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byuu says: Changelog: - Super Game Boy: fixed loading of boot ROM - hiro: added ComboEdit::setEditable(bool = true); - tomoko: added new systems settings panel Note!!: this release will not compile on Windows or macOS due to the missing ComboEdit control! I'll try to merge in hex's implementation for the Windows release here soon. macOS users will probably be out of luck for a while, sorry. The new systems panel is an idea I've been meaning to implement for quite a while, but finally got around to starting on it. It's still fairly unpolished, but the basic idea is there for Linux/BSD users to try out now. So imagine the Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo, and the associated BS Memory Pack-slotted SNES cartridges. To play any of those, you needed to choose Nintendo→Super Famicom, and then select the relevant cartridge, and then select any slotted cartridges to play with it. This was acceptable-ish, if not ideal. But now imagine in the future if we wanted to support the Famicom Disk System, which is technically a cartridge that plugs into the Famicom deck. Or the PC Engine CD, which has one of three special HuCards that must be inserted (ignoring the Turbo Duo where it's built-in—I'm going to be emulating the Super CD as if you're using a stock PCE CD.) Or the Mega CD, where there are probably a half dozen or more BIOS + hardware revisions that are region-specific, which connect to an expansion port that is identical to the cartridge port save for the Mega Drive seeing an I/O register bit toggled here. In all of these cases, it's going to be a real pain to have to choose the 'BIOS' every time you want to play a game for them. I can't distribute these BIOSes with higan due to copyright restrictions, and trying to ship dummy folders for every possible combination would become quite odious, and difficult for people to use (compare to setting up the Game Boy Advance system BIOS.) And so I've created the new systems settings panel. Here, you can manage a list of systems that show up under the higan library menu (now renamed to “System”), where each entry contains name, boot, and hidden parameters. The name parameter is what shows up in the system menu. You can call any system higan emulates whatever you like here. Don't like “Super Famicom”? Change it to “SNES”, then. The boot parameter is a combo edit with a dropdown for all of the systems higan emulates. If you choose one of these, then the higan system menu option will work exactly like in previous releases, and prompt you for a cartridge. But if you choose the browse button next to the combo edit control, you'll get to pick any gamepak from the higan library of your choosing. So you could choose the SGB2 BIOS, and name the menu option “Super Game Boy 2”, and when you choose the menu option, it will load the SFC core, load the SGB2 BIOS, and only prompt you for the Game Boy game you wish to play on it. The same deal goes for the FDS, PCE-CD, Mega CD, Mega Drive Sonic & Knuckles lock-on cartridge, BS-X Satellaview, SD Gundam G-Next, etc. Whatever you want to be in the menu, you can put in there by pointing higan at the appropriate 'BIOS' gamepak to load. Astute readers have probably already noticed, but you can technically use this on non-slotted games as well, thus creating instant boot options for your absolute favorite games, if you so wanted. Point it at Zelda 3, and you can boot it instantly from the main menu, without any need for file selection. The hidden option is a way to hide the system entries from the system menu. Primarily this would be a fast way for users to disable emulation cores they never use in higan, without having to remove the options. The major concession with this change is the collapsing of the per-manufacturer submenus. What this means is you will now have all twelve higan emulated systems in the main menu by default. This makes the list rather long, but ... oh well. I may try to offer some form of grouping in the future, but the grouping defeats the “list order = display order” design, and I'm not willing to auto-sort the list. I want people to be able to control the ordering of the system menu, and have added (as yet non-functional) sorting arrows for that purpose. I also don't have a combined tree+table view widget in higan to try to and group things. But ... we'll see how things go in the future. Another idea is to add a specialty load option that opens up the user's Emulation library path, and lets you pick a gamepak for any system, which would boot the same way as when you drop a gamepak onto the higan executable or main window. So say you almost never play Wonderswan games, this would be a way to play them without them cluttering your system menu list. The “import ROM files” option has been removed. All it does is launch icarus directly. I would rather users become familiar with using icarus. The “load ROM file” option remains. Anyway, this is all still a work in progress, so please give it time and don't overload me with too many suggested changes right now, thanks :3 |
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