG volume=3 as 200% volume instead of 0% volume now (unverified: to match mGBA) - GBA: properly initialize ALL CPU state; including the vital prefetch.wait=1 (fixes Classic NES series games) - GBA: added video rotation with automatic key translation support - PCE: reduced output resolution scalar from 285x242 to 285x240 - the extra two scanlines won't be visible on most TVs; and they make all other cores look worse - this is because all other cores output at 240p or less; so they were all receiving black bars in windowed mode - tomoko: added "Rotate Display" hotkey setting - tomoko: changed hotkey multi-key logic to OR instead of AND - left support for flipping it back inside the core; for those so inclined; by uncommenting one line in input.hpp - tomoko: when choosing Settings→Configuration, it will automatically select the currently loaded system - for instance, if you're playing a Game Gear game, it'll take you to the Game Gear input settings - if no games are loaded, it will take you to the hotkeys panel instead - WS(C): merged "Hardware-Vertical", "Hardware-Horizontal" controls into combined "Hardware" - WS(C): converted rotation support from being inside the core to using Emulator::Video - this lets WS(C) video content scale larger now that it's not bounded by a 224x224 square box - WS(C): added automatic key rotation support - WS(C): removed emulator "Rotate" key (use the general hotkey instead; I recommend F8 for this) - nall: added serializer support for nall::Boolean (boolean) types - although I will probably prefer the usage of uint1 in most cases |
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Tim Allen | 0bf2c9d4e1 |
Update to v102r13 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - removed Emulator::Interface::videoFrequency(), audioFrequency()¹ - (MS,GG,MD)/PSG: removed inversion on noise channel LFSR update [mic_] - MD/PSG: lowered volume to match YM2612 volume - MD/YM2612: added Cydrak's emulation of FM channels and LFO² ¹: These were no longer used by the UI. The video frequency is adaptive on many systems. And the audio frequency is meaningless due to Emulator::Audio always outputting a consistent frequency specified by the UI. Plus, take the Genesis where there's two sound chips running at different frequencies. So, these had to go. ²: Due to some lurking bugs, the audio is completely broken unfortunately. Will need to be debugged :( First pass looking for any typos didn't yield any obvious results. |
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Tim Allen | 8071da4c6a |
Update to v102r09 release.
byuu says: Changelog: - MD: restructured DMA to a subclass of VDP - MD: implemented VRAM copy mode (fixes Langrisser II ... mostly) - MS: implemened PSG support [Cydrak] - GG: implemented PSG stereo sound support - MS: use the new struct Model {} design that other cores use The MS/GG PSG should be feature complete, but I don't have good tests for Game Gear stereo mode, nor for the noise channel. There's also a really weird behavior with when to reload the channel counters on volume register writes. I can confirm what Cydrak observed in that following the docs and reloading always creates serious audio distortion problems. So, more research is needed there. To get the correct sound out of the PSG, I have to run it at 3.58MHz / 16, which seems really weird to me. The docs make it sound like it's supposed to run at the full 3.58MHz. If we can really run it at 223.7KHz, then that's help reduce the overhead of PSG emulation, which will definitely come in handy for Mega Drive, and possibly later Mega CD, emulation. I have not implemented the PSG into the Mega Drive just yet. Nor have I implemented save states or cheat code support into the MS/GG cores yet. The latter is next on my list. |
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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. ----- 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. |
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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. |
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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. |