mirror of https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes.git
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This release adds support for the SNES mouse, Super Scope and Justifier peripherals. It also simplifies cartridge loading and refines the user interface. Lastly, GZ and ZIP archives can now contain non-ANSI characters (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, ...) This support existed in the last release for all uncompressed files. Together, this means only JMA support on Windows lacks support for loading non-ANSI filenames. This is due to the library itself (really, it's more Windows' fault), and licensing issues prevent me from patching libjma as I did with zlib (bsnes is not GPL compatible.) I'm planning to work with Nach to fix this in a future release.
About the cartridge loading changes ... the emulator now determines what kind of cartridge is being loaded (eg normal, BS-X BIOS, Sufami Turbo cart, etc) by looking inside the file itself. If it detects a cart type that requires more than one ROM image to load, it will present you with the appropriate specialized load menu automatically. Aside from being more intuitive, this method also allows loading of BS-X and Sufami Turbo games from the command-line or via file association.
Changelog:
- added mouse support to DirectInput and SDL input drivers
- up to 96 buttons per controller; 8 buttons per mouse (5 per mouse on Linux) can be mapped now
- added SNES mouse support (does not support speed setting yet)
- added Super Scope support
- added Justifier support (supports both Justifiers)
- input management system almost completely rewritten to support new controllers
- "Load Special" menu removed, all cart loading merged to "Load Cartridge ..." option
- replaced "Power Cycle" and "Unload Cartridge" with "Power" -> "On" / "Off"
- when video exceeds screen size and is scaled down, aspect ratio is now maintained [Ver Greeneyes]
- zlib modified to support non-ANSI characters
- cheat code count was limited to 1,024 codes before; it now supports unlimited codes per game
- added sort by description setting for cheat code list
- polished listbox control interaction (disable buttons when nothing selected, etc)
- cleaned up OBC-1 chip emulation (code is functionally identical to v036)
- added option to toggle fullscreen mode to settings menu
- added advanced mode options to toggle base unit (none, Satellaview) and system region (Auto-detect, NTSC, PAL)
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readme.txt
bsnes Version: 0.037 Author: byuu ======== General: ======== bsnes is a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator that began on October 14th, 2004. The latest version can be downloaded from: http://byuu.org/ Please see license.txt for important licensing information. ============== Configuration: ============== bsnes has two configuration files: bsnes.cfg, for program settings; and locale.cfg, for localization. For each file, bsnes will start by looking inside the same folder where the bsnes executable is located. If said file is not found, it will then check your user profile folder. On Windows, this is located at "%APPDATA%/.bsnes". On all other operating systems, this is located at "~/.bsnes". If said file is still not found, it will automatically be created in your user profile folder. If you wish to use bsnes in single-user mode, be sure that both files exist inside the same folder as the bsnes executable. If they do not, you can simply create new blank files and bsnes will use them in the future. If you wish to use bsnes in multi-user mode, simply delete these two files from the bsnes executable directory if they exist. If you wish to have multiple configuration profiles for the same user, you will need to make copies of the bsnes executable, and use each one in single-user mode. ==================== Known Limitation(s): ==================== S-CPU - Multiply / divide register delays not implemented - "Glitch" when reading joypad registers during auto polling not implemented S-PPU - Uses scanline-based renderer. This is very inaccurate, but few (if any) games rely on mid-scanline writes to function correctly - Does not support FirstSprite+Y priority - OAM / CGRAM accesses during active display not supported correctly - RTO flags are not calculated on frames that are skipped when frameskipping is enabled. This provides a major speedup, however it will cause in issues in games that test these flags, eg the SNES Test Program Electronics Test. Turning frameskipping off will allow RTO flag calculation on every frame Hardware Bugs - S-CPU.r1 HDMA crashing bug not emulated - S-CPU<>S-SMP communication bus conflicts not emulated =============== Known Issue(s): =============== On Windows, attempting to load a ZIP, GZ or JMA compressed archive with non-ANSI characters in the filename will fail. This is because Windows requires UTF-16 encoding, but these libraries only work with UTF-8. Note that loading uncompressed images (SMC, SFC, etc) with non-ANSI characters works properly on all platforms. ===================== Unsupported Hardware: ===================== SA-1 Coprocessor used in many popular games, including: - Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension - Kirby Super Star - Kirby's Dreamland 3 - Marvelous - SD Gundam G-NEXT - Super Mario RPG Super FX Coprocessor used in many popular games, including: - Doom - Star Fox - Star Fox 2 (unreleased beta) - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island ST-011 SETA DSP used by Quick-move Shogi Match with Nidan Rank-holder Morita ST-018 SETA RISC CPU used by Quick-move Shogi Match with Nidan Rank-holder Morita 2 Super Gameboy Cartridge passthrough used for playing Gameboy games ============= Contributors: ============= Andreas Naive, anomie, blargg, DMV27, FitzRoy, GIGO, Jonas Quinn, kode54, krom, Matthew Callis, mudlord, Nach, neviksti, Overload, RedDwarf, Richard Bannister, tetsuo55, TRAC, zones